Is this fraud? Nepotism? Incompetance or all three?
- Thread starter Stuart J
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Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
Fraud is the least prosecuted crime, in fact you could consider yourself very unlucky to be up before the beak for it. A ceime the UK authorities seem to consider a joke.
Meanwhile in the land of Uncle Sam you would probably spend the next 30 years with a sore Arse in a US jail for far less.
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Bugger, I had a few owd dust masks in the back of the cupboard, should have got on the gravy train as a ppe supplier.
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- Limousin
Off load them quick. Apparently the Government still has around 10,000 shipping containers full of ppe, much of it substandard, that will flood the market soon.
oil barron
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- Aberdeenshire
But I thought none of it was ever delivered and the nurses were having to wear bin liners?Off load them quick. Apparently the Government still has around 10,000 shipping containers full of ppe, much of it substandard, that will flood the market soon.
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- Limousin
Two billion pounds worth of ppe in containers, costing the UK tax payer £6.7 million a week in storage charges. I mean why have they purchased 13 years worth of eye protectors for god's sake!
10,000 shipping containers of PPE 'still to be unpacked'
https://www.cips.org/The%20quantity%20of%20personal%20protective%20equipment%20(PPE)%20purchased%20by%20the%20UK%20government%20that%20is%20not%20fit%20for%20purpose%20is%20more%20than%20five%20times%20higher%20than%20previous%20estimates,%20according%20to%20MPs.ashx?width=300&quality=80
www.cips.org
Paddington
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- Soggy Shropshire
Puts the general public's buying spree on bog rolls last year into perspective.
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- Limousin
At least bog rolls don't have a use by date!Puts the general public's buying spree on bog rolls last year into perspective.
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
Oh they definitely do. Try using an old one, it falls apart in the hand
just like ten year old masks as they found when they accessed the strategic reserve, which had not been rotated, due to some bean counter who realised it was cheaper to deliver fresh stock straight to point of use.
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- sw scotland
Are you still getting through toilet rolls stockpiled for swine flu? Never a high moment of the day when it falls apart in your hand -especially when helping Grandpa.Oh they definitely do. Try using an old one, it falls apart in the hand
Danllan
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- Sir Gar / Carms
That's not the case, it's simply that there is less money being kicked around to be spent on it*, and it is very, very expensive to prosecute a fraud relative to most other crimes; so they concentrate on the biggies...
*This started with 'New' Labour, who pushed money from this and other crime toward the more 'social' and touchy-feely areas of law, and was then made worse by the overkill of Tory cuts in trying to make the books tally when Labour left office.
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
Years ago bought a job lot of loo rolls from an auction. Top brand but time wehad got to the end of them you needed them about 6 thick if you did not want brown fingers
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
Not helped by the fact that so many big cases have collapsed or the jury have made some very odd decisions on several big cases.That's not the case, it's simply that there is less money being kicked around to be spent on it*, and it is very, very expensive to prosecute a fraud relative to most other crimes; so they concentrate on the biggies...
*This started with 'New' Labour, who pushed money from this and other crime toward the more 'social' and touchy-feely areas of law, and was then made worse by the overkill of Tory cuts in trying to make the books tally when Labour left office.
Danllan
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- Sir Gar / Carms
Yep, fraud - big fraud - is one of the very few areas that it could be plausibly argued that a jury selected from the general public is not competent to pass judgement on. It has been argued that there still should be a jury, but maybe limited to people with legal / accountancy / bookkeeping / banking qualification and experience. But I'm really not keen on 'selective' juries...
Wonder how many were Tory party Donors?
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- Limousin
Years ago bought a job lot of loo rolls from an auction. Top brand but time wehad got to the end of them you needed them about 6 thick if you did not want brown fingers
You should have stockpiled this then. It must have a life expectancy of at least a 1000 years
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- Limousin
I suspect we all can guess the answer to that.
Danllan
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- Sir Gar / Carms
Yes, because no barsteward will use it!You should have stockpiled this then. It must have a life expectancy of at least a 1000 years
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