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Covid seems to have been profitable for some

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Daisymae Wed 23-Nov-22 20:46:49

Surely there must be some way to get this money back? After all we're all paying for it now.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/23/revealed-tory-peer-michelle-mone-secretly-received-29m-from-vip-lane-ppe-firm?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

growstuff Tue 06-Dec-22 21:16:35

This is turning into a major scandal. I wonder how many people are involved. It looks as though there's a lot of back covering at the moment.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/06/revealed-second-firm-pushed-by-michelle-mone-was-secret-entity-of-husbands-office

grannydarkhair Wed 07-Dec-22 03:24:11

Another tale of “cronyism” - this time it’s Michael Gove who’s involved.

twitter.com/writesbright/status/1600218809540890624?s=61&t=T7-scTC1slXWW14-6QmmXg

Whitewavemark2 Wed 07-Dec-22 06:07:23

Plenty of embezzled money for the Tories - nothing for the backbone of the country who are the workers that keep it all going.

Every year since they took office they have kept the lid down on raising the living standards of hard working people. It has become like a pressure cooker and if they don’t manage it properly the lid is going to blow into a general strike.

I don’t have any confidence that this government is capable of managing anything except it’s own interests.

Whitewavemark2 Wed 07-Dec-22 06:52:12

We are paying £700000 a day to store this useless PPE.

This has been the worst period of government - ever.

Urmstongran Wed 07-Dec-22 07:02:07

Why store useless stuff? They ought to burn it.
Must be a reason why not.
I see Baroness Bra has stepped down from the Lords temporarily while ‘she clears her name’. She can of course afford the very best lawyers.

vegansrock Wed 07-Dec-22 07:09:05

The best lawyers are going to have a job proving she didn’t sign a contract she clearly did. Good ammunition for abolition of the house of Lords methinks.

Urmstongran Wed 07-Dec-22 07:25:28

Blossoming I’ve just enlarged that photo of the article on Mone. I needed my magnifying glass as well as my sped but thank you for posting it as it was a worthwhile read. What a grasping, duplicitous woman! I think I always just thought ‘oh she’s really beautiful, feisty and rich from her great business acumen’. No longer. Her and ‘Doug’ ought to be put in prison what a pair of charlatans, sharing £200 million between them - her slice going into an off shore account. Jeez.

Urmstongran Wed 07-Dec-22 07:25:52

* spex

Grantanow Wed 07-Dec-22 15:56:38

It's disgraceful that Angela Rayner was not allowed to name the noble lady when speaking in the Commons, especially as she has been front page news in the UK.

Whitewavemark2 Thu 08-Dec-22 05:44:09

Sunak apparently suffering from delayed shock over Mone.

Something he has known about since 2020.

grannydarkhair Thu 08-Dec-22 13:59:16

“Michelle Mone explaining the recent events” 😂

fb.watch/hhFCb3obTF/

Whitewavemark2 Thu 08-Dec-22 15:39:00

Can anyone confirm if it is true that Mone and husband have relocated to Honduras, which had no extradition agreement with the U.K.?

Daisymae Sun 11-Dec-22 20:54:15

The PPE rich list www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d334e928-7883-11ed-b756-a5744446c41f?shareToken=e3608e6b8d044ffc642288dd8ee3b1c4

Whitewavemark2 Mon 12-Dec-22 06:29:17

This really says it all, and shows exactly what the corrupt, fraudulent Tories think of the taxpayer.

Look at the name if the boat

vegansrock Mon 12-Dec-22 06:32:28

That’s who’ve paid for the boat. Disgusting. She needs to be locked up along with her husband and children who also stole taxpayers money.

MaizieD Mon 12-Dec-22 08:27:25

Private Eye did a quite comprehensive report recently(not sure exactly when, it's undated). It covers all the covid spending sectors; PPE, covid tests, and Test & Trace. It's a long read but eye opening.

I think that it's especially worth reminding ourselves of these events now that Hancock has published his rather warped self serving version and the government appears to be reluctant to hold an enquiry into the handling of the pandemic.

www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/profits-of-doom.pdf

(This is a pdf of scanned pages from the magazine and might not be very easy to enlarge enough to read on a phone)

MaizieD Mon 12-Dec-22 08:28:27

Whitewavemark2

This really says it all, and shows exactly what the corrupt, fraudulent Tories think of the taxpayer.

Look at the name if the boat

I thought the name was a photoshop job?