06-03-2021, 01:06 PM
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Re: £2,607,767.67 spent on new Downing Street media briefing room
Originally Posted by Omah
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Apparently, the average wage is £31,000 per annum for a qualified registered nurse with experience.It would take such a nurse 84 years to earn £2,600,000 .....
06-03-2021, 01:18 PM
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Re: £2,607,767.67 spent on new Downing Street media briefing room
Originally Posted by Mups
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Yes, security alone must cost a bomb - (no pun intended). 
06-03-2021, 02:33 PM
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Re: £2,607,767.67 spent on new Downing Street media briefing room
https://news.sky.com/story/downing-s...tudio-12236960On the one hand:
The Cabinet Office said "This spending is in the public interest as the new broadcasting of lobby briefings will increase public accountability and transparency about the work of this government now and in the future."
On the other hand:
06-03-2021, 02:47 PM
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Re: £2,607,767.67 spent on new Downing Street media briefing room
Originally Posted by Omah
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https://news.sky.com/story/downing-s...tudio-12236960On the one hand:
The Cabinet Office said "This spending is in the public interest as the new broadcasting of lobby briefings will increase public accountability and transparency about the work of this government now and in the future."
On the other hand:
So, "public accountability and transparency" ..... but only if "in the public interest" ..... the irony .....
Well not really because details might well have been sufficient to enable a third party to glean details about what defence systems had been incorporated.
Not very good at this are ya!
06-03-2021, 03:20 PM
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Re: £2,607,767.67 spent on new Downing Street media briefing room
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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It will. And security in such places includes RF shielding which in itself doesn't come cheap.
Donkeyman! 🤔🤔🤔
06-03-2021, 03:24 PM
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Re: £2,607,767.67 spent on new Downing Street media briefing room
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Well not really because details might well have been sufficient to enable a third party to glean details about what defence systems had been incorporated.Not very good at this are ya!
Donkeyman! 👍🤔🤔👍
06-03-2021, 03:32 PM
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Re: £2,607,767.67 spent on new Downing Street media briefing room
Originally Posted by meg
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to me there is something unedifying about those who complain about every penny others spend particularly when the full details may not be obvious. It's the same with those who complain about that which others own or earn, i don't care.
For most of my 72 years i have owned very little and there have been times when i have not had enough to eat, clothes to wear or a roof over my head but i envy no one, money and possessions have always been of little importance to me.
It must be awful to go through life thinking only of those things you don't have instead of appreciation the things you do have
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