Sunak’s £30 Billion Furlough Giveaway Abused By Uk Businesses

[Gromit]

6 million people continued to work while on the Government’s furlough scheme. That is a massive amount of fraud, and the Government apparently splashed out tax payers money with very little (or any no) checks.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8654405/SIX-MILLION-furloughed-workers-broke-rules-doing-jobs-home-lockdown-major-report-finds.html

Reckless Rishi strikes again!

[gulliver1]

17.42 , Then you had better Jail the whole of the Present Govt.

[mushroom25]

// 17.42 , Then you had better Jail the whole of the Present Govt. //

do you have evidence of criminal wrongdoing by members of the cabinet? (last time I looked, there's no criminal offence of being incompetent)

if you have, would you not be better off passing that evidence to the relevant authority, rather than complaining on here (where the authorities are unlikely to be looking)?

[Gromit]

Well 43 posts in and not one from the AB blue rinse brigade is prepared to condemn this massive fraud from the captains of British Industry.
If it had been some trollop from a sink estate, claiming jobseekers while working, and defrauding £75/week there would have been hundreds of blood-thirsty Tories queuing up to condemn the ***.
But as it’s a company director ripping of the taxpayer to the tune of a couple of grand a month, they are strangely mute.

[ynnafymmi]

Im condemning it,Gromit.I am saying they should be jailed.Didnt you read what i wrote?Jailtime for the big guys along with the benefits criminals.

[ladybirder]

Perhaps they'll/we will have something to say if and when they have been convicted of such through our courts of law.

[allenlondon]

ynnafymmi. I’ve said I do, and I’m glad that you too think the city-boy chisellers should be banged up.

My name’s Allen. What’s yours?

[weecalf]

I remember asking what the tories got right and furlough scheme was mentioned bring the total up to one .So are we taking that away now leaving a great zero ?

[THECORBYLOON]

ALLEN, her name is Myfanwy and she pronounces it "Miffeny".

[tomus42]

You are posting links from the dailymail..co.uk Oh dear.

[ynnafymmi]

@22.46.You can call me my-fanny-wye if you like.

[iluvmargie]

You tell 'em ynnaf. x

[jno]

tomus, links to the Mail, the Guardian and the BBC are common because these websites are free and everyone can read them without subscribing/paying. I occasionally see an interesting story in the Financial Times but I know there's no point in linking to it.

[Spicerack]

There's nothing illegal about an employer asking people to return to work.
I'd estimate the number of employers who rang employees and said 'I'd like you to come back to work while I continue to claim furlough money for you' to be around about 0.
They'll still be prosecuting people for defrauding these Covid schemes in 10 years time.
Unfortunately for you and your fellow travellers, it'll be mainly the usual suspects who are well versed in fraud.
And you and your comrades will no doubt be defending them.

[fiction-factory]

Hi Spicerack- I did wonder whether those places in Leicester that packed huge numbers into a tiny room, and reportedly paid staff £1.50 an hour throughout Covid were claiming furlough, but I decided not as they probably don't get oaid via PAYE and so can't claim furlough via PAYE
I think the main fraudsters will be small companies. I always felt it was too easy and too tempting.
I doubt many large companies (say FTSE 100 companies) would have risked it

[ynnafymmi]

@08.48.Nasty pieces of work by the sound of them,Margie.Best ignored.