That wonderful Tory government utilised a concept of mathematics that must have originated in H2G2 and somehow concluded that we could sell off all our quarters, then rent them back and still pay for the maintenance ourselves and this would be cost effective! doh!
Of course a Labour Government would never do that, or would they?
Snatch wagons, sold to civvy company for £3000 a piece, brought back for £6000 a piece.
Hmmmmmm
Lets not make this a party politics thing eh? Its a government thing or more specifically a Civil Service thing.