Campaign for Interesting Fiscal Profligacy

[Bob Dalek]

Not for you as it would result in your balls being cut off.

You are a lesbian.

[sasguru]

Chav eugenics would be both costly and fun.

Not for you as it would result in your balls being cut off.

[Mich the Tester]

This would have been fun, and it costs only about 1/50th of that stupid NHS system;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7677349.stm

[Bob Dalek]

Chav eugenics would be both costly and fun.

[Cyberman]

What can be more interesting than searching bins for food scraps?

[Mich the Tester]

Work Permits.

Great, but with the new hypersonic jets and the 500 kph trains they can all live in Northern Norway and commute!

[DimPrawn]

(as a side benefit, all these ideas would require vast numbers of IT contractors)

Work Permits.

[Moscow Mule]

I'd vote for that...

I'd also vote for 15 new hospitals around the country.

[Mich the Tester]

Folks, I’ve been thinking, and usually, when that happens, mad ideas spew out of my brain at the speed of light (or a bit less as the case may be).

Goverments will inevitably spend huge sums of taxpayers’ money on silly projects. See the 12 billion for the national e-mail, internet, telephone and spam database, 1 billion for a system to store all the passport details of mobile phone buyers, umpteen billion for the ID cards system, umpty billion for the NHS system; this all adds up to 100 billion plus, spent on boring stuff that we don’t really need, and I haven’t even counted the cost of saving abysmally managed banks.

Now there was a time when governments blew huge sums of money on big white elephants that were at least interesting, like the Apollo moon missions, concorde, the fabulous Humber Bridge, the channel tunnel and the Hubble.

There’s no point in campaigning for politicians to stop wasting our money, it’s a lost cause; so my new tactic is to campaign for them to spend, spend, spend as much as they like, on one condition; that whatever they build makes ‘the whole world say ‘wow!’

How about a hypersonic replacement for Concorde, to fly to Australia in a few hours? A mission to put people on Mars? A European network of 500 kph magnetic levitation trains?

For crying out loud, if you must blow taxpayers money, give us something interesting in return!

(as a side benefit, all these ideas would require vast numbers of IT contractors)

Any more ideas?