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30 Apr, 9 tweets, 3 min read

#Brexit Lorry Parks Fiasco part 3 - a detour to look at WSP #FBPE #FollowBackFriday

On 11 May 2017 Mark Naysmith WSP boss spoke in favour of a conservative victory arguing that it would boost the sector's confidence.

He didn't mention that his firm stood to benefit from the additional infrastructure required by Brexit . WSP was already working on the M 20 commercial assurance contract which it had won through a competitive tender.

The additional infrastructure of lorry parks and potential port development required by Brexit obviously offered huge opportunities to the firm.

WSP is a major construction contractor whose global parent company had been penalised for "shady"political donations in Quebec and ultimately the funds were reimbursed.

The UK arm has adopted a different strategy of making donations to parliamentary groups covering areas such as smart cities- these will lead to future contracts.

It is also working on the House of Commons renovation, HS2, feasibility studies for Ramsgate and aggressively acquiring other firms and poaching their staff. The firm has also poached Leslie Hume formerly of the Cabinet Office perhaps because of her connections

Some links for you to "enjoy"
"Shady donations"
montreal.ctvnews.ca/engineering-fi…

Re EU Funding
scotsman.com/business/big-i…

In favour of conservatives
constructionnews.co.uk/agenda/wsp-bos…

M20 contract
contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/05c69c8…

Example of Parliamentary Groups
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallpar…

Leslie Hume poaching

wsp.com/en-GB/news/201…

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