Defence spending has not been helped by the eye watering sums lost to fraud by the Tories
In 2020–21 alone, there were losses of between £33.2 billion and £58 billion to fraud and error unrelated to the ongoing pandemic.
Add the cost of fraudulent loans, unusable PPE, CORRUPTION
@AI_Pandorai Nice research, and well articulated. But doesn’t this Rosenblatt piece suggest that demand is going to outstrip everyone’s supply? Or, as mentioned in the SIVE Q&A, ‘there’s so much demand we don’t need to worry about competitors’.
@ChairmansLedger Hi. I noticed you held ASPI at the time I had just about given up on the stock - which maybe contributed to me giving it a little longer (so thanks!). I like its potential, but I still can’t decide if it’s a serious co. Is it a case of cutting a fledgling a little more slack?
Am not sure that stonewalling will work, for as long as there is no plausible explanation as to how Farage came by that £1.4m.
The secret Harbone donation, the Nathan Gill Russian bribery conviction - all point to need for more transparency than Farage has so far given.
Andy Burnham can apparently change Britain without reversing Brexit.
I’m afraid it’s yet another fantasy, and one that ironically hurts the people who hate Europe the most.
Politicians must stop pretending Brexit is compatible with a dynamic prosperous future.
It’s horseshit.
So it turns out we weren’t gaslighting ourselves after all. Turns out John McAndrew is a senior BBC executive who was appointed Director of News Programmes in 2022. He previously worked at the marketing arm of Reform UK, GB News as an editorial director.
I am at a loss to understand why the government has done nothing to reform @ofcom which is not fit for purpose and has allowed Farage UK to have its own TV news channel; nothing to push back on the relentless bias and untruthfulness of most of our press; and nothing to respond to the capture of the BBC political coverage by the Gibb brigade.
@EspressoLucid@iAmJoshHunt If you think Reform is the answer, I’d be very interested in your reasoning - beyond the ‘well, they’ve never actually been in no. 10 so we can’t say they’d be as disastrous, corrupt and incompetent as they’ve been in local government..’ argument you seem to be suggesting..
Who among us has not used a trust in Jersey, three shell companies and a pension investment vehicle to reduce our tax burden by a mid-six-figure sum?
Not Angela Rayner, who Dickie Tice vigorously demanded her resignation.