[Wolves] For all petrol heads like me :-) + on the subject of petrol

[Kevanf1]

On 14/01/2008, Stephen Welch <bigfishinnet at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > What I want to know is how come the population didn't storm the winter
> > palace of number 10 when public money (Yours and mine) was used to
> > prop up a private venture Northern Rock and now I read that most, if
> > not all, of our lovely Tax money may never be paid back by them.
>
>
> Get this.  Slightly off forum but waste all the same!!
>
> Used to work in navel dockyards: Rosyth and Devonport.
> Rosyth used to service the nuclear subs and were undoubtedly given (MOD) a
> princely sum to recover land from the sea to create a nice basin to build
> dry docks to service and maintain the new Astute class subs.  The first of
> which caught fire / burnt outs its generator bearings a few week ago.
> Anyway a few years ago and circa £800m later the land was recovered (takes
> about 45 mins to walk round) only for the then struggling conservatives to
> award the contract to Devonport because it thought it might get it more
> votes in the up and coming elections!
>
> Not sure the first boat will be commissioned in Devonport as they had
> problems with earthquake tests. Rosyth virtually shut!
>
> Its sort of like the data fiasco's - we don't really know how inept /
> wasteful they really are do we.
>
> Stephen

Wow!  I'm surprised you were allowed to let this fiasco slip out
Stephen.  Did you have to sign the official secret's act?  We'll know
what 's going on if you go quiet :-)

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Kevan Farmer
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Staffordshire