The increasing levels of inequality flowing from New Labour policies and actions are pinpointed by area in announcements today from the New Labour regime.
'Brown will shift evaluation of public services away from Whitehall to the public, saying that people should have entitlements to personal tuition in schools, minimum GP waiting times and access to police working in neighbourhoods.' (Guardian). The intention to change the focus of council and other social housing allocation from points-based need to community-based waiting lists has been announced also.
In an astonishingly authoritarian statement we learn that:
' the prime minister plans to hand to the public the power to evaluate whether they have been adequately cared for'.
New Labour seems to believe that the ability to judge the awfulness of the social wage provision delivered during its time in power has not been judged (and found inadequate and destructive of advances in socioeconomic equality) and that only now will such a power be conferred on those who are experiencing, and will experience much more severely in the coming years, a much degraded quality of life .
And just in case we thought that they intended to listen more than they have up to now:
'details of what redress people will get will follow in another paper, due to be published in the next few months' (Guardian)
The only redress we want is an immediate general election.
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How typical NuLab, it is: the permanent assumption of the collective solutions.
Never mind "entitlements", never mind even a general election, actually.
The most important and effective way of improving these services, is for people to be able to go somewhere else for them, if they want to. As long as they can't nothing will change.
Why on earth do we all assume that schools should be run by the government?
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