There's no doubt that procurement was difficult during that period, but given that the NHS has thousands of staff dedicated to this, procurement channels and contacts, processes for handling this, years of experience and knowledge of what was required, I really can't imagine why politicians...
I'm wondering when the Covid independent Enquiry gets onto this, the 'world leading' track and trace and the other methods of syphoning money from the NHS. The planned, organised, corruption endemic throughout the Cabinet when people were dying in their thousands will make Partygate look like a...
Because a fast track program (since found to be illegal) was set up and used by Government Ministers, MPs, Lords, SPADS and donors for this very purpose :shrug:
I agree with so much of that. Unfortunately, there are always people who will take the opportunity to display greed and corruption at the first opportunity, and the people in that article you quoted could possibly be accused of the greed part.
But far worse for me is when your own Government is...
Unfortunately Lenny, these aren't one off cases and this was a company that at least had a history of supplying PPE and wasn't set up specifically by family, friends or local publicans of Cabinet members, MPs, SPADS and financial backers of the Government. The whole 'fast track' set up was...
That report is absolutely damning with I note, our old friend Lord Agnew popping up yet again. And Rishi Sunak is “absolutely shocked” by the revelations even though he was in the second most senior post in Government throughout all of this.
But the most damning thing in all of this, is that...
No ‘VIP lane’ existed for PPE, says Conservative former minister
A Tory ex-Treasury minister has denied the existence of a so-called VIP lane over personal protective equipment (PPE) as the Government scrambled to find sufficient kit in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. The idea of there...
Well let's see who has been named as being involved in the PPE fast track program (which, incidentally, has since been found to be unlawful) so far ?
Lord Agnew
Brooks Newmark
Lord Feldman
Lord Chadlington
Matt Hancock
Julian Lewis
Andrew Percy
Steve Brine
Esther McVey
Lord Deighton
Baroness...
Hancock straight from the Jungle to Jail for his pub landlord's fast track PPE contract despite having had no previous experience of producing medical supplies ?
Or maybe for the shares he had in his sister's company that also got a fast track PPE contract ?
I sincerely hope you are correct as I believe that this happening while people were dying is just about the most immoral thing that this Government has done (and that is amongst some serious competition). However I really can't see it happening :down:
I bet you were hoping this thread would drop down the board after that contribution. Even Pretty pink fairy has made more eloquent defences of Johnson's misdemeanours :wink: