£43 million of your tax wasted!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47228698

Well BJ has always had plenty of fans on GN so I guess he’ll be forgiven

Well I suppose it is only £43million.

And it was only £300k spent on the water canons

Oh the list goes on! I had almost forgotten about the canons!

Then there was the cable car whatsit

Of course it is dreadful to waste £43m of taxpayers money - par for the course when Boris Johnson was involved, but it is still less than the £500m we have wasted every week since the EU referendum!

Why wasted? Many areas of the UK have benfited and will continue to benefit from EU funds.

Maryeliza54 I gather there was a move spearheaded by Scottish tory MPs to reduce the likelihood of BJ's becoming prime minister. It was called 'Operation Arse'!

Studies have shown that we have been £500m per week worse off than we would have been if Remain had won. What an utter waste!!!!

All the contingency planning will be costing money!

Not to mention the money the DUP have been paid to prop up this lame government....

I thought the Brexiteers said it was £350 million and it would all be paid to the NHS.

Actually I believe that, net, the figure was even lower.

£500 million per week loss is the figure for the damage done to our economy so far just by the vote to leave. It has nothing to do with our £350m per week gross contribution.

If the brexit nonsense is not stooped the damage well be far greater.

Actually I believe that, net, the figure was even lower.

Indeed it was, MOnica and the National Statistics Office even wrote to B Johnson to tell him that his bus was telling porkies. Ignored, of course...

The figure I have seen for current costs of Brexit is £800 million per week.. Let's just hope that it delivers a healthy return to the Treasury by way of taxes on income and consumer spending And keeps a few businesses afloat for a bit longer...

Maizie some hopes! I can see no upside to any of this and wish some of the leavers would tell us what they think it is. I'm still waiting for someone to change my mind with constructive reasons why they want to leave.

Well, that money has to get into the economy at some time, Nonnie. All the extra civil servants will no doubt be spending their pay; the same for the workers in the firms that are converting our southern motorways into lorry parks...

It's only a temporary upside, though...

[sigh]

so many cutbacks
so much waste
Jobs for the boys (and probably girls too)
Jollies with public money

Things never change for the better.

Maizie D are there extra civil servants? The people I know are simply having additional roles (Brexit strategy planning) added to their existing jobs!

PECS this was last October before they needed to employ even more to deal with the no deal: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-staff-numbers-new-hmrc-jobs-employ-david-davis-a8030281.html

Presumably it is far in excess of 10,000 now plus all the contractors and consultants. Really surprised you didn't know.

my post was in reply to the OP not subsequent off-piste posts

Nonnie I got confused with this thread and another where I posted about friends (CS) who are busy prepping the contingency plans.

Glad to hear it PECS understandable with all the confusion. I assume you agree that a great deal has already been spent?