Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years
by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:20AM
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Considering the absolute horror show of sleaze and incompetence of the last few years, the BBC has become notorious for not holding the government to account.
An Italian civil servant is a non-story compared to the £37bn given to the UK's private sector to run a poor-to-nonexistent COVID test and trace scheme.
For comparison the entire annual budget of the NHS is £44bn. And the government refused to increase the pay of doctors and nurses who have more or less singlehandedly held the NHS together through COVID.
Re:Employee accused of skipping work for 15 years
by yrro on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:57AM
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It's £37 bn over two years. It's not clear how much of that has actually been disbursed yet (I vaguely recall a figure of £5-6 bn in Private Eye, but I'm not sure).
An Italian civil servant is a non-story compared to the £37bn given to the UK's private sector to run a poor-to-nonexistent COVID test and trace scheme.
For comparison the entire annual budget of the NHS is £44bn. And the government refused to increase the pay of doctors and nurses who have more or less singlehandedly held the NHS together through COVID.
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/19/covid-19-test-and-trace...
Among other stories. That's just the worst of an appalling raft of cash-for-cronies handouts.
But the BBC rarely publishes news about Europe at all. And when it does it's often negative.
Not only do we have a story about an Italian civil servant, but also - coincidentally - there's news about Malta's EU cash-for-passports scheme.
Which is more or less identical to the UK's cash-for-passports scheme. But less expensive.