#covid #viplane #gove #mone I fear we will all be waiting for flying pigs on this one. But thanks for the alert Jack 🏴
https://mastodon.scot/@JackTheCat/114742553413225010
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/covid-conman-lied-1m-company-35445505
BBC News: Corruption review finds 'red flags' in more than 130 Covid contracts
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevj3y7n33vo
#Corruption
#Tories
#Covid
#CovidContracts
#VIPLane
#TransparencyInternationalUK
#CovidInquiry
#NAO
#PublicAccountsCommittee
#Reeves
The next stage of the covid PPE VIP lane scandal to be unearthed by @goodlawproject looks likely to be that 'a small group of senior civil servants created false evidence trails to try & cover up the fact that valuable PPE contracts were diverted to Tory VIPs'!
Yup, more evidence of the levels of Tory corruption.... and of course, as in so many previous political scandals, its the cover-up that may finally take down the participants
New from @GoodLawProject: the fixers who made £98m from the Tories’ VIP lane
https://goodlaw.social/gocr
#goodlaw #viplane #ToryCorruption
The biggest VIP lane winner of the pandemic was a company called Innova. Good Law Project has seen a cache of documents from US courts about its 🤯 affairs.
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Broker bought £7.25m manor house weeks after landing VIP lane contracts
'...£7.25m Berkshire stately home was bought in July 2020 with profits from contracts landed through the #Tories’ #unlawful #VIPLane – contracts where more than 40% of the money was spent on #PPE that the #NHS felt unable to use.
https://goodlawproject.org/broker-bought-7-25m-manor-house-weeks-after-landing-vip-lane-contracts/
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCorruption #Covid19 #ProfitsBeforePeople
Michael Gove under investigation by parliament’s standards watchdog | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-gove-standards-watchdog-investigation-b2504660.html
#Gove
#Investigation
#HousingSecretary
#FinancialInterestsDisclosure
#RegistrationOfInterests
#StandardsCommissioner
#PPEContracts
#ToryDonor
#QPRFootballMatch
#QueensParkRangersFootballClub
#QPR
#LibDems
#Tories
#VIPLane
#MET
#Stewart
#Cates
Michael Gove lobbied by #Covid19 #VIPlane’s biggest winner of #PPE contracts
Exclusive: then #CabinetOffice minister had phone call with #Unispace, which weeks later got the first of £680m worth of deals
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/02/michael-gove-lobbied-by-covid-vip-lanes-biggest-winner-of-ppe-contracts
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCorruption
“The multimillionaire husband of the embattled Conservative peer Michelle Mone is linked to a series of tax avoidance companies that may have assisted their clients in submitting misleading claims to HMRC, documents suggest.”
Colour me shocked. Not.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/18/michelle-mone-husband-douglas-barrowman
#PostOffice scandal. Great to see the outrage over #Horizon and all the politicians getting on the bandwagon.
How about an #ITV drama on #VIPLane in #Covid procurement? Where is the wasted £37 billion?
Including "up to four times higher than average", and forgetting to mention that some of such companies sprouted out like mushrooms after the rain and were led by relatives and friends of the politicians referring them to the government ... Theft by another name, yet, indeed, they have "done nothing wrong": all legal. But legal isn't moral, or right, or impervious to further legal inquire and revision – time will tell.
Tories can’t prove £259 BILLION of public procurement was spent ‘wisely’ | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/12/22/tories-cant-prove-259-billion-of-public-procurement-was-spent-wisely/
#Conservative #ToryCriminals #Tories #government #£259 billion #public procurement #wisely #PPE #Covid-19 #crisis #pandemic #VIPlane #ToryScum
Mone moans, Bethell contradicts; but where did he get his evidence? | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/12/20/mone-moans-bethell-contradicts-but-where-did-he-get-his-evidence/
Like rats scrapping in a sack
#JamesBethell #LordBethell #MichelleMone #WhatsApp #PPEMedpro #VIPlane #PPE #procurement #Covid-19 #Moderna #vaccine #Theleme #RishiSunak #ToryCriminals #ToryScum
A PPE farrago, a car crash interview and a fight with the PM: Lady Mone has her foot on the gas, hasn’t she?
Marina Hyde's views on the antics of "......bouncy-blow-dried plague profiteer Michelle Mone and her husband/support garment Doug Barrowman."
Marina Hyde offers a nice summary of #Tory greed, the #PPE scandal & the #viplane
'if you made £65m pure profit for helping during the most acute national crisis, then you didn’t help – you helped yourself'!
Amen to that!
(oh yes, in case you hadn't guessed she's talking about #michellemone)
@goodlawproject continue to dig up evidence on the scandal around #PPE and the #VIPlane.
You'll not be surprised to learn that firms referred through the scheme by ministers charged more than regular suppliers....
Money squandered, corrupt practice(s) & legitimate businesses bypassed. This really was (is) government for their chums.
The #Tories are a disgrace!
'#MichelleMone admits involvement with ‘#VIPLane’ #PPE company
Exclusive: #Tory peer and husband, #DouglasBarrowman, had repeatedly denied roles in firm given £200m government #Covid19 contracts'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/06/michelle-mone-admits-involvement-with-vip-lane-ppe-company
Oh, look who’s stuck her head above the parapet… or rather, her “representative” has. Where are you, Miche?
“Mone’s lawyer said at the time there were ‘a number of reasons why our client cannot comment on these issues’”, the main one being that the Guardian had her bang to rights, as is now clear from these admissions.
The @goodlawproject has had a (partial) victory at the High Court, with a finding that the #PPE #VIPlane was allocating contracts on a 'flawed basis' rendering its operation illegal.
As the Court concludes the VIP team was better resourced than other areas of #health procurement, but the speed of its decisions rendered them problematic...
An in case you'd forgotten; the VIP Lane was the mechanism by which the #Tories funnelled #pandemic related contracts to their mates!
https://goodlawproject.org/update/high-court-vip-lane-ppe-unlawful/
