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Originally Posted by Gayle
Just a thought though - the money that was 'wasted', what was it actually spent on?
Hardware - possibly bought from a local supplier
Software - probably a national one, so we'll gloss over this one
Staff wages - all local people which means that people were paid a wage and it was spent in local shops in the local economy
I'm not trying to justify it, because I don't think there's any doubt that it didn't work, but just trying to play devils advocate and look at how 'wasted' money, isn't actually as 'wasted' as you might think. Some people who live locally earned money, which put bread on their table and clothes on their back.
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It's 'wasted' period, if it didn't fulfill it's brief, provinding a community website for Hyndburn, and never got off the ground because of the apathy of our council.
£591,000.00 would provide an awful lot of bread, on even the greediest of glutton's table.
It would be interesting to see an actual breakdown of where the money was spent, by whom, and on what.
You never know, perhaps an enterprising youngster, with an interest in local politics, might helpfully use the Freedom of Information Act to find out the actual spending details.