Roger Ford Was Right
For years in Modern Railways, Roger Ford has been questioning statistics and information from the Department of Transport. It emerged today, that three civil servants got their sums wrong and cost taxpayers a total of £40 million, over the Virgin Trains/First Group row about the West Coast Main line.
It is another failure of the Department, that in many peoples’ view, finds trains a rather historical method of transport.
Thpse involved have only been suspended. They should have been fired. But then I suspect they have all got a First from Oxford. If they’d got a Third in engineering from Sheffield or Exeter, they’d have got the sums right.
The Civil Service needs an Admiral Byng moment.
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