Tag: privatisation

30 November 2017

On Wednesday 29 November, the government effectively bailed out a failed privatisation to the tune of millions of pounds, with ...

Corbyn nails why the government’s privatisation agenda is an absolute ‘rip off’ [VIDEO]

16 November 2017

Jeremy Corbyn has taken to social media to criticise the Conservative Party's "rip off" privatisation agenda. And he doesn't mess ...

Theresa May just handed a top government job to one of Margaret Thatcher’s privatisation gurus

5 December 2017

Theresa May has just appointed a new Lead Non-Executive Director to her Cabinet Office. But the new man in May's ...

Leaked documents have just blown the privatised rail industry’s links to government wide open [TWEETS]

28 October 2017

A leaked document has exposed the links between the government and private contractors. It also shows that government procedures for ...

An open letter from a striking train guard smashes rail companies’ propaganda to bits [LETTER]

22 October 2017

An on-train guard has written an open letter about why so many workers in the industry are striking. And, in ...

Richard Branson’s Virgin Care has been caught trying to hide safety concerns in a £700m NHS contract

6 October 2017

Virgin Care management ordered staff not to tell the Care Quality Commission (CQC) about safety concerns, leaked emails have revealed. ...

NHS ‘two-tier’ system pressures accused of causing ‘preventable deaths’ as private care soars

by Ben Janaway

2 October 2017

A new report into the NHS claims that soaring private care may be putting ''lives at risk'', partly due to a ...

The Conservatives are facing chaos at their party conference this year

28 September 2017

The Conservative Party conference looks set to face unprecedented levels of chaos this year. And if Theresa May was hoping ...

Water privatisation is such a con that even the FT is calling for its nationalisation

by Sophia Akram

11 September 2017

Water privatisation has proven itself such a "rip-off" for customers that even the business-minded and Conservative-leaning Financial Times (FT) has said so ...

New report reveals ‘eye-watering’ NHS overspend by £3bn more than the government said. But the Tories deny it.

by Timothy J. Woods

1 September 2017

The NHS spent £3bn more last year in England than official accounts showed, a new report has revealed. The official ...

The Tories distract Britain with Big Ben then quietly sell off infrastructure we actually need

by James Wright

11 September 2017

The Conservative government is trying to distract Britain with Big Ben. While Theresa May condemns the bells going silent, her ...

The UK’s tabloid media chose the wrong day to launch a grossly hypocritical attack on Corbyn [VIDEO]

It took Jeremy Corbyn just seven words to destroy the most ridiculous story of the summer

by Emily Apple

17 August 2017

MPs are outraged. Even Theresa May has spoken out. The pressing issue of our time is being dissected in column ...

The mainstream media has buried the latest evidence about the Tories’ shameful record in power [IMAGES]

On Wednesday 16 August, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the latest employment figures. And while much of the ...

It’s only August, but the Tories are already hitting your new year 2018 finances where it hurts

While many people are enjoying their summer holidays, the government has announced some new year blues for many of us. ...

The message our NHS just sent to a patient shows how close we are to seeing it collapse [TWEETS]

by Fréa Lockley

Ali Schofield, a terminally ill cancer patient, was "disgusted" to receive an advertisement for a private healthcare clinic from her ...

People are in hysterics after a privatised service screws over the group that sold-off Britain

by James Wright