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Garden Bridge

by freespirit1
Mon, Aug 14, 2017 15:15
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At last this massive waste of money has been consigned to where it should have been ages ago. Perhaps they can spend the money on a bridge that will be useful.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40921373

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peted76 | 7 years ago
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It's like the more we talk about  these big numbers, the more used to them we all become.. frankly I think 'any' waste of this sort of money should result in prosecution or at least have some sort of cap on consulting costs.. 

Lets have a think, ignoring Jeremy Twunt's bathroom as quite literally pocket change...

46million to 'talk about building a bridge' - this is a near miss and frankly London can just fuck off with their projects, I'd let zone1 residential dwellers rot. 

56billion (HS2) that's about 100% more expensive per mile than the new Scottish Borders railway, yay can't wait for that to affect my life, oh wait.. 

Hinkley point 21billion (and rising.. with double the cost of energy for consumers once it is up and running = bargain!)

 

What other big numbers are we getting blazé to.. ?

 

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Ratfink | 7 years ago
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Think of how many bathrooms for Jeremy Hunt that is.

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StraelGuy | 7 years ago
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And only a potential £46M of tax payers hard earned pissed up the wall no.

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Leviathan replied to StraelGuy | 7 years ago
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StraelGuy wrote:

And only a potential £46M of tax payers hard earned pissed up the wall no.

Oh come on, just think of all the Audis those consultants could buy.

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jollygoodvelo replied to StraelGuy | 7 years ago
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StraelGuy wrote:

And only a potential £46M of tax payers hard earned pissed up the wall no.

Whilst this is annoying,  and in normal terms a large amount of money, and I'd very much like to see it repaid (ha!), and the people involved charged with misconduct in public office (haha!), and for those people to be barred from tendering for any other infra projects for a suitable time, like ten years (hahaha!), ... I'm actually just satisfied that it's only that much, and taxpayers will now *not* be on the hook for the full costs of maintaining and running this white elephant a couple of years down the line when the corporate sponsors get bored.

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