What they spend your money on

Perry

[Overseas Aid research for Val. Day]

This is a just a taster of the general state of much ‘research’ throughout the ‘University’ and ‘Academic’ (sic) worlds.

Too much grant money. Too little competent scrutiny of bids. Too little practical value in the real world. And a thriving growth industry amongst the luminaries who industriously write pages of blather to justify their bids.

Another area to add to the list for careful investigation when the time comes. Boris will lead the way.

John

The wastage of each and every department since 1997 is quite obscene, but not surprising given that our finances have been mismanaged since 1997 by an obscenely incompetent fool.

Nicholas

Yes, one cannot help feeling that the rip tide of post-97 money benefitted barmy minority zealots eager to pursue the soviet revolution. Nutters all, but allowed to influence and preside over the degeneration of a once great nation.

Also, the British disease of putting wiser older heads out to pasture and "investing" in the supposed dynamism of gauche young idiots on the rise added to the monumental waste of good money on bad ideas.

I can just imagine some of the meetings where the determination to change something overrode all else, including common sense. The natural result of allowing shallow oiks, political extremists and gobby ambition to replace an establishment rooted in centuries of experience and tradition.

Water

Perry has hit it out of the park.

Frank Pulley

"What they spend your money on?": try:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1560697/Boom-in-quangos-costs-Britain-andpound170bn-a-year.html

Lee Jakeman

Proof that the best bank of all is - The National Income. You can spend without ever having to earn. You can control without ever having to take responsibility. And you can borrow without ever having to pay back.