Matt Halfinchcock
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caveman
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- East Sussex.
I thought a hand was four inches?
Why don’t you tell us how you really feel?
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- Limousin, France
You may remember the tale of the jeweller from Florida and the Spanish intermediary who profited to the tune of tens of millions of pounds from vast PPE contracts, paid for with taxpayers’ money. Well, there have been developments.
Government continues to fail to publish details of contracts within the legally required timeframe, here's another contract it entered into with the jeweller Saiger, worth £36 million, for face masks.
The contract was for FFP2 masks – which protect the wearer, unlike the ones we all wear to the supermarket. But to protect the wearer they need to be adjustable - which means headstraps - and all of these masks have ‘earloops’. Earloop masks, Government has admitted in other cases, can’t be used in the NHS because they don’t give a proper fixing. We expect these £36 million of masks will also be unusable.
Not only did Government buy PPE that can’t be used. It also appears to have paid well over the odds. For one type of mask, Government paid $2.93 per unit. The prevailing price paid by Government at the time it entered into the contract was about 60p per unit: more PPE, paid for at a premium, that can’t be used by the NHS.
But that’s not all.
Saiger was awarded a contract worth £70.52 million to buy 10.2 million sterile surgical gowns. This particular contract is being challenged in court . Almost all of the gowns supplied under that £70m+ contract are unable to be used as such because they are wrapped in such a way that their sterile quality can’t be maintained.
At this stage, you might be wondering: shouldn’t a responsible Government just put up its hands and say “we got this wrong”?
Instead, it is spending, quite literally, millions in public funds trying to defend the indefensible!
That could get ugly.
M-J-G
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I never liked the man and have had criticism on here for being negative about him in the past.
What's he done now?
What's he done now?
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Farage recently described him as 'drunk on power'. Seems about right.
M-J-G
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Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day
I think this pandemic has affected him mentally , no one person should have to deal with all this shite
He is clearly owned by someone like those morons they wheel out every day. They will fail.
Exfarmer
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- Bury St Edmunds
Its OK for you, but he is my MP , he is also the latterday Vicar of Bray, but then you could put a pig up here with a blue rossette and they would get in!
gone up the hill
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- Devon
Did Hancock not give a multi million pound contract for vaccine vials to his local pub landlord..... who has no connection with that industry or could even source them from a third party.......
Amazes me that people still think this is about a virus, its about making the super rich even richer and and population control.... nothing more nothing less..........
Amazes me that people still think this is about a virus, its about making the super rich even richer and and population control.... nothing more nothing less..........
I think you're right, I can't take to him but he's the Health Secretary during the worst health crisis in living memory and he didn't have a lot of experience beforehand. That goes for a lot of the cabinet as we lost a lot of experience due to so many trying to block Brexit.
Seemingly we have him to thank for the route he took with the vaccines and I think his emotions on the success of the rollout is understandable.
Hindsight
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- Lincolnshire
WOuldn't take a lot of notice of Farage, Hes like all consultants. Comes in. Tells curent maangement don't know what they are doing. After vandalising present system fecks off and leaves a wreckage. Then snipes from sidlines - 'well if you had done it my way it wuld be better'
Nope Farage should have been placed in a senior position in government. Then the fecker would have been accoutable for something. And had that frigging smirk knocked off his face
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- Limousin, France
Think, if they'd given him a safe Tory seat ( and he'd of snatched their hand off) he wouldn't have been able to cause any trouble.
I doubt you would be able to do half the job he does. Easy to slag politions off behind a keyboard
Chopsy Varmint
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I still don't understand why, right back at the start, Boris didn't create a Covid19 War Cabinet with the most experienced cross-party parliamentarians, senior military and healthcare leadership.
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