Bottom Dollar

Just watched a BBC piece about a Panorama expose on care homes.

With another 'not acceptable'/'times are tight'/'Look into it' LGA spokesperson.

Sorry, but any senior public servant can't see the connection with always going for the lowest bid and a consequent potential for disaster needs firing.

It begs the question as to what any bidding process is for, and what it consumes in resources almost without point.

I believe that somewhere there is the golden-indexed person whose career and pension blossomed on the cost savings of considering ships such as HMS Sheffield didn't need fire-breaks in ducting.

Pay peanuts get monkeys? In the UK we seem to be paying through the nose for an entire troupe of shaved fat cats.

The only hope is one day they end up in the very facilities they have caused to flourish.

BBC - Britain's Homecare Scandal