Over 200 activists squeezed into rooms at Friends Meeting House on Thursday night to show solidarity and organise to defend the right to protest from the sort of oppression we are seeing from the Police and the State.
Despite criticising PFI in opposition and describing the scheme as “discredited”, chancellor George Osborne is due to sign off 40 of these projects this year.
Obtaining information about PFI is both difficult and time consuming despite the coalition’s mission to become the “most open and accessible government in the world”.
In the wake of the Ian Tomlinson inquest the spotlight is again on the Metropolitan Police with more blood on their hands.
An inquiry into the future of the PFI by The Treasury Select Committee is underway. Calls for evidence began on the 8th of March and will continue until April the 28th.
Here’s a short film from Reel News covering the events of Saturday 26 March - the huge demo and the direct actions that followed.
Parts of the ‘progressive’ media are hammering home distinction between ‘good’ protesters and ‘bad’, and - a recent development this - between ‘good’ direct actions and ‘bad’.
PFI under New Labour became more about neoliberal dogma than efficiency or any benefit to the public. PFI projects cost much more than conventionally funded projects
Classical economics holds that the private sector is more productive and efficient than government because of competition. But this is simply false. And there are aspects of PFI that completely disprove this assumption.
If you’re not sorted for transport to London, it’s hopefully not too late, there’s a big long list of buses running (there may be spaces left), check here.
Several hundred angry residents,workers and service users stage an angry demonstration as Haringey councillors meet to vote on the cuts, then occupy the meeting room.