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Old June 9th 12, 09:15 AM
Robin9 Robin9 is offline
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Originally Posted by Bruce[_2_] View Post
Instead of making money for Britain, the whole shebang is going to
cost British taxpayers many billions of pounds. The original estimate
was a total cost of £2.4 billion. That isn't even going to pay for
security. The expected total cost is now in the region of £28 billion
and may rise even further.
I share your dislike of the way the British taxpayer has been misinformed and exploited but I'm surprised at your figure of £ 28 billion. How did you arrive at that sum?