Gee that £1Bn could have been found in the almost £10Bn fraudulent Covid scheme claims. It could have been found in the £8Bn counterfeit PPE Tory donors got paid for. It could have been found in the £20Bn spent on Track and Trace that paid for tech illiterate people to not actually track or trace but to funnel money to a private company.
Funny how the magic money tree only gets shaken for Tory donors but actual help for people is diverted from other help for people.
The problem is they purposely set up schemes like these to act like a bung to middle/higher home-owner households who could otherwise had afforded to have the work done without it while simultaneously failing to help those who are struggling but aren’t eligible
Otherwise the proper thing to do, would had been a properly fleshed out insulation scheme to help bring housing stock up to scratch and *then* (after) have the boiler/heat pump one (given those systems require basic insulation in the first place to be worth while)
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Based on the [Times story](https://archive.ph/kQugJ) *Boris Johnson hatches plan to insulate Britons against winter bills*:
> The prime minister has told ministers to divert more than £1 billion from existing schemes to focus on insulating poorer households.
> The Times has been told that during one meeting a No 10 official suggested it could be called “insulate Britain”.
Good name.
There will be frowns and scowls among fossil-fuel-friendly think tankies at places like the IEA, which recently [recommended a *laissez faire* approach](https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/108420/html/) on insulation.
Have you tried looking in the PPE Skim fund?
Gee that £1Bn could have been found in the almost £10Bn fraudulent Covid scheme claims. It could have been found in the £8Bn counterfeit PPE Tory donors got paid for. It could have been found in the £20Bn spent on Track and Trace that paid for tech illiterate people to not actually track or trace but to funnel money to a private company.
Funny how the magic money tree only gets shaken for Tory donors but actual help for people is diverted from other help for people.
The problem is they purposely set up schemes like these to act like a bung to middle/higher home-owner households who could otherwise had afforded to have the work done without it while simultaneously failing to help those who are struggling but aren’t eligible
Otherwise the proper thing to do, would had been a properly fleshed out insulation scheme to help bring housing stock up to scratch and *then* (after) have the boiler/heat pump one (given those systems require basic insulation in the first place to be worth while)
Tax the rich tory donors.
Are they going to insulate houses in Britain?
I wonder what they will call the scheme?