Saturday, November 7th, 2026, 4:13 pm
Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 4 – Moving Towards “Network States” With Corporations, Not Public Servants
Filed under: Like G4S in Manchester
moment – or even an entire part – is needed to discuss the worldwide or global nature of this trend. I am told by friends in several countries that not only Manchester is impacted. Let’s devote today to this.
The pandemic referred to as COVID-19 appears to have been a major contributor or accelerator of this agenda, namely a rapid deterioration of services, then expecting the public to do (for free) all the work that public servants used to do. This is outsourcing, not automation. In general, in public services (that we all pay for collectively), everything gets worse. Yes, everything, even postal services. And even here, everywhere, any place there used to be something like a “Royal Mail”. We pay more, we get less. Privatisation is a common denominator.
“It looks like a package on the way here will likely not be delivered today,” a friend told me, “and instead spend the weekend in town.”
They don’t even deliver items like they used to. Drive to pick it up… what a waste of fuel! Bad for the climate!
“The goal is to shut down all government services,” the friend told me. “I disagree with the groups and the goals but those are what are aimed at by ignorant society.”
He said “some of that agenda is pushed by tech bros on behalf of the broligarchs who all aim to destroy democracies and, if they can, establish “network states” in their places…”
He noted that “the US won a temporary reprieve, but many (most?) of the elected politicians are beholden economically to either AIPAC or Kremlin or both.”
I am saddened to see how privatisation hurts everybody and everything. It impacts us as well.
