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theconrodkid - 10/9/04 at 12:53 PM

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/scots/index.htm

locogeoff - 10/9/04 at 01:03 PM

Seems alright to me!
A' woudnae mak a muckle stoomshie aboot it.

DarrenW - 10/9/04 at 01:04 PM

It must be a p*** take!
And thats coming from someone not far from Newcastle - i wonder if Geordie parliament has owt similar???

locogeoff - 10/9/04 at 01:25 PM

Dont think so...

Though I believe gullible isn't in the Oxford ENGLISH dictionary

The P155 take was the amount of money the parliament building cost.

ned - 10/9/04 at 01:31 PM

3x over budget wasn't it?

locogeoff - 10/9/04 at 01:39 PM

I think 3X is being somewhat conservative

We dont have many Conservatives up here

mackie - 10/9/04 at 01:41 PM

The channel tunnel went over budget but that was one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever.
How can a sodding building go 10x over budget? On the news they said something like £450,000,000

[Edited on 10/9/04 by mackie]

locogeoff - 10/9/04 at 02:00 PM

Dunno, probably something to do with the original budget was completely unrealistic, sadly an attempt was made to pin the blame on the late Donald Dewar, who reagrdless of your politics must be regarded as one of the great Scottish politicians of our time, a man in politics for the good of his country not for the good of his ego.

On a non political front
Who's locost prodject is keeping to budget, mine is going to be well over ten times £250, mony a mikle maks a muckle



[Edited on 10/9/04 by locogeoff]

Hellfire - 10/9/04 at 02:56 PM

A politician who wasn't in for himself....

Pull the other one!

locogeoff - 10/9/04 at 03:15 PM

I stand by what I say...

Dick Axtell - 10/9/04 at 05:50 PM

quote:
Originally posted by locogeoff
Dunno, probably something to do with the original budget was completely unrealistic,


As has been the case for nearly all large PUBLICLY-funded projects (Dome, gov. computer projects, roads, hospitals - this goes on endlessly!!). We can only conclude that project estimates are heavily influenced by excessive optimism, insufficient knowledge & experience, plus a fair dollop of political expediency (read - "meddling" ).

Agree about Donald Dewar.

Locost budget ?? On target? Is it ever?

[Edited on 10/9/04 by Dick Axtell]

[Edited on 10/9/04 by Dick Axtell]

stephen_gusterson - 10/9/04 at 06:30 PM

i heard the budget was 10m, with a max of 40m.

these people didnt just go over budget, they went ballistically, stupidly, unbelievably, freakishly, totally, over budget.

and they are supposed to run the affairs of scotland....


atb

steve

jack trolley - 10/9/04 at 07:13 PM

Rumour has it that Rab C Nesbitt is being employed as a tour guide
for the New Scottish Parliament

dave1888 - 10/9/04 at 09:17 PM

wit a load o'shite thats some glaikit eejits attempt at writing how the dundonians speak