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"Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit" (bell hooks) || journalist || campaigner || @amnesty || Easily distracte

Dec 1, 2021, 10 tweets

"Hancock Cock Inn Cockup”

Ystdy, @MattHancock tried to get @AnnelieseDodds to withdraw a comment re his helping the ex-landlord of his local pub, the Cock Inn, to get a PPE contract

We’ve see the emails

Hancock & Lord Feldman helped 47 firms win 'VIP' contracts worth millions

Ystdy, @MattHancock went on the attack claiming Alex Bourne "never got a contract from the govt" & this was a "fabrication pushed by the Labour Party"

He was lying

@NAOorguk found PPE suppliers with links to Tory MPs were 10x more likely to win contracts

Digging by @JolyonMaugham reveals the contract went to Alpha Laboratories

That contract stipulates that Alpha Laboratories will sub-contract the manufacturing to Hinpack Ltd, owned by Alex Bourne

This info was redacted before publishing in what seems a clear attempt to deceive!

Last December, @MattHancock’s neighbour admitted exchanging personal WhatsApp messages with #Hancock offering his services to produce PPE

Hancock says he “had absolutely nothing to do with that contract”

It’s been clear for a year, someone has been lying

“What an absolute load of rubbish... Did anyone else’s friends get contracts?”

@JessPhillips rips @MattHancock a new one over the #ContractScandal & handling of PPE contracts during the pandemic. #HerdImmunityScandal @Peston #COVID19 #Peston

At the height of the pandemic, @MattHancock came to my local outdoor cafe

He was laughing with a friend

I muttered something to the guys next to me

“True. But I guess he’s on a day off”

Overhearing, Hancock piped up: “Yes! I’m on a day off”

“Day off from lying, Matt?” I spat

“I told him right at the start”

@MattHancock says he warned @BorisJohnson about #COVID19 at the beginning of January 2020

He says he remembers thinking: “Nobody’s asking about the single biggest issue that's about to come & hit us”

He certainly wasn’t

“We put a call out to our local pub landlords on see if they fancied diversifying into supplying PPE in return for multi-million pound contracts.” @MattHancock on @Peston
#ContractScandal #PalantirPlan #HerdImmunityScandal #GenomeUK

In September 2020, @MattHancock launched #GenomeUK, a 10-year strategy that will transform the NHS & put genomics at the heart of the entire programme for govt

Bizarrely it was launched on a Saturday with zero media coverage

Is this what the #PalantirPlan is really all about?

“The flagrancy is part of the point.”
(Orwell)

#Lockdown parties in No.10

@Dominic2306 in #BarnardCastle

#Palantir, who rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica how to scrape data, running NHS data store

#GemomeUK putting genomics at the heart of everything

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