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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Dear Baroness Dildo Harding. I see that you have been defending 'NHS' Test and Trace saying that it has done everything asked of it, despite the Public Accounts Committee saying it had made 'no clear impact' in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.
    Lets look at some numbers.
    Entire UK Primary Care budget - £9 Billion
    Entire UK Police Budget - £15 Billion
    Entire UK Fire Service Budget - £3 Billion
    Cost of 5% pay rise for NHS nurses - £500 million
    Money handed out to a retired jockey to run Test and Trace - £37 Billion.
    Please tell me, in very simple terms, why the UK shouldn't be asking for a refund?
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Can we also have our money back after we've had to pay out for Patel's bullying? If she's not going to be fired or resign over it then take it out of her pay cheque.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Failing Grayling needs to cough up too.  
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Test & trace already existed within PHL & NHS, it just needed scaling up,  could have been done at small fraction of the amount spent. 
    AB Still learning

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    But where's the profit in that?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited March 2021
    I wonder what's happening to the cold and flu bugs that we're not getting. Are they lurking in the background passing the time with a bit of mutation and waiting to pounce when we come out of lockdown?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yes, of course @B3.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Thought so😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I heard some health pundit the other day saying that once everyone's had the Covid jab, people will relax their hand hygiene and distancing and all the usual suspects will raise their ugly heads again - flu and pneumonia which are also killers or can be debilitating long term and, of course, common colds. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I read somewhere that next winter will be a bad one for cold and flu since we've all got reduced immunity now and everyone will be hugging each other. How true that is I don't know but I've been repeatedly told by doctors that the kids should be getting at least four or five colds a year to build up a healthy immune system. It's actually been quite nice to have a winter without the constant illnesses and having to run expensive plug-in vapourisers to keep the little bastar treasures asleep.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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