We said 11 years ago PFI was a bad deal - at last they’ve got it

 An Edinburgh Evening News ‘exclusive’ on 21 July 2010 says its investigation has found that the NHS will have to pay a total of £1.26 billion for the privately built Edinburgh Royal Infirmary - and still not own it. Clearly this investigation has taken a whole seven years because in August 2003, a UNISON Scotland briefing said the Consort PFI consortium was “earmarked to receive a cumulative £1.26 billion.... Consort will also benefit by inheriting the whole hospital building when the contract eventually expires.”

Big bad UNISON - we must be getting it right!

UNISON is a big bad thing if press reports, councillors comments and even other unions are to be believed. http://www.unison-edinburgh.org.uk/un/unsep98.html 

We are accused of being locked in the past with quaint ideas like protecting jobs and conditions, fighting for publicly funded and accountable public services and trying to save the taxpayer from the £billions wasted on the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and privatisation.

The Schools Private Finance Illusion

Would you pay a mortgage for 30 years, and then let the bank keep your house? Opinion piece Evening News 7 July 2008 http://www.unison-edinburgh.org.uk/pfi.html 

That, astonishingly, is what the public private partnership (PPP) for Edinburgh's schools will really mean. PPP and the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is not new money, it replaces public funding, it costs more and it takes away our say over our service.