Admiralty Arch sold for £60m - government ought to be able to waste that in a week

[rebel_with_a_cause]

Many site members wanted a Tory govt, this is what all politicians do.

Fixed that for you.

 

[Alec_Lomas]

an Admiralty Arch

Apparently it was one of fatboy Prescott's favourite sexual positions.

 

[PepperSeaDog]

Might we be able to afford a ship with this money?

 

[Markintime]

Apparently it was one of fatboy Prescott's favourite sexual positions.

Please, I shall be dining shortly!

 

[slipperman]

Apparently it was one of fatboy Prescott's favourite sexual positions.

Not a good image.

 

[rebel_with_a_cause]

Apparently it was one of fatboy Prescott's favourite sexual positions.

That was totally uncalled for.

Btw, are you up for a drink tomorrow?

 

[Travelgall]

If Pies Prescott has been banging his secretary there I reckon the government are well rid. Can you imagine the structural work that would be required to get it back up to code.

 

[Markintime]

If Pies Prescott has been banging his secretary there I reckon the government are well rid. Can you imagine the structural work that would be required to get it back up to code.

Waste of time the foundations will be shot.

 

[762baynet]

get it back up to code.

Code?

Building regs, surely....

 

[Fireplace]

I think it is time the Sandhurst was sold off and training moved to Brecon or Catterick. Naturally, the money raised from selling or leasing these buildings will be ploughed into the defence estates elsewhere.....?

Dreamer!

The Citadel (the concretey thing mercifully covered in creeper) is dead boring inside, just rooms and steel doors and artificial ventilation with punkah louvres on the trunking - a bit like a ship in fact.

Not unlike The Cabinet War Rooms then?

 

[Freddie010]

When I saw this I was automatically outraged! However given a minute to read the article it's only being leased for 125 years and it can't be changed into apartments or a home. So to be honest, who fucking cares it's not going to be knocked down or changed from the outside it's actually quite a good idea.

 

[Hootch]

If Pies Prescott has been banging his secretary there I reckon the government are well rid. Can you imagine the structural work that would be required to get it back up to code.

Should have given some thought to preserving it as a tourist attraction run by the London Dungeon company.

So let's sell of the Houses of Parliament - move the lot to porta-cabins in the Midlands, so they can be closer to the electorate and save on travel costs and have Aspire run the place.

Chequers, Chevening,Dorneywood, Hillsborough Castle - flog 'em all and turn them into Spearmint Rhinos or casinos..... would get a better quality of person through them.

1 June 2006 - "Provided government is sensibly run and sensibly managed, official residences are useful places," Lord Howe told the BBC News website.

Really Lord Howe?????

I heard some fool of a radio host going on this afternoon that it will now be "more accessible" - sure, if you are prepared to pay £10 for a pint to see the same grey and brown minimalist modern decor - I have not doubt that any internal fittings will be removed by the government or the new owners and it will be like a McDonalds inside by the time Sebastian the Interior Architect from Soho has finished with it !

 

[retread2]

Sacrilege! Wonder how long till Horseguards, Whitehall and other places are sold?

That'll be the Coca Cola Horseguards to you ...

 

[762baynet]

That'll be the Coca Cola Horseguards to you ...

I can envisage a day when they Army have to rent it when they need to use it. It would make a great truck park mind you.

 

[Freddie010]

Indeed.

 

[Goatman]

Sacrilege! Wonder how long till Horseguards, Whitehall and other places are sold?

The rot set in back in 1997, when the former White Star Steward /Deputy Prime Minister Two Jags ostentatiously put London homeless into it for a couple of weeks - then bagged it as his own HQ for the duration of his tenure.

This step is just another mark of the enduring spite towards the Armed Forces emanating from the Treasury.


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