On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Paul Terry wrote:

In message , Dave Arquati
writes

Shame. If public bodies believe they can provide a better value
service, then why shouldn't they bid... the government wanted
competition, I call that competition!

The trouble is, if it all goes horribly wrong, there are no shareholders
to demand resignations, no risk of bankruptcy, administration or
liquidation - the public body just extracts more money from the public
and carries on as usual.

There are these people called 'voters'.

Point taken, though - there probably isn't enough accountability in the
public sector to make this work. Although, as has been pointed out, it's
not clear that there is in the private sector, either ...

tom

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