La #privatisation des #autoroutes, une erreur à 76 milliards d’euros

Les chiffres donnent le vertige : 76 milliards d’euros de dividendes attendus d’ici 2036, date de fin des contrats de concession. Une aubaine pour les #actionnaires, un désastre pour les #finances publiques dont la gestion budgétaire est un exemple d’incompétence en #Europe.

https://www.presse-citron.net/la-privatisation-des-autoroutes-erreur-76-milliards-deuros/

Laurent Wauquiez et la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ont contourné la loi pour offrir 870.000 euros à des écoles privées hors-contrat | StreetPress https://www.streetpress.com/sujet/1745590204-laurent-wauquiez-region-auvergne-rhone-alpes-subventions-ecoles-privees-esperance-banlieues #laurent_wauquiez #écoleprivée #école_privée #laurentwauquiez #auvergne-rhône-alpes #politique #privatisation #auvergnerhônealpes

The UK government has set up a water commission to conduct the biggest review since privatisation. I just asked them to back bringing water companies into public ownership. Join me by sending the email here in just 60 seconds. https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/water-commission #Petition #Privatisation

“Which [UK] MPs have received donations from people and companies linked to the private healthcare sector?”

via EveryDoctor.org.uk @UKLabour

“The Labour Party received four times as much in donations from donors linked to private healthcare as all other political parties combined between 2023-2025, according to our analysis of the MPs’ register of financial interests”

https://privatisation.everydoctor.org.uk/?link_id=2&can_id=6b3ddaa6f1e2f3e0bb7d9cb9cfec0de1&source=email-breaking-news-we-have-just-launched-our-map-showing-the-financial-links-between-mps-and-the-private-healthcare-sector&email_referrer=email_2700816&email_subject=breaking-news-we-have-just-launched-our-map-showing-the-financial-links-between-mps-and-the-private-healthcare-sector

The UK government has set up a #water commission to conduct the biggest review since #privatisation. I just asked them to back bringing water companies into #publicOwnership. Join me by sending the email here in just 60 seconds. https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/water-commission

So, we're worth £20 and more profit to the private sector.

"GPs in England will be paid £20 each time they decide not to send a patient to hospital under a government scheme to help reduce the NHS waiting list.

Family doctors will be able to claim the money if they instead refer patients for tests and treatment in an out-of-hospital setting, such as a health clinic, or to see a community-based specialist"

#Healthcare #Privatisation #NHS #WaitingLists

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/17/gps-in-england-will-be-able-to-claim-20-for-every-time-patient-is-not-sent-to-hospital?CMP=firstedition_email

#Water companies’ pollution incidents in England increased by 30% in 2024
The sector, which had been set a target to reduce spillages by 40%, needs ‘radical reform’, campaigners say
#privatisation #fail #UKpolitics produces #growth after all ...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/16/water-companies-pollution-incidents-in-england-increased-by-30-in-2024

Given the scrutiny the water industry is under, you might have expected them to make sure the number of 'pollution incidents' in 2024 dropped, if not by the 40% (latterly) demanded by OFWAT, then at least by some smaller reduction.... but no; incidents across England rose by 30% (the highest in 10 years).

If public scrutiny & the regulator cannot drive improvement, the case for (re)nationalisation of water looks ever stronger!

#water #privatisation

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/16/water-companies-pollution-incidents-in-england-increased-by-30-in-2024

“The NHS is being rewired, downsized, and dumped-on, all at once...

... as if it could improve by command, alone”

by the venerable NHS expert and “Silly Boy” Wes #Streeting scourge, Roy Lilley, in his regular blogpost on NHSManagers.net

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Alone.html?soid=1102665899193&aid=yHgO5G_DxGw

“[UK Labour Health Sec Wes] Streeting appoints ex-boss of health privatiser, who pushed non-doctor expansion, to run Dept of Health”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes

“Samantha Jones, who pushed use of ‘associates’ w/out medical training & ran GP business with half usual no of GPs, to run DHSC as part of NHS cost-cutting ‘integrated care’ plan”

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/04/11/streeting-appoints-ex-boss-of-health-privatiser-who-pushed-non-doctor-expansion-to-run-dept-of-health/

Colonial carceral legacies
Incarceration and "military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures" for some

"A victim of crime advocacy group has quickly risen to prominence in Queensland and has been consulted on sweeping changes to youth justice laws."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/voices-for-victims-rise-to-prominence-queensland-government/105007040

"First Nations human rights experts lodge UN complaint over 'racist' tough-on-crime laws"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/un-urged-to-rule-on-australias-youth-crime-laws/105116196

"First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."
https://theconversation.com/first-nations-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612

"NT government-funded security patrol caught on camera kicking man in the head"
"Military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/nt-government-funded-security-guard-caught-on-camera-kicking-man/105060870

https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114233003601141821
Ring the ALARM Bells…. #Privatisation of public transport infrastructure ensures a decline in services and early retirement of infrastructure assets due to cuts made in order to produce profit for investors. Private enterprise strip the assets bare and then put their greedy little hands out for govt #subsidies to get them out of presumed financial trouble (no one is looking at their deep pockets full of stolen $$ here). It has always been so, it will always be so… what’s so hard to understand here? It plain old #StateTheft. Your tax money going straight into private pockets.

After, God I don’t know, one hundred years, govt still make the stupidest decisions and hand over public assets for ‘stripping’ by grifter mates…

Come on Aussies. Don’t vote those fuckers in again… Jezzzz…

Your regular reminder that white Christian Ultranationalism aims to replace the US government (and eventually all democracies) with either a theocracy or a technocracy - whichever faction wins. #Trump is just the useful idiot and Trojan horse for #Project2025. Which explains what you are seeing: stripping the US down to bare metal for a rebuild.

"The states will take over education. Some will do a good job. Others not so much. And in some places, education will be privatized, with all the issues that implies. One thing that’s for certain, equal access to education will be a thing of the past, much of the progress of the last six decades wiped out."

#Education #Privatisation #USPol #USPolitics

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/education-project-2025-comes-true

"It's not immigrants buying up our care homes, privatising our schools, or hiking up our energy bills."

"#Labour and #Tories got us into this mess, they're not the ones who are going to get us out."

#UKPol #Immigration #Privatisation #Energy #GreenParty

https://youtu.be/Bgu5HpwDYDs

“Peer who led government NHS review failed to declare shares in health firms. Lord Darzi’s undeclared interests in four companies included $500,000 of shares in US-based healthcare venture.” Explains a lot. #NHS #Corruption #Privatisation

It’s crucial to separate open as in open for business (to enclose) from free as in freedom. The former is not about freedom but privatisation.

I venture to say that the #SA #blackouts is yet another ‘in your face’ example of what happens when the State lets a ‘private company’ look after infrastructure that should, by any measure, remain in public hands.

I’ll also venture to say that such ‘sweet deals for mates’ as selling off infrastructure and services to private bidders only ever leads to deteriorating infrastructure and a constant downgrading of services.

Ergo, I have no hesitation to put forward a lack of maintenance on the electricity infrastructure under stewardship of the private company in question as the sole and only factor for the resulting blackouts.

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-15/power-restored-yorke-peninsula-amid-bushfire-risk/105052524

Corporate media wants you to believe public servants are "wasting your money," but they'll never tell you about the $20 BILLION in taxpayer dollars that went straight to private consultants under SCOMO. Watch how these corporate shills try to convince Aussie punters that spending money on nurses, teachers and aged care workers is "government waste," while their billionaire mates rake in massive consulting fees and pay zero tax. #auspol #privatisation #MurdochRoyalCommission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2X7ICTqiOc