Someone out there.......
Someone out there is £1 billion better off, and you gave them the money for free.
To be completely accurate quite a few people are sharing £1.08 billion and you gave it to them for free.
That is the amount of error and fraud committed during lockdown by those getting covid grants from the government, so far only 1% has been recovered. That is partly because of the inept chaos that surrounded the handing out of vast amounts of tax payers money plus the fact it was done through local councils. They are now charged with getting it back but then have to hand it all over to the Treasury. So they have no incentive to do anything at all.
Meanwhile crooks, chancers, con artists and completely callous company bosses are sitting on a billion quid of our money and laughing.
The obvious solution is to give them a month to pay it back and then prosecute ten high profile cases immediately, the money would flood in. Or how about giving retired cops and accountants the names and addresses of suspects and 10% of any money they recover?
Ignoring fraud and theft on this scale is just not acceptable in a well run country, but then these spivs are keeping the money because they know this isn’t a well run country.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media