11-25-2018, 09:41 AM
(11-25-2018, 04:14 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Even spending $1.2 Billion not building a road. Top Bloke.
Just on that, i heard him address this on the radio last week.
The day after he got in he was shown the contracts for that. It was a crock of shi*. It wasn't going to cost $5-6 billion or whatever it was suggested, it was going to cost $20billion+.
So he was faced with a dilemma. Build something that the other mob sorted out, and cop all of the flack from the overspend that comes with it. At the same time eating into all the money he was going to use to fulfill everything he promised (rail crossing removal, mernda train line etc)
or
Bite the bullet, pay out the $1bil and do what he said he was going to do.
If i was in his position, i would've done the same thing.
Of course as soon as he ripped up the contract the libs got stuck into him, the whole time knowing that they screwed him over and he was damned if he built it or not.