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Friday August 08, 2003 19:47 by Sean Crudden sean.crudden at iol dot ie
"Devolution" Changes proposed for some Semi-state bodies and statutory organisations seem to be going in different directions? Coming as I do from a scientific background I would myself normally distrust the conclusions of any abstract argument. However I cannot fail to notice a sort of schizophrenic approach by our government to some of the administrative problems of the day. For example on the one hand the |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2in fairness you can't treat a health service like you would a transport company, they're two entirely different activities and it is a mistake to make a comparison of the government's policy towards either. it's not comparing like with like.
It is in comparing how governments deal with these two sectors that we judge in whose interest they rule.
I think the whole "third way" scam was really seen to be a scam when the way the supposedly "socialist at heart" New Labour types did the NHS in Engurlland.