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The next time you are waiting 4 hours in casualty or get attacked on the street, just remember where the money from your taxes go. Not to pay for more nurses or police officers not even to help poverty stricken families. No the govement has decided to give people in Brampton (near Barnsley) FREE ITV Digital boxes so that they can surf the internet. It gets worse when 300 more homes (forget where) are to be given FREE digital terrestrial TV in a paid for experiment by the government.
So as I said above remember do not accept "lack of funding" as an excuses for poor public services.
Ps what next, Free Playstation 2's for families without one?
So as I said above remember do not accept "lack of funding" as an excuses for poor public services.
Ps what next, Free Playstation 2's for families without one?
The thing to remember is throwing money at something won't make it better. Over the last year we've seen many internet companies start up with great business plans and ideas (in my opinion many of which could have worked), but they wasted all their money on new offices in Central London, top of the range IT, far too many staff and too many managers doing nothing but getting paid lots. If they had started off small and then used their money wisely they could have made it.
Every day I get people phoning me up with some great new idea that they are trying to sell me. Customer Relation e-portal solutions for the business to business virtual ASP provider. It's all a load of over hyped rubbish which costs far too much. Usually I just get rid of them, sometimes I listen to their idea tell them no thanks and then go off and program it myself for a 50th of the cost they were quoting!
Anyway - I digress, It is very annoying to see people being given FREE digital TV when some of us work hard to pay NTL stupid amounts of money for a service you can get from Sky for half the price! Still serves me right for buying my own flat and not being allowed to put a dish up!
Every day I get people phoning me up with some great new idea that they are trying to sell me. Customer Relation e-portal solutions for the business to business virtual ASP provider. It's all a load of over hyped rubbish which costs far too much. Usually I just get rid of them, sometimes I listen to their idea tell them no thanks and then go off and program it myself for a 50th of the cost they were quoting!
Anyway - I digress, It is very annoying to see people being given FREE digital TV when some of us work hard to pay NTL stupid amounts of money for a service you can get from Sky for half the price! Still serves me right for buying my own flat and not being allowed to put a dish up!
Poor public services is down to poor management. I've worked in the public sector on and off for about 15 years, both as civil servant and contractor, and the amount of waste I've seen is quite staggering.
For example, the DSS commissioned a new software system for their computers, the initial design stages cost over £3,000,000, and then they decided they weren't going to go ahead with it when a new government got elected.
Strangely enough, the most cost-effective company I ever worked for was the old GPO, now BT. Back in the old days, penny pinching was legendary with the post office. Now that they've gone private and are a publically owned company, the amount of waste that goes on in BT is incredible. Again through poor management.
The government are the worst culprits of all, remember when the pound needed to be rescued a few years back and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer blew 7 BILLION pounds in a single afternoon trying to prop the pound up in the marketplace, in the end to no avail?
That made me cringe. In fact I'm still uncringing now a few years later on...
For example, the DSS commissioned a new software system for their computers, the initial design stages cost over £3,000,000, and then they decided they weren't going to go ahead with it when a new government got elected.
Strangely enough, the most cost-effective company I ever worked for was the old GPO, now BT. Back in the old days, penny pinching was legendary with the post office. Now that they've gone private and are a publically owned company, the amount of waste that goes on in BT is incredible. Again through poor management.
The government are the worst culprits of all, remember when the pound needed to be rescued a few years back and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer blew 7 BILLION pounds in a single afternoon trying to prop the pound up in the marketplace, in the end to no avail?
That made me cringe. In fact I'm still uncringing now a few years later on...
The next time you are waiting 4 hours in casualty or get attacked on the street, just remember where the money from your taxes go. Not to pay for more nurses or police officers not even to help poverty stricken families. No the govement has decided to give people in Brampton (near Barnsley) FREE ITV Digital boxes so that they can surf the internet. It gets worse when 300 more homes (forget where) are to be given FREE digital terrestrial TV in a paid for experiment by the government.
So as I said above remember do not accept "lack of funding" as an excuses for poor public services.
Ps what next, Free Playstation 2's for families without one?
So as I said above remember do not accept "lack of funding" as an excuses for poor public services.
Ps what next, Free Playstation 2's for families without one?