@ 2008-10-02 – 14:18:16
I see Willie Walsh of BA has challenged Call Me Dave on the Tory's High Speed Rail scam. Not surprising as he has a vested interest and of course got him guarenteed airtime on the BBC News.
However what I found interesting was the proposed route London - Birmingham - Manchester- Leeds. All very well but what we need to put a dent in internal flights is high speed routes to Edinburgh and Glasgow. Not to mention fare structures that actually do compete with the airlines.
@ 2008-10-02 – 14:05:57
I see that a teacher training conference in Marbella, for staff at Edensor Technical College in Stoke-on-Trent has just been cancelled as a knee jerk reaction to the deserved bad publicity. Unfortunately the tax payer has been stung with the cost for cancelling at such a late date and the conference will now take place at the school.
It was claimed that it would have been much cheaper to hold the conference in Spain than somewhere locally, but pardon me for stating the bloody obvious, if the conference is now being held at the school why couldn't it have been held there in the first place?
I just can't fathom why it was ever imagined that staff who work in a big building with assembly rooms, class rooms and audio visual equipment etc. on site would need to hire a venue off site when they already have all the facilities they need where they alraedy work.
This is our money these jokers are chucking away, money that should be spent on books or computers or sports equipment for the kids not on - when we come down to it - a few nights away from the family in a hotel and a chance to sleep off a hangover in some boring lecture that will be forgotten about later that afternoon.
This is precisely the sort of daft nonsense that has cost British industry dear in the past and I don't see why taxpayers should cough up for the same sort of nonsense in education
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