Another good article from Jennifer Saul. Please read and share. "This moment is, it seems to me, an ideal turning point for the Sheffield Council. Now that their national party has come out against PFIs, it would be a brilliant time to end the scandal that is the tree maintenance portion of the PFI with Amey. This portion of the contract is an ideal illustration of all that is wrong with PFIs—enormous financial waste, prioritizing profit over sustainability, and a total lack of democratic accountability. Ending it would be a marvelous illustration of the importance of Labour’s new policy: it could be replaced with a democratically responsive policy that takes full account of benefits of trees and properly considers the options available. Digging in their heels, and doubling down on aggressive and intimidatory tactics, is precisely the wrong thing to do now."