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Post by see2 on Oct 8, 2023 18:47:59 GMT
Ok, so lets deal with this one The NHS Trusts and Hospitals which had or which used PFI to build new infastructure / new hospitals were ring-fenced, the PFI bill did not go directly to the NHS or the government, the contracts are / were held by individual trusts. MOST hospitals and MOST NHS Trusts did not, and do not have PFI contracts, this excuse is a total Red Herring, the appaling state of our NHS is throughout the NHS, from top to bottom, in Trusts which have never had PFI Contracts, in the Ambulance Services, in GP Practice, in Dentistry, everywhere. Some trusts are now spending more of PFI repayments than they spend on drugs - the whole point of PFI was to move infrastructure spending 'off-book' so that it didnt show as Government borrowing. So we ended up with incredibly bad financial deals that will cost the taxpayer dear for decades simply to allow more money to be spent on day to day services that would otherwise have been unaffordable. That is not the action of a prudent Chancellor. It was the action of an intelligent and ambitious Chancellor who believed the incoming money going into the Banks that he was told was real money, was in fact real money, when in fact it was flawed money that turned out to have no value. As there was nothing at the time to suggest it wasn't good money, Brown could only go on what he was told by the Bankers. The PFI deals were obviously made bad BY THE IFM. |
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Post by see2 on Oct 8, 2023 18:54:58 GMT
OK, Its just that your post read as if the "secondary system" became something in the past that disappeared when replaced by comprehensive system. It did . That's why I added the missing information that 'aptitude' didn't disappear with the old Sec Mod system. |
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Post by Bentley on Oct 8, 2023 19:44:46 GMT
That's why I added the missing information that 'aptitude' didn't disappear with the old Sec Mod system. You added nothing . Everyone knew that anyway. |
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Post by Pacifico on Oct 8, 2023 21:30:34 GMT
Some trusts are now spending more of PFI repayments than they spend on drugs - the whole point of PFI was to move infrastructure spending 'off-book' so that it didnt show as Government borrowing. So we ended up with incredibly bad financial deals that will cost the taxpayer dear for decades simply to allow more money to be spent on day to day services that would otherwise have been unaffordable. That is not the action of a prudent Chancellor. It was the action of an intelligent and ambitious Chancellor who believed the incoming money going into the Banks that he was told was real money, was in fact real money, when in fact it was flawed money that turned out to have no value. As there was nothing at the time to suggest it wasn't good money, Brown could only go on what he was told by the Bankers. The PFI deals were obviously made bad BY THE IFM. WOW! - you must be the only person left in the UK who doesn't think that PFI was a mistake - well done that man..  |
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