Good Law Project Update - more snouts in trough

JackG

Well-known member
Good Law Project is now able to reveal the names of four more companies awarded contracts through the VIP lane: Clandeboye Agencies, P14 Medical, Luxe Lifestyle and Meller Designs.

These four are in addition to Ayanda, which enjoyed a £252m deal negotiated by Liz Truss adviser Andrew Mills. And Pestfix which won approximately £350m in contracts despite being described by Government as a company “which specialises in pest control products, that was dormant in 2018” (see page 73). There remain a further 41 firms yet to be revealed.

Good Law Project can also reveal that of the nine contracts the subject of the judicial review – one with Ayanda, two with Clandeboye and six with Pestfix – five or possibly six of them have failed in the sense that some or all of the PPE provided under them has proved unfit for its intended purpose (see page 2). Hundreds and hundreds of millions of pounds – spent with these three suppliers alone – have been wasted. It is inconceivable that this is the only waste. Moreover, the documents disclose that Pestfix and Matt Hancock are “in legal dispute” (see page 176).

In relation to Ayanda, civil servants were afraid of losing the contract with Ayanda because Andrew Mills “has close ties to DIT so wouldn’t be a good outcome” (see page 188), were concerned that Andrew Mills “is using previous relationships and making noise that we are not responsive” (page 190), and “Andrew comes through as highly backed as he sits on the board for DIT – so I don’t want things being escalated” (page 191).

The High Court said the Government should carry out additional searches for:

  1. texts and WhatsApp messages for some selected civil servants; and
  2. instructions, directions and decisions by Ministers in respect of the establishment, selection and criteria of the VIP lane.
It also said that the Government should supply details of the advice given by Emily Lawson in relation to FFP2 facemasks.

With reference to our other applications, the Government either has now supplied or agreed to supply the information we sought, or our application for that information was rejected by the Court.

The Government was ordered to pay our costs of the application.

Thank you,

Jo Maugham
Director of Good Law Project
 
This is phenomenal work. So important to scrutinise these things. I was once under the impressions contracts were scrutised by the government themselves which in hindsight seems very naive.

Hope they keep digging.
Covid legislation removed the scrutiny
 
Good Law Project is now able to reveal the names of four more companies awarded contracts through the VIP lane: Clandeboye Agencies, P14 Medical, Luxe Lifestyle and Meller Designs.

These four are in addition to Ayanda, which enjoyed a £252m deal negotiated by Liz Truss adviser Andrew Mills. And Pestfix which won approximately £350m in contracts despite being described by Government as a company “which specialises in pest control products, that was dormant in 2018” (see page 73). There remain a further 41 firms yet to be revealed.

Good Law Project can also reveal that of the nine contracts the subject of the judicial review – one with Ayanda, two with Clandeboye and six with Pestfix – five or possibly six of them have failed in the sense that some or all of the PPE provided under them has proved unfit for its intended purpose (see page 2). Hundreds and hundreds of millions of pounds – spent with these three suppliers alone – have been wasted. It is inconceivable that this is the only waste. Moreover, the documents disclose that Pestfix and Matt Hancock are “in legal dispute” (see page 176).

In relation to Ayanda, civil servants were afraid of losing the contract with Ayanda because Andrew Mills “has close ties to DIT so wouldn’t be a good outcome” (see page 188), were concerned that Andrew Mills “is using previous relationships and making noise that we are not responsive” (page 190), and “Andrew comes through as highly backed as he sits on the board for DIT – so I don’t want things being escalated” (page 191).

The High Court said the Government should carry out additional searches for:

  1. texts and WhatsApp messages for some selected civil servants; and
  2. instructions, directions and decisions by Ministers in respect of the establishment, selection and criteria of the VIP lane.
It also said that the Government should supply details of the advice given by Emily Lawson in relation to FFP2 facemasks.

With reference to our other applications, the Government either has now supplied or agreed to supply the information we sought, or our application for that information was rejected by the Court.

The Government was ordered to pay our costs of the application.

Thank you,

Jo Maugham
Director of Good Law Project
Thanks Jack.
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Tip of the iceberg here. The whole thing stinks but lets see if it cuts through; just put those numbers into perspective that's over £600m....an astonishing amount of money that could be used for so much good.
 
Not wishing to drag up an old post but when I called the emergency covid legislation for what it was there was a5 page thread with the usual suspects on my back. It was a money grab amongst other things.
 
Won't make a difference to voters, just take a look at teesside live, hey can be as corrupt as they like, as heartless as always but as long as they "got brexit done" all is well with the cult
 
Won't make a difference to voters, just take a look at teesside live, hey can be as corrupt as they like, as heartless as always but as long as they "got brexit done" all is well with the cult
Not sure I agree with that. Oddly enough the 80 quid a roll wallpaper might do it for working class voters. They can understand that.
 
Maybe the TV and radio reporters who have been canvassing voters over the past few days have just been unlucky or are deliberately choosing to show morons but the ones I've seen interviewed don't seem to be even semi-sentient. They have no clue about any of the corruption scandals that have been going on for the past year and cannot grasp the implications of Johnson taking bribes or even that he has taken bribes. Yet they seem very sure who they will vote for even as they are being robbed blind by the very same people. This country is fcuked.
 
Maybe the TV and radio reporters who have been canvassing voters over the past few days have just been unlucky or are deliberately choosing to show morons but the ones I've seen interviewed don't seem to be even semi-sentient. They have no clue about any of the corruption scandals that have been going on for the past year and cannot grasp the implications of Johnson taking bribes or even that he has taken bribes. Yet they seem very sure who they will vote for even as they are being robbed blind by the very same people. This country is fcuked.
Spot on.

It's frightening how easily some people are manipulated.
 

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”​


Abe Lincoln
They don't need to fool everyone though , with the right and left of labour pulling in opposite directions around 35 % will do
 

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”​


Abe Lincoln
Yes but because of how our political voting system is set up the Tories know they only have to fool/manipulate ‘some of the people’
The rest (the majority) but spread out across constituencies so they don’t impact the result can go and fcuk themselves
 
Not sure I agree with that. Oddly enough the 80 quid a roll wallpaper might do it for working class voters. They can understand that.
Doubt it, people don’t really care. Gazette spoke to some people who said it might be dishonest but won’t stop them supporting conservative candidates.
 
Doubt it, people don’t really care. Gazette spoke to some people who said it might be dishonest but won’t stop them supporting conservative candidates.
We'll see. The reason I think the wallpaper will do it with the public is because they understand 80 quid for a roll of wallpaper but have no concept of 37 billion on t&t. It clearly says he's not one of us.
 
We'll see. The reason I think the wallpaper will do it with the public is because they understand 80 quid for a roll of wallpaper but have no concept of 37 billion on t&t. It clearly says he's not one of us.
We will see. How many people cares about the bus or the contracts going to tory chums or contracts to ferry companies without a boat? Pratel not being sacked, cummings going to Bernard castle etc. Brief outrage then Something will get spun out about Labour council tax being sky high and all will be forgotten. People dont care hence the polls
 
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