Conservative Fraud

Conservatives’ outrageous fraud write off could fund Swindon Council for 26 years – new analysis

New analysis by Swindon Labour reveals the Conservatives staggering £4.3bn fraud write-off, could fund Swindon Borough Council for 26 years. The news comes just days after the Treasury Minister in charge of countering fraud resigned in disgust at the Conservative Government’s inability to prevent the staggering waste.

Publishing the analysis, Labour’s Cllr Jim Grant said,

“This shameful Conservative government is utterly failing the people of Swindon.

“It’s not just the law-breaking, chaos and deceit of the despicable lockdown parties affair – it’s now clear that the industrial scale of incompetence of this Conservative government is hammering services and forcing tax rises on our community. They are so obsessed with covering up the latest scandal that they can’t do the basics.

“Rishi Sunak has just written off £4.3 billion in fraud. He is letting criminals get away with enough money to fund Swindon for 26 years. At the same time, they are cutting support to hardworking families in our area and raising taxes. It is genuinely hard to believe any government could be this bad.

“People in Swindon are facing a cost-of-living crisis, whilst a Conservative government that is so out of touch it believes it is above the law and so incompetent that it watches billions of pounds of our money walk out the door. Swindon deserves so much better.”