asitis Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 When he spouted about them having money "left" they had to spend, I imagined a few bob not nearly half a million quid of other peoples money ! I find myself in the position now, and I know my friends are similar, where if I can avoid giving this government a penny more than I have to then I will ! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 Don't talk utter rubbish. Nearly impassable? You use a skateboard or something? You are nuts. He's right, it is a waste of money. Queens Prom is nearly impassable in my gold plated Lamborghini Aventador. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 Don't talk utter rubbish. Nearly impassable? You use a skateboard or something? You are nuts. He's right, it is a waste of money. Queens Prom is nearly impassable in my gold plated Lamborghini Aventador. What's that like on the half-pipe? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 When he spouted about them having money "left" they had to spend, I imagined a few bob not nearly half a million quid of other peoples money ! I find myself in the position now, and I know my friends are similar, where if I can avoid giving this government a penny more than I have to then I will ! Were you sort of financial backer before then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one hung low Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 (edited) There is a logic to spending money quick before the end of the financial year. But it is the same sort of logic that pays civil servants six figure sums to retire early, on top of their soon to come lump sum and pension Edited April 21, 2016 by one hung low 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asitis Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 When he spouted about them having money "left" they had to spend, I imagined a few bob not nearly half a million quid of other peoples money ! I find myself in the position now, and I know my friends are similar, where if I can avoid giving this government a penny more than I have to then I will ! Were you sort of financial backer before then? All of us who pay tax are financial backers for these half wits bloody well wasting it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 When he spouted about them having money "left" they had to spend, I imagined a few bob not nearly half a million quid of other peoples money ! I find myself in the position now, and I know my friends are similar, where if I can avoid giving this government a penny more than I have to then I will ! Were you sort of financial backer before then? We all are. It's called paying taxes and Government charges. Unfortunately we're naive/gullible/stupid/uninformed/innocent (insert/delete as applicable) enough to expect those taxes to be spent wisely, with priorities and responsibility. Not blown out the arse of a pig-ignorant, clueless, utterly-out-of-control Government Department led by a pig-ignorant, clueless, cloud-dwelling moron who's at his best throwing even more of our money and assets at third-world African countries, largely just to get his mug in the paper. Roll on the election and hopefully the coming of any man wise enough to smash the DOI and it's entourage of leeching, employment justifying management and Civil Servants into manageable pieces. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 When he spouted about them having money "left" they had to spend, I imagined a few bob not nearly half a million quid of other peoples money ! I find myself in the position now, and I know my friends are similar, where if I can avoid giving this government a penny more than I have to then I will ! Were you sort of financial backer before then? We all are. It's called paying taxes and Government charges. Unfortunately we're naive/gullible/stupid/uninformed/innocent (insert/delete as applicable) enough to expect those taxes to be spent wisely, with priorities and responsibility. Not blown out the arse of a pig-ignorant, clueless, utterly-out-of-control Government Department led by a pig-ignorant, clueless, cloud-dwelling moron who's at his best throwing even more of our money and assets at third-world African countries, largely just to get his mug in the paper. Roll on the election and hopefully the coming of any man wise enough to smash the DOI and it's entourage of leeching, employment justifying management and Civil Servants into manageable pieces. Dear, dear, dear. Unbelievable, nasty post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauder Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 Don't see or hear of anyone on here actually standing up and being counted,yet all seem to know how anyone who has a government job is not up to scratch. So,it's either jealousy or lack of commitment to try harder and change things. I'll wager the former 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillshepherd Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 When he spouted about them having money "left" they had to spend, I imagined a few bob not nearly half a million quid of other peoples money ! I find myself in the position now, and I know my friends are similar, where if I can avoid giving this government a penny more than I have to then I will ! Now your getting the idea,why give these clowns money to fucking waste,PAY CASH,great discounts available. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hissingsid Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 Phil Gawne has proved he is a clown by giving the reason he did, all government departments probably do the same perhaps to the tune of buying a couple of new office chairs but to spend this amount of money is really not on he should be held accountable....but they never are, so sad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loombucket Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 When he spouted about them having money "left" they had to spend, I imagined a few bob not nearly half a million quid of other peoples money ! I find myself in the position now, and I know my friends are similar, where if I can avoid giving this government a penny more than I have to then I will ! Were you sort of financial backer before then? We all are. It's called paying taxes and Government charges. Unfortunately we're naive/gullible/stupid/uninformed/innocent (insert/delete as applicable) enough to expect those taxes to be spent wisely, with priorities and responsibility. Not blown out the arse of a pig-ignorant, clueless, utterly-out-of-control Government Department led by a pig-ignorant, clueless, cloud-dwelling moron who's at his best throwing even more of our money and assets at third-world African countries, largely just to get his mug in the paper. Roll on the election and hopefully the coming of any man wise enough to smash the DOI and it's entourage of leeching, employment justifying management and Civil Servants into manageable pieces. Dear, dear, dear. Unbelievable, nasty post. But satisfyingly accurate 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karellen Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 There is an upswing in public opinion, orchestrated by the press and the likes of Richard Murphy, to the effect that we must all pay more tax, and not take steps to avoid paying tax. Paying tax is good, avoiding tax is evil. Yet day after day we see our hard earned taxes being wasted, flushed down the toilet on overpriced and unnecessary vanity schemes. And if the tiny IOM government can recklessly spend like this, imagine the billions being wasted by the British government. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one hung low Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 ..to say nothing of taxpayers money used to make huge pension pay-offs and payments for decades to come. A gold plated Sloc Road pales into insignificance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 What is really shocking about the Sloc resurfacing (apart from the price) is the impression that there didn't even seem to be any plans to do anything about the road until the 'need' to spend this money. It's not like it was in the proposed budgets already and they brought it forward a few months into a different financial year. There doesn't seem to be any schedule of works to be done that was adjusted by circumstance - the minimum you would expect in well-run organisation. As with so much done by the DoI and its predecessors, you get the impression that what work gets done is dictated by the convenience of the contractors and the whims of civil servants. Whether it is also influenced by politicians wanting to be seen 'doing something' in their constituency is another matter. Though I don't get the impression that Gawne's constituents are much impressed by his demonstrations of affection so far (that roundabout, the endless work on Church Road, that other roundabout). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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