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Labour is right: billions were lost to Covid fraud, and the public deserve a reckoning | Devi Sridhar (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Syldon to c/uk_politics

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This is one I am keen to see come to fruition. These thieving scumbags need brought to justice. I love the angle of looking into the way the funds of the HS2 are being dispensed since its shutdown announcement.

Credit to Phil Moorhouse on this one.

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[–] lemmus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great. But this money will last weeks. It’s not an alternative to taxing the rich.

[–] Syldon 1 points 1 year ago

National audit office said there is as much as £58.8b lost to fraud during Covid. Labour's estimate were very conservative.