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Previously on "Leave it out, Guv'nor."

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
    How much of the £11m goes on making the sign rotate?
    That's Rowan Atkinson dressed as the Chief Constable turning a lever next to his desk according to Not the Nine O'clock News...

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Carter - 'guvner, the man from the water is here to read the meter'
    Regan - 'Oi hamza, you slag, we are going to move you to a different cell, the man from the waterboard is here'
    --zoooomm
    Carter -'hey, where did HE go?'




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  • Gentile
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    Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
    How much of the £11m goes on making the sign rotate?
    Cost of making the toblerone sign rotate: £0

    Cost of thousands of strategically-placed PCSO's dotted around London and employed to make the city rotate around the sign: £1M per month.

    Yes, that might account for it.

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  • barrydidit
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    Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
    How much of the £11m goes on making the sign rotate?


    Think that goes into aforementioned dungeon to be turned by shackled miscreants

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  • Gentile
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    Originally posted by eek View Post
    Oh you know so little and think you know so much. New Scotland Yard is an old building unsuitable for its current purpose with various expensive to maintain additions that other buildings just don't have.
    Do enlighten me please, eek. I've only worked for the Police, and been with them through a building move. But maybe you really do know something I don't that could account for a running cost of nearly £1M per month in a way that wouldn't make the average tax payer spit out their tea in disbelief?

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  • VectraMan
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    How much of the £11m goes on making the sign rotate?

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  • OwlHoot
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    Gordon Brown started it, by flogging the Site of Bow Street Magistrate's Court!

    Maybe they could refurbish and move back into Great Scotland Yard. The buildings look OK to me, and are probably much nicer inside than a load of 1960s tat.

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  • eek
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    ave they got a dungeon, with electrodes and waterboards and stuff



    Yes and full body scanners as you go in.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by eek View Post
    Oh you know so little and think you know so much. New Scotland Yard is an old building unsuitable for its current purpose with various expensive to maintain additions that other buildings just don't have.
    ave they got a dungeon, with electrodes and waterboards and stuff



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  • eek
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    Originally posted by Gentile View Post
    I find it extraordinary that it costs £11M to run a fairly modestly-sized office building. They really need to get onto uSwitch immediately, and not just wait for David Cameron to force their utility suppliers to get them on a better rate.

    And if the £11M (plus £50M one-off investment) quoted in the article is even partially accounted for by staff and operations costs (as opposed to just the cost of running the building as suggested) then moving somewhere smaller isn't going to help: they'll still be doing the same things from a smaller space when they get there.

    I'd forgotten what a shockingly-wasteful gravy train the Public Sector really is. The way this building is run appears to be a case in point.
    Oh you know so little and think you know so much. New Scotland Yard is an old building unsuitable for its current purpose with various expensive to maintain additions that other buildings just don't have.

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  • Gentile
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    I find it extraordinary that it costs £11M to run a fairly modestly-sized office building. They really need to get onto uSwitch immediately, and not just wait for David Cameron to force their utility suppliers to get them on a better rate.

    And if the £11M (plus £50M one-off investment) quoted in the article is even partially accounted for by staff and operations costs (as opposed to just the cost of running the building as suggested) then moving somewhere smaller isn't going to help: they'll still be doing the same things from a smaller space when they get there.

    I'd forgotten what a shockingly-wasteful gravy train the Public Sector really is. The way this building is run appears to be a case in point.

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  • original PM
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    get your pants on you're knicked..

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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
    shut it you slag!

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  • zeitghost
    started a topic Leave it out, Guv'nor.

    Leave it out, Guv'nor.

    BBC News - Scotland Yard could be sold as part of £500m savings plan

    What would Jack Regan say?

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