That vile, lying Tory peer, Michelle Mone

[Petcha]

The guy was already a billionaire. It's staggering that wasn't enough for him. He had to profiteer out of death like this.

A PPE farrago, a car crash interview and a fight with the PM: Lady Mone has her foot on the gas, hasn’t she?

For everyone enraged by the Covid equipment scandal who can’t quite find the words, try these – Michelle Mone and her husband, Doug, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

And equally staggering whoever has been advising them that it was a good idea to do a tell all interview on Kuennsberg

 

[brogdale]

The guy was already a billionaire. It's staggering that wasn't enough for him. He had to profiteer out of death like this.

A PPE farrago, a car crash interview and a fight with the PM: Lady Mone has her foot on the gas, hasn’t she?

For everyone enraged by the Covid equipment scandal who can’t quite find the words, try these – Michelle Mone and her husband, Doug, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

And equally staggering whoever has been advising them that it was a good idea to do a tell all interview on Kuennsberg

They have the means to hire people to tell them what they want to hear.

 

[DaveCinzano]

They have the means to hire people to tell them what they want to hear.

Rich wanker not actually genius shocker

 

[Petcha]

I watched that interview. She almost, sort of, held it together with her heatfelt apologies until right to the end when she said something like 'I don't know what I've done wrong'. It's not a crime to lie to the press'

Which is true. But fucking hell, optics. Her PR must have been standing to the side having a heart attack.

 

[Ming]

 

[Cerv]

maybe Mone hired Prince Andrew's PR team. must be looking for work now he's not allowed any public engagements.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I just read her Wikipedia page, hoping to recap her time on docusoap TV as the mad boss who chastised her staff for not placing the sellotape-dispensers the right way round in a cupboard - my ultimate aim to make a joke about Maureen from Driving School being given a £200m haulage contract - but it just reads like a lengthy charge sheet.

 

[elbows]

few beers into Tuesday, so apols if this is dumb question...but, does the enquiry's remit cover this venal corruption?

Module 5, Procurement. With a sense of the scope of this module here: https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/w...-of-Scope-as-approved-by-Chair-28_09_2023.pdf

 

[brogdale]

Module 5, Procurement. With a sense of the scope of this module here: https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/w...-of-Scope-as-approved-by-Chair-28_09_2023.pdf

Thanks; I knew you'd know

 

[Chilli.s]

I betall the first class flights to tax havens are tax deductible

 

[pbsmooth]

as per one of the Graun comments"hideously, nauseatingly obscene". but this is how "business" and politics seems to work nowadays. shameless.

 

[planetgeli]

The guy was already a billionaire. It's staggering that wasn't enough for him. He had to profiteer out of death like this.

He said something like "that's what privileged rich people do"

I may have taken that quote (only marginally) out of context. I give zero fucks.

 

[teqniq]

WTF? Does she realise that this could imply blackmail on her own account?

 

[brogdale]

WTF? Does she realise that this could imply blackmail on her own account?

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If Moan thought it improper, it begs the question why she didn't immediately inform the OB?

 

[not-bono-ever]

Her attack dog social media approach is a bit obsessive.

 

[DaveCinzano]

WTF? Does she realise that this could imply blackmail on her own account?

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She's like the shittest Columbo villain ever

 

[Raheem]

WTF? Does she realise that this could imply blackmail on her own account?

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It's not unusual for white collar criminals to be allowed to escape prosecution if they return the money. Which, in this case, would mean returning it to the government.

 

[xenon]

You get this sort of shit in Russia but even there they understand the requirement to cover it up, at least a bit. They probably wouldn't, for example, come up with the phrase 'вип lane' and then allow it to become public knowledge.

I know this sounds really naive right. But when this was all going on, I presumed at least the companies brought in had a track record of producing PPE. That this was to help them scale up or whatever. Not just if you were able to contact an overseas factory and were chummy with an MP you got handed a contract.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Her attack dog social media approach is a bit obsessive.

I’m hopeful that she’s just warming up. She’s done a better job than the Labour Party in drawing attention to the scale and numbers involved in profiteering whilst patients and staff died due to the lack of PPE in hospitals and care homes

 

[AverageJoe]

I know this sounds really naive right. But when this was all going on, I presumed at least the companies brought in had a track record of producing PPE. That this was to help them scale up or whatever. Not just if you were able to contact an overseas factory and were chummy with an MP you got handed a contract.

Welcome to 2020.

For what it's worth I'm enjoying the fact that if she's going down, she's taking the rest down too. Imagine the panic in the halls of Whitehall

 

[Calamity1971]

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

WTF? Does she realise that this could imply blackmail on her own account?

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Wow! I can imagine some Tories were quite prepared to throw her to the wolves because she's Not Our Type, because she came from very humble beginnings. Not realising that she might turn on them and think 'If I'm going down, I'm taking you down with me.'

Would be funny if the government was taken down not by useless Starmer but by a Conservative peer.

You know the Labour leader's shit when a Conservative government peer Mone and a former gameshow co-host Carol Vorderman and Gary Lineker and Marcus Rashford are a better opposition than the actual Opposition.

Anyway, must dash and stock up on popcorn before the shops shut.

 

[teqniq]

Dan Niedle of Tax Policy Associates has been doing a lot of digging in Mr. Barrowman's financial affairs. There are a lot of unanswered questions:


Douglas Barrowman, PPE Medpro, the BVI loan and the struck-off solicitor

 

[teqniq]

Mone has published a statement from her husband today and Dan Niedle is on the case. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion, that in the face of obvious criminality, the CPS, NCA and Companies house are ignoring the situation because they have been most likely told to:

Thread by @DanNeidle on Thread Reader App

@DanNeidle: The "truth" this statement misses: Barrowman lied about his connection to PPE Medpro. The company and its directors probably committed a criminal offence in not disclosing that Barrowman controlled it. B...…

threadreaderapp.com

 

[TopCat]

Michelle Mone’s husband says couple being ‘hung out to dry’ by ministers

Doug Barrowman says NCA investigation into Covid ‘VIP lane’ firm is being used to distract from government incompetence

www.theguardian.com

 

[stavros]

"We're a scapegoat for PPE failures."

No one has exclusive rights to fuck-ups, you self-pitying cunt.

 

[likesfish]

Could we shove them into a wicker man and sacrifice them to hasten the return of the sun?

 

[quimcunx]

I'm sure I remember at the time the small business association or whatever contacted the government to say they could produce PPE in the UK but didn't even get a reply.

 

[two sheds]

I'm sure I remember at the time the small business association or whatever contacted the government to say they could produce PPE in the UK but didn't even get a reply.

From 21:

Biggest PPE suppliers 'ignored' by Government while 'VIP' firms got contracts

MPs were told there was a "feeding frenzy" for opportunists with friends in high places - while established firms struggled to get the attention of the government

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[teqniq]

Oh dear, how sad, nevermind:

Michelle Mone's £80m fire sale of luxury houses, private jet and superyacht

Michelle Mone and her billionaire husband Doug Barrowman have revealed her bank accounts have been frozen during the two year NCA investigation

www.mirror.co.uk