On 4 Mar, 11:52, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 06:00:38AM -0800, MIG wrote:
I think it's fair to say that New Labour has been particularly keen on
setting up PFI/PPP type systems that will facilitate the giving of
backhanders, although not to managers particularly, who are just
employees of the dodgy companies.

While they may facilitate them, the *reason* for doing them is to keep
the costs off the books so they can fulfill their pledge to spend vast
amounts on $popular_thing without having to raise taxes to pay for them,
and without appearing to be on a debt-funded spending spree.

The only reason why political parties do anything is in order to get
funded and elected. All sorts of little things contribute to a
situation where that's more likely to be achieved.

Plus they may get it wrong anyway, with money not going where they
expect it to and/or not having the desired effect.