£17bn Pensions Blunder Illustrates The Cost Of Political Incompetence

21st July 2020

Among the tens and hundreds of billions of pounds the government has been spending to support the economy in the midst of the current crisis, you might have missed the odd £17 billion that it is planning to shell out to rectify a major cock-up. This particular cock-up relates to reforms to the pensions provided to public sector employees. It is genuinely shocking. There will be no comeback. No accountability. Just a £17 billion bill to rectify the incompetence of ministers and/or civil servants.

Read the full sorry tale of a huge cock up HERE