public sector spend £22 on 65p light bulbs. Sums these fools up really

The_White_Horse

this is why you should only be allowed to work for the civil service after at least 7 years in the private sector.

you get most of this waste becase of career morons in the public sector. how many meetings were involved before they agreed to pay a price 300x more than it was worth?

sack half of these fools immediately.

nicko33

maybe they're Apple light bulbs

Andy_L

Actually this story demonstrates the incompetance of Private Sector reporting. Perhaps reporters shouldn't be allowed to work for newspapers without 7 years experinece of a job.

"he bulbs are highly specialised parts for a radar system. A MoD spokesman said: "It was a precision-made lamp filament for the Watchman radar. The MoD purchases about five per year."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12643966

PasturesNew

To even decide on any lightbulb takes a whole tendering service, probably £1-5k of decisions, meetings, tendering and generally "being busy" before the decision's made and some supplier's added to the Registered Suppliers List... etc etc.

thescouselander

Rubbish reporting - the invoice doesn't even indicate the item is a bog standard 100W bulb.

There does seem to be a Nato Stock Number though - I'm not sure anyone would have gone to the trouble of codifying a 100w bulb so that does indicate the item is actually something else.

ultrawomble

Andy_L wrote: »

Actually this story demonstrates the incompetance of Private Sector reporting. Perhaps reporters shouldn't be allowed to work for newspapers without 7 years experinece of a job.

"he bulbs are highly specialised parts for a radar system. A MoD spokesman said: "It was a precision-made lamp filament for the Watchman radar. The MoD purchases about five per year."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12643966

However, it would seem that the esteemed Dr. Fox knows better:

"This is classic evidence of how Labour wasted taxpayers' money and shows a complete lack of common sense."

I wonder if that's a big case of egg on face?

drc

There is a joke in here somewhere about changing lightbulbs...

StevieJ

ultrawomble wrote: »

However, it would seem that the esteemed Dr. Fox knows better:



I wonder if that's a big case of egg on face?

I wonder if he would have responded like that if the Tories had been in power for four years. Don'tcha just love politics

robin_banks

The_White_Horse wrote: »

this is why you should only be allowed to work for the civil service after at least 7 years in the private sector.

you get most of this waste becase of career morons in the public sector. how many meetings were involved before they agreed to pay a price 300x more than it was worth?

sack half of these fools immediately.

That's PFI for you, remind when Dave et al promised to scrap PFI.......

FTBFun

ultrawomble wrote: »

However, it would seem that the esteemed Dr. Fox knows better

I somehow doubt that.

Thank god the Conservatives have never ballsed up with defence procurement. Like, for example, ordering a new service rifle, which was so shoddily put together the magazine would fall out if you caught the catch on your clothes.

Does no-one realise that all politicans are incompetent wastrels, regardless of the rosette on their chest?

RJP33

Having worked in the private sector mostly but also in the civil service, the key problem I notice is a lack of accountability. If you overspend or don’t get value in the private sector it has a direct influence on the bottom line, whereas there’s a culture of it doesn’t really matter in the public sector which leads to incredible waste.

A persons value is usually scrutinised in the commercial world, but there are plenty of ‘passengers’ in the civil service.

Certainly I think the top civil servants should have considerable commercial experience, otherwise how are they ever going to deliver proper value for the taxpayer?