Your tax £££ at work

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7989945.stm

The government has been criticised for using taxpayers' money to send animal health experts on away days that included lessons in African drumming.

The Animal Health agency, which is responsible for fighting diseases such as bluetongue, spent about £500,000 on 15 country-wide one-day conferences.

They included drumming sessions for 1,700 vets normally on the front line of tackling diseases in livestock.

The agency said the events were to help staff speak with senior management.


At yet people have operations cancelled due to lack of funds.

[lambrini_socialist]

at the risk of reverting to leftie type, i just can't get worked up about this kind of stuff when i compare it to the staggering cost of the iraq war...

[DimPrawn]

You mean the Iraq war isn't free?!?

[lambrini_socialist]

besides, everyone* does a certain amount of this kind of rubbish on their training days / away days don't they? what's the big deal? these rabble-rousing news stories get tedious after a while. they just put "£500,000", "bongos" and "taxpayers" in the same article and everyone starts foaming at the mouth...



* i.e. permies

[lambrini_socialist]

i mean i'm not saying it's not a waste of money (as well as demeaning for all concerned) but let's keep some perspective, eh?

[sasguru]

besides, everyone* does a certain amount of this kind of rubbish on their training days / away days don't they? what's the big deal? these rabble-rousing news stories get tedious after a while. they just put "£500,000", "bongos" and "taxpayers" in the same article and everyone starts foaming at the mouth...



* i.e. permies

Yes the country is so rich due to Labour's superb management of the economy and brilliant foreign policy (i.e. Iraq), that it has plenty of tax money to fritter away.

You really are a received-wisdom, non-thinking, knee-jerk, left-wing cretin, aren't you?
Kind of a mirror image of the right-wing cretins around here.

[lambrini_socialist]

Yes the country is so rich due to Labour's superb management of the economy and brilliant foreign policy (i.e. Iraq), that it has plenty of tax money to fritter away.

You really are a received-wisdom, non-thinking, knee-jerk, left-wing cretin, aren't you?
Kind of a mirror image of the right-wing cretins around here.

hello sailor! you've been waiting all day to call me a cretin, haven't you? careful there, you got some on the keyboard.

[sasguru]

you've been waiting all day to call me a cretin, haven't you? .

Bit of a tautology I admit.

[Ruprect]

Yes the country is so rich due to Labour's superb management of the economy and brilliant foreign policy (i.e. Iraq), that it has plenty of tax money to fritter away.

You really are a received-wisdom, non-thinking, knee-jerk, left-wing cretin, aren't you?
Kind of a mirror image of the right-wing cretins around here.

hello sailor! you've been waiting all day to call me a cretin, haven't you? careful there, you got some on the keyboard.

Here we go again....another thread hijacked...

[DimPrawn]

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