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September 08, 2007
Foot and Mouth
OK, so the report shows that it was all avoidable.
This summer’s outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which has cost the country almost £50 million, could have been avoided if £50,000 had been spent on repairs to a leaking pipe.
It has also emerged that officials at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs knew about the poor state of the drains at the Pirbright research laboratory site in Surrey four years ago.
The State has, over that four year period, managed to get through some £ 2 trillion of our money (yes, really, £2 trillion). They failed to find 0.000000025% of that sum to do something as simple as making sure they weren't poisoning the surrounding countryside. Even when they knew about it.
Hilary Benn, the Rural Affairs Secretary, made clear however that no official would face disciplinary action.
So that's all right then.
September 8, 2007 in Your Tax Money at Work | Permalink
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Thomas Sowell sums up the problem nicely with an article about the Minnesota bridge collapse:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/08/07/a_bridge_too_far_gone
Posted by: Kit | Sep 8, 2007 11:17:46 AM
Thomas Sowell sums up the problem nicely with an article about the Minnesota bridge collapse:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/08/07/a_bridge_too_far_gone
Posted by: Kit | Sep 8, 2007 11:18:32 AM
Notice how the fault does not in fact lie with the American firm working on the same site, despite the wholesale briefing from various individuals to the media that it was.
Posted by: Andrew Paterson | Sep 8, 2007 12:19:37 PM
Ah, AP, but we all knew that that would prove to be the case, didn't we?
Posted by: dearieme | Sep 8, 2007 7:40:52 PM