View Single Post
Unread 03-08-2008, 12:42   #190
Mark Hennessy
Membership Officer
 
Mark Hennessy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Maynooth
Posts: 1,116
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Thomas J Stamp View Post
how government works part 22334

1. Soften up public support for a project you want to ditch

2. Tell public how much money you havent got

3. Produce pie in the sky costings for the project, the higher the better

4. Show lots of pics of babys in incubaters


haven't got to point 4 yes, but watch the letters pages in the papers over the next few weeks...............
And this before we get some obfuscation from a new 'expert' group report which claims the metro can actually be built using buses running overground for only half the projected cost.

Cue 2 year study on the feasibility of this.
Mark Hennessy is offline