Government Wastage

[Benny]

I know some of you sweatys hang around in here....

You guys thing Holyrood is worth it?
Pics here

To me it is god awful and the story behind it stinks of governmental inability and lack of respect for funding when it isn't coming out of their pockets.

[DuVeL]

Darn architects. These guys have a certain "vision" of a building in their head. Stuff that "vision" up your ****. Make some decend buildings, not these kind that allways costs way to much and are payed by the people with their taxes. A waste of money!

[Cadaver]

Now that is truly an awful building.  Looks like it was designed by somebody who played with sticklebricks a little too much as a kid.

What's the story with the funding then?  Is it another thing I'm 'partially' footing the bill for without knowing about?

[ChimpBoy]

Not quite as nice as the Houses of Parliament is it

[Doorman]

Nice! It has typical Scottish undertones that mark it out as........................and that's as far as I got  :dummy:

[Thulsa Doom]

Originally posted by Doorman@Jul 9 2004, 08:20 AM
Nice! It has typical Scottish undertones that mark it out as........................and that's as far as I got :dummy:

...designed by some dumb-ass Spanish guy!

[Dingo]

....Yeah your'e right, it's a real Bulls-up!  :whistle:

[Jamoe]

Initial plans for the parliament set a price of £10m - £40m, but when the Miralles design was accepted the total leapt to £90m, with a completion date of 2001.

how the hell an u estatemante something to cost between 10-40 million???
"hey it might cost about 10 million, but be prepared for it to cost 40 million."

thats a sh17 load of money, in the end it cost 90million.......


and they let me and many others go to uni and come out with a dept of £12,000 and creditcard/overdraft of arounds £3,000. (nope i didnt go and piss it all away :dummy: ).

Fair enuf i dont mind having to pay for my education, but when they throw money like that around.  FFS riles me up   :angry:

[Doorman]

Originally posted by Jamoe@Jul 9 2004, 11:45 AM

Initial plans for the parliament set a price of £10m - £40m, but when the Miralles design was accepted the total leapt to £90m, with a completion date of 2001.

how the hell an u estatemante something to cost between 10-40 million???
"hey it might cost about 10 million, but be prepared for it to cost 40 million."

thats a sh17 load of money, in the end it cost 90million.......


and they let me and many others go to uni and come out with a dept of £12,000 and creditcard/overdraft of arounds £3,000. (nope i didnt go and piss it all away :dummy: ).

Fair enuf i dont mind having to pay for my education, but when they throw money like that around.  FFS riles me up   :angry: [/b]

I love it!    There's the makings of a hard right voter if ever I saw it. Keep it up James.  :thumbsup:

[brass]

Iv'e jus come back from Edinburgh and to give you an update on the state of things now the bill is expected to be around £410 million. Last time I enquired that was only 20quid less than the whole of Edinburgh (where BB lives and I was brought up). As was mooted before you can spend as much money as you like if you are not accountable, which it seems nobody is. :frusty:  :frusty:

[Whitey]

I was in Edinburgh last week and had a great view of this mess from the Dynamic Earth building.  I think the architect and the people who approved this should be put up against a wall and shot.  

There doesn't seem to be any coherency in the design, just a mish mash of boxes and curves in all the wrong places.  <_<

The money should have been spent on something beneficial like the health service or public transport. I just can’t imagine how they could have wasted soooo much money on this building (unless they’ve buried it under the foundations).

[TeaLeaf]

Originally posted by whitey@Jul 13 2004, 01:50 PM
I just can’t imagine how they could have wasted soooo much money on this building

It's real easy:  

They're policitans.
They don't give a flying f*$k about you the tax-paying voter.
They do however want a nice comfy office to make themselves feel important.
They know that nobody in their right mind would approve of a £410m new building.
So they agree to tell you it will only cost £40m and people get voted in on that basis.
Once they're in power the rot not just sets in, but entirely dibilitates.
They're politicians. QED.

TL.

[DuVeL]

Mmhhmmmzzz, we had something over here that's called buildingfraude.
I think the politicians are the bad guys over there....