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Title: MPs attack ?2bn consultants bill
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2007, 06:54:59 AM

Quote from: BBC Web Site]The government spends nearly ?2bn a year on external consultants, often without adequately measuring value for money, a committee of MPs has said.[/quote]

[urlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6764705.stm]Link[/url]

This is the bunch of fuckwits that are so concerned about the environment that they plead with you to switch your telly off every night to save it.

Yet when it comes to governing they find it better to call a consultant in at incredible hourly rates than to use in-house staff.

[quote="Edward Leigh
Committee chairman

Departments are often on the phone to consultants without first finding out whether their own, in-house staff, have the skills to do the job

 point:

Title: Re: MPs attack ?2bn consultants bill
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 19, 2007, 07:23:14 AM

One assumes that the 'bunch of fuckwits' were given the advice about switching off the TV at night from a consultant. 

Title: Re: MPs attack ?2bn consultants bill
Post by: Barman on June 19, 2007, 07:33:52 AM

Quote from: Uncle Mort on June 19, 2007, 07:23:14 AM

One assumes that the 'bunch of fuckwits' were given the advice about switching off the TV at night from a consultant. 

lol: lol: lol:

Indeed ? he probably flew to the meeting and was collected at the airport in a big, fat government limousine. About thirty ministers and lackeys also attended (the meeting was held in Lucerne as a big enough office was not available in Whitehall).

In order to use standard (First Class of course) flights to save money they had to stay for a whole week in a top hotel drinking fine wines and eating gourmet meals.

Probably?  cussing: