£1.6 billion

[transam]

the amount government has committed to stronger towns fund for England's poorest regions over the next 7 years

£16 bn the amount the Tory led government have cut in central funding for councils in the past 9 years

£6bn the amount the EU had committed to European Social fund/ youth employment initiative for England's poorest
Areas over 6 years up to 2020

 

[jasonzyx]

the amount government has committed to stronger towns fund for England's poorest regions over the next 7 years

£16 bn the amount the Tory led government have cut in central funding for councils in the past 9 years

£6bn the amount the EU had committed to European Social fund/ youth employment initiative for England's poorest
Areas over 6 years up to 2020

You appear to have forgotten the amount wasted by Chris Grayling.

 

[Notch7]

the amount government has committed to stronger towns fund for England's poorest regions over the next 7 years

£16 bn the amount the Tory led government have cut in central funding for councils in the past 9 years

£6bn the amount the EU had committed to European Social fund/ youth employment initiative for England's poorest
Areas over 6 years up to 2020

Ive always wondered who was awarded the HS2 contracts.

 

[transam]

You appear to have forgotten the amount wasted by Chris Grayling.

Er no but since u mention it

£33 m cost to tax payers settling a euro tunnel case

£171 m cost to tax payers of terminating contracts handed to private probation companies

£2bn extra costs of delayed cross rail project

£3bb amount grayling is about to commit to grand pennine route up grade which will probably go t*ts up

 

[transam]

Incidentally I tbink Grayling is doing a good job

Think he has spent / lost more money than buffoon Johnson

 

[transam]

I have a theory

I reckon Grayling is an under cover bloke for the EU probably some thing to do with the French who is deliberately ball s ing up the economy

Let's face it Grayling can't be that stupid to lose so much money

Doubt if he will ever get to be a chancellor ?

 

[JohnD]

Never ascribe to malice anything that can be more easily explained by incompetence.

May has lost her first 11, and her second 11, and her reserves. She's now staffing up her ministries with the "Remainder B" politicians. Nobody will work for her who isn't desperate for the extra wages and a paragraph on the CV. Apart from the handful who hope to get her job when they knife her in the back.

 

[JohnD]

Grayling was "just obeying orders"

https://www.ft.com/content/c879ef40-5183-11e9-b401-8d9ef1626294

"Chris Grayling, Britain’s transport secretary, is trying to sell two weeks’ worth of ferry capacity on the open market in an effort to recoup millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money because of the delay to the UK’s departure from the EU.

Late last year Mr Grayling agreed three contracts for a trio of ferry operators to provide extra capacity for six months from March 29 in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The operator with the smallest contract, Seaborne Freight, was later stripped of its contract because of questions over its ability to run ships between Ramsgate and Ostend since it had no vessels.

However, the Department for Transport is still committed to paying £89m"

 

[EddieM]

No one can possibly hold Grayling in anything else than utter contempt, what a complete spanner.