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Just how much taxpayers money have the Tories wasted

(41 Posts)
Oreo Fri 15-Mar-24 17:31:14

Cossy

Jackiest

Has it really been wasted. I thought it had been given to the poor people and companies that had given large sums of their hard earned money to Tory Party funds.

Is that some form of humour?

Can you really not see that it is?

MadeInYorkshire Fri 15-Mar-24 17:29:15

Freya5

Cossy

You’ve also got to add in payments to France to “stop the boats!)

Yes well France are on to a good thing there. See they're not complaining.

Just like Rwanda, they must be laughing their heads off! We are an utter embarrassment now, and I for one am no longer 'proud to be British'.

JenniferEccles Fri 15-Mar-24 17:20:14

Interestingly the EU, also swamped with illegal migration, is exploring a Rwanda style solution to the problem facing the whole of Europe.

I have said all along that coping with the ever increasing influx of migrants is something every country involved has to deal with.

I don’t know any more than anyone else if the Rwanda plan will work as a deterrent, but at least the Tories are trying to do something.

Be under no illusion, immigration will soar under Starmer, and then heaven helps us.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 15-Mar-24 11:25:03

I see that they have awarded themselves an above inflation pay rise.

Worth every penny!

Cossy Fri 15-Mar-24 11:07:19

Grantanow

Add on the vast sums wasted during COVID on inadequate PPE and unrecovered losses due to fraud, not to mention the so-called Nightingale units which for the most part could not be staffed.

Goodness, I’d forgotten about those units!

Cossy Fri 15-Mar-24 11:06:42

Freya5 Neither would I complain grin

Freya5 Fri 15-Mar-24 10:57:00

Cossy

You’ve also got to add in payments to France to “stop the boats!)

Yes well France are on to a good thing there. See they're not complaining.

Cossy Fri 15-Mar-24 10:24:03

You’ve also got to add in payments to France to “stop the boats!)

Grantanow Fri 15-Mar-24 10:22:30

Add on the vast sums wasted during COVID on inadequate PPE and unrecovered losses due to fraud, not to mention the so-called Nightingale units which for the most part could not be staffed.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 12-Mar-24 10:20:22

So what would £100 billion that was simply thrown away get us?

A new average sized hospital would cost approx. £500 million.

£12 billion to fix all the potholes.

£150 million to fix schools.

Or we could fix the sewerage system.

What a difference it would have made if we’d had a government that cared about the country rather than lining their own pockets.

NanaBabs1 Tue 12-Mar-24 09:17:10

It seems fairly obvious to me that it is, indeed, humour!

Cossy Tue 12-Mar-24 09:03:45

Jackiest

Has it really been wasted. I thought it had been given to the poor people and companies that had given large sums of their hard earned money to Tory Party funds.

Is that some form of humour?

Jackiest Tue 12-Mar-24 08:55:44

Has it really been wasted. I thought it had been given to the poor people and companies that had given large sums of their hard earned money to Tory Party funds.

AGAA4 Tue 12-Mar-24 08:43:00

It is very wrong when people are struggling to pay for the basic necessities of life that huge amounts of money have been wasted on unnecessary schemes.

Charleygirl5 Tue 12-Mar-24 08:34:12

Was it Jeremy Hunt who spent £44,000 on a new loo and whb at the House of Commons? Unbelievably wasteful.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 12-Mar-24 08:28:47

That latest is £500 million on the ridiculous Rwanda scheme.

Everything you look at is money gone down the drain because of the Tories economic uselessness.

HS2

PPE

A report by Best for Britain estimated that they have wasted north of £99.4 billion pounds - just since 2019.

We can no longer afford the Tories - no wonder our country is looking shabbier by the day.