wanderlust wrote:I know the apologists are out in force saying that it's not the government's fault that the less well off need to suffer like this but if the government didn't have to send
£8.7 Billion of misprocured PPE kit to be incinerated, pay the ongoing interest on the loans Sunak took out to buy it with, raised a windfall tax on the gas and oil companies who profiteered by huge price rises whilst their costs remained stable and recouped the >£12 billion of tax evaded by the superrich and abusers of the Covid grants scheme, there would be tons of money available to support the less well off to become more productive - which is an objective shared by all parties.
These heavily biased policies remind me of Ted Heath and bearing that in mind I'm wondering how public sector workers will react to what is essentially a 5 or 6% salary cut in a high inflation environment.
Difficult for doctors, nurses, the Police, the Fire service etc etc to take direct action I suppose - but equally these policies will make it harder to recruit new blood to these essential services, especially with the current immigration policies in place.
The plot thickens....
And you are supposed to be a self proclaimed Business Advisor???
Yeah right...!
You just trot out what you read from your social media 'filter bubble' group that you inhabit and where you and your fellow nutjobs filter out everything that doesn't confirm to your predetermined 'circular reasoning' bias!
Have you (or anyone else) asked yourselves why we have all this PPE stock in the first place?
Obviously not.
Do you think Boris or Hancock simply said buy PPE until we say stop?
Of course they didn't.
The experts (SAGE) would have determined a worse case scenario and on that basis stock was bought to deal with it. Could you imagine the outcry if it did turn out to be a worse case scenario we faced and Boris or Hancock had said, 'nah don't worry what the experts say we need, just get a few masks and gowns and we'll be reet'!
You'd have been the first on here demanding the lynching of all the Tory government, ffs!
And why have you deliberately used the completely misleading and inflammatory word 'misprocured' to the BBC link you posted - the article definitely does claim that - indeed the vast bulk of the loss was having to buy the PPE stocks at the top of the market prices - just like every other country in the world had to!
The rest of your diatribe is equally misleading bollocks, perhaps it would have been better not to give out any Covid loans and grants, then there would have been no abuse of them - nor very many companies surviving through Covid without going bust either!
You're just one dimension mate, you hate everything Tory with a vengeance - they can do nothing right as far as you (and plenty others too) are concerned.
No political party would have done much differently really - they all would order PPE to meet the worst case scenario as advised by SAGE, they would have to buy it at the peak prices charged at the time, they would have made sure via grants and loans, that the economy didn't collapse, they would all want to see tax evasion brought to a minimum as they can possibly manage too.
Do you think a Labour government would not be facing 6% inflation now if they had been in charge - of course they would - and do you think they would be giving the public sector a 6% pay rise to offset it - of course they bloody wouldn't!!!
As I say your blind hatred of the Tory party warps your ability to reason.
Little wonder why you spout it all on here so much as I doubt few if any in your real life puts up with your incessant rantings.
I don't blame them either.