Do Not Get Me Started: Aimee Bird

Privatisation – A necessary Evil?

Admittedly the Tory party have been blighting our television screens with yet more news about some success they have had in recent months, all the while our wallets seem to shrink in size. A triumph in education while fuel prices rocket, a step forward in the clamp down on tax evaders amidst claims of payments being made to influence parliament.
And on top of this all, we are slowly watching everything public, everything that is British, being turned into another corporate company that is controlled by a couple of the rich dicks from London. The NHS, motorways and schools; all being designed with profiteering in mind and little consideration being given for those that actually see it is going to destroy what is left of this country’s economy!

David Cameron’s recent speech on the need to stabilise “the government, the people and the community” seems to be a front for the most disastrous set of plans to worm its way through parliament since the time of Margaret Thatcher and the miner’s strikes! We were warned then about the ‘realities’ of a Tory government, and yet here we are again; and the people that voted for them are the ones protesting down the streets now.
When the rise in university fees were announced, I marched down Brighton roads against it, and couldn’t help but laugh as 6 of my friends (who had voted Conservative) marched with me. Their outrage only reflected their stupidity.

Now Cameron’s moving one step further into the dark ages by trying to justify his recent actions as progress towards a better Britain. That the privatisation of some roads, hospitals, and even schools will bring the economy back on its feet and allow the public a better chance at survival. That it will create new jobs and opportunities, that these companies will be setting up apprenticeship schemes in conjunction with their recent public enterprise purchase in order to help youths get back into employment…what a bunch of bull!

Privatising roads will do no such thing, we will have to endure random price hikes and badly maintained roads as the companies won’t want to fork out all their profit on basic maintenance. We will watch as toll booths appear on every major road and motorway, and stand passively by while roads become inaccessible and destinations get harder to reach by conventional means.

I have difficulty in believing that this ‘plan’ is going to be beneficial to the everyday man and woman, especially the student population who are already struggling with the rise in fuel prices.

We have had a rough time of it lately, stock markets and countries falling up and down like a rollercoaster at Thorpe Park, but the drastic switch from Labour to Conservative has been the final plummet. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t support Labour as wholeheartedly as I used to, especially with Ed Miliband leading the Labour Party; but at least their policies were shaped towards someone like myself and also my family.

After reading the Conservative manifesto during the election, I realised that their policies were not realistically aimed at the general public like myself; but instead at the underlying breed of ‘richer folk’ that occupy the town houses in Mayfield and Outer London areas.

Privatisation is going to drag this country back to its knees, crippling the fragile economy that has been steadily trying to build, fracture the alliances and trade industry that we have with such liberal countries as Spain and Italy as well slightly more left wing as China. We literally cannot afford to have someone like David Cameron running this country.