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Post by northwestman on Jun 11, 2021 9:01:13 GMT 1
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Post by Minormorris64 on Jun 11, 2021 9:26:57 GMT 1
Haha good luck with that Dommy boy. |
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Post by staffordshrew on Jun 11, 2021 9:35:24 GMT 1
Is he going to put his evidence promised to the select committee on there? |
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Post by northwestman on Jun 11, 2021 9:59:41 GMT 1
Is he going to put his evidence promised to the select committee on there? No idea. But if he doesn't produce it soon his credibility is shot. |
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Post by northwestman on Jun 12, 2021 20:29:51 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jun 12, 2021 20:59:15 GMT 1
Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, has been accused of misleading MPs over the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last week the Health Secretary told MPs conducting an inquiry into the handling of coronavirus that there was "never a national shortage of PPE".
But leaked emails sent by chiefs at two NHS trusts last year state that the country was in the middle of a "national shortage" of the long-sleeved gowns used to protect medics at risk of infection from Covid-19.
And senior procurement officials insisted that there were "significant shortages" of several types of PPE, including gowns and FFP3 face masks, last year.
Mark Roscrow, chairman of the Health Care Supply Association, which represents NHS procurement officials: "There were significant shortages.
"There was a point at which different organisations were trying to get their own product into the country and trying to source things from basically wherever they could.
"I think there's a short memory of the actual reality of the situation as people at the coalface experienced and lived through it."
Another senior NHS procurement official accused Mr Hancock of "complete spin".
Daily Telegraph.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 18, 2021 15:04:37 GMT 1
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-57525981Seven people have been charged with electoral offences by police investigating a missing £10.25m loan to Northampton Town Football Club. The six men and one woman have been charged over donations made to Northampton South Conservative Association in 2014. It is alleged they failed to ensure the true source of the money was disclosed.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 18, 2021 15:58:13 GMT 1
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Post by Minormorris64 on Jun 18, 2021 16:45:51 GMT 1
Is he going to put his evidence promised to the select committee on there? No idea. But if he doesn't produce it soon his credibility is shot. Prey tell what is this credibility you speak of , when referring to Cummings ?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2021 17:47:19 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jun 18, 2021 17:51:11 GMT 1
Add Imran Ahmad Khan to Rob Roberts with regards to having the Whip withdrawn. |
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Post by northwestman on Jun 23, 2021 12:19:20 GMT 1
goodlawproject.org/news/gov-publishes-40-ppe-contracts/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social%20media&utm_campaign=SCCL%202206Government publishes 40 PPE contracts totalling £4.2bn – a year late. In February, Boris Johnson falsely claimed that details of all PPE contracts awarded by the Government had been published and “were on the record“. A few weeks later Cabinet Office Minister Edward Argar doubled down on Johnson’s statement – claiming “the Prime Minister spoke accurately“. They were both wrong. Last week, the Government quietly published details of 40 PPE contracts awarded a year ago during the first wave of the pandemic. The value of these contracts is an eye-watering £4.2 billion.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 24, 2021 11:42:34 GMT 1
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jacob-rees-mogg-rob-roberts-b1871458.htmlShamed MP Rob Roberts is to be able to return to parliament after serving his six-week suspension for sexual misconduct, after ministers decided not to table a motion for expulsion from the Commons. The Delyn MP has been suspended from the Conservative party and is expected to return in 12 July as an independent. But Leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has decided not to bring forward an expulsion motion, despite making clear that he believes it would be “honourable” for Mr Roberts to stand down as an MP. Tories don't want to risk a by election in Delyn, which they could well lose. They'd rather leave Roberts there as an Independent and be one down in numbers.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 24, 2021 15:06:59 GMT 1
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/matt-hancock-babylon-standards-rayner-b1871995.htmlLabour are demanding a Downing Street sleaze investigation into claims that Matt Hancock promoted a healthcare firm whose shareholders donated thousands of pounds to the Conservative party and to the health secretary personally. Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, wrote to Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser Christopher Geidt asking him to open an inquiry into what she claimed was an instance of “contempt” of the rules on ministers’ conduct. Ms Rayner said that Mr Hancock had “repeatedly endorsed” Babylon Healthcare publicly without declaring that one of the firm’s investors had given £200,000 to the Tories, while another gave £10,000 to his campaign for the Tory leadership in 2019. Meanwhile, Ms Rayner said that the health secretary had appointed a third Babylon shareholder as a government adviser in 2018.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 25, 2021 17:33:38 GMT 1
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Post by SeanBroseley on Jun 25, 2021 18:23:37 GMT 1
At least she's an age appropriate Sh**.
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Post by ssshrew on Jun 25, 2021 18:28:13 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jun 25, 2021 18:38:01 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jun 27, 2021 8:44:59 GMT 1
Matt Hancock faces an investigation after using a personal email account instead of an official address during the pandemic in a breach of government guidelines.
Since March last year the former health secretary has routinely used a private account to conduct government business, concealing information from his own officials and potentially the public, according to documents obtained by The Sunday Times.
It means that the government does not hold records of much of Hancock’s decision-making, including negotiating multimillion-pound PPE contracts, setting up the £37 billion test and trace programme and overseeing the government’s care homes strategy.
Lord Bethell, Hancock’s ally and a junior health minister, engaged in the same practice, saying he “routinely uses his personal inbox and the majority of [approvals for contracts] would have been initiated from this inbox".
The disclosures pose new questions about Hancock’s conduct. They suggest it will be difficult for officials to obtain evidence of his conduct in office before an independent inquiry into the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
His emails may also be important for any investigation into whether he breached MPs’ rules by sponsoring a parliamentary pass for Colandangelo. Cabinet Office guidance states explicitly that “it is expected that government business should be recorded on a government record system”.
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Post by frankwellshrews on Jun 27, 2021 8:55:01 GMT 1
Matt Hancock faces an investigation after using a personal email account instead of an official address during the pandemic in a breach of government guidelines. Since March last year the former health secretary has routinely used a private account to conduct government business, concealing information from his own officials and potentially the public, according to documents obtained by The Sunday Times. It means that the government does not hold records of much of Hancock’s decision-making, including negotiating multimillion-pound PPE contracts, setting up the £37 billion test and trace programme and overseeing the government’s care homes strategy. Lord Bethell, Hancock’s ally and a junior health minister, engaged in the same practice, saying he “routinely uses his personal inbox and the majority of [approvals for contracts] would have been initiated from this inbox". The disclosures pose new questions about Hancock’s conduct. They suggest it will be difficult for officials to obtain evidence of his conduct in office before an independent inquiry into the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. His emails may also be important for any investigation into whether he breached MPs’ rules by sponsoring a parliamentary pass for Colandangelo. Cabinet Office guidance states explicitly that “it is expected that government business should be recorded on a government record system”. How on earth did nobody stop this from happening? Don't they have internal audit or compliance people at the DHSC? Serious questions to be asked about the whole set up (although that's been obvious for years to anyone paying attention or not wilfully ignoring things because it's their team doing it). Starting to look extremely dodgy for the Johnson government now. I think we're a few weeks away from a major meltdown. |
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Post by Flixton_shrew on Jun 27, 2021 12:39:55 GMT 1
Matt Hancock faces an investigation after using a personal email account instead of an official address during the pandemic in a breach of government guidelines. Since March last year the former health secretary has routinely used a private account to conduct government business, concealing information from his own officials and potentially the public, according to documents obtained by The Sunday Times. It means that the government does not hold records of much of Hancock’s decision-making, including negotiating multimillion-pound PPE contracts, setting up the £37 billion test and trace programme and overseeing the government’s care homes strategy. Lord Bethell, Hancock’s ally and a junior health minister, engaged in the same practice, saying he “routinely uses his personal inbox and the majority of [approvals for contracts] would have been initiated from this inbox". The disclosures pose new questions about Hancock’s conduct. They suggest it will be difficult for officials to obtain evidence of his conduct in office before an independent inquiry into the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. His emails may also be important for any investigation into whether he breached MPs’ rules by sponsoring a parliamentary pass for Colandangelo. Cabinet Office guidance states explicitly that “it is expected that government business should be recorded on a government record system”. How on earth did nobody stop this from happening? Don't they have internal audit or compliance people at the DHSC? Serious questions to be asked about the whole set up (although that's been obvious for years to anyone paying attention or not wilfully ignoring things because it's their team doing it). Starting to look extremely dodgy for the Johnson government now. I think we're a few weeks away from a major meltdown. Gove and Cummings were caught doing this a decade ago at the Education Department - the weak / zero punishments available to make those at the top of government accountable mean its probably widespread activity by secretary of states across most government departments ..... civil servants would expect a gross misconduct charge if they were cause doing it.
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Post by ssshrew on Jun 27, 2021 12:52:33 GMT 1
Unless they were civil servants with the name Cummings of course.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 28, 2021 9:12:52 GMT 1
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9731337/STEPHEN-GLOVER-Boris-Johnson-sacked-Matt-Hancock.htmlThe writer of this article points out a number of concerns about Johnson and his indulgence of Hancock, Patel, Jenrick, Cummings and others which have been identified by myself and others on here. 'Here was a Grade A hypocrite who has enforced coercive Covid measures with puritanical relish — while at the same time displaying a high degree of incompetence — and was caught red-handed breaking his own rules. Boris should have acted swiftly and got rid of him at once. Yet he seemed incapable of grasping that Mr Hancock’s behaviour was morally obnoxious, and declared with lofty insouciance that he ‘considered the matter closed’. The upshot of the PM sparing those close to him is to foster the impression that there’s one set of happy-go-lucky rules for him and his mates, and an altogether tougher set for law-abiding humanity'.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 28, 2021 10:34:56 GMT 1
www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24854/sajid_javid/bromsgroveI hope that Sajid Javid can still squeeze out just over 3 hours a week to keep these 2 appointments going. He'll lose over £300,000 a year otherwise. From 17 August 2020 until further notice, Adviser and Member of J.P. Morgan EMEA Advisory Council, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, 25 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London E14 5JP. For providing advice on the global economy, major industries and geo-politics, I receive £150,000 a year, paid biannually. Hours: 80-96 hrs a year. I consulted ACoBA about this appointment. (Registered 01 September 2020) From 22 October 2020 until further notice, Adviser to C3.ai (enterprise AI software provider), 1300 Seaport Boulevard, Redwood City, California, CA 94063. For providing advice on the global economy, geo-politics and market opportunities, I expect to receive £151,835 per annum, paid monthly, plus an option for 666.7 common shares per month (with a current approximate market value of £45,000). Hours: 80-96 hrs annually (10-12 days a year). I consulted ACoBA about this appointment. (Registered 10 November 2020; updated 07 December 2020 and 21 December 2020)
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Post by ssshrew on Jun 28, 2021 10:48:45 GMT 1
Oh I’m sure he will. He will be no better than the rest of them when it comes to extra income and positions. I have no faith whatsoever in him. His appointment was too damn quick for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2021 11:31:28 GMT 1
Oh I’m sure he will. He will be no better than the rest of them when it comes to extra income and positions. I have no faith whatsoever in him. His appointment was too damn quick for me. At least he is one of the older guard who has held senior appointments previously. I have slightly more faith in him than all these third raters who have largely been appointed thanks to "Get Brexit Done" AND he did fall out with Cummings and resigned...no bad thing. |
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Post by ssshrew on Jun 28, 2021 11:43:27 GMT 1
I agree the fall out with Cummings is a big big plus. It’s just that I’m reaching the stage where I don’t trust or believe any of them from whatever party. Perhaps it’s me or perhaps it is sadly a sign of the times.
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Post by DiglisShrew on Jun 28, 2021 12:53:18 GMT 1
Oh I’m sure he will. He will be no better than the rest of them when it comes to extra income and positions. I have no faith whatsoever in him. His appointment was too damn quick for me. What Carrie wants - Carrie gets !! |
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Post by ssshrew on Jun 28, 2021 12:58:36 GMT 1
I may have to grovel here. I’ve just read that our new health minister has resigned from two of his other posts in the private sector.
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Jun 28, 2021 14:45:49 GMT 1
I may have to grovel here. I’ve just read that our new health minister has resigned from two of his other posts in the private sector. I don’t think he had a choice because ministers are not permitted to hold other jobs. It doesn’t stop them giving business and jobs to their friends though. |
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