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Feb 4 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Randox is every VIP. Civil servants were told by Ministers - explicitly or implicitly - to give them contracts or else. bylinetimes.com/2022/02/03/gov…
VIPs knew it. Baroness Mone was "incandescent with rage" and going to Michael Gove and Matt Hancock.
Civil servants knew it. Here is a civil servant worrying about Andrew Mills kicking off if he doesn't get a contract.
Matt Hancock has repeatedly said he didn't have anything to do with the award of contracts.
But here he is bullying civil servants into giving special treatment to Randox for which former Tory MP Owen Paterson worked as a highly paid consultant (bylinetimes.com/2022/02/03/gov…).
And here he is helping out a bid supported by another disgraced former Tory MP, Brooks Newmark (independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…).
The catastrophic and corrupt process for pandemic procurement meant that our of every £13 we spent on PPE £10 was wasted: more than £10bn in total.

We don't yet know how much of the £37bn spent on Test and Trace was wasted. goodlawproject.org/news/ppe-to-go…

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Feb 1
It is just staggering how wasteful (at best) Government's PPE buying was. On their own figures they spent £13bn on procurement, storage and transportation.
The value of its existing inventory was reduced by £8.7bn.
And the value of its future inventory is reduced by £1.2bn.
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Jan 30
This, from a joint article by Johnson and Sunak, is a simple lie. The National Insurance Contributions rise will in fact fall least on those who can most afford it. It is a tax rise that lets the mega rich off the hook.
Most of us get by on wages. Most of us don't have huge amounts of interest income or dividends or rents or capital gains. It's the mega wealthy who have huge amounts of unearned income. The NICs rise on wages is high and on unearned income it is low or nil.
What I have said is true. Some economists will tell you the NICs rise is "progressive". If by "progressive" they mean it hits the middle class people more than the working class it's true. If by "progressive they mean it hits the top 0.1% harder than everyone else it's false.
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Jan 28
So, earlier this week I was cleared by my professional regulator following a complaint. Complaints from people who don't like my politics are pretty commonplace* so I don't usually bother to tweet when I am cleared.

*E.g. I have actually been cleared on two complaints this week.
This complaint related to my work arguing for greater respect for trans people. But it was notable because it was made by a BBC journalist who wrote to my regulator from his BBC email address.
That journalist has written some of the many pieces the BBC chooses to carry that are hostile to the trans community. And he sought to bounce my regulator into issuing a statement condemning me for an interview I gave about the Bell case.
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Jan 26
Widespread hate speech against trans people means we now rank - according to the world's leading international human rights organisation - alongside Hungary, Poland, the Russian Federation and Turkey. pace.coe.int/en/files/29418… Image
This state of affairs has come about, in large part, because our media elites come from a narrow, unrepresentative, pool of people who have largely homogenous (and hostile) attitudes towards trans people. vice.com/en/article/889…
That the Mail, The Times and the Sunday Times should have a high tolerance, if not enthusiasm, for hate-speech against a minority should surprise no-one. That that tendency should also be found at the BBC is really shocking.
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Jan 21
Interesting question whether Cressida Dick will have to obtain and hand over Sue Gray's evidence pursuant to Ms Dick's duty of candour in Good Law Project's judicial review... theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
A non-Defendant department which holds relevant material is subject to analogous disclosure obligations to those of the Defendant department (extract from Govt guidance on the duty of candour). Can't immediately see why the situation should be different here...
If that's so, I think the only question is relevance and if we're saying (amongst other things) that the decision not to investigate is irrational that casts a wide net on relevance. Anyway: watch this space, I guess.
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Jan 20
Here's the response from Government lawyers to our pre-action claim on 23 November that they were blackmailing MPs to vote to exonerate Owen Paterson. Not remotely a denial.
You can read the exchange of correspondence here (the crowdfunder remains closed for the time being). crowdjustice.com/case/tell-no-1…
It's been, I am afraid, the pattern since 2016. Contempt for our constitution. Contempt for the rule of law. Contempt for the truth. And contempt for the public.
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