Review: Plundering the Public Sector

David Craig

Publisher: Constable and Robinson (10 April 2006)

Paperback 320pp, £9.99 RRP

ISBN: 1845293746

By Christopher Johnstone

(Note: This review was written in summer 2006)

David Craig is a management consultant poacher turned gamekeeper. He is rightly horrified at what New Labour has done with our taxpayer's money and has written an insider's view of what they have wrought. Tony Blair and his cronies have bought into the Thatcherite view of public services and the civil service. they have a low opinion of both. Public services are all commodities to be sold and bought and the civil service is standing in the way of the elected members. So New Labour has paid ?70 billion, that is seventy thousand million pounds, on management consultants. Worse than this colossal amount of money being spent is that most of it has been wasted. Most of this money has gone of useless expensive computer systems of which Conecting for Health may be the mother of all wastes of money. Although this is a frightening and depressing book, it is essential reading for anyone paying taxes and for anyone considering voting for New Labour.

Plundering the Public Sector is published by Constable and Robinson
and is available from Amazon for £6.59

Other hoolet online articles by Chris Johnstone can be found at:
hoolet edition 51 - Enough And No More
hoolet edition 50 - Now We Are 50
hoolet edition 49 - The Policy Palsy
hoolet edition 48 - The Last Waltz
hoolet edition 47 - The Old New Contract
hoolet edition 46 - Teaching to the Converted
hoolet edition 45 - Turkeys Voting For Christmas
hoolet edition 44 - That's a nasty QOF
hoolet edition 43 - Calm Down, Calm Down, It's only the NHS
hoolet edition 42 - Perpetually Fooled Initiative
hoolet edition 41 - Crisis? What Crisis?
hoolet edition 40 - Doing What You Are Told
hoolet edition 39 - A History of hoolets
hoolet edition 38 - Where did it all go wrong?
hoolet edition 37 - Commodificationalising the NHS
hoolet edition 36 - The Cost of Everything and the Value of Nothing
hoolet edition 35 - Much Too Much, Much Too Soon
hoolet edition 34 - What Shall It Profit a Government?
hoolet edition 33 - A Long Career in Applied Cynicism
hoolet edition 32 - My Greatest Pleasure
hoolet edition 31 - Goodbye to the NHS
hoolet edition 30 - The National Health Service is Sorry
hoolet edition 29 - MMR More Media Rubbish
hoolet edition 28 - A Life of Pleasure
hoolet edition 27 - Barricade medicine

Other hoolet reviews by Chris Johnstone:
Bad Medicine
Armed Madhouse
The Bullet Trick
The Medical Detective
Plundering the Public Sector

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