Rishi

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Originally Posted by life on mars

Well now they have a decision to make Boris , Rishi who is better option , or the dark horse Ben Wallace , none have legs like Angela though, so her legs get my vote this week in the world of serous politics and no policy , unless Rishi is hiding something under those tracky bottoms ?

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ffs You can't stop yourself can you?

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Originally Posted by JamesWales

Hate to change the back story and I know it's been a while since any other party had to actually govern and make real decisions UK wide, but it's not just "The Tories" that allow it of course. Multiple governments have. And my suspicion is that this is because removing it would lose the treasury more money.

I wouldn't take the loss of £7bn so lightly. What would you cut back on? Benefits? NHS? Education?

No easy decisions to make here, which I suppose is my point. These stories get spun with populist zeal, but the reality is quite different.

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Its funny how me simply mentioning the Tories can send you into a defensive tailspin. My point was that those two core sentiments don't match well. I think the UK is a pretty good place to live and therefore I don't think billionaire Non Dom's would all flock to the exits if asked to pay tax.

Besides the point really, society needs an underlying sense of fairness to hold it together. We can keep pushing, taking from working people while extending tax cuts to billionaires and propping up failing toxic businesses in the form of corporate welfare but at some point, the elastic will snap.

It isn't populist zeal to ask how it is sustainable for wealth to become more and more concentrated. Now, people don't care as long as they feel wealthier themselves, but once they don't and haven't for a while, we don't really know what happens then.

Or don't worry about any of that and simply fill that 7 billion gap by chasing down the taxpayer money stolen through covid fraud.

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Originally Posted by JamesWales

No, that oft-quoted piece of misinformation has been debunked numerous times
https://fullfact.org/online/track-an...-project-cost/
https://fullfact.org/health/nhs-test-and-trace-cost/
https://fullfact.org/online/37bn-test-trace-spending/

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So, no doubt we’ll soon be hearing Tory bragging about how the world beating track and trace scheme came in under budget I suppose - the reason being of course that it was crap.

What the fact checker confirms though is that the underperforming track and trace scheme cost just short of twice that £7 billion in its first year of operation.