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Default OT. Street lights revisited ...

On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:21:23 AM UTC, usenet2012 wrote:
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Another John writes

In article ,


Martin Brown wrote:




Yes. They are installing them in Salford and Manchester at the moment


under some deranged PFI scheme that has all the hallmarks of a buy now


pay through the nose later con merchants paradise....




A depressingly wonderful summary of much of what is now going on across


the board in public infrastructure.




A bunch of people who have no idea what they're talking about (i.e. the


managers responsible for hitting "targets") (not the engineers of course


-- oh crikey no!), talking to another bunch of people who also, almost


certainly, do not know what they're talking about (the salesmen sent out


to "hunt and kill").




John


:-(




Exactly what's been happening in the NHS for years!


And in education.