Establishment networking, sleaze and corruption. A handy compendium.

[MrSki]

 

[teqniq]

Something smells here:

Boris Johnson's £75m 'Brexit jet' provided by same company running red list quarantine hotels

The Airbus A321, acquired to ferry ministers and the members of the Royal Family to engagements around the globe, was secured via Corporate Travel Management, an Australian-based company awarded two key Covid-response contracts

inews.co.uk

 

[teqniq]

SNP putting to boot in. TBH it's not difficult to miss:

Tories told they 'can't hide from fact they're mired in sleaze'

THE Tories have been rebuked for saying donations don't affect government policy as the SNP said the party "can't hide from the fact their…

www.thenational.scot

 

[MrSki]

Led by Donkeys at it again.

 

[MrSki]

 

[teqniq]

REVEALED: Secret meeting between firm chaired by Government’s PPE Tsar and UK minister to discuss PPE deals - Good Law Project

 

[teqniq]

It's never-ending:

REVEALED: Tory welfare for the wealthy - Good Law Project

Cash for the Tories buys you access. And access means cash from the public purse. That’s the abysmal two-step that channels public cash to Party donors. All of this happened secretly through the VIP backchannels for PPE and Test and Trace contracts unearthed by Good Law Project. But now the...

goodlawproject.org

 

[existentialist]

It's never-ending:

REVEALED: Tory welfare for the wealthy - Good Law Project

Cash for the Tories buys you access. And access means cash from the public purse. That’s the abysmal two-step that channels public cash to Party donors. All of this happened secretly through the VIP backchannels for PPE and Test and Trace contracts unearthed by Good Law Project. But now the...

goodlawproject.org

What still perplexes me about all this is the continued lack of massive public outcry. It's depressing.

 

[teqniq]

What still perplexes me about all this is the continued lack of massive public outcry. It's depressing.

I don't think it's getting anything like enough coverage and discussion from the likes of the BBC etc. Call it what you will but it looks like news management to me. The lies and the wholesale looting of the public purse should be a national scandal. Instead we get this:

 

[MrSki]

There was a time when all of this would have received massive media coverage but it seems the tories now have the media in their pockets.
Think back to when Cecil Parkinson had to resign for getting his secretary pregnant.

 

[two sheds]

‘Lost samples and late results’: the Tory donor, his son and their travel-test firms

Concerns grow that for-profit Covid testing regime for travellers is facing collapse

www.theguardian.com

A Tory donor and his son are facing questions about two private companies they run offering Covid-19 PCR tests for travellers, amid complaints about poor service.

Dr Ashraf Chohan, founder and chair of Conservative Friends of the NHS, which aims to forge ties between politicians and healthcare workers in the private and public sectors, is the sole director of 1Rapid Clinics, a government-approved Covid-19 testing company that some customers have claimed sent results back late, lost samples and refused refunds.

Conservative Friends of the NHS

I'd like to see labour say that they would reclaim costs of any fraudulent contracts if (ever) they get into power again. To include contracts given to tory donors without competitive tender or from the VIP route. Could reclaim them in person from the minister who gave them and the company that accepted them We know that retrospective laws are ok because IDS pioneered it with the bedroom tax.

 

[teqniq]

I wonder whether this applies to all and sundry:

 

[MrSki]

 

[Badgers]

‘Deception and Possible Fraud’: Ministers Accused of Misleading Parliament Over HS2

Lord Tony Berkeley, the deputy chair of Boris Johnson's review into the high speed rail link, claims the public is being kept in the dark over spiralling costs

bylinetimes.com

 

[MrSki]

Not corruption per say but it certainly a bit sleazy.

 

[Badgers]

 

[two sheds]

Are they branching out into PPE?

 

[existentialist]

Well, at least they declared the donations, for a change...

 

[MrSki]

 

[teqniq]

Labour in attack mode on corruption for a change. How many open goals have been missed so far?

Labour accuses Michael Gove of misleading parliament over £22m PPE contract

Exclusive: Ministers must ‘explain why they haven’t been telling the truth,’ says Angela Rayner

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Saul Goodman]

Labour in attack mode on corruption for a change. How many open goals have been missed so far?

Labour accuses Michael Gove of misleading parliament over £22m PPE contract

Exclusive: Ministers must ‘explain why they haven’t been telling the truth,’ says Angela Rayner

www.independent.co.uk

Labour in doing fuck all about anything mode, as usual. Useless bunch of cunts are worse than the Tories. At least the Toerags are doing sleaze and corruption, while Labour write a strongly worded letter and leave all the work to the GLP.

 

[Badgers]

The High Court has granted permission for our legal challenge to the “Levelling Up Fund”. The huge £4.8bn fund pretends to be the centrepiece of a levelling up agenda – but we think it’s just a way to funnel money into constituencies of political benefit to the Conservative Party.

Good news: We're going to Court - Good Law Project

The High Court has granted permission for our legal challenge to the “Levelling Up Fund”. The huge £4.8bn fund pretends to be the centrepiece of a levelling up agenda – but we think it’s just a way to funnel money into constituencies of political benefit to the Conservative Party. This...

goodlawproject.org

 

[Badgers]

The Labour Party has called for an Electoral Commission investigation into Conservative Party spending in the Hartlepool by-election, saying Prime Minister Boris Johnson treats rules on election spending "with contempt."

Boris Johnson Hartlepool jet: Labour demands Election Commission probe

Angela Rayner demanded an EC investigation into the Tories' claim of "nil" spending on transport in the Hartlepool by-election, which Johnson flew to.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Badgers]

 

[Badgers]

Warrington council lends billionaire founder of The Hut Group £151m | Business | The Guardian

The sum is 10 times the average loan, and was paid to a company indirectly controlled by Matt Moulding

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Badgers]

We have permission to bring our cross-appeal - Good Law Project

In mid-July, we told you Michael Gove was appealing the Court’s decision that he broke the law in awarding a lucrative public contract to his friends at Public First because of apparent bias. We also said we would appeal those arguments which the Court had decided against us below: (1) that it...

goodlawproject.org

 

[Badgers]

Ex-chancellor Philip Hammond rebuked over lobbying by sleaze watchdog

Contact with senior Treasury official on bank’s behalf was ‘not acceptable’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[teqniq]

Also permission to appeal on this:

Update: We have permission to appeal - Good Law Project

On 29 June we published a blog explaining that a technical error by our solicitors – involving the papers being sent to the wrong email address at the Government Legal Department, corrected a day later – led the High Court to decide we could not bring our case about the award of contracts worth...

goodlawproject.org

 

[teqniq]

I've linked to the reply, mainly because I think it's entirely likely that's what will happen:

 

[teqniq]

I think he may be a tad rattled. Worth a read, lots of blatant falsehoods:

Why might the anti-corruption tsar be smearing us? - Good Law Project

“Unimaginable resources” were thrown at Test and Trace. Yet it “cannot point to a measurable difference to the progress of the pandemic”. That’s what the Conservative-majority Public Accounts Committee found. There was a measurable difference, though, for the owners of the biggest of the...

goodlawproject.org