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Originally Posted by Maggy J
I think they want to privatise the police.
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I hope to God that they don't Maggy, but you may well be right. A tactic that has been used as an excuse to privatise other public services has been to deliberately run them down, starve them of investment and generally discredit them.
My own opinion is that some services are better provided by the public sector, some by the voluntary sector and some by the private sector, but policing isn't one of them.
Education isn't either IMO. I remember when they wanted private companies to sponsor schools too, there were fears that teachers, books etc would be covered in corporate logos for places like McDonald's!