| Reservicing Britain |
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| Written by Michael Forsyth (1980) | |
| Sunday, 23 November 1980 | |
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Michael Forsyth provides the solutions for the abject failure of public services in the late 1970s and early 1980s: "Local authorities seeking to make cuts in expenditure and increase benefits to ratepayers must now undertake extensive privatization of their services. The best method is just to do it, to put out services for private contract. The arguments of theory against the success of such action melt away in the practical results gained wherever it is done. The British people have come to expect that public services will become lower in quality and' more expensive to provide. This need not be so. Privatization has its part to play, therefore, not only in re–servicing Britain, but in helping to restore the country's faith in itself." |
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