I generally agree with most of what you have said here. I've worked for public and private enterprises. The private companies were more efficient and dynamic with less dead wood. I worked for the Gas Board years ago, it was actually well run and delivered quality, but it was chronically over-staffed, there were people there who did about five minutes work a day, they simply had non-jobs. Mind you I did find that in a private insurance company, it was heavily associated with the church, which might explain it. Worked for Lewisham Council for a year or so. The place was an utter shambles with a Trotskyite, vegetarian, union branch secretary constantly trying to make it even more of a shambles.

Edited by hedgehog50 (14 Aug 2017 3.15pm)

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Well, there you go. We all differ in our own ways I suppose and that's the way of the world.

I've always been a big infrastructure guy.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

It should be a bridge not a f'in arbour.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

You keep things that are of benefit to us. The point of Brexit is to have our own parliament running our country and making our laws rather than a failing EU.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Well perhaps you need to move to the EU then.

If you don't like it, when you have the funds, move to where you do like it.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Re- The Garden Bridge.

This topic came up a few months ago on LBC. A caller rang in and he was absolutely gobsmacked in relation to 'The funds paid out v The progress (pfft)' of this project.
I can't remember too much of the detail but the caller absolutely knew his stuff and has a long career based in detailing everything involved with large construction projects from inception to completion. He's followed this project with interest, studying the minutes from meetings (home and abroad), tracing monies paid etc but he continually came across 'secrecy' along with 'dubious' invoices but the main point that i remember is that the chosen architects (Lumley's mates) should never in a million years have won the contract due to their lack of experience compared with the other bidders, and they were also more expensive. Hmmmm......?
Although he never said it, i got the feeling that Ms Lumley also made a tidy sum from this 'project'.

(Ab)Fab work if you can get it.

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