Where has the money gone?

Michelle Mone has had quite a chunk hasn't she?

Not to say the money was always spent wisely, competently or effectively but the money had to be raised from somewhere

Does this include the dosh that the criminal fraudsters in whitehall passed under the table to their mates for duff merchandise?

Witzend

I can’t remember the details, but recently I read a piece about what the writer evidently thought is a hugely bloated civil service* with masses of CSs on £100k plus salaries, and presumably pensions to match.

*Especially when compared to its efficiency, was the tone of the piece. It was in the Times or the Sunday Times, can’t remember though.

So that’d be at least one drop in the squillion quid ocean.

Telegraph says
'2,050 mandarins now take home six-figure salaries'
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/08/09/rise-in-senior-civil-service-whitehall-pay-freeze/

I am absolutely not an apologist for the government and the tories but getting through Covid cost a fortune. Support for businesses, for employees, PPE (that's a whole different discussion), development of the vaccine, loss of income through lost revenue in taxes, and so the list goes on. Not to say the money was always spent wisely, competently or effectively but the money had to be raised from somewhere.

Pandemic/Ukraine plus energy crisis/Brexit/transition to net zero etc

Furlough wasn’t a cheap exercise neither was subsidising energy bills over the winter months.

I can’t remember the details, but recently I read a piece about what the writer evidently thought is a hugely bloated civil service* with masses of CSs on £100k plus salaries, and presumably pensions to match.

*Especially when compared to its efficiency, was the tone of the piece. It was in the Times or the Sunday Times, can’t remember though.

So that’d be at least one drop in the squillion quid ocean.

I’ve thought this for a long time!

MaizieD
Yes, where has the money gone.
Is nobody talking about it. I’m going to search and see if anyone is. Crafty bastards.