Labour To Appoint A Covid Corruption Commissioner When They Come To Power.

[gulliver1]

A powerful corruption team will be assembled by Labour to recoup the billions of pounds that was lost to fraud by the Conservative party during the Covid crisis. By bringing together HMRC The Serious Fraud Office, The National Crime Agency, to pursue the £7.2 Billion of public funds that went astray to the likes of Matt Hancock, Baroness Mone Old uncle Tom Cobly and all etc,via the Con Crony Club.....

[ToraToraTora]

ZM: "That's a big assumption under a Labour Govt, Tora. They'll probably fund it through tax🙃" - quite possibly but if they get any back that will go to the treasury and offset it.

[ToraToraTora]

13:22, It won't get me voting Labour but credit where it is due when the opposition suggest something sensible.

[Zacs-Master]

What's wrong with reporting any evidence to the police and asking them to investigate, rather than setting up a department to do it?

[nicebloke1]

While they are at it, it may not be a bad idea to focus their attention on the NHS. Who the hell gives the go ahead for a doctor to earn 7k for one shift, and they all take it in turns for a bite of the apple. Now thats a sort of blackmail I would guess, along with fraud?

[Zacs-Master]

'Who the hell gives the go ahead for a doctor to earn 7k for one shift'
 

Possibly someone who was managing operations/ theatres who knew that without a doctor with the requisite skills, £100s of £1000 of pounds might be wasted in cancelled appointments?

[bazwillrun]

"What's wrong with reporting any evidence to the police and asking them to investigate, rather than setting up a department to do it?"

that wont get get the useless Beer Smarmier votes though...

[Zacs-Master]

Well, exactly. 

[ToraToraTora]

Plod won't be interested, they have other priorities. It's like tax evasion HMRC do the investigating then call plod in when it's cut and dried.

[Zacs-Master]

Fraud is a serious crime. If Labour have any sound evidence, I'm sure 'plod' would be interested. 

[ToraToraTora]

...yes once it's all on a plate ready to go.

[ToraToraTora]

The fact is that there is undoubtedly corruption but it's hard to prove. At the time the governement were thrashing around for anything and everything. No doubt a lot of "suppliers" were less than reputable etc but cases of fraud need a lot of investiogation or they just get blown out of the water by the briefs. All the Ya boo stuff from eejits like gulliver are not proof, that needs extracting, documenting, verifying and authenticating to legal profession standards and that's a lot of time and effort.

[Zacs-Master]

'authenticating to legal profession standards'
Indeed. By legal professionals not some spotty Herberts buried in the bowls of the Labour HQ, of Palace of Westminster. 

[ToraToraTora]

No they are talking about setting a civil service team. A partisan one would look odd wouldn't it?

[ToraToraTora]

setting UP!

[Zacs-Master]

Civil servants......oh well, everything should E ok then 🤪

[Zacs-Master]

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[youngmafbog]

I doubt Plod would have all the experise immediately to hand, they have enough to do with your day to day villains.

I really cant understnad why anyone would object to this, unless your Hancocks mate at the pub maybe.

[youngmafbog]

/Civil servants......oh well, everything should E ok then/

If they were investigating something on labour maybe you have a point but as this is Tory based I am sure they would put every effort into it 😐

[Zacs-Master]

The fraud squad still exists, YMB. I believe they investigate The illegal non-payment or under-payment of tax by an individual or a company.  Maybe they could have a crack at it?

[youngmafbog]

Yes it does.  But as I said above they have enough to do with the day to day villains without a big project like this.  They would have to increase the team and then reduce it after so it doesnt make sense.

As for tax the MWSD deal with that and its only if they uncover fraud they invovle the Rozzers.  By that point the vast majority of the evidence is already to hand.