#SpaffingTories: they’re giving even more money to their toff friends
Spaffer: Boris Johnson has thrown so much money at private consultants and contractors that the UK’s financial situation is in peril.
Conservatives. They’re rubbish at running a country but really good at stealing public money and handing it to posh people.
Only days ago, we learned that they’ve wasted more than £3 billion on the Covid crisis so far. That’s money Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will want you to pay back, by the way. They won’t.
https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1310615498023936003
Now we see that, far from learning any lessons, they’re funnelling even more cash to the upper classes:
Another day, another round of Covid handouts from the Johnson government.
Coming in for a cool £69 million this time we have Brandology, a self-described 'boutique marketing agency' which sells packaging, has assets of under 500,000 and a whole 3 employees… pic.twitter.com/KNQe3GpJSt— The Prole Star (@TheProleStar) September 29, 2020
Brandology is owned by one Hannah Halstead-Morton, who's posh enough to have her own entry on a peerage website https://t.co/kONgtPEXvA
Nice to see Boris Johnson's making sure the aristocracy isn't out of pocket… pic.twitter.com/Poo74D0EFf— The Prole Star (@TheProleStar) September 29, 2020
The responses to this announcement tell their own story:
It’s frankly scary that public money is doled out without proper tendering and scrutiny to various parties all of whom are directly or indirectly linked to Johnson and his cronies in the direct knowledge that whatever contract has been secured will not be delivered!
— Damo 🏳️🌈🇮🇪🏳️⚧️ (@dpclancy) September 29, 2020
Disgusting abuse of power!! Dishing huge amounts of money to unaccomplished people!
— Jean 💙 (@jean_monaghan) September 29, 2020
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