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Author:  dogbert10 [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:11 am ]
Post subject:  No wonder we're broke....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... borne.html
Author:  adidan [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: No wonder we're broke....
dogbert10 wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/georgeosborne/8193219/Christmas-tree-a-bureaucratic-tangle-for-George-Osborne.html

FFS.

My mum works in a library, she's not even allowed to change a frickin' light bulb because of H&S. We should go like the French, they don't even have a H&S Executive.
Author:  pcernie [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: No wonder we're broke....
£900 for a Xmas tree? Is it installed by Rachel Riley, going up a ladder in a short skirt or something? :shock: ;)
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: No wonder we're broke....
pcernie wrote:
£900 for a Xmas tree? Is it installed by Rachel Riley, going up a ladder in a short skirt or something? :shock: ;)

Now that would be worth £900

Quote:
To get around health and safety concerns, the final decoration — a star — was put on top by Sir Nicholas Macpherson, the most senior civil servant at the Treasury. He had to stand on a chair because no ladder could be provided.

Was he not qualified to use a ladder? ;)
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