of Merseyside TUC (in a personal capacity)
THE CAMPAIGN against the transfer of 800 council houses on the Wargrave Estate in St Helens gained an important victory on October 26 when tenants rejected plans to privatise their estate by a margin of 6l percent to 39.
This result is the only victory so far in the North West against any proposed transfer and has started a determined campaign across the region to fight off privatisation.
Glen Voris reports: wouldn't interest the developers who require big sweeteners.
• The cost to the public of using PFI to re-build the school will be bigger than if the State itself borrowed the capital. The only way the capital cost can be kept down is to give public assets - in this case nearly a quarter of the school site, to the developers.
• Finally, this would be a big step towards the privatisation of education because once you accept "market logic" in providing school buildings (and services like schoolkeepers, security and cleaning) then it's a very short step to handing the hiring of teachers over to them as well. Of course Blair's New Labour is based on an old idea - that the market (by which he means capi-