London Transport, believe it or not, were once respected in their field. Decades ago mind. Now they use consultants for everything to insulate the appointed managers from blame; and if one can put up with shit from the TfL staff, who are thoroughly incompetant, but because of they high salaries actually think they know what they are about, then advising TfL is like taking candy from a baby.

The result of this has been poor standards all around. One starts a project and then it just gets changed and changed and changed and changed , meanwhile you submit your bills, more bill and bills, bills and if you ever had any intention of doing a good job , by the end , you don’t really care and just hope your name does not go on the credits.

I’m afraid these high salaries just inflate their egos and they think they know what they are doing. But that is how the system was set up at the start of the decade – as a way of channelling funds to political appointees in the guise of ‘advice’. Let them just take their 100K and go on holiday.

Then :-

The only solution is for TfL to actually do their own work ‘in-house’ and then sack the ones who can’t perform, instead of wasting money on TfL managers who are really just can’t do the job of managing outside tenders. They just play at it, and sometime, very occassionally I feal guilty taking the money off them. But I have kids to feed The new guy who is Boris’s transport man, who once worked for Nichols, knows the score – he was a consultant, and I doubt he will rock the boat. There is too much money being made by business for him to stop the gravy train and the Conservative Party is not anti – business. Also if he brought the services back in-house, then he and the Conservative Party would be in the spot light – no – thats a bad idea when they now stand a chance of winning in 2010. Better to take the 100k and create more Collateralized Blame Obligations (CBOs)where no one is to blame except the consultants and any problems can be spun away, and the taxpayer picks up the tab.

So new appointees will just do what ever is required to get the Conservatives in the best light. Saving money does not come into it. The only way saving money will become a priority is if the electate say ‘Bas!’ ‘Enough is Enough’ we will not pay anymore.

justforfun

As opposed to paying someone 100k to squander tax payers money on daft and fraudulent projects.

Will there be safe seats though Leon? Good question. One can only hope that the Tory victory will be diminished to the extent that they are obligated to deal with the Lib Dems, thus ushering a more democratic system (the only reason I can see for voting LD, BTW).

Then we won’t have as many safe seats as such, but we will have lists…

After the kicking I give Labour all the time?

What an accomplishment – after a decade of Labour, the Brits prefer the seeming honesty of old Etonians.

No doubt, but that doesn’t mean anyone should let the new Mayor off the hook.

Unfortunately such sums are nowadays the going rate for this kind of public sector job.

Bizarre cjcjc, you never said that earlier on when Ken was paying his “cronies”…

The trouble with this Sunny – while I’m sure we all look forward to your anointment to a safe-ish seat in the election-after-next

You think Labour are going to have any safe seats in the election after next?

This kind of thing feels symptomatic of the 10 years of spin that has left the country swinging 18 per cent the other way.

What an accomplishment – after a decade of Labour, the Brits prefer the seeming honesty of old Etonians.

Blimey.