100% agree with this. My parents refer to pension day as “free money day” - which I find very crass. My mum would need it if on her own. But dad has a final salary pension that goes up with inflation… (View Post)

Quite agree. My missus worked in central London hospital during the pandemic. It was well known that letting off steam was not allowed. Her team were redeployed to deal with all sorts of horrid thing… (View Post)

Fair enough - although I wasn’t alleging graft my observation was more about how it would be reported were it happening elsewhere. Mind he’s clearly doing good business given the reported margins, an… (View Post)

If this was a third world country It would get reported as graft. A large public sector contracts, large profits, followed by gracious donation to the boss class. (View Post)

Hester made page one of private eye this week. His company has a profit margin of circa 50% and most (if not all) of its revenue is from the NHS. Funnily enough he has enough cash to punt to the part… (View Post)