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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2022 7:07:32 GMT
funding 100 new NHS hospitals with PFIs .New Labour had to use PFI to build new hospitals after the shambles the torys left the NHS IN Labour had to build new hospitals. Using PFIs to do it was a political and ideological choice. And a bad one. |
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Post by thomas on Oct 24, 2022 7:12:08 GMT
funding 100 new NHS hospitals with PFIs .New Labour had to use PFI to build new hospitals after the shambles the torys left the NHS IN Labour had to build new hospitals. Using PFIs to do it was a political and ideological choice. And a bad one. Thanks steve. Honesty as ever. When you read about many of the deals signed , and the ridiculous cost and terms they agreed to , never again should such people ever be allowed near taxpayers cash.
Im not ideologically opposed to PFI. They can and do work , as the snp have proved time and again when they renegotiated new labours disasterous deals in many instances. It was mainly the incompetency involved i have a major issue with.
It was just incredible.
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Post by jonksy on Oct 24, 2022 8:07:41 GMT
Exactly. The interest alone would build 10 new hospitals a year and even when our grand kids grand kids have paid this debt off the hospitals will still be in private hands. read this jonsky on new labours disasterous pfi scandals. This is an article from ten years ago when new labours dodgy deals were being uncovered. Dont forget they built schools and other infrastructre in scotland like oxgangs primary in edinburgh where walls fell down , and often cost over 5 times the predicted initial cost.
Alert readers will perhaps recall our story on the shocking PFI scandal that saw Labour-run North Lanarkshire Council needlessly throw away almost £600m of public money, because it was only about four hours ago that we published it. But some excellent sleuthing by a keen-eyed reader in the comments has thrown up some startling new information that makes the £729m cost of a £150m school-building programme look an even more appalling piece of financial mismanagement.
The contract was signed in 2006/07, the last year of the Labour-led “Scottish Executive”. Over its two Holyrood administrations from 1999, Labour had managed to under-spend the Scottish block grant to the collective tune of £1.5bn – money which was returned to the Treasury at Westminster because, incredibly, Donald Dewar, Henry McLeish and Jack McConnell just couldn’t think of anything to spend it on.
(£1.5bn would have been enough in 2006 to build the Glasgow [£210m] and Edinburgh [£500m] Airport Rail Links and upgrade the entire A9 to dual-carriageway [£600m], spreading the benefits around the country and with £190m still left over.)
On taking control of the Parliament in 2007, the SNP minority government was able to reach an agreement to recover the money for Scotland over the four years of its first term (see paragraph 19 on page 9 here), so at least this huge sum wasn’t completely lost – although of course, a third of it has in essence been uselessly swallowed up in paying off the PFI debt for this one project alone. But nevertheless, the information leads to a mind-boggling and horrifying conclusion:
A Labour council, operating under a Labour Scottish Executive and a Labour government at Westminster, needed to spend £150m on its schools, but rather than use a small fraction of the effectively free money that was sitting around unspent in the Executive’s coffers, signed off on a PFI contract that would cost Scottish taxpayers £729m to do the exact same job.
Bumbling incompetence is one thing. But if we were the current Scottish Government we’d have police crawling all over North Lanarkshire trying to find out how anything so self-evidently insane, and such an utterly criminal waste of taxpayers’ money, was ever allowed to happen. And when we found out, we’d want to see some bodies hanging from Motherwell lamp-posts before the sun went down.
Thanks for that my friend. I wonder how many of those idiots who voted labour in the last local elections will regret the day that they did? They will have to find yet another source to try and support their constant BS when it all goes tits up on them as there is not one local labour run council that is in the black. |
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Post by Handyman on Oct 24, 2022 10:29:12 GMT
The British Legion have been forced to cancel Poppy Day which is held on the 3rd of November to raise donations to those brave men and women who have served their country by putting themselves in harm's way, some of them die in action, some are horribly injured, some in later life fall on hard times PTSD and other issues. Why has it been cancelled? because of the Rail Strike serving members of the services who traditionally to take to the streets with collecting tins may not get to where they usually collect, All down to the Far-Left Union Leaders who have organised more strike days, causing more inconvenience to the traveling Public, many of whom cannot get to work, Hospital appointments, see loved one who may be gravely ill in Hospital, more damage to our economy, etc etc all down to the Comrades again. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11340405PS just noted an omission by me the collections are organised London at Transport Hubs Cant help noticing the troops pictured in the link are not para regiment. Anyone fancy a guess? One has a Parachute Wings Badge on his upper arm, best guess would be Long Range Recon Unit, or possibly Rock Apes |
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Post by Red Rackham on Oct 24, 2022 13:00:34 GMT
Cant help noticing the troops pictured in the link are not para regiment. Anyone fancy a guess? One has a Parachute Wings Badge on his upper arm, best guess would be Long Range Recon Unit, or possibly Rock Apes Good guess Handyman, but no banana. They are in fact Royal Engineers from 23 Engr Regt, the airborne sappers. |
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Post by Handyman on Oct 24, 2022 13:24:15 GMT
Ah I learn something new every day, thanks
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Post by patman post on Oct 25, 2022 18:16:45 GMT
RMT has just moved 3 Nov London strike day to 9 Nov, because it interfered with the poppies…
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Post by totheleft3 on Oct 25, 2022 18:35:40 GMT
RMTAfteras just moved 3 Nov London strike day to 9 Nov, because it interfered with the poppies… So them nasty rail unions are not that bad After All  |
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Post by Pacifico on Oct 25, 2022 21:32:34 GMT
RMT has just moved 3 Nov London strike day to 9 Nov, because it interfered with the poppies… Good decision by the RMT - well done to them. |
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Post by Handyman on Oct 27, 2022 13:36:58 GMT
I agree a good decision for a change
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