Page #: 125/1035 |
@obi_jon | 4 July 20 | |
@ recurve16 - 3.07.20 - 08:21pm Now tell us how many died when he shiit all over Iraq and Afghanistan... Which has what to do with domestic social care spending exactly? Nothing that's what. NB. I can't stand Bliar either, he's an utter c*nt. Nice false equivalence though. |
||
@recurve16 | 4 July 20 | |
Surely murder is murder...
|
||
@obi_jon | 4 July 20 | |
In a war(albeit an unjustified illegal one), they would be classed as being war crimes and I would more than welcome such charges being brought against Blair, Bush, Cheney and all the others twatbags. Still it has nothing to do with the effects of the current and longstanding UK government's cuts to health and social care services, you're trying to compare Aubergines to Turnips. They're very different things but both are equally revolting.
|
||
@recurve16 | 4 July 20 | |
Yeah there are obviously differences, just pointing out that Labour have massive amounts of blood on their hands too.
|
||
@ogdenz | 8 July 20 | |
You shall have a dishy Thanks to Mr Rishi Then the votes come in. |
||
@obi_jon | 8 July 20 | |
@ recurve16 - 4.07.20 - 03:36pm Yeah there are obviously differences, just pointing out that Labour have massive amounts of blood on their hands too. In case you haven't noticed, I prefer to focus on those who are holding the reigns of power at the present time. How long do the current lot have to be in power before it becomes impossible to blame everything on the previous lot? It's been over a decade now and have things got any better? Like fuck they have. |
||
@obi_jon | 13 July 20 | |
@obi_jon | 15 July 20 | |
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/15/coronavirus-contracts-government-transparency-pandemic Well I for one am shocked, shocked I tell you. Who would have thought that the UK government would use the pandemic to secretly and illegally award billions of pounds worth of government contracts to companies owned by their friends and political cronies without any proper oversight, transparency, or even advertising the contracts to other bidders. Conservatives, corrupt to the core. |
||
@obi_jon | 15 July 20 | |
One contract was awarded to a pest control company in West Sussex called PestFix, which, according to the GLP, has listed net assets of only 18,000. On 13 April, again without public advertisement or competition, the government awarded PestFix a 32m contract to supply surgical gowns. PestFix is not a manufacturer, but an intermediary (its founder calls it a public health supply business): its role was to order the gowns from China. But, perhaps because of its lack of assets, the government had to give it a deposit worth 75'/. of the value of the contract. The governments own rules state that prepayments should be made only ''in extremely limited and exceptional circumstances'', and even then must be ''capped at 25'/. of the value of the contract''. If the government had to provide the money upfront, why didnt it order the gowns itself? And why, of all possible outsourcers, did it choose PestFix? In the two weeks before it awarded this contract, it was approached by 16,000 companies offering to supply personal protective equipment (PPE). Some of them had a long track record in manufacturing or supplying PPE, and had stocks that could be deployed immediately. Again, the government relies on the emergency defence to justify its decision. But it issued its initial guidance on preventing infection among health and care workers on 10 January. On 14 February, it published specific guidance on the use of PPE. So why did it wait until 13 April to strike its ''emergency'' deal with PestFix? Moreover, it appears to have set the company no deadline for the delivery of the gowns. Astonishingly, even today only half of them appear to have reached the UK, and all those are still sitting in a warehouse in Daventry. On the governments own admission, ''none of the isolation suits delivered so far has been supplied into the NHS''. So much for taking urgent action in response to the emergency! |
||
@obi_jon | 15 July 20 | |
Again, the contract is surrounded by secrecy. Crucial sections, such as the price paid for the gowns, have been redacted. Bizarrely, the award notice initially stated that the contract was worth 108m. But in responding to the lawsuit, the government now says the real value is 32m. Apparently, it struck ''further contracts'' with PestFix for other items of equipment. It has so far failed to reveal what these might be, or to publish the contracts. It is worth remembering that while all this was happening, frontline health and care workers were dying as a result of inadequate supplies of PPE.
|
||