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Given the Current Circumstances, now is a good time to revisit the special relationship between UK elites - lawyers, estate agents, legislators - and Russian oligarchs, which was brilliantly documented in a Dec 2021 report from @chathamhouse:
chathamhouse.org/2021/12/uks-kl… 1/
chathamhouse.org/2021/12/uks-kl… 1/
If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2022/03/04/lon… 2/
pluralistic.net/2022/03/04/lon… 2/
I wrote about this in early January, drawing a comparison between the manifest compatibility between UK elites - including the royals and their Tory cheerleaders - and Russia's richest criminals and "The Klept" of @greatdismal's *Peripheral* novels:
pluralistic.net/2022/01/07/the… 3/
pluralistic.net/2022/01/07/the… 3/
1/ CRONYISM = TORY CORRUPTION
The Conservatives have created massive levels of public sector debt theguardian.com/world/2020/nov…:
in what historian Gaetano Salvemini argued in 1936, is as aspect of fascism, which makes taxpayers responsible to private enterprise,
The Conservatives have created massive levels of public sector debt theguardian.com/world/2020/nov…:
in what historian Gaetano Salvemini argued in 1936, is as aspect of fascism, which makes taxpayers responsible to private enterprise,
2/ because "the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise... Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social."
Quite apart from the obvious apparent corrupt incompetence in C4’s exposé, the UK government failed to publish details of £4bn Covid contracts
Quite apart from the obvious apparent corrupt incompetence in C4’s exposé, the UK government failed to publish details of £4bn Covid contracts
3/ with private firms... Good Law Project and MPs call for independent inquiry over apparent breach of UK law. Kate Bingham reports directly to the PM. She’s the wife of a Tory Minister, who went to school with Rachel Johnson. The public needs to know why she’s
The virus has exposed not only gross incompetence, but cronyism & corruption at the heart of government
With contracts for chums and billions of tax-payers money siphoned off to the private sector
And unnecessary lives lost
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1/ #Dispatches #bbcnews #r4today
With contracts for chums and billions of tax-payers money siphoned off to the private sector
And unnecessary lives lost
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1/ #Dispatches #bbcnews #r4today
Testing and trace is a vital component of infectious disease control
Against the advice of public health experts, the government outsourced both elements of the process to favourable private companies, with no expertise
Resulting in a dog’s breakfast of incompetence
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Against the advice of public health experts, the government outsourced both elements of the process to favourable private companies, with no expertise
Resulting in a dog’s breakfast of incompetence
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Deloitte was given the contract, of undisclosed value, to set up off-site testing centres & run the new Lighthouse Laboratories, bypassing existing NHS infrastructure
Deloitte then went on to outsource the running of the testing centres to numerous other corporations
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Deloitte then went on to outsource the running of the testing centres to numerous other corporations
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