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| 61. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Tue 12th Sep 2023. 11:05 I went to the GLP website and looked back their News tab for the past three months and couldn`t see any stories about ppe? I did see their latest article from today about taking the Scottish Government to court though. And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 62. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Tue 12th Sep 2023. 11:11 Found it. It`s on their crowdfunding page. They want funds to perform a year long journalist led investigation even though they claim to have leaked documents which are damning against the government. And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 63. Author: wee eck Date: Tue 12th Sep 2023. 11:16 It`s the headline on their home page! `For most of us, the pandemic was a catastrophe. But for a lucky few – those with a line to a Government Minister – it was a gold rush. To benefit friends and donors Ministers set up what leaked internal documents brazenly referred to as a “VIP lane”. If a Minister referred you, you would get preferential treatment. Ministers claim the VIP lane was politically neutral – but every politician who made a successful referral into the VIP lane was a Tory. And the sums were enormous. We spent £12.5bn on PPE – of which over £10bn has been written off. We are now having to spend billions storing – and incinerating – PPE that ought never to have been bought. We do not know how much of that £12.5bn went to VIPs – leaked documents held by GLP reveal the official figures are just untrue. But we do know that significant sums were recycled in the form of political donations to the Conservative Party. Where is the law in all of this? Despite the fact that Government’s Counter Fraud Function found there was “a high risk of fraud in the procurement of PPE” we have yet to see a single prosecution. Instead, Ministers pile pressure on police forces to devote resources to minor offences, linked to poverty, like shoplifting. Under explicit pressure from Rishi Sunak, judges have closed the door on legal challenges. They have said, remarkably, that there is no public interest in how public money gets spent. But we think there is. Good Law Project holds huge amounts of never-before-published material relating to PPE contracts. It is possible we hold the only copy. We have heard from multiple sources of orders being given inside the Cabinet Office to destroy electronic pandemic data. We anticipate a year-long, journalist-led, project on the misuse of public money, centred on the pandemic. But we need your help. Will you help us?` Reply |
| 64. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Tue 12th Sep 2023. 11:26 Why don`t they just publish these leaked documents especially if they are worried they hold the only copy? And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 65. Author: wee eck Date: Tue 12th Sep 2023. 13:15 They are lawyers so I presume they know the best way to go about this. Just leaking documents isn`t going to hold anyone to account. Reply |
| 66. Author: Buspasspar Date: Tue 12th Sep 2023. 15:04 They should all be in Gaol We are forever shaped by the Children we once were Reply |
| 67. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Tue 12th Sep 2023. 16:37 Yes Wee Eck bit perhaps this organisation, whose founder was a one time Labour party advisor, should spend the funds they have investigating the PPE contracts instead of taking the SNP led Scottish government to court over an unpublished climate impact report? And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 68. Author: wee eck Date: Tue 12th Sep 2023. 17:30 This thread`s about Michelle Mone who is reckoned to be one of the main beneficiaries of the way the Westminster government awarded contracts for PPE. I`m not sure what the alleged suppression of a climate impact report by the Scottish government has to do with it but if the Good Law Project wants to pursue both these cases it`s up to them. And what if the founder of the GLP was a former advisor to the Labour party? Should he be barred from holding politicians from other parties to account? Reply |
| 69. Author: DBP Date: Tue 12th Sep 2023. 18:28 I think it’s as question about priorities …if there are limited funds to investigate, surely you go after the more material issue and don’t piss your money away on something minor in comparison Reply |
| 70. Author: JTH123 Date: Tue 12th Sep 2023. 19:31 That`s the problem though isn`t it. It will clearly not be a government priority to expose how fraudulent the whole situation was. Reply |
| 71. Author: wee eck Date: Tue 12th Sep 2023. 19:37 The Good Law Project`s prosecution would be a private one to take the government out of the picture. Reply |
| 72. Author: wee eck Date: Mon 6th Nov 2023. 10:50 From today`s Guardian :- `The Conservative peer Michelle Mone has acknowledged for the first time that she was involved with a company that was awarded government PPE contracts worth £200m during the Covid pandemic. Lady Mone’s husband, Douglas Barrowman, has also acknowledged for the first time that he was involved in the company, PPE Medpro. A representative of Barrowman told the Guardian that the Isle of Man-based businessman was an investor in PPE Medpro, and chaired and led the operation to supply personal protective equipment. The admissions raise questions about years of denials from the couple. Until now, Mone and Barrowman have consistently and emphatically denied to the Guardian, via lawyers, that they were involved in the company.` Reply |
| 73. Author: Buspasspar Date: Tue 7th Nov 2023. 08:11 I expect she will return the ermine robe and repay all the money wee eck She is a Baroness after all :-(( We are forever shaped by the Children we once were Reply |
| 74. Author: Tenruh Date: Wed 8th Nov 2023. 14:09 [url]https://www.facebook.com/100000244456124/posts/pfbid02LN9Z4FrpTpvSkoChMvgKaRaiDUggi9oQExA5p9btq82Tz4rhcj7fCVm5fNobhEcSl/[/url] Reply |
| 75. Author: Wotsit Date: Fri 17th Nov 2023. 08:37 She`d be locked up already if she was skint and overclaimed on benefits by £20. The enemy travels by private jet, not by dinghy. Reply |
| 76. Author: Tenruh Date: Sun 26th Nov 2023. 02:01 Maybe we should be proud of a wee Scottish lassie scamming the system? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/25/kings-estate-transfer-cash-ethical-funds-bona-vacantia-revelations Post Edited (Sun 26 Nov 02:04) Reply |
| 77. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Sun 26th Nov 2023. 09:24 Tenruh, Sun 26 Nov 02:01 Charlie been caught out? He also gets money from business bank accounts that are lying dormant! Reply |
| 78. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Mon 4th Dec 2023. 17:52 Good to know that the government is going to get access to the bank accounts of benefit claimants. Reply |
| 79. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Sat 9th Dec 2023. 11:53 [url]https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/true-figure-wasted-taxpayers-cash-31620443[/url] Reply |
| 80. Author: Buspasspar Date: Mon 11th Dec 2023. 09:23 Michelle Mone says she "regrets" not being more transparent about her links with a company that had UK government contracts during the pandemic. PPE Medpro is being sued by the UK government for £122m plus costs for "breach of contract and unjust enrichment". It is also being investigated by the National Crime Agency (NCA). David Cameron made Baroness Mone a Conservative peer in 2015. She has been on a leave of absence from the House of Lords since late last year. The entrepreneur, who founded lingerie firm Ultimo, is being investigated by the House of Lords commissioner for standards. We are forever shaped by the Children we once were Reply |