I'd very much appreciate information whether parties in other European countries also have explicitly linked privatisation with financing social services.
I can't think of an indirect example, but direct examples abound: healthcare privatisation is sold in Europe as one bringing in needed capital, and claim allowing extra care for customers who can pay will also pay for improvements in basic service.
I wonder what Metatone has to say about this. *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
AirTanker is a UK company dedicated exclusively to providing the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). Under the world's largest Defence Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract, AirTanker will deliver a service that provides comprehensive air-to-air refuelling and air transport capabilities to the Royal Air Force (RAF), using new, multi role tanker transport aircraft derived from Airbus A330-200 commercial airliners. With the contract and the financing in place detailed preparations are now underway to enable service delivery to begin from 2011.
AirTanker is a UK company dedicated exclusively to providing the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Under the world's largest Defence Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract, AirTanker will deliver a service that provides comprehensive air-to-air refuelling and air transport capabilities to the Royal Air Force (RAF), using new, multi role tanker transport aircraft derived from Airbus A330-200 commercial airliners.
With the contract and the financing in place detailed preparations are now underway to enable service delivery to begin from 2011.
NDS - News Distribution Service - Thursday 27 March 2008 13:39 - Ministry Of Defence
A fleet of new Airbus A330-200s will replace the RAF's TriStar and VC-10 aircraft under a £13 billion PFI deal signed today with AirTanker Ltd, announced Baroness Taylor, the Minister for Defence Equipment and Support. The aircraft - which will be owned by AirTanker under the terms of the deal, although they will fly in RAF 'colours' - will undertake air to air refueling and passenger air transport tasks. The aircraft are expected to enter service around 2011, to serve for three decades.
A fleet of new Airbus A330-200s will replace the RAF's TriStar and VC-10 aircraft under a £13 billion PFI deal signed today with AirTanker Ltd, announced Baroness Taylor, the Minister for Defence Equipment and Support.
The aircraft - which will be owned by AirTanker under the terms of the deal, although they will fly in RAF 'colours' - will undertake air to air refueling and passenger air transport tasks. The aircraft are expected to enter service around 2011, to serve for three decades.
Does the company have the right to withdraw their assets if the government engaged in excessively risky activities with them? Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
But the idea is that when the military don't need the tankers (imagine, no more wars) the company can use them for civilian (charter) freight or passenger (+240) transport. This plane, the A330-200, can do this different tasks without reconfiguration. The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
