What is the biggest waste of public tax payers money ever made by this Labour government?

Question

for starters ,maybe John Prescot .
The dome! (although i know it was the tories who started this one off.)

Answer 1

The European Union!!!
The facts:
Britain has given nearly £200 Billion to the EU since we joined
In 2007 UK taxpayers will be forced to pay £14.2 Billion to the EU
The EU costs every man, woman and child £873 per year
The EU is costing the British economy £50.6 Billion this year, by 2007 this will rise to £52.4 Billion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

To be fair, it's not just the Labour Party, because below the tier of government are permanent civil-servants who have a habit of making a mess of just about everything that they touch.

Governments throw money around, but they don't actually have the skills to know how that money is being spent or allocated, or whether funding is just another gravy-train for government jobsworths.

I have lost count of initiatives, computer systems which don't work, black holes in budgets, white elephants such as "The Dome" and now the Olympic fiasco.

You only have to look how parliament is made up to realise where the main problem is. There was a time when politicians had real experience in the real world of work....industrialists, entreprenuers, people who had been in the military and educated people who were not just young lawyers trying to make a name for themselves.

People like that simply wouldn't have tolerated what is going on in public service management to-day, and heads would have rolled.

The biggest waste of money has been that poured into the NHS, which has done very little to improve the service or recruit front-line staff.

Education is another black-hole, where people who would otherwise be jobless are swallowed up in a system which hides the real unavailability of proper jobs.

As for the Labour Party, all it has done is to manage the apparently terminal decline of British industry, and use vastly increased tax revenues to increase the number of people directly or indirectly funded by government.....the unemployed, the socially disadvantaged, single parents etc etc.

However, there is also another massive black-hole caused by ever increasing house price inflation, which results in ever higher rent revenues to the private-sector, and a consequent increase in housing benefit payments.

What has that done other than fund the upward spiral of prices, and the apparently limitless increases in direct and indirect taxation?

When government feel obliged to make 2,000 new laws, and react to every newspaper headline, THAT is a country on the brink of anarchy, with a paranoid government vainly trying to cling to power, yet perfectly happy to take over half your earnings each and every week, and spend them as they think fit.

As for John Prescott, the man may be a buffoon, but as compared to Ken Livingstone, he is an intellectual.

Answer 3

The war in Iraq, immigration, Billions wasted on the NHS management, image consultants, Afganistan, trying to ban hunting, giving the Euro rebate back.
Labour is a waste of time. Full stop.

Answer 4

lets start with the obvious, the fiasco with pensions, said he was going to let use our own personnel pension to invest as we wished, then he pulled the plug on that. Then how about reassessing council tax, then pulled the plug on that. health service, wasted billions on trying to get it working, but at the end of the day the service is still in sad state.and the old favourite the CSA, these are just the ones that come to mind without giving any real thought. So god knows what state we are going to be in when he's PM. !!!!

Answer 5

By far it's the new Olympic stadium.They should incorporate the new Wembley Stadium into the Olympic's, after all it is a fantastic stadium and that cost far too much to build as it is.The money saved could then be put back into all the other services which are in desperate need of funds!(The NHS etc. for example).

Answer 6

Apart form the Labour party, the EU, the Dome, the Olympics, Blair's tours, the list goes on and on.

Answer 7

How about spending £100 million texting illegal immigrants to go home,when they don't even know how many are here.
After paying up to £2000 to get here do they really believe the will obey a phone call.
Then what about raiding the Lottery to fund the Olympics, Please God we don't win the Euro vision Song Contest(but with that song no sweat)

Answer 8

Big ones are on the horizon. ID Cards, Road Pricing, the NHS computer. Take your pick. Billions down the toilet!

Answer 9

Increase in government to pay off supporters, welfare and illegals. An thing else is just us letting all the politician do as they plz since the beginning of time.

Answer 10

Paying Gordon Brown a wage.