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Originally Posted by Osem
Yup - I can't help thinking that as with many such schemes which start out well intentioned, there's a general lack of oversight and adequate performance measurement when it comes to outcomes. All too often it seems, the less scrupulous operators can easily create themselves a money making machine without really providing anything tangible. I dare say a large pinch of commercial naivety and short term political expediency added to the mix doesn't help.
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You know, reading that and the first part of your signature you could easily be describing PFI with that statement. Incompetence in those matters appears to be something that applies to politicians generally rather than one party.
This scheme has the rather pleasing, for this government, effects of flattering them in terms of unemployment and keeping wages down by keeping the supply of labour higher at the low end.
It's a waste of taxpayer funds of course, but few politicians care about that when it comes to their own political interests.