Labour certainly will not recover if its leadership candidates do the Tories' work for them W Stephen Gilbert Labour will not recover by recasting itself as Tory-lite: fiscally responsible, austerity aware, NHS privatising but, as everyone knows, less competent at these things than the Tories are.
Some sociologists talk about broader "urban gating" as a wider phenomenon of privatising the city, segregating populations, and gating luxury developments and ghettos.
Ukip's Broughton has also seized on the issue, criticising Labour for "privatising" the health service when in office via controversial PFI funding deals for hospitals.
Gay marriage has become a proxy for other undisciplined craziness running through their veins, from hunting to Europe, privatising the NHS to breaking up the BBC, loathing windmills, loving fracking.
Among CDC's luxury investments are: In El Salvador, a company that received $3.3m from CDC in 2004 built 10 gated communities amid growing local concern that such developments are putting pressure on water resources and privatising what the little green space left in the country.
Restructuring the economy, joining the World Trade Organisation and privatising some sectors all failed to improve the prospects of jobless young Saudis.
New culture secretary John Whittingdale, who has already had a cordial meeting with Channel 4's chiefs, has a questioning stance towards public service broadcasting and there have been sporadic flirtations with privatising it.
Over the last 20 years, since the corporation quietly began privatising the City, hundreds of public highways, public pathways and rights of way in place for centuries have been closed.
But for all the aggrieved talk from critics of "privatising" the NHS, it remains a largely-state run entity, with the private sector as a side dish.Having neither shaken up the health service, nor calmed it down, the government hopes that to stave off a winter crisis, if necessary by releasing emergency funding and switch the emphasis from structural changes which might follow its reforms.
Indeed, even in Britain where state pension costs are expected to rise to only 11% of GDP by 2040 the Conservative government has proposed privatising pensions completely.
It has also moved ahead of its neighbours in privatising such assets as airports.
