nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqg0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msas60lz The Financial Ombudsmans Service is of assistance to the Financial Services Sector because it provides an inexpensive forum for prompt dispute resolution. In my experience the service is not "against" the sector. That would be a construct put upon it most likely by people, like politicians, who have no hands-on current relevant experience in the sector, of dispute resolution, or of interaction with FOS. Most probably Tories, for whom every free to user public service is anathema.

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqg0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msas60lz I am friends with a local government lawyer (since retired). Whenever, socially, i enquired how pfi was panning out, he pulled a face. It was widely understood to be a crap way to do public procurement, in terms of value for money for the taxpayer, even as it was being enthusiastically pushed by the politicians. The bottom line is politicians have no knowledge of the building of [hospitals], & no interest in acquiring it, or in recruiting the necessary expertise to commission it.

During the 80s and 90s the #Tories privatised telecomunications, railways and water utilities.

It was unfinished business, and this time round they widened and deepened their project with 'academy' schools, dentistry, and by lying in their manifesto about a 'National Care Service'. Now they have come for primary healthcare (GP practices).

When we finally get to kick them out, next year, they will depart with a private smirk, telling each other 'job done'.

Another blighted generation.