Given the alleged culture in Westminster, any kind of bong mechanism would likely get funded in an instant without any further questions being asked.
£10k a bong. I’m surprised they didn’t get corporate sponsorship for them. Midday bongs followed by a blaring tannoy of “this time signal was brought to you by the new Apple watch”
On the scales of public expenditure, £100K is that 2 pence piece you dropped and can’t be bothered to bend down and pick up…
and only the ungrateful traitorous Londoners were able to hear it. they should have piped the noise up to the north where it would have been properly appreciated.
Even Elon Musk has never paid ten grand for a bong
£10k per hit on the bong… probably sounded reasonable to the haunted pencil and chums.
To be fair it’s a hundred grand, in the greater scale of government, not to mention the scams, corruption and waste this government have presided over, it seems almost worthwhile
Wasteful. They could have flown a minister to Turkey for that much.
Given the overall cost of restoring the UNESCO World Heritage listed tower, £96,000 is a tiny amount.
Given also that the three annual events for which it were used were of great national significance, with one being of international significance, it doesn’t seem so bad either.
Finally the “temporary” mechanism will be retained as a backup to the main system, so that it will have future value.
Reminds me of the usage I made of my gym membership at uni
Argh at people saying £10K per Bong: each bonging event was probably multiple bongs.
Let’s assume an average of 6.5 bongs each so 65 bongs overall.
A bargain at £1,538 per boooooong!
Bargain!!!
At least three of those was new years….how much was spent on fireworks that lasted one event wouldn’t surprise if that was 100k per event
So £500 to hire someone to do a good recording and tweak the recording in a studio. Then 3 days hire of a big pa speaker, an amp and something to play the file on maybe £5k, then another £2500 for an engineer to press play and people to set it up. And £92k in donations to the conservative party to get the contract.
The maths work out perfectly.
This is simply not true.
The bonging mechanism cost £3000 while £97,000 disappeared into Tory chums pockets along the way
A striking mechanism? Sounds like a bloke with a hammer to me. I know they took the clock away to clean it with an interdental brush, but the bell clapper stayed. A bit of rope would have been sufficient to bong it.
10k per ‘bong’ and the equipment isn’t needed anymore but is owned.
Far better, more traditional, generally fun to pay a team of 10 people £1k each to stand in the tower and manually ‘bong’ them on 33 different days.
Just like this government – taxes wasted on a bunch of DONGS
Just me or £100k sounds cheap for this Gov
Whoever made it could have charged £100mil and they would pay it
I think we should still be more mad about the billions spent on apps that dont work and ppe unfit for purpose, mp pay raises mixed with an increase in prices for everything and NI
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Given the alleged culture in Westminster, any kind of bong mechanism would likely get funded in an instant without any further questions being asked.
£10k a bong. I’m surprised they didn’t get corporate sponsorship for them. Midday bongs followed by a blaring tannoy of “this time signal was brought to you by the new Apple watch”
On the scales of public expenditure, £100K is that 2 pence piece you dropped and can’t be bothered to bend down and pick up…
and only the ungrateful traitorous Londoners were able to hear it. they should have piped the noise up to the north where it would have been properly appreciated.
Even Elon Musk has never paid ten grand for a bong
£10k per hit on the bong… probably sounded reasonable to the haunted pencil and chums.
To be fair it’s a hundred grand, in the greater scale of government, not to mention the scams, corruption and waste this government have presided over, it seems almost worthwhile
Wasteful. They could have flown a minister to Turkey for that much.
Given the overall cost of restoring the UNESCO World Heritage listed tower, £96,000 is a tiny amount.
Given also that the three annual events for which it were used were of great national significance, with one being of international significance, it doesn’t seem so bad either.
Finally the “temporary” mechanism will be retained as a backup to the main system, so that it will have future value.
Reminds me of the usage I made of my gym membership at uni
Argh at people saying £10K per Bong: each bonging event was probably multiple bongs.
Let’s assume an average of 6.5 bongs each so 65 bongs overall.
A bargain at £1,538 per boooooong!
Bargain!!!
At least three of those was new years….how much was spent on fireworks that lasted one event wouldn’t surprise if that was 100k per event
So £500 to hire someone to do a good recording and tweak the recording in a studio. Then 3 days hire of a big pa speaker, an amp and something to play the file on maybe £5k, then another £2500 for an engineer to press play and people to set it up. And £92k in donations to the conservative party to get the contract.
The maths work out perfectly.
This is simply not true.
The bonging mechanism cost £3000 while £97,000 disappeared into Tory chums pockets along the way
A striking mechanism? Sounds like a bloke with a hammer to me. I know they took the clock away to clean it with an interdental brush, but the bell clapper stayed. A bit of rope would have been sufficient to bong it.
10k per ‘bong’ and the equipment isn’t needed anymore but is owned.
Far better, more traditional, generally fun to pay a team of 10 people £1k each to stand in the tower and manually ‘bong’ them on 33 different days.
Just like this government – taxes wasted on a bunch of DONGS
Just me or £100k sounds cheap for this Gov
Whoever made it could have charged £100mil and they would pay it
I think we should still be more mad about the billions spent on apps that dont work and ppe unfit for purpose, mp pay raises mixed with an increase in prices for everything and NI