Test and trace

By the end of 2021, Baroness "Dido" Harding, will have spent £37 billion on the test and trace, which I have previously called track and trace, which is n fact the post office system to following parcels to ensure they're delivered.

The Government, and Ms Harding, have also mis-named Test and Trace, by calling it the NHS Test and Trace, when it has nothing to do with the NHS.

Never did.

£37,000,000,000 buys an awful lot.

Spending a pound a minute would take, 25694444 days to spend.

Or 70,395 years.

That's a lot of money.

A lot.

And almost all of it has been spent secretly.

No one has seen a receipt.

So, the Good Law Project has been asking to see Dido Harding's diary for the last 18 months to see who she has met. The Government has rejected the request, twice, the latest because it estimates it would take over £600, the FoI threshold, to comply.

To, in short, after spending £37 billion on who knows what, six hundred quid is too much to spend to reveal who she met, let alone whether the meetings lead to contracts?

This is important, not only because of transparancy, but this bill has to be paid, and public spending will be either frozen or reduced as a direct result of the massive black hole in public finances. So, pay for doctors and nurses, care in the community for the old, sick and elederly, public services and everything lse will be under pressure, and yet they won't tell us where the money for this, which didn't actually work, went?

Yes, the whole point of Test and Trace was to stop a second winter wave of infections.

There was a second wave in the autumn, a third in the winter, and now a fourth as we go into another winter.