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Since both Labour and Tory politicians have both embraced the notion of public services being run by private companies with low key regulation, it is all quite bewildering when trying to unravel the double talk, heard on BBC Question Time. Thursday 2nd June
Simon Jenkins is a journalist and set the agenda, by unequivocally blaming the profit motif of the remote owner of Castlebeck at the heart of the Care Home scandal.
I sensed that Alan Johnson (Labour) was embarrassed by the charge made by Jenkins and skilfully avoided the subject and the question put to him.
Stephen Dorrell (Tory) was less embarrassed and quite determined that it was not the fault of the company, but the fault of the untrained, unsupervised staff on minimum wage.
He also agreed; “I absolutely agree”, he said with the audience member who said it is the quality of the care that matters and not who owns or controls the company.
All the politicians in turn endorsed the view that it does not matter who owns or who runs care homes, as long as they provide good care, with the exception of Simon Jenkins, to his credit, who was aware of the hypocritic sleight of mouth.
Unfortunately David Dimbleby who is normally quite good at pricking the bubbles of hypocrites, failed to ask any of them the following question: If it makes no difference why are you all privatising and deregulating schools, hospitals, and care homes?
Well done Question Time for exposing hypocrisy, but you could have done even better.
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