Co-operatives
Public sector mutuals are a good idea but the coalition just don’t get it
The announcement by Francis Maude yesterday that the coalition government wants to set up mutuals to run our public services is typical of what’s wrong with Cameron and Clegg’s ramshackle regime. On one level the plan seems a good idea – to give people who work in public services the opportunity to run those services. Indeed, the idea of mutual public services is something the Co-operative party has campaigned for throughout its history.
Jowell: Co-op movement standard-bearer for Labour values
Addressing the Co-operative Group the former Culture Secretary deemed the Co-operative and wider 'mutual movement' a standard-bearer for combined social and economic progress...
Is Cameron going to take the ‘public’ out of public services?
David Cameron’s co-operative proposal should be judged on its merits. But mutual solutions must empower parents, patients, pupils and service […]
The progressive Left should support the Tory co-op policy
George Osborne's public sector co-op policy has been criticised. But the Left should cheer the policy if they want to put progressive ideals above partisanship.