G4S scandal shows the danger of placing principles over morals

Conservative principles say that everything the public sector can do the private sector can do a better job than the police. A moral approach is to say who can deliver the best security and the inevitable answer is the police there is no organisation in the country more competent or experienced at providing security and it is them that should be running this with support from a variety of security companies not just one.

Unfortunately Conservative principles say that it is the private sector that is better at everything so the experts where sidelined for a bunch of expensive clowns with a bad reputation. Having private companies run services is as mad as nationalising the car industry both have been done from principles and both are abject failures.

Nick Buckles of G4S was asked why they are still claiming the fee despite their massive cockup his reply was "in principle it is part of the contract" once again principles trump morals. Principles are a cancer in politics it is time for politicians to do what is right not what matches there principles.

Attempts to privatise health care

Politics.co.uk reports on a worrying piece of legislation that would promote competition to the NHS and could end up privatizing health care in this country. This would further increase the level of middle managers who cost a lot but add no value to the patient. Quite possibly the best quote about this is from Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of council at the BMA "The role of the regulator should not be to enforce potentially damaging competition but to ensure comprehensive, high quality care and to protect patients” Regulators should not be there to promote one group over another they are there to ensure high standards nothing else. If a group needs to be promoted (i.e. private health companies) over another so that they are competing on an equal footing then there is something drastically wrong with that group.

Private health care is already competing and losing against the NHS it costs more and delivers the same because private companies have an greater obligation to shareholders than to customers (the patients) this legislation is just there to help prop up a business sector that is profitable enough anyway and worringly is a from of social engineering to make it easier bring in healthcare privatisation so we have a second rate system similar to the American model of health “care”.