A failing #Brexit has so far cost us the equivalent of the total of every payment we've made, ever, to the EU, since we joined.
Some economic comparisons: (2)
A failed Track&Trace / Test&Trace has cost us the equivalent of four aircraft carriers.
Some economic comparisons: (3)
An already-failing #Moonshot#Vaccine scheme will cost more than our entire annual Education Budget and is based on technology that has yet to be invented.
Some economic comparisons:
For the money paid out for #Covid19#PPE that was unsuitable for use, out of date or just never arrived, we could have set up a nationwide network of 75 #Homelessness Shelters and funded them for ten years.
Some economic comparisons: (5)
For the cash paid out to #Serco (for which they delivered nothing of value) we could have set up a nationwide system of 25 alcohol and substance abuse treatment centres, instantly reducing crime and violence, and funded them for 8 years.
I'm sure there are more that come to mind. It seems many can't grasp the meaning of the large numbers unless you explicitly spell out what else it could have been used for.
Remember this when they say 'we can't afford' this, or that.
Note : The calculations regarding the cost of #Homelessness Shelters and Substance Abuse / Dependency Programs comes from my personal experience of being involved in both as a volunteer.
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Because we’re looking at the problem from the wrong end.
The small boats are not a crisis, only in that they add to the real problems:
- The rapidly growing shortage of hotels for asylum seekers;
- The interminably long delay for those people to have their applications processed.
Solve THOSE two problems … in an efficient, humane and legal manner … and the actual boats become a minor distraction, easily handled through a better process.
In addition, you solve the shortage of hotels … by solving the delays to processing of asylum applications.
By the way, in #London, The #ULEZ Expansion being implemented by Mayor Khan ...
... is by stipulation of the Tory Government in 2020.
1/3.
Precisely, by Transport Minister (at the time) Grant Shapps, to Sadiq Kjhan, 14/05/2022, Section 12, Part (h) .. as a part of the Central Government TFL Pricing Agreement.
2/3.
More precisely, this letter :
(This is why Shapps has been so silent on the matter)
So a Care ‘Charity’ set up by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had 1 employee, who not only had never worked in the arena, but was a former employee of Jeremy Hunt who resigned in disgrace, and who’s now re-employed by Jeremy Hunt, and received 2/3 of the charity’s income as salary.
In addition the ''charity' pledged to use donated funds to research and report on Patient Care.
Research completed : Unknown.
Reports published : Zero.
For a few weeks I have been evaluating @bikemap and @komoot as cycle mapping applications.
One or t’other, not both, would get my hard earned monthly fee.
Well, a decision has been made.
Actually, enforced upon me by an unethical business practice.
Having used both of the free versions, I had decided to go with @bikemap, until today when having not used the app for a couple of weeks I discovered something absolutely atrocious.
@jdpoc I created a number of routes on @bikemap, and followed them on the cycle for navigation purposes but I now find suddenly that that feature has been suddenly withdrawn.
THIS DAY in 1933, a refugee arrived at #Dover with a patchy work history and no ties to this country, fleeing oppression from the #Nazi regime who had burned his books and turned his home into a #Nazi Youth Centre.
The UK Authorities misplaced his papers.
His landing card - his only documentation at the time - was lost and only rediscovered in 2011.
The Daily Mail urged readers to boycott his lectures raising money for other refugees from the #Nazi regime.
Apparently he wasn't good enough, and didn't qualify for refugee status, him being only a Nobel Prize winning world-acclaimed scientist and renowned Professor.