OK, so the report shows that it was all avoidable.
This summer’s outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which has cost the country
almost £50 million, could have been avoided if £50,000 had been spent on
repairs to a leaking pipe.
It has also emerged that officials at the Department for the Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs knew about the poor state of the drains at the Pirbright
research laboratory site in Surrey four years ago.
The State has, over that four year period, managed to get through some £ 2 trillion of our money (yes, really, £2 trillion). They failed to find 0.000000025% of that sum to do something as simple as making sure they weren’t poisoning the surrounding countryside. Even when they knew about it.
Hilary Benn, the Rural Affairs Secretary, made clear however that no
official would face disciplinary action.
So that’s all right then.
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