We’re paying for Grayling’s failings
■ IT’S a huge relief that the miserable plan by the Tories to privatise probation services is to be reversed (Mirror, May 15).
At last the public will be safer after 225 people were murdered by convicted criminals monitored by private firms since 2013.
Bungling Chris Grayling – who as Transport Secretary recently awarded a ferry contract to a firm with no boats – cost the tax payer £500million with his reforms as Justice Secretary.
Wherever he goes chaos follows, plus a hefty bill for us. Yet he’s still allowed to soldier on by weak Theresa May because he’s one of the few ministers she can trust.
Bill Cook, Teignmouth, Devon
■ The privatisation of probation services has been a colossal failure and has proved beyond doubt our key public services need to be government-run. The sole purpose of the privatisation schemes set up by the Tories is to move taxpayers’ money into already wealthy private hands.
People keep saying our Government is out of touch with ordinary people, but it’s not.
The Tories know exactly what they’re doing and what pain it causes, but their purpose is to support the rich at any cost. Arthur Wood, Leeds
■ Chris Grayling seems to think the Treasury is his own little piggy bank. He presided over the train timetable chaos, which cost the rail companies a fortune, but they don’t care as long as the Government coughs up the subsidy. Then came the ferry blunder which cost £50million and now the scandal of privatised probation which has cost taxpayers £500million.
How much longer do we have to put up with this idiot? David Lewis, Aberdare Mid Glamorgan
■ The probation service should never have been privatised in the first place.
It’s a scandal more people have been murdered because of this Government’s obsession with penny-pinching and privatising everything.
Let’s get them out before they can inflict any more damage on taxpayers. K Smith, Solihull, West Mids ■ The Tories were warned by their own consultants that the privatisation of probation services was a no-go. This is yet another Tory mess that the taxpayers have to pay for. Duncan McKinnell via Facebook ■ As with all Tory reforms, the privatisation of the probation service was rushed through without a full investigation or consideration of the outcome before it was implemented. When will they learn?
Sally Kendrick, via Facebook
■ The failure of the privatised probation service says it all. Would someone mind telling this inept Government that I don’t pay my taxes for them to waste. Pam Booth, Wallasey, Merseyside