(not satire – it’s the UK today)
London Mayor Boris Johnson has forced the Metropolitan Police to cut thousands of police officer posts in a drive to save money.
But now the Met’ is being forced to use police officers employed by private companies to fill the gaps:
source: servoca-police.com
Surely paying a private company for police officers is much more expensive than employing the officers directly?
Unless of course Boris’s primary objective isn’t to save money but to privatise the Metropolitan Police instead?
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No link at all between police, paedophilia, plebs and politicians. Probably.
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Food for thought.
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Employing police officers through an agency will be far more expensive. I don’t know what the rate for a person employed directly by the police would be, whether they would get £14 per hour or more. But bringing an agency into the frame the police could be paying 2-3 times more, minimum, it would be much cheaper to employ people directly. This, of course, is a ploy on the part of Boris Johnson to privatise the police in London. And people consider he would make a good prime minister!!! They need their heads examined. This would be the thin edge of the wedge, it would soon spread all over the country, and would cost the taxpayer more. And if anyone thinks that Labour would reverse this, they need their heads examined also. In both cases, to see if they’ve got a brain!!
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The same thing is happening throughout the public sector, UK wide. This government has got rid of thousands upon thousands of HMRC staff for example and now that Camoron et al realise that they have (I apologise for my use of the following language, but there really is no other way to put it) fucked up big time because they’ve got rid of some of HMRC’s most experienced staff. They won’t admit this of course because they don’t want to end up with egg on their face so they are engaging the sevices of private consultants at a cost of millions to the public purse. I could tell you things about this department that would make your hair curl!
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I wonder if Servoca is anything to do with Johnson,or his family,or even his friends, or even a Tory MP. Or if it is a subsidiary of any company owned by the afore mentioned. I suppose on a really darker side there is the thought of a completely privatized police force, owned and run by a massively corrupt political class, who have no regard for the laws of the land, or who are prepared to change laws for their own corrupt ends. Imagine the Gestapo owned by Idiotic Demented Sociopath, or Camoron or any of them if it comes to that, and a privately owned force with free reign and no one to answer to.
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I’m not really surprised. Cameron has been following a radical Libertarian line in which private corporations are expected to perform the functions of the state, as set out according to the ideas of Rothbard, one of the major Anarcho-Capitalist ideologues. Rothbard advocated not only replacing the police with private security firms which individual communities and neighbourhoods would hire, he went even further and looked forward to the eventual privatisation of the justice system. The courts would also be sold off, and run by private corporations.
The privatisation of the police force has been one ideas floating around the Conservative Right since the very last days of Mrs Thatcher or the earliest period of John Major’s administration. Somewhere around 1990-1992 the Mail on Sunday ran an article speculating on what British politics would be like if women ran the country. The article envisaged a parliament where the majority of women were MPs, there was a female prime minister and the majority of the cabinet were also women. It was clearly at a time when the Conservative party was trying to win over women voters. The Mail article quoted Virginia Bottomley as saying that women had a better, instinctive understanding of economics and politics through running a home and the family budget. In this female-led administration, the police force would be radically reduced or replaced altogether by private security firms hired by local communities, very much following Rothbard’s ideas, though this was never admitted in the article.
Johnson’s privatisation of the Met is finally the practical implementation of this idea, minus the feminist trappings with which it was originally presented to the female readers of the Daily Mail over twenty years ago. In fact Cameron and co are far too authoritarian ever really to adopt the Anarcho-Capitalist ethos behind Rothbard’s programme of radical privatisation. Rothbard is an anarchist, who wants a genuinely non-coercive social order, an aspiration he shares with the left-wing Anarchists. Where they feel that libertarian, non-coercive order can be created through the sharing of resources and the means of production and distribution, he sees this as being better fulfilled through capitalism. As we’ve seen, Cameron, Johnson and the other Tories are interested in capitalism as a purely profit-making social system. They wish to see the restoration of a highly hierarchical, authoritarian society. Their adoption of thus schemes therefore has far more in common with the authoritarian corporate state of Nazi Germany, in which private corporations acted as the organs of the Nazi dictatorship, rather than Rothbard’s Liberatarianism and its assault on central authority.
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but they aint the police so how and whot powers would they have but anything that’s not private will be sold off by them nothings safe with them bunging them monies now will be a big past time for them to get off sorry officer whots that you dropped yah another bit were we get plastered by them jeff3
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The gestapo was owned by an I D S and ours will be .
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Privatisation….that’s always been the Tory aim.
Surely t god folk won’t fall for the clownish persona that Johnson falls into at the hint of media presence…him as tory premier…..ugh.
His bumbling act make him far more dangerous than any other tory/ukip pillock.
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