Public sector shortages are funding the private sector

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These companies take more than their fair share, and always seem to have a negative impact (PA Wire)

Every time I read a story about some scandal involving government bodies, there always appears to be a private company somewhere involved.

The relationship between our government, the national bodies they are responsible for funding and the private companies attached seems to only ever have a negative impact on the public sector.

Money intended for the NHS, our prison services, housing refugees and more goes first to the various private companies involved and is whittled down as these companies take more than their fair share. In the case of our water industry, we have handed the whole thing over to companies whose shareholders take the cash abroad and leave sewage pouring into our rivers.