” I have never ever believed that we were all in this together. Hopefully we have surgically talented youth who are capable of removing the parts we didn’t x-ray “
(not satire -it’s the UK today)
The amount of taxpayers’ money which the UK government has handed over to private company SERCO for privatised services has been seriously underestimated by commentators.
It’s hard to find out the total amount of money Cameron’s government has dished out to SERCO because we – the taxpayers – are not allowed to know.
That’s because the government has made sure that private companies which take over public services are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
But the amount of our money being pocketed by SERCO for government contracts should be counted in the billions – not millions as is so often quoted in the press.
For example, SERCO’s UK defence contracts alone are worth over 4 billion.
And its NHS contracts are now worth over 1 billion.
On top of those contracts, SERCO also runs our prisons, rail companies, hospitals, immigration…
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