This caught my eye over at Though Cowards Flinch about Polly Toynbee, Guardianista and now also writing for Serco’s in-house magazine.
Hack for Hire
These are her pearly sell-out gems about the wonders of privatisation and contracting out:
There is no doubt that putting some services out to tender has vastly improved certain standards over the years, broken the power of vested interests and brought in competition that has sharpened up results.
This comment ‘broken the power of vested interests’ is an attack on the public sector trade unions. She, like the rest of the establishment, are keen to see the unions smashed.
Coupled with the fact that Polly Toynbee is writing for Serco.
That sums her up for me.
Oh, and talking of reactionary ratbags..this lot have been exposed.
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[...] of the right, but to say Netroots UK was free from navel-gazing would be an impudent lie. Polly Toynbee (who got it in the neck a few times yesterday) dines out every week not because of community-based [...]
[...] activity, by agreeing to devote a full column in the Saturday Guardian to a ‘mea culpa’ on her previous stance, what has made her change her mind, and then an encouragement to her loyal readership to get active [...]