PM’s ‘greed’ comments confirm waste of funds
SO NOW we have it from the Prime Minister himself – capitalism and greed drive society and our government.
While he may have immediately regretted his words, they confirm the misapplication of the billions spent on tackling the pandemic.
Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money have been given to Covid contractors, some of whom don’t even provide sick-pay. Greed is also rewarded by furlough payments given to companies owned by billionaires, including foreign royal families.
Not to mention the £10bn to make up for the lost fare income of the franchised rail companies, which include those owned by other governments.
His words also underline his and the Tories’ contempt for democracy, as shown by his refusal to allow our MPs to vote on a democratic, environmentally and socially just framework for the UK’s new independent trade policy.
For information, the highest daily pay rate for an NHS consultant is £860.
For the highest paid of 2,500 management consultants working on NHS Test and Trace it is £6,624, with their average daily rate at £1,100.
Taxpayer value? Forget it with this government!
Steve Roman, Manchester M20
Overseers in our city?
M.E.N. readers must have noticed that the government have sent in commissioners to oversea parts of Liverpool city council.
It must be said, for the government to do that to a city council then it must be very concerning.
A government minister stated that ‘best value inspection,’ commissioned in December, had found ‘multiple apparent failures’ and a ‘deeply concerning picture of mismanagement’ in some functions at the Labour-run authority.
I am sure Manchester residents can sleep safely knowing that Manchester city council will never
have commissioners overseeing the council?
Sam Shepherd, Crumpsall
Stay here, don’t ruin it!
IT WOULD be pure madness to even think about going abroad in 2021.
Why would anyone with an ounce of intelligence want to risk contracting coronavirus abroad and potentially being it back to their friends and family, making them ill?
The UK has some great destinations and places to visit.
No queues at the airport, no insect bites, no need for insurance and you can get back home without any stress if you needed to.
We, as a nation, have suffered lockdowns and restrictions on our freedoms, so why risk it all just to get abroad for two weeks?
People shouldn’t even be thinking about foreign travel until 2022 at the earliest! Be proud of everything we have here in the UK and all that we have achieved, don’t throw it all away, stay in the UK!