Chris Barker wrote:
> Oh, I think that they did, Donald. Portcullis House was a similar picture of
> overrun, as I recall, and many complained at that. Although that isn't a
> Parliament, it's offices for MPs and their staff.
>
> I don't challenge the need to spend appropriately on such an important
> building, a parliament (given, of course, that you have agreed the necessity
> for a separate body like that ...), but it was well over the original, large,
> budget.
>
> Chris
>
Whoever it was for, its overrun was a disgrace, and space was, or could
have been made available, elsewhere.
Holyrood's original cost 'estimate' was 40 million, which was a Labour
joke. A new building was a Labour joke. One was already available, but
ruled out as a nationalist 'shibboleth'. A realistic estimate, given
site clearance and its location, would have been in the 300-350 million
bracket. Add it post-911 modifications and the overrun wasn't excessive.
I'm getting used to it, given some of the other sh*t that's gone up in
Edinburgh and Glasgow of late, it's not too bad.
But I get slightly militant about the money sink that is London...
D.
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