This is one I am keen to see come to fruition. These thieving scumbags need brought to justice. I love the angle of looking into the way the funds of the HS2 are being dispensed since its shutdown announcement.
Credit to Phil Moorhouse on this one.
I would vote for them for just this one thing, it’s music to my ears.
We should also publicly name and shame any British resident people who decided, during an international crisis with so many deaths, to decide to make a profit from it. I don’t care whether it was a scam or a “genuine” transaction they should’ve done it at cost for no profit, especially if their normal business was doing fine.
Are you reading this Michelle Mone?
This is an genius pledge. When have you witnessed the British state act swiftly and thoroughly on anything? Blair Brown years or other. Keir can promise this and win votes but he doesn’t actually have to reclaim a single penny. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this will claim back exactly nothing. And to avoid doubt I don’t think they should get away with it. Absolute scum they are. I just have no faith in the machinery of government to get this done.
Also, absolute gas if the Tories turn this around and pledge “The lefty liberal Labour party want to take away your COVID benefits, only the Conservatives can stop them”. I half expect Braverman to come out and say this.
I think Phil Moorhouse nailed it when he stated that the HS2 inquiry will stop the Tories selling the Land off to their mates. Who would want to buy this on a nudge and a wink knowing full well that it is going to be investigated for fraud.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A recent report by Transparency International UK says that a fifth of the Covid contracts awarded by the government contained red flags indicating possible corruption.
It is also well known that close contacts of Tory politicians made immense profits through this crisis, while the rest of the country suffered sickness, deaths and economic pain.
The New York Times analysed 1,200 contracts worth nearly $22bn and found that roughly half went to companies run by friends and associates of Conservative party politicians, or with no experience in that area.
Conservative peer Theodore Agnew, former minister of state at the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury, quit in January 2022 in protest at Sunak’s failure to tackle massive fraud during the Covid pandemic.
Its annual report points to the British Virgin Islands as the overseas territory of choice for those setting up companies to hide the proceeds of corruption.
Digging deeper into the process of fraud will help us reform the system and clean up public life and contract procurement – an area where corruption surely exists beyond just Covid issues.
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Great. But this money will last weeks. It’s not an alternative to taxing the rich.
National audit office said there is as much as £58.8b lost to fraud during Covid. Labour’s estimate were very conservative.
