3 July 2024
A reminder - on the day before the election...
YOUR public services have been privatised by this government continuously since 2010.
2011 Pushed councils to outsource local services (with the ‘Open Public Services’ white paper)
2012 Privatised the NHS (with the Health and Social Care Act)
2013 Sold off Plasma Resources UK to a US private equity firm
2014 Sold off the 500 year old Royal Mail
2015 Privatised probation services (a Chris Grayling failing)
2016 Tried to privatise NHS Professionals (but we helped to stop them!)
2017 Banned local authorities from setting up new bus companies in public ownership
2018 Sold off student loans to the private sector
2019 Privatised the NHS Supply Chain (for PPE etc) leaving us unprepared for pandemics
2020 Spent billions on corrupt crony contracts, and broke the law
2021 Gave Test and Trace contract to Serco and it failed (instead of investing in local public health teams)
2022 Sold off the successful Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre
2023 Tried to sell off Channel 4 - but we and others won the campaign to stop them!
2024 Government cuts mean 75,000 council assets worth £15 billion have been sold off since 2010
These public services belonged to you. Don’t let them keep getting away with it.
Picture credits
Our thanks to:
Barnet Unison
Government of UK
Nick Rice, Flickr
Clive Featherstone, Flickr
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