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Looking at the most read stories on BBC website now, the ppe is number 1 and a few down is a story about a judicial review being sought regarding Johnson's decision not to sack Patel.
Coming home to roost.....??
Hopefully.
Coming home to roost…..??
One can but hope.
It gets even better, 3 stories now!! The third is regarding the new 'union advisor':
Boris Johnson's main adviser on keeping the UK together has departed, saying his position was made "untenable" by others within Downing Street.
Latest news - GLP have been granted a cost capping order in their judicial review over the award the PPE contracts. Government claimed their defence would cost £1million, GLP asked for a cap of £100k. The judge has granted £250k cap. They will still need support from donations to fight this case.
Flung 'em another fiver for LOLz.
Same here. 🙂
I keep meaning to donate but always end up forgetting. This has been a good reminder. Just sent them some cash.
Has anyone else spotted the rehearsed answer that all government ministers are using regarding the court judgement?
"So sorry, but we were very busy fighting the pandemic, so we published two weeks late, but really it's a minor issue"
The problem I see, is that Jo Public and most of the media has swallowed the line, without hearing any of the detail, so GLP come out as trouble-makers, squabbling over a technicality.
The reason GLP needed to take this case to court was to force the government's hand to publish the data. Now it's been published, it'll be the next case which hopefully will expose the corruption and then I hope heads will roll.
Heads will not roll.
Pushing for transparency about what is going on is essential, but even when it’s laid out for the press to investigate, and for the public to question it… nothing will happen. Cronyism is just blatant and naked now… it’s just “how we do things”… and many of those that are concerned about that will just parrot “the Labour Party would be worse, they’re all at it”. Depressing.
Heads will not roll.
yup, nothing will ever happen. Nobody will lose their job or end up facing the law on a corruption charge with a prison cell looming. No monies will be repayed outwith a token amount.
Recently(a few years back) Romania's PM was sent to prison for corruption. Their laws state something like this, that no party is allowed to look to get money for themselves OR their party, and if they do that is against the people. they are only supposed to be acting in the interests of the people and nobody else.
Under such terminology, the Entire UK government and across the parties are guilty of the most scandalized corruption.
They make all the rules and appear to control the law.
Reading that, once again it's the sheer recklessness of it that blows my mind. Like, it's not like I'd approve of corruption and nepotism if it were just about giving contracts to your mates, or inflating amounts. That should still be resignation material, in a sane world.
But some of this stuff wasn't just corruption, it meant that in the middle of the biggest health crisis in our lifetimes doctors weren't getting the kit they needed, because contracts had been given to donors and friends who weren't able to deliver. That's the real nightmare of it, the wasted money is trivial in comparison.
