That's the same thing.
That's the same thing.
It is unsurprising. They suspended the tendering processes which usually weed these things out because they've never get the contract if up against genuine bids. Suspending tendering was good, because it allowed much quicker ordering but it meant the people having to make the decision had to be trusted to do their own due diligence and they will undoubtedly have been taken advantage of by overpaying to anyone with stock, or it seems, just the promise of stock.
Are you really saying that the suspension of tendering was a good thing but it meant that the nice folk making the decisions were unfortunately hoodwinked?
No, I mean it is the identical situation. It isn't a different story. It is the same company.Yup. It's corrupt.
It was good because tendering takes ages and we didn't have ages. It was an emergency. Most businesses were happy to help and didn't take advantage but there will have been a minority that did. When I say "nice folk making the decisions" I mean the people working in the NHS doing their usual jobs in tense times, not the politicians. This advisor is not the decision maker, he is someone that knew the rules and then set up a company to take advantage and hoodwinked a decision maker.
No, I mean it is the identical situation. It isn't a different story. It is the same company.
It says something when the best chance of a reversal of the trend is a hope that the more moderate Tories, those with some level of morals, get together and stick the knife into this shambolic, amateur, corrupt bunch of absolute chancers.
bank balance is fineHave you checked your bank account, that may be clear too.
Ernest Marples - Minister for Transport 1959-64 - owner of Marples-Ridgqway [A major road builder] was the force behind the closure of 4000 miles of Britains Railways [Beeching was the person chosen to wield the axe].
Marples company was a major benefactor from the increasing focus on car - centric 1960`s +. His company built new roads, motorways, by-passes and acquired huge swathes of public land, courtesy of public money.
He benefited by millions and fled Britain amidst allegations of tax fraud, leaving the legacy we see today.
Conflict of Interest (?) You bet!
Boromike posted something interesting. The covid bill does allow circumvention of the tendering process. However to suggest that the government have been taken to the cleaners, surely he is having a giggle. Here is just one example, and the Good Law Project will get their judicial review on this, the government spent 850,000 of our tax pounds under the pandemic emergency legislation, to pay for a brexit report. No tendering process and it went to an organization that was newly incorporated.
The emergency legislation have allowed the government to funnel money from the poor to the rich at an unprecedented rate.
Let's not talk about the rat catchers, who get a 1 million contract to supply PPE. They had 16 employees, or the company that was incorporated 2 days after lockdown with a share value of £2 that was given a 1.5 million contract to supply PPE. Neither company supplied a single item of PPE.
This is not about people being hoodwinked and Boromike if you believe that you are an idiot, if you are trotting it out as an excuse you are morally bankrupt.
I'll say it again. Day by day it must be getting more difficult for Conservative or Conservative leaning folks to defend this corrupt rabble. Those of them with a moral compass anyway.
I'd have helped. With no knowledge of what was required, I'd be happy to pocket taxpayers money for not delivering anything.It was good because tendering takes ages and we didn't have ages. It was an emergency. Most businesses were happy to help and didn't take advantage but there will have been a minority that did. When I say "nice folk making the decisions" I mean the people working in the NHS doing their usual jobs in tense times, not the politicians. This advisor is not the decision maker, he is someone that knew the rules and then set up a company to take advantage and hoodwinked a decision maker.
No, I mean it is the identical situation. It isn't a different story. It is the same company.
I'd have helped. With no knowledge of what was required, I'd be happy to pocket taxpayers money for not delivering anything.
In an emergency, getting things right are critical, not how quick the tendering process is.
There really ought to be jail time at some point. Shouldnt the queen be piping up and protect her subjects. Our money just being given away to the rich
Sorry Mike, I don't buy that at all. The government are complicit in every covid emergency purchase, I understand that other departments play a part, but very clearly the government are manipulating the situation to shovel our money into the hands of friends of the party.If you read my posts then you will see that I didn't defend anyone in government. I defended the abandonment of the tendering process as a necessity in an emergency and I defended the majority of people that were placing orders without the security of a tendering process behind them and all of the companies that went over and above to help out where possible. Some dishonest people/businesses and governmental decision makers have taken the opportunity to line their pockets and I clearly haven't or wouldn't defend them.
It was common knowledge that we were overpaying for all sorts of stuff, it is no surprise that people that know the system knew how/where to insert themselves to make some money. This is why we have a tendering process and why we are audited because it reduces the opportunity for people to do this sort of thing without getting caught.
The government aren't a single entity. It was individuals taking the **** which an organisation can't stop. What it can do is punish people when it is found that they have done something wrong. Standing by people that have been found out essentially committing fraud is reprehensible and should be called out.