Letters / Must be corruption
We hear regularly that China and Russia have serious corruption problems and that this significantly increases costs.
Indeed in both countries people are regularly imprisoned (in China’s case dissected) for corruption.
In Britain nobody ever gets arrested for fraud. Occasionally they are allowed to resign.
In the case of Muir Russell, who took the blame for “concealing” from the politicians the fact that the Scottish Parliament building was exceeding its promised cost of £40 million, he got a string of lucrative government jobs, including certifying that nothing fraudulent happened in Climategate.
In China a mile of road costs £900,000, in Russia £7 million. The Aberdeen bypass cost £23.3 million and this is typical of Scottish projects.
One obvious explanation for this is that our politicians and bureaucrats are far more corrupt than any in Russia or China.
If there is another then no doubt every Holyrood politician and every journalist whose job is allegedly to report the news, will be able to say what it is. So far none have been willing to.
If not perhaps there is some ordinary reader, or one of these regular letter writers paid by government or government funded charities, who will be able to do so.
Neil Craig
Secretary
UKIP
Glasgow Branch
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