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3 hours ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Iain Dale: Gulp - here... · 0 replies · +1 points
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1 week ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Fabio Conti: Our manif... · 0 replies · +1 points
There was never any argument from me that Major didn't use PFI, I just suggested "Those two statements are not necessarily linked...".
Still...
In 1992 PFI was implemented for the first time in the UK by the Conservative government of John Major. It immediately proved controversial, and was attacked by the Labour Party while in opposition. Labour critics such as the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Harriet Harman, said that PFI was really a back-door form of privatisation (House of Commons, 7 December 1993), and the future Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, warned that "apparent savings now could be countered by the formidable commitment on revenue expenditure in years to come".[10]
The use of PFI was very limited until 1997 but became widespread under the New Labour government.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_finance_ini...
1 week ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Fabio Conti: Our manif... · 2 replies · +1 points
Nothing contradictory in anything I've said thus far...
1 week ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Fabio Conti: Our manif... · 4 replies · +1 points
1 week ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Chief Rabbi's stat... · 1 reply · +1 points
They have zero excuses after everything that has happened.
1 week ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Fabio Conti: Our manif... · 6 replies · +1 points
And my point about PFI and hospitals still stands.