Thursday 6 August 2020

In plain sight

Under cover of COVID, but in plain sight, the UK Government has been contracting their friends and backers to provide goods and services that they were never capable of supplying.

The Good Law Project is taking the Government to court regarding three such contracts, one for £252,000,000 to provide PPE from China by a company with £100 worth of stock and owned by one of Liz Truss's advisors. Mr and Mrs Mills made between 10% and 20% of the value of the contract.

Not bad considering every single one of the masks supplied to the NHS was against the purchase specification and so cannot be used.

The money cannot be recovered.

Nor did the procurement follow the usual rules of oversight and scrutiny, so friends of Ministers and senior advisors could make money out of the crisis while NHS and care workers risked their lives with no or poor quality PPE.

Meanwhile Johnson says at every opportunity what a great job he and his Government did with the crisis, and his friends and former colleagues in Fleet Street cheer his on.

But this isn't limited to COVID where more and more PPE r Ventilator contracts were handed out to rabid Brexiteer lead companies or those of friends or party backers. For Brexit, the then Minister, Chris "Failing" Grayling, handed a contract to a company with no ferries of experience to provide a ferry service from Ramsgate.

Meanwhile, planning permission on projects of friends have local refusals overruled by Jannick, and now the plan is to further loosen local planning rules to make it easier to build because of the housing shortage caused by there being no council houses or affordable housing. Where such schemes had requirements for affordable housing, Ministers removed that provision, making their friends millions more in profits.

And with the three separate Judicial Reviews into this corruption, it now becomes clear why this Government wants to restrict JR in the future, and has handpicked a review if its friends to conduct said review.

Power, corruption and lies.

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