UK outsourcing giants Capita, Interserve & Serco going same way as Carillion, bankrupt?
Series: BCFM Drivetime
Subtitle: UK local elections: Labour win twice number of seats as Tories, but in wrong places
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/97372
Summary: Lord mayor Lesley Alexander presides over Kafkaesque, shambolic Extraordinary Full Council Meeting
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-103/
Credits: First hour: news review: with Labour councillor for St George Troopers Hill Fabian Breckles. Local elections – disappointing for Labour? - anti-Semitism – media against Corbyn; election results; Metrobus – up and running soon – TERRIBLE rating on Google Play for First Bus M-Ticket App - it just doesn't work – cancelled sections e.g. not going to parkway – mistakes. Outsourcing troubles: CAPITA, CARILLION, INTERSERVE and SERCO - Capita says it’s no Serco — whatever the rights and wrongs – profit warnings hidden; Capita top brass in line for turnaround bonus worth £10m – and it could be rise to a lot more; Interserve about to collapse - Interserve landed with £40m bill from accountants and consultants; Lord mayor Lesley Alexander presides over Kafkaesque, shambolic Extraordinary Full Council Meeting to appoint senior council executive Mike Jackson on a salary of £165,000; PMQs Corbyn – with Tories you pay more and get less – 21,000 less police and 20% increase in crime in ONE YEAR Lawless London: murder rate soars by 44% & knife crime is up by over 20% in ONE YEAR - – poverty – underfunding of Labour areas by Tory central gov.; 'Defensive’, ‘fudged pledges’ and ‘divorced from reality’ - This is how opposition parties view Marvin Rees’ first two years ; Bristol Audit – unelected now; PMQs Universal Credit problems – fiasco; Vulnerable, sick and hungry: these devastating testimonies of people on Universal Credit are being used to fight Esther McVey's benefits department in Court - PMQs - waiting two and three hours for an ambulance – Gov. deliberately destroying NHS – austerity and media reporting; PMQs sacked Home Secretary Amber Rudd pays tribute to the UK's out-of-control Anti-Terrorist police.
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