The ultimate consequence is that now everyone thinks government is “inefficient,” and more services become privatized.
You have to hand it to them, they know what they're doing. Bastards.
And if you want something done? You ask one 'provider' who tells you it's not in their remit so you have to go to a second 'provider' who tells you it's not in their remit and they send you to the first 'provider' and so on. Both providers promised the government they can cut the cost of the service to basically zero and the government is happy to pay them for making the system 'efficient'; which means driving service users to the market, where someone will charge a fee and still not provide the service because pretending to do so is still offering more than you'll get from anywhere else.
And the owner of all these 'provider' companies is a parent corporation that will make the government decision-maker/legislator a board member with dividend rights for doing fuck all except funnelling public money into private hands. Did I mention they're bastards?
You have to hand it to them, they know what they're doing. Bastards.
And if you want something done? You ask one 'provider' who tells you it's not in their remit so you have to go to a second 'provider' who tells you it's not in their remit and they send you to the first 'provider' and so on. Both providers promised the government they can cut the cost of the service to basically zero and the government is happy to pay them for making the system 'efficient'; which means driving service users to the market, where someone will charge a fee and still not provide the service because pretending to do so is still offering more than you'll get from anywhere else.
And the owner of all these 'provider' companies is a parent corporation that will make the government decision-maker/legislator a board member with dividend rights for doing fuck all except funnelling public money into private hands. Did I mention they're bastards?