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by mavili 807 days ago
In Turkish there is the phrase "göz boyama" translating to something like "window dressing" or similar. The UK government gave contracts worth billions to a scam company for pandemic related 'Track & Trace' work, which all proved to be shenanigans, but when it came to actually rewarding the hard-working NHS heroes they got applauds and painted papers on people's windows. They had been asking for a fair pay rise even before the pandemic.

The UK government has brought one of the best free national health systems in the world to the point of being worse than useless in a span of about a decade.