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21-10-21, 07:20 PM | #381 | |
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When they start being held accountable, planning ahead and starting to lead by example, is when the public think they might have a clue as to what they're actually doing and believe a word they say. Let's face it, if everyone (or even a majority, say 52%....) 'broke' lock down rules, including businesses there's not enough resources to hold people accountable - Police, Courts, Jails etc. There's not enough of them and a backlog to last for many years. |
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27-10-21, 08:17 AM | #382 |
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"NHS Test and Trace has cost taxpayers “eye-watering” sums of money and has not achieved its main objective of letting people return to a normal lives, a damning report by MPs has concluded."
Surprised? Of course not, Dido Harding had a history of failure, she had no business running T&T. Her husband, John Penrose advocated her for the position (he's in charge of monitoring corruption - don't laugh). He wanted the private sector to run T&T not the NHS (Serco ran it). He also defended cronyism... https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dar...ovid-cronyism/
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27-10-21, 10:26 PM | #383 | |
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28-10-21, 09:49 AM | #384 |
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lets put this 37Bn for Test and Trace into perspective.. Scotland's block grant for a year from Westminster is £32Bn. Scotland has to run a whole country with that money........
someone needs to be put in prison for a very long time. after all bozo could not even get funds to decorate No10 and they made a BIG fuss over that. so why not as much media cover for something as big as £37Bn. i personally think it was supposed to be £37m but someone had a sticky keyboard. |
29-10-21, 09:59 AM | #385 |
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It did strike me while listening o some of Mr.Sunak's much-leaked budget speech that the billion is the new million.
Not long ago it was pretty spectacular when the govt announced spending north of £100m on something, wow, where was all that money coming from? Now unless it's in the billions no-one even bats an eyelid. HS2 (which runs within half a mile of me) is going to cost well over £100bn, and just to put that into perspective that is £1500 for every man, woman, and child in the country. Track and trace is £500 for every single person. These truly are eye-watering sums. The Westminster clowns have lost all sense of reality. I'm afraid that the concept of holding anyone (individual or department etc) to account for what they're doing or not doing seems to have become an irrelevance. After all, no-one cares that political leaders are proven blatant liars, the flock will still vote for them, so why bother about anything else? "I have nothing but respect for them, and precious little of that."
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29-10-21, 04:25 PM | #386 |
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And what benefit will you get from HS2? The eastern leg is planned to run through Leicestershire. No stops until Nottinghamshire. (but if it is ever built I wont know I will be long gone) about 3 mile from here.
Why did we have Austerity? Bo Jo seems to find the money. (I know its not his) |
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30-10-21, 09:20 AM | #389 |
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Just ordered - will need something to read next week
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As the letter writer says - this will actually mean more privatisation as it allows the award of NHS contracts without due process and scrutiny. Sounds like legalising corruption to me ! So what can we do about it ? |
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