Ask the nice supporter of Raith Rovers, yes the one that resides in Downing Street for some of the money that the taxpayer is having to pay for another Treasury c0ckup. The one concerning rebuilding/refurbishing London Underground. The burden of risk was to be taken on board by the Contractor, Matrix I think it was called, a consortium of large building contractors/Civil Engineers. At least that was the Treasuries plan. Well, it was untill things went badly haywire and Matrix walked away to cut their losses. Wonder if they found the ground to hard to dig into....probably some of that Northern Rock
. Result, Matrix pays 300 Mil, taxpayer contributes 1.7 Bil. Now isn't that fair
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An over simplification of the story I guess but you can see the point that I'm trying to make. How many 130 gun-ships would that buy? Also maybe another C17 etc etc etc......