It's astonishing how states, federations and confederation's always blame the private sector for their own incompetence.
The EU blames AstraZeneca, the NHS blames the pharmas for ripping them off, the local authorities blame the cladding companies for Grenfell.
Do you think a private healthcare operator blames the pharmas when it gets ripped off? Or a construction company when its sub-contractors rip it off? Or do you think they give their procurement teams and inspectors a kick in the pants and sack a few incompetents to make them do better next time?
The state failed as an operator, so we stopped it doing all the stuff it failed at doing in the 1970's: car manufacturing, coal mining, steel manufacturing, transport, gas, electricity, water and telecoms, all basket cases when the state ran them.
So then the state said, "OK, we'll procure from the private sector instead." And they ducked that up as well! Not only could they not do the do, they couldn't procure the do either!
Then get this: they gave up on procurement and decided to "procure the procurer", in other words, they subcontracted the procurement team. And they ducked that up and blamed the procurer they procured! ...
Meanwhile, the outsourced NHS procurement system failed miserably, as private firms relying on “just-in-time” delivery faced surging demands and collapsing global supply chains. Even the pandemic PPE stockpile had been outsourced to a private company. Their warehouses lacked key equipment like gowns, and 45 per cent of their supplies had expired on the shelf. Resultant shortages were linked to over 8,000 cases and 126 deaths among health and social care workers.
(That article, btw, is a pure douche-bag blue socialist complaining about the failure of the slimmed down "regulatory state" on precisely its failure to procure, while then concluding that the state should return to its 1970's roots as full operator of the means of production and distribution - the even worse failure of full socialism that once was! You couldn't make up the stupidity. And that's a DT article, imagine what Starmer and crew have got planned!)
Perhaps next the state will try to "procure the procurer of the procurer". An infinite regress of underachievement: fractal failure by design.
Instead, why not try getting rid of the state completely and giving the tax, borrow and print wedge to the citizen to go procure? Then have the pols create laws, the original and only domestic worth of the pol, to protect the consumers from rip-offs? Removed from serial failure in production they might have learned what incompetence and malfeasance actually is, and as poacher-turned-gamekeeper they might be in an ideal position and useful in creating laws to protect us from the rip-offs they once foisted upon us.
Funded Libertarianism still has a domestic role for the pols. We don't have to exterminate them.
SoD
The British Armed forces should have been mobilised to deal with this Pandemic. Some of the haulage private sector firms cannot fill in forms indicating what is on their vehicles. Always trust the troops, they are loyal.
Posted by: Glesga | Tuesday, 02 February 2021 at 02:27
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/30/the-people-were-right/
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Posted by: Whitewall | Tuesday, 02 February 2021 at 02:37
And I thought Blighty's state education was vile propaganda ...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/seattle-public-schools-black-lives-matter-lessons-plans
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Tuesday, 02 February 2021 at 22:04
Our schools are getting a dose of CRT-critical race theory. Pure Hitlerian race propaganda.
Posted by: Whitewall | Wednesday, 03 February 2021 at 12:36