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Home Office paid treble the market price for asylum camp unfit for humans
HS2 builds ‘bat shed’ costing £100m, chairman reveals
HS2 is building a one kilometre-long “bat shed” at the cost of £100 million, the rail project’s chairman has revealed.
The tunnel-like structure sits over the railway line and is designed to protect a colony of bats living in nearby woods from the 225 mph trains.
The project, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was previously set to cost £40 million.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/hs2-builds-bat-shed-costing-100m-chairman-reveals/ar-AA1tGN5l?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=909248b07dd34462ae8386a09d11de22&ei=103#fullscreen
HS2 is building a one kilometre-long “bat shed” at the cost of £100 million, the rail project’s chairman has revealed.
The tunnel-like structure sits over the railway line and is designed to protect a colony of bats living in nearby woods from the 225 mph trains.
The project, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was previously set to cost £40 million.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/hs2-builds-bat-shed-costing-100m-chairman-reveals/ar-AA1tGN5l?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=909248b07dd34462ae8386a09d11de22&ei=103#fullscreen
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Natural England does not care about birds, bats, insects, and marine life killed and maimed by onshore and offshore wind farms.
Stop Moaning need somewhere to Park the Batmobile if I'm gonna save the City from Sadiq Khan.
The Home Office paid treble the market price in a botched £15 million purchase of an “asylum camp” found to be unfit for humans, official documents show.
The department paid £15.2 million for the abandoned prison site a year after the previous owners bought it from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for £6 million.
No due diligence was carried out by civil servants on the former HMP Northeye prison site in Bexhill, East Sussex, which was bought as a location to house 1,200 asylum seekers as part of efforts to reduce the then £8 million-a-day cost of putting them in hotels.
It was only after the purchase that it was discovered the land was heavily contaminated with asbestos and therefore unusable, according to Home Office insiders.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/home-office-paid-treble-market-174050798.html
Surely, SURELY, some of the civil servants involved in this will lose their jobs? No, probably not and if they did they would probably get paid off or get another job within the civil service. Incompetence seems completely acceptable when the salaries are being paid for by the taxpayers.
This land was sold by the Ministry of Justice. For £6 million. The decision to sell that land may have been carried out by Civil Servants. But the decision to do so-in 2022-would have been taken by Rishi Sunak's Government. At a time that it was abundantly clear the Govt may have an alternative use for that land.
Then-in 2023-the Govt decided it needed that land. And bought it back. For £15.2 million. Without bothering to carry out necessary checks. Again-that order would have been carried out by Civil Servants. At the instruction of Rishi Sunak's Govt.
There are standardised legal checks that are carried out in the Conveyancing. These were not carried out-why? I know it wasn't the Conveyancing solicitors decision. Simply because they know how not to get sued. So who? It's unlikely to be a Civil Servant. It's got Politician and need for political speed written all over it.
Here is the bit I hate about the Telegraph. If any part of that process involved a Labour Govt, Labour and Starmer's name would be in the Headline. Certainly has been for every perceived error made by his Govt.
Whereas every Tory error never gets fingers pointed at them. Even when (in lots of recent instances) the finger should be pointed at both this Govt and the last.
Report on the facts. Even-handedly. Or feck off. I believe the Main Stream Media generally does a remarkable job. Except for newspapers. Who are now almost partisan to a ridiculous degree. Mostly to the Right. But the ones on the Left are no better.
I can read the BBC. ITV. Sky. All genuinely try to provide balance in their reporting. Impossible to succeed in that 100% of the time. But it should also be possible to better 0%.