Michelle Mone

nmc said:
The country was in the grip of COVID and some people saw it as an opportunity to line their own pockets. Despicable behaviour.
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'about 30% of £200m', according to that interview. Morally corrupt yeah, but a decent profit margin nonetheless.
 
hammocity said:
Two nicest areas in Birmingham! (I think).
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Neither are really part of Birmingham mate. Solihull is a separate borough and whilst Sutton falls under Birmingham City Council it very much has its own identity - people who are from there tend to say they are from Sutton, not Birmingham. Don’t really like either tbh, certainly not Solihull which I feel lacks personality. Both places are where self made people tend to gravitate though, hence my comment.

The nicest areas in Birmingham proper are Harborne and Edgbaston I’d say, the former of which is most akin to Didsbury. The latter has some ridiculously big houses. As does Moseley, although demographically it’s more mixed in that district I’d say.
 
My wife worked at the time of covid for a UK based medical supplies and PPE company that was a registered NHS supplier. They had two factories in the UK and one in China. Despite calls and emails to the Department of Health saying they could supply essential PPE, they won no contracts. Yet MPs and the likes of Gov Ministers like the odious Hancock were dishing out hundreds of millions of pounds of our tax to their mates like the despicable Mone.

www.transparency.org.uk

Transparency International UK welcomes inclusion of PPE Procurement in the COVID-19 Inquiry Terms of Reference

March 23, 2022 - Scrutiny of the government’s procurement practices and support for businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic will help deliver much-needed transparency and accountability over how billions of pounds in public funds were spent, Transparency International UK said today.The recently...
www.transparency.org.uk www.transparency.org.uk
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
My wife worked at the time of covid for a UK based medical supplies and PPE company that was a registered NHS supplier. They had two factories in the UK and one in China. Despite calls and emails to the Department of Health saying they could supply essential PPE, they won no contracts. Yet MPs and the likes of Gov Ministers like the odious Hancock were dishing out hundreds of millions of pounds of our tax to their mates like the despicable Mone.

www.transparency.org.uk

Transparency International UK welcomes inclusion of PPE Procurement in the COVID-19 Inquiry Terms of Reference

March 23, 2022 - Scrutiny of the government’s procurement practices and support for businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic will help deliver much-needed transparency and accountability over how billions of pounds in public funds were spent, Transparency International UK said today.The recently...
www.transparency.org.uk www.transparency.org.uk
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Literally hundreds of similar examples. It’s scandalous and this inquiry should see people end up in criminal court.

It won’t, of course.
 
I'm not familiar with UK procurement terms, but was the government just fronting all this cash to the dodgy bastards supplying useless PPE? Wouldn't it be standard practice to pay AFTER receiving and checking the supplies, whether that's 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, whatever? Seems mad to just pay everything up front then spend years (and millions/billions of pounds) chasing it all up at a later date.
 
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