More waste for UKIP to highlight

John Page · 04-06-2006, 12:53 PM

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£20bn NHS supercomputer means longer waits- "EVIDENCE that the government’s troubled £20 billion National Health Service computer system has lengthened waiting times for patients has emerged for the first time. It was hoped that a pilot scheme for the technology at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust in Oxford would show the benefits of the delayed system. Instead, when it went “live”, the computers crashed, data could not be found and some patients found that they were facing among the longest waits for operations in the country. Staff who were instructed to sort out the problem could not even establish from the malfunctioning computers which patients had been waiting the longest and the numbers kept climbing." (Sunday Times 4.6.06)

£1,000 each for MPs' World Cup junket- "MPs have been given free World Cup tickets by fast-food giant McDonald's - to the fury of ordinary fans who face being locked out of England's matches. The politicians asked the company for seats to watch England's opening game against Paraguay on Saturday - the tickets they and their Commons researchers received now command more than £1,000 each on the black market.The Parliamentary Football Club, whose members include Health Minister Andy Burnham and Pensions Minister James Purnell, secured the coveted tickets after approaching McDonald's, despite its role in the long-running storm over healthy eating." ( Mail on Sunday 4.6.06)

NHS pays £1,250 for one nurse's shift- "NHS chiefs paid an astonishing £1,250 for an agency nurse to cover a single shift, according to new figures which reveal that tens of millions of pounds is still being spent every year across Scotland to cover staff shortages. Despite pledges to reduce reliance on out-of-house agencies, the NHS in Scotland is still turning to the quick-fix route of agency nurses and doctors to cover sickness, holidays and unfilled vacancies which last year cost it more than £40m." (Scotsman 4.6.06)

£1bn pa will always be wasted on tax credits- "More than £1billion will be wasted on tax credits every year, the Government admitted yesterday. The Inland Revenue has already written off £3billion of taxpayers' money handed to families by mistake in the past three years. Ministers conceded they were never going to solve the problem because of the system's complexity. Losses are likely to carry on running at some £1.2billion a year, of which half will have to be written off. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Stephen Timms said the Government had introduced changes to cut down on errors. But he admitted: "Once fully implemented, we expect them to reduce overpayments in future years by around one third." That means £1.2billion will be paid out wrongly every year unless tax credits are scrapped altogether." (Mail 1.6.06)

Total for week- £21,040,011,000

David Agnew · 06-07-2006, 06:45 PM

I read recently that the government is spending £400million(!) on another 'bloody Sunday' enquiry. I know that New Labour are world experts at wasting money, but this takes the biscuit. Why is there no public protest? I suppose that we have just become resigned to British politicians burning our hard-earned. You just couldn't make it up.

John Page · 06-07-2006, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by David Agnew

I read recently that the government is spending £400million(!) on another 'bloody Sunday' enquiry. I know that New Labour are world experts at wasting money, but this takes the biscuit. Why is there no public protest? I suppose that we have just become resigned to British politicians burning our hard-earned. You just couldn't make it up.

To be fair to them, they didn't think it would cost anything like this much when they started out. The lawyers in charge have grossly mismanaged it.

But of course they weren't given a budget to work within.

In these situations lawyers typically say justice is priceless. Well in government nothing is, government is about balancing priorities.

Clippo · 07-07-2006, 08:09 AM

David Agnew wrote:-

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I read recently that the government is spending £400million(!) on another 'bloody Sunday' enquiry.

Not sure this is really true - I think you must be referring to the possible 7/7 public enquiry. I think Blair is trying to avoid a public enquiry into the 7/7 attacks, (there are many people, particularly the lady from Nigeria who lost her son then & others presumably lawyer-goaded, wanting one).
But I agree with you about the breathtaking scandal over this waste of money. And it may not be over yet - £400m is an estimate and no report is in sight. Yesterdays, (6th), Telegraph (I think but I don't have a link) had a bigger breakdown of the lawyers with their snouts in the trough.

In addition to the tax credits ****-up above, (any Treasury Civil servants getting the chop for this??) there apparently is a new scam with tax credits. Apparently, 'East Europeans' are coming in to work & making many thousands out of the tax credit system by fradulent claims. They then make enough to invest in property in their own countries where property is dirt cheap.

I can't write any more, I'm getting too angry & stressed !!!! :cry: :cry:

John Page · 07-07-2006, 08:14 AM

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I can't write any more, I'm getting too angry & stressed !!!!

Oh dear, that's more costs for the NHS then.

David Agnew · 05-08-2006, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Clippo

David Agnew wrote:-

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I read recently that the government is spending £400million(!) on another 'bloody Sunday' enquiry.

Not sure this is really true - I think you must be referring to the possible 7/7 public enquiry

It is true. There was the Widgery Inquiry in the 1970s.

06-07-2006, 06:45 PM	#2 (permalink)
David Agnew Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Maidenhead Posts: 297	unbelievable I read recently that the government is spending £400million(!) on another 'bloody Sunday' enquiry. I know that New Labour are world experts at wasting money, but this takes the biscuit. Why is there no public protest? I suppose that we have just become resigned to British politicians burning our hard-earned. You just couldn't make it up.

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