Insane government £wastage

chucky

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

In ye olde days, the public sector would have done that sort of technical thing in-house.

they'd probably create in Dreamwever v2 using MS Excel tables as source data...

jonewer

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

In ye olde days, the public sector would have done that sort of technical thing in-house.

Thats the crux of the matter.

The mantra of government is "Get the private sector involved, they are better value for money"

No they are not. They are better value for their own profits, but they are not better for public services.

Public services and private commercial enterprise should never have been married in such a reckless and corrupt manner.

jonewer

chucky wrote: »

they'd probably create in Dreamwever v2 using MS Excel tables as source data...

Mayhap, but it would save £billions and it would work.

jonewer

nearlynew wrote: »

These practices you describe, while shocking, pale into insignificance when compared to the 100s of billions 5punked up the wall by the governmet in bailing out the banks just to keep house prices high.

No they dont.

Because they government spends £100billions every year of corrupt PFI deals.

At least the bank bailouts were a one off, and neccesary to avoid a true global financial collapse.

PFI is just a waste of money. Its simply pouring £100billions of taxpayers money directly into the pockets of private commercial interests with very little return of investment.

joolsybools

The trouble is most civil servants don't have a clue how to negotiate or manage a contract. Come to think of it most of the people I work with don't either. I don't work for the state though but most of my company's funding comes from the state. Same difference I suppose.