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Previously on "Leave it out, Guv'nor."
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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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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostHow much of the £11m goes on making the sign rotate?
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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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostHow 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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Originally posted by eek View PostOh 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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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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Originally posted by eek View PostOh 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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Originally posted by Gentile View PostI 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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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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Leave it out, Guv'nor.
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