Many people will have been shocked by the revelations of G4S guards abusing detainees in an immigration centre as revealed by the BBC’s Panorama.
But not many people will know that the privatisation of Britain’s police is already well underway.
And not many people will know that the private company more and more of our front-line policing duties are being handed over to is the disgraced G4S:
I’ve only got one question.
Are we all stark raving mad?
Pride's Purge 
the world gone mad………..
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I did not know this . . .
Just WOW . . .
But not in a good way . . .
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Didnt we see all this in 1930’s in Germany,the tabloid state takeover then the rabid ‘ME US ME’ marches then the ”new police forces” or private ones for want of a better word.
GS4 owns everything (one) under 25’000 a year now.. it will be national service next.. and run by them (probably to help in the Korea bash.)
Apathy vs hate …I hope im wrong but the signs are all there now for a rerun. Yes its completly mad but it seems someone somewhere doesn’t give a rats.
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the key is ‘firearms licensing’ and the gs4 group saying the public don’t really care who…hmmm
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What Mr Pride neglected to mention is that prison privatisation has been underway since 1992, with the active involvement of all Labour and Tory governments for the entire subsequent 25 years. However, it is the Labour government actions which are the most hypocritical. It is unsurprising that a Tory government would wish to privatise prisons, but it is one of a large number of betrayals of Labour principles implemented by the Blair government, and which continue within Labour today.
To quote part of a report from the Institute for Government:
“The Labour Party strongly opposed the Conservatives’ policy on private prisons. The then shadow Home Secretary, Jack Straw, stated that “it is not appropriate for people to profit out of incarceration. This is surely one area where a free market certainly does not exist”. He pledged to bring all prisons that had been contracted out
back under public sector control, if Labour won power.
But within a week of being elected in 1997, Labour made a dramatic u-turn. Jack Straw decided to sign those contracts for privately financed jails which were in the pipeline. A month later, he had renewed one private prison contract and had signed contracts for two further establishments. In 1998,Straw explained that the transfer of existing private prisons back to the public sector would not offer value for money, and that market testing would continue with the Prison Service being allowed to bid for the management of privately managed prisons. By the late 1990s, then, Labour had very much converged with Conservative policy on the use of competition in the prisons sector, and, between 1997 and 2003, eight further PFI prisons were opened.”
Click to access Prisons%20briefing%20final.pdf
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It’s putting security into the hands of gangsters like Capone and the Krays. It’s a protection racket or very soon will be. Small businesses paying a fee to prevent burglaries…big business, not so much. They’ll launder the gains, lobby for more powers and provide lawyers so the gangsters can beat the rap for racketeering.
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Nothing to do with me guv. Somebody needs his bumps felt but it isn’t me. I have not gone mad but somewhere at then heart of government there is a complete and utter lunatic who is doing this stuff. Maybe they are all mad. Who knows? So in answer to your question, no we are not all stark raving mad, but somebody must be.
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We need to sort this out now.
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How is this being allowed?
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It’s being allowed as with all privatisation of public services. It’s being done on purpose. The asset stripping of public services has accelerated, maybe because the government knows it’s losing credibility. I will never forgive Mr Blair and New Labour for their part in continuing to sell off the family silver.
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Thatcher started all this letting co ops into gov (what the hell did people think was going to happen letting demented sick money counters into the tax pot castle…Blair ..’I hate this man more than any other GB person to ever have walked ; he is a disgrace and should be in prison..
and now this arse co op licking thing we pretend is our gov..is it f, its co op spokes people are going all out takeover of the country and its funds.
Labour today is not Blair (labour ? him ? ) but I have no idea just a hope that they will at least be socialist and give some respect of gov and taxpayers back.
People of good really need to start joining hands again and saying no to all this shit as it’s most deffinate isnt in ‘ALL’ our interests.
IMO of course.
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Jo – Sadly the majority view within the Parliamentary Labour Party is still very much Blairite and is a long way from being socialist. Thankfully the Labour membership thinks differently and elected Jeremy Corbyn.
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thats the point isnt it .
Labour and Conservative members are not reflected in westminister and that is the whole problem ..donations are represented.(Koch brothers at the moment probably, looking at policy).
Police force privatised and armed has to be the biggest leap backwards I have seen in my lifetime though,,,scary insane stuff of novels.
”Sorry guv ,boss needs to meet targets this month…’ bam bam.
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I only have one reply: yes, we seem to be, of late !
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And Theresa Mays husband is a share holder . Why are we not surprised?
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Sue Cain – You’re not listening. Prison privatisation started in 1992. Theresa May wasn’t even an MP then and G4S didn’t exist.
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As a British tax payer, I do not want a private police service. I want the conventional Police Service, that has served our society well for a few hundred years. How ridiculous to think that a private G4S police service can serve the community better. Absolute madness.
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Like this comment if you were reminded of the film Robocop, while reading this story about police privatisation.
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Apparently a major stakeholder in G4 is Teresa May’s husband…
How is that not a conflict of interest?
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Who has given permission to this government to make this happen? I am sure I was not asked and I did not give mine.
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No. We’re not stark raving mad. We’re just stark raving lazy, stark raving reckless and worst of all, stark raving stupid.
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G4S have proved incapable of organising anything (remember the army & police had to rescue London Olympics security), they’ve lost more prisoners than the prison service ever did.
They still get contracts, so who is getting the bribes & backhanders?
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See my comment earlier….
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Gestapo state security ss ..or G4s for short.
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Yes, this has been on the cards for some time, just as they privatised the prisons. But does anyone know the real G4S? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/04/g4s-global-security-company
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Lilly – “Prison privatisation started in 1992. Theresa May wasn’t even an MP then and G4S didn’t exist.”
In theory you’re right. G4S was set up in 2004, but they were formed from Group 4 Security which was started in the 1960’s. Funnily enough this company also had a PM’s husband on the board, Dennis Thatcher.
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What Lily left out in her comments on Labour and their support for priivatisation is the word ‘New’. New Labour having dropped clause 4, ‘to secure to the workers by hand and brain the full fruits of their labour through the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and. exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service’, they were fundamentally a different political party. There were many reasons for this not least the handing over control to Rupert Murdoch of over 40% of the British press.
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national action have a nice symbol g4s might like the copyright to…just in case the whole thing becomes the worst nightmare.
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G4S couldn’t even guard the olympics without help from the army and the public.
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G4S – Britains Gestapo.
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