Comments on: All about Co-ops… http://www.liberal-vision.org/2010/02/17/all-about-co-ops/ Looking Forward to Freedom Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:58:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Co-operatives, Mutualism and the State | Jock's Place http://www.liberal-vision.org/2010/02/17/all-about-co-ops/comment-page-1/#comment-4325 Co-operatives, Mutualism and the State | Jock's Place Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:42:02 +0000 http://www.liberal-vision.org/?p=5034#comment-4325 [...] has also been much discussion of this around the blogs and media recently, so I thought I would add my tuppence [...] [...] has also been much discussion of this around the blogs and media recently, so I thought I would add my tuppence [...]

]]> By: Daily View 2×2: 18 February 2010 http://www.liberal-vision.org/2010/02/17/all-about-co-ops/comment-page-1/#comment-4224 Daily View 2×2: 18 February 2010 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:55:01 +0000 http://www.liberal-vision.org/?p=5034#comment-4224 [...] gives her thoughts on the service provider model currently in vogue with the Tories, telling us All about co-ops. Lefties might want co-operatives to be non-profit, organic wool knitters but the most successful [...] [...] gives her thoughts on the service provider model currently in vogue with the Tories, telling us All about co-ops. Lefties might want co-operatives to be non-profit, organic wool knitters but the most successful [...]

]]> By: Gandhi http://www.liberal-vision.org/2010/02/17/all-about-co-ops/comment-page-1/#comment-4196 Gandhi Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:47:53 +0000 http://www.liberal-vision.org/?p=5034#comment-4196 Lightbulb: this stuff isn't coming from the Tories, it's coming via the civil service. I've heard about this before, plans to "liberalise" public services which amount to dispersing accountability via various quangos. These "worker co-operatives" are blatant quangos, renamed. This folks isn't co-operativism, it's the saaaame ollld fascism. Blair was a liberal too, remember? The long-term agenda ain't coming from the politicians. "We are now entering into the post-democratic era" ~ Peter Mandelson Lightbulb: this stuff isn’t coming from the Tories, it’s coming via the civil service. I’ve heard about this before, plans to “liberalise” public services which amount to dispersing accountability via various quangos. These “worker co-operatives” are blatant quangos, renamed. This folks isn’t co-operativism, it’s the saaaame ollld fascism. Blair was a liberal too, remember? The long-term agenda ain’t coming from the politicians.

“We are now entering into the post-democratic era” ~ Peter Mandelson

]]> By: Gandhi http://www.liberal-vision.org/2010/02/17/all-about-co-ops/comment-page-1/#comment-4195 Gandhi Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:08:38 +0000 http://www.liberal-vision.org/?p=5034#comment-4195 This is a disaster. They will be state-funded, they will not face competition; what then is the point? It's a political wheeze, they don't care whether it works or not, they just want into Downing Street to give us a good "Nudge"! It's worse than that, if the Stalinist nutters who occupy the public sector are released, even a little, to self-govern, they will be governing US! Under this kind of model the public will have less say, because public sector "co-ops" will be organised to make life easier for the staff NOT customers/patients! Harold Shipman won't be caught next time, after all he was making the service more efficient and a better place to work. This is a disaster. They will be state-funded, they will not face competition; what then is the point? It’s a political wheeze, they don’t care whether it works or not, they just want into Downing Street to give us a good “Nudge”! It’s worse than that, if the Stalinist nutters who occupy the public sector are released, even a little, to self-govern, they will be governing US! Under this kind of model the public will have less say, because public sector “co-ops” will be organised to make life easier for the staff NOT customers/patients! Harold Shipman won’t be caught next time, after all he was making the service more efficient and a better place to work.

]]>