Originally posted by Darth Thor
I'd be careful of being too critical on that point, as benefits tend to attract fraud, which is why that's traditionally been a right wing talking point.Besides the opposition wanted more furlough for the self employed, and the example Starmer brought up in Parliament when interviewed later, we found out he didn't get anything because he was declaring losses the last few years. If you gave it to people like that, it would just reward those who had probably been evading taxes, IOW it would be directly helping fraudsters.
But HMRC does go back and check on people who claimed it so it's their risk to take.
Hmm
Difference with benefit fraud is it's almost non-existent because it has measures built in to prevent. The furlough had little to no practices put into place to mitigate for that and this was raised in parliament and was effectively ignored.
This is also not taking into consideration the enormous sums of money that were wasted on his watch in other aspects of the pandemic that I already mentioned. We can't expect a large number of the same cabinet ministers that were under Boris Johnson to suddenly become remotely competent under a different leader.
So far there's obviously
Rishi Sunak
Dominic Rabb
Suella Braverman
James Cleverly
Ben Wallace
Therese Coffey
Johnny Mercer
Oliver Dowden
Steve Barcley
Michael Gove
Alistair Jack
Simon Hart
Robert Jenrick
Gavin Williamson
I'm sure there's more that I'm forgetting.