I heard both those reports Peter. The one about housebuilders sometimes colluding with other builders to artificially raise the price of houses wasn't really a surprise. I think we all suspected something was going on.
I heard the interview with the ex PO manager as well and what he said showed clearly that the senior management of the PO knew what was going wrong but did nothing. They were more interested in raising their bonuses.
Did you hear the mother telling the story about her child missing a life-changing operation because the appointment letter never arrived?
I seem to remember that ten years ago and more, I was bending the ear of anybody who would listen to me about the economic illiteracy of austerity and I forecast then that it would result in the breakdown of society. That's just what we are seeing now and it will get worse before it gets better.
See
THIS BBC account of the report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies which questions where Hunt will get funding for his tax cuts.
The government should not cut taxes in the upcoming Budget, unless it can spell out how it will afford them, a leading think tank has warned. The chancellor has hinted he would like to lower taxes in what could be the last Budget before a general election. But the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the case for tax cuts was "weak". The government said it would not comment on whether further cuts to tax would be "affordable in the Budget". But both Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak have made no secret of wanting to reduce the taxation burden on the general public. Last month Chancellor Hunt hinted that he was looking at trimming public spending as a way to deliver tax cuts.
The rumour is that Hunt is looking at further cuts in benefits to save money and finance cuts. How can anyone even think about this when the population is under so much pressure already?
Leading politicians seem to have forgotten that the reason they are in office is to protect the interests of the population at large, not just the pension funds of their mates!