Tag Archives: privatization

David Grant responds to Shalom Lappin

19Aug06 – 3:23 am

This is, I think, the third piece written on the renewal of social democracy that Shalom Lappin has written. I have to say I’m no further forward in understanding what this advocacy of free-trade, trade unions and ‘preserving the integrity of the public sphere’ would amount to in practice and I’m not sure that this vision is a plausible take on either economic history or on any possible economic future. I may, of course, misunderstood—in which case could Mr Lappin or someone else elaborate or address the following queries?
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By David Grant | Posted in debate, Social Democratic Futures | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

John Davis responds to James Purnell

17Aug06 – 2:21 pm

I am a retired civil servant who endured the dogmatic approach of the Thatcher Government to the privatisation of the public services, and who has observed at first hand the consequences of the failing of the Labour Government to understand the reasons for its failure.
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