CEO contradicts Cameron on links to big business


10:04 am - July 24th 2009

by Chris Barnyard    


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As part of the Tory re-branding exercise, Bloomberg reported on 1st July:

David Cameron, whose Conservative Party is on course to win power in the U.K. in the next year, said he wanted the government to broaden its base of contractors away from large companies including Capita Group Plc. “At the moment in the civil service there’s a sort of mentality of ‘no one got fired for giving the contract to Capita,'” Cameron told an audience of volunteer workers in London today. “We’ve got to have a culture that’s a little bit more experimental and is prepared to take a bit of a leap sometimes with a small organization.”

Yesterday Bloomberg interviewed the CEO of Capita, who said:

“Conservative party members of a very high level have expressed considerable interest in Capita and outsourcing,” Chief Executive Officer Paul Pindar said in a telephone interview today. “If the Tories win the next election and some of the strong statements they’re making on reducing their cost base are followed through, we could see some good opportunities.”
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“We thought Cameron’s remarks were flattering, and we’ve talked to other members of the party who thought so too,” said Pindar.

Clearly Mr Pindar failed to get the memo from Cameron to keep shtum and toe the line. Still waiting for Cameron to embrace ‘Red Toryism’ and small businesses.

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Reader comments


1. Mike Killingworth

Surely Cameron doesn’t think that civil servants get fired for non-performance, does he?

2. Kate Belgrave

Yep – the recession will be a nice time for companies like Capita, BT, and other public service ‘providers.’

Tories on the ground are preparing that ground for outsourcing to private companies. What little cash is left for public spend will be heading the private sector’s way. There are almost too many stories about it to cover.

3. Alisdair Cameron

@ kate

Tories on the ground are preparing that ground for outsourcing to private companies

As are New Labour, where they still hold some influence, and indeed the LibDems in my neck of the woods, where they control the Local Authority. Crapita et al, themselves outsource, thereby taking a chunk without doing the bloody work, and chains of accountability get so strained that finding out who exactly buggered up is tricky, let alone seeing them take the rap (apart from the poor sods on minimum wage doing the actual graft).

4. Edwin Moore

Well said Alisdair.

5. Mike Killingworth

Are Capita (etc) the English-speaking world’s equivalent of the Mafia? They seem to fulfil much the same function.

6. Kate Belgrave

Al & Ed –

Yep, you are absolutely right. Labour outsources with the best of them. I just don’t see them being in power for a lot longer, so am turning my attention to our looming Tory overlords

etc


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