Watch this short video, which accurately sets out where we really are, right now and then read on.
🧵This is a very important video about the pandemic. Dr. Richard Horton is Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet , a United Kingdom–based medical journal. He's an honorary professor at the London School of Tropical Med, Univ. College London & University of Oslo pic.twitter.com/AClabFsAeP
— Cleavon MD 💉 (@Cleavon_MD) July 17, 2021
Take the matter of crony contracts issued without tender process, or transparency at the time, many of which minted new millionaires and multi millionaires over night, at the stroke of a pen, the click of an email sent, the posting of a text message.
Contracts for PPE at twice the price of the going market rate at the time!
The Good Law Project unearthed these details in the courts, extracting the evidence in spite of robust Government resistance. A government more properly called a misManagement, Minting Millionaires over night, whilst exposing the UK population to a really nasty pathogen, by neglect.
"The bare facts of what Good Law Project has learned about the Pharmaceuticals Direct contracts – two have so far been published, for £28.8m and £102.6m – are extraordinary."
Imagine this : one contract revealed that the masks supplied were priced at more than twice the going rate, netting a clear take home profit of over £50 million, for almost no work other than doubling the price on the contract papers. In spite of other suppliers offering the exact same products at the lower price. And having active Cabinet level ministers lobbying across departments on behalf of the beneficiaries of these contracts. Emails back and forth between the beneficiaries, Priti Patel, Matt Hancock and other officials, as this video shows. Well worth a watch.
On Covid there was one area where Conservative ministers weren’t incompetent - delivering huge contracts to their donors. Pass it on.pic.twitter.com/W01weUZHYu
— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) October 13, 2021
Matt Hancock’s position, as set out in legal documents provided to Good Law Project, is ‘nothing to see here’: his lawyers say that PPE Direct Limited made offers to supply PPE through the public portal.
Friends with benefits
David Cameron had a neat job with Greensil, that netted him a cool £7 million we are told. He was able to use his direct contacts with acting Cabinet ministers to further his employers desires for business. So much easy cash sloshing around these slick politicians.
Crony contracts that this Government doled out are mapped out on this rather adept website. An interactive visualization of the links between Tory politicians and firms winning government contracts by Sophie E. Hill - take your time to peruse the layers of friendship and association of the Conservative Party COVID cash cow milking parlour.
Effectively this behaviour amounts to political bullies exploiting an emerging vulnerability and using the power of high office to enrich contacts and associates, and then using that power to get away with mismanagement that leads directly to avoidable death and disease amongst the vulnerable population.
Sajid Javid was not involved in any of this, as far as I can tell.
He was working part-time as an advisor. However his 'part-time' work with JP Morgan Chase in between his ministerial roles suggests he would not be much bothered by this kind of arrangement. After all, he was a lead in developing CDOS, which were a scheme to resell bad debts, repackaged as solid investments to unwary investors - a behaviour that led directly to the financial crash on 2008.
This is now. COVID infection rates are rising across educational settings and elsewhere. New cases are rising to 42,000 per day, (Government figures) or 70.000 (ZOE), deaths are running at above 100 per day, close to the anecdotal 1000 a week 'acceptable level', each death a pretty horrid process, and Sajid Javid is very much responsible for that state of affairs, he is the Health Secretary - between 4 October 2021 and 10 October 2021, 5,423 were admitted into hospital with coronavirus.
The front page of the Mail on Sunday on July 4th 2021 ran a quote from Javid declaring that "opening up will make us healthier" due to a backlog of NHS cases exacerbated from the pandemic. That backlog has not subsided in any measure since that optimistic declaration.
a parody song, based on the folk-blues ballad, The House of The Rising Sun:As you watch this, remember that Boris Johnson's £20 cut to universal credit this week will push thousands of families into poverty.
— Good Law Project (@GoodLawProject) October 7, 2021
(Location: Manchester) @ByDonkeys pic.twitter.com/sN7GIjfqyI
Lyrics:
The Abuser - Boris Johnson and the Cabinet, The English Ruling Class, the prevailing Establishment of Power rooted in the Extracted Accumulated Wealth Party, aka the Oligarchy
These are all broad generalisations, and there needs to be a robust discussion around how truthful each of these elements of our Society are, and to what extent they are failing in their duty of care to the population they serve, in the face of this intolerable situation.
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