I have just seen a news item on the NHS programme and what St Thomas' Hospital manager had to say for it after running over budget by £10m in that one hospital alone. Why when a government project runs over budget and/or over time do we hear those now all too common words "lessons have been learned"? We are talking about professional people that contract in yet more professional people in "Consultants" who are still seemingly on an apprenticeship as the are STILL "learning lessons".

Having worked as a consultant for Central and Local Government for 10 years my question must be........ are we seeing inept consultants ripping of the taxpayer or is it that there is so much bureaucracy, red tape and systematic lethargy within the central government that the Consultants simply cant get the job done?