Turned out the winner was massively cheaper because they had massively underestimated the work required. Trash piled up for weeks while the new trash collectors worked illegal amounts of overtime trying to get rid of it.
Now, this switch had happened just before local elections, which the right-winged parties who'd been in control soundly lost.
The new left-winged leadership ended up canceling the contract and bringing the service back in public hands.
It's such a waste of money which the right should be the ones complaining about.
Unregulated privatization does not work because privatization means optimize to the max which includes cutting corners in labor laws to the health the citizens.
Do more direct democracies have this problem?
There are several things in the UK that have been clear attacks on our democracy that it feels could have been avoided if it were possible to force a national vote on them. Proroging parliament. Neutering parliamentary standards. Tory party members solely being allowed to choose succession for multiple PMs. And so on ...
Allowing water companies to pay bonuses and dividends whilst putting up rates and pumping effluent into our rivers at massively increased rates ... a national vote would allow an opposition party to put a solution to stop that to the populous and it could be fixed, somewhat.
Although, with the levels of deceit and manipulation, just flat out immorality, the Tories have practiced in recent years maybe they could get the public to vote for more profits for shareholders and more shit pumped into the rivers. I despair.
