The People vs PFI

A campaign against ruinous PFI schemes that only benefit private sector parasites. For public ownership & democratic control.

[The People vs PFI @PPLvsPFI]

NHS boss Simon Stevens NHS 5 year plan is silent on £10bn of #PFI mortgage repayments? Incompetent or corrupt? #NHScrisis

[Alexa Phillips @alexxaphillips]

Labour’s proposals bear similarities to Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts that were expanded under Tony Blair’s premiership and have led to inflated repayment costs.

[Alexa Phillips @alexxaphillips]

Labour's plans to use private finance to pay for infrastructure will cost more than using public funding in the long run, and could lead to toll roads and extra charges for the public, experts have warned.

My story in @theipaper⬇️🧵
https://t.co/0AUbUrJlXZ

[The People vs PFI @PPLvsPFI]

Affluenza

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Four members of Britain's richest family have received jail sentences after being found guilty of exploiting their workers and providing unauthorised employment.

Read more ⬇️ https://t.co/zI58zMqGNg

[The People vs PFI @PPLvsPFI]

@izakaminska Have you heard the Private Eye podcast episode where they discuss the origins of #PFI? - which lie in Mussolini’s 1930’s road building program - relayed in a book “12 Years of Fascist Finance” (5mins) https://t.co/aqdhfAgUZx @Ian_Fraser

[Allyson Pollock @AllysonPollock]

Yes @Azeem_Majeed and much of the new NHS money went via PFI to shareholders, equity investors bankers and service operators and is still flowing to them. That’s a key reason for lack of capacity in our nhs -bed and service closures and the great sell off. Media don’t discuss

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Govt under pressure to back Biden’s global corporation tax plan. The proposed minimum tax rate is not perfect but better that what we have. Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan support it but not the UK, the home of a global tax abuse industry.
https://t.co/n6xuShIL7i

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

During David Cameron's UK Prime Minsitership a senior civil servant became a director of Greensill whilst simultaneously in charge of billions of pounds worth of government contracts. Later Cameron became a director.
How deep is UK political corruption?
https://t.co/0gLAG1oFPo

[Allyson Pollock @AllysonPollock]

Dear @guardian why no reports/ scrutiny of takeover of 48 GP practices in London by Operose subsidiary of US corp Centene; chicanery; role of @NHSEngland ; how a handful of greedy GPs plus wives are profiting from public funds at expense of patient care @deb_cohen @mgtmccartney

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Can anyone from @bbcnews explain why this is the lead story online - and not the fact that a High Court judge just ruled that the health secretary @MattHancock broke the law in his awarding of multimillion pound PPE contracts?

https://t.co/T1fBKfQ6ec

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

This is harrowing. Harrowing

This👇is from @HopkinsMedicine

It means that in terms of the percentage of the population who have died of COVID-19, the UK is the 3rd worst affected country in the world

The 3rd worst in the whole world

My heart breaks for us all
#coronavirus

[The People vs PFI @PPLvsPFI]

@JujuliaGrace @EveryDoctorUK No, the only thing ring-fenced in the NHS is #PFI repayments

[Dr Elgin @ElGingihy]

Barts Health is in disaster mode & cannot provide high standard of care. As a GP & patient, I am calling for PFI repayments of over £2 million/week and an extra £6 billion in total to be suspended until further notice. Please retweet to cancel all PFI debt https://t.co/H3sDn1YOCU

[Good Morning Britain @GMB]

'If you are thinking about partying over New Year's Eve, please just stay at home.'

Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden urges people to stay at home as she tells @charlotteKawkns and ＠SeanFletcherTV about the adaptations hospitals have had to make to try and cope with the surge in cases.

[Good Morning Britain @GMB]

'We are overwhelmed with Covid patients...We are working with everything we've got.'

@doctor_oxford talks candidly about the impact of the second wave.

She says the number of Covid patients are 'unimaginable' and more younger people are in ICU as a result of Covid.

[Allyson Pollock @AllysonPollock]

Tom Jefferson: The UK turns to Witty, Vallance, and Van Tam for leadership: revolving doors? - The BMJ https://t.co/QwuVB1JN5q

[The People vs PFI @PPLvsPFI]

@AllysonPollock @CMO_England @MattHancock @JeaneF1MSP @Keir_Starmer @JonAshworth @NicolaSturgeon Thankfully in the ‘policy based evidence making’ dystopia of @MattHancock’s NHS there is no right, wrong, public accountability. Only the maximization of profit for Tory donating big pharma.

[Allyson Pollock @AllysonPollock]

Wouldnt it be wonderful If politicians and @CMO_England said ‘we got Operation Moonshot Wrong’ We now understand its complexity so lets Stop mass testing and the 100 billion pound contracts and think it through . @MattHancock @JeaneF1MSP @Keir_Starmer @JonAshworth @NicolaSturgeon

[Allyson Pollock @AllysonPollock]

Whitty and Vallance admit today that lack of health services capacity (years of underfunding and closing nhs beds and services under PFI) is driving lock down policies. government mortgaged our children’s future with PFI and seems intent on destroying it and deepening poverty.