WHIMPERING AWAY...
GOODBYE and good riddance to subsidy junkie Jeff Fairburn and his grotesque £75million bonus.
The toppled boss of housebuilder Persimmon largely owes his obscene fortune to the Tories’ Help to
Buy scheme costing austerity Britain’s taxpayers £29billion by 2023.
Imagine how many council homes could be constructed instead of lining the pockets of fatcats like self-pitying Fairburn or turbocharging company profits, while inflating house prices, by financing private homes for the largely better off.
Whining Fairburn, whimpering it was “really unfortunate” of a BBC North correspondent to ask him about the windfall, isn’t the only poster monster for a shameless scheme.
Back in 2016, Tory Wellingborough MP Peter Bone, earning £74,000 and paying his wife £45,000 from the public purse, used a Conservative scam – mis-sold as helping struggling families – to borrow £35,000 towards his own new £175,000 constituency place.
No wonder pressure’s growing for middle-class handouts to be scrapped and a windfall tax on housebuilders who grew rich on wealthfare state benefits.