There are umpteen ‘money sinks’ but a couple do feature in todays news. One is (as ever) the sheer cost of the eu. This year we’ll put into this money-sink par excellence £6,400,000,000.00p more than we get out of it.
Wot’s the point I have to ask meself?
**We’ve been ‘fined’ £150,000,000.00p by the third-raters at Brussels for not flying the eu flag!**
The present government have set-up a website so that the (online) populace can air their views on where ‘the cuts’ might be made. The costs, this year, of the website, are £20,000.00p.
On the one hand I rejoice that some canny hacker has pulled a bundle for his/her graft in order to pay his/her way, but on the other I cringe at the thought of tax-payers cash going down the sink seemingly so readily. How many estimates were sought for this website? Wouldn’t a wordpress off-the-peg have done?
Of course the other option – no website (and no costs at all) – doesn’t get a look in!
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Rolls-Royce are doing nicely – production, because of demand, is up nearly 200% – yet, sadly, the waiting-list runs up to sometime in September. 2010 sales are expected to be double those of 2009.
About 15 Rolls-Royces are made per day.
