Government bins £1.4bn of unused PPE | LBC analysis

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£1.4bn-worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) bought by the UK government in a single deal has been destroyed or written off, marking a significant instance of waste during the Covid pandemic.
The data revealed that 1.57 billion items supplied by Full Support Healthcare will never be used. This was part of a £1.78bn contract made in April 2020, during the peak of the pandemic, to provide masks, aprons, eye protectors, and respirators. This deal was the government's largest PPE order, representing 13% of its total PPE expenditure.
Of the 2.02 billion items from the deal, only 232 million were distributed to the NHS or other care settings. Approximately 749 million items have already been destroyed, and another 825 million are set to be disposed of or recycled.
Tom Swarbrick is joined by Peter Smith, a former government procurement advisor, to analyse the significance of this story.
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@brianbell3836 3 месяца назад

Michelle Mone should be stripped of her peerage and jailed.

@Alanturner-c5x 3 месяца назад

The Tories have very little to say about Tory Baroness Mone

@marcprosser2412 3 месяца назад

It’s called CORRUPTION

@grudland 3 месяца назад

Agree

@mattheweagles5123 3 месяца назад

Do you have any evidence of corruption or are you just baiting libel lawyers?

@digglerdudeuk 3 месяца назад

If you still don't see that corruption is endemic in our ruling class then you're beyond help.

@tommymorrison6478 3 месяца назад

I don't see that corruption is endemic in our ruling class. It's certainly endemic in the Tory party - no argument there. Do you think the Tories are our "ruling class"? I don't.

@digglerdudeuk 3 месяца назад

@@tommymorrison6478 I would encourage you to watch The Labour Files and read the Forde Report. It'll leave you in no doubt that Labour are equally as corrupt.

@AlanFagan-y5l 3 месяца назад

@@tommymorrison6478They do..😊

@christinavuyk2026 3 месяца назад

@@tommymorrison6478well tbf as the party of choice for the wealthy they pretty much are. But that’s capitalism for you 😬

@jujutrini8412 3 месяца назад

@@tommymorrison6478 The ruling class just happen to flock towards the Tory Party. They also tend to like donating to them. Coincidence perhaps. 🤷‍♀️

@susanb4816 3 месяца назад

As a disabled person who feels ostracized and vilified this really cuts deeply

@alexritchie4586 3 месяца назад

Swarbrick was an advisor to Theresa May when her government was censured by the UN for its appaling treatment of the disabled. The call is coming from inside the house!

@paulmitchell3131 3 месяца назад

They are ripping it right out of us and still people continue to Vote Tory totally insane

@johnhall8485 3 месяца назад

Johnson wasted 1Billion pound when he was Mayor of London

@FrailCaesar 3 месяца назад

Absolutely abhorrent. Let's hope it's decade's before the Tories geta sniff of power again.

@Dan_and_Co 3 месяца назад

is this why Tom allwayss defends the Tories Swarbrick left LBC in August 2016 to join the Senior broadcast team at Downing Street as Head of Broadcast.[7] He was an adviser to then Prime Minister Theresa May during the election of Donald Trump as US president, the triggering of Article 50 and subsequent Brexit negotiations, and the 2017 general election.[8] He left the role in March 2018.

@coppershark1973 3 месяца назад

Yes.

@jujutrini8412 3 месяца назад

Exactly.

@alexritchie4586 3 месяца назад

Ding! Ding! Ding!

@amcc5887 3 месяца назад

Wow realy??didn't know that 🤷‍♂️

@EchoPandaGaming 3 месяца назад

In fairness to him, May was certainly the least corrupt of all recent Tory leaders. Unfortunately she was out of touch, among other issues

@davidhenrywall8619 3 месяца назад

Any one involved and found to be corrupt , they should be prosecuted and taken to crown court and if guilty , they should have proper prison sentence,s.

@noelfleming3567 3 месяца назад

But it's d people running d country doing d fiddling so u can figure it out

@sarcasticstartrek7719 3 месяца назад

i mean, it has a life span. There's nothing else you can do with it. The question should be why was so much over-bought (corruption, tory mates etc). The scrapping is immaterial and needs to be done. The company itself has done nothing wrong here - they were asked (perhaps by a corrupt politician) to provide X amount of material for £Y cost and they've fulfilled that request without any issues. I'm sure they jumped at the chance - any company would, to make £1.5 billion profit in a year. WHY were they asked to do this? Which MP organised this? How do they know the owners? Do they have shares in the company (or their friends/family etc)? and so on.

@twolessba1087 3 месяца назад

You're forgetting what the Johnson governement was like, every week he would stand up and say 15 billion here 7 billion there 2 billion over there, it was never about weather or not the PPE was usable or not it was how well BJohnson could sell the idea the government was doing anything about it.

@MIckDTN 3 месяца назад

Its okay only tax payers money

@frankieelen7238 3 месяца назад

😡🤬😡

@MIckDTN 3 месяца назад

@@frankieelen7238 I was being sarcastic.

@noelfleming3567 3 месяца назад

That's exactly how they look at it they can't lose

@LAD907 3 месяца назад

There was also Dodgy Dave the only difference is people wasn't paying attention compared to how they are now engaged since the Referendum

@michaelknight3270 3 месяца назад

Blood money

@Alex-cw3rz 3 месяца назад

There needs to be prison sentences from this and every penny and a fine of double of what was stolen implemented.

@Contraster671 3 месяца назад

It takes your breath away….

@Callofdootie 3 месяца назад

1p or £100million, corruption is corruption full stop. No ifs, no buts.

@noelfleming3567 3 месяца назад

👍👏👏👏

@christinavuyk2026 3 месяца назад

It’s all a scandal and it all needs to be addressed 🤬

@LB-eb2wx 3 месяца назад

Also wrote off billions in fraud and they acted fast to ignore companies with experience and use mates instead.

@Alex-cw3rz 3 месяца назад

Consultants are the biggest con in existence

@pippoplfc 3 месяца назад

Knocks me sick.

@marktony9737 3 месяца назад

Sick of getting angry at the scale of corruption. Nothing will happen to those who committed fraud at a level never seen before, so what's the point.

@1Mutton1 3 месяца назад

Its something that doesnt suprise me. This is why you dont allow the government to manage things like this.

@janohara6995 3 месяца назад

What is being forgotten in this discussion is the failure of government to provide ppe to social care. That councils were pleading with government to let them manage local logistics because they knew how to do it - not civil servants or consultants.

@hilarykirkby4771 3 месяца назад

I think bookies care about this quite a lot. Granted that many others won't care much.

@petersmith9470 3 месяца назад

When this story first came out why did the reporters have evidence that it was actually substandard and unusable?

@user-jr9wy6tl5k 3 месяца назад

And they moved their company to another jurisdiction to avoid scrutiny of their accounts.....

@PP-G 3 месяца назад

But but but...the SNP spent £11 of their own cash on stamps

@grantwallace1882 3 месяца назад

I thought the point was that the equipment was NOT to the right standard.

@tea.topzone 3 месяца назад

With all the excess PPE lying around in some storage somewhere, we were bullied and reported to supervisors for even as much as asking to use correct and appropriate PPE in my hospital!😢

@davidsmith8921 3 месяца назад

I think this LBC interview and the BBC article lack a sense of the scale of the situation. How did the UK govt manage to "panic" buy such a high percentage of their PPE from friends and family, to companies that were less than 60 days old, to companies that were worth much less than their contracts? I think this LBC interview seems to lack information of whether this deal was flagged or should have been flagged by the civil service based on existing regulations. If this is a story of a MP or chief civil servant overruling concerns of offering a 25-person company a £1.78bn deal, no new regulation would solve this. Only kicking out the corrupt MP ...

@joeegg90 3 месяца назад

Ah Tommy, call it what it is,... Corruption.

@niccolamachiavelli8094 3 месяца назад

Didn't the company move their finances to Jersey after getting the order, so hiding their profit?

@nigelballard-m7h 3 месяца назад

NHS ministers. I wonder who that is??

@jamesnicoll8415 3 месяца назад

It’s called having A POOR MORAL COMPASS. !!!

@mgibuk 3 месяца назад

I remember delivering papers as a kid when the millennium dome was being built, and the papers ran story after story about the costs spiralling to £1bn. Why isn't this a bigger story? Well, we know the reasons sadly. The millennium dome has paid for itself at this point too not just been landfilled.

@davidpanton3192 3 месяца назад

I wondered when his prominently displayed book was going to come up...

@ErwinPommel 3 месяца назад

Oh, but didn't you hear? He didn't want to plug it.

@mandywaddell1967 3 месяца назад

This Govt has used the Countries finances as if it was their own! You wonder what their personal finances are like as they don't appear to have any concept of value for money!

@amnoahwielwabbit3837 3 месяца назад

It could have been given back to the Owners ……. You ! You Had to provide your own , ……… so you paid Twice .

@sadies2820 3 месяца назад

It's not so much the act of putting the bet on it's the lack of critical thinking about the ethics of it that concerns me.

@DavidCarlisle-b9f 3 месяца назад

Small things like gambling leads to bigger things.

@BennyJlakid 3 месяца назад

I bet why this stuff was sat and still in date hospitals around the country have been buying PPE from there normal procurement company’s.

@raymondpenn1066 3 месяца назад

In all seriousness, the main reason for such massive wastes of money is the way in which bills are paid. Every single time I completed even a small contract and sent my final bill, it could be as long as 4 months before I was paid but always at least 3 months. These terms alone are enough to put off companies from even bidding for a new public contract. The only companies that can afford to be without prompt payment are those with very, very deep pockets and as a result they can pretty much charge what they want. If local and central Government paid the bills quickly, the costs would fall incredibly and the public would actually start getting real value for money.

@12bigredd 3 месяца назад

distribution? why not proper distrubion???

@jimsmithcivils8459 3 месяца назад

Is the betting scandal is deliberate to hide ppe scandal

@rookie_ 3 месяца назад

and now the increased taxation we are paying is spent on the sovereign debt interest rather than going towards better services.

@Mahmad-u9m 3 месяца назад

If it was reported by the bbc this means the actual figures were a log more..

@omg1tsGriff 3 месяца назад

It's almost as if the party known for cronyism, nepotism and all the other isms that shouldn't be associated with a government party, handed all these contracts out to their mates to make a quick quid.

@najaB76 3 месяца назад

The issue was the way that contracts were specified. They could easily have structured them so that we were paying for X items to be delivered by a certain date, and Y items in the future for which we'll pay you (say) 25% now to reserve the manufacturing capacity and the other 75% when we actually need it. [Made-up numbers]

@kennethvenezia4400 3 месяца назад

Do you really trust that the pp gear was made to specifications? Maybe some of it was, but not all of it. Now you'll never know because the evidence was destroyed. Corruption that we have all come to expect from the tories

@patriciaruth2918 3 месяца назад

If you make something and it's not fit for purpose you're allowed to get your money back so why aren't the public getting their money back

@t.jconnolly6492 3 месяца назад

And all that money didn't helpthe elderly who were stuck in care homes all across the country not even aloud to be visited by there own family's corrupt is not a strong enough word evil to the core

@rogergreen2695 3 месяца назад

Guess where I've been today? To a retailer having a sale of goods that were previously in stock. Isn't that what happens frequently,? Except for an inept government it seems.

@rockerjim8045 3 месяца назад

Any competent Government should have a Pandemic Plan. Just set up a Manufacturing Facility for each item Inc Storage and then Mothball the whole operation until needed

@nigh7swimming 3 месяца назад

Somehow I lost any incentive to pay my taxes here in the UK..

@jefflloyd8277 3 месяца назад

Who owns the ppi company

@simongee8928 3 месяца назад

There was an age when folk in positions of authority could be trusted to act and bebave with trustworthiness, integrity and accountability. Those days are long gone as many of thise with power and or money dont give a stuff.

@methanedirigible 3 месяца назад

What age was that? Because in 1910 there was the Marconi scandal relating to insider trading (just as there is right now), in 1922 there was a ‘cash-for-honours’ scandal at the top of government. Even in the 1890s there was the Liberator Building Society scandal involving fraudulent companies to hide financial losses. What age exactly are you talking about? Cos it’s not in _living memory._

@peterhurd9667 3 месяца назад

If whoever ordered the PPE knew it would be wasted and had connections in the company: corruption. If it was too large an order but there was no connection between government and the company; panic driven mistake

@terry9819 3 месяца назад

The thing that got me about this story is that it cost £100 million to STORE this PPE. I understand the incompetent mess with over ordering but how can you waste that much on storage.without it being intentional.

@rlfvacslakenheath 3 месяца назад

they ordered so much and had no where to store it. so a lot of it sat in the docks for months. which if your unfamilar with you get 7 days free storage the moment its lifted off the boat. the docks then charge a small fee per day over 7 days to 14 days. it used to be £25 per day. any thing after 14 days is £100 per day. soon adds up

@netweed09 3 месяца назад

APCA.

@Kromaatikse 3 месяца назад

Questions certainly need to be asked about this waste. I would expect it to be an important topic in the COVID Inquiry. As to whether it's a *bigger* scandal than Gamblegate, it certainly involves more money. But Gamblegate is direct evidence of dishonesty amongst those involved; this waste could, potentially, just be the result of poor organisation. I think it relatively likely that the Government simply did not prioritise actual public health solutions over taking the excuse to spend lots of public money in ways that would naturally "trickle out" to some of their cronies.

@andreer-k6136 3 месяца назад

What happen3d to Dido Harding’s transfer of funds for PPE etc of THIRTY SEVEN BILLION POUNDS? Where is Ms Harding? Where are the £37 BILLION???

@fayurquhart-louis8379 3 месяца назад

It’s not about blaming in real life, if an individual go shopping in essence they are gonna make sure that your are going to have value for money I feel that the civil service should at least think about what they’re signing up to. It’s not easy money, this creates a poverty trap. don’t like that, because other people has to go without as they are not able to articulate their needs. The government has a duty of care and therefore should be having discussion and not just doing things blindly. This is public funds, I agree that there are more incidents of corruption the rules are there someone need to enforce the rules.

@madmesmith5187 3 месяца назад

Why not sell it if we can not use it.

@clairejames8643 3 месяца назад

How does protective equipment go out of date? Can we talk about the absolutely useless nightingale hospitals and the reasons why we were so unprepared for a pandemic?

@ΑΣΔΦΓΗΞΚΛ 3 месяца назад

Rubber, plastics etc are polymers Meaning molecules joined together "many molecules" They all depolymerise over time, or with outside influences like heat, UV, other chemicals This applies to the wrappers as well, once they've failed the contents aren't sterile Medics are fussy about that But since Cygnus was ignored they used bin bags I'd rather have had out of date PPE than a bin bag

@clairejames8643 3 месяца назад

@Bob-bx2vk thank you for explaining.

@PhilipOwen-zw4sc 3 месяца назад

The order was placed in April 2020 .

@PhilipOwen-zw4sc 3 месяца назад

Yes , but the politicians and civil servants should have known that it wouldn't be required.

@PhilipOwen-zw4sc 3 месяца назад

How the **** would they know that?

@petercarney-gt3me 3 месяца назад

is there an inquiry into all this spending and waste if so when do they publish it, also will it cover the jobs for the mates who never had any track record in the industry ie baroness moan and her husband

@maanhills7982 3 месяца назад

Choose your own boat, but be aware that the choices on offer are all barnacles and no hull.

@renmanincltd9965 3 месяца назад

Staggeringly it's Just Business As Usual wiv the Tories.... 🤔💰🥱🐕

@dekmackie 3 месяца назад

I'd say the biggest waste of our hard earned cash was £37 BILLION on a test and trace app, that can be written and debugged in a day. Some folks got very rich, very quickly for next to nothing.

@grateberk6435 3 месяца назад

Where is Harding?

@trojon 3 месяца назад

Can put money on it that sunak's wife's company got the largest piece of that pie...

@GerryT. 3 месяца назад

And the job of main man/woman given to a failure.

@tref51 3 месяца назад

2:41 That 37billion really needs to be investigated......it only cost France 500€ million using Google and it worked perfectly. The Tories refused any help from Google.

@AlanFagan-y5l 3 месяца назад

@@grateberk6435She can't be traced. 😊

@Ayeright. 3 месяца назад

We only jail innocent sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses in the UK.

@jim2010ful 3 месяца назад

Birmingham Six , Guilford Four ect ect ect

@andydudley1775 3 месяца назад

criminals get given 100 million of our money to make it happen by an unelected criminal with connections to fijitsu.a rishi sunek.

@mattheweagles5123 3 месяца назад

Are you suggesting that people who buy too much medical equipment should be jailed?

@alanmichael5619 3 месяца назад

@@mattheweagles5123 There's buying too much medical equipment and then there's deliberately buying too much medical equipment. One is a mistake - the other is embezzlement.

@mattheweagles5123 2 месяца назад

@@alanmichael5619 what makes you think that too much was bought deliberately? Do you have the original estimates that show a lower volume being recommended and something that shows this was deliberately ignored for personal enrichment?

@matthewcook9404 3 месяца назад

I’ll raise you £37 billion for the failed Test and Trace. That’s our money and we want it back.

@davidhodgson3901 3 месяца назад

Especially when we were offered other proven systems for nowt.

@mattheweagles5123 3 месяца назад

It was £25B for the entire test and trace programme. Most of which was spent on actually testing people.

@joeegg90 3 месяца назад

@@mattheweagles5123 Really? Post a link for the news item that references your assertion.

@thomasswift3563 3 месяца назад

Test and trace covered the UK and aĺl overseas territories and every country in the world bought PPE that was unusable

@mattheweagles5123 3 месяца назад

@@thomasswift3563 test and trace was the program that did the testing of people for COVID and tracing people who might also have caught COVID from those people. Buying PPE was wholly separate

@coppershark1973 3 месяца назад

The PPE money is ALSO included in the NHS spend figures! Think about that every time Sunak says ‘record spending on the NHS…

@therealrobertbirchall 3 месяца назад

And you know what else is coming out of the NHS budget? The compensation for the contaminated blood disaster.

@ErwinPommel 3 месяца назад

None of these scandals "make my blood boil" because after 14 years of this, I expect nothing else from the criminal gang that is the Tory party. I just want them out, and I want someone put in their place who genuinely wants to make the country work and isn't solely out to line their own pockets.

@brianferguson7840 3 месяца назад

The biggest waste of our money 💰 was 14 years of Tory MPs wages and expenses, for.......... Sod All😢

@mephistophile33 3 месяца назад

It wasn't for Sod All. We got unusable PPE instead of usable PPE which cost lives. Much much worse than Sod All.

@LowPlainsDrifter60 3 месяца назад

Don't forget their pensions. 🙄

@therealrobertbirchall 3 месяца назад

300 000 dead due to 'austerity'.

@wizzerdsuntzu 3 месяца назад

Think about the duck house! A necessary parliamentary expense, obviously..

@Ominousheat 3 месяца назад

And we ended up paying at the store for masks as well. They could have been given out for free instead of being burnt.

@BruceMacgregorCampbell 3 месяца назад

Where is Dido Harding? She was given the annual budget of a small country for a non-existant track and trace project. £37billion. I want her in jail and my money back.

@stephenlord599 3 месяца назад

Let’s not forget they put the UK poster child for losing personal information in charge.

@markbullen5989 3 месяца назад

Sleeping in her silken sheets.

@jasonlightbody5356 3 месяца назад

She's spent it !

@jasonlightbody5356 3 месяца назад

Oh I forgot no one could spend that ,she just likes looking at it, makes sense really, take 37 billion out of the economy all together so she can look at it

@bobby9791 3 месяца назад

Forget the Tories, Let’s hound Angela Rayner for £1500 that’s she doesn’t owe.

@davidsmith8921 3 месяца назад

I find it sickening that more air time is used to hound her about her living arrangements 15 years ago, than whether or not this PPE was stored properly. The expert interviewee was just spouting theories on why it could have / would have / should have. What is the answer, find that out, then we can have a radio debate about it.

@limpethead 3 месяца назад

Multi millionaire Angela Raynor. She's worth £3 million.

@davidsmith8921 3 месяца назад

@@limpethead where do you find that figure? According to the BBC, her salary is £86k with £16k extra income...

@lozcb1 3 месяца назад

She does owe it morally , you know that and I know that , no difference between Rayner and the Tories , what is an irrefutable fact in my life time or 70 years is that every single labour government has broken the economy , so expect more of the same ...........personally i'll be better off but my kids and my grandchildren will suffer because of it

@blazzz13 3 месяца назад

@@limpethead Even if what you say is true- was it from corrupt tenders like PPE? Didn't think so

@gortmundy01 3 месяца назад

Who profited? And what was their relationship to the government? That's when an issue of waste turns to a matter of corruption.

@INCREASE.THE.PEACE. 3 месяца назад

Spot on

@MarkCroucherRC4fun 3 месяца назад

That's a job for a "super" majority Labour government to investigate.

@mattheweagles5123 3 месяца назад

Full Support Healthcare Ltd profited. They said that at the start. You can go look up runs it and also what they have donated to politicians or parties. No need to wonder when you can find out for yourself

@therealspixycat 3 месяца назад

On top of the £37bn T&T?

@DarkAngel-oq5ox 3 месяца назад

Criminal charges should be brought against the majority of the Conservative Party for their part in this scandal.

@scottmarriott1185 3 месяца назад

Remember sunak said there was no case to answer on PPE procurement and cancelled the juridical review….corrupt to the core

@dougtsax 3 месяца назад

The NHS had a procurment method but the Tories ditched it in favour of lining the pockets of their friends.

@noelfleming3567 3 месяца назад

Fact

@tom5216 3 месяца назад

True but NHS procurement has always been a total mess. 30 years ago my wife worked for the NHS and I worked in IT. Her hospital needed a small computer network to run an analysis program and their kitchen ordering system. I offered to supply the system they needed consisting of 2 PC’s and some network bits and pieces. I could do it for £4000. At that time the PC was the modern standard desktop. The hospital procurement department went for a £30,000 system consisting of 2 Apricot computers that were incompatible with anything else and that were already being discontinued. Go figure!

@andypickett1 3 месяца назад

I work in the NHS. Some of the facemasks had three revised sell by date stickers over the original printed one spanning 12 years. The whiff of corruption is overpowering

@melodyg4727 3 месяца назад

Insane.. 😢

@tank-x7i 3 месяца назад

Rule (1) Tories are corrupt !! Rule (2) Never forget Rule (1) !!!

@jonjayne007 3 месяца назад

corruption, corruption, corruption.

@dekmackie 3 месяца назад

Solution: every government has to produce an itemised bill of every penny of public money spent and where it went to, these thing should not be a secret.

@megannehover4013 3 месяца назад

In a 2010 TED talk before he was elected, Cameron said "In this country, if we win the election, we are going to make all government spending over 25,000 pounds transparent and available online, searchable for anyone to see. We're going to make every contract -- we're announcing this today -- available on the Internet so anyone can see what the terms are, what the conditions are, driving huge value for money, but also huge increases, I believe, in well-being as well." (time ref: 07:30-08:20 in the transcript)

@frankieelen7238 3 месяца назад

@@megannehover4013 Well that was just the first of the Tory Mega Lies. Started as they meant to go on, didn't they?

@noelfleming3567 3 месяца назад

@megannehover4013 and u believed him😂😂

@fritzhenning1 3 месяца назад

Yes, we need an army of pen pushers following every penny, that's the way save money. But wait, how do we handle all those that think (say) the NHS already have too many pen pushers and not enough nurses. Or maybe we ask Horizon to do the leg work ....with that nice Gareth Jenkins in charge, or even Baroness Bra.

@megannehover4013 3 месяца назад

@@noelfleming3567 No, I didn't believe him. I compared what he said with what he did..

@Alberts_Stuff 3 месяца назад

CRIMINALS

@swissystan 3 месяца назад

Come on, the PPE scandal is far worse and it should still be in the headlines, day after day.

@keithdonnelly8636 3 месяца назад

What about the pub landlord that got a COVID contract or Dido Hardings Track and Trace ..

@robh8814 3 месяца назад

You missed the L out🤣🤣

@keithdonnelly8636 3 месяца назад

@@robh8814 not sure what you mean by L

@robh8814 3 месяца назад

@@keithdonnelly8636 Put the l in Harding's first name🤣. Surprised you didnt get it.

@keithdonnelly8636 3 месяца назад

@@robh8814 sorry just eaten and tired 😴

@cjwhiterabbit1 3 месяца назад

£1.4 Billion ... lets just think about that figure for a minute or two ...

@noelfleming3567 3 месяца назад

Baroness. 😂😂😂😂

@kendiamond8722 3 месяца назад

It's about cronyism not about the waste or about panic buying , why did they give the buddies the contracts instead of the NHS or the normal route who said that they could do it 😢 still getting lies

@mattheweagles5123 3 месяца назад

Giving the NHS a contract to supply equipment to the NHS?

@rchas1023 3 месяца назад

Billions of pounds is incomprehensible, unimaginable. Everyone can understand a betting shop; most people have had a flutter on the Grand National. We can all see that skiving off from D-Day is shameful.

@SusanPayne-b2t 3 месяца назад

Covid waste is inexcusable, it’s an insult to the general public. How do you think people who are unable to feed their families feel. I waste very little. It’s easy when it’s not your money! These people need to try to manage on an average salary! How dare they do dare behave like this!

@noelfleming3567 3 месяца назад

When they got their noses in d trough they kept slurping

@justin-tyme 3 месяца назад

This is why I encourage everyone I speak to, not to pay taxes or avoid taxes as much as possible... it just goes to these corrupt politicians... 😊I'd rather keep it if it ain't being spent on public services.

@SAS-vx1jk 3 месяца назад

Why couldn't the NHS Procurement do their own ordering?????? That would have saved billions

@noelfleming3567 3 месяца назад

Wernt allowed new companies set up to deal with d crisis some firms that supplied d NHS weren't even asked for a quote 😢

@darrennandrewfitness2836 3 месяца назад

What is this bs about we didn't know where to get ppe and it hard to find. Actual Ppe companies that made the real deal mask came forward and said to the government how much do u need we are here to deliver but the government ignored them and gave the contract to their friends who had no experience in making ppe

@MrDeadhead1952 3 месяца назад

Something which needs to be borne in mind is that the Tories decided not to replenish the national emergency equipment reserve after its was used as part of the Swine Flu outbreak and ebola outbreaks. Had this reserve had been available the Government would have had time to follow procurement rules and certainly avoided this level of waste of usable kit and avoided the amounts of usuable and frankly unfit supplies.