2.6m spent on making a press room

[anonymous-user]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/no-...

Ridiculous waste of tax payers money or do we definitely need a white house style daily press briefing?

[Austin_Metro]

It’s 2.6m quid. Paper clip budget in the grand scheme. Don’t care.

[TheRainMaker]

2.6 million, someone made a killing on that

[Austin_Metro]

Yes. But I bet you can’t just drive your van up to site and use some blokes you picked up off Chichelle Road as labour.

[TheRainMaker]

We work in Government buildings all the time, this will have gone though a few different companies before the people who do the work get involved.

The whole procurement systems for these places is messed up.

The other massive problem will be the building itself, stupid work hours, the fact it is listed etc etc.

[Cold]

I suspect this story is up there with the "it cost £25m to paint a plane" one.

[anonymous-user]

33 grand on broadband equipment.

[EVLATECOMER]

Pappyjohn said:

33 grand on broadband equipment.

Why didn't they go on Go Compare and get a better deal? Oh yes it's the comms centre for the government of the 5th richest economy in the world.

Can't believe posters and the BBC are seriously playing this off against the NHS pay proposals.

[anonymous-user]

EVLATECOMER said:

Pappyjohn said:

33 grand on broadband equipment.

Why didn't they go on Go Compare and get a better deal? Oh yes it's the comms centre for the government of the 5th richest economy in the world.

Can't believe posters and the BBC ares seriously playing this off against the NHS pay proposals.

I know right? There are so many more areas where money has been er.. invested to choose from

[Getragdogleg]

That money hasn't vanished you know.

Its gone to suppliers, workers wages and transport and has been subject to taxation and vat and is in the "economy" the same "economy" everyone seems to be bleating on about recently.

Money does cock all good hoarded away under some dragon you know.

[Otispunkmeyer]

Pappyjohn said:

33 grand on broadband equipment.

Given what it’s for, I’d sure hope it wasn’t a virgin media £40/m deal!

[dvs_dave]

Pappyjohn said:

33 grand on broadband equipment.

FFS....clearly you have no idea how much commercial grade network gear costs. 33 grand is literally fk all.

[anonymous-user]

dvs_dave said:

Pappyjohn said:

33 grand on broadband equipment.

FFS....clearly you have no idea how much commercial grade network gear costs. 33 grand is literally fk all.

Nah mate a router is 50 quid on Amazon and "commercial grade" whatever that is well let's say that's a router with 4 aerials on it, those are about 150 quid. Broadband is about 25 a month but I bet their have fibre they're so maybe 50 a month for good stuff like ADSL.

So all in all about 200 quid for the lot and that's commercial grade so yeah in your potty language it's fk all. If you think 33 grand is okay then mate, you're overcharging your clients and you should easily be able to get yourself a government contract.

[Bradgate]

My understanding is that the government has basically constructed a brand new HD broadcast studio in a 300 year old listed building at a cost of £2.6m. Whether that was a good use of taxpayers money is debatable, but If you’re going to build it, that’s what it costs.

[Ridgemont]

Pappyjohn said:

Nah mate a router is 50 quid on Amazon and "commercial grade" whatever that is well let's say that's a router with 4 aerials on it, those are about 150 quid. Broadband is about 25 a month but I bet their have fibre they're so maybe 50 a month for good stuff like ADSL.

So all in all about 200 quid for the lot and that's commercial grade so yeah in your potty language it's fk all. If you think 33 grand is okay then mate, you're overcharging your clients and you should easily be able to get yourself a government contract.

I presume this is an ironic post?

[hyphen]

Bradgate said:

My understanding is that the government has basically constructed a brand new HD broadcast studio in a 300 year old listed building at a cost of £2.6m. Whether that was a good use of taxpayers money is debatable, but If you’re going to build it, that’s what it costs.

Yes, it will cost £2.6m when you tell the contractor you needed it yesterday!

[JagLover]

Bradgate said:

My understanding is that the government has basically constructed a brand new HD broadcast studio in a 300 year old listed building at a cost of £2.6m. Whether that was a good use of taxpayers money is debatable, but If you’re going to build it, that’s what it costs.

and if they hadn't spent it no doubt the same media moaning about it would be moaning they weren't being properly briefed or something.

[anonymous-user]

Wait until you find out how much the refurbishments are costing...

[dvs_dave]

Pappyjohn said:

dvs_dave said:

Pappyjohn said:

33 grand on broadband equipment.

FFS....clearly you have no idea how much commercial grade network gear costs. 33 grand is literally fk all.

Nah mate a router is 50 quid on Amazon and "commercial grade" whatever that is well let's say that's a router with 4 aerials on it, those are about 150 quid. Broadband is about 25 a month but I bet their have fibre they're so maybe 50 a month for good stuff like ADSL.

So all in all about 200 quid for the lot and that's commercial grade so yeah in your potty language it's fk all. If you think 33 grand is okay then mate, you're overcharging your clients and you should easily be able to get yourself a government contract.

Not sure if serious....
Either way, your faux outrage post isn’t going as you expected is it?

[bitchstewie]

Super_G said:

Wait until you find out how much the refurbishments are costing...

If you mean the Downing Street flat I believe those are coming from Conservative funds.

There was even talk of some sort of charity being setup to cover the costs.

I'm not making up that second point either.

A charity to pay for Johnson's wallpaper.