Isabel Paterson
@IsabelPat1886
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions.
Joined January 2024
RT @hayek_tendency: Strange isn't it, all the people who told us "schools can absorb the VAT", "they have piles of cash", "the parents can….
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RT @CutMyTaxUK: Brian Monteith explores in @telegraph what Labour really has in store for us in the next budget. Not a wealth tax but a bu….
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I defy Reynolds to find ONE entrepreneur willing to agree "the biggest issue is late payments". Meanwhile, guys, just stop appearing for the photo calls. Or, if you must, wear a scowl and take the chance to show your disappointment for the world to see.
Brilliant to be in Swindon to launch our Small Business Plan and meeting with so many inspiring entrepreneurs. Their biggest issue? Late payments. We’re legislating to end it – the strongest reforms in 25 years. Govt + business = growth. #SME #Growth #PlanforChange
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Denison hits the target again.
Unless you want to be a civil servant, in which case your background will determine whether you'll even be able to apply. Hypocrites.
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RT @julianHjessop: "Hello, I'm passionate about social care and would love to be an intern at the Department of Health". "Great, but what d….
independent.co.uk
Civil service internships will be given out based on applicants’ parents’ jobs when they were 14
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RT @DanielPriestley: I interact with thousands of entrepreneurs each year. Occasionally I hear someone complain about late payers or drawn….
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RT @cjsnowdon: The Equality Act forces Asda to pay checkout operators the same as forklift drivers but does nothing to protect the public f….
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Internships will only go to students from poorer families in a push to make Whitehall more working class.
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If you couldn't be any more disgusted with this government. Does anyone remember the "liberal left" which stood against discrimination in any form?.
Follow for the very latest political news! . The main internship route will only be open to those from working-class backgrounds, judged by what their parents did for work when they were 14. Pat McFadden: "Government makes better decisions when it represents and understands the.
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RT @AlanJLSmith: There are millions of family businesses in the UK. Every town and city is full of small businesses - they’re the very fa….
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RT @danimass1: @anthonyboutall This is my daughter’s school she’s absolutely heartbroken along with 500+ other pupils and 100’s of teachers….
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RT @drdavidajames: Another school closure. @bphillipsonMP must be delighted with the job losses, the pupils joining state schools, the frie….
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RT @annavanpraagh: Full sympathy to the teachers and support staff who have all lost their jobs and the kids with no school for September.….
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@marcuschown As does the sub-title. Why wait until imminent threat of bankruptcy to "draw up contingency plan"? if this was a risk, why wasn't there already a plan?
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Perhaps Chown missed this important paragraph in the original article. Did you, @marcuschown ?. Kinda supports my point.
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The correct framing isn't to pick this ONE example as proof boo-hiss profit-making firms hurt the NHS. but to consider across £xbillions of procurement from such firms, if on the whole they're doing good, or if on the whole it's better to swallow them into the bureaucracy.
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. which is the wrong way around. Conclusion: the answer Chown needs, is not to nationalise suppliers to the NHS, but for the NHS to act commercially. In order to do so, of course, it would have to think commercially, and get over its severe allergy to anyone making a profit.
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All the above is made worse by institutional resistance to the profit motive. I generalise but. the thing public sector procurement fears more than a stock-out or service failure, is that your counterparty might actually make a handsome profit while serving your needs 5/.
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You'd simply swap out profit and risk of bankruptcy, "gaining" bureaucratic capture and lack of incentive to manage risks - which is precisely what Chown has demonstrated. 4/.
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The idea the need for these would evaporate "because nationalised" shows the stupidity of the socialist commentariat. There would still be commercial issues, they'd still need resolving, but taxpayers would be on the hook. 3/.
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