Relevant to this discussion is that the increase in public sector spending on pensions increased by £17bn from 22/23 to 23/24: www.statista.com/statistics/298907/united-kingdom-uk-public-sector-expenditure-pensions/#:~:text=The%20government%20of%20the%20United,in%20the%20previous%20financial%20year.
And that's going to keep going up and up. Unlike covid which was, at least, a one off.
I've only read coverage of the reports publication, not the publication of the report itself. It seems that they were highlighting only the most egregious cases where multiple red flags pointing to clear justifiable and obvious concerns about corruption existed.
Are you familiar with the phrase 'tip of the iceberg'?
There is a difference to spending on income to members of society, which largely goes back into the economy, than to giving connected parties on excessively profitable contracts scrutiny free deregulated permission to not really deliver, and cream off big profits. Which largely go to the cayman islands.
I'm just glad we have all those PFI contracts and the privatisation of services within the NHS. No corruption to see there, or in what followed. We aren't some country of watermelon smiles and piccaninnies, we are Great Britain, with great British honesty.
When the mighty fall, scavengers hunt.
Good to see the unions taring lumps out the Government about not looking after rich old folk, did they not get the memo they are no longer on a war footing?
They've gone too far, got corrupt and shiftless, and now the Japanese will eat us alive.
I see that the former prime minister took the time at prime ministers questions, ahead of everything else, to say that he was sure that the thoughts of the entire nation are with the princess of wales on completing her cancer treatment.
No comment on the thousands of cancer sufferers struggling to get timely diagnosis or treatment as a result of his governments demolition of universal healthcare. Nor any comment on the suggestion of his government that treatment of cancer should be removed from NHS treatments. The massive fucking hypocrite.
Weird, fucked up little country....etc. and so on.
My and my mate Dobbin agree to all of this, it gets us right in the naviculars.
Katie Razzle reporting on the Hugh Edwards porn case
That occurred to me earlier, too, when I heard her introduced on Today this morning.
Researchers from Cambridge university can get fucked. If only metaphorically.
This never happened in Hull.
You really want to be first in that queue
If you've got day 3 ticket you're probably going to want your wellies on.
Still, glad to see a 21st century update on that dogger RC used to follow round Mansfield taking it to a younger audience.
It'll be a succession of the best 10 seconds of her life, I suspect.
I presume members get priority?
Think this ship might already have sailed.
