£37 billion - the cost of failed test and trace

[SirGalahad]

It is not the govts fault if awkward misconformist people like you take every opportunity to throw a spanner in the works.

The same Government that j

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.

So don't hold anyone to account?

Might as well give up then and turn the lights out.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Maybe we shouldn't select leaders whose main skill is chortling, lying, and trying to illegally prorogue Parliament.

He lied again in Parliament at PM's Q

Boris Johnson has refused to apologise after falsely claiming Labour voted against a pay rise for nurses.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...r-nurses-pay-rise_uk_6048b392c5b65bed87d7622e

Boris Johnson has refused to apologise for falsely accusing Labour
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/br...johnson-caught-lying-allegra-stratton-7818496​

I can now see why he's a favourite among some posters on here.

 

[JohnD]

"England’s £23bn test and trace programme condemned by MPs

‘Unimaginable’ level of spending made no ‘measurable difference’ to spread of virus, report finds"

https://www.ft.com/content/9948d23a...egmentId=b0d7e653-3467-12ab-c0f0-77e4424cdb4c

"England’s test and trace programme failed to make a “measurable difference” to the spread of the pandemic despite an outlay of £23bn, an “unimaginable” level of expenditure, a parliamentary spending watchdog has claimed.

Meg Hillier, chairman of the House of Commons public accounts committee, said the test and trace programme had cost the equivalent to the annual budget of the Department for Transport."

Money spaffed up the wall, as Boris likes to say.

In other news, Dominic Cummings was given a 40% payrise, but nurses will only get 1%, says Boris.