Dear Chief Secretary to the Treasury,
I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left.
Signed, Liam Byrne

(Outgoing Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury. May 2010)
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Thursday 25 February 2010

Waste of money.

No comment needed :-
BLUNDERING bureaucrats have spent £200million earmarked for hospital buildings on doses of the swine flu jab that will never be used.

Up to 132 million doses of the vaccine were ordered at the height of the panic over the H1N1 virus in 2009.

But earlier this month it emerged that only 13 million doses had been delivered and more than four million were used on patients – three per cent of the total.

Now it is feared the millions of doses still on order cannot be stopped because officials forgot to add a cancel clause to the contract.
Read the rest of the article here in the Express.

h/t talking clock
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