£715 million of taxpayer money was wasted by the Conservatives on the failed Rwanda scheme in little over two years. Including £134 million on IT and data systems that will never be used. 🤯 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... - ThreadSky

bestforbritain.bsky.social • 38 days ago

£715 million of taxpayer money was wasted by the Conservatives on the failed Rwanda scheme in little over two years.

Including £134 million on IT and data systems that will never be used.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/18/revealed-conservatives-spent-134m-on-never-used-it-systems-for-failed-rwanda-scheme

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wemdmj.bsky.social•37 days ago

How many free school meals would that money have bought?

pettyvagrantuk.bsky.social•37 days ago

And yet weirdly they still maintain they’re good with finance. 🤷🏻‍♂️

georgespomp.bsky.social•38 days ago

Simple, seize all the assets of everyone concerned, including the CONservatives until it’s paid back. Plus interest, plus all the other cons they perpetuated.

kuyvonbraun.bsky.social•38 days ago

Yeah but millionaires leaving, Donald Trump something something

gonzoism76.bsky.social•37 days ago

Translation for our pro Brexit readers. That’s more than 2 busses.

derbyloco.bsky.social•38 days ago

Time these wasters were surcharged

duncanjross.bsky.social•38 days ago

They could have saved a huge amount of money by reusing the track and trace system that also didn’t work…

sandnesfred.bsky.social•37 days ago

I don’t believe this. You are talking about the party of fiscal responsibility and sound economics! 😤

bbolger.bsky.social•38 days ago

Ok how do you spend £134m on an IT system that in the first instance was only ever going to have to deal with a couple of hundred people?

Like £1m per person for a task excel could do.

bbolger.bsky.social•38 days ago

Or a £100k pa IT person meticulously maintaining that spreadsheet for the next thousand years after a generous spend on laptops.

cyber-steve.bsky.social•37 days ago

Not to mention Michelle Mone, et al...😡

cmirar.bsky.social•37 days ago

📌

ziggysden.bsky.social•38 days ago

Still got some way to go to beat the £34bn wasted on test & trace, for no discernible benefit according to MPs own investigation. I suppose we should be thankful they didn’t put Dido Harding in charge.

scottishkaren.bsky.social•37 days ago

They really don’t scrimp & scrape when it’s consultants & corporations they’re paying from the public purse!

thinkitthrough.bsky.social•37 days ago

Incompetent Tory scumbags.

dennispatton.bsky.social•38 days ago

Someone made a lot of money in that scam.

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