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Royal Mail, the post office has come to auction, and not necessarily to the highest bidder (while the stamp prices continue to rise). old scales The body of London firefighters has outsourced emergency calls 999 to a company called Capita at the behest old scales of President unctuous old scales fire authority of the capital, Brian Coleman. old scales And multinationals wanting roam around hospitals NHS [National Health Service, the National Health Service, the British public health]. Schools are beginning to seek profitability. In the technocratic nomenclature IMF, this would be called "structural adjustment program", but this does not scale the radical transformation is truly captures. We can see through a brief history of privatization in the UK.
The Tories had long been committed to a certain policy of denationalization. old scales In response to the prolonged crisis of the 1970s, in which the Conservatives had been discussed to maintain its parliamentary domain, the Ridley Report, prepared by the shadow cabinet Thatcher, recommended a policy of dismemberment of the public sector and dismemberment of unions. Privatization was initially subordinated to other political issues, especially the wage suppression old scales to control inflation. But Thatcher's first administration successfully introduced a degree of privatization in some large public sector companies, especially British Aerospace and Cable & Wireless. At this stage, however, the approach was to focus on privatizing still profitable to raise revenue and reduce borrowing needed public sector entities.
Amid the recession of the early 80s, the Conservatives had begun to propose privatization as a potential panacea. The Conservative MP Geoffrey Howe praised the "discipline" market. old scales The emerging doctrine was that privatization would be more efficient and productive large utilities and thus make it more competitive British old scales capitalism in relation to their continental rivals. In this period, the government sold Jaguar, British Telecom, the remainder of Cable & Wireless and British Aerospace, Britoil and British Gas. The center had shifted towards privatization of key utilities.
This policy does not come from nowhere: it was fully integrated into the ideas of Hayek who had guided Thatcher old scales and his cohorts in opposition. But it developed in relation to specific policy objectives. It was not a question only of stimulating investment in the private sector but also to wage a cultural war to redesign the electorate along the lines of "popular capitalism" touted by Thatcher, and announced in the infamous advertising campaign "Tell Sid" [ "Tell Sid"]. old scales [1]
After the third election victory of conservatives, they enjoyed the confidence to embark on his most aggressive privatization program. British Steel, British Petroleum, Rolls Royce, British Airways, water and electricity were among utilities for sale. These privatizations provoked strong opposition, enough to rein any trend to regard the NHS privatization case. However, continued market-oriented measures imposed in the public sector, the 'internal old scales market' in the health service to the ill-fated "citizens' charter" of John Major. [Citizen's Charter initiative of Prime Minister in 1991 to improve public services].
The fourth consecutive conservative management was weak and quickly divided on a number of policy measures, especially around the European monetary union. But the neoliberal policy assumptions anchored by Thatcher remained intact, and the government continued to push privatization in those fields in which was able to carry them out. By inflicting a second defeat the miners, the government proceeded to the final sale of British Coal, [coal] as well as electricity generators National Power and Powergen and British Rail [British Railways]. It was abandoned, however, the attempt to privatize Michael Heseltine Posts,