What is Britains biggest waste of money ?

[bgblue]

Bout 6 games at 50p each :(

 

[nelsons willie]

I watched a documentary about the 4 years after the war in Germany. The Americans ran their sector in Berlin with 5000 bureaucrats. The good old brits needed 20,000.

 

[Blue Hefner]

Probably that stupid high speed rail network estimated to cost £80 billion. For a fraction of the price they could have fitted the entire UK with super fast fibre broadband and people could have worked from home instead of getting on the train.

What a stupid way to look at it! HS2 will be brilliant for the UK.

HS2 will not be 'brilliant'. In 15yrs or whenever it gets built(if ever) people who are important enought to need 20mins shaved off the B'ham to London journey time will not be getting trains.

They will be working from offices using Skype, Facetime etc

 

[Andy Dale]

Liverpool's parade bus .

 

[happy daze]

Thames flood barrier

 

[yerwot?]

600+ parasites that infest the ''mother of all parliaments''.

 

[rickmcfc]

Probably that stupid high speed rail network estimated to cost £80 billion. For a fraction of the price they could have fitted the entire UK with super fast fibre broadband and people could have worked from home instead of getting on the train.

What a stupid way to look at it! HS2 will be brilliant for the UK.

HS2 will not be 'brilliant'. In 15yrs or whenever it gets built(if ever) people who are important enought to need 20mins shaved off the B'ham to London journey time will not be getting trains.

They will be working from offices using Skype, Facetime etc

This is clearly something your not very well educated on. The UK rail infrastructure is at, or nearly at full capacity. Train journeys made over the next decade are going up, the population is going up, and the building of HS2, Crossrail, Crossrail2 will all help to ease these problems. Also it will free up vital track space for freight, and reduce lorries on the road.

 

[Skashion]

Nuclear weapons whilst our conventional forces are now laughable.

 

[Bill]

Traffic lights.
They must cost millions to run and maintain. Not only placed everywhere including the unnecessary, then run 24/7 in remote areas,including industrial parks that close for the week end. Why they can't be on a timer or sensor is beyond me. You sit there like a dick with no other cars in sight,petrol and fumes chugging away.

Crazy.

 

[Stonefish74]

Trident what a waste... Billions on something nobody wants to use! HS2 is great, the current rail network is overloaded about time we built something useful for the country!