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Chris's avatar

£700 per child's bike in Scotland three years ago? Good grief , over double what a decentish bike would cost in Halfords complete with after sales. Jaw dropping grift by someone there.

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Mark Baker's avatar

Why didn’t they just give each kid the money to buy a bike? Because they would mostly have spent it on something else. The horror.

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Jonathan Harston's avatar

Personal choice, horror! We can't have that. If I'd been given a free bicycle in my teens, I'd have sold it and bought a computer. I did actually do exactly that - somebody gave me a hifi record deck - I sold it to (add to my paper round money to) buy a computer.

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Chris's avatar

Or a voucher scheme if they had to would be better than what they came up with.

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Tim Worstall's avatar

Yep, direct supply is simply insane. Me, I do like the free spanners and directions to the dump solution.

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Chris's avatar

a bicycle scheme with free skills development!

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Paul Cassidy's avatar

Now let’s really drive the lefties wild by extending the principle to health and education! As of course we should.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown's avatar

I do think that those who state they cannot afford to live on their own finances should be allocated a bureuacrat who decides and purchases for them the things they decide they need.

Nothing would shrink welfarism quicker.

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Tim Worstall's avatar

Depends upon who is appointed the bureaucrat perhaps. If it were me, or you, then yes it would shrink....

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown's avatar

i think just abut anyone after a while in the job.

Especially those who like to pose as caring (who'd be attracted to this sort of job) are those with the most to hide, they'd be "PERFECT" for driving people back to self sufficiency.

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