Do the Tories not care about value for taxpayer money? (Rhetorical question: of course they don’t, they’ve spent the last few years spaffing it up the wall to their mates…)

I don’t even think it’s that, but as is always the case with conservatives - the suffering is the point. They don’t want happy workers, they want desperate workers, those are easier to continue abusing and much less likely to unionise or protest (because they don’t have the time or energy to d anything but survive)