£37 billion - the cost of failed test and trace

SirGalahad said:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-test-trace-dido-harding-report-b1814714.html

Dido Harding’s test and trace system has swallowed up “unimaginable” amounts of taxpayers’ money with no evidence of any measurable difference on the progress of the coronavirus pandemic, a scathing report by a Westminster spending watchdog has found.

The report said NHS test and trace must “wean itself off” its reliance on private-sector consultants, after figures showed it was still employing around 2,500 in early February on an estimated daily rate of £1,100 a head – with the highest-paid individual costing taxpayers £6,624 a day.

:mrgreen:

Open up your wallets.
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Think we need to add the cost of all the pointless nightingales onto that don’t we seeing as they have started pulling them down.
Will be an interesting figure ,the cost of all this pointless,rubbish when it’s all been added up.
But still the sheeple will never learn.
 
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EddieM said:
I suppose it's not been tried before, as something that wasn't mandatory it would have been difficult to predict the take up rate, but the same has applied to most if not all countries where it's not been effectively mandatory.
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It doesn't work in the UK, it's unnecessary, and it is a scam...

That's not a 'prediction', that's the reality!

And will we get a list of those 'consultants' paid over £6k a day? :rolleyes:
 
"The two top executives at Serco, one of the companies behind the government’s much-criticised £37bn test-and-trace scheme, were handed pay of £7.4m for 2020, including bonuses worth £5.5m.
The chief executive, Rupert Soames, and chief financial officer, Angus Cockburn, picked up the pay packets in a combination of cash and shares for the 12 months to the end of last year."

I wonder who the CEO is related to?

Oh that's right, his brother...

'Sir' Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames

Tory MP up until 2019...

A brother who is a close friend of Prince Charles and a critic of Diana...

Soames also said "When Diana first accused the Prince of Wales of adultery with Camilla Parker Bowles, he told the BBC that the accusation, and Diana's fear of being slandered by her husband's courtiers, stemmed merely from Diana's mental illness, and "the advanced stages of paranoia"

Nothing changes does it!
 
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Some of these consultants were on or are on 6 grand a day

NASA only ?? Had a budget of 2 billion to build and send this space craft to Mars
 
Be fair.

The NASA project did not select its suppliers, without open tender, from chums, donors and neighbours of Tory ministers.

"Under the cover of an emergency, the government awarded £18bn in coronavirus-related contracts during the first six months of the pandemic, most with no competitive tendering processes. Meanwhile contracts totalling £1.5bn have gone to companies with connections to the Conservative party. Call it a “chumocracy” or straightforward incompetence: it’s clear there’s been a woeful lack of transparency when it comes to how taxpayers’ money is spent.

The more information we have about these contracts, the more complicated it becomes to piece them all together. As the junior health minister Lord Bethell recently told the House of Lords, the government relied on “informal arrangements” to fulfil urgent needs for PPE. One such informal arrangement was a phone call in April between Lord Bethell and Meller Designs, a company owned by a prominent Conservative party donor who has given more than £63,000 to the party. The company, which usually sells home and fashion accessories to retailers such as Marks & Spencer, was later awarded PPE contracts worth £163m.

This is by no means the only Covid contract with a whiff of cronyism about it. But it can be difficult to grasp the significance of these contracts unless you step back to see the bigger picture..."

...more

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/21/tories-covid-contracts-public-trust-government
 
Be that as it may but 2 billion for some thing that technical compared to 30 odd billion to phone some one up

jeez us :eek:
 
"Contracts were handed out to companies including a pest control business and a confectionary wholesaler. It would be tempting to root for this plucky band of misfits were it not for the fact that many companies with actual expertise in PPE offered help to the government during the early stage of the pandemic."


"...And in the scramble to acquire ventilators and face masks, ministers seem to have forgotten about another scarce commodity: trust. Unlike PPE, trust cannot be outsourced. It must be actively maintained through transparency and accountability."
 
Maybe we shouldn't select leaders whose main skill is chortling, lying, and trying to illegally prorogue Parliament.
 
JohnD said:
Maybe we shouldn't select leaders whose main skill is chortling, lying, and trying to illegally prorogue Parliament.
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we ?? Did not

when I ring my mother she asks me if there is some thing wrong with the bloke
 
We would have the same argument regardless of who was in power, it just be in a different dress.

This is politics and it's been the same since day dot.
 
Be fair, not all politicians are incompetent buffoons.




"On March 17, hospitals were ordered to start clearing beds of non-urgent cases to make way for the expected coronavirus influx. Up to 25,000 people were discharged into care homes at the height of the pandemic before the government started testing all patients entering care homes, not just those with symptoms. The seeding of the disease among Britain’s most vulnerable people remains a raw — and hotly contested — issue and will be a major focus of the eventual inquiry."


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...are-homes-test-cases-deaths-nao-a9562336.html

‘Residents and staff were an afterthought yet again: out of sight and out of mind, with devastating consequences’

"MPs from both parties condemned the findings from the National Audit Office (NAO), which also found that the government ignored calls in 2019 to stockpile personal protective equipment (PPE).

The NAO report established that, for an entire month, “medically fit” patients who did not display any Covid-19 symptoms were discharged without being tested. This policy, which sought to free up hospital beds for coronavirus patients, ran from 17 March and 15 April before it was changed.

“Due to government policy at the time, not all patients were tested for Covid-19 before discharge, with priority given to patients with respiratory illness or flu-like symptoms,” the watchdog said."

 
sxturbo said:
We would have the same argument regardless of who was in power, it just be in a different dress.

This is politics and it's been the same since day dot.
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In 2007, there was a foot-and-mouth outbreak. The Prime Minister of the time, who had gone on holiday the previous day, activated COBRA, held an emergency Cabinet Meeting by phone, returned to London and held another COBRA the following day. He chaired every single COBRA during the crisis.

Sound familiar?
 
"What makes the insiders’ account so devastating is that it chimes with everything everyone already knows about Boris Johnson’s character. An unnamed “senior adviser” to Downing Street “broke ranks” to say: “What you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends. It was like working for an old-fashioned chief executive in a local authority 20 years ago. There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared he would be.”

Exaggerated or not, hearing that the prime minister took two weeks’ holiday at Chevening as the virus began to spread in the UK will stick in the public memory. Nor will anyone forget his cheery 3 March boast that he was still shaking hands with virus-sufferers. Nor that he was at Twickenham for a crowded rugby match on 7 March. But above all, he missed not one but all of the first five Cobra meetings on the gathering crisis."

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...hnson-sunday-times-prime-minister-coronavirus

Boris, eh?
 
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