New Home For The Vbq.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48199355
Hopefully by 2025 there will be a major change of personel.

[New Judge]

//Legislation is being published to create an Olympics-style delivery body to oversee the project...//

That should turn out well. Perhaps My Lord Coe will put himself forward for the job.

[Gromit]

The repair work is likely to take between five and eight years longer than previously anticipated. And cost £4bn (bound to be higher).

Would it not be cheaper to sell the building, and let someone else waste £4bn and devolve to a smaller English Parliament in a more central English City like Birmingham or Manchester ?

[jno]

the Olympics did turn out well (despite NJ's numerous blood-curdling predictions at the time), the main problems being to do with ticketing and security, and afterwards with flogging off the main arena; these presumably won't be an issue with Richmond House.

[ToraToraTora]

TBF they should suspend parliament, they all want to be run by Barmpot and Junckett anyway, what's the point in having them?

[New Judge]

"...the Olympics did turn out well"

I suppose it depends on your interpretation. The issues you mention are among the reasons why I believe it did not. In particular the last one, which effectively gifted a new stadium to West Ham United and which denied the taxpayer of the "legacy" of a new national multi-purpose stadium as promised, adds quite a bit to making it unsuccessful in my book.

Anyway, all a bit academic. If we don't leave the EU properly, by the time the new facilities are completed there will be little need for a Parliament at Westminster. Better, then, to just throw a few Portakabins and Davlavs up on Horse Guards Parade until Parliament is dissolved for the final time. A developer can then turn the Palace of Westminster into something useful.

[Canary42]

No austerity there then - that's only for the plebs.

[Gromit]

When NI is inevitably acceded to the R.O.I. and IndyRef2 extracts Scotland from the Union, then Parliament could meet in the back room of a reasonably priced pub (one that doesn’t accept Credit Card payments).

[andy-hughes]

Gromit - // Would it not be cheaper to sell the building, and let someone else waste £4bn and devolve to a smaller English Parliament in a more central English City like Birmingham or Manchester ? //

It would, but that notion belongs in the same box as legalising heroin, banning alcohol, abandoning nuclear weapons, investing in anything long term that actually benefits the nation, that's the box labeled 'Election Suicide' and they keep it very well hidden.