... billions of pounds to build the public sector: £180bn into transport alone, and we are all too aware of the disaster of our railway network. I work in the public sector - for the local government, and I know why Tony Blair admires entrepreneurs like Richard Branson so much - he gets it done! Our office has been waiting for a scanner system to upload our documents for two years. If this were the Virgin Offices they wouldn't wait more than 2-3 months before getting another supplier. Mr Blair and the Tory before him started to think that maybe the answer was not only private funding, but their thinking too. They needed the money because throwing (public) money at the situation was not helping. Yes, money was needed, but could they really afford to raise taxes? Well it is common knowledge that voters don't like a tax hike. So politicians looked ...

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