Commenting on plans announced by David Cameron to open public services
up to private companies, UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, said:
Not content with breaking apart our NHS and our schools, the Tories are now
turning their wrecking ball onto the entire public sector.
The Tories want to turn the clock back to a time when private companies ran
schools, hospitals and other council services. The state was forced to step in
when the market failed to give people equal access to decent services.
Taking vital services out of the public sector will see a postcode lottery
develop. Huge transaction costs and a tsunami of bureaucracy will waste
billions. As private companies seek to eke out profits they will strip our
services to their bare bones.
This is not about modernisation – it is about privatisation, creating an open
market for the Tories friends in big business to make billions out of our
public services.
ENDS