UK Government Spending

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  1. MDG

    MDG Well-Known Member

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    A lot of posts on X looking into the procurement files and some of the projects the government have funded with taxpayers money.

    Some interesting ones for sure...

    £201k spent on a study of the environmental impact of making the movie Star Wars
    £194k on research around 'gay pig' masculinities
    £180k replacing air conditioning in the British High Commission Barbados
    £841k on researching the Europe that gay porn built

    contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/search
     
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    Interestingly, the £180K for the air conditioning in Barbados is listed - which is probably fair enough given we need to maintain our embassies and presence overseas - but searches for the other terms don't return any results.

    For instance, a search for Star+Wars returns one result - a contract for £11.17m from the MOD to Worcester Medal Services. A search for gay+porn returns 0 results, and a search for gay+pig the same (neither does homo+pig or sexual+pig). Do you have the links for the other contracts?
     
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    I'm hoping Sunaks £52m personal helicopter contract he personally intervened to reinstate has been scrapped. Buy you a lot of aircon that.
     
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    Researching for a friend that doesn't f c uk pigs :D.
     
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    That was just one link, the star wars one was reported by quite a few media outlets, this one is an extract from the Sunday Telegraph. Just do a bit of searching and you'll find stuff.

    https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-...QjBF6P-4c54KzBlCEO9rXbb28oWYbRukPotQgrdVw-HTx
     
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    Interesting how they try to blame the government for a contract seemingly awarded in 2022. I say seemingly because it doesn't appear on that website under any combination of search terms. And Charlotte Gill isn't known to have the best relationship with the truth.
     
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    She works for the Torygraph, that paper and the truth certainly do not go hand in hand
     
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    Now Carrie doesn't live there anymore, the staff at No 10 don't have to lipstick that particular one.
     
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    Lay off him!!! The poor lamb didn't have Sky TV growing up. He had it tough.
     
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    Pretty certain we had a government in 2022.
    It's just astonishing what money gets spent on regardless of who is in power.
     
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    That just scratches the surface of how much the Tories spunked up against the walls.
     
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    Exactly, you read stuff like that, and it's a head in hands job when in the next breath they want more in taxes.
     

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