£81m spent to "save" £57m

Jorumian

Facilitator
Sep 1, 2008
347
3
0
Birkenhead
Even by the standards of political cock ups, this one is surely up there with the best of them.

BBC NEWS | Politics | Transport Dept plan 'incompetent'

A £57m cost cutting exercise initiated by the Department of Transport, is actually going to end up costing the taxpayer £81m...

There is a remarkable degree of ineptitude required to reach these kinds of levels of incompetence and it is testament to the idiocy of those who make these decisions, that they so often achieve the required level.