No matter how soon Tony Blair eventually decides to throw in the towel and stand down for Gordon Brown, it will not be soon enough.
Not satisfied with dragging us into a catastrophic war on a pack of lies, Blair is now determined to leave a "legacy" of privatised and marketised public services, and this is driving a furious Eye witness report -pages 12-13
onslaught on health and education. It is now clear that Blair is so desperate to force increased private sector involvement in our schools that cynical business chiefs are being given control of schools, their curriculum and their assets without even paying a penny of the token £2m contribution required. And ministers have made it very plain
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UNISON's health conference in Gateshead adopted two
emergency motions
toughening up the union's response to the
wave of job cuts and privatisation, just days
before the May 4 off fees paid by the taxpayer.
ON that the cuts and closures now spreading through the NHS are the necessary price of making space for new, private sector clinics and hospitals that will treat the least complicated NHS cases - with ripHealth workers have voted to step up their campaigning, to resist the job losses, bed cuts and hospital closures:
analysis and reports -pages 5-7 local campaigns are digging in to defend schools from Blair's plans. Determined action by any one group of staff could encourage many more to follow suit.
He may be on the ropes electorally, but Blair still needs to be forced from office, to ensure that we stand the best chance of forcing Brown or his successor to drop his reactionary and unpopular policies.