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Haste has caused problems. Whereas the education reforms follow on neatly from the academies that Mr Blair set up, the changes in the health service, introduced with little prior warning, come just as the system is adapting to the previous round of reforms. Oddly for a party that believes in the free market, the Tories have rejected for-profit providers for some services, notably education.
Even so, pluralism could lead to a much smaller civil service than anyone thinks. “Once you start letting people compete, it is incredible how few people you need in the centre,” says one of Britain’s most senior mandarins. And, since the change is technocratic not political (the state, after all, is still paying), it will be difficult for a future Labour government to reverse.
Handing over control of schools to parents and medicine to local doctors also fits in with localism. The Tories want more cities to have elected police chiefs and, eventually, elected mayors, like London’s Boris Johnson. They are providing reams of information to make government more transparent a new crime map of Britain’s streets crashed on its launch day because so many people wanted to see it. Combined with pluralism, this amounts to a substantial attack on the centralised state. For instance, Suffolk County Council hopes to knock a third off its budget of £500m by becoming a “virtual” authority that outsources all but a handful of its services to social enterprises or companies.

A. 어휘
Haste 서두름, 迅速(신속). academies 학교.
prior warning 事前(사전) 경고. adapt 적응시키다.
Oddly 이상하게도, 묘하게도. notably 현저하게, 명백하게.
civil service 對民(대민) 행정. mandarins 관리. reverse 뒤집다, 역으로 하다.
fits in 조화를 이루다, 적합하다. reams of 많은. cf. ream 連(연)〈종이 480매〉
transparent 투명한. crash 깨지다, 崩壞(붕괴)하다, 산산이 부수다.
launch day 개시하는 날. amounts to 이르다, 달하다.
substantial 실질적인, 상당한. “virtual” 假想(가상)의.
social enterprises 사회적 기업.