PFI was a nonsense that any short term five year term parliament would love to make.Look I have built you a lovely new hospital and it has not cost you a penny in extra taxes ! Binding future Governments to pay a fifty year 'mortgage' that the perpetrators would never live to pay. The final payment will be made sometime around 2048.
I just love the way that the BBC uses the way 'mortgage' as if it is something domestic and absolutely normal to our way of life. It is not a Mortgage it is massive DEBT with a massive interest bill, the value of the hospitals built was £11Bn that actually amount your grandchildren were going to pay for these hospitals, which will need major refurbishment/demolition in forty years will be £65 Bn, bargain !
Government sells itself on the basis that it is 'protecting' you, as a justification to deprive you of your money. It is therefore the only way that hospitals can be funded by central Government.
Ignoring for a second that nice clean hospitals are built in the UK and elsewhere in the world by private insurance companies. If it was proposed that a local tax by your local authority to build a new hospital in your area appeared on your payslip, would you seriously object, would you say no I am not paying for that.
Would you and your family feel more involved if the administration and finance of the hospital was just down the road, rather than some faceless bureaucrat in Whitehall putting these 'mortgages' together.
Would you and your employer feel more involved with the local hospital if they could off set their corporation taxes by donating direct to the local hospital.
Would there be more cohesion in your community if the rich voluntarily donated money to hospitals in exchange for tax relief and/or their name over a ward or on the hospital wall, and the saturday night drunks attacking staff were publicised locally because of their behaviour in 'your' hospital.
Local authorities can just designate an agricultural field as a site for a new hospital and give themselves planning permission, and sell off the old Victorian Hospital site for housing or any other reason.
This is not happening and giving us true value for tax dollars when bureacrats are making the decisions without reference to the taxpayer.
Just think how great it would be if you could swank around in your brand new house at the age off fifty five, knowing that you will never have to pay for it, but your as yet unborn grandson will.
Somewhere along the line that appears self delusional and more than immoral.
Bureaucratic Socialists call it investment in Public Services
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"Local authorities can just designate an agricultural field as a site for a new hospital and give themselves planning permission"
No, they can't, that would be illegal. Most new hospitals are on brownfiled sites or previous hospitals.
But yes, PFI is a farce. You don't mention the real crime though - the contracts taht go with them requiring all works to be done by the 'owners'.
But hey, their property, their rules.
But hey, their property, their rules.
Their money too ! Government is just renting the buildings AND the Money
"Local authorities can just designate an agricultural field as a site for a new hospital and give themselves planning permission"
They can and they do I can assure you after thirty years in this game.
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