£4bn to renovate the Houses of Parliament

[C00kiemonster]

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Really? You know it will cost more than that as I don't know a government project that came in on budget and time (I'm sure someone might).

Tidy it up, make it into a museum for democracy and spend a few £10's of millions on a new parliament, somewhere else. A building that is fit for purpose as the current one never will be.

£4bn feeds or houses a lot of people.

[Monty]

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[Kwacky]

There is no way on earth that they would consider building new premises for Parliament.

There's even less change they would consider 100 yards away from the centre of London.

[D41]

I agree. What that place, and others like it, bring in in tourism is incalculable. Which doesn't mean the work does not need doing, but it'd be akin to re-modeling the Tower Of London.

The flip side is that the money that would be spent doing the work is revenue that is going to be garnered whether or not it is spent on the HP.

[Monty]

Sell the lot off to Disney or Merlin Entertainments and more everyone up to Birmingham or Manchester. Well maybe not all of them!

[duke63]

When I saw the headline of no Parliament for 6 years I thought the Revolution had started.

[Rossgo]

It's part of our history I for one would like to see it carry on being part of our ways so spend the money if it is going to be fine for years to come BUT not yet hold off until our country gets sorted being outside of the EU.

[D41]

4 Squillion quid is chump change compared to housing the homeless, feeding the starving, etc.

And most homeless people don't actually mind being homeless....it's usually an indication of mental issues, substance/alcohol abuse, etc.....or all of them.

Where would you put them?? Everyone wants the best for them, and want them to be taken care of...but then the "Not in my backyard'/'It's someone else's problem"-mantra starts to kick in & nothing/very little gets done.