Britain's inner conflict in no leadership to out-sourcing blame

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Britain’s inner conflict through no leadership in out-sourcing blame

In the yesterday of yesterdays Britain’s Wealth, stability and prosperity was a measure of Industrial Output, both at home and for export, to which Public Services played a vital role towards “National Care” in keeping those gears turning. To civil-isationalism standards needed to improve but while this be so necessary this fueled great conflict between the Government in authority and those at the coal face ( the “doers” ) to which neither Worker Unions nor a Gov liked suffering a “loss of face”. To the Nations “United efforts” the sharing of prosperity, to people having value, was about Public Services that benefitted all as to common pricing on energy, common price travel in getting to work to earn for the Country and a National Health Service which serviced people in maintaining the Nations Health to succeed. While Churchill recognised the importance of protecting Britain’s centralised Trading position from across the Atlantic Thatcher’s later concerns were about how best to protect the British Governments “face” to rising levels of hostility towards her Policies which outraged people and Workers Unions. To conflicts and failings a “choice” was made between either remaining directly responsible/accountable towards the Nation or to allow others to take on its role such that they be held to account for any future failings as to the provisions of Public Services. In choosing the latter the “blame culture” began and over night Britain was transformed from being that of an “Industrial Nation” to a Financial one, a time when Thatcher presided over the London Stock Market becoming Digital and where Financial deregulations allowed Investors to flock to British Shores buying-up much of anything and everything for profitability through off-shoring through licencing as to the “Made in Britain” Branding / Identity.

 

By adopting a Financial Model Thatcher re-jigged the Governments position into one of becoming an “interface” between the people of the Nation and 3rd parties to whom now provide on its behalf. Not only did the Gov shift any “blame” for Public service provision failures onto the shoulders of others but it also invoked the use of investors as a driving force in their efforts to generate profits from which it now prospers through taxation on those profits and for no efforts on its part. In becoming a “self-business” while not wanting any direct responsibility or accountability, while admitting to nothing, the Government felt it so necessary that regulators be installed to monitor Standards in how the Public were being treated. In performing well 3rd party providers become part of a Gov’s portfolio for Political Vote scoring while to any failings it proudly stands amongst the taxpayers voicing outrage, calling for naming and shaming and instigating “Public Inquiries” as to 3rd parties to investigate what are its own failings in being the “primary provider of Public Services” to which taxpayers pay their taxes, hence the Gov “rewards itself by failure”. To any self-failures on Standards to which the Public become aware the Gov use taxpayers money on legal expertise in attempts to hide the truth from taxpayers either on what taxpayers money be used upon or events sanctioned by Ministers which would contradict Public Standards (ie: MP’s expenses; Privileges etc).

 

In a Financial domain the focus is always upon the difference between value and worth and where minimalisticalisms be about getting ever “more for less” but what is the right balance between “just in time” provisions and “people needs” unless knowingness be part of the equation through data acquisitions (Databases, monitoring and people profiling – Health, crime, character assessments etc). Accountability in a financial context is about precise numbers in ledgers and where systems be fragmented to their lowest common denominators for Unit costings such that “handles” be fitted for interchangeability as to out-sourcings. To the reconstitution of wholeness its then about sticking-plasters gluing Units back together to which regulators act as interfaces in redefining standards that, although pre-existing not be fully aware of (ie: Matrons dispensed with in NHS hospitals however now reinstated in discovering that they indeed served a purpose). Although Ministers announce that they “learn by their past mistakes” surely its for 3rd parties to learn on their behalf and one cannot help but recall the privatisation of the Railways to which trains fell off tracks before safety issues be addressed.

 

Leadership is about demonstrating responsibility, being accountable for decisions and maintaining cultural standards to which others compare in a Nation retaining its own integrity and Identity. In out-sourcing ones responsibilities to others, in protection of oneself, it allows those others to assume leadership in setting their own agenda and working to their own self-standards. Out-sourcing on out-sourcing creates chains which consecutively out-sources accountability & risk for any failures however at the end of those chains are the taxpayers themselves. This represents a full circle and one by which the none acceptance of responsibility at the “top” has become a “blame culture” sitting on the door steps of taxpayers at the bottom. Such “ripple” effects originate from Government Departments battling against one another and then for the Public to suffer the consequences as more taxes be demanded in support of it all. In 2002 the Gov’s Health & Safety (HSE) Executive litigated against the Gov’s Metropolitan police resulting in a £75,000 fine and £50,000 in costs but the major impact of it was that Police commissioner John Stevens ordered the police training pool to be filled-in thus putting a halt to Police Officers receiving training in swimming or lifesaving. In another case the HSE brought Commissioner Stevens and Lord Condon before the Old Bailey after an Officer fell to his death - “They were prosecuted because they had not instructed officers not to risk their lives operating at height,”- the case failed. To offset the “risk” of prosecution the Police themselves must now provide evidence of competences through “certification certificates” however in now out-sourcing their responsibilities in return for accreditations fees it’s for others to accept their risk in handing-out fines and covering such fees payable. “Common Sense” in today’s Britain has gone out of the Window as litigation shops furnish High Streets and people be driven not to associate with one another through fears of recordable “linking” by CCTV and other monitoring devices for use as evidence against them, all while Gov Departments live in fear of themselves and out-source to shift the prospects of failure, blame and litigation onto others making them simply administrators at inflated costs to taxpayers whom reward themselves salaries, bonuses and pension pots. The more this trend is allowed to continue the more the responsibilities of the Gov be firmly shifted into the laps of taxpayers themselves in becoming Units for costing purposes and where Political Correctness redefine the word “taxpayer” to that of “Customer” in being offered/sold Private Service “financial packages” in competition with Public Service providers that fail. To British Schooling Standards were centrally based as Labour’s Academic Schools be created yet Labour also presided over “tides of change and targets” as league tables served to measure their failures in not keeping pace, all now being abandoned after much expense in favour of Schools setting their own standards as New Government Laws empower parents themselves to challenge Standards and become self-responsible for litigation and/or closing-down Schools after which fees become payable to Private Educational Institutions by them!. Britain’s “standards” and “culture” emanate from a British Education which also serves to preserve and protect the Nations “Identity” and “values” and so for this to be treated by the Government as just another entity for financial exploitation one can only assume that it has no regard whatsoever towards the British Public whom entrusts upon it a responsibility of protecting their interests and that of their Nation.

 

OLD NEWS

00 00 1986 THE BIG BANG. The London Stock Exchange [ LSE ] is deregulated and computerisation is introduced for the first time. Almost ALL firms taken over by FINANCIAL FIRMS. Foreign Exchange controls removed allowing money to freely go in and out of the UK, Thatcher provided a pathway for Foreign Banks to take on their British Rivals and the entire Market!. Privatisation soon followed whereby much of Britain’s Manufacturing Base was financially stripped and shipped abroad to increase investor dividends through cheaper LABOUR while others were cloned abroad in licencing deals.

00 00 1990 Thatcher RESIGNS as the UK PM.

12 01 1995 Shadow chancellor Mr Brown stood up in Westminster to deliver a speech in which he question why the Gov was not more open and accountable to that of a Nation.

Mr Blair boldly pledged to consign quangos to the dustbin of history.

00 00 1998 Quango’s cost the British Nation about £24.1bn

08 05 2001 Police as guinea pigs. New Police Communications Tetra piloted. Lancashire - soon after 177 police officers in the county reported symptoms that included migraine, nausea, sleeplessness and lack of concentration. At a Police Federation meeting on Tetra in October 2002the Home Office health and safety officer for the system Dr Mireille Levy said: ‘Nothing will stop Tetra and if the officers don’t like it, they can resign.’.

01 10 2004 police comm system Tetra – An Health Issue?. The Tetra System costing the taxpayers some £2,900,000,000 has been described by one independent scientist as likely to cause ‘more civilian deaths than all the world’s terrorist organisations put together’

14 11 2005 GLOBAL WARMING Mr Blair said: "The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.". 07 12 2009 GLOBAL WARMING - Miliband's fury at climate sceptics. Mr Miliband said voters needed persuading that action would be good for the economy.

00 00 2006 UNDER NEW LABOUR Quango’s have spiralled to some £167.5billion.

11 03 2007 Cashless society by 2012. Visa Europe briefed the British Retail Consortium last month on new "contactless" cards that can be waved in front of a scanner to make small payments. 04 09 2007 Last barrier to cashless society in peril. It will soon be possible to pay for cups of coffee ad other purchases under £10 using a 'contactless' card rather than cash. Gordon Brown took time out from his progress to coronation as Prime Minister to visit the Fife headquarters of Ingenico, one of the companies involved in building the contactless system. Mr Brown said contactless technology would revolutionise payment in the retail sector and that the market would be worth £30bn when contactless begins its national rollout.08 04 2007 Blair's spin ruining NHS. The waste began with the reorganisation of the NHS soon after the party gained power. Millions were wasted on repeated changes to structures that had now almost reverted back to the position they were in 10 years ago, with money lavished on salaries, redundancies and creating offices. Worse still, the replacement of 100 health authorities with more than 300 primary care trusts created more jobs than there were talented managers, leading to poor decision-making and a "frittering away of much of the Government's investment" Government figures show 15,000 managers have been recruited since Labour came to power. The number of nurses emigrating to find work had doubled to 8,000 since Labour came to power in 1997, and the number will continue to grow, he said. The Government expects that Britain will be short of 14,000 nurses in three years' time, which will force the UK to poach replacements from some of the poorest parts of the world.

29 07 2007 Doctors do less work for lots more pay. A DAMNING official report to be published this week reveal that with the introduction of a new contract three years ago, doctors are working on average about 15% fewer hours.

08 01 2008 Cameron blitz on long-term jobless.

10 01 2008 Tony Blair to take up as political adviser to US JPMorgan Chase. Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, said Mr Blair would be “enormously valuable” to the company. “There are only a handful of people in the world who have the knowledge and relationships that he has.”

11 01 2008 Northern Rock sells UK Mortgages to US JP Morgan for £2.2 billion. The bank has said it will use the cash to repay the Bank of England, having already borrowed around £26 billion. 08 02 2008 Clegg warning on Britain becoming a 'Prozac nation'.

16 06 2008 Quarter of NHS trusts fails on hygiene.

06 07 2008 Civil Service bonuses under fire banking more than £128 million in bonuses.

07 07 2008 PM Brown urges Britons to stop wasting food as he arrived for a G8 summit on rising prices.

24 10 2008 Bonuses for Sats fiasco officials. Officials at the Government agency which oversaw this year's Sats fiasco have been awarded thousands of pounds in bonuses

12 11 2008 A Conservative MEP is being expelled- told to repay £500,000 in expenses paid to his family for office work.

19 12 2008 Private contracts - Cash 'wasted'. Whitehall is wasting up to £290 million of taxpayers' money a year by failing to properly monitor "critically important" outsourced services, a watchdog has said.

27 12 2008 IT projects 'running 86 years late'.

24 01 2009 Chief critical of police bonuses.

29 05 2009 Anxiety 'hitting British workers'.

27 11 2009 Hospital regulators under fire for failures

23 12 2009 Foreign criminals paid to leave UK.

26 12 2009 Labour Britishness plan 'a waste of money'.

31 12 2009 School system 'shameful'- says CBI boss.

31 12 2009 Rising Pupil suspensions for violence.

01 01 2010 Police officers sue over electromagnetic radiation injuries' - police comm system Tetra

23 01 2010 Ministry of Defence [MoD] 'not fit for purpose.

11 02 2010 Police to pose as burglars in showing the Public what would have been stolen [ Cheshire Police ] .

20 02 2010 ACPO comes under new fire as £1.6m is used on 'perks' for officers
04 03 2010 Fifth of primary school pupils 'failing' in English and maths06 03 2010 Labour MPs demand - Pay our childcare bills and pay us £100,000 a year

19 03 2010 Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret

29 03 2010 Dying hospital patient phoned switchboard begging for a drink

30 03 2010 Health of thousands threatened by cancer blunders- NHS report says03 04 2010 Child 'spies' allowed to sabotage the careers of teachers

03 04 2010 Old-Age offenders - Generation of elderly turned into criminals for Police profiling.04 04 2010 US firm issues British visas... and MPs were not told.

21 04 2010 Iceland Volvcano- minister tells 120,000 Britons stranded abroad to rely on great British spirit. Mr Miliband announces It's very, very important that people enforce their rights.'

28 04 2010 nursery staff confiscate sandwich from two year old. A spokesman for Wigan Council, which runs the nursery, said: 'The centre has a list of recommended healthy food, according to national guidelines, which children are encouraged to eat. 'A cheese sandwich would not feature on the list.'

 

New Labour on Cluse IV. In 1918 Labour’s Clause IV adopted, it being part of the text of the UK labour Party constitution which set out the aims and values of the party. In not being explicit it was open to many possible interpretations and so its application was the subject of considerable dispute. In 1993 Tony Blair wrote a pamphlet for the Fabian Society critising the wording of Clause IV for confusing ends with means while in 1994 Tony Blair announced that the Labour Party needed a new statement of aims and values and that he would draw one up and present it to the party. In 1995 a special conference was called and his newer version was adopted that allowed Old Labour to become New Labour.