Establishment networking, sleaze and corruption. A handy compendium.

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Government to spend up to £600,000 defending Covid contract | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Good Law Project is challenging award of contract to firm run by associates of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings

amp.theguardian.com

Another £600k spaffed up the wall to try hide the £billions of dodgy contracts handed to their mates.

 

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5 billion, just for running focus groups:

Aaaand, oh what a surprise! (second tweet)

 

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Good Law Project: "Yesterday in court"

"This agency is the one who are Dom Cummings / Lee Cain's mates, and hence getting all our work with no contract BUT are also spending much money on doing all our ridiculous groups".

These are the words of the Head of Insight and Evaluation for the Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Office, describing a Government contract handed to friends of Dominic Cummings. It’s just one of several explosive emails revealed in yesterday’s hearing of our judicial review of the decision to award the contract without tender.

Documents disclosed to the court revealed that civil servants queried Public First’s costs and asked whether the contract was going to tender (it wasn’t). In one candid exchange a civil servant describes the deal as "tory party research agency tests tory party narrative on public purse".

 

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More from the Good Law Project:

Consultancy gravy train

 

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One of the crimes of this shitshow is that a lot of this money could have gone to pay nurses - the people doing the actual work - a proper wage

 

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One of the crimes of this shitshow is that a lot of this money could have gone to pay nurses - the people doing the actual work - a proper wage

or dare i say to the eu

 

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Will have a read up on this

 

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Will have a read up on this

Graun article here:

Defence research agency for 'high-risk' projects on cards for UK

Laws to pave way for ‘brainchild’ project of Dominic Cummings – exempt from FoI law and allotted £800m funding

www.theguardian.com

 

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Private firms handed contracts to run the UK’s hotels quarantine programme have links to the Conservative Party and have already benefited from a series of government deals during the coronavirus pandemic.

Revealed: Tory-Linked Private Firm Awarded Government Hotel Quarantine Contract

Other businesses who won contracts have already benefited from a series of government deals during the pandemic.

m.huffingtonpost.co.uk

 

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The judgment is in - Good Law Project

The High Court has ruled “The Secretary of State acted unlawfully by failing to comply with the Transparency Policy” and that “there is now no dispute that, in a substantial number of cases, the Secretary of State breached his legal obligation to publish Contract Award Notices within 30 days of...

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The High Court has ruled “The Secretary of State acted unlawfully by failing to comply with the Transparency Policy” and that “there is now no dispute that, in a substantial number of cases, the Secretary of State breached his legal obligation to publish Contract Award Notices within 30 days of the award of contracts.” We have won the judicial review we brought alongside Debbie Abrahams MP, Caroline Lucas MP, and Layla Moran MP.

In handing down the judgment, Judge Chamberlain brought into sharp focus why this case was so important. “The Secretary of State spent vast quantities of public money on pandemic-related procurements during 2020. The public were entitled to see who this money was going to, what it was being spent on and how the relevant contracts were awarded.”

 

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Lock him up! Lock him up!

 

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Lock him up! Lock him up!

Will be amazed if he resigned, let alone face any actual punishment. Fucking cabal of crooks.

 

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Promotion beckons

 

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Won't link to a *un article

Not really 'corruption' but a greedy, self indulgent waste of more taxpayer money by Disgraced Prime Minister Johnson.

 

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Not sure what time it is on 5Live am listening but not heard it yet but might have been on a fag break.

 

[MrSki]

So how come there is no front page coverage in the UK but in the USA...

 

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Matt Hancock's ex-neighbour under investigation by UK's medicine agency | Matt Hancock | The Guardian

Exclusive: MHRA investigating former publican Alex Bourne who won £30m of work producing Covid test vials

amp.theguardian.com

 

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Matt Hancock's ex-neighbour under investigation by UK's medicine agency | Matt Hancock | The Guardian

Exclusive: MHRA investigating former publican Alex Bourne who won £30m of work producing Covid test vials

amp.theguardian.com

 

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So how come there is no front page coverage in the UK but in the USA...

It's because we have a Free Press, free not to print stuff that makes the current government look really bad.

 

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Interview hosted by Owen Jones featuring Jolyon Maugham of GLP and Open Democracy's Peter Geoghegan:

 

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Good rates of return for the donations though - over 1000x some of them. Must email him and offer a tenner see what I can get

 

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So how come there is no front page coverage in the UK but in the USA...

It really is a fucking disgrace and our journalists ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Also, I think people are really underestimating the extent to which this government are eroding basic democratic institutions and separation of powers. Political appointments at the BBC are part of this.

Human Rights Watch has a good article on it:

Britain’s Democratic Fabric is Being Eroded by Boris Johnson’s Government

 

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