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Gove: ‘transforming’ the Civil Service into cash
When you launch your programme to shake up central government at an event funded by a former Tory insider’s firm that tries win public-sector contracts for the corporations, it is clear that privatisation is the real goal, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove

MICHAEL GOVE has announced plans for “reform” that look designed to give favoured corporations and Tory insiders more control of the supposedly independent Civil Service.

He wants to turn government into “Gove-rnment,” a system that hands over public services to his mates, so they can make a profit at our expense.

Gove pushed the plans at a conference arranged by a former Tory MP’s personal think tank. The event was funded by a former Tory adviser’s company, one that tries to win public-sector contracts for corporations — which rather gives the game away about what is being planned here.

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