What do you think of the government spending £400 million on a body to keep Olympic costs under control.?

Question

The Olympic row deepens over £400million bill for cost control. Financial Times 22nd Nov 2006

Answer 1

Typical of this Government , they are in deep trouble with the Olympics and it,s Massively Escalating costs , so they have decided to "Park It" on to another body , == Money no Object -- "Lets just Dump It" and Run for Cover well before the S H I T Really hits the Fan -- "Happily we will all be out of Office by then , Enjoying Our Vast Pensions -- Blame the Opposition .

Answer 2

Typical. Makes the £30m spent on consultants for ID cards look insignificant. How much do incubators cost these days? Nurses? Remember we don't live in a democracy :-(. Although a genuine democracy would be a bit hard to administer, I'm sure there must be a way to run things that doesn't involve riding rough shod over the feelings (and savings) of the general public. My girlfriend thinks that politics should be like jury duty - a civic responsibility with no perks other than doing your bit. I like the idea so much that I wish I'd thought of it :-).

Answer 3

The body (consultants) are probably the same as the body that controlled spending on that other great success - The Millennium Dome and The Wembly Stadium.
I hope another body has told them it should be ready before 2012 or may be that will also rise to 2022.
I am sure we will have a few ex-government ministers (noses in the trough) on the payroll to protect the taxpayers.

Answer 4

And what the fu**s a BODY going to do apart from wasting a lot of time and money telling us what we probably already know, the would be better not to have the Olympics because it has become an expensive political show piece with nothing to do with sport, it gets more eccentric every time to impress the others. It has out run its purpose.

Answer 5

Wow someone needs a lot of surgery if it's going to cost that much to fix their body..Did they get mangled in a mower? no only joking couldn't resist.. it was 600 in the sun this morning but we all know that tabloid.. Personally as i live outside the capital i have nothing to gain from the Olympic games whatsoever.. I think it should have gone to a country that could afford it without having to beg steel or borrow money to hold them...

Answer 6

It clearly isn't doing its job. It was announced, yesterday, that the projected costs for building the infrastructure have risen from about 2.3 billion to about 3.3 billion. And we've years of further rises to look forward to!!!

Answer 7

Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to this conniving government!! I wonder how many of their cronies are on the payroll?? I wouldn't be surprises if this was a 'loan' that they will pay back in return for a knighthood in the future!!!!

Answer 8

and whats the betting that the body is not on a fixed price contract. I gues this body will cost £536million in the end

Answer 9

There are more consultants crawling over the public sector than ever before.

Answer 10

I would call it looking after your own. Keep them in work because they know they will probably loose all their perks at the next election. Grabbing it whilst they can.