In the news

It only goes back to '88 it appears

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/datasets/consumerpriceinflation

How would your boss feel if you had cost them half a million quid?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/04/priti-patel-reaches-six-figure-settlement-with-ex-home-office-chief-philip-rutnam

Glitch in the matrix

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719

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Depends whether I had something sinister on my boss and was apparently Teflon as a result.

How the fuck has Dido Harding spent £37 BILLION on test and trace that doesn't work. That's more than £100,000,000 a day right? Can't even conceive of how that much money can be spent on anything.

Time to form a square around the prittster

Can you do that with pigs?

👏

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/05/public-urged-to-join-slow-handclap-protest-against-1-nhs-pay-rise

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/04/tories-accused-of-levelling-up-stitch-up-over-regional-deprivation-fund

A fund intended to boost the UK’s most deprived places appears overwhelmingly skewed towards Tory-held areas, with dozens of Conservative regions in the top tier for assistance despite being relatively affluent

One area is Richmondshire in North Yorkshire, where the local MP is Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, whose own department is leading work on the fund. This is among the top fifth of most prosperous places in England by the average deprivation score.

Seems legit

80% spent on testing apparently, although it does seem like a typo from ‘million’ that has stuck in the contract and no-one has corrected it.

Fucking lol.

80% of 37bn is £29,600,000,000.

5 million tests in the last seven days. Let's falsely assume that 5m is the average weekly number of tests over the two year period the test and trace budget covers. That's about 520,000,000 tests. The real figure will be much lower than this unless something goes pear-shaped.

£56 per test, bare mininum. Its quite a lot. I'd like to know how that compares with what other countries are paying.

EDIT, I'm going to revise my figures. 88m covid tests conducted so far. Lets just say that triples by the end of 2021 (it probably won't).

Gives a per test cost of about £112 each.

Doesn’t Government essentially cash account? So wouldn’t the £37bn be actual cash cost (I have not read report)

Someone made bank, that's for sure.

Richard Murphy posting them mega twitter threads, first on why not to worry about the national debt at the moment, then on why the budget is just mean, finally why they are taking on the nurses

https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1366665012882857984

https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1367752001686233089

https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1368152593596354564

Doesn’t Government essentially cash account? So wouldn’t the £37bn be actual cash cost (I have not read report)

No idea.

Someone made bank, that's for sure.

However, this ^

Spolit white boy demands more attention:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/06/laurence-fox-joins-london-mayoral-race-on-anti-lockdown-ticket

Hope he splits the cunt vote

Tommy Robinson declares bankruptcy just before libel trial.

Hope the cunt splits.

Mrs Underuser and I were cycling past Clapham Common early this morning and various Lowland Search and Rescue wagons had all r.v’ed there for the ongoing search for the missing lady. Quite a sad sight.

Hope she turns up unharmed, fingers crossed... 🙏

Yeah, it's really horrible and a bit scary.

Tori and I went for a stroll to Tooting Bec Common yesterday and saw loads of volunteers canvassing for doorbell-cam footage.

It's such an unusual thing to happen, outside of ITV dramas.

Fingers crossed that she is found safe and well.

The Swiss confirming that they remain a nation of racists;

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/07/switzerland-on-course-to-ban-wearing-of-burqa-and-niqab-in-public-places