There is a name for how Govt's shamelessly profit and subcontract to multinationals during times of crisis, it's known as Disaster Capitalism. Treachery, betrayal, plundering of tax payers money, demonising of the other, endless deflection, lies, partying, criminal negligence,
democide, the transfer of public money into private hands, your punishment is what keeps the champagne flowing. Your families well being discarded for pure venality, the public sector is total anathema to this Govt, Brexit+Covid=Goldrush for the Tories. #unacceptable
UK tax payers, please read! You're being taken for mugs, the Tories have scrounged your money and given it to companies...in China!
Hong Kong based oil and gas firm Jason Offshore Equipment was handed a £25 million contract in June 2020. 18 months later, the DHSC still hasn’t
published the contract, directly contradicting Boris Johnson’s claims in Parliament that all PPE contracts were now “on the record”. PPE contracts worth £173 million were awarded to China Meheco Co. Ltd and Winner Medical, both of whom have been linked to Uighur human rights
abuses in Xinjiang. Government has previously misled the public about other aspects of the deal. A £96 million contract awarded to Beijing Union Glory Investment Co. Ltd – a firm that operated out of a hotel room in Beijing.
State-controlled China
National Instruments Import & Export Group landed 3 contracts worth £130,000,000. Department of Health’s Annual Report revealed that of every £13 we spent on PPE, £10 was wasted. How long must hard-working taxpayers carry the heavy burden of this Government’s waste and sleaze?

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Feb 8
Thinking about why Tory constituencies have 10 times the amount of Govt funding than red wall ones. I believe Post Brexit the UK will birth Charter cities that are self regulated, meaning they can choose how their taxes are spent, in the Tories hands this conveniently transforms
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Lexiter Larry Elliott talking piles of sh*t again
Johnson vaccine rollout ignores that of 30m jabs in UK, 13m Pfizer imported from EU, 5m from India+non-trivial amounts from NL. UK only provided 20% of its 68m pop.
@BylineTimes please expose Elliott's BS.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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