The cost of a multimillion-pound Lie-bour Government IT project for the Passport Agency has more than quadrupled.
A 10-year deal signed by the Passport Agency, part of the Home Office, with hi-tech firm Siemens was supposed to cost between £80 million and £100 million.
Figures show the final bill for the contract with Siemens is £365 million - more than four times the initial quote. It's fucking unbelievable how schemes don't just over-run their budgets, they are vast multiples of the original supposed cost. Imagine if you contracted with a couple of bug-blinders to whitewash your privvy for, say, £14.75 and halfway through the job they had to give up with snow-blindness and presented you with a bill for £62,759,441. 27. Cash in hand of course. I bet you'd be a little bit annoyed eh?
The previous Lie-bour government signed the deal, the blame for the overspend must lie with them.
Lie-bour's Disastrous' £12bn NHS IT programme to be abandoned
A multi-billion pound IT project started by Lie-bour to link all parts of the NHS is to be abandoned. Ministers said the ill-fated £12 billion National Programme for IT, set up in 2002, is to be “urgently dismantled” following criticism that it is not value for taxpayers’ money.
Lie-bour’s IT programme let down the NHS and wasted taxpayers’ money by imposing a top-down IT system on the local NHS, which didn’t fit their needs," Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, said.
The National Audit Office found that another £4.7 billion could be spent on computerising
the country's medical records without the project significantly
benefiting patients or the NHS
The integrated electronic care records system is a central part of
Lie-bour’s £11bn National Programme for IT in the NHS, which was set up in
2002 and faced repeated criticism since then over its cost and
technical problems, most recently from the National Audit Office.
The Public Accounts Committee found that despite billions of
pounds already being spent on the scheme, no
benefits have been seen.
£469m goes up in smoke as Lie-bour's fire rooms plan ends in chaos
Read this and weep
A chaotic scheme to merge fire control rooms ended in “complete failure” costing the taxpayer almost half a billion pounds – and yet no one has been held to blame, MPs have been told.
The so–called FiReControl plan to replace English control rooms with nine regional centres was scrapped last year, six years after it was proposed following “abject bungling”
that saw the cost of the computerised scheme for the Fire Service
escalate from £72 million to £469 million before being cancelled
The doomed programme, initiated by the previous Lie-bour Government, was "flawed from the outset" and "one of the worst cases of project failure" seen for many years, a report from the Commons public accounts committee said.
Guess who the minister at the time was? Yep it was The Mouth Of The Humber, that foul-mouthed, brawling, pie-eating, secretary shagging waste of space time and oxygen, Lord Pie-Crust of Mount Temple-On-D'esque. He was in charge, so the responsibility was his. But he wriggled out from under and threw his civil servants under the train, insisting that; "I were only t' minister, 'ow were I to know that costs were spirographing out of control?" Well, you ignorant pillock, as minister in charge we'd expect you to notice things laid on your desk apart from your secretary with her skirt up round her neck. (Strikes us folks she must have been fucking desperate to want that bugger humpin', pumpin' and wobblin' on top of her.) It was part of the tub o' lard's failed plot to impose regional government on the country. The whole policy was misconceived, much like the fat bastard himself. There's no justice is there? Two hundred and fifty million sperm and that fucking one got lucky! As architect of the scheme he should have paid the price for it's failure, but that's not how Lie-bour operate. So now he spends his days sat in the cash machine that is the House Of Lords, filling in his allowances chitty and dreaming of having his desk polished again.
The report said at least £469million was wasted, with eight of the purposebuilt centres remaining empty at a cost of £4million a month to maintain. That's another £48million a year going down the drain. Most of these centres are on twenty-five year leases. Do you know how much that comes to? -
£1.2Billion.
The committee blamed
a merry–go-round of civil servants who were responsible for the scheme and an over–reliance on
external consultants, who made up more than half the management team. See! fucking consultants once again!
Despite the extensive failings, no one has been held to account and the careers of most "have carried on as if nothing had gone wrong".
was permanent secretary and principal accounting officer at the Department for Communities and Local Government, which ran the project.
Last year he was knighted and promoted to permanent secretary of the Scottish administration.
Principal Fucking Accounting Officer? What the fuck was he accounting then? With any kind of luck he'll fuck Scotland up as well
Over six years, there were five senior
'responsible' owners and four project directors. Explain responsible! The report said: "
None has so far been held to account for failure and most have suffered no hindrance to their careers." Roger Hargreaves, the project director for the final two years, previously told the committee:
"We were not able to deliver the project and the problems that we faced proved not to be surmountable." ( unlike the fragrant Ms Temple). "That does not necessarily mean that, on the basis of the evidence available at the time, the judgments were wrong." "In hindsight, if we had not ever started the project, then that would have been possibly the best course of action."
This four years into the cock-up and the tosser can't see it ain't gonna work? What are HIS qualifications for the job? Apart from the drawback of not having English as his first language. Why don't he stick to Mr Men? Mind you, this could be a new character, 'Mr Abso-fuckin-lutely crap at his job but still drawing a huge salary.'
FiReControl began in 2004, with the aim of replacing 46 fire and rescue control rooms in England with nine new regional centres. The Coalition scrapped it last year after a series of delays.
The contract was poorly designed and the department awarded computer work to
'a company with no direct experience of supplying the emergency services.'
Consultants also made up half the management team, costing £69million by 2010. One company alone,
PA Consulting, received £42 million for advice on project management issues. Bet we know what their advice was! 'Keep the fuckin' cash flowing guys, we're on a beefer!
Margaret Hodge, the committee chairman, said the project's failure was "one of the worst seen for many years".
The Coalition has set aside another £84.8million to meet the project's original objectives of improving efficiency. Are they fucking MAD??? Nearly £85million to put right a scheme which was 'only' going to cost £72million in the first place?
Bob Neill, the fire services minister, said: "Not for the first time, hard–working taxpayers are paying for
Labour's inability to manage risks and control costs."
Lets have a quick tot-up of these three schemes, see what the damage is!
PASSPORTS 369,000,000
NHS IT 12,700,000,000
NEEDED FOR NO BENEFIT UPGRADE 4,700,000,000
FIRECONTROL 469,000,000
ONGOING COSTS 1,200,000,000
SET ASIDE 85,000,000
TOTAL £19,523,000,000
Nineteen and a half billion eh? Ten years ago the snot-gobbling, one-eyed temper tantrum G. Broon sold off over half our gold supplies with gold prices at the bottom of the market,(395 tons for £2.3Billion). Today that sale would have brought in £13.9Billion.This represents a potential loss of
£11,600,000,000
Total loss to country of just four schemes under Lie-bour and the Scottish wanker
£31,100,000,000
The number of other things they fucked up in the thirteen years doesn't bear thinking about. Multiply by the first large number that comes into your head.
And you bleeding lot believe the lying twats when they bullshit you that they have the answers to the country's financial problems!!!!!!!!! You Mongs! THEY ARE THE PROBLEM!
Wake up! Smell the ordure flying off the air- conditioning device!
