1: Good Law Project has successfully forced the Government to reveal the names of the 47 companies in the PPE VIP lane.
The Information Commissioner has ordered Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) to disclose the names of these 47 companies to us within 35 calendar days.
2: The Information Commissioner wrote in her decision earlier today:
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3: Information Commissioner: @GoodLawProject
“The DHSC has not disclosed the requested information, nor advised the Commissioner that it considers it is otherwise exempt by virtue of another exemption. The DHSC has therefore failed to comply with its obligations under FOIA.”
2/ Into sharp focus now the violence, threats, abuse, racism & insults endured & suffered daily by our public servants, emergency services & key workers - just doing their jobs.
1/ The Ben Elliot model for the Tory party is based on his business.
Quintessentially it is a concierge service for rich people who want introductions and invitations at the top level of society.
The Tory party in a nutshell.
2/Mohamed Amersi, Tory co-chair, looms large in the Pandora papers.
Amersi has deliciously called the system “access capitalism”, a term that deserves to find its way into a dictionary of quotations.
You buy your way in.
Forget elections. Forget democracy.
The Conservatives.
3/ Now Pandora’s box has been well & truly opened.
Boris Johnson, the big winner from this rotten financial system, needs to explain to British voters why the Conservative Party appears to be funded by a new class of super-rich tax avoiders.
1/ Whilst everyone is focused on the Tory £20 Universal Credit Cut, unmentioned & under the radar & possibly crueller is this Tory Government’s continuing attack on the sick & disabled.
So much for a promise.
2/ Johnson’s Govt had claimed that disability benefit recipients would be no worse off on UC.
2 severely disabled men shortchanged by about £180 a month when forced to move to the benefit are having to launch a high court challenge - for the 3rd time🤦♀️
3/ Both severely disabled men have already won two high court verdicts & one court of appeal verdict ruling that the cuts were unlawful & that they were entitled to compensation
They were forced to transfer to UC when moving to a local authority area where UC had been rolled out