"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk...

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"Taxpayers have been left with a £17,000 bill for every household that signed up to the
Government's failed flagship energy efficiency scheme, the Green Deal.

Ministers wasted a total of £240 million on the ill-fated programme,
The Green Deal was supposed to encourage households to take out loans to fund the cost
of installing measures such as insulation or double glazing, with the cost paid back
out of the resulting savings on their energy bills.

Yet the scheme was eventually abandoned in July last year after just 14,000 households
signed up,

The DECC said the energy efficiency schemes would together "deliver over £6 billion of
energy bill savings to the most vulnerable" and had helped make more than one million
homes warmer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...hold-that-sig/


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Leaving aside the cost of previous programmes, Trident went fully operational
in 1994. The system cost £12.6 bn at 1996 prices and costs £280m a year to
maintain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclea...d_Kingdom#Cost


While the estimated cost of replacing the four Trident submarines, a necessity by 2020
has risen to 31bn

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a6745416.html


In case anyone has forgotten, The Berlin Wall came down in 1989, and the Soviet Union
broke up in 1991. Fully 3 years before the first Trident submarine sailed.*

The Green energy scheme was clearly misguided and overoptimistic its forecasts
as how many would take up the scheme, but at least in principle if their harebrained
projections had been nearer the mark there would have been clear beneficiaries

Perhaps those who are clearly exercised about this waste, might care to explain what
value for money the UK taxpayer is getting exactly having spent £17.6 billion on the
current
Trident programme, at the cost £280 million per year, with a further £31.bn in 2010
given that the Soviet Union never even existed throughout the whole of that time.

So who exactly are the beneficiaries supposed to be of the Trident nuclear submarine
programme, excepting workers in the respective industries ?

And no, don't even go there -

"The Chinese population is equivalent to 18.72% of the total world population. "

http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=http...ZpRm6VT 5-l0Q

Against which four puny submarines, even £31 bn worth are a proverbial flea bite.

So where's the value for money there ?


michael adams

* When looking this up I didn't realise this myself. So, as the old saying goes, I stand
to be
corrected as to these precise dates.

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