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During the election, the Tories kept saying they were going to make massive cuts but it wouldn’t deepen the recession because they would be cutting out lots of waste. I thought then, and still do now, that it was just a smokescreen for deep cuts that were ideologically rather than economically motivated.

But then a greedy outsourcing company called SERCO and (giving them the benefit of the doubt) incompetent civil servants conspire to give the Tories an example of staggering waste and the excuse they need to continue to cut away like mad axemen.

The waste in question is £105 million spent over three years on a website. Yes, I really did write £105 million. And yes, on a website. And no, not a website like google or facebook or twitter - the website in question is the one for Business Link. Yes, Business Link.

I already thought Business Link was a box ticking waste of time and money having had to endure a three hour meeting with one of their “consultants” (the word consultant should have raised a red flag but we live and learn…) discussing how the way ahead for our business was to write out environmental policies and the like, but the revelation about their website is the icing on the cake.

Read about it on the BBC blog I read about it on by clicking > here  <

I could go on and on in an outraged of Mortimer Street style, but the comments on the original blog have got that covered ( with some interesting cost analysis from web professionals ). Suffice to say, we’d be happy to do the job for half the price… very happy indeed