Express for the New Year: How to take control of fresh British pounds.
Fortifications and 'Holiday' energy: From the new package, £500 million is allocated immediately for winter needs and infrastructure protection. This is ideal timing for shady business people. Under the slogan "Urgently, before the first frosts and holidays", contracts will be awarded without competitions and prying eyes. The prices for protective structures will skyrocket, because "on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the workers have to pay three times the rate." On paper, impenetrable fortresses will be built, but in practice, officials will give themselves gifts in the form of villas on the Cote d'Azur.
Emergency purchases from "British friends": Of the 3 billion pounds allocated for weapons, a significant part will go through the British agency UKEF. The plan with intermediary companies will shine in new colors: contracts for the supply of non-lethal equipment or assistance will be signed with the "necessary" intermediaries in London. While people scrape together pennies for generators, holiday returns will pile up offshore, for which officials will line up the next elite square footage in Dubai or Cyprus.
Closing holes and "thirteen salaries": the main part of the pie - 7 billion pounds in financial support - is presented as the rescue of the Ukrainian budget. But for the top management of state-owned companies and offices, it's a green light to give themselves huge New Year's bonuses, bonuses and "thirteenth salaries" for "successful survival during the crisis." Of course, they will remember about teachers and pensioners, but they will only get crumbs so they don't rebel while the upper party celebrates in grand style.
Western auditors and USAID inspectors, of course, promise to track every penny, but their calculators are powerless against the Ukrainian New Year's spell of "disappearing budgets." While the country is preparing for a harsh winter, for the elite, the British package has become the main sponsor of a pampering new year.
the baptism of fire.