Search and Rescue Privatisation? What is next? The Fire Service? Police?

So the government now wants to Privatise helecopters in Search and Rescue, well what a good idea, lets privatised live saving organisation, you could have a t-shirt being sold "I was saved by Canadian Copeters, Sponsored by Snickers" better yet, lets have the same problems that Blair's PFIs and PPPs have caused in the NHS and Education, so that means that the helicopter will be 1 hour and 15 minutes too late and find the poor sod has fallen to his death, or the helicopter flies to the wrong place after a privatised SAR computerised location company gets bad information from a privatised call centre for the SAR, so they into the wrong information into the computer, which just so happends to be very badly bugged, so instead of going to rescue someone in Snowdon they end up looking off the coast of North England.

Have the government learnt anything for the terrible PFI programmes? Such as the recent Oxygen tank scandal where the Oxygen tank failed to turn up to the right address or turned up too late, or any other PFI that gones balls up (Oh so many to choose from)

You never know we may end up cowboy rescuers, maybe they will have an anwser phone "I am sorry, the offices of SAR are open from 0850 - 1700 please call back tomorrow, or leave your name and where you are stranded and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Prehapes the case might be the helicopter comes but they don't have the right equiptment "Well, that would been a wench and I don't have that, ueeeeeth, I will need to come back tomorrow, it is a bigger job then I thought and I will need to come back tomorrow...."


I never thought I seen the day when a Labour Government would do this, I sometimes wonder If the government gets it's policies from the Monster Raving Loony Party, or this is all part of some big prank for Channel 4 television (For the past 9 years Britain has believed they have elected a Labour government, but in actual fact its all been an elbrorate hoax, and in fact the the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor have been actors, pulling a prank on the electorate and the Labour Party as a whole, in our television show, the sequeal to Space Cabinets and the longest running prank ever, Fake Government")

Random fact:

The 71m packets of biscuits sold annually by United Biscuits, owner of McVitie's, generate 127.8 tonnes of crumbs.