Establishment networking, sleaze and corruption. A handy compendium.

[MrSki]

 

[teqniq]

 

[teqniq]

This is somewhat cheering:

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Hancock's neighbour who landed a £40m NHS contract to supply plastic test tubes says there was no corruption. Surely his word is good enough, no?

 

[MrSki]

 

[MrSki]

 

[elbows]

Hancock's neighbour who landed a £40m NHS contract to supply plastic test tubes says there was no corruption. Surely his word is good enough, no?

He has applied to win a contract to be a supplier of equipment for the official corruption testing programme just in case.

 

[Dystopiary]

Wasn't sure where to be this, aside from "pissed you off" thread. Who would this government put in charge of the new Turing student exchange scheme (set up to replace Erasmus after Brexit)? Of course they would, it's bloody Capita.

Capita undercuts British Council to run Turing student exchange scheme

Crapita

Capita to pay compensation to family of woman who died after benefits cut

 

[existentialist]

Wasn't sure where to be this, aside from "pissed you off" thread. Who would this government put in charge of the new Turing student exchange scheme (set up to replace Erasmus after Brexit)? Of course they would, it's bloody Capita.

Capita undercuts British Council to run Turing student exchange scheme

Crapita

Capita to pay compensation to family of woman who died after benefits cut

I am increasingly of the view that, any time the Government wants to either shaft the populace, or ensure that something fails miserably, or both, they'll hand the whole thing over to Crapita.

 

[Dystopiary]

I am increasingly of the view that, any time the Government wants to either shaft the populace, or ensure that something fails miserably, or both, they'll hand the whole thing over to Crapita.

Yes, them, Atos or G4S.

 

[yield]

Has this been post?

‘Wall of secrecy’ in Pfizer contracts as company accused of profiteering
Sun 5 Dec 2021

Zain Rizvi, research director at Public Citizen, a US consumer advocacy organisation which has examined Pfizer’s global vaccine contracts, said: “There is a wall of secrecy surrounding these contracts and it’s unacceptable, particularly in a public health crisis.”

Rizvi said the UK needed to explain why it had agreed to secret arbitration proceedings. He said: “It’s the only high-income country we have seen that has agreed to this provision. It allows pharmaceutical companies to bypass domestic legal processes.

“The UK government has allowed the drug firms to call the shots. How did we end up in a situation where a handful of drug firms were able to exert so much control over the most powerful governments in the world? It points to a broken system.”

 

[two sheds]

and feeds into paranoia by antivaxxers

 

[MrSki]

 

[teqniq]

Donor to the vermin get top recommendation for his product on government website:

 

[existentialist]

Donor to the vermin get top recommendation for his product on government website:

From that thread: Dyson "purifiers" clean up in the Which? "Do Not Buy" category

 

[elbows]

Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly involved in PPE firm she referred to government

Exclusive: Leaked files suggest Mone and her husband were involved in business given £200m contracts

www.theguardian.com

 

[Chilli.s]

If the SFO aren't all over this then....
O hang on.. they wont cos they're too thick and too bent

 

[MrSki]

Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly involved in PPE firm she referred to government

Exclusive: Leaked files suggest Mone and her husband were involved in business given £200m contracts

www.theguardian.com

 

[existentialist]

Bent as fuck.

 

[teqniq]

Result!

 

[Calamity1971]

Result!

Says the judge has blocked how much money was given.
Anyone know what happens now? Read through it and my head hurts. Been a busy news day for the old grey matter.

 

[brogdale]

Potentially good news ?

 

[Badgers]

 

[teqniq]

further tweets state that it is in fact Johnson's brother who has substantial business interests in China

 

[teqniq]

Ian Hislop on the lobby system:



E2a It's from the committee on standards which sat today. whole thing here:

Parliamentlive.tv

Committee on Standards

parliamentlive.tv

 

[two sheds]

I can see why people see him as 'smug' - he laughs when he's talking about corruption. I can see why he does it, too though, on their level it's fucking funny that they're getting away with it while pretending there's nothing wrong.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I've just watch this, respect to the Private Eye team.

 

[existentialist]

I've just watch this, respect to the Private Eye team.

I have a lot of respect for Ian Hislop, if not all of his ideas. But that video was like watching a pleasant headmaster bringing down righteous wrath upon the heads of MPs who probably consider themselves at the mild end of the corruption spectrum .

 

[MrSki]

Sadly this comes as no surprise.

 

[teqniq]

Grubby as fuck:

Nadhim Zahawi was ‘instrumental’ in securing Greensill loans approval, says Gupta