Over at False Economy, the anti-public spending cuts website, you can now cast your vote for the UK’s fishiest outsourcing firm.
Government ministers are privatising and outsourcing ever more of our public services. Yet some of the companies taking over have a dismal performance record, while others have avoided tax, given suspiciously large political donations or even helped to write the policies from which they will profit.
False Economy’s shortlist currently comprises 10 outsourcing firms:
- A4e
- Atos
- Capita Translation and Interpreting (posts passim)
- Care UK
- Circle
- FirstGroup
- G4S
- McKinsey & Company
- Serco
- Virgin Care
False Economy gives a brief summary of the finer points of the rip-offs practised by all of the above.
These people are doing a poor job and trousering huge amounts of taxpayers’ money for the privilege.
It’s high time they were stopped from doing so.
If you think that False Economy has missed any company out, you can always remedy that omission.
Hat tip: Madeleine Lee
Of course the fishiest of those companies will outsource a huge crowd of people to vote for their biggest rivals…