Who cares about the cost?
I am developing a grudging respect for President Musk in America.
Yes, I know he’s a fucking eejit and prone to a drop of megalomania, but then so is his sidekick The Real President Trump.
So from whence does this respect arrive?
I have always maintained that the gubmint is far too free with tax payers’ money. Politicians and civil servants see it as a bottomless pit so are more inclined to go for the expensive option under the illusion that the higher the cost, the better the quality.
We have had a long string of little fiascos here when it comes to crass stupidity and wastage.
Going back in time we had the story of the printer that wouldn’t fit in the door. This cost us €808,000 with an additional €236,000 just to get it into the building. Over a million for a fucking printer?
Then of course there is the famous bicycle shelter. Note that it’s shelter and not a shed. In other words, a roof. Another €336,000
How about a security hut at the knockdown price of a mere €1.4m. Yes – nearly one an a half million.
Would you fancy yourself a new computer? How about €6m [yes – six million] for a computer system that never worked? I would love to see the justification there.
Now there’s the breaking story of the scanner. Granted it’s a tad specialised but once again they forked out €125,000 for a scanner before realising they had nowhere to put it.
I wonder if President Musk would fancy a job here?
I’ve been wondering if we could borrow Mr Musk when he’s dine his US wotk
Peanuts, the Irish Government are rank amateurs in the waste stakes, just look across the water . . .
A few years ago, the UK Government wrote off £12bn (that’s Billion) on an IT system for the Health Service, it never budged a byte.
The same incompetents are currently in a deep and dark hole, many years old, from trying to buy a fleet of small armoured vehicles, the Ajax, which have already cost tens of millions per vehicle, none of which work properly, nor ever will. Yet the Taliban seem to manage perfectly well with standard Toyota pick-ups. The list is endless.
I fear Musk’s remaining lifespan is too short even just to run his eyes over the mess that is UK Government procurement.
Sadly gubmints just can’t seem to grasp the concept of value for money. Look at our famous Children’s Hospital that was to cost €650 million but they end up [at the latest estimate] at €2.24 BILLION. It is quoted as “the most expensive hospital in the world”!
A fag packet calculation, assuming the UK has ten times our population that would mean you would pay out twenty two and a half billion. 😀
I’ll see your pricey hospital and raise you a ‘Big Train Set’, known in the UK as HS2. Originally planned to run from London via Birmingham and Manchester to Leeds for less than £30bn.
It’s now been cut back to only Birmingham, the cost is already over £100bn, it’s created 5 years of chaos with more to come on the roads with new bridges, tunnels, diversions etc. – and all to save just 10 minutes on a journey that no-one on their right minds ever wants to make. Which dickhead wants to go to either of those godforsaken places, especially on 19th century transport technology?
You hear such foam-flecked vitriol from the left that it’s very clear he’s doing a great job.
I’d love him here in the UK next..
The two of them are as mad as a barrel of frogs but I have to agree. I’m not sure though how I would feel if I lived in the States.