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Author:  pcernie [ Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Miliband - consumer groups to improve uncompetitive markets
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ets-labour

Quote:
The Conservative party questioned whether this commitment to competition extended to schools and hospitals. They also asked how this could be squared with the Labour conference call to bring the rail franchises back into public ownership by one organisation.


Way to conflate and confuse the issue. Nobody in their right mind wants 'competition' in schools and hospitals, they just want good local services. And hasn't competition been just marvellous for the rail network...
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Miliband - consumer groups to improve uncompetitive markets
The problem is that the Government want to reward their backers with access to government contracts and the so called competition is basically payback for party donations.
Author:  ShockWaffle [ Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Miliband - consumer groups to improve uncompetitive markets
But people in their right minds do want the supposed benefits of competition. They want increasing cost-effectiveness, and the transmission of better practices. I think the thing you reject is 'markets' which are pointlessly superimposed onto structures where they make no sense, which is reasonable.

If one school develops a new idea that improves outcomes for their students, you probably do want that idea to be taken up by other schools. And you probably don't want those other schools to just ignore this new idea because it doesn't fit in with what they have always done. So some element of competition that helps spread the good idea isn't in itself a bad thing.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Miliband - consumer groups to improve uncompetitive markets
pcernie wrote:
Way to conflate and confuse the issue. Nobody in their right mind wants 'competition' in schools and hospitals, they just want good local services. And hasn't competition been just marvellous for the rail network...

The conservatives are free market dogmatists. They believe competition always improves everything and private industry is always better than public industry. These two beliefs are sacrosanct and not open to question.
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Sun Jan 19, 2014 4:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Miliband - consumer groups to improve uncompetitive markets
the trouble with voting a local council in, is that, they use private contractors for all the public services, its a bit of an oxymoron ...
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