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The Edinburgh tram system, so dumbassed that it flew so far over budget the enquiry board into it are on permanent tranquilizers. what is it now.... 10 odd years past when the enquiry started and still no answer. So over budget it was, that all the Ministers there could have had a truck like winibago with pull out sides, and a car build into its own garage underneath, and all the be trimmings............ who paid? ahem,cough cough, care to guess?
Then theres the purpose built national building for the MP's....... care to look up how much over the budget that was, and who paid? Coughs again...... you'd be right.
Care to guess who paid? lol
The rest was edited to save my embarrassement!
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Then there's the ferry fiasco.
Over here, we've got the new berth for the Liverpool ferry. 'Not going to cost the tax payer anything' - now probably up to £100m.
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Sturgeon resigns on 07:14 - Jun 12 with 2807 views
The Edinburgh tram system, so dumbassed that it flew so far over budget the enquiry board into it are on permanent tranquilizers. what is it now.... 10 odd years past when the enquiry started and still no answer. So over budget it was, that all the Ministers there could have had a truck like winibago with pull out sides, and a car build into its own garage underneath, and all the be trimmings............ who paid? ahem,cough cough, care to guess?
Then theres the purpose built national building for the MP's....... care to look up how much over the budget that was, and who paid? Coughs again...... you'd be right.
Care to guess who paid? lol
The rest was edited to save my embarrassement!
[Post edited 12 Jun 2023 15:13]
It's fairly standard for public sector projects to be over budget because they try to be optimistic with it to get approval then ask for more money later. That's not to say that it wouldn't be a perfect vehicle for embezzlement because some overspending would be expected but if that's your end goal you don't really need to go to the effort of building a tram system. Look at the garden bridge or the over £100m on ferry contracts to a company without ferries, you can skim off quite a bit without having to do anything at all.l if you're that way inclined.
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Sturgeon resigns on 08:40 - Jun 12 with 2723 views
The Edinburgh tram system, so dumbassed that it flew so far over budget the enquiry board into it are on permanent tranquilizers. what is it now.... 10 odd years past when the enquiry started and still no answer. So over budget it was, that all the Ministers there could have had a truck like winibago with pull out sides, and a car build into its own garage underneath, and all the be trimmings............ who paid? ahem,cough cough, care to guess?
Then theres the purpose built national building for the MP's....... care to look up how much over the budget that was, and who paid? Coughs again...... you'd be right.
She might have to share a cell with a woman with a penis
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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Sturgeon resigns on 18:27 - Jun 12 with 2270 views
On news of her arrest, the predictable collection of crap memes arrived from the usual suspects on social media, who found no reason to mention anything about the recent far more serious charges against Trump and Johnson effectively running away from his situation. Sturgeon of course was released without charge.
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Sturgeon resigns on 09:38 - Jun 13 with 1969 views
The secret documents case is the big one. If they let him off, then every other case after that will cite his as why their client should be let off.
Therefore they have to go super hard on him, it's not even about stopping Trump; it's about stopping any Snowden-type leaks in the future (which, if you are a Trump fan, you would agree with as Snowden is with Putin).
Therefore Trump will go down for the leak of the documents, he has to. His only way out is if he can become President again and pardon himself.
This seems unlikely as the rest of the Republican party is ready for him now and are just waiting until the noose is tightened before they start coming out against him hard. The line they will go with is ... "I like Trump, but with all the court cases we cannot beat Biden, we need a clean fresh start so, we can beat the Democrats".
They are building up this line, but it's still waiting for the full unleashing in the right-wing media. But it's coming.
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Sturgeon resigns on 10:08 - Jun 13 with 1935 views
On news of her arrest, the predictable collection of crap memes arrived from the usual suspects on social media, who found no reason to mention anything about the recent far more serious charges against Trump and Johnson effectively running away from his situation. Sturgeon of course was released without charge.
Do you really think Johnson has been charged with more serious crimes.
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Sturgeon resigns on 11:23 - Jun 13 with 1853 views
On news of her arrest, the predictable collection of crap memes arrived from the usual suspects on social media, who found no reason to mention anything about the recent far more serious charges against Trump and Johnson effectively running away from his situation. Sturgeon of course was released without charge.
"Someone despises me. That's their problem." Marcus Aurelius
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Sturgeon resigns on 11:59 - Jun 13 with 1837 views
Over here, we've got the new berth for the Liverpool ferry. 'Not going to cost the tax payer anything' - now probably up to £100m.
We still smile when the local radio plays a clip of John Kerry extolling the virtues of spending two billion on a tunnel under the city centre, "it will be a bargain", he informed us. Of course, everyone in construction had to restrain themselves from laughing out loud.
It's fairly standard for public sector projects to be over budget because they try to be optimistic with it to get approval then ask for more money later. That's not to say that it wouldn't be a perfect vehicle for embezzlement because some overspending would be expected but if that's your end goal you don't really need to go to the effort of building a tram system. Look at the garden bridge or the over £100m on ferry contracts to a company without ferries, you can skim off quite a bit without having to do anything at all.l if you're that way inclined.
The thing about the Edinburgh tram system is that very good tram systems were built in Croydon/Merton and Sheffield without breaking the bank.
So there're serious questions to be asked about how the Edinburgh one went so wrong.
Doesn't have to be corruption, good old incompetence isn't an excuse.
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Sturgeon resigns on 01:24 - Jun 14 with 1495 views
The thing about the Edinburgh tram system is that very good tram systems were built in Croydon/Merton and Sheffield without breaking the bank.
So there're serious questions to be asked about how the Edinburgh one went so wrong.
Doesn't have to be corruption, good old incompetence isn't an excuse.
The Merton part of the Tram line used the existing train lines which was already there for a large portion of it. That must have kept a lot of the costs down that end of the system.
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Sturgeon resigns on 12:17 - Jun 14 with 1225 views
Indeed sir, people rush to the corruption assumption when incompetence is more often than not the simple reason why 'stuff' goes belly up.
"Incompetence, in the limit, is indistinguishable from sabotage"
When I went to Edinburgh it was quicker and cheaper to get the bus into town from the airport, we never used the tram once. Lived in both Sheffield and Croydon. Hardly ever used the tram in either and found them slow & fairly expensive (In comparison with the under/overground anyway) - You can walk a large central section of the Sheffield tram quicker than the tram does it. Manchester and Nottingham's tram systems always seemed better to me, but never lived in either to properly find out.
"Someone despises me. That's their problem." Marcus Aurelius
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Sturgeon resigns on 12:25 - Jun 14 with 1173 views
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