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Jan 17Liked by Leah Gunn Barrett

This is true and has tremendous implications for the cost to the public for public services.

The Skye Bridge tolls issue was the first PFI imposed on Scotland by a Tory UK Government.

It was stounchly defended by Labour in Westminster, and later in the Scottish Parliament. It took 9 years of bitter struggle before the poeple defeated the Labour Government and got tis PFI scrapped.

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Jan 17Liked by Leah Gunn Barrett

Well said! On this and just about everything else Labour have been processed by City of London and right wing Tory constituencies they need to win to gain power. There's no difference really.

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Jan 17Liked by Leah Gunn Barrett

Both Conservative and Labour are happy to transfer public money to private companies, a shocking waste of public money when it is sorely needed to fix our ailing infrastructure. The public in all parts of the UK have no say once political parties have been voted in, we live in an elective dictatorship.

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