Yet more good money after bad

wilber wilberforce

Her Majesty should step in and put a stop to the Bankruptcy of her nation.
We are talking 11 billion here!!!
Still no official date to vote these scum out.

ollie

"It is scarcely credible that he can reduce the deficit within four years."

No right thinking person believes this claim anyway. This is a pre-election con, nothing more. There is simply no purpose for a Labour government to exist other than to ensure indebtidness.

How much more proof do the public and the media need to nail Brown and Labour?

Nash

Didn't Albert Einstein define insanity as: "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

wrinkled weasel

When will this evil, this treason cease? This man and his henchmen are destroying our country, but also making sure that anybody left will not recover easily.

I am not, however so sure about these contracts. Firstly, the Tories could make it clear they will not honour them or the get out clauses, by act of Parliament if necessary. Iceland has created a precedent here - all bets are off and so is honour, when it comes to money, it seems.

Holly ......

In my world the MSM would be giving Brown a very hard time over this and demanding he explains why he would be spending so much in today's economical climate.
Lots and lots of VERY BAD PRESS would be nice.
But alas this is Britain,where the MSM have no backbone and are quite happy to watch the vindictive PM make things worse.

Rex Burr

Perhaps Brown is preparing the ground for his employment with an IT company when he leaves No.10.
No, perhaps not, he has no IT skills to bring to the job.
Having said that, his lack of skill in a particular area is no impediment to getting the job. He was, after all, Chancellor of the Exchequer.

TGF UKIP

Another open goal for Dave but one, as it involves figures, he can't and daren't go near. Spend, spend, spend and not a word of objection from this apology for an opposition.

As the weeks go by and the Cameron Tories become ever more obviously useless and pointless, it becomes increasingly obvious that they have abandoned any desire to win. Reality has probably dawned and they realize the extent of the mess they have seen grow without objection and they fully realize they are simply not up to job of sorting it out. Good news really.

Ivy Eileen

How can he "reduce the deficit" when he's increasing the national debt ? Its playing with numbers (and smoke and mirrors) - you increase the liabilities' side of the balance sheet in order to remove the deficit on the P & L account.

TrevorsDen

Don't talk horlicks UKIP - you are a scratched record stuck in a groove.

Repeating the same tired old self justifying rubbish day in day out does not make it true. You are as delusional as Brown.

As the article points out the Tories have ALREADY said that they would scrap these expensive IT projects - so your assertions are complete poo.

The more that Labour commit us to than the more we will save despite any cancellation costs.

Holly ......

Richard answer my previous questions.
You asked for debate...now debate.
What are Labour going to do about the issues I listed.
I know what I am asking...do you know
the answers?
With so little time until the election the least you could do is find out what each party has planned for the country,otherwise who will you vote for?
Unless you are one of the few who still vote
for the same party mum & dad did.

toco

What better demonstrates Brown's disgusting personality than deliberately pouring our money down the drain in this fashion.I believe there could well be grounds for a private action on the grounds that the rush to sign contracts was a purely political act of gross negligence.In any event with software houses desperate for work it will be interesting to know whether he achieved a substantial discount but the chances of him doing something for the public good are neglibible.This man a discredit to this country,is a bully and just plain vindictive.

strapworld

Still wearing the rose tinted spectacles!!

TGP is right. This is something Cameron should be issuing a press release hours ago. Stating that a Conservative Government will not be held to this agreement and that it is foolhardy in the extreme so close to a general election.

But he wont. Because Cameron thought a grateful nation would just bow their heads and be so glad that Cameron is our saviour.

He has no idea. No policies. He just agrees with Labour, so I expect he will just go along with this.

When will we see anything that is totally at odds with Labour?

Wight Tory

and not even a mention of the Post Office union appeasing pay deal for the new technology...

Mandy's stinking involvement suddenly smells sweet for Libour

Nicholas

I see that one of these is "completing an £800m agreement for communications equipment and services at the Serious Organised Crime Agency".

What a perfect description for this New Labour "government" - the "Serious Organised Crime Agency". They have been the agents for serious, organised crime inflicted on the British people for 13 years. They should be top of the list for the real SOCA to investigate - except that we know the top investigators in that agency are probably also New Labour stooges.

Tiberius

Nash: the thing about Brown is that he doesn't want a different result. He doesn't realize that what he's already done is catastrophic.

TrevorsDen: but TGF UKIP is the only poster in the village able to draw Fraser out into the open. Salt tablets are the cure.

Tiberius

Strapworld: remember the Tories did the kind of thing you ask for over ID cards, although no one reported it as the ball hitting the net.

Neil Turner

Anybody noticed the substantial increase in Government advertising ?

Think Bike; VAT payment; helth & safety; cook your turkey properly; TV licensing etc etc

Yes the taps are full on. Labour know they are cooked, and aim to leave the coffers empty

Holly ......

Sylvia Heal bottles it...
Oh!....hang on a mo...
Ann Keen bottles it...
To think that some on here think Labour will
win the election.What a pity Labour MP's don't share their optimism.
Does anyone here know Labour's 'jump before booted out' tally so far?

ROJ

"An £11bn bender is irresponsible in this climate". More like an economic crime against the state.

ajs

Surely the Conservatives simply have to say that they will not honour any further "contracts" the Labour Govt enters into, when they (the Conservatives) become the Govt? Then any sensible/honest firm will not be able to enter into a contract with the Labour Govt?

Holly ......

"Ever the optimist,I'd hoped the government might become responsible,yet again,I've been mugged by reality of Brown".
No shit sherlock!
Welcome to our world!
Have we not been telling you lot that Brown and Labour make you look stupid.It is no good you crying to us every time Brown spits on you....we told you.
This weekend Brown has spent the following..
£18m metal detectors
£100m new vehicles for troops
£11bn for cr@p IT systems.
Did anyone here know about Brown's latest spending spree? Erm...Darling for instance?
Brown and Labour are no good,they are doing great damage to the country,
Please write a piece on when the Tories ever
left the country in the state it is in now.
There were bad times during the eighteen years of Tory rule and yet they STILL handed a decent economy to the Labour party in '97.Labour are going out of their way to be as spiteful and wreckless as they can.
but hey...
It would be worse..if the Tories had been in
charge and if you believe that well....

General Zod

BSkyB sued EDS over similar contracts on which it failed utterly to deliver and won damages and compensation of £250m. Why is the government not investigating whether that action means it has a good case against EDS and all the other incompetent IT firms implicated in this shambles?

Major Plonquer

I think Brown is onto a winner here. This is all part of his Super Health Information Technology agenda and will dovetail very nicely with Labour's Financial Accountability Now election stance.

Of course, we'll all see the results when the SHIT hits the FAN. I know there's a Brown joke in here but the coffee hasn't hit my veins yet.

Austin Barry

Holly, you forgot the £10 million on educational facilities on Afghanistan's border areas.

Moraymint

Socio-economic meltdown from mid-2010 looks ever more likely by the day, doesn't it?

And still such a huge swathe of the British population hasn't a clue how life in this country is going to look and feel over the next 5 years and beyond.

RKing

But why no mention of this and the Afghan news blackout on the news channels?

Or have I missed it?

2trueblue

Why is anybody surprised? There should be a law to prevent any outgoing government from spending taxpayers money on electioneering of any sort. Ministers in all department should be held responsible for the awful errors in their areas, especially when it deliberately endangers our economy.

Edward

The only way to deal with rubbish like this is to pass an Act of Parliament, declaring certain named contracts (such as this one, and the one surrounding ID cards, and hundreds of others) to be void. That would also be a good way to get rid of senior quangocrats without compensation.

Moraymint

... following my earlier comment at 8.37 am.

... the situation of course is just as the politicos want it, and the government in particular - which can, to some extent, control matters through ongoing economic smoke and mirrors and good old propaganda.

No politician can possibly describe and explain a bleak future and then ask people to vote for them. Is this perhaps democracy's greatest weakness?

It seems to me that, by and large, we tend only respond to a crisis after it is upon us. I remain firmly of the view that the UK will indeed go into little short of crisis after the general election when the true horror of Gordon Brown's gross economic mismanagement will permeate into every nook and cranny of our society. The leading indicators are there every day, with public sector employment unrest already with us.

We're still defying economic gravity and the markets are keeping their powder dry until the election has come and gone. However, the situation post-election will simply be about the force of the socio-economic whirlwind that will rip through the UK, rather than whether or not the whirlwind happens.

Some of us are battening the hatches already, but many citizens will not know what's hit them by this time next year.

Chris lancashire

Don't worry folks, I'm sure this £11bn has already been announced three times already by Brown.