The Zohan

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/scrapped-fi...093719621.html


FFS!
A project to replace fire and rescue control rooms in England with nine regional centres ended in "complete failure" and cost the taxpayer £469m, MPs have found.

The Public Accounts Committee has said the Firecontrol plan is one of the worst project failures it has seen and was "flawed from the outset".

The plan, launched by the previous Labour government in 2004, was scrapped by the coalition last year after a number of expensive delays.

The committee reports that a minimum of £469m had been wasted - and eight of the purpose-built new centres remain empty, costing the taxpayer £4m a month to maintain.

Tidgy

thats the media report on it, the truth may be far from it, but somethign does stink.

speedking

£500k / month to maintain an empty building seems rather steep! Wonder who got that contract!

stilover

Labour.

"Things can only get better"

Really?

Snazy

Saw this on Sky News, some of the other projects were also massive in cost too.
Does make you wonder what the truth of the story is, but either way, its a lot of money.

EddScott

Sounds alot and you wonder where it went but in the budget of the government it's not really a lot of money.

I read somewhere that the average yearly payout by the NHS in compensation is about £1bn a year.

Half a billion over 7 years is peanuts.

Midlife......

iTrader: (2)

IIRC the cost of the failed NHS electronic records IT debacle cost £13 billion and counting

Shaun

billythekid

Its just madness isnt it.
The prices of even simple things are mad.

Standard office chair, £500.
Fridge for storing milk, £3000.
Locker for staff, £2000 each.



Whats worse, is someone is now very very rich from all this supply chain work. Whilst the majority of UK small business struggles on trying to pay their way.

dpb

Oh come on what else would caring sharing labour have to fritter our cash on

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

They took out a very long term lease on the buildings - the one at Castle Donington is something like £100K/month for over 20 years. For an empty building.

billythekid

Indeed. A £500m here, £250m there... £900m over there.... but you quickly add up into billions, and when we have a 170+Bn defecit.... any wonder...

legb4rsk

I wonder if any ex-MP's or MP's are connected with any of the suppliers as
non-executive directors,consultants, advisors.......etc,etc?

jef

iTrader: (13)

nearly as bad as scottish parliment building waste, the edinburgh tram waste, and of course the "incrediable olympic games" mega waste. mp's expenses ect ect

then commonwealth games - from which ironically, no commoners will gain any wealth lol

gotta love how any of the governments really care and look after the people, and really are not in it to gain wealth/power personally (barring the odd good guy lol)

EddScott

Of course it all adds up. Its like the saying "An idiot and his money is easily parted"

I've heard more than one person say you need a conservative government to pay for a labour government.

Funkii Munkii

Fair enough, realise the situation and try and make it good, turn that place into a daycare centre for special needs, under privileged kids, oap's etc etc just dont leave it standing empty, the money has been spent already make use of the facilities FFS.

What a shower Tony and his motley crew really were, how the **** did they last so long, beggars belief simple minded c***s voting them back in term after term

Funkii Munkii

Just ask TB which oil company's board he sits on, all you need to know there.

tony de wonderful

Just more evidence of what a disaster Labour were.

tony de wonderful

Value doesn't matter when you are trying to build an economy based on public sector spending.

The money was all going into peoples pockets ultimately, whether in the form of antique oak at the Scottish Parliament, or Jewelery allowances for council chiefs.