Trouble is the burden of proof. Pretty clear in the case of the Garden Bridge that it was a ludicrous waste of money but things like Olympic stadiums, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh trams and government instigated IT systems for the NHS, transport, security are a longer, slower disaster and a failure of purchasing powers and systems. Whose fault?
Don’t forget to mention the EU , I believe , auditors have never been able to sign off / certify the accounts , wonder where all the money goes ? Any private company would be shut down Waste of engery to get angry
Wherever there are large amounts of public funds available and insufficient scrutiny there will be people who take advantage. The EU has introduced new systems to prevent and investigate fraud and things are getting better but, as long as there are civil servants on public salaries there will be fraud resulting from naivety and a readiness to grease palms and favour certain companies in one ratio or another.
Britain is no different. Private companies are not all honourable or held to account and can and do hide it very well.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I like Joanna Lumley. Loved the way she won fair play for Gurkas. I also like the idea of a garden bridge but this one was in the wrong place and ludicrously expensive. Surely much cheaper and more valuable to create large and small community gardens in public places for folk to share.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Good job we are all different, I really liked the idea of the garden bridge, although can't stand Joanna Lumley.
I've never met Joanna Lumley so don't have an opinion on her. I think a garden bridge could be great, but the Government and its assorted outreach off-shoots can't procure construction projects. Of any kind. Not since they closed all the County Architects' offices.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I’ve not met JL but Bro did ... a long while back in the early/mid 70s when he was at a highly impressionable age and she was the girlfriend of a neighbour ... Bro was unable to give a coherent account of the evening but walked around with a daft grin on his face for some weeks 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Any private company would be shut down
Waste of engery to get angry
Britain is no different. Private companies are not all honourable or held to account and can and do hide it very well.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.