What Did We Expect?

[Verse 1]
Privatise social care
Incentivise profit, make …
Primary objective
Service user neglect

[Verse 2]
Run as if is business
Improve efficiency
Bank balance proves progress
Bottom line litmus test

[Chorus v1]
Shock horror when goes pear-shaped
Wonder how act so surprised
Forget predictable outcome
What did we expect?

[Verse 3]
Education monetise
Dangle carrots on strings
Motivate those donkeys
Tick performance boxes

[Chorus v2]
Shock horror when shit hits fan
Wonder how act so surprised
Forget predictable outcome
What did we expect?

[Instrumental]

[Verse 4]
Capitalise public health
Punish reward cash in hand
Money in my pocket
Everyone understands

[Chorus v3]
Shock horror when goes snafu
Wonder how act so surprised
Forget predictable outcome
What did we expect?

[Verse 5]
Production line logic
Factory philosophy
Piece work pay per unit
Never mind human being

[Spoken Word]
If pursuit of profit is the primary motivating objective of an organisation, then in the running of that organisation everything is implemented/rejected in terms of the extent to which it facilitates the making of that profit.

If we run health provision, care homes, education, in fact public services of any kind, on the basis of profit motive why are we then surprised when safety, love, compassion, and respect – the very things that make a society something to be proud of – so easily fall by the way side? Why are we surprised?

‘You can’t have a profit motive overriding nuclear safety’
Meltdown: Three Mile Island