At least DeLorean produced a decent car with the money. British Leyland produced......... the Maestro Stuart 16686 --- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "claire_usher71" <claire@xxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I dont know about you, but I get really fed up at shows of people > going on about the amount of money the government of the time poured > into to DeLorean project and trying to justify the cars existence. > > I often quote 'and what about British Leyland' when people say this, > but I've done some research this afternoon and come up with the > following which you can feel free to quote when you get jibes about > taxpayers money: > > Railtrack - £2 billion + > > Channel Tunnel and Rail-link - £9 billion + > > Millennium Dome - £940 million > > British Aerospace - £500 million > > I'm sure there are plenty more, but it doesnt make the money invested > into DeLorean look too significant now, does it? > > Smug Claire > #2292 'Flopsy'