What’s a copper-roofed security hut or a gold-plated bike shed? Symbols of a political class which is increasingly out of touch
What’s a copper-roofed security hut or a gold-plated bike shed? Symbols of a political class increasingly out of touch
The Government is also scrambling to lay the blame for the fiasco of the €2.2 billion children’s hospital at the feet of the builders, but somebody signed off on the original contract which seems to incentivise delays and over-spending. That contract was awarded in 2017, when Simon Harris was health minister.
To illustrate it, he asked readers to imagine a finance committee which is tasked with signing off on a nuclear bunker, a coffee budget and – in a useful piece of serendipity if you’re a columnist writing about them – a bike shed. The committee would spend the least amount of time on the £10 million nuclear bunker, he suggested, because not many people have deeply held views on the best methods of construction for nuclear bunkers.
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