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I wonder just how much the government has wasted this year on crony payouts, unusuable PPE, failing test and trace, the original app, Brexit preparations, and so on. Shameful.

 

 

 

I wonder just how much the government has wasted this year on crony payouts, unusuable PPE, failing test and trace, the original app, Brexit preparations, and so on. Shameful.

 

It is a complete disgrace. Every fortnight I read about it in Private Eye and get angrier and angrier. This current government are the most brazenly corrupt and incompetent of my lifetime and I just feel so helpless.

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Well well — who would have thought this after he called foodbanks 'rather uplifting', or his comments about Grenfell victims. Truly the worst of a terrible bunch.

Edited December 17, 20204 yr by blacksquare

It is a complete disgrace. Every fortnight I read about it in Private Eye and get angrier and angrier. This current government are the most brazenly corrupt and incompetent of my lifetime and I just feel so helpless.

 

Surpisingly, the New York Times has just posted an article about this. When can we expect the mainstream UK press to do the same?

 

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Surpisingly, the New York Times has just posted an article about this. When can we expect the mainstream UK press to do the same?

 

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The Guardian has published a succession of articles about it. I assume Private Eye has been doing the same. Most other "news providers" seem to have been unable to find much space for it.

The Guardian has published a succession of articles about it. I assume Private Eye has been doing the same. Most other "news providers" seem to have been unable to find much space for it.

 

It's insane to me how this isn't an absolutely giant scandal.

 

 

It's insane to me how this isn't an absolutely giant scandal.

 

 

To be fair all Governments waste some money. Maybe Boris and Co. have wasted more on what may have seemed good ideas at the time. I'm sure they wouldn't have just wasted it on purpose though.

 

Households waste money too. Don't you ever regret buying something when you realise it wasn't really necessary?

Edited December 17, 20204 yr by CHRIS-TMAS

To be fair all Governments waste some money. Maybe Boris and Co. have wasted more on what may have seemed good ideas at the time. I'm sure they wouldn't have just wasted it on purpose though.

Don't be a fool.

Households waste money too. Don't you ever regret buying something when you realise it wasn't really necessary?

 

Yes, sometimes I buy a book that turns out to be quite dull. However, I'm yet to buy a yacht and then regret it.

 

There is no excuse for arguing over feeding children in poverty (amongst numerous other things) and then giving billions in contracts to your friends, or firms with history of fraud and tax evasion, or firms with no experience in supplying PPE.

Edited December 17, 20204 yr by blacksquare

To be fair all Governments waste some money. Maybe Boris and Co. have wasted more on what may have seemed good ideas at the time. I'm sure they wouldn't have just wasted it on purpose though.

 

Households waste money too. Don't you ever regret buying something when you realise it wasn't really necessary?

Don’t be so naive.

This continual comparison between the household budget and the budget of a nation state is completely ABSURD and ecomonically illiterate.

 

For a start my household cannot create money out of thin air.

For a start my household cannot create money out of thin air.

 

 

Neither can the Government. People ask why they don't just print more money to get us out of the current financial mess. This is the answer.

 

From Wiki: If governments print money to pay off the national debt, inflation could rise. This increase in inflation would reduce the value of bonds. ... If the government print too much money and inflation get out of hand, investors will not trust the government and it will be hard for the government to borrow anything at all.

Neither can the Government. People ask why they don't just print more money to get us out of the current financial mess. This is the answer.

 

From Wiki: If governments print money to pay off the national debt, inflation could rise. This increase in inflation would reduce the value of bonds. ... If the government print too much money and inflation get out of hand, investors will not trust the government and it will be hard for the government to borrow anything at all.

 

Yes they can, they've literally been doing it since the early 2010s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing

 

It boosts asset prices and generally makes the rich even richer, but they can and are doing so.

Neither can the Government. People ask why they don't just print more money to get us out of the current financial mess. This is the answer.

 

But they've been doing EXACTLY THAT for the last decade. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

At my work there's a food bank donations section - the first time we've had one in the 3+ years I've been here. A lot of families in the local area are struggling. I wish someone would slap that smug Jacob Rees Mogg. It angers me how out of touch and dismissive the conservatives are and try to spin things to make it seem like they've done nothing wrong. There's nothing political about UNICEF feeding children in the UK. Maybe if they payed more attention to the situation of everyday families and less attention to their donors and chums they would see that there's a lot wrong with the UK. Although given their track record, I very much doubt that will happen - epsecially given they refused to allow free school meals for children over half term a couple months ago.

 

I do hope this will be remembered and used against them in the next election.

To be fair all Governments waste some money. Maybe Boris and Co. have wasted more on what may have seemed good ideas at the time. I'm sure they wouldn't have just wasted it on purpose though.

 

Households waste money too. Don't you ever regret buying something when you realise it wasn't really necessary?

Aren't you all about "Brits first" when it comes to brexit but then it's "just a mistake anyone could make" that those same brits don't get fed when in poverty and not being able to buy their food. Worms for brains

But they've been doing EXACTLY THAT for the last decade. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

At my work there's a food bank donations section - the first time we've had one in the 3+ years I've been here. A lot of families in the local area are struggling. I wish someone would slap that smug Jacob Rees Mogg. It angers me how out of touch and dismissive the conservatives are and try to spin things to make it seem like they've done nothing wrong. There's nothing political about UNICEF feeding children in the UK. Maybe if they payed more attention to the situation of everyday families and less attention to their donors and chums they would see that there's a lot wrong with the UK. Although given their track record, I very much doubt that will happen - epsecially given they refused to allow free school meals for children over half term a couple months ago.

 

I do hope this will be remembered and used against them in the next election.

When a Labour government in the 1970s had to go to the IMF for a loan, I was a teenager. Now that I'm sixty, the Tories are still banging on about it and portraying it as a shameful episode in our history. This is every bit as bad, if not worse. The fact that one of the wealthiest countries in the world is receiving handouts from the UN is a scandalous result of government failure. Somehow, I don't expect the press to devote much space to this utter humiliation.

It's insane to me how this isn't an absolutely giant scandal.

 

You aren't going mad, the UK media really is this shit. If you don't mind making yourself very angry I'd heartily recommend a subscription to Private Eye.

You aren't going mad, the UK media really is this shit. If you don't mind making yourself very angry I'd heartily recommend a subscription to Private Eye.

 

Ha, I do read both Private Eye and Byline Times — and both infuriate me.

 

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Funny that.

 

Neither can the Government. People ask why they don't just print more money to get us out of the current financial mess. This is the answer.

 

From Wiki: If governments print money to pay off the national debt, inflation could rise. This increase in inflation would reduce the value of bonds. ... If the government print too much money and inflation get out of hand, investors will not trust the government and it will be hard for the government to borrow anything at all.

 

This is called Keynesianism and it created the Breton woods system which led to the biggest shift from wealthy to poor in history in the 20th century! How is this a bad thing??

To be fair all Governments waste some money. Maybe Boris and Co. have wasted more on what may have seemed good ideas at the time. I'm sure they wouldn't have just wasted it on purpose though.

 

Households waste money too. Don't you ever regret buying something when you realise it wasn't really necessary?

Yes all countries are up the creek, but not all countries are handing 9 figure contracts to their best friends wives sisters brother in law who they went to eton with but we’re two years below.

 

I’ve seen some side eying of Australian practices and for sure the Hungarians are enriching their pals but they’ve been doing that for years and by this point they’re basically the Tories role models. Add in Trumps america and that’s about it. A real superb bunch of folk for us to be in a super special club with