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
4/ using vast sums of taxpayers’ money on her own PR gurus.
At the same time the Times reported an ex-Tory councillor won a £276m PPE contract...and, within months, upgraded from modest home in Stroud to a £1.5m Cotswold mansion with 100 acres of land. How is this allowed to
At the same time the Times reported an ex-Tory councillor won a £276m PPE contract...and, within months, upgraded from modest home in Stroud to a £1.5m Cotswold mansion with 100 acres of land. How is this allowed to
5/ have happened?
Alex Bourne, who used to run a pub near to the health secretary’s former home in Suffolk, said he offered his services by sending Hancock a personal WhatsApp message.
The BBC reported the Cabinet Office, which oversees government's buying policies,
Alex Bourne, who used to run a pub near to the health secretary’s former home in Suffolk, said he offered his services by sending Hancock a personal WhatsApp message.
The BBC reported the Cabinet Office, which oversees government's buying policies,
6/ changed the procurement rules for contracts relating to the government's response to COVID-19. The National Audit Office (NAO) has responsibility to investigate the lack of tendering and transparency, and launch investigations, as necessary.
The NAO found not enough was done
The NAO found not enough was done
7/ to address potential conflicts of interest by ministers and other government officials. It found more than 8,600 coronavirus contracts had been awarded by 31 July, ranging in value from less than £100 to £410m. Of these, £10.5bn-worth (58%) were awarded directly without a
8/ competitive tender process. bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
Over half of the £18bn spent on pandemic-related contracts was awarded without competitive tender, the NAO said. The spending watchdog said the government was not transparent about suppliers and services. It also found
Over half of the £18bn spent on pandemic-related contracts was awarded without competitive tender, the NAO said. The spending watchdog said the government was not transparent about suppliers and services. It also found
9/ there was inadequate explanation of key spending decisions.
The summary of the conflicts of interest (corruption) & failure behind Test-and-Trace has seen the normally loyal Tory press round on the Vote-Leave-led response to the including the scandal of Johnson’s appointment
The summary of the conflicts of interest (corruption) & failure behind Test-and-Trace has seen the normally loyal Tory press round on the Vote-Leave-led response to the including the scandal of Johnson’s appointment
10/ of Bingham and her subsequent actions: ‘Vaccine tsar Kate Bingham runs up £670,000 PR bill’ - “With appearances at £2,000-a-head conferences and a huge PR bill, her conduct is worrying Whitehall.”
thetimes.co.uk/article/vaccin…
These reports come as the Sunday Times reports
thetimes.co.uk/article/vaccin…
These reports come as the Sunday Times reports
11/ “One of Britain’s most influential lobbyists secretly served as an adviser to a health minister for six months — before sending sensitive information on lockdown policy to paying clients.” The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) appointed Pascoe-Watson, 55, a former
12/ journalist, as an adviser during the pandemic’s first wave on April 9 without announcing the move. He served as an adviser to a health minister for six months — before sending sensitive information on lockdown policy to paying clients.George Pascoe-Watson
13/ is chairman of Portland Communications, a lobbying firm that represents pharmaceutical companies, weapons manufacturers and banks.
The FT also reports “Covid vaccine PR executive linked to Dominic Cummings’ father-in-law” “A director of the public relations firm paid
The FT also reports “Covid vaccine PR executive linked to Dominic Cummings’ father-in-law” “A director of the public relations firm paid
14/ £670,000 to advise the head of the UK government’s coronavirus vaccine task force is a longstanding business associate of Dominic Cummings’ father-in-law” ft.com/content/6159d5…
An FOI request of the Health and Safety Executive in relation to PPE supplied to the Department
An FOI request of the Health and Safety Executive in relation to PPE supplied to the Department
15/ of Health by Pestfix has turned up some quite extraordinary material:
There has been attempted gagging - the HSE and even the Army have been attempted to drawn into the cover-up about upon numbers, intermediaries and failure to meet the right
https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1327552884385472513?s=12
There has been attempted gagging - the HSE and even the Army have been attempted to drawn into the cover-up about upon numbers, intermediaries and failure to meet the right
16/ specification. A matter which is under legal review.
Almost $50 million (approx. £37 million) in taxpayer money was paid to one man. The funds did not pay for PPE directly but for a Spanish businessman “to act as a middleman to sort the logistics” for the Government to
Almost $50 million (approx. £37 million) in taxpayer money was paid to one man. The funds did not pay for PPE directly but for a Spanish businessman “to act as a middleman to sort the logistics” for the Government to
17/ buy PPE from a jeweller in Florida. Gabriel González Andersson received the reward from a company set up by a US jewellery designer with no experience of supplying personal protective equipment (PPE) and which won contracts with the government worth about £250 million.
18/ Now the Good Law Project, alongside Every Doctor, are taking legal action to find out why huge contracts were awarded to a jewellery specialist over other suppliers and what the Government did to check if this supplier was reliable.
cityam.com/government-fac…
Again,
cityam.com/government-fac…
Again,
19/ Government suppressed an official report showing that one million rapid antibody tests it purchased from Abingdon Health were not fit for purpose The Government suppressed an official report that proved there were issues with rapid antibody tests purchased by the Department
20/ of Health. Leaked emails reveal the Government blocked Public Health England from publishing their findings until after they could make an announcement that they had purchased one million antibody tests from Abingdon Health. On 14th August, Tories handed Abingdon Health
21/ another contract worth a staggering £75million crowdjustice.com/case/abingdon-…
Meanwhile, there is the catastrophic failure of Dido Harding’s miserable
Meanwhile, there is the catastrophic failure of Dido Harding’s miserable
22/ Test-and-Trace, a £12bn budget has criminally squandered, whilst spectacularly failing to drive the infection rate, caused directly by the government’s ideological free market extremist dogma. “Money that could have saved lives has been diverted into” [Vote Leave &
23/ Tufton-Street linked] “corporate profits.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Without scrutiny, and in flagrant breach of the oversight that existed before Tories scrapped the process citing SARS-COVID as an excuse for the free market vandalism of public health, the failed
Without scrutiny, and in flagrant breach of the oversight that existed before Tories scrapped the process citing SARS-COVID as an excuse for the free market vandalism of public health, the failed
24/ contact tracing APP doled our public money to the likes of:
– Go Pivotal (UK) Limited – £1,822,210
– Zuhlke Engineering Ltd – £6,774,432
– NCC Services Limited – £132,375
– Nine23 Ltd – £51,600.00
– VMWARE UK LIMITED – £3,025,739
– Cloudflare Inc – £78,504
– Go Pivotal (UK) Limited – £1,822,210
– Zuhlke Engineering Ltd – £6,774,432
– NCC Services Limited – £132,375
– Nine23 Ltd – £51,600.00
– VMWARE UK LIMITED – £3,025,739
– Cloudflare Inc – £78,504
25/ – HeleCloud Limited – £162,768.00
Under Harding, Conservatives gifted Randox, sponsors of the Cheltenham Festival, a £133m deal to supply testing kits with no due diligence, scrutiny, governance, advertisement or competition: George Monbiot: theguardian.com/commentisfree/….
Under Harding, Conservatives gifted Randox, sponsors of the Cheltenham Festival, a £133m deal to supply testing kits with no due diligence, scrutiny, governance, advertisement or competition: George Monbiot: theguardian.com/commentisfree/….
26/: theguardian.com/commentisfree/….
According to the British Medical Association (BMW) deals struck behind closed doors allowed by ‘contingency measures’ put in place during the pandemic to circumvent normal tendering processes have been handed to : DHL, Unipart and Movianto to
According to the British Medical Association (BMW) deals struck behind closed doors allowed by ‘contingency measures’ put in place during the pandemic to circumvent normal tendering processes have been handed to : DHL, Unipart and Movianto to
27/ procure, manage logistics of and store PPE (personal protective equipment); Deloitte to manage the logistics of national drive-in testing centres and super-labs; Serco to run the contact tracing programme; Palantir and Faculty A.I. to build the COVID-19 datastore and
28/ Capita to onboard returning health workers in England. [bma.org.uk/news-and-opini… ]
‘Since the passing of the Health and Social Care Act in 2012 the NHS in England has been forced down a route of increased marketisation and privatisation – and the Government has accelerated
‘Since the passing of the Health and Social Care Act in 2012 the NHS in England has been forced down a route of increased marketisation and privatisation – and the Government has accelerated
29/ its aggressive outsourcing to private firms during the COVID-19 pandemic,’ according to BMA council deputy chair David Wrigley
This is not even taking into account the bizarre exclusion of people from the process, due to credit checking agency involvement. A consequence of
This is not even taking into account the bizarre exclusion of people from the process, due to credit checking agency involvement. A consequence of
30/ not being able to verify your identity online is that people with no or limited credit histories are being affecte Research from 2018 suggests there may be up to 5.8 million people with little or no credit history. Department for Health and Social Care, which is running the
31/ test system across the UK, says it uses a credit reference agency, TransUnion, to verify people's identities to prevent testing kit ‘fraud.’ This is imbecilic. bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
And yet even after all the exposure to existing dodgy practices, Johnson plans to provide
And yet even after all the exposure to existing dodgy practices, Johnson plans to provide
32/ 10 million coronavirus tests a day by early next year, as reported by Sky News (news.sky.com/story/coronavi…), a massive expansion of Johnson’s failed privatisation of public health in this pandemic, with no transparency, checks or oversight, have been described by expert critics
33/ as "waste/corruption on a cosmic scale". The mass testing programme would cost £100bn, which would be fed to private companies GSK, AstraZeneca, Serco and G4S costing almost as much as the government spends on the NHS each year (£130bn) - according to a briefing memo seen
34/ by medical journal The BMJ.
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