I coetanei criticano £ 9,6 milioni di Lords Door
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj427p80vvxo
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I coetanei criticano £ 9,6 milioni di Lords Door
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj427p80vvxo
di F0urLeafCl0ver
18 commenti
They criticise that it’s not working because a multi million pound security system should be.
Saved you all a click.
How do you spend £9m and go £3m over budget on a door?
It’s quite a nice door, and needs to be a secure door, but it’s still ultimately a door?
> Another Tory peer, former transport secretary Lord Howell, warned that the need for staff to manually operate the door meant Parliament was “haemorrhaging money”.
Let’s be honest, it’s not the bloke sat there checking ID cards and pressing the button that’s costing us millions, is it?
> Baroness Smith said the cost of the door rose from an initial £6.1m estimate due to the cost of keeping the entrance operational during works, and “heritage” issues at the Palace of Westminster, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It’d save us a million quid if you’d just walk the long way round while we do the work, m’lord…
These people are taking us for an absolute ride.
“Lord Forsyth said he had been told that “someone must be there permanently to press the button to open the door”.
“The other evening, someone in a wheelchair was unable to access the House,” he added.”
I was expecting something a bit more trivial from the Lords—like complaints about the decor, but this feels like a pretty valid complaint.
Anyone found a breakdown of the £9.6m? I guess it is not just for a door.
In these times of financial hardship for so many people in this country, to spend almost 10 million quid on a new door is frankly immoral. What the fuck is up with these people?
I wonder if the contractor happened to be a friend or donor to the tories. It seems every business that gets a government contract immediately drags it out and charges a ridiculous amount for it.
By my math you could have made a door of solid gold 6.5cm thick for that price.
I’m sure the contractors worked really hard and the work was well organised and the spec really well written.
This makes no sense. Surely, this cost is one hell of a lot more than a door. If it is, this is outrageous!
So people can afford there heating bills, Electric bills and council tax bill but they get 10 million for a door!!!
What the fuck? At that price I was expecting it to be some ridiculously elaborate gold plated piece of artwork… but it’s just a bit of fucking glass? For 10 million quid?
This country is fucked
Government in all forms is clearly defunct. Replace with AI ASAP
“Despite the increased cost, Baroness Smith said it remained unclear if the door “will ever be fully operational”.”
Sorry, what…?!?? It’s a fucking door that somehow cost 9.6 million, how is that even possible?
I’m all for spending on quality for something to last long past my life time.
Although this ammount is ludicrous.
I’d like to see a breakdown of the cost of the door vs the cost of admin/operayions etc which I suspect makes up most of the cost.
The HoL is a Grade I listed building and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. So any new door must be made of the same material and in a similar way to the existing door.
You just can’t go to B&Q and buy a door
And they said England is not corrupt.
Lol.
The place is rotten to the core.
I initially thought this cost was utterly impossible, so started to look around for comparators and to be fair a project to make some parts of Durham cathedral wheel chair accessible cost £12m and it’s probably far better maintained than Parliament. According to historic England it’s because as soon as you start poking around you have to fix a load of structural issues that were out of sight out of mind.
Stone masons just must cost an absolute fucking bomb is the conclusion!
Can we spend the renovation budget building 4 state of the art new buildings in each of the 4 capital cities, then rotate parliament around. Include bedsits and canteen.
I thought Starmer promised to scrap that place if he got in to power?