Well History Boy has had a big day in the toy shop hasn't he.
First we hear that for the first time we owe the Kyoto nonsense the wrong side of a billion smackers. Bloody staggering isn't it, all that dosh down the toilet. Well never mind it's not his to spend so he won't miss it. Kyoto is really a good idea (in some people's books) and makes the gummint look all eco friendly and world leaderly. We'll gloss over the fact that it is all futile bollocks and will be looked upon by proper historians as the biggest (and most expensive) con job in history.
Then just to prove that spending money that isn't yours is as easy as he forks out $665 million for a train set that is valued at $430 million. What is all this about? Toll was eager to sell and there was only one buyer. We should have got it for $200 million less than it is valued and not 200 mill more. That is a basic principal of haggling over price surely. The truth, of course is that we shouldn't have got it at all. What the hell is bloody Cullen doing buying nineteenth century cutting edge technology? Kyoto won't let us use it - unless we put nuclear powered trains on the lines and that's going to happen in the eco looney People's Republic - not. OK, so now we own this bargain basement heap of junk we have to spend loads more dosh making it into something that works. More of my money gone.
And the point of all this? We will have a nice spiffy rail service that the great unwashed will flock to in their droves leaving their nasty cars in the garage and we save the planet. And I really think Cullen and the rest of them believe this. No one else does, but they do.
Why the hell do we waste food on these demented morons?
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