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Arlene Foster * Worst Politicians UK

Arlene Foster
The northern Irish politician and leader of the DUP, Arlene Foster makes this list for leading a party that keeps abortion and equal marriage illegal in Northern Ireland despite polls showing the people would be in favour of allowing these things.

While she was head of the department of enterprise trade and investment her crowning achievement was the cash for ash scandal. The scandal erupted when it emerged that a policy run by her department had potentially overspent by at least seven hundred million pounds.

The policy was meant to help businesses in Northern Ireland meet the cost of installing renewable technologies. Applicants were entitled to help for up to twenty years. The scheme worked by paying a subsidy for heat generated, however, this was unlimited allowing people to heat with no need and get more money.

Despite warnings from a whistleblower in 2013 Foster extended the scheme to the domestic sector. By 2016 more
whistleblowers had emerged with one reporting a farmer was plotting to collect one million pounds from heating an empty barn.

When it turned out the scheme would cost the budget of Northern Ireland hundreds of millions a commission was set up to find out what was going on. The investigation found that mysteriously minutes had not been taken in regards to the scheme. Later a senior aid told the BBC that Fosters name had been removed from documents concerning the scheme.
It was also revealed that Foster had refused to close the scheme despite advice and warnings from aids.

This debacle all lead to the collapse of the Northern Irish government as Foster refused to resign, this has lead to Northern Ireland to not having a government for over a year with no reformation of the executive in sight.

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