| Just repulsive. on 13:24 - Nov 17 with 855 views | Keno |
Indeed!!
If they had asked I would have done that for £17mill and saved the country £4mill |  |
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| Just repulsive. on 13:39 - Nov 17 with 820 views | HARRY10 |
""We do not understand why, as late as June, government was still making direct awards of contracts sufficiently lucrative as to enable these sorts of profits to be made," Jolyon Maugham, the project's director told the BBC.
"The real criticism that is to be made here is of the huge profits that government allows to be generated."
This is not the first time concerns have been raised about PPE contracts the DHSC signed during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier this year, the BBC revealed that 50 million face masks the government bought could not be used in the NHS because of safety concerns. And last week, it exposed concerns that the government had leaned on safety officials to certify PPE which had been wrongly classified."
Had the government heeded te advice from the Cygnus exercise there would not have been any PPE shortage when the outbreak took hold in February.
They inherited a fully prepared and equipped NHS (in 2010), ready for this type of pandemic - but chose to run down and not replace needed equipment as part of their lunatic austerity programme. |  | | |
| Just repulsive. on 14:27 - Nov 17 with 770 views | Trequartista |
He looks a bit like a young Craig Forrest |  |
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| Just repulsive. on 09:30 - Nov 22 with 576 views | catch74 |
| Just repulsive. on 13:39 - Nov 17 by HARRY10 |
""We do not understand why, as late as June, government was still making direct awards of contracts sufficiently lucrative as to enable these sorts of profits to be made," Jolyon Maugham, the project's director told the BBC.
"The real criticism that is to be made here is of the huge profits that government allows to be generated."
This is not the first time concerns have been raised about PPE contracts the DHSC signed during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier this year, the BBC revealed that 50 million face masks the government bought could not be used in the NHS because of safety concerns. And last week, it exposed concerns that the government had leaned on safety officials to certify PPE which had been wrongly classified."
Had the government heeded te advice from the Cygnus exercise there would not have been any PPE shortage when the outbreak took hold in February.
They inherited a fully prepared and equipped NHS (in 2010), ready for this type of pandemic - but chose to run down and not replace needed equipment as part of their lunatic austerity programme. |
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| Just repulsive. on 11:35 - Nov 22 with 526 views | Darth_Koont |
| Just repulsive. on 09:30 - Nov 22 by catch74 |
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For some reason in the UK the whole system seems to put middlemen at the top of the economic pyramid. It’s probably an indictment of our economy that is predominantly a middleman/wealth management structure with a bit of tech innovation and engineering/manufacturing sprinkled in.
But really amazing that we reward this “wealth skimming” at a time when the emphasis should be on those that make things and/or know what they’re doing sourcing them. |  |
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| Just repulsive. on 12:42 - Nov 22 with 495 views | catch74 |
| Just repulsive. on 11:35 - Nov 22 by Darth_Koont |
For some reason in the UK the whole system seems to put middlemen at the top of the economic pyramid. It’s probably an indictment of our economy that is predominantly a middleman/wealth management structure with a bit of tech innovation and engineering/manufacturing sprinkled in.
But really amazing that we reward this “wealth skimming” at a time when the emphasis should be on those that make things and/or know what they’re doing sourcing them. |
I wonder who will be burdened with the tax hikes next year too?
The one sensible option I’ve heard from Sunak is online sales (we somehow need to exempt smaller businesses from this) - Amazon must have hit the jackpot this year. | |
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