Florentine_Pogen Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Gove in the PPE Medpro spotlight :- https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/24/michael-gove-under-pressure-explain-role-ppe-deals-michelle-mone 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Labour should be stating loudly, clearly and unequivocally that if any existing enquiry into PPE acquisition is not sufficiently robust then a future Labour Government will launch an enquiry as a priority. Don’t hold your breath on that happening. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 "I did not personally benefit from it. My husband and children did" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 The BBC have been given permission to report on this. She's fucking fucked. Great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 She only broke the law in a very specific and limited way What’s the problem? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 (edited) https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/24/tories-run-for-the-hills-rather-than-face-labour-over-michelle-mone-and-ppe "Rayner began by welcoming O’Brien to the dispatch box. Along with everyone else, she had never met him before, and she wished him well. O’Brien gave a dry heave. Rayner was about the last person he wanted to face for his first time answering a UQ. Someone a little less direct, preferably. Then she cut to the chase. What due diligence had been done? How come Medpro had been granted a contract via the VIP fast lane? How come tens of millions of public money ended up in private offshore accounts? Why wouldn’t the government publish its correspondence regarding attempts to reclaim the money? What was going on in the Randox scandal? And why was the government wasting £700,000 a day on storing unusable PPE?"............................................................ "..................................We live in a world where the government’s first instinct is to do nothing. The hedgehog principle: roll into a ball and wait to be run over. It feels like the end of days." Edited November 24, 2022 by Florentine_Pogen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 3 hours ago, oaksoft said: FFS. I'm merely passing on information that in the real world outside the idealistic nonsense spouted in 1st year student halls, there is no such thing as a social contract. Period. The world is full of people who will only pay out what they are forced to pay out. Do with this information what you will but spare me the Thatcher shite. I'm sorry if i've confused you. There is of course no literal social contract. It's a metaphor for the complex network of interpersonal obligations, commonly understood rights and mutual expectations that people in society have. It is a subjective concept. Often, this is reinforced by the legal system. The two are not mutually exclusive. Where the two diverge, there may be a percieved injustice. This is the case i was referring to concerning the non dom rules. I shall pass on your real world information about people not shelling out voluntarily to charities and churches, who will be disappointed, of course. If you need me to explain what a metaphor is i'm happy to help out. X 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Can someone please explain to me in simple terms why offshore trusts exist, apart from being used to hide money from the authorities? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 6 hours ago, Big Rider said: Exactly. The 3 Cs of Conservatism writ large. Cronyism Corruption Cuntyness Lock them up! Long forgotten settlement, abandoned in favour of Inverness 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 22 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said: Can someone please explain to me in simple terms why offshore trusts exist, apart from being used to hide money from the authorities? Yes. They exist to generate fee income for unscrupulous lawyers, accountants, tax advisers etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 20 hours ago, Big Rider said: Don't believe everything you think??? I wonder if the Duchess of Duke Street should add: Don't believe everything you write to that pish!!! What a corrupt wee shite she is. Greenie for “duchess of Duke Street”! Superb reference! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/24/the-guardian-view-on-crony-capitalism-a-moral-corruption-stalks-parliament "Crony capitalism in the House of Lords is not a good look for Britain. Yet during the Covid crisis, there appeared to be a strong case that political access allowed privileged individuals to extract a great deal of wealth from the state. On Wednesday, the Guardian produced astonishing evidence for those wishing to prosecute this argument. It suggested that Michelle Mone, a Tory peer, her husband, Douglas Barrowman, and her children secretly received £65m originating from the profits of PPE Medpro, a company that was awarded large government contracts during the pandemic after she recommended it to ministers. If capitalism during a national emergency can be so easily rigged to favour connected insiders then the country is in trouble." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 I think Michelle is going to have to learn how to do her own make up soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 5 minutes ago, welshbairn said: I think Michelle is going to have to learn how to do her own make up soon. I like the wicked variety. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 Do you think she meant "troughs" rather than "buckets"? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 1 hour ago, welshbairn said: I think Michelle is going to have to learn how to do her own make up soon. Let’s be real she will suffer absolutely zero consequences here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 10 minutes ago, Clown Job said: Let’s be real she will suffer absolutely zero consequences here We'll see, it looks like the most obviously criminal of the examples so far. I've no respect for the American justice system but I think she'd get banged up over there, just for making the grifting so obvious. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 Tory Brexiteer and full-time dirty b*****d Tom Harris, who championed the Brexit referendum and didn’t give a flying f**k that only a minority wanted it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 I think Michelle is going to have to learn how to do her own make up soon. Slop buckets Michelle, full of your own piss and shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/27/from-jungles-to-bras-tory-sleaze-is-lurking-michelle-moan-matt-hancock "Finally, the Conservative peer Michelle Mone dodges falling beams, her adult children running alongside her in golden chainmail bras and bikini bottoms, which, like the Medipro PPE contract, are worth more than £200m. An inspiration to self-employed strivers like myself, it is Mone’s mendacity that cuts the deepest. She seemed so nice, her rags-to-£29m-in-an-offshore-trust story giving hope to ordinary, hardworking people everywhere. What happened? In October 1996, newly redundant from her marketing job with Labatt’s mighty Scottish arm, Mone found herself at a Glaswegian dinner dance wearing an uncomfortable, yet cleavage-enhancing, bra. Racked with pain, Mone’s mind wandered. Leftover neeps were scraped into the pigs’ bin, the pipes struck up a doleful dirge, a listless jig began and Mone wondered if there was something that could be done about uncomfortable bras, while staring gormlessly at a lightbulb in the toilet window. In what the peer has subsequently described as being “a lightbulb moment”, Mone realised that the answer to the uncomfortable bra problem was to make bras more comfortable. It seemed so obvious, but no one had thought of it before, probably because of the fact that the bra industry was run by men, who were only interested in how easy it was to undo the fastenings in the dark. By November 1996, Mone had launched the Comforto-Bra 2000 ™ ® brand and changed the world bra industry, and bras, for ever. It’s easy to be facetious about bras, but Mone’s Comforto-Bra 2000 ™ ® changed the lives of millions of uncomfortable women at dinner dances, both in her native Scotland and indeed anywhere that dining and dancing occurred. And Mone’s cleavage-enhancers soon caught the eye of the then Prince Charles. As far as we know, King Charles III does not have any breasts himself, although it is impossible to be certain without checking the inventories of the many properties he has acquired since the death of his mother. Nonetheless, the future king realised that Mone’s work was important and invested £5,000 of Prince’s Trust money so that he could see millions of women sporting Mone’s cleavage-enhancing bras in every high street in the land as quickly as possible. While the new king’s proclivities are more wholesome than those wrongfully attributed to his perma-dry brother Andrew, they surely raise questions. Did the benefactors of the Prince’s Trust imagine their donations would go towards the enhancement of cleavage? And was it King Charles III’s cleavage-financing donation that made Mone think that money was just there for the taking? A convoluted chain of VIP-contract corridors and offshore trusts, companies and accounts, appears to be the route via which £29m of profits from pandemic PPE supply made its way into the hands of Mone and her children. The Tories contaminate everything they touch. And now they have made me hate even bras." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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