This is a fantastic article by my friend and colleague Stephen Pollard welcoming David Cameron’s announcement that the Conservative Party, if they win the forthcoming general election, will allow public sector workers to run the services that they work in as co-operatives. In truth this project will probably start in education but is likely to very quickly spread to healthcare services.
This is a real step in the right direction as far as Nurses for Reform is concerned. As regular readers of this blog will recall, we have always championed the rediscovery of the UK’s wonderful history of mutual and co-operative funding and provision of healthcare and we are so happy that David Cameron and his Conservative Party are taking on our policy ideas (here, here and here).
For NFR the saddest part of this is that the people who should be welcoming the empowerment of their members more any other are against it Unite, the largest public sector union have been publicly condemning this move. Well, shame on them. They have now demonstrated that they are far more interested in playing politics than really looking after the interests of their members and the workers that they claim to represent.
Unite and indeed the Labour Party must welcome this policy, they have to see this as a triumph for their ideas.
