Ladies & Gentlemen...
Presenting the IQ20 award for the most gibberish in an internet post two thousand and eight...
Stand back, we have a winner!
TOFO many thanks for your point-by-point demolition of my post #9, in response can I refer you to Simon Jenkins article in today's Guardian.
This casual approach to taxpayers' money has blossomed since the fad for privatising public administration began in the early 90s. It is now embedded in Whitehall's DNA. Like the salaries paid to "public servants" such as Boston or the heads of the BBC, such expenditure defies reason. It reflects the transfer of William Whyte's "organisation man" from private corporate to public sectors, except that the associated perks are underwritten by the taxpayer.
Please note that despite writing in the Gruniad, Jenkins is a noted cheerleader for Thatcherism.
BTW thanks for the award, and if its underwritten by a PFI, when in 2010 can I pick it up?