Published: 8 September 2018
Guests: Allyson Pollock, Ian Fraser, Ann Pettifor, Dr. Bob Gill, Laurie MacFarlane
Successive British governments have used the Private Finance Initiative since the early 90s to fund infrastructure and public spending – but the scheme has always been controversial.
The public/private partnership was supposed to create efficiency in public spending although the reality has been very different.
Host Ross Ashcroft asks Allyson Pollock, Ian Fraser, Ann Pettifor, Dr Bob Gill and Laurie Macfarlane if PFI has been beneficial to the public or has it been – as the Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland publicly claimed – “a fraud on the British people”?
With workers pushed to breaking point, is it now time to call time on predatory business models?
Both COVID-19 and the climate crisis are being used as camouflage for central bankers to throw more printed money into a broken system.
With proper access to land denied to the vast majority, is it now time to reclassify trespass as a revolutionary act?
