The Bumper Book Of Government Waste

Author : Matthew Elliott,Lee Rotherham
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781897597798

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The Bumper Book of Government Waste by Matthew Elliott,Lee Rotherham Pdf

Welcome to the world of waste. You are about to enter a twilight zone of crazy spending, political correctness, utter incompetence, and fantastic jollies, all funded by the British taxpayer.In this book, the authors have highlighted a myriad of examples of Government waste and useless spending, taken from thousands of examples held on file. The figures have been compiled from independent reports, media coverage and official statistics. Added together, they come to #81 billion of waste.- In 1997, the Government plundered #2 billion per week from its people. In 2004-05, the figure was #4.8 billion.- The Arts Council spent #77,000 sending a team of artists to the North Pole to make a snowman.- Quangos cost over #22 billion per year.- Local government pension schemes are in deficit to the tune of #27 billion. The taxpayer will fund the difference.- 459 books were withdrawn from the EU's Luxembourg library last year. The cost to taxpayers was #2,138 per book.- Ken Livingstone's office now costs #13.9 million to run. His staff includes 58 media and marketing personnel!- Between 2000 and 2005, one in every two new jobs created was in the public sector, many of them administrative.- Nottinghamshire tourism bosses spent #120,000 of taxpayers' money rebranding the county with a big 'N'.- Each European member of Parliament (MEP) costs #2.4 million per year in salary, expenses, perks and administration.- In 2005, 20 out of 24 government departments overspent their budgets. The total overspend was #7.1 billion.These are just a few of the alarming facts and figures revealed in The Bumper Book of Government Waste. If you wasted your family's money on this scale, you would probably be locked up. Whyshould the

Author : Matthew Elliott,Lee Rotherham
Publisher : Harriman House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : 1905641486

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Did you know that the NHS spends 2 million per year on computer skills for cleaners and 225,000 teaching grannies how to wear slippers? Or that local artists in Birmingham received 15,000 from the Arts Council to go on a pub crawl? This guide reveals how the government wastes 80 billion pounds of taxpayers' money each year.

Author : Matthew Elliott,Lee Rotherham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : OCLC:1310599004

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The Bumper Book of Government Waste by Matthew Elliott,Lee Rotherham Pdf

Did you know that the NHS spends £2 million per year on computer skills for cleaners and £225,000 teaching grannies how to wear slippers? Or that local artists in Birmingham received £15,000 from the Arts Council to go on a pub crawl? This guide reveals how the government wastes £80 billion pounds of taxpayers' money each year.

Author : Mike Denham
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849545594

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Burning Our Money by Mike Denham Pdf

Britain is in the midst of a fierce battle over government spending. With debts mounting rapidly, the ?700 billion annual bill is no longer sustainable. But cuts face a wall of opposition, with dire warnings that they will ravage our society: hospital waiting lists will grow, schools will close and the poor will tumble into a new Dickensian abyss. Yet much of what the government currently spends is wasted, and public sector performance is often woeful. In Burning Our Money, Mike Denham casts a critical eye over the services we receive for our hard-earned cash, and finds them radically - often shockingly - wanting. For all the media insistence that the NHS is 'the envy of the world', it stacks up poorly against European healthcare systems. For all our apparently soaring exam grades, our children significantly underperform their future competitors in China, Korea and elsewhere. And for all our hand-wringing about abolishing poverty, our huge welfare system actually damages many of the poor it's supposed to help. Drawing on extensive research and up-to-the-minute reporting, Burning Our Money comprehensively debunks the myth that more public spending means better public services, and shows how we can - and must - get more for less.

Author : Felix von Keudell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783839117880

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The Internet by Felix von Keudell Pdf

Author : Mark Baimbridge,Philip B. Whyman,Brian Burkitt,Ruth Lea,Ian Milne,John Mills,Philip Davies,Patrick Minford,Eric Nowell,Matthew Elliott,Brian Hindley,Brent Cameron,David Lascelles,Philip Booth,Marc Glendening,John Redwood,Roger Helmer,Andrew Mullen,David Howell,Vo Phuong Mai Le
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845403201

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Britain in a Global World by Mark Baimbridge,Philip B. Whyman,Brian Burkitt,Ruth Lea,Ian Milne,John Mills,Philip Davies,Patrick Minford,Eric Nowell,Matthew Elliott,Brian Hindley,Brent Cameron,David Lascelles,Philip Booth,Marc Glendening,John Redwood,Roger Helmer,Andrew Mullen,David Howell,Vo Phuong Mai Le Pdf

This edited collection explores the future options for the UK regarding its relationship with the European Union (EU). Since Britain applied for membership in 1961, the nature of the relationship between the UK and the EU has been central to economic and political debate, being widely perceived as ‘inevitable', because withdrawal from the process would leave Britain isolated and largely powerless. However, this book challenges this presumption by illustrating that it could be in Britain's long-term interest to seek positive and plausible global policy options if it were to be released from the rigidities and constraints imposed by aspects of EU membership (e.g. economic policy, agriculture and fisheries, trade relations, taxation policy, labour relations, social policy, human rights and civil liberties, foreign policy, sovereignty and national identity) Britain might benefit from a looser relationship. Hence, the effective choice Britain possesses is between an essentially European future or a comprehensive global strategy.

Author : Arnold Kransdorff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351948586

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Corporate DNA by Arnold Kransdorff Pdf

For more than half a century the developed world has been chasing productivity. It's financed our wealth but that part of output on which our continued prosperity depends - productivity growth - is petering out. The traditional scapegoat has been the dearth of worker skills. But the worker skills base has never been higher! The other explanation is that it is managers who are not giving full value to their employers. The way they're making decisions is conferring virtually no upside potential, which means they're leaving us wide open for experience-poor competitors to step into our experience-rich shoes. Exactly as Japan did in the 1960s and the so-called BRICK countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China (especially China) and Korea - are threatening now. If creeping uncompetitiveness is not to overtake us, from where are the next round of productivity gains to come from? Identifying some gaping holes in the way managers are taught to manage, this book outlines both the size of the problem and a solution. Businesses and other organizations, the author says, have to substantially raise the quality of their decision-making. For this to happen, they need to be much better experiential learners. And for experiential learning to take place, companies and other institutions have to better manage their corporate DNA, the institution-specific experiences otherwise known as Organizational Memory. OM, which characterizes any organization's ability to perform, is the single biggest influence on decision-making excellence. It is a factor of production that has already been paid for at great expense, yet is readily discarded in the backwash of the biggest change in workplace practice for more than a century - the actively-encouraged flexible labour market. Corporate DNA explains why this key component of intellectual capital should be better managed, can be better managed and, particularly, how it can be used to help organizations reduce the pandemic of repeated mistakes, rei

Author : Donald Savoie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442692985

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Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada and the United Kingdom by Donald Savoie Pdf

There is a consensus throughout much of the western world that the public sector is in urgent need of repair. This study seeks to understand why this is so by comparing developments in Canada and the United Kingdom. It looks to changes in values both in society and inside government, and to the relationships between politicians and civil servants at the top and between civil servants and citizens at the bottom. Donald J. Savoie argues that both Canada and the UK now operate under court government rather than cabinet government. By court government, he means that effective power now rests with their respective prime ministers and a small group of carefully selected courtiers. For things that matter to prime ministers and their courts, the decision-making process shifts from formal to informal, involving only a handful of actors. For things that matter less to them, the decision-making process is horizontal, cumbersome, and consultative, and involves a multitude of actors from different government departments and agencies as well as a variety of individuals operating outside government. Court governments undermine both the traditionally bureaucratic model and basic principles that have guided the development of our Westminster-Whitehall parliamentary system. Nonetheless, Canada and the United Kingdom still cling to accountability requirements better suited to the past and the traditional bureaucratic model. Savoie concludes with a call for new accountability requirements that correspond with court government as well as the new relationships between politicians and civil servants, and civil servants and citizens.

Author : David Craig,Matthew Elliot
Publisher : Constable
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472112248

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Fleeced! by David Craig,Matthew Elliot Pdf

Over the past decade some £3 trillion - equivalent to £50,000 for every person in Britain - has been taken from us by the ruling elites. Half was wasted in a splurge of poorly-managed public spending in the 'boom', while the other half evaporated in the 'bust' - siphoned off by city bonuses, vaporised by a collapse in pension savings and extorted to bail out the banking sector. In their explosive new book, David Craig and Matthew Elliott trace where the money has gone and who has become richer as a result. They name and shame the 'guilty': the incompetent bureaucrats that fail to deliver the services the taxpayer deserves; the multitude of ineffective regulators and watchdogs; the politicians that have betrayed our democracy and enriched themselves; and the self-serving and arrogant city bankers. Moreover, they calculate the enormous debt that awaits the British taxpayer as a result of our rulers' avarice and economic mismanagement. Fleeced! charts the greatest impoverishment and tax swindle of the public in British history.

Author : Chris Dillow
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comparative economics
ISBN : 9781905641178

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The End of Politics by Chris Dillow Pdf

New Labour's distinctive idea is that equality andefficiency are partners, not enemies. This, the bookargues, is an example of managerialist ideology - thebelief that trade-offs between conflicting values can bemanaged away by clever policies, that management canreplace politics. This is not true. The book is a plea toremove ......

Author : David Craig,Matthew Elliott
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781409061359

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The Great European Rip-off by David Craig,Matthew Elliott Pdf

In this EU referendum year, it's time for people across Europe to look at what really goes on in Brussels in our name. It has been estimated that the EU costs us around £1,000 billion a year - an incredible £2000 for every man, woman and child in Europe. So what do we get for our money? Politicians and administrators selflessly working to bring us efficient government? Well-targeted regulations that promote economic prosperity? A safe and free society? A well-protected environment? Help for people in poorer countries? Or is our money being squandered by a self-serving euro-elite of unaccountable politicians and incompetent bureaucrats, or else devoured in a feeding frenzy of fraud and corruption where a few lucky insiders become unimaginably rich at our expense? And is the tsunami of regulation pouring out of Brussels in reality strangling industry, destroying jobs, restricting personal freedom, desecrating the environment and further impoverishing the developing world? Using their extensive network of insider sources, David Craig and Matthew Elliott smash through the secrecy and disinformation that are the Brussels hallmark to reveal what our European rulers are really getting up to. The result is a horrifying story of bureaucracy, hypocrisy and kleptocracy - and how we are all suffering as a result.

Author : David Carter
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847999900

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Big Money in Books by David Carter Pdf

Following the success of his previous business book released on TrackerDog Media, SPLAM! Successful Property Letting And Management, David here turns his attention toward the online book sales business. Big Money in Books tells us how David built up a flourishing online books sales business from home utilising very little capital and low risk. The book gives details as to where and how to buy books for pennies, books that could be sold for 15, 25, even 35 each, and more besides. The manual also includes a list of 50 hot books to look out for. The writer tells us where to buy and what to buy, and as he says, just as importantly, what NOT to buy. There is a good section on how and where to sell, and it is all written in an easy to follow style. There is a chapter dealing with filling and administrating orders, plus a good trade glossary and contact list, and much more besides. The book runs to 240 pages, is a perfect bound paperback with full colour covers, and it is out now.

Author : Timothy Clack,Mark Dunkley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000683943

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Cultural Heritage in Modern Conflict by Timothy Clack,Mark Dunkley Pdf

This edited volume offers an in-depth study of heritage and warfare from the perspective of defence studies. The book focuses on how, in different contexts, heritage can be a catalyst and target of conflict, an obstacle to stabilisation, and a driver of peace-building. It documents the changing role of heritage – in terms of both exploitation and protection – in various military capabilities, theatres, and operations. With particular concern for the areas of subthreshold and hybrid warfare, stabilisation, cultural relationships, human security, and disaster response, the volume reviews the historical relationship between heritage and armed conflict, including the roles of embedded archaeologists, safeguarding of ethics, and dislodgement and destruction of material culture. Various chapters in the book also demonstrate the value of understanding how state and non-state actors exploit cultural heritage across different defence postures and within both subthreshold and proxy warfare in order to achieve military, political, economic, and diplomatic advantages. This book will be of interest to students of defence studies, heritage studies, anthropology and security studies in general, as well as military practitioners.

Author : Roger H. Davies
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317002772

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Value Management by Roger H. Davies Pdf

Change programmes in both private and public sectors have a poor record of delivering their intended value. The reasons given most often for their failure include lack of executive support or buy-in from key users, loose requirements definition, weak programme management, and plain wishful thinking. They rarely include technical limitations. Value Management puts forward the view that the true problem lies in failing to understand the causal links between the intended stakeholder outcomes and the actual programme outputs. Repeating the pattern of failure can be avoided by asking two questions: - Before implementation, what capabilities must a change programme deliver, when and in what order so as to cause intended value against a defined purpose with speed and certainty? - During and after implementation, what minor adjustments and/or major shifts are needed to be certain that the programme remains on purpose and on value? and two answers to be given: - Target, time and align change programmes to deliver maximum intended value to stakeholders - the baseline business case - track and respond to changes during and beyond implementation to ensure that the programme actually delivers or exceeds intended value - value realisation. The authors show how, by asking and answering these questions, direction and delivery of any programme can be clarified and greater economic value achieved.

Author : James Delingpole
Publisher : Headline
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780755363353

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How To Be Right by James Delingpole Pdf

As a journalist for the Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator, James Delingpole has expressed his thoughts - articulately and amusingly - on everything from politics to popular music, from school sports days to spliffs. In this A-Z of brief essays he turns his lively mind to modern society gone mad. Can't understand what's wrong with much-loved feet and inches? Don't believe the global-warming hype? Wondering whatever happened to good, old-fashioned universities? Pouring scorn on the state of Britain after ten years under Brown and Blair, HOW TO BE RIGHT couldn't have come along at a more appropriate time. Prepare to foam and splutter, and to be seriously entertained.