How on earth can £37.4 mllion be spent on not building a bridge?

[half time scores]

London's Garden Bridge project officially abandoned.

At least £37.4m of public funds has already been spent on the project and a further £9m is at risk.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40921373

 

[Lawro's Lip]

London's Garden Bridge project officially abandoned.

At least £37.4m of public funds has already been spent on the project and a further £9m is at risk.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40921373

Boris vanity project

 

[SeagullDubai]

We could have used that money to buy a striker

 

[brightn'ove]

Boris Johnson is how

 

[Baker lite]

London's Garden Bridge project officially abandoned.

At least £37.4m of public funds has already been spent on the project and a further £9m is at risk.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40921373

Corruption,that's how.

 

[mothy]

Its expensive in london

 

[sir albion]

Many people have pocketed millions of our money for doing jack shite.....what's new though and not a surprise.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I'd be willing to not build anything you like for half that!

 

[JJ McClure]

There's two artists impressions in that news story, they must have cost a few quid each. So that only leaves another £37.39m wasted.

 

[Ernest]

Magic money tree given a shake by the Tories again , useless unbuilt bridge and Hunt's £44k shitter the latest examples

 

[clapham_gull]

Many people have pocketed millions of our money for doing jack shite.....what's new though and not a surprise.

I don't think its fair they have done jack shite....

... It just didn't result in a bridge

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[Anger]

Absolute disgrace.

I built this one for £100k.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Politics. Labour Mayor appoints Labour MP to review previous Tory Mayor's project = cancel it.

The Mayor will probably come up with a new legacy project, coincidentally Big Ben is about to have a major facelift ...

... could prove controversial.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Just add this to the list of overspent London vanity projects (see also Wembley Stadium, Olympic Stadium, Millennium Dome).

Politicians + Civil Service + Arty Types = Guaranteed overspend.

 

[BNthree]

Utterly ridiculous proposal that most people didn't want and a crying shame it has wasted so much public money.

 

[Lower West Stander]

Utterly ludicrous this was ever contemplated.

Pointless and totally unnecessary, it's not as if London hasn't got any other parks.

Meanwhile, my partner who is an NHS ward sister comes home shattered every night because they are 4 nurses down on her ward.


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[Sussex Nomad]

Having worked in the civil service for three years this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. They pay over £1k a day to 'consultants' for these projects. They do it in the NHS too. I know of someone at Crawley General getting £1400 a day for this. He basically does f**k all but point like Tony Adams. It's jobs for the boys and our tax money slips through our fingers like water. People are professional civil service contractors because it pays for their castles in Buckinghamshire.

 

[NooBHA]

Magic money tree given a shake by the Tories again , useless unbuilt bridge and Hunt's £44k shitter the latest examples

And that doesn't include the Millions they spent on that French company to come into the UK to assess the ''Disabled'' and claim that they could all work only for about 95% of them to win their appeals.

Throwing money and at the wrong Projects where you get no ''Bang for your Buck'' is a Tory repetitive failing. They start drying their hair while they are still under the shower.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

And that doesn't include the Millions they spent on that French company to come into the UK to assess the ''Disabled'' and claim that they could all work only for about 95% of them to win their appeals.

Throwing money and at the wrong Projects where you get no ''Bang for your Buck'' is a Tory repetitive failing. They start drying their hair while they are still under the shower.

I know some of you love to bear bait on a particular political party. But this isn't about Tories or Labour, money was sieved through the Labour Govt. too. This is about an elite of the civil service allowing millions, billions, to just slip through the system.

 

[symyjym]

So with £37.4m already spent would I be right in saying that the bridge is almost complete and they are just abandoning planting trees on it? Or they haven't even dug the foundations?