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On Thursday, 14 April 2016 09:53:42 UTC+1, michael adams wrote:
"John Rumm" wrote in message
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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/

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

Had it spent a sane amount of money the benefit might have been worth the
cost.
But £240m to set up a loan scheme is some wild abuse of money.


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

do you not know why we have military spending?

There is no good reason to have Trident now.

given that the Soviet Union never even existed throughout the whole of
that time.

Russia still exists, so does the middle east etc.

And Trident is completely useless with both of those.

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

is, not is equivalent to

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

not on my planet.

More fool your planet. Just who do you claim Trident stops ?