Bulletguy Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 A staggering £1.6 billion worth of contracts were awarded as a result of referrals from just ten politicians at the heart of the Conservative party. Michael Gove MP, Matt Hancock MP, Esther McVey MP, and Steve Brine MP are among the Conservative politicians who referred companies to the VIP lane. Government claimed that the VIP lane for PPE contracts “was widely advertised across Government as a way of more quickly triaging offers of support”. But the explosive list of companies in the ‘VIP lane’ shows that no other political party successfully referred companies via this fast-tracked route. https://goodlawproject.org/news/conservative-politicians-vip-lane/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barryd999 Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 LOL! They even denied it existed at first. Labour asked them six times to produce a definitive list of who was on it. This was exposed many months ago by I think Dispatches but of course was dismissed as rubbish by the government and its supporters. *-) I can remember they interviewed an Asian lady that ran a company supplying PPE and they were all set to go and really knew what they were doing but they couldnt get a sniff as they were neither Tory supporters or on the VIP fast track lane. Instead we got Tory crony chancers having a stab out for a quick buck and we all know how that went. Disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted November 19, 2021 Author Share Posted November 19, 2021 Barryd999 - 2021-11-19 6:14 PM LOL! They even denied it existed at first. Labour asked them six times to produce a definitive list of who was on it. This was exposed many months ago by I think Dispatches but of course was dismissed as rubbish by the government and its supporters. *-) I can remember they interviewed an Asian lady that ran a company supplying PPE and they were all set to go and really knew what they were doing but they couldnt get a sniff as they were neither Tory supporters or on the VIP fast track lane. Instead we got Tory crony chancers having a stab out for a quick buck and we all know how that went. Disgusting. This is the list; https://goodlawproject.org/47-companies/ Jolyon Maugham and the GLP doing sterling work representing the interests of the general public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barryd999 Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 Bulletguy - 2021-11-19 6:55 PM Barryd999 - 2021-11-19 6:14 PM LOL! They even denied it existed at first. Labour asked them six times to produce a definitive list of who was on it. This was exposed many months ago by I think Dispatches but of course was dismissed as rubbish by the government and its supporters. *-) I can remember they interviewed an Asian lady that ran a company supplying PPE and they were all set to go and really knew what they were doing but they couldnt get a sniff as they were neither Tory supporters or on the VIP fast track lane. Instead we got Tory crony chancers having a stab out for a quick buck and we all know how that went. Disgusting. This is the list; https://goodlawproject.org/47-companies/ Jolyon Maugham and the GLP doing sterling work representing the interests of the general public. Trouble is, its only the likes of you and I that pay any attention to the GLP. Even if they are successful nothing touches Teflon Johnson and his cronies. The odd one gets fired only to come back like a cockroach you just cant kill when its all calmed down a bit and thats it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted November 19, 2021 Author Share Posted November 19, 2021 Barryd999 - 2021-11-19 9:10 PM Bulletguy - 2021-11-19 6:55 PM Barryd999 - 2021-11-19 6:14 PM LOL! They even denied it existed at first. Labour asked them six times to produce a definitive list of who was on it. This was exposed many months ago by I think Dispatches but of course was dismissed as rubbish by the government and its supporters. *-) I can remember they interviewed an Asian lady that ran a company supplying PPE and they were all set to go and really knew what they were doing but they couldnt get a sniff as they were neither Tory supporters or on the VIP fast track lane. Instead we got Tory crony chancers having a stab out for a quick buck and we all know how that went. Disgusting. This is the list; https://goodlawproject.org/47-companies/ Jolyon Maugham and the GLP doing sterling work representing the interests of the general public. Trouble is, its only the likes of you and I that pay any attention to the GLP. Even if they are successful nothing touches Teflon Johnson and his cronies. The odd one gets fired only to come back like a cockroach you just cant kill when its all calmed down a bit and thats it. The Paterson/Cox case and Johnsons attempt to boot out the parliamentary commissioner and rewrite the rules to protect himself and his fellow crims has been a turning point. Notice how few of his backbenchers turned up at PMQ's on Wednesday? They're bloody angry with him and rightly so. He's losing support within his own party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtainRaiser Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Not just PPE The Government has granted money to three companies that employ Conservative MPs in second jobs since the start of 2021, Byline Times can reveal. It was announced in January that the Government was investing £1.6 million in the development of 5G infrastructure at the Port of Felixstowe, in Suffolk, which is run by Hutchison Ports. Since September 2020, former Transport Secretary, Conservative MP for Epsom and Ewell Chris Grayling, has been a ‘strategic advisor’ to Hutchison Ports – a role for which he is paid £100,000 a year for seven hours of work a week. The Government contributed roughly half of the £3.4 million investment in the Felixstowe 5G trial, which is intended to “enhance productivity, efficiency and safety across its core operations”. “Our ports will be more vital than ever as we forge an ambitious new global trading position for the UK post-Brexit, so I’m eager to see what 5G can do to maximise efficiency at Britain’s biggest and busiest container port in Felixstowe,” Minister for Digital Infrastructure and Conservative MP Matt Warman said when announcing the investment. A smaller grant of £93,000 was allocated to Ryse Hydrogen in June this year. The investment was made via Innovate UK, a body that works with various Government departments and agencies to deliver public investment into new technologies, under the direction of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Innovate UK records indicate that the £93,000 grant was made into the development of fuel cells for double-decker electric buses. The total cost of the project is £206,000, which will run until November 2024. Former Government Chief Whip Julian Smith, Conservative MP for Skipton and Ripon, has been an advisor to Ryse Hydrogen on “business development” since August 2020. From August 2021 to July 2022, Smith will be paid £60,000 for just 20 hours of work during the year. Ryse Hydrogen is owned by Joseph Bamford, the son of billionaire Anthony Bamford – the chairman of JCB. The Bamford family has donated heavily to the Conservative Party in recent years, and Joseph Bamford has personally given some £75,000 to the party since November 2019. Overall, the Bamford family has donated £10 million to the Conservatives since 2001. The third firm to have received a Government grant is Lynn’s Country Foods, which received £25,000 through Innovate UK in April, as part of the Government’s effort to create the “digital infrastructure to enable a world-first environmental transparency and traceability platform for global food supply chains”. The former Conservative MP for North Shropshire, Owen Paterson, who resigned from Parliament on 5 November, had been advising Lynn’s Country Foods since December 2016 – for a pay packet of £12,000 a year. The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner handed down a 30-day suspension to Paterson in October, finding that he had engaged in “egregious” examples of lobbying on behalf of Lynn’s Country Foods and Randox – a firm that Paterson also advised. There is no link between Paterson’s communications to ministers about Lynn’s Country Foods – which took place in 2017 and 2018 – and the Innovate UK grant awarded to the company in April this year. There is also no evidence to suggest that these grants were awarded due to – or facilitated by – the actions of Conservative MPs or the central party. Byline Times has approached all of the companies and MPs for comment. However, issues arise from the fact that these potential conflicts of interest are not cited by the Government when grants, contracts or meetings are publicly released. Details of multi-million-pound investments are often buried in spreadsheets with thousands of data points, while neglecting to declare the potential political interests of the parties involved. This consequently fuels a climate of suspicion, when these links are exposed, and a perception that the Government has something to hide. These are also not isolated cases. Byline Times revealed in October that at least £12.4 million had been invested by Innovate UK in a company owned by a Conservative donor to aid the development of flying taxis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 When can we expect a investigation into someone who got 4.1 million quid 25 years ago (8 million in todays money) to create just 50 jobs and build a park bench? :-| ............. Just askin :D .............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtainRaiser Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 pelmetman - 2021-11-20 9:25 AM When can we expect a investigation into someone who got 4.1 million quid 25 years ago (8 million in todays money) to create just 50 jobs and build a park bench? :-| ............. Just askin :D .............. Yawn. Got your windows in yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtainRaiser Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 CurtainRaiser - 2021-11-20 10:31 AM pelmetman - 2021-11-20 9:25 AM When can we expect a investigation into someone who got 4.1 million quid 25 years ago (8 million in todays money) to create just 50 jobs and build a park bench? :-| ............. Just askin :D .............. Yawn. Got your windows in yet? I'm guessing that's a "no" then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CurtainRaiser Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Tomorrow, we’re in Court. The Government is appealing the High Court’s ruling that it acted unlawfully – that there was apparent bias – in its award of a contract to associates of Dominic Cummings and Michael Gove. Our lawyers have been working round the clock to defend this appeal. If we do lose, Good Law Project will be on the line for all of Government’s costs (and our own) from the first hearing and the costs of the appeal. It’s a huge sum of money and more than we have raised. Back in June, when the High Court ruled that the Government had acted unlawfully by handing a contract to a company owned by associates of Cummings and Gove, it vindicated what Good Law Project had been saying all along: there is institutionalised cronyism at the heart of Government. We think the real reason for the Government’s decision to appeal the Court’s ruling is because they want to delay another case we are bringing regarding the award of another contract to allies of Michael Gove, this time to a company called Hanbury. That case cannot be heard until this appeal is over. We think they want to delay another embarrassing loss. But we’re not going away. We will use the appeal to make the point yet again that handing taxpayers’ money to your mates is no way to run the country. It’s unfair and it’s unlawful. If you are in a position to donate to this case, you can do so by supporting the Good Law Project. https://goodlawproject.org/update/public-first-gove-cummings-update/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted November 24, 2021 Author Share Posted November 24, 2021 Its comforting to know the electorate has the GLP and Jolyon Maugham holding Johnsons government to account.......because nobody else seems to be bothered. :-| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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