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21 May, 12 tweets, 4 min read
PRIZE TIME: This year's @thesundaytimes #RichList is here. They missed some stuff. Can you guess what?

Time for a quiz!

A winner will receive a print of our #CronyVulture ... like and share to enter!

📸 from the amazing @jealous_gallery
Who gave a £14.4m PPE contract to a “horse-racing friend” whose company had never made PPE before? (Clue: they had to give the money back)🐴
Correct Answer: Matt Hancock
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/10/fri…
Who had a picture of The Cock Inn, the pub that won a Covid contract, allegedly via whatsapp, hanging up behind them on their Zoom calls? 🍻
Correct Answer: Matt Hancock
Who took down a picture of The Cock Inn that they had hanging up behind them on zoom calls after it got spotted and reported by a citizen? 🕵️‍♀️
Correct Answer: Matt Hancock
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Who was given shares in a company run by his sister who won Covid contracts?🤦‍♀️
Correct Answer: Matt Hancock
metro.co.uk/2021/04/16/mat…
Who helped a fellow Tory win a £180m PPE contract?
🤜🤛
Correct Answer: Matt Hancock
thetimes.co.uk/article/matt-h…
How did you do? Are you ready to win a prize? Remember to like and re-tweet to be in with a chance.

Special mega shout out thanks to @jealous_gallery who are also selling our prints, and have hung one up in their window! 🙏

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21 May
🧐Be the first to spot who is both on the #SundayTimesRichList and on the #CronyTimesRichList, and win a pallet of the unusable PPE your taxes paid for! 🥳😷🍾

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The pandemic brought so many decent folks to their knees. Our #CronyTimesRichList shares the names and profits of the people who took advantage of it.
cronyrichlist.com
And we are #keepingthereceipts
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5 May
You may have seen the story from @sophie_e_hill of My Little Crony.

She found out that Dyson Technical Training Ltd, a direct subsidiary of the Dyson company, appointed Boris Johnson's brother Jo Johnson to its board in Feb 2020.
What's the issue? Lord Johnson might have done nothing wrong. But his brother -the PM- WAS being texted by James Dyson in March 2020. Then Johnson said he'd 'fix' a tax issue so Dyson employees wouldn't pay extra tax if they came to the UK to make ventilators during the crisis.
The interesting thing, though, is the timing...

Lord Jo Johnson was appointed to Dyson Tech in Feb 2020.
The texts between his brother, Boris, and his effective boss happened in March 2020.
But Lord Johnson's appointment was only made public and registered on 24 April 2020.
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29 Apr
BREAKING: £1.53bn in UK gov contracts have been won by lobby companies listed on UK's statutory Lobbyist Register.

The list, launched in 2015, has 178 companies that lobby parliament for clients

53 (30%) of them have won gov contracts in the last 7 yrs.

registrarofconsultantlobbyists.org.uk
If you also include 3 of the ‘Big 4’ consultancies who are on the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists (Deloitte, KPMG and PwC are on the list but deny they’re lobbyists) at least £11.6bn worth of UK government contracts have been won.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
In total, 401 gov contracts have been won by 53 lobbying groups (minus the ‘Big 4’) since the register began in March 2015.

Some firms joined the register after 2015, but we included all gov contracts won in the last 7 yrs, as there was a time-lag for some companies to register.
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28 Apr
BREAKING: We’ve issued a pre-action letter against the government with ⁦@Foxglovelegal⁩.

We believe it’s unlawful that Boris Johnson is running a ‘government by WhatsApp’. These messages MUST be preserved.

Please join us in this crucial fight for transparency!
We have laws that state govt comms must be reviewed with key ones preserved for the historical record.

Yet this entire period of history is set to disappear down a black hole.

This MUST be challenged in the courts. So we are. But we need your help.

crowdjustice.com/case/stop-disa…
Here’s @MrHarryCole in today’s @TheSun with news of our claim. This isn’t about politics, it’s about democracy.

Texts & WhatsApp & Signal messages are allowing this govt to do business under the cloak of darkness

thesun.co.uk/news/14784160/…
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27 Apr
So, we now know that it was Lord Brownlow who paid £58,000 towards the cost of makeover of the PM's Downing Street flat....

what hasn't been reported is that Brownlow, in his role as founder and director of Huntswood CTC Limited, has also benefited from government contracts.
The man ranked 521st richest person in UK with est. £271m fortune, who paid the Tory party nearly £60,000 towards Boris Johnson's requested refurbishments, runs a firm linked to awards of contracts worth as much as £120,060,000

…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/039693…
The first we've found was that Huntswood was part of a framework agreement "for suppliers to provide skilled person reports" owned and managed by the Financial Conduct Authority.

That award was for up to £120m, granted in 2016 and ending last month.

contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/3af07f8…
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21 Apr
BREAKING:

Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies wins a new £1.2bn framework agreement published yesterday and awarded by the Crown Commercial Service.
contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/8d7bebf…
Palantir is featured as one of 31 companies funded to help Crown Commercial Service, the largest public sector procurement portal in the UK, establish a contracting route for “Back Office Software” to be used by central government departments and all other UK Public Sector bodies Image
The contract began on 6th April 2021, and will run until 6th October 2023 with a 30 month agreement with the option to extend for a further 18 months, and the new back office software will be deployed among the following public sector bodies looking to purchase software from CCS: Image
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