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No it isn't. It is a report on this, https://www.nao.org.uk/report/inves...ments-contracts-with-randox-laboratories-ltd/, which was only released yesterday.
No wonder we’re broke..
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No it isn't. It is a report on this, https://www.nao.org.uk/report/inves...ments-contracts-with-randox-laboratories-ltd/, which was only released yesterday.
I'll be honest with you, something many folk aren't when it comes to stuff like this.
Let's say pre covid I was a small business seller, selling disposable masks amongst other things. Nothing significant numbers wise, maybe a small online store of my own, links to my Amazon store etc. The point being I had a wholesaler in China that had the capacity to sell me 10'000 times more product if I so desired.
Covid hits.
If I thought I could win a government contract to supply ppe and make a decent profit as a consequence, I would have done it.
I think there was a story in the media a few weeks back re a couple who ran a relatively small business but ended up raking in millions due to covid, mainly through sourcing and selling ppe. This has been controversial in some quarters. But can we all hand on heart say we wouldn't have done likewise given the opportunity? As humans, we're often full of double standards around such things, I put much of it down to jealously i.e. wish I'd thought of that!
Let's say pre covid I was a small business seller, selling disposable masks amongst other things. Nothing significant numbers wise, maybe a small online store of my own, links to my Amazon store etc. The point being I had a wholesaler in China that had the capacity to sell me 10'000 times more product if I so desired.
Covid hits.
If I thought I could win a government contract to supply ppe and make a decent profit as a consequence, I would have done it.
I think there was a story in the media a few weeks back re a couple who ran a relatively small business but ended up raking in millions due to covid, mainly through sourcing and selling ppe. This has been controversial in some quarters. But can we all hand on heart say we wouldn't have done likewise given the opportunity? As humans, we're often full of double standards around such things, I put much of it down to jealously i.e. wish I'd thought of that!
Read that story. The couple were ex NHS, or at least she was. Some years before pandemic struck they set up a PPE company because they had specialist knowledge of what The NHS needed. Soon as they heard of Covid starting in China they thought it may spread and quickly banged in huge orders to their Chinese PPE suppliers. If it had turned out like SARS, Bird Flu, etc they could have ended up with tons of unwanted stock. They took a huge risk, got lucky - that's how the world works. Fair play to them.
People keep voting them in. Afraid in my life time I concluded that things are more stable when the other lot are in. Also repercussions of Tory changes always look worse than things were. Probably more than they needed to be.
But that's me.I'm fed up with their tired old mantra too. Levelling up is a new one but it's clear that the other lot had similar aims. In fact the first to mention the need.
The relevant point of the story only came to light last week.
No, that’s simply untrue.
the existing and approved suppliers and other businesses experienced in the sector most certainly could have supplied the PPE……many of them applied and the govt ignored them instead giving contracts to people like Pestfix etc
The failure was entirely due to Conservative corruption…..please do not make excuses for them.
or was it a case of rapidly getting PPE from whatever suppliers had ( or gave the the impression they had ) the ability to provide PPE in time to reduce the death rate from Covid.
https://files.monckton.com/wp-conte...Project-226-291-292-419-Approved-Judgment.pdf
That finds the VIP lane was unlawful
There are many examples of established businesses that offered PPE made to the right standards to the NHS
lots of it was PPE already in warehouses in this country - the suppliers ended up flogging it abroad, because the Govt wasn’t interested.
- but they were ignored in favour of bogus companies with zero experience in the market.
Can you tell me why Ayanda capital and Pestfix were chosen over businesses that had PPE and had loads of experience in the field.
can you tell me why Ayanda capital, Pestfix and many others that went through the VIP lane were awarded 10x the contracts
can you tell me why Ayanda capital, Pestfix etc all had connections to Tory MPs and their mates.
I conclude you are denying the massive corruption because you are a Brexit voting Conservative…..look at what they’ve done to you
You got that right.
They all come out with these bs slogans that mean little and are difficult to quantify. Major with his 'back to basics' (well he did get back to basics with Edwina
), then Bliar with 'things can only get better' (didn't mention that he was talking about his own situation).Interesting outfit.it was Ayanda Trading. The bloke that "owns" it is into all sorts. Look in the director register.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/07/banana-republic-corruption/comment-page-1/
That might be slanted but assume the accounts shown are correct.
Regarding the article , if any deliberate corruption is proved then the law will deal with it and punishment will be deserved. Your rhetoric of ‘right wing nut jobs’ is just childish
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