John Taylor writing in this week’s Reporter once again let
his guard down in the opening paragraph by saying, “I do find it odd when opposition members write in lecturing us on
borrowing and general financial management.”
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| "Don't lecture me on wasting money, I'm an expert at it!" "Eh?" |
Odd? The only thing that's odd is the fact that he chose to forget about the £13 billion that
was ‘written-off’ by Labour after the cancellation of their disastrous NHS
computer scheme. Odd too that he forgot the MoD’s defence information infrastructure program,
which was over budget and late at £7.15billion.
A further £486million was
wasted on the new computer project for the Child Support Agency and another £140million
on a system designed to streamline payment of benefits which was shelved
because it never worked. Or perhaps £77million on an IT system meant to clear
the backlog of immigration casework which was shelved because it missed
deadlines.
There were many more situations that saw billions wasted
throughout Labours 13 year reign, but it would be remiss of me not to mention
John Taylor’s favourite; the UK ID card scheme; to which he was featured in our
local papers, brandishing his now redundant ID Card. – Councillor Taylor only
wasted £30 on buying his useless piece of plastic, but it cost UK taxpayers £2billion
before it was scrapped.
All governments waste money, just as local authorities do,
but the last Labour government enjoyed an unsurpassed reputation for throwing
good money after bad at inept bureaucracy; and the few examples above and the
blinkered approach that John Taylor and his cronies still take are evidence that
if they were ever to hold the nations purse strings again, we would be back on
the verge of bankruptcy in a flash!
What a nice man he is.
ReplyDeleteBe-careful he will take you to court (thicker skin remember) what the Judge said about him.
Which he was in court that day to hear the Judge make that statement, the one time he did not turn up of course.
Keep up the good work on this guy he can give it out, but boy he needs to grow a thicker skin.
If the apathetic 75% who can't be bothered to vote want a reason to, then vote for, a) The party you hate least.
ReplyDeleteOr preferably b) The party that will do most damage to the party you hate most.
The mainstream parties, especially in 'done deal' boroughs like Tameside, RELY on the "Labour 'til I die" blockheads but above all on apathy from the vast majority of the electorate.
I don't know why you give this wooden-top so much publicity
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ReplyDeleteI do it because I have long held the opinion that our local council is filled with people who have found a 'secure job' for life, but unfortunately lack any kind of cerebral processing that is sensible.
He's a prime example of the problem that has brought our political system into disrepute: the creation of a career councillor class with zero experience of the real world and no grasp of how things are for the rest of us.
...my writings are my way of exposing their shortcomings!
Tameside is a major Metropolitan Borough. It's a telling indictment of the state of modern British democracy that someone like this can rise so high.
ReplyDeleteThis man is just a thug, bully if you like.
ReplyDeleteThis man is violent and nasty.