Bulletguy Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Good Law Project is today able to reveal the names of four more companies awarded contracts through the VIP lane: Clandeboye Agencies, P14 Medical, Luxe Lifestyle and Meller Designs. P14 Medical, run by a Tory councillor and donor, was awarded £276m in PPE contracts. Meller Designs, run by David Meller a large Tory donor and trustee of the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, was given more than £160m in PPE contracts. Luxe Lifestyle was awarded a £26m contract despite appearing to be insolvent and without any employees. And Clandeboye Agencies whose registered trade on Companies House is “wholesale of sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery” was awarded £108m in PPE contracts (see page 73 and following). We should say that the Government says Clandeboye was not in the VIP lane – but its own internal documents tell a different story. These four are in addition to Ayanda, which enjoyed a £252m deal negotiated by Liz Truss adviser Andrew Mills. And Pestfix which won approximately £350m in contracts despite being described by Government as a company “which specialises in pest control products, that was dormant in 2018” (see page 73). There remain a further 41 firms yet to be revealed. https://tinyurl.com/3pxutf8r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtainRaiser Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Portsmouth today. This cost the UK taxpayer £3bn, you could buy 12 of these for the cost of the Tory test and trace app that doesn't work. Let that sink in.12 of these or an app that doens't work! Still proud to be a Tory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John52 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 CurtainRaiser - 2021-05-01 10:42 PM the Tory test and trace app that doesn't work. Would it make any difference if BoJo's world beating test & trace app did work? People have a strong dis incentive to use it, especially those who can't afford to self isolate, and bar staff are not policemen. Loads of people giving incorrect details, pretending to scan the code, whatever :-S When I went in a pub during the eat out to spread it around scam (caught short and needed the toilet) there were forms by the door and a code to scan and I would have used them but I came out without giving any details because it was so crowded I was scared of catching covid. Nobody bothered :-S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 CurtainRaiser - 2021-05-01 10:42 PM HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Portsmouth today. This cost the UK taxpayer £3bn, you could buy 12 of these for the cost of the Tory test and trace app that doesn't work. Let that sink in.12 of these or an app that doens't work! Still proud to be a Tory? Still spreading LIES *-) .......... "WHAT WAS CLAIMED NHS Test and Trace cost £22 billion in just a few months. OUR VERDICT This is not quite right. £22 billion is the budget allocated by the government for the first year of Test and Trace. £4 billion was spent up to the end of October. We don’t yet know how much the whole first year will cost." https://fullfact.org/online/test-trace-tunnel/ So that's just one and a bit aircraft carriers :D .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtainRaiser Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 pelmetman - 2021-05-02 8:53 AM CurtainRaiser - 2021-05-01 10:42 PM HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Portsmouth today. This cost the UK taxpayer £3bn, you could buy 12 of these for the cost of the Tory test and trace app that doesn't work. Let that sink in.12 of these or an app that doens't work! Still proud to be a Tory? Still spreading LIES *-) .......... "WHAT WAS CLAIMED NHS Test and Trace cost £22 billion in just a few months. OUR VERDICT This is not quite right. £22 billion is the budget allocated by the government for the first year of Test and Trace. £4 billion was spent up to the end of October. We don’t yet know how much the whole first year will cost." https://fullfact.org/online/test-trace-tunnel/ So that's just one and a bit aircraft carriers :D .......... For the first six months to October 2020. Now read on.... "NHS Test and Trace, as the name suggests, encompasses the efforts first to test people for coronavirus, and then conduct contact tracing on those infected to identify new cases and help reduce the spread of the disease. The National Audit Office (NAO), which is responsible for scrutinising public spending wrote of Test and Trace in December 2020: “Of the £15 billion of funding confirmed before the November Spending Review, around £12.8 billion (85%) is assigned to testing and £1.3 billion to tracing.”The NAO added that an additional £7 billion allocated in the November Spending Review, was largely for mass testing, formerly referred to as ‘Operation Moonshot’." https://fullfact.org/health/test-trace-march-2021/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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