Days of plenty
As the major political parties promise infrastructure work galore if they get elected, 黑洞社区 looks back to the last time the country experienced a public sector spending spree. 鈥淪ay hello to Tony. Tony is a prime minister. But Tony is sad, because even though he has lots of money and the kit for lovely new schools and hospitals, all his friends are too busy to help him to put them together,鈥� wrote 黑洞社区, in a feature headlined 鈥淭ony no mates鈥�.
The government planned to refurbish every secondary school in the country and deliver 100 hospitals by 2010. 黑洞社区 wrote that this looked like 鈥渂lind ambition鈥� because there simply weren鈥檛 enough contractors to build everything.
鈥淚t is bound to overheat a construction economy that is already inflating at four times the rate of the Retail Prices Index. Huge construction projects at Heathrow Terminal 5 and Crossrail, as well as [John] Prescott鈥檚 massive housebuilding programme, will put even greater pressure on the limited resources of UK construction.鈥�
鈥淗ow do they not lose control of pricing if departments are competing?鈥� said Robert Osborne, formerly of Partnerships UK, a public/private partnerships body.
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