Since the Johnson government was elected in December 2019 – 17 ministers have either left, resigned or been pushed out of the Cabinet.
Many will not be missed – but Lord Agnew – is one – who will be solely missed, not only by Populists who believe that ministers are there to serve; we the people, but also by millions of law abiding, tax paying citizens.
In his resignation speech – he outlined the total incompetence of our government in its failure to run even simple checks against companies that were applying for our tax payer’s money.
“The oversight by both BEIS [the Department for Business, Enterprise and Industry Strategy] and the British Business Bank of the panel lenders of BBLs has been nothing less than woeful. They have been assisted by the Treasury, who appear to have no knowledge or little interest in the consequences of fraud to our economy or our society.”
Schoolboy errors were made, for example allowing over a thousand companies to receive bounce back loans that were not even trading when Covid struck …
I’ve been arguing with Treasury and BEIS officials for nearly two years to get them to lift their game. I’ve been mostly unsuccessful.”
The incompetence and fraud – will cost British tax payers Billions of pounds
And who runs the Treasury? The Chancellor Rishi Sunak – and for this – not only should be never be Prime Minister – but if Lord Agnew’s comments are correct – he should not even be in government. The buck has to stop at the top.
And where is mainstream media since this announcement? Investigating – asking questions? Of course they are not – but instead running their “Partygate story” – of who had a glass of wine and where.
Where is the Red opposition? Even the London luvvies must care if billions that could have been spent on social care, NHS, levelling up had been defrauded from the tax payer. We have silence…as just like their friends in the media – sensationalism and not economics – is the only optic they can discuss.
Shame on them all