The millionaires and billionaires tripled their wealth. Politicians and their mates had a ball during the COVID era.
Soon2026 on
A lot of it was deliberate. Publican win contract because he knows someone, etc
Mammoth_Park7184 on
Tories causing public finances to get worse. I’m shocked.
Aggravating-Curve755 on
Yet they can’t find money to pay firemen their pensions
Important_Ruin on
Wonder how Tories will blame everyone but themselves for this.
They pissed £10bn of OUR money up the wall and nothing has been done about it and they are not being held to account for their absolute failures and complete disregard for public money, which is having to be recouped, along with Brexit blackhole which costs the country £90nn + a year along with huge hit to GDP.
Still want to know how Test and Trace cost £37bn and was ran from a bloody spreadsheet and what Dido Harding was doing, bigger than DoT budget.
Yet they think can be trusted to manage public finances when the put them into absolutle toilet and left it for next government to clear up and then cry about choices government are having to make after they ruined public finances after 14 years, the absolute ghaul of them.
BobMonkhaus on
And Mone is off living it up in Florida in her £10m home.
Jaded_Strain_3753 on
It’s tough because it was probably impossible to set up a scheme with appropriate checks quickly enough. Some amount of fraud was inevitable and the lesser evil than just letting a bunch of businesses collapse. What’s not acceptable is the failure to prosecute fraud where it occurred, and the low amount of money recovered.
Vespasians on
The Covid response cost the government between 310bn and 420bn.
10bn in fraud losses in such a climate is frankly not bad.
Monkeyboogaloo on
I felt like a mug after the extent of covid fraud came out. My business took a bounce back loan which is a debt which gets repaid.
Other people were getting loans for companies that weren’t even trading or claiming furlough for fake staff, or big companies took furlough for staff while reporting profits.
I followed the rules and struggled, other took the piss and thrived.
ddmf on
Just over £278 quid per taxpayer (10.9 billion / 39.1 million)
limeflavoured on
So about the same as 2 years worth of benefit fraud then, to put it in perspective
Flat-Struggle-155 on
People in their 60s say Labour can’t be trusted with the economy
People in their 30s say conservatives can’t be trusted with the economy
dja1000 on
The inflation was caused by the stealing, Ppe scandals and vote buying, furlough was the money given to us shut us up, stay home and spend, now the lenders want that money back and boy will we pay for decades.
Remember Labour encouraged this mess during Covid
ambiguousboner on
And no real consequences for the fraudsters
Mone should be spending the rest of her life in prison, ripping off a country during a pandemic is fucking treasonous
Thaiaaron on
We paid £24bn for track and trace app which was completely do-able using NHS databases and an tech from Lahore for £3m.
Never ever let the government tell you they need more money, it’s an absolute scam to keep taxes high to keep us poor.
jrob10997 on
Ok so what was fraud and what was errors
Erros can be forgiven as it was a new situation and everyone was scrambling
Fraud should be punished
smokedhaddie on
Almost as if the lockdowns and grants were a planned way to transfer wealth to the elites
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The millionaires and billionaires tripled their wealth. Politicians and their mates had a ball during the COVID era.
A lot of it was deliberate. Publican win contract because he knows someone, etc
Tories causing public finances to get worse. I’m shocked.
Yet they can’t find money to pay firemen their pensions
Wonder how Tories will blame everyone but themselves for this.
They pissed £10bn of OUR money up the wall and nothing has been done about it and they are not being held to account for their absolute failures and complete disregard for public money, which is having to be recouped, along with Brexit blackhole which costs the country £90nn + a year along with huge hit to GDP.
Still want to know how Test and Trace cost £37bn and was ran from a bloody spreadsheet and what Dido Harding was doing, bigger than DoT budget.
Yet they think can be trusted to manage public finances when the put them into absolutle toilet and left it for next government to clear up and then cry about choices government are having to make after they ruined public finances after 14 years, the absolute ghaul of them.
And Mone is off living it up in Florida in her £10m home.
It’s tough because it was probably impossible to set up a scheme with appropriate checks quickly enough. Some amount of fraud was inevitable and the lesser evil than just letting a bunch of businesses collapse. What’s not acceptable is the failure to prosecute fraud where it occurred, and the low amount of money recovered.
The Covid response cost the government between 310bn and 420bn.
10bn in fraud losses in such a climate is frankly not bad.
I felt like a mug after the extent of covid fraud came out. My business took a bounce back loan which is a debt which gets repaid.
Other people were getting loans for companies that weren’t even trading or claiming furlough for fake staff, or big companies took furlough for staff while reporting profits.
I followed the rules and struggled, other took the piss and thrived.
Just over £278 quid per taxpayer (10.9 billion / 39.1 million)
So about the same as 2 years worth of benefit fraud then, to put it in perspective
People in their 60s say Labour can’t be trusted with the economy
People in their 30s say conservatives can’t be trusted with the economy
The inflation was caused by the stealing, Ppe scandals and vote buying, furlough was the money given to us shut us up, stay home and spend, now the lenders want that money back and boy will we pay for decades.
Remember Labour encouraged this mess during Covid
And no real consequences for the fraudsters
Mone should be spending the rest of her life in prison, ripping off a country during a pandemic is fucking treasonous
We paid £24bn for track and trace app which was completely do-able using NHS databases and an tech from Lahore for £3m.
Never ever let the government tell you they need more money, it’s an absolute scam to keep taxes high to keep us poor.
Ok so what was fraud and what was errors
Erros can be forgiven as it was a new situation and everyone was scrambling
Fraud should be punished
Almost as if the lockdowns and grants were a planned way to transfer wealth to the elites