£53,000,000 on nothing

Please tell me how when it isn’t your money you can be paid to do a project that even in failure costs me the tax payer £53m for an end result of nothing ?
If I went to my boss and said I know you’ve been paying me to do this project all year and I’ve cost YOU millions for an end result of fcuk all I think I’d be sacked yet these clowns are untouchable their whole careers !


Failed London Garden Bridge project cost £53m http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47228698

A failed plan to build a bridge covered with trees and flowers over the River Thames in central London cost a total of £53m, it has been revealed.
A Transport for London (TfL) inquiry showed the Garden Bridge Trust spent £161,000 on a website and £417,000 on a gala for the abandoned project.
The design of the bridge cost more than £9m and the charity paid its executives £1.7m.
Around £43m came from the public's pocket, TfL added.
Doubts began to surround the project, overseen by Boris Johnson, after it lost the support of London Mayor Sadiq Khan in April 2017.
It was officially abandoned in August of that year after a review recommended it be scrapped.

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I think the key sentence in that is paid executives, 1.7m they always get their share

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I banged on about this ages ago.
It appears that when you're part of the establishment you're immune from being accountable.

You can make cock up after cock up and nothing is done. Sometimes you're even promoted!!

None of these cretins would survive a microsecond in a normal private company. And don't even mention HS2!!

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The Thomas Heatherwick bridge .
Beautiful concept but so expensive .
Of course people have to be paid for doing plans design work ,environment studies etc etc .
But my goodness what a price .
Joanna Lumney is a crackpot trust her to support it .

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It's called Rinsing money Marmaduke.

Basically just silly projects which they can spend lots of money on thereby taking out of government coffers and into the pockets of private individuals. Freemasonic bread and butter.

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I'd love to know how they justify £9m for the design of the garden bridge though - bloody laughable if it wasn't so sad it's taxpayers money!

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I'm with you on that one.

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Hi

A legacy of Boris.

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It goes on in education too , fat cats everywhere in modern Britain


DOMINIC SANDBROOK on university boss fat cat salaries
https://mol.im/a/6702665

It is, sadly, a familiar story. Of 133 higher education institutions, only four pay their bosses £150,000 or less. Yet at the same time, the vice chancellors’ addiction to showy empire-building has left some of their institutions on the brink of catastrophe.
Cardiff, which posted a £21 million deficit in the last financial year, plans to cut 350 jobs over the next five years.
Reading University has an operating deficit of £40 million over the past two years, and has just reported itself to the regulator over concerns that it ‘improperly benefited’ — to the tune of £121 million — from the sale of land belonging to the National Institute for Research in Dairying trust.
On top of that, Reading already owes £180 million to creditors, including Barclays and HSBC, and recently wrote off almost £28 million after a disastrous partnership in Malaysia. Incidentally, the man who ran Reading until recently, Sir David Bell, earned a whopping £329,000.
His reward for their financial calamities was a transfer to Sunderland, where he takes home a mere £260,000.