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{{News|Feb.18.2016|Cameron’s prison reform: privatisation and asset stripping?|What exactly will the British government's plans look like in practice? Despite countless reports from the Chief Inspector of Prisons, it has taken more than five years for Mr Cameron to admit that British prisons are a national disgrace. Behind the seemingly benevolent rhetoric, the proposed reforms are about the privatisation and expansion of criminal justice. They also replicate a number of themes present across the public sector. The first is the sell-off of state assets and public land. The second theme is that of deregulation. the planned prison building programme and roll out of GPS tagging is primarily about increasing capacity within criminal justice against a backdrop of a decaying welfare state and drastic cuts to local services. These reforms will repeat many old mistakes, while adding some new ones. Mr Cameron’s seemingly progressive rhetoric is little more than a sugar-coating to what is likely to be a very toxic pill. |openDemocracy|Will McMahon Rebecca Roberts|https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/will-mcmahon-rebecca-roberts/cameron-s-prison-reform-privatisation-and-asset-stripping}}
 
{{News|Mar.19.2012|Privatised roads to get country moving again.|Britain's major roads could be privatised and a new generation of motorways funded by tolls under plans to be announced by David Cameron. (Linkback [[Department for Transport]])|The Telegraph|Robert Winnett|https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/9152181/Privatised-roads-to-get-country-moving-again.html}}
 
{{News|Mar.19.2012|Privatised roads to get country moving again.|Britain's major roads could be privatised and a new generation of motorways funded by tolls under plans to be announced by David Cameron. (Linkback [[Department for Transport]])|The Telegraph|Robert Winnett|https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/9152181/Privatised-roads-to-get-country-moving-again.html}}
 
{{News|Mar.19.2012|Cameron to fill hole in nation's finances by privatising roads.|Firms will be paid to maintain network – and tolls could be round the corner.|The Independent|Nigel Morris, Rob Hastings|http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-to-fill-hole-in-nations-finances-by-privatising-roads-7576801.html}}
 
{{News|Mar.19.2012|Cameron to fill hole in nation's finances by privatising roads.|Firms will be paid to maintain network – and tolls could be round the corner.|The Independent|Nigel Morris, Rob Hastings|http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-to-fill-hole-in-nations-finances-by-privatising-roads-7576801.html}}

Revision as of 23:13, 3 March 2018

Fiscal Policy

  • Feb.15.2011: Almost everyone condemns naked short selling. But not the British Treasury. The refusal to back a ban on naked short selling, despite the risk to the economy, exposes the cynicism of the Conservatives. Almost everyone condemns naked (also known as uncovered) short selling and wants it banned because of the huge risks it presents to the economy. It has been prohibited in the US, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and Brazil: none of which are renowned for draconian regulation. There's one group frantically seeking to protect naked shorting and strangle the directive: the British Treasury, and Conservative MEPs acting on its instructions. At a committee meeting in the European parliament last week, Tory MEP Syed Kamall inveighed against the ban ... To understand its position, you must first understand that the government is not managing the economy for the people of this nation. It is managing it for a tiny transnational elite. To the people inside the gates, who fund the Conservative party, who own our politics, the media and the banks, the rest of us are an inconvenience, to be bribed, threatened or fooled. That is why Tony Blair succeeded where his Labour predecessors failed. The Guardian, George Monbiot

Conflicts of Interest

  • Apr.07.2016: David Cameron admits he did have a profitable stake in father's offshore investment fund. (Video) But sold it for around £30,000 before he became Prime Minister. The admission comes five days after the Panama Papers leak. They revealed that Cameron's father ran a fund under the name "Blairmore Holdings", set up in the 1980s, and run from the Bahamas. Downing Street issued a series of statements denying the PM currently benefited from offshore funds, or stood to do so in the future. Number 10 said Mr and Mrs Cameron bought their holding in Apr.1997 for £12,497 and sold it in Jan.2010 for £31,500. The Independent, Ashley Cowburn, Charlie Cooper

Privatisation

  • Feb.18.2016: Cameron’s prison reform: privatisation and asset stripping? What exactly will the British government's plans look like in practice? Despite countless reports from the Chief Inspector of Prisons, it has taken more than five years for Mr Cameron to admit that British prisons are a national disgrace. Behind the seemingly benevolent rhetoric, the proposed reforms are about the privatisation and expansion of criminal justice. They also replicate a number of themes present across the public sector. The first is the sell-off of state assets and public land. The second theme is that of deregulation. the planned prison building programme and roll out of GPS tagging is primarily about increasing capacity within criminal justice against a backdrop of a decaying welfare state and drastic cuts to local services. These reforms will repeat many old mistakes, while adding some new ones. Mr Cameron’s seemingly progressive rhetoric is little more than a sugar-coating to what is likely to be a very toxic pill. openDemocracy, Will McMahon Rebecca Roberts
  • Mar.19.2012: Privatised roads to get country moving again. Britain's major roads could be privatised and a new generation of motorways funded by tolls under plans to be announced by David Cameron. (Linkback Department for Transport) The Telegraph, Robert Winnett
  • Mar.19.2012: Cameron to fill hole in nation's finances by privatising roads. Firms will be paid to maintain network – and tolls could be round the corner. The Independent, Nigel Morris, Rob Hastings
  • Feb.22.2011: David Cameron: Pro-Privatisation fanatic. David Cameron has said the govt will set out plans to allow private and voluntary groups to run almost every kind of public service. He said there would be a new "presumption" that private companies, charities and voluntary groups could run public services. General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress Brendan Barber accused Mr Cameron of pursuing a "naked right-wing agenda" that would take the country back to the most divisive years of the 1980s. Neil Clark's blog, Neil Clark
  • Feb.20.2011: How we will release the grip of state control. A new White Paper will decentralise public services and replace targets with common sense. The idea at the heart of this – the Big Society – is about rebuilding responsibility and giving people more control over their lives. We will soon publish a White Paper setting out our approach to public service reform. We all know the damage caused by centrally controlled public services. The most important is the principle of diversity. We will create a new presumption – backed up by new rights for public service users and a new system of independent adjudication – that public services should be open to a range of providers competing to offer a better service. The Telegraph, David Cameron
  • Dec.27.2009: [ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/6890179/David-Cameron-meets-NHS-privatisation-campaigners.html David Cameron meets NHS privatisation campaigners.] David Cameron has met a health care pressure group Nurses For Reform that advocates full privatisation of the National Health Service - a meeting that could infuriate doctors and nurses. Helen Evans, the group's leader, is now a health policy consultant with Farsight Strategic Political Intelligence Ltd, which describes itself as Britain's leading predictive public affairs consultancy in health policy. She also works with right wing, free market organisations such as the Centre for the New Europe, the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Libertarian Alliance. The Telegraph, Melissa Kite
  • https://nursesforreform.wordpress.com/about/ (looks defunct)
  • http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c1371.full
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Network#Presentation

The EU


Articles

2017

2016

  • Oct.03.2016: Iain Dale’s 100 most influential people on the Right. Former Prime Minister. Having been in the top two of this list ever since its inception in 2007 our panel found it very difficult to place Cameron this year, for obvious reasons. So we copped out and placed him half way down. He would have been higher if he’d stayed in Parliament, but it seems clear that he won’t be participating in active politics and will instead concentrate on writing his memoirs. Conservative Home, Iain Dale
  • Jul.14.2016: David Cameron moves into new home in leafy Holland Park - without the £8,000 rent per week. David Cameron and his family have moved into a £16 million house owned by a close friend who was given a knighthood amid accusations of cronyism. Mr Cameron, his wife Samantha and their children are living temporarily in a 7-bedroom, 6-bathroom house in Holland Park owned by Sir Alan Parker and his wife Lady Jane Parker. Sir Alan was knighted for services to business, charitable giving and philanthropy in the New Year’s Honours, prompting a row over cronyism. Mr Cameron and Sir Alan holidayed together in South Africa in 2008; the ex-prime minister also attended Sir Alan’s wedding in 2007 and was guest of honour at the businessman’s 50th birthday party the year before. The Telegraph , Isabelle Fraser
  • Feb.24.2016: So much for principles! The PM accuses Boris of self-interest. But what of the top Tories who once flaunted their anti-EU views but now put their careers first? Almost without exception, Mr Cameron and his ministers crawled their way up the greasy poll by pretending to be Eurosceptic. This was certainly the case with the Prime Minister himself. When he stood for the nomination in his safe seat at Witney 15 years ago, he courted, and was helped by, the Eurosceptics. Whenever asked about Europe, he highlighted his doubts and alarm about the direction it was taking. (more...) Daily Mail Online, Peter Oborne
  • Jan.22.2016: Cameron vows to end ‘industry’ of claims against armed forces. David Cameron today pledged to work with the National Security Council to end what he called the ‘hounding’ of service personnel by claimant lawyers. In a statement this morning, Cameron (pictured) said it was ‘clear there is now an industry trying to profit from spurious claims lodged against our brave servicemen and women who fought in Iraq’. {tag: MoD} Law Society Gazette, John Hyde
  • Jan.12.2016: Tories vote down law requiring landlords make their homes fit for human habitation. Labour MP Teresa Pearce's amendment to the Housing and Planning Bill 2016, which would place a duty on landlords to ensure that their properties are fit for habitation when let and remain fit during the course of the tenancy, was defeated by 312 votes to 219. Marcus Jones said the govt believed that homes should be fit for human habitation, but did not want to pass a new law that would explicitly require it. Other ministers claimed the proposal would impose "unnecessary regulation" on landlords, and that it would push up rents. David Cameron, himself a landlord, was one of those who voted "No". The Independent, Jon Stone

2015

  • Nov.19.2015: David Cameron’s getting a £10m private plane. An aeroplane is to be converted for David Cameron at a cost of up to £10m. The aircraft, dubbed the 'CamJet', will be used by the PM, senior ministers, and possibly some members of the Royal Family. The govt claims the new plane will save £775,000 a year in charter flight charges. Downing Street currently spends £6,700 per flying hour when the PM travels, but they expect that figure to drop to £2,000 with the new jet. Metro, Ashitha Nagesh
  • Jan.05.2015: 100 Biggest Failures of David Cameron's Govt. @ToryFibs Scribd, /Éoin Clarke

2014

  • 2014.12.31: 100 Ways the Tories have let voters down on the NHS, Scribd, @ToryFibs / Éoin Clarke
  • 2014.01.10: The Cost of Cameron, Part IV: 100 of George Osborne's worst Economic Failures, Scribd, @ToryFibs / Éoin Clarke
  • 2014.01.00: Food Bank Britain: A Clearer Picture, Scribd, @ToryFibs / Éoin Clarke
  • 2014: "Cameron is said to have suppressed a report which was quite positive about the impact of immigration, for political reasons." If he was so pro-EU, why did he do that? http://www.andydavey.com/images/galleries/25/blowup/687.jpeg

2013

  • 2013.12.30: The Cost of Cameron: The 100 worst failures of David Cameron's Govt from May.2010 – Dec.2013, Scribd, @ToryFibs / Eoin Clarke
  • 2012.05.29: Coalition U-Turns. Guido Fawkes ToDo: Go through these and put the info in the right places. Most of them are about the NHS.

2012

2011

  • To research: "NHS Reforms: Cameron is determined to push through his part privatization of the NHS, against the better judgment of the doctors. It is yet another top-down re-organisation of the health service, something he specifically promised not to do in the manifesto."

2010

undated

  • 0000.00.00: The Cost of Cameron: 40+ ways the Tories are wasting £34 billion of your taxes, 40+ Ways that Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, George Osborne & Iain Duncan-Smith are wasting £34 billion of your taxes, Scribd, @ToryFibs / Éoin Clarke
  • 0000.00.00: The Cost of Cameron: 100 ways David Cameron betrayed patients, taxpayers & voters on the NHS, Scribd, @ToryFibs / Eoin Clarke