PATRICK MURDOCK
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Comment on: Budget could have been worse
Richard,
You might want to rewrite this article following the most recent shelving of capital projects -
Comment on: Firms scramble to win work on Tories' free schools initiative
Working for parents and teachers, hardly professional clients. Most would struggle with redecorating thier living rooms never mind delivering a major schools project.
Empowering Parents and teachers is one of the Tory/Dems more niave plans of liverating the people, however the truth is these are future project disasters in waiting.
The local authorities were well drilled and in most cases professional clients who knew what they were about. Parents and Teachers, I wince at the thought.
Good luck to those who choose to advise, they will need it! -
Comment on: Housebuilding falls after local targets scrapped
"Big Society" will be footnoted in history as a way for the Tory Dems to ensure wealthy middle class towns and villages can maintain the "Darling Buds of May" existence the Daily Mail reading residents of these locations wish to live.
Meanwhile the population growth and inequality will be hardest felt in the large Cities who will be the only state bodies with Strategic Plans and actually employ staff who care about tackling poverty, inequality and poor social housing.
I don't see the councils such as South Bucks and Sevenoaks lobbying for the right to provide more social housing or more recycling centres......... -
Comment on: Ed Balls leads teacher protest against BSF cuts
Concern for private sector investment in construction from Mr Balls?
This statement coming from a labour politician who was in a senior government position when Darling abolished Industrial Building Allowances putting the financial viability of big ticket infrastructure schemes such as T5, Toll Roads, Power Stations etc in jeopardy causing numerous PFI deals to breach thier banking covenants.
Labour and The Tory Dems do have have one thing in common with regards incentivising the private sector to bring forward major capital projects. Both are clue less as to what needs to be done.
The revamp of the planning laws will almost certainly result in major capital projects being shelved or moved to another part of the world where the incentive is welcomed.
All "big society" is going to achieve is to make it easier for "not in my backyard" decisions to be made by local councils given the most active people who sit / lobby councils are ther retired who dont like change whilst the rest of us are too busy working to get involved.
Just watch the construction output stats start to decline.......and don't blame BSF as it didn't exist until about five years ago. -
Comment on: Gove accused of exaggerating free school interest
Depends what they mean by interested.
Ringing up for the brochure is the easy bit!
Anyone can do that!
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