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Emma Harrison, the woman appointed by David Cameron to help get tax payers’ money off benefits and into her own pocket, has issued a statement explaining why she has decided to pay herself a dividend of £8.6m siphoned off from her firm’s lucrative “workfare” contracts with the government.
Ms Harrison is the chair of A4e, which specialises in that very modern practice known as “welfare to pocket”, in which private companies are paid to reduce the amount of money the government spends on jobless people by diverting it to themselves instead.
But after officers from Thames Valley police raided A4e’s offices in Slough as part of a fraud inquiry, the company was forced to defend its record.
Ms Harrison explained:
A4e has always taken very seriously the very important role we have been given of making sure the millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money we have been trusted with is effectively used to provide big bonuses, fast cars and expensive holidays for ourselves.
A spokesperson for the Prime Minister, David Cameron, explained why the coalition government had decided to give away so much taxpayers’ money to companies like A4e:
When Labour was in power they thought the solution to every problem was to just throw more and more taxpayers’ money at it. This government, however, realises that the solution to every problem is to throw more and more taxpayers’ money at privately-owned companies instead. Especially ones run by our friends.
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It is amazing what the rich (almost) get way with…
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I think it’s a bit unfair to make sweeping accusations about A4e. They do have a proven track record of getting unemployed people off benefits and into work, this is better for the individuals and better for the nation. The fact that there’s a proven track record of success indicates that they aren’t in fact “paid loads of cash to do nothing.” Removing funding for them now would be a major step backwards and a massive blow to people who otherwise would have found employment with A4e’s help.
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CH. Fraud is fraud. Fuck track records……………..
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Do you have any evidence to back that up?
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(CH I mean, not Mark)
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I’m afraid this story just confirms all the prejudices about the Tories… nasty and looking after their own.. Crony capitalism.
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Looks like events have caught up with A4e … Still, that was a nice little earner for her.
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Taxpayers’s money going to companies (or individuals) who are accountable to nobody.
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A4E really do get money for nothing. My son was ‘attached’ to them by the Jobcentre but lucky for him before he set foot through their doors he unattached himself and got a job with no intervention from them. So all is good except for the fact that A4E will be paid 1200 quid for my son’s own efforts and will receive similar payments at 3 monthly intervals if he stays in the job!!!
And this is all above board and legal!!! They did nothing, diddly squat, zilch yet they get paid. WTF!!!!!!!
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Reblogged this on retiredandangry and commented:
Yet one more company riding the ConDem Gravy Train to Bankruptcy Junction
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A real gravy train!
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Thanks for the support.
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We’re all in this together, you’re very welcome
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