Family of victims of Tory Covid care home mistake could be set for £200m

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  1. Good for the grieving families. The Tories should face criminal consequences for this and many other things the current regime has done. Can’t wait to vote them out on a local level on Thursday and get rid of these crooks once and for all in the next general election.

  2. So paying for tory criminal incompetence and systemic death as a result is what the NI rise is for? And I was hoping it was going to support our beleaguered hospitals.

  3. I do wonder when we will see compensation for the [victims of the vaccines ](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-vaccine-compensation-vdps-uk-b2064875.html?fr=operanews) as well. In the EU they already set aside [a big fund](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2021-0475_EN.html) for this purpose to compensate the injured and killed since they took liability instead of the companies and the same ought to happen in the UK for the thousands who have lost their livihood due to injuries and for those families of the dead. It wasn’t a malicious mistake like this was but it is still a consequence and deaths that the state is responsible for.

    Edit: I am far from an anti vaxxer, I got vaccinated and I advocate others do so to. But its also not true that it caused no harm, at least [70 people died](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59418123) from the vaccinations and there are likely thousands to 10s of thousands of injuries as has been seen and reported in the EU

    This isn’t OK, you can’t just ignore the reality of the situation and just call everyone an antivaxxer because they ask for people to accept it also caused harm. These families lost loved ones to the vaccine and dismissing them is appalling. They deserve recognition and compensation for what happened to them. Burying this down is frankly awful behaviour from /r/UK your collective behaviour in dismissing these people and me for bringing up their needs.

    Also its not ok to just block people to refuse responses. It was noted in the mod chat in the megathread and this individual needs dealing with.

  4. > And they say the Department of Health and Social Care could be faced with having to defend itself against claims for corporate manslaughter.

    If you’re expecting the courts to drain the swamp over this, that won’t happen. [Corporate manslaughter is punishable with an unlimited fine, but generally fines go between £180,000 and £20 million, which is frankly a pittance compared to this payout.](https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/item/corporate-manslaughter/) It’s also a government fining and taking money from itself, so that money is being taken out and put back into the government.

    A corporate manslaughter conviction would be an utterly damning reputational stain on our Conservative government though – one that I doubt they could ever fully recover from.

  5. My dad was in a care home. He died due to neglect from lack of staff. No amount of money will ever bring him back but all tories will burn in hell.

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