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@obi_jon | 15 July 20 | |
There are plenty of other cases: such as the employment agency with net assets of 623 that was awarded an 18m government contract to supply face masks; the confectionery wholesaler that according to the GLP was given a 100m contract to supply PPE; and the 250m channelled through a ''family office'' registered in Mauritius, specialising in currency trading, offshore property and private equity, also to supply protective medical equipment. Altogether, billions of pounds worth of contracts appear to have been granted, often to surprising companies, without competition. I think we may reasonably ask what the hell is going on.
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@obi_jon | 15 July 20 | |
One was a contract to test the effectiveness of the governments coronavirus messaging, worth 840,000. It was issued by the Cabinet Office, which is run by Michael Gove. The deal appears to have been struck on 3 March, but the only written record in the public domain is a letter dated 5 June, retrospectively offering the contract that had already been granted. There was no advertisement for the work, and no competition. No official notice of the award has yet been published. The deal appears to have been done with a handshake and a slap on the back. But we do know who the contract went to. Its a company called Public First, owned by a married couple, James Frayne and Rachel Wolf. Since 2000, Frayne has worked on political campaigns with Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnsons chief adviser. When Gove was education secretary, he brought both Cummings and Frayne into his department. Cummings was Goves chief political adviser, while Frayne was his director of communications. At roughly the same time, in 2010, Goves department awarded Wolf a 500,000 contract to promote his ''free schools'' obsession. Guess what? That didn't go to competitive tender, either. Wolf co-wrote the Conservative partys election manifesto in 2019. |
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@cleancut | 15 July 20 | |
Rotten to the core. Did you hear about that employment agency, aventis I think, had assets worth 3k and got a multimillion contract for PPE. This govt are as dodgy as the last one, and probably the next one.
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@cleancut | 16 July 20 | |
The Russians have hacked our corona vaccine research they really do take the piss.
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@3mel | 16 July 20 | |
@ cleancut - 15.07.20 - 05:58pm Rotten to the core. Did you hear about that employment agency, aventis I think, had assets worth 3k and got a multimillion contract for PPE. This govt are as dodgy as the last one, and probably the next one. shady AF ''I know a guy'' style government |
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@obi_jon | 17 July 20 | |
In related Tory corruption news. Coronavirus test kits supplied by Randox are being recalled due to safety fears after they were found not to have been properly sterilised. They were awarded a 133m government contract, which was not subject to competitive tender. Randox, whose owner is a major Tory donor, are no strangers to controversy. In 2017 the company was at the centre of what has been described as 'the biggest forensic science scandal in the UK for decades', when two of their employees fiddled the data on the effectiveness of toxicology tests supplied to UK police forces, leading to hundreds of penalty convictions for driving offences being thrown out or overturned. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/11/healthcare-firm-advised-by-owen-paterson-won-133m-coronavirus-testing-contract-unopposed |
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@recurve16 | 17 July 20 | |
@obi_jon | 17 July 20 | |
@obi_jon | 20 July 20 | |
England's Covid-19 test and trace system breaches GDPR data protection law. The Department of Health has conceded that the initiative to trace contacts of people infected with Covid-19 was launched without carrying out an assessment of its impact on privacy. Scotland, Wales and N.I. all operate their own separate systems, all of which do comply with the GDPR law. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53466471 |
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@cleancut | 20 July 20 | |
Where is the Russia Report Absolutely shocking what they did to Julian Lewis.
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