This is your daily reminder that Germany 🇩🇪 which has 20 million more citizens than the UK spent less than 1 (one) Billion pounds on their Track and Trace system. And didn’t run out of money.
The Tories spent 37 Billion pounds and ran out of money.
It vanished in Tory companies
2/5 As a reminder: The total cost of running the state of the United Kingdom is 101 Billion pounds. The Tories intentionally spent 37 Billion pounds, more than a third of the total state budget on a failing system. It never worked properly. But they knew this. Some “consultants”
3/5 for Track+Trace earned thousands A DAY. (!)
Money had to be “burned”/ given to Tory Donors in the quickest , most wasteful ,ineffective way, so that that money -the absolutely UNBELIEVABLY AND RIDICULOUSLY HIGH SUM would be ready and waiting once the pandemic was over and
4/5 forgotten (hence freedom days/ lifting all measures ,bladibla. NOW all these Tory companies, be it Serco or the numerous Testing kit companies are READY. They have the profits. They can donate for the Next election in 2 years and make the Tories stay in power.
What is pretty
5/5 hilarious,I must say, is that they think we don’t comprehend the extend of their fraud.
We in the NHS for example , work with budgets all the time. We SEE absolutely clearly and super-precisely how these unimaginably high sums of money have been diverted.
You could have
6/6 Have REVOLUTIONISED the NHS and the Care system with that money. All looked after,waiting lists down, homeless off the streets.
But,no, it had to go in the maintenance of POWER, into the Tory Party wallet, into the Russian Company who installed the sound system in the PRESS
7/7 Briefing Room in 10 Downing Street, in unusable PPE by the BILLIONS, in Matt Hancock’s and the Home Secretaries Pals, to Tories who will,in the next two years,donate heavily to the Government Party for them to stay in power.
It’s always been like this: The Rich do nothing
8/8 and get richer and the Poor work until burnout (eg NHS staff) and get poorer.
-Sunak:
Tax relief for Banks
No extra Tax on Energy Companies
No help for unpaid carers
But:
rise in National Insurance
Rise in council tax
Rise in Food costs
Rise in Fuel costs
(5 pence relief
9/9 while it is going up by 5 pence every day
No pay increase for NHS STAFF above inflation (“recommended”is to keep it at a maximum of 3% (but costs are going up by 9%).
To betray the people of the UK for personal gain, for Party politics ,for power gain is unforgivable . They
10/10 are Traitors and Gaslighters, Thieves and Fraudsters.
We see them all.
Each of them.
And they think they’re so clever.
And yes,money counts in elections.Big time.
But who knows if one day,ONE DAY, people will turn to the streets.
11/ Update 10.39am: I am aware that some people have quite rightly pointed out that 37 Billion pounds was the budget and not the spending. The spending of T,T+T was more than 12 Billion in the first year alone however. Plus it was for TEST, Track and Trace ,not only T+T. I am
12/ sorry where I got some basics wrong with that. I am WELL aware it was T,T+T but in my rage about the Tories my main aim here is to point out and call out the (still) BILLIONS of pounds that have clearly been mismanaged by the Tories.
I give you another example: unusable PPE
13 / from the VIP lane had been stored in storage for £1 million pounds per DAY:
14/ Now I am asking those who have been so harsh in criticising me for my Tweet( only very few): what do you say to that?
Not worth pointing out just because as a busy NHS Nurse I don’t express everything 100%?
I have corrected that and i know T+T+T spending between countries
is at times tricky to compare.
But my pledge to you is see my intention:
To point out that these Tories are exploiting this countries tax money-
That YOU work for.
Remember the “middlemen”
Who got paid many millions for sourcing PPE for the Tories. That was not even
spent on PPE.
Meanwhile British companies would have been ready to deliver PPE but couldn’t get their through the Tory Ministers VIP lane.
Hopefully then you see the extend of Corruption of this government. No need
to shoot me down as Nurse etc. I am struggling to comprehend how the public still tolerates the Tories and is not our demonstrating.
Why I take all this so personally?
More than 180000 Covid deaths ,many avoidable .
More than 1500 NHS Staff dead as inappropriate PPE was
blocked byTory PPE VIP Lane.
As well as Tory-Brexit is covered up by pandemic and pandemic-Tory-disaster is covered up by Ukraine-War. By Tories.
It all works well for the Tories.
And I hate that.
Because I and many others ,NHS staff, rely on foodbanks for our friends and
families.
Add to this the NHS privatisation that’s currently happening.
Please support these guys and get information:
And finally:
The “Mini-Budget” by Sunak this week has highlighted all the failures and the disregard that the Tories have for the amazing people of the UK.
It will never help the current and the looming price increases enough.
Update 26 March 2022, 11.20am:
To complement what I said before:
-I have corrected the mistake that I didn’t include “Tracing” in the 37 Billion pounds, I do know and acknowledge that the costs of running the UK in total per year is higher than 101 Billion pounds. My stand is
-BILLIONS have been wasted
-Many tens of thousands have died of Covid unnecessarily
-Johnsons private messages on his phone “happen” to have disappeared now from the time of the VIP Lane ,hear hear.
-according to the @GoodLawProject M. Gove himself was involved
in helping Mates getting Millions out of contracts
-NHS staff DIED Because PPE from British Non-Tory Manufacturers didn’t reach them on time. Is that so difficult to understand? These were my COLLEAGUES and Friends and Neighbours. And for some these were the only ones they
loved in this world.
So I ask you again to accept my apologies that I got some numbers wrong at the beginning of this Thread 🧵.
And I say again:
(And this may wind the handful of you up who cannot follow me because I’ll block them because of their hatred):
Germany offered the
UK an Track and Trace system FOR FREE, but the UK government DECLINED this. Too much Pride.
Too much nationalism to accept help in a global pandemic.
Rather see the chance of giving Hundreds of Millions of pounds to Tory companies.
To those who have criticized that i question
the costs for Testing:
How comes companies who never produced test kits got contracts of > 100 million pounds and other companies who weren’t Tories never got a reply from the Department of Health?
It’s utter Corruption and that runs from Brexit to Pandemic to Russia
Err… yes, we couldn’t afford the Ryan Air flight to our families back home, many of my Nurse colleagues and I, since we can legally fly again. Oh yes,also due to the lovely Tory-company-Covid-Testing Costs.
Oh, that’s never been your problem?
Yes, I know.
And because you’re not
listening to us you got your “mini”-budget (not even!) so wrong.
You will never know or understand the anger that pictures like that one in my Tweet cause in me and all those who worry if the money is enough for bread this week (forget heating).
Glad to see you had someone
helping you carry your little fashion shopping bag from the Grand Range Rover to the Plane. Good to see our Tories get support.
PS: we Nurses are in debt and can’t afford the food we need for our families (forget traveling and seeing family elsewhere) .
Looked at an NHS net income calculator:
Saw how much National Insurance I’ll have to pay.
Passed the service station:
Saw the fuel prices.
Glanced at the gas+electricity bill.
Looked at the costs of food.
We will continue(NHS Nurses) relying on food banks.Debt will be sky high
And the issue is not only that:
Crucially it didn’t have to be like that:
It was Sunak’s direct intention because:
-Tax of energy companies would easily have eased this
-not giving banks the tax relief he gave them would have paid for it
-37 Billion toTory T+Trace
-8 Billion PPE
wasted for unusual PPE.
etc etc etc
It did NOT have be billed to those who have helped getting us through this pandemic .
And not only that:
Brexit,the Brexit Sunak PRAISED last Wednesday (!!) caused the energy bills to hike by 54% on average while EU countries capped this at4%
Sunak:
-let’s energy Prices hike 54% and in the EU the cap is (France for example) 4% (!!!).
Please listen,guys, he then shouts and insults the EU about “solar panel rules” while he himself gives 49% of those energy hikes to the energy companies who
have nothing better to do than giving it all out in dividends to their shareholders - guess who many shareholders are - Tories.
Do you SEE the evil game that’s being played here with the vulnerable in society? Unpaid carers got NOTHING today.
Then the LIES about the EU
I could go on and on.
I had thought one out of 100% decency was left in Sunak, out of the awful lot of them . But after today I realise - he is as awful to the core as the lot of them. Awful Liars who fill their pockets and that of their mates . And they trample on you. They
After todays PMQ’s and especially Sunak’s horrendous self-serving, the poor disregarding speech I have absolutely nothing,nothing at all left in me to believe that the Tories will ever ever be worthy of governing the am amazing UK.
The horrendous LIES about the EU again. I have
(obviously) family in the EU.
Solar panels and deep earth heating and insulation was OF COURSE subsided by the thousands of Euros. They didn’t need tax relief - they had already been given many thousands to purchase their green energy.
I never thought SUNAK could make
such a ridiculous and shameful statement.
A true party-line-following statement which repeated all the Johnson Lies. I was actually concerned half way through that Sunak believes his awful lies and that the ridiculously little he is proposing is in any way helping this country -
Especially after the SAME people threw BILLIONS AND BILLIONS AND B-I-L-L-I-O-N-S of pounds around in the last 24 months as if they own a FOREST of money trees and if it was their own money+they gave it TO THEIR party-donors who will donate it back.
I want to tell you one thing,Tories:Unlike your assumption we NHS staff+the public are NOT stupid.We have SEEN all you did, we SEE what you do NOW,we KNOW this is OUR money,we are NOT forgiving+NOT understanding about: #ToryCovidCatastrophe #ToryBrexitDisaster #ToryCorruption.
On top of that you Tories are: #ToryRussianAssets
bought by Putins own #ToryRussianMoney
and you’re all compromised because you attended #ToryPartyGate
as well as Parties in Italy. And believe me there’s CCTV in a KGB spy’s house.
There is nothing else for you to make matters