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> intentionally underfunding ministries and services so they can be punished or sold off later for "underperforming". Do you have a source for that or is it ju

> intentionally underfunding ministries and services so they can be punished or sold off later for "underperforming". Do you have a source for that or is it just a conspiracy theory?

jpalawaga 1y ago
A source that what? That says Right wing/small government parties generally tend to make the government smaller by privatizing services? There’s no conspiracy theory, it’s literally their MO.
dijit 1y ago
https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Dismantle-Easy-Steps-second/dp/1789041783 https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Dismantle-Easy-Steps-second/dp/... NHS is the National Health Service in the UK and this book was Co-Authored by the Minister for Health of the UK (before he got that post). It details this strategy clearly.
- foxglacier 1y ago
  That's a different government. From yours and the other replies, I see it is just a conspiracy theory. Of course it's possible for a government to reduce funding for departments to save money without the goal of privatizing them.
prmoustache 1y ago
It is no conspiracy theory to simply observe what is happening whenever a right wing government leads a country long enough: the public services are enshittified to the point they lose any support from the population which justify them to partly or completely replace them with the false idea that competition among private companies will lead to better service.
- dzhiurgis 1y ago
  > enshittified Please read its meaning.
  - suzzer99 1y ago
    Words evolve. I thought it resonated and made sense here.
const_cast 1y ago
Right-wing party platforms aren't a conspiracy theory, it's literally their platform. "Starve the beast" isn't something the left made up to point and laugh at the right, it's just what the right does because they legitimately believe it works. And, in very rare cases, it does. But usually, privatizing just makes costs explode and inefficiency go through the roof as systems become horribly fragmented and opaque.

> intentionally underfunding ministries and services so they can be punished or sold off later for "underperforming". Do you have a source for that or is it just a conspiracy theory?

jpalawaga 1y ago

A source that what? That says Right wing/small government parties generally tend to make the government smaller by privatizing services? There’s no conspiracy theory, it’s literally their MO.

dijit 1y ago

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Dismantle-Easy-Steps-second/dp/1789041783 https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Dismantle-Easy-Steps-second/dp/... NHS is the National Health Service in the UK and this book was Co-Authored by the Minister for Health of the UK (before he got that post). It details this strategy clearly.

foxglacier 1y ago
That's a different government. From yours and the other replies, I see it is just a conspiracy theory. Of course it's possible for a government to reduce funding for departments to save money without the goal of privatizing them.

prmoustache 1y ago

It is no conspiracy theory to simply observe what is happening whenever a right wing government leads a country long enough: the public services are enshittified to the point they lose any support from the population which justify them to partly or completely replace them with the false idea that competition among private companies will lead to better service.

dzhiurgis 1y ago
> enshittified Please read its meaning.
- suzzer99 1y ago
  Words evolve. I thought it resonated and made sense here.

const_cast 1y ago

Right-wing party platforms aren't a conspiracy theory, it's literally their platform. "Starve the beast" isn't something the left made up to point and laugh at the right, it's just what the right does because they legitimately believe it works. And, in very rare cases, it does. But usually, privatizing just makes costs explode and inefficiency go through the roof as systems become horribly fragmented and opaque.