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Fatmlad

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During the pandemic, 9,000 beds and mattresses were bought – at a cost to the NHS of £24m – for the Government’s Nightingale hospitals which lay largely empty.

From our investigations with the Daily Mirror, we can now reveal that 6,000 of these beds were not fit for clinical use, and have been sold off for only £410,000.

We found that in some cases, beds bought for thousands of pounds were being flogged for as little as £6 each.
 
Sooooo........this COVID enquiry.

Serious question, what's the end game?

We know what utter shambles the government made of it start to finish, thousands of lives lost un-necessarily. We know the corruption. We know billions were siphoned out of the public purse to their families, friends, doners etc. We know the lies, the cover ups. We know it was seen primarily as a massive money making opportunity at any cost.

Where will it lead 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️
 
In fairness, the news reports coming out of Italy were that we would need mass dorm size hospital wards to cope with the sheer amount of people dying of covid so a lot of stuff was bought in a panic to ensure that something was there. There was definitely some stuff that was worth buying in case we needed it that we didn't end up needing and it is a far better situation to have stuff you don't need than to have dying patients with nowhere to care for them.

I'm not absolving anyone of inappropriate contracts and all the backhanders etc but there will have been lots of things purchased with good intentions by the people given the task of procuring these things that were never used and we don't need to blame those people for doing what they believed was the right thing to do.
 
Staff in some Whitehall departments who were told to work from home had office chairs bought for them on the understanding that they would be returned once everyone went back in to the office. Nobody had actually thought of a mechanism of how those chairs would be returned though.

There are a lot of people with nice free chairs.
 
Johnson and co had to be seen to do something didn't they? If only the Chinese hadn't built hospitals from the ground up in a couple of weeks eh?
 
Nano said:
In fairness, the news reports coming out of Italy were that we would need mass dorm size hospital wards to cope with the sheer amount of people dying of covid so a lot of stuff was bought in a panic to ensure that something was there. There was definitely some stuff that was worth buying in case we needed it that we didn't end up needing and it is a far better situation to have stuff you don't need than to have dying patients with nowhere to care for them.

I'm not absolving anyone of inappropriate contracts and all the backhanders etc but there will have been lots of things purchased with good intentions by the people given the task of procuring these things that were never used and we don't need to blame those people for doing what they believed was the right thing to do.
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I don't disagree with you in terms of the situation and therefore the procurement being driven by a panic situation but on the other hand didn't both Matt Hancock and his predecessor Jeremy Hunt tell us there were contingency plans in place? I doubt very much a middle ground will be found; however, I wholeheartedly wish this inquiry was judicial and holding the people responsible to account. It sickens me that so many deaths will be swept away like human detritus on the back of several apologies from senior Government figures.
Sorry guys, this is my very first post and the subject tears the heart out of me so apologies it's a heavy one.
 
Fatmlad said:
I don't disagree with you in terms of the situation and therefore the procurement being driven by a panic situation but on the other hand didn't both Matt Hancock and his predecessor Jeremy Hunt tell us there were contingency plans in place? I doubt very much a middle ground will be found; however, I wholeheartedly wish this inquiry was judicial and holding the people responsible to account. It sickens me that so many deaths will be swept away like human detritus on the back of several apologies from senior Government figures.
Sorry guys, this is my very first post and the subject tears the heart out of me so apologies it's a heavy one.
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I wouldn’t hold your breath for those apologies I'm afraid.
 
“According to Jo Maugham, Good Law Project’s Executive Director, “the evidence shows we bought the wrong stuff from the wrong people at the wrong prices and for the wrong reasons. And we did it time and time and time again.”

The thing is this is one of the relatively minor cases of incompetence/ fraud / theft / corruption to come out of the Covid sham. And who will be held accountable - absolutely no fecker whatsoever, but private school fees are paid for for generations for a few.
 
If just one contract can be proved to be corrupt then some of these Tories should be jailed.

This must never happen again.
 
h_m_boro said:
We know the corruption. We know billions were siphoned out of the public purse to their families, friends, doners etc.
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I was speaking to somebody A while back at a family BBQ at my in-laws and the person I was speaking too son worked in the city and they where telling me how when the price of oil dropped during the pandemic A lot of people got very rich by basically getting barrels of oil for next to nothing, storing them and then making huge profits once prices stabilised.
As I said this is 3rd hand information and I'm not sure if this is true or not and I'm not clever enough to know the logistical side of this, but it really wouldn't suprise me.
 
Druss_The_Legend said:
I was speaking to somebody A while back at a family BBQ at my in-laws and the person I was speaking too son worked in the city and they where telling me how when the price of oil dropped during the pandemic A lot of people got very rich by basically getting barrels of oil for next to nothing, storing them and then making huge profits once prices stabilised.
As I said this is 3rd hand information and I'm not sure if this is true or not and I'm not clever enough to know the logistical side of this, but it really wouldn't suprise me.
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It is true and it’s what traders have been doing since trading began centuries ago.

Why does this surprise you?
 
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