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Olympics Security bailed out by army..
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Most are still @rse licking blunties who are treading on those below for an m,o or if they are really thrusting, a K. A few will have led in battle or faced combat. Most joined the forces with aspirations as careerists, are universally hated by their peers as such and stay out of their way to avoid a stabbing in the back in case they slime their way up the greasy pole. There are a few, and they are in the minority, who you would place complete and utter trust in and be led to the end of the earth for.
Unfortunately, due to the love of their men, they fall on their swords well before they float to the top. Adam Holloway was such a man I believe during his time in.0 -
Grizzly forgot to mention East Coast Trains, the bad bank, the Treasury insurance scheme, nuclear cleanup, Education Leeds, the great care home train wreck (in progress), etc etc.Keep repeating it doesn't make it true. State systems are inherently wasteful which is why the past 30 years or so have seen governments struggle to rid themselves of them - sometimes successfully, sometimes not.
The State is where the buck stops. The private sector can only cope with small risks. If things go badly, it just folds up or walks away, leaving the State to pick up the pieces.
Governments have spent the last 30 years or so under the strange delusion that they can hand off their risks to the private sector. But they can't."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Grizzly forgot to mention East Coast Trains, the bad bank, the Treasury insurance scheme, nuclear cleanup, Education Leeds, the great care home train wreck (in progress), etc etc.
The State is where the buck stops. The private sector can only cope with small risks. If things go badly, it just folds up or walks away, leaving the State to pick up the pieces.
Governments have spent the last 30 years or so under the strange delusion that they can hand off their risks to the private sector. But they can't.
Remind us who built the nuclear plants will you? And whose mess underlies the care of the elderly?
Railways were a botched privatisation, I agree - though their history is a murky one and hasn't been much to do with private enterprise since the 1923 state-controlled grouping act. The banks should have been allowed to fail (though remind us who regulates the banks and who, personally, engineered the Lloyds HBOS takeover.)
No, the private sector doesn't always get it right. But as long as moral hazard is allowed to operate, it will get it right a damned site more often than the state sector.0 -
Remind us who built the nuclear plants will you? And whose mess underlies the care of the elderly?
Perhaps we should ask why they built nuclear plants and why they expanded them to generate electricity under a Conservative Government.
Can you clarify what you mean by the last sentence."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
I don't care which Tory party it was. It's hard to tell the difference.Remind us who built the nuclear plants will you? And whose mess underlies the care of the elderly?
The private sector has immunised itself against moral hazard. No defenestrations nowadays. Bankruptcy is designed in, and the fat cats walk away unscathed.But as long as moral hazard is allowed to operate, it will get it right a damned site more often than the state sector.
Not that it solves any problems to have people lining up on window ledges. Firms have always gone bust, and firms have always taken their creditors with them, as well as their shareholders.
Bottom line is, some functions have to work whether they're profitable or not.
Typical example. Local authority care homes have to work on the basis that occupancy rates will vary. But a private sector home budgets on the basis that the council will keep it full, and if it doesn't get 90% occupancy, it will just go bust, sell the property, and park the residents on the town hall steps. No responsibility.
Moral hazard? Well what's it supposed to do? Running at a loss isn't an option. If something runs at a loss, the State has to run it, because only the State can.
Not too surprising if the State's businesses run at a loss then. Especially after they've sold off anything that doesn't."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Theres more about this now.
Only 17 of a supposed 56 members of G4S staff turned up for the security at a hotel around an olympic event. Manchester Police had to divert resources to security.
Oops.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-188569220 -
You can't seriously be holding the MOD up as an example of efficiency can you? And doing so on the count of a single incident that has no bearing on the efficiency or otherwise, of the MOD, when it is widely acknowledged as the gaping drain down which billions of pounds of taxpayers' money have been poured?!
In 2012, a report for the UK government claimed the MOD was wasting between £1.5 and 2.5bn per year - and it was a report co-authored by a former Labour defence secretary for a Labour government!
If we choose to a have a military capable of launching offensive terror campaigns backed with a nuclear arsenal and WMD by its very nature it is going to be costly.
It will swallow up a vast amount of money a lot of which will go to private contractors and the likes of Boeing/Lockheed/Raytheon.
Retaining a force in peacetime trained and ready to go is inevitably going to costly."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Im forces, and theres some great comments floating around work. Things like:
"Dear Mr Cameron - where are the extra troops for the Olympics comming from? Most are either on ops or preparing for ops. Those that arnt you sacked last week !!!!! "0 -
Oh - and we dont have a military cpability of launching offensive terror campaignes. We dont launch terror campaigns and arnt capable of anything offensive with the current levels
As for the MOD overspending - yes it does ....lots. The majority of which is authorised by civilians working in procurement and not by those of us that actually wear a uniform and put our lives on the line for those same civilians.0 -
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