See how much money that useless prick Chris Grayling has wasted

[editor]

This fucker should be put in jail and all his assets sold.

Chris Grayling has so far wasted over 2.7 billion pounds of public money…
At least £500 million to sort out the mess he made when attempting to privatise the probation service (source: National Audit Office)
£33 million when sued by Eurotunnel over Seaborne Freight fiasco (source: The Guardian)
£38 million - cost to the economy in the north of England due to the rail chaos in July 2018 (source The London Economic)
£50,000 on the failed ‘lorry jam’ Brexit exercise in Kent (source: The Guardian)
£70,000 on failed attempt to ban books from prisons (source: The Independent)
£2 billion cost to taxpayers on the collapse of Virgin Trains east coast franchise (source The London Economic)
£15 million a year in additional costs to the Carillion contract to run facilities management in prisons (source The London Economic)
£5 million on ‘wasted rail fares’ for HS2 staff (source: Huffington Post)
£800,000 on consultants’ fees relating to Seaborne Freight contract (source: The Guardian)
£32 million of charges that were unlawfully collected - which the government were ordered to pay back (source The London Economic)
£23 million contract to develop a new generation of GPS tracking tags for dangerous offenders written off because the project proved “too challenging” (source The London Economic)
£60 million over the £130 million original budget on the electronic tagging programme - described by the PAC as a “catastrophic waste of public money” (source The London Economic)
It’s enough to pay the salary of 123,000 nurses, or 162,000 care workers for a whole year.

How much money has Chris Grayling wasted?

 

[maomao]

He tried to ban books from prisons? Wow.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

He's a cunt of the highest order. He should be in jail and his assets should be stripped. He will probably get a peerage and a couple of cosy directorships.

 

[Sprocket.]

He's a cunt of the highest order. He should be in jail and his assets should be stripped. He will probably get a peerage and a couple of cosy directorships.

He should be wearing a mask and a striped jumper the villainous bastard.

 

[skyscraper101]

Tosser.

 

[Chz]

I've never seen anyone fail as spectacularly upwards as hard as Grayling. I truly expect he'll be the next PM at this rate.

 

[emanymton]

I quite like this bit from the Guardian.

The fallout from the no-deal ferry debacle, which led to more calls than usual for Grayling’s resignation, may yet rumble on

Chris Grayling cancels ferry contracts at extra £50m cost to taxpayers

 

[Poi E]

Incredible that a Cambridge history grad made such a hash of things.

 

[brogdale]

59.6% of those voting in the 2017 GE in Epsom & Ewell voted for Grayling.
Occasionally I have to go there, (don't ask), and i find myself looking rather too intently at the people walking down the high street...thinking "really?' to myself.

 

[Poi E]

White guy blue badge job done.

 

[brogdale]

White guy blue badge job done.

Of course...but you know what I mean?

 

[Poi E]

I've had that feeling for about 40 odd years now

 

[treelover]

Interesting nothing about his time at the DWP, ATOS, etc.

 

[hash tag]

Grayling is in competition with Johnson to see who can waste the most money

Without compromising their bid for Tory party leadership.

 

[Poot]

He always looks so completely bungling that I imagine him stepping backwards without looking behind him and tripping over people who are shorter than him all the time. He strikes me as the type. Also, he's a cunt.

 

[Pickman's model]

He always looks so completely bungling that I imagine him stepping backwards without looking behind him and tripping over people who are shorter than him all the time. He strikes me as the type. Also, he's a cunt.

Perhaps he could go the way of King Henry of Jerusalem who, runciman says in his history of the crusades, stepped backwards through a window and plummeted to his death

 

[maomao]

59.6% of those voting in the 2017 GE in Epsom & Ewell voted for Grayling.
Occasionally I have to go there, (don't ask), and i find myself looking rather too intently at the people walking down the high street...thinking "really?' to myself.

On a 74% turnout as well. That's a lot of fucking arseholes.

 

[Poot]

Perhaps he could go the way of King Henry of Jerusalem who, runciman says in his history of the crusades, stepped backwards through a window and plummeted to his death

I mean, I'm definitely not saying that it's the worst thing that he does, just that I can definitely imagine his wife asking how his day was, and his response being something along the lines of 'not very well. I spaffed 23 million on shit ankle tags, then I tripped over my secretary and spilled my tea on a small child'.

 

[Ming]

If you accept the Tories see public money as a big bank to be robbed and the democratic system of checks and balances that reins them in is a bad thing (and undermining the public’s faith in it is a good thing so they become cynical and disengaged) then he’s actually incredibly good at his job. If you see things through that lens.

 

[brogdale]

Grayling cancels the ‘No-Deal’ ferry contracts?

So...’No-Deal’ it is, then?

 

[Pickman's model]

If you accept the Tories see public money as a big bank to be robbed and the democratic system of checks and balances that reins them in is a bad thing (and undermining the public’s faith in it is a good thing so they become cynical and disengaged) then he’s actually incredibly good at his job. If you see things through that lens.

What democratic system of checks and balances?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Grayling cancels the ‘No-Deal’ ferry contracts?

So...’No-Deal’ it is, then?

And to think my pitch for a 'no deal or no deal' TV show was so unceremoniously rejected

 

[Poi E]

A ferry good idea that you floated.

 

[Sasaferrato]

He tried to ban books from prisons? Wow.

Books were regarded as a conduit for contraband.

 

[MrSpikey]

Books were regarded as a conduit for contraband.

Grayling only tried to claim this was the motivation when the policy came under fire (despite a lack of evidence to support it).

The original justification was that a move to a new system of "incentives and earned privileges" would be undermined by the ability to receive "unearned" books from outside. I'm sure it was just coincidence that this move would also reduce overall operating costs.

 

[UrbaneFox]

He always looks so completely bungling that I imagine him stepping backwards without looking behind him and tripping over people who are shorter than him all the time. He strikes me as the type. Also, he's a cunt.

With a name like that, how could he be any other way?

 

[stavros]

How much money has Chris Grayling wasted?

Do such statistics exist for other holders of office? Johnson immediately springs to mind, with his garden bridge, airport studies, water cannons and cowardly flights to avoid votes. I concede that none of these will sum to the ten digit figures quoted for Grayling.

 

[Poi E]

The Tories created two thirds of the UK’s national debt

 

[skyscraper101]

Offender supervision to be renationalised

It reverses changes made in 2014 by then Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.

The National Audit Office said problems with the part-privatisation had cost taxpayers nearly £500m.

Dickhead.

 

[Sprocket.]

No doubt this will be rationalised as better than the utter chaos Labour would have mis-managed.

Grayling should be the first client of the renationalised service after he has served a long prison term.