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Title: Too much government?? Post by: grahame on October 05, 2015, 17:10:57 Quote Network Rail have officially breached its own licence by failing to deliver the huge Great Western mainline electrification project ^ the railway's ombudsman has ruled. The Office of Rail and Road, which is the Government's transport authority, has found a 'series of issues' with the huge ^1.7 billion project, and the delays and problems are so bad, it says Network Rail has breached the licence given to it by the Government to run Britain's rail network. Read more: Western Daily Press (http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Network-Rail-breached-licence-Great-Western/story-27924115-detail/story.html) So the government has granted the government (Network Rail) a license, but the government (Office of Rail and Road) says that the government (Network Rail) has breeched that license. What will the government do about this, and will any fines or other penalties imposed on the government be paid to the government? Title: Re: Too much government?? Post by: SandTEngineer on October 05, 2015, 18:30:48 Well it often quoted that NR is totally staffed by Bullsh*ters and Accountants so what goes round comes round......... ::) :P
Title: Re: Too much government?? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on October 05, 2015, 21:35:23 It reads rather like the script for a particularly hilarious episode of the much-missed classic television comedy series, "Yes, Minister (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister)". ::) :D ;D
Title: Re: Too much government?? Post by: Bmblbzzz on October 05, 2015, 21:47:30 OT, but does anyone else find the first sentence in that quote grates grammatically? I'm quite happy with either singular or plural verbs for collective nouns, but if you go with "have" it clashes horribly to then use "its own".
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