| Another Tory stitch up on 13:00 - Oct 28 with 652 views | MonkeyAlan |
Make your own. My Mrs does. No worries then. |  | |  |
| Another Tory stitch up on 13:06 - Oct 28 with 640 views | uefacup81 |
| Another Tory stitch up on 13:00 - Oct 28 by MonkeyAlan |
Make your own. My Mrs does. No worries then. |
That's not the point.
Regardless of the increase that VAT-rating masks will have on prices, it's a matter of the message it sends. Masks will have been moved from being an essential item to a 'luxury'.
This is essentially the Government telling us that protection from COVID-19 now falls into the 'nice to have' category. |  |
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| Another Tory stitch up on 14:00 - Oct 28 with 580 views | hype313 |
| Another Tory stitch up on 13:06 - Oct 28 by uefacup81 |
That's not the point.
Regardless of the increase that VAT-rating masks will have on prices, it's a matter of the message it sends. Masks will have been moved from being an essential item to a 'luxury'.
This is essentially the Government telling us that protection from COVID-19 now falls into the 'nice to have' category. |
...Even though they're mandatory. |  |
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| Another Tory stitch up on 18:17 - Oct 29 with 487 views | HARRY10 |
The charges of contracts being awarded to their mates won't go away, as
"Ministers are already under fire for a succession of deals quietly stuck with firms run by Conservative friends for personal protective equipment (PPE) at the height of the pandemic.
It says they show the department was “feeding its contacts into the procurement process” and that value for money was only raised “if prices were more than 25 per cent above the average”.
“The deeper you delve into this Tory government’s Covid outsourcing, the more disturbing it gets,” she said.
“Not only were some of these ‘VIPs’ paid over the odds — in one case for unusable PPE — they were awarded these contracts at the height of the crisis when our NHS workers needed urgent, high quality PPE.”
The Good Law Project alleges that companies were able to “make enormous margins” of up to 45 per cent “on contracts sometimes worth hundreds of millions of pounds”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/covid-contracts-tory-vips-coronav
As well as the obvious concern over this, there is the thought that this might not be a one off' but is standard ptractice (see Jenrick/planning) |  | | |
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