The Nasty Party (AKA the Tories), it's back!

[Deleted member 49]

It's funny how, with Tory MP Owen Paterson being paid £520 per hour as an adviser by them, Randox won the contract for Covid testing. (I say won, no other firm got the chance to tender a bid.)

That contract was worth £133M. Nice. Until you recall that Randox had already been exposed in a colossal failure of forensic testing at their labs. A national scandal where results were manipulated, resulting in 50 criminal cases being dropped and 40 drivers having their convictions for drunk driving quashed.

Randox was ditched by all 42 police forces who had been using them, and the National Police Chief's Council described it as a "most serious breach" of forensic science standards.

Of course, they still were awarded the Tory government contract.

Then the Tory government made Randox testing mandatory for travel. Kerching! Randox's revenue increased 85% to £218M.

Family, mates, fellow grifters, all are looked after by this corrupt shower of shite.

Anyone know if any of the stuff that Randox actually made was used ?

 

[newfhouse]

Family, mates, fellow grifters, all are looked after by this corrupt shower of shite.

I hope a Tory supporter will be along shortly to offer a considered rebuttal. Genuinely, I hope they will, because the alternative is that party loyalty trumps all other considerations.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Anyone know if any of the stuff that Randox actually made was used ?

They had to recall 750,000 kits due to safety concerns last year. Kept the contract, obvs.

 

[fozy tornip]

Democracy's had its day really, beginning to look a bit jaded and weary. I'm all for re-cycling and reducing waste but there comes a point..

Divvy up seats in a legislative body to the highest bidding businesses - or consortia of businesses where their interests coincide - in a blind auction. You could have them nominally attached to the old geographical constituencies for that sense of historicity so important to those who get by turns misty eyed then murderous around tradition and nostalgia, but the MP for Bromley and Chislehurst would be in place to represent Union Carbide and DuPont, say.

No more conflict of interests. No more corruption. Knighthood and a few shares for me.

 

[fozy tornip]

It was the downward, asymmetrical curve of Paterson's cake-hole (and I use the term advisedly) that nagged at me

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until I remembered Jabba's retirement from the cruel world of inter-galactic Crime Lordship

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[glasgowcyclist]

This one's a cracker.

A company (Uniserve), with no track record of providing it, is gifted a massive £300M contract for PPE by Tory government.

Most of what is produced is either unusable or unwanted.

This useless PPE is now being stored at sites across Suffolk - at a cost of £1M *per day*.

Who owns the storage company?

Of course, it's ... Uniserve.

Trebles all round!

 

[BoldonLad]

Democracy's had its day really, beginning to look a bit jaded and weary. I'm all for re-cycling and reducing waste but there comes a point..

Divvy up seats in a legislative body to the highest bidding businesses - or consortia of businesses where their interests coincide - in a blind auction. You could have them nominally attached to the old geographical constituencies for that sense of historicity so important to those who get by turns misty eyed then murderous around tradition and nostalgia, but the MP for Bromley and Chislehurst would be in place to represent Union Carbide and DuPont, say.

No more conflict of interests. No more corruption. Knighthood and a few shares for me.

Isn't that how it works now?

 

[Deleted member 49]

Says our local Tory mp....the very same one who broke parliamentary rules and voted to dump sh1t in our rivers.
Never let that get in the way Scotty.

 

[Salty seadog]

This one's a cracker.

A company (Uniserve), with no track record of providing it, is gifted a massive £300M contract for PPE by Tory government.

Most of what is produced is either unusable or unwanted.

This useless PPE is now being stored at sites across Suffolk - at a cost of £1M *per day*.

Who owns the storage company?

Of course, it's ... Uniserve.

Trebles all round!

I'd love a link to that info, I'd be chuffed to bits.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I'd love a link to that info, I'd be chuffed to bits.

Here ye go… https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/exc...n-alleged-cover-up-of-government-ppe-scandal/

 

[fozy tornip]

So look, will someone explain to this naif what would have been so insufferable for Paterson and Augustus Gloop in quietly serving out the thirty day suspension?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Here ye go… https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/exc...n-alleged-cover-up-of-government-ppe-scandal/

I see from the link that it was the Good Law Project that prised those facts out of the Grubberment. If I remember correctly, they were also ordered by the information commissioner to reveal the names of a couple of dozen other companies in the VIP procurement lane that the grubbies have sought to hide from public view. The disclosure time limit must pretty much be up and failure to disclose will be notified to the courts in ongoing procedures. There will be more of this corruption along shortly.

 

[Beebo]

So look, will someone explain to this naif what would have been so insufferable for Paterson and Augustus Gloop in quietly serving out the thirty day suspension?

It’s a strange one.
maybe he didn’t want to admit guilt, maybe he feared a recall. But he would surely win.
Either way it would be far better than what they ended up with.

 

[Hitchington]

Says our local Tory mp....the very same one who broke parliamentary rules and voted to dump sh1t in our rivers.
Never let that get in the way Scotty.
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"There, there Scott. Boris will kiss it better for you."

 

[winjim]

So look, will someone explain to this naif what would have been so insufferable for Paterson and Augustus Gloop in quietly serving out the thirty day suspension?

Paterson's a fall guy. He's provided an excuse for the dismantling of the system used to hold MPs to account, allowing Johnson to escape scrutiny himself and carry on acting with impunity.