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It isn’t his policy to expose such waste though. It’s his policy to define what constitutes waste - and to redirect what is ‘saved’ - to a place where as usual it is least needed.

This man has been a multimillionaire business owner for many years. For all of the fifteen years of the last government.

That last government wasted multiple billions. Literally threw money at people during Covid for things they had no qualification or experience to do and ended up not doing. Plus plenty of other examples.

Where was he then?

What are these things that are so wasteful now that weren’t before?

This is a guy jumping into bed with the likes of Farage when he was polar opposed to his policy not five years ago.

 

My second paragraph still stands.

 

It’s been an issue for decades. Government & Council wastage. Nothing new, but they get away with it……

 

If you believe this is a good faith effort to hold the government to account maybe, but I'd say that the fact he's starting with a post with so many inaccuracies and untruths show that isn't the case. The fact he's basing it upon an organisation that's already hurting people shows that isn't the case. He's not trying to be Ian Hislop and Private Eye, he's trying to muckrake and smear and attention seek to create enough public mistrust that people might consider voting for Reform.

 

We’ll talk about government spending stupid money how about spending £100 million pounds on a bat tunnel on the new HS2 railway line and apparently there are only around 20 bats.Story was on the news 2days ago

 

See also the post on here the other day that came from Charlotte Gill which was trying to blame the Labour government for wasting money on a grant that the Tories agreed in 2022. Or saying that repairs to a British embassy were a waste of money rather than a necessary expense.

 

All governments leak money, wherever you have a concentration of wealth, there will be waste. This was ably illustrated by the previous Tory governments. Our financial problems are not created by the people at the bottom of the pile, ie people on benefits, not even the benefit fraudsters. Sure there is money wasted there but the amounts are dwarfed by the billions we lose through tax evasion and "tax avoidance" by the wealthy (the "farmer" Jeremy Clarkson for example). Not to mention the billions that went AWOL during COVID - don't get me started on the £37 BILLION we gave Dido Harding for Test, Track and Trace.

 

To add, he's planning to hold off on marrying her to avoid having to pay tax on his 'investment' in her 'business.'

Same ilk as Oakeshott and the Pimlico Plumbers owner. Dodge tax and leave the country while pretending to be a crusader for downtrodden brits.

 

The guy who scammed people of their money by issuing lower preference shares to unsuspecting customers?
The guy who likes to be "hands on" with his inappropriate behavior?
The guy who lied about planting trees?
The guy who launched a beer called "speedball" that was described on the can as a "class A ale"?

That guy?

Yeah, no thanks.

 

Meanwhile NHS waiting lists fell for the fourth consecutive month.

 

TBF, the testing part of test, track and trace was expensive - but not to £37bn expensive.

IIRC more money is not paid out to people that qualify for benefits but haven't applied than is given out in benefit fraud.

 

Nothing to do with the actual testing, only for the computer system and mobile app used to alert people etc. Don't forget that Germany had such a system already which they offered to let us have for £1 million. "But but, Brexit, er Europe, er no thanks, we'll develop our own world beating system".

The actual testing was just part of the NHS (developed by the likes of Astra Zenica etc).

 

I wonder if one of his efficiency suggestions will be to reject marketing concepts from agencies only to then steal them without paying them, like Brewdog did with Punk AF?

There's a recent episode of the Rest is Entertainment which is about his weird narcissistic PR drive, and that was recorded before this nonsense.

He's a Nimitz class bellend.

 

Yes he exaggerated hundreds of thousands, since the budget Sainsbury's, Asda, Tesco all announced job losses to save money. Sainsbury's shut all there cafes, many banks made cuts, pubs are shutting left right and center and the sector I work in seems to be quieter even for this time of year. So for the party for the working people not great the figure is probably tens of thousands rather than hundreds.

Yes the economy grew by a small fraction, there's abit of a write up on it still a grim read
https://news.sky.com/story/economy-...d-of-2024-but-recession-risk-remains-13307794

Don't know the bloke, hardly drink never touched his drinks in my life. But if you think the state of the country is looking good at the minute I can't agree.

 

All these things you've quoted would have happened anyway. The country's f***ed due to years of government incompetence, 6 or 7 months of a new government isn't going to change things.

 

I think the cuts in jobs are due to the hike in employers national insurance and the budget. But it's pointless debating I'll agree it would have happened any way it was all the tories fault.

 

The supermarket job cuts are due to management greed, they can easily afford any NI increases.

 

Banks and big businesses don’t exist to serve the customer. They exist to make as much money out of the customer as possible.

I’ve been fortunate (or unfortunate) to get close to some people at the very top in my career. The crap you read about ‘customer care and ‘customers being at the heart of what we do is written’ by people like me. They don’t give a toss about the customer. In fact customers were often referred to as ‘pond life’ or ‘the great unwashed.’

They could have absorbed the rise in NI. But that would hit profits and that will never be allowed.

 

That is true the aim of any business is to maximise profits, to your small pubs who were already just about surviving the rise in wages and n.i will be the straw that breaks the camels back for many. More profitable to have a hmo there instead.