Next time you get mad about benefit claimants or refugees, remember that 7,000 shell companies registered to only five addresses in London made claims to the Covid furlough scheme. They claimed up to £473 million between them. And there are no prosecutions.
Even the Daily Mail has headlined the lack of vetting of recruits to the Police Force, An official report stated that in all 8 police forces “we concluded that a culture of misogyny, sexism, predatory behaviour towards female police officers, and staff and members of the public was prevalent in all the forces we inspected”. I guess they were not looking for racism or homophobia.
Who would trust a police officer now?
The Home Office has a backlog of over 100000 asylum claims. An outdated computer system, low staff retention and maybe a political will to make the situation worse all add to the problem. Having no returns policy since Brexit has made the backlog grow and grow.
Half the bread sold in the UK has at least 2 different types of pesticide – a rise of 50% since last year. A third of the pesticides are illegal in the UK. DEFRA has not commented yet!
Food inflation at 11.6%. I have not seen any pay rises anywhere near these levels apart from executives and those receiving dividends. “Now is the winter of our discontent” looms. teachers are being balloted on strike action.