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BILLIONS of Tax-payers' £ spaffed on dubious contracts to Palantir, Faculty, Serco, Sitel, Randox, Public First, Aventis, Pestfix, Ayanda, etc.

Why isn't Govt public procurement abuse + Towns Fund misallocation all over News & MSM newspapers? Extent of #GovtCorruption shocking!
If you're not up to speed on what Govt has been up to in procurement, using C19 *emergency measures* to bung taxpayers'£ to firms controlled by chums, often with negligible assets or relevant expertise à la ferryless ferry co, this is a good place to start
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
See also:

1. PPE contract to a sweet supplier
goodlawproject.org/news/ppe-suppl…
2. PPE contract to a Mauritius-based private equity firm specialised financial services

inews.co.uk/news/health/go…
3. PPE contract to a recruitment firm

bylinetimes.com/2020/07/17/rec…
4. COVID19 testing contract to Randox Laboratories (which employs Tory MP Owen Paterson)

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
5. PPE contract to Pestfix

theargus.co.uk/news/18501548.…
6. Test & Trace contracts to Serco & Sitel

opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/serc…
7. Track & Trace app contract to Palantir (CIA links) and Faculty AI (dodgy VoteLeave psy-ops links)

cityam.com/the-failure-of…
8. Testing contract to accountancy, consultancy & tax firm Deloitte

opendemocracy.net/en/deloitte-ge…
9. COVID19 & Ofqual damage limitation contracts awarded to Public First, a PR firm specialising in #FakeNews gimmicks (like re-branding the Cons' official Twitter page as a factchecker site or setting up a fake Labour website during GE2019)

theguardian.com/education/2020…
10. PPE logistics contract awarded to Tory donor Clipper logistics

bylinetimes.com/2020/04/02/dis…
11. PPE contract to Tory donor Europa Worldwide Group

bylinetimes.com/2020/05/22/ano…
Had a transparent, normal procurement process been held + proper due diligence conducted, 1 or 2 of the above-mentioned suppliers might have won these contracts anyway, but let's not kid ourselves — most of them are well-dodgy.

This is how we fight back:
The Jenrick matter -awarding regeneration grants from the Towns Fund to Tory marginals or Tory GE2019 targets- is different but relevant to the general theme of #UKGovtCorruption

Hopefully Public Accounts SelectCom Chair @Meg_HillierMP will take it up.

thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jenri…
Important companion thread to the one I did earlier about this Government's dodgy procurement practices —this one on PPE supplies, focusing on those contracts where the product delivered was defective in some way.

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THE WEEK IN POLITICS
#7MemesFor7Days of political immaturity, incompetence & idiocy —or evil by design?

(Stories tended to break late in the day this week, so I've gone for themes instead of days.)

1. Tory hypocrisy vis-à-vis #NHS laid bare by *clap on Sunday, clamp on Monday*
#7MemesFor7Days

2. Johnson made his mismanagement of C19 in #CareHomes worse by BLAMING them for the high death toll —a mistake he's tried to row back from, but refuses to do the one thing that might help: apologise, even tho' Starmer gave him 3 opportunities to do so at #PMQs.
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3. The Times announced Cummings will cut the UK's armed forces. One Tory backbencher (#TobiasEllwood)found his backbone & questioned *Why Dom?* Another(#MarkFrançois) took it as a cue to threaten a General he'd get Cummings on to him. Silence from DefenseSec...🙄
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THE WEEK IN POLITICS
#7MemesFor7Days of political immaturity, incompetence and idiocy —or is this evil by design?

1. Sunday: fall-out from Mikey Gove's Ditchley Lecture. Using reaching for FDR's greatness as cover, he revealed he wants radical experimentation without oversight.
#7MemesFor7Days

2. Monday: a new, inane 3-word slogan (#BuildBuildBuild) to headline another lacklustre prime ministerial speech. A prelude to more broken promises, more taxpayers' £ down the drain & a dead cat to distract us from the merciless drive towards NO DEAL with the EU.
#7MemesFor7Days

3. Tuesday: Johnson fulfilled the promise he made on 26June2016 that despite Brexit, we Brits wld still be able to live, study, work, buy property, set up a business & retire in the EU.

NOT REALLY! Rat-b*stard Cons voted to strip us Brits of #FreedomOfMovement.
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Have you all read .@michaelgove's Ditchley Lecture?

"The Privilege of Public Service" runs to 139 paragraphs over 69 (double-spaced) pages.

The main topic is civil service *reform* —but it covers so much more & raises interesting QUESTIONS...

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MG quotes Antonio Gramsci,"The crisis consists precisely of the fact that the inherited is dying—and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

In our case the inherited was assassinated, the loss an uncompensated diminishment...

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Brexiters have put NOTHING forward to compensate for stripping 66m of us Brits of our #FreedomOfMovement — a FREEDOM millions in service industries rely on it to do our jobs. Without it, we're less competitive on our own Continent.

Govt isn't even being honest abt it...

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