General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Easy come: Easy go.

Overall cost of the United Kingdom's job retention scheme (furlow etc) £70 Billion

£37 Billion given to Dido Harding (not the NHS) for totally ineffective Test & Trace endeavour with no transparency concerning where the money went.

£4 Billion spent on useless PPE that had to be disposed of unused: purchased via contacts of politicians, and outside usual mechanism of supply.

£6 Billion lost in PPE payments over the market price.

(All figs taken from House of Commons library)

The first item , we are told that paying for the cost of this is one of the burdens that now we must bear. But the cost of misappropriations are not far behind.

Rishi Sunak, who was, then, Chancellor of Exchequer said he thought it not worth pursuing the fraudulent payments made from taxpayers' funds.

Of course not: if you need more dosh, surely it is far easier to wring even more out of the UK taxpayer, than attempt any such thing.