Ousetunes Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 See, there is some good news out of yesterday's much needed cut backs. Aw shucks, perhaps our council could have held back on demolishing the 'old' fire station? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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llamatron Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10341863.stm looking particularly at the sheffield bits, of which for some reason there seem to be quite a few. All the projects look like things that should be paid for by businesses. Why was this going to be done with public money? Is the idea that selling of the units etc would make the public money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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llamatron Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 I completely understand that the current government have to make cuts and projects would be the first to go. I can't help thinking though that Sheffield has been hit hardest up to now. The cuts announced today include the forgemasters loan for £83m, £13m to transform the Otukumpu site and suspending the £12m promised for helping revamp the city centre. These cuts have implications that run much deeper in terms of how this will affect our futures. The forgemasters and Otukumpu money would have secured a nuclear industry in Sheffield that would create thousands of jobs in an industry that is likely to boom in the next decade, a big loss in my opinion. The city centre money was match funding with the private sector, we won't receive any of this now so the £12m can be doubled in essence. With news of record unemployment in Yorkshire how much worse can it get, there was talk of cuts at the job centre recently so its not looking good. I will rephrase my post as it has been moved here. All these ideas Im sure are great but why was it being funded with public money. As the coalition has said, they want to support these things but the money should come from the private sector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treatment Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 As the coalition has said, they want to support these things but the money should come from the private sector. Why did the banking bailouts not come from the private sector ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llamatron Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Why did the banking bailouts not come from the private sector ?? scenarios are entirely different! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treatment Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 scenarios are entirely different! A scenario is, inter alia, a forecast without figures, if you ever do an MBA, as I did in 1986, you will learn that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Scarlet Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 SureStart Protected Any comment from those Labour supporters on here who've been spouting off for the past few months that the Tories would axe SureStart? I wouldn't be crying if they did axe SureStart...A further £8.5bn of projects have been suspended and will be revised in the autumn spending review, including a libraries modernisation programme, the Sheffield retail quarter, a Department of Health-funded well-being centre for Leeds and a new magistrates court for Birmingham. The bulk of the potential savings – £7bn in total – come from suspending plans to purchase a new fleet of search and rescue helicopters.It will actually, good riddance to that, use the 7 billion for summat useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llamatron Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 A scenario is, inter alia, a forecast without figures, if you ever do an MBA, as I did in 1986, you will learn that. oooh an mba, then you will know why the scenarios are entirely different:hihi: scenario: a suggested sequence or development of events Does noone know why public money would be used to fund businesses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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