Michelle Mone: Is it too easy for the rich and famous to lie to the public? | The News Agents

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What did Michelle Mone mean when she said all she’d done was “lie to the press“ after she threatened journalists with lawsuits if they dared to investigate her story?
Today we follow all the unanswered questions - is our defamation law serving the public?
What did the government know about the missing Mone millions?
And should she still sit in the House of Lords?
Tax Lawyer Dan Neidle and Labour shadow minister Nick Thomas-Symonds join us.
After that, we speak to former UK Ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher on the horror and pain that the war between Israel and Hamas continues to inflict on all those affected; and is Jon Sopel running a covert cannabis farm in his basement?
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@janeknight3597 9 месяцев назад

She encouraged her lawyer to threaten to sue the press on the basis of her lies to him. The woman is a member of the law making body of the UK. If she can’t see that this is a problem then she needs to be removed from the Lords. Not suspended. The “honour” must be removed.

@mikedignum1868 9 месяцев назад

She's hardly there anyway...but I agree.

@grateberk6435 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely. Vile thief.

@blazzz13 9 месяцев назад

@@mikedignum1868 No doubt she still collects that cheque though 💰

@stevesmith2214 9 месяцев назад

Unfortunastely the very people that have the power to do anything this blatant corruption are very same folk who just want to maintain the status quo as they and their friends do very nicely out of it!

@robertlaw. 9 месяцев назад

@@stevesmith2214Britain in a nutshell.

@hg82met 9 месяцев назад

The Tories are all in it together. Mone did what she did and got away with it because the whole Tory establishment is complicit. If they tried to take her down, they'd go down with her. That's why there are no repercussions.

@firefox-vc6rb 9 месяцев назад

And it's exactly the same with my local council corruption.

@ricardothorburn4089 9 месяцев назад

The Tories and Labour are in it together. In essence the Labour shadow minister was making no commitment to an effective solution.

@WhichDoctor1 9 месяцев назад

they didn't put out contracts to everyone and anyone. There were UK PPE manufacturers exporting British made PPE to other countries at the time because the government were refusing to give them contracts. I remember seeing people from some of these companies interviewed on TV saying that they would prioritise UK government contracts over any others because they wanted to help, and they were contacting the government offering their services but weren't getting any response. Meanwhile, companies with no experience of medical equipment but just happened to be owned by friends and relatives of government ministers were being given contracts at 80% above the market rate to import substandard or completely unusable PPE from the other side of the world

@dean8282 9 месяцев назад

The VIP lane charged 80% above market value too.

@brianevans2819 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely spot on.

@jujutrini8412 9 месяцев назад

Intriguing isn’t it?

@brianevans2819 9 месяцев назад

@jujutrini8412 how can a lawyer/solicitor make it so simple, and a politician make exactly the same thing, so confusing, complex, and complicated. It really has me baffled.

@highmillpickering2470 9 месяцев назад

@@brianevans2819Simple. To make it confusing, complex and complicated.

@annastracke8585 9 месяцев назад

What really gets me, is their brazenness and the total absence of shame or guilt. I hope the courts will throw the book at them.

@tannhauser5399 9 месяцев назад

@annastracke8585 - Absense of shame and guilt? Not suprising at all, and not applicable just to rich people. Most top level management from a lot of companies in UK don't have any guilt at all (even now NHS trusts are cutting jobs, and moving some of the jobs to contractors for nice juicy contracts - but you won't hear about it in media; and is not cutting jobs as such but it is the way how it is done). Pretty much the same with TFL management, Centrica (British Gas), Barclays, UCL (education), and not even talking about something like Morgan Stanley, Bank of England, Investec, BAE Systems, some of the insurance companies with office in Croydon, and so on. In the last 20 years, at the top level of management, I could only see people without any shame or guilt, no matter what decissions they have been making (including plenty of wrong ones). None whatsoever. So no, this is actually not surprising at all.

@keithwarriner2825 9 месяцев назад

Never happen , the "Old boy network " will.kick in and protect them, anyone else not titled or in any form of power would get shat on .

@orraman5427 9 месяцев назад

PPE Medpro was incorporated on 12.5.2020. On 12.6.2020 it received a contract worth £80.85 million and two weeks later another contract worth £122 million. Nothing to see here, move along now.

@johnt8453 9 месяцев назад

That in itself isn't really the problem. The speed at which profits were taken as Dividend however IS. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.

@albertbrammer9263 9 месяцев назад

Gove should be in jail for his part in this corruption.

@Ian-mj4pt 9 месяцев назад

All of them which let the country down whilst profiteering

@Royboy50 9 месяцев назад

I would jail him just for being a tw a t

@jazzx251 9 месяцев назад

@@Royboy50 me too ... he has no redeeming qualities at all. He's awful.

@Belfreyite 9 месяцев назад

Yes, and the idiots of Surrey Heath that elected this piece of work should join the bloke.

@uniteddreamer 9 месяцев назад

And for being a cokehead

@Beejay950 9 месяцев назад

Those millions are not 'missing', they are in her offshore bank account.

@susanmiller1201 9 месяцев назад

Why did the government not approach genuine UK suppliers who supplied other countries? I wonder!

@vinparaffin6082 9 месяцев назад

Much like the current small amount of energy suppliers...............they couldn't be corrupted/controlled !

@Ian-mj4pt 9 месяцев назад

Because their mates came first

@jujutrini8412 9 месяцев назад

They aren’t the ones who are going to keep them in clover when they don’t get re elected! 😂

@JamalBrown-k1x 9 месяцев назад

They did as well, Supplies were under huge demand.

@jujutrini8412 9 месяцев назад

@@JamalBrown-k1x UK companies told the government they were willing and able to supply them. These were companies with the expertise to make PPE. The government ignored them in order to give contracts to their peers.

@audreymcgready4329 9 месяцев назад

The public paid for her messed up face lift. That lot need jailed. It's sheer corruption.

@john_mega 9 месяцев назад

no, she has a great poker face

@stephenclarke2206 9 месяцев назад

It looks pretty bad, I thought she had just overdone the Botox

@internetpolification 9 месяцев назад

@@stephenclarke2206lip filler too?

@stephenclarke2060 9 месяцев назад

@@internetpolificationI don't know you'd think with all the money she scammed she could have afforded something more professional

@babsmcfadden8109 9 месяцев назад

@@john_megashe can't move her face for the amount of botox she's has.

@kimcallaghan753 9 месяцев назад

For me, it's not so much that they lie to the public - virtually everything they say is a lie or based on lies. The issue is how do we make them accountable.

@DrMattiLabbratt 9 месяцев назад

They know that the Law and Rules have never applied to them. Money has always bought them and their offspring out of any consequences historically. Enough is Enough

@mrD66M 9 месяцев назад

1st they need to be removed from power, then laws can be amended/changed or new ones written

@aoo2645 9 месяцев назад

They are a reflection of all of us. We lie to our neighbours, the tax man, our bosses, employees. We are a society of lying uncaring, greedy, thieving hypocrites!

@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361 9 месяцев назад

first identify 'THEY' .... we all know. .. . .

@patmcgee3061 9 месяцев назад

They, are All Tories.

@OhDearOhDear69 9 месяцев назад

Best defence ever - “well it wasn’t just me that was taking the public for a bunch of fools, it was all of us”

@bigbarry8343 9 месяцев назад

but she is right, why is it just her?

@frogandspanner 9 месяцев назад

If the first to be taken to task could successfully use that argument to get away with things, then the next person could use the same argument, and so on

@bigbarry8343 9 месяцев назад

@@frogandspanner equally, scapegoating is not quite the best disciplining tool for the bunch of unscrupulous MPs.

@thepm3972 9 месяцев назад

Negotiation for a lesser sentence as a whistle blower hopefully

@firefox-vc6rb 9 месяцев назад

What about the covid clown Hancock

@OhDearOhDear69 9 месяцев назад

Yes, yes it is. They consider themselves exempt from the rules, the entitlement is truly astonishing

@dean8282 9 месяцев назад

She was Labour supporter but when became rich ditched her background and turned greedy. Can never have enough while everyone else got nothing. Thatcher's daughter... vile

@BrendaSloan-y3e 9 месяцев назад

Liers always get caught in the end .even most children know that .

@scottmorris8585 9 месяцев назад

Didn't you know? Tories are "born to rule"! Everybody else just has to take orders - and not ask any questions! Sound familiar?

@scottmorris8585 9 месяцев назад

: Nice theory! However, when "the liars" are the media-controlling and law-making government, justice isn't always as full and clear-cut as one expects it should be!

@StuartPacker 9 месяцев назад

Remove her from the HoL and then jail her appropriate to the law

@scottmarriott1185 9 месяцев назад

What about all the other VIP lane deals….remember hancocks pub landlord deal….

@david1731048 9 месяцев назад

The fact that we're even debating the morality of the VIP lane says it all. 20 or even 10 years ago this would be obvious and blatant corruption. Now it's just happening unpunished.

@matthewn1805 9 месяцев назад

Its a lot to do with Boris Johnson, whenever his MP's broke the rules he changed the rules rather then enforce them. Not forgetting under Johnson & Sunak government fraud increased from £5.5 billion to £21 billion.

@DrMattiLabbratt 9 месяцев назад

It’s shocking that we, the public, have taken so long to realise this.

@martinvalenti7129 9 месяцев назад

Many here in Scotland knew how grotesque she is and being aligned to the Tories was always a natural fit

@paulatB2B 9 месяцев назад

We've known for years but only now is some progress being made.

@smellslikethinice1107 9 месяцев назад

@@paulatB2Bthat is correct, but not out of virtue. The middle classes have joint the circus because of mortgage interest rates. Oh dear, the homes are not a money making machine anymore.

@robertjones8644 9 месяцев назад

Never did with me it was the biggest transfer of wealth ever seen under a lying scam .Where mps family and friends made huge profits sent to offshore accounts.

@ianwheeler7513 9 месяцев назад

They ignored companies who have years of experience in this field and give the contracts to party members and cronies.

@paulbrady5561 9 месяцев назад

When it comes to public money it's definitely a crime or should be 🤬

@dean8282 9 месяцев назад

Why do the super rich go into politics.. only way to get even richer for little effort.

@custossecretus5737 9 месяцев назад

Misappropriation of public money whilst in office, is a crime as far as I know.

@jimmilne882 9 месяцев назад

You have to be very clever or lucky to catch the rich, they make the laws of the country so they set the rules of the game, they have for centuries, this country in particular. As the Labour leader Michael Foot once said, "The top are greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves, they always have done".

@johnarnell4241 9 месяцев назад

Even luckier and richer to catch the lying hacks of the liberal media cabal who don't have an honest breath in their rancid bodies.

@grateberk6435 9 месяцев назад

If they wanted the PPE delivered quickly they should have used the established suppliers. Complete cronyism, disgusting.

@TheSecondof5 9 месяцев назад

She wasn't lying to the press, she was lying to the British people and the taxpayers. She backed up those lies with threats against people who were looking to investigate her actions. Trying to hide behind concern for her family is shameful. Then again these people know no shame.

@1gerard47 9 месяцев назад

Trash is the word you are looking for after absolute.

@olepammy5830 9 месяцев назад

There were experienced companies who could and were ready to supply the equipment, they were ignored in favour of Tory donors and friends. This MUST be investigated in depth.

@Selectivebadger 9 месяцев назад

We need to hold politicians accountable otherwise there is no hope for this country. When will they realise the country is bigger than their egos and greed!

@millie2079 9 месяцев назад

Nothing worse than someone from the working class gaining entry to the upper fringes of the class system and then using that privilege to theive from and lie to those 'lower' than them.

@kdog4587 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely. Total turncoat. I almost expect it from those born into it but there's more of a sting from someone who came from very little.

@blaaaaahhhh15 9 месяцев назад

She’s certainly managed to convince herself of her cast iron entitlement to anything that’s not her’s. I wonder if her lack of born privilege might make her the perfect scapegoat for those embroiled in the same scandal looking shed some heat?

@jaseboon6282 9 месяцев назад

There was a Housing Association in the East Midlands I was trying to open up business with and gain contact information regarding tendering to provide a IT support contract for their Network. I got lied too and mislead by everyone at this Housing Association until through my own detective work I found out a Tory MP (first name Bernadette) was sitting on the Board and was awarding herself the IT Support contract charging 30k for a contract that at best would only cost a max of 12k for the size of their Network. GREED AND CORRUPTION. Another Tory MP again in Northants and male lied to the tax office regarding 2 businesses he owned declaring his 2nd business did NOT have a trading premises when it did and occupied the 1st floor of his 1st business to reduce his Business and Property Tax. He also got the staff to lie when we had a visit from the Tax Office.

@1inchPunchBowl 9 месяцев назад

This will be her & her husbands lasting legacy. Profiteering liars. She is currently one of the most hated people in the UK. Absolutely disgusting excuses for human beings. Not a decent bone between them.

@jazzx251 9 месяцев назад

Haha - you said "Bone" Like Peter Bone! ... another disgusting Tory

@kevinwillis6707 9 месяцев назад

The thing about these people is after this embarrassment dies down they won't care, it will be back to normal for them, some money may be recovered, but not all of it, they will cry crocodile tears from their tax Haven

@gregrot 9 месяцев назад

The traditional suppliers of PPE, were cold shouldered to allow tory chums to take contracts. This was another case of the tories siphoning off public monies, into private hands. This, sort of, government, is totally corrupt.

@paddymallory4080 9 месяцев назад

I work for a small biotech company and our directors offered around £100,000 of ppe free to the local hospitals and were told they couldn’t take it as govt ruling said their ppe had to come from the ‘VIP Lane’ suppliers.

@countesscable 8 месяцев назад

Tory minister to Tory Buddy: “quick, set up a company that supplies PPE and you can have the contract” buddy “great!”

@MrDeadhead1952 9 месяцев назад

Well while not she might understand the difference between right and wrong she profited from a company that supplied faulty goods and which had been set up specifically to profiteer from a national emergency (Med-Pro PPE wasn't registered as a UK company until a week after she approached the government to join the VIP lane). If the PPE had been supplied at cost with maybe a 5% agent fee she might have an argument but since she and her husband took 30% off the top is profiteering by definition. And since she has denied it for 3 years that is 'consciousness of guilt'

@paulbrady5561 9 месяцев назад

What about when she falsely claimed to Scottish police she was robbed,that was also kicked under the carpet,she has always been dodgy!

@colincampbell4261 9 месяцев назад

Please tell more?

@paulbrady5561 9 месяцев назад

Well there was 2 cases actually 1 she was robbed at knife point another £100,000 worth of underwear was reportedly stolen to later be reported to just put on another truck! this woman lies like Boris that's why conservative baroness suits her like a gel filled bra!

@5tatra 9 месяцев назад

This was when she pretended her car had been broken into and all her samples and designs were stolen. She smashed the back window of her SUV herself and reported the theft , purely because she didn’t have the samples or designs for a major retailer, who she was supposed to be meeting with that day .

@jazzx251 9 месяцев назад

@@5tatra A tall tale - but I believe you.

@johnoneil4456 9 месяцев назад

Embarrassed she is a Scot. I cannot stand liars

@juliangilbert5465 9 месяцев назад

You're all letting lawyers off too easily here. No new law needs to be passed for lawyers to demand a statement of truth before sending threatening letters. Lawyers dont do that because they want the fee, regardless of truth.

@JUSTTRYANDSTOPIT 9 месяцев назад

£37 billion for a track and trace app...work that one out!

@peanutbutterbruv 9 месяцев назад

That didn't work and was in fact an Excel Spreadsheet.

@lisaglaze250 9 месяцев назад

When we could have had an up and running one for a few hundred million from Germany!

@peanutbutterbruv 9 месяцев назад

@@lisaglaze250 For £10m

@DanteSolablood 9 месяцев назад

Wrong from the start. There were large British PPE manufacturers who worked with the NHS and were providing other countries but would have prioritised the UK.. but were NEVER contacted. Conservative donors were prioritised over known, large scale suppliers.

@1gerard47 9 месяцев назад

Makes my blood boil,and I've been away for many years.

@sh4h221 9 месяцев назад

Guys forget it, she will just get a slap on the wrist from her friends in Westminster where if it was one of us plebs we'd get jail time.

@craig3533 9 месяцев назад

Well, their attitude starts with "If it's not a crime, I'm fine to do it", then goes to "If it's not a law that will get enforced on me, I'm fine to do it", and then lastly "If it's a law that I can get my friends not to enforce on me, or I can get away with a slap on the wrist, I'm fine to do it." - society depends on the general population being law abiding, but then you end up with a group who view cheating as just something they're entitled to do and then they act offended when people suggest they should be subject to some standards because "That law is for the little people".

@alfprenter8255 9 месяцев назад

Why didn't go to ARCO the biggest supplier of PPE in the country not a nicker maker

@hughmcnamara8616 9 месяцев назад

Dan Neidle's suggestion regarding the defamation law is the touch of common sense we need to help hold the rich and powerful to account.

@clarecrawford9677 9 месяцев назад

Private Eye has been covering the problem of SLAPPs and the way that London has become the world centre for them. One long-running suit concerns an ex-Conservative MP who is not a journalist. SLAPPs seem to be the preserve of extremely wealthy people and expensive lawyers.

@Stu-SB 9 месяцев назад

They done a cracking two page piece on it last year. Crazy amount of waste of public money.

@johnbishop2342 9 месяцев назад

There does not ever seem to be a legal organisation that will take people like this to court or to prison . She, and her husband STOLE, EMBEZELLED, illegally conned the public out of money that was not theirs , and not what they were entitled too. The law at this level, works with them, and against the public. If any money is recovered, it will be a miserly amount, meaning they can still live in luxury at the taxpayers expense. Crime does pay , but only for a certain class of people.

@johnmainwaring6556 9 месяцев назад

Great journalism- Thank you

@kevinwillis6707 9 месяцев назад

Describing the blindingly obvious corruption as great journalism is stretching it a bit, this should have been a huge story at the time, not 3 years later..

@adamgrimsley2900 9 месяцев назад

She's great. She is hopefully the catalyst that causes root and branch reform.

@DrMattiLabbratt 9 месяцев назад

Think of any single Crime or Misdemeanour committed by the Tories in the last 13 years. If me, or any other ordinary citizen were the perpetrator, we would be jailed. End of.

@cocis2841 9 месяцев назад

Asking "everyone and anyone" apart from starting with those Companies whose business for years, is and has been supplying the NHS with PPE!!!! Surely that was the best place to start? The journalists who uncovered this deserve a medal for the threats they faced and all cronies complicit in this need to be subject to the justice system that they tried to hide behind using their wealth. The re is only one reason this is a difficult case to prosecute and that is the fact that there are many other influential parties complicit in this scenario. It is the tip of a very significant political iceberg. It's a no brainer for the changes proposed by Dan Neidle to be implemented in law to protect such events in the future.

@oralogarro9932 9 месяцев назад

When people show you who they are for the first time believe them.

@jbob34345 9 месяцев назад

When Mone said 'it isn't a crime to lie to the press' the interviewer should have retorted , 'well, how do we know you're not lying now'?

@nickj9668 9 месяцев назад

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a tactical decision to have Kuenssberg be the interviewer for this one.

@kevinwillis6707 9 месяцев назад

@@nickj9668my thoughts exactly nick..

@VAPIDISM 9 месяцев назад

Mone should be made to pay every penny, with interest, back. Also whoever accepted the order of goods that were not fit for purpose should be brought to account.

@lisaglaze250 9 месяцев назад

The traditional suppliers to the nhs complained at the time they were not approached to supply PPE. Corruption, gravy train pure and simple.

@newsbluestv3163 9 месяцев назад

It's called insider trading/dealing, using public funds for your own personal gain. Contracts that should be put out to tender, are given to peers or friends of MP's. This is where corruption lays, on the inside of parliament. If any public servant makes a personal gain, from their trusted position within parliament, and found to be lying about what has transpired, they should be removed from office, and charged for abusing their trusted position.

@alexandermacdonald7547 9 месяцев назад

And this lying person was the one who quite happily approved laws for us to abide to !

@kevinmcguire1049 9 месяцев назад

There are many elements to Mone story. The fact she thinks a Member of House of Lords is fit for that position having knowingly lied (even though its not illegal) demonstrates how unfit she is to continue with that title and role. She must resign or it be removed. With regard to Mone longer term, she is damaged goods and she should disappear into her private life and the public don't want to hear from her again. Public will never forget or forgive and the interview demonstrates how tone deaf she is. With regard to VIP and lanes and the way this government acted, this needs to investigated and where possible money recovered where legally possible for failure to deliver merchanise that does not meet the specified standards. I suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg and there is much more to be uncovered. I would have thought this is fertile ground for journalists in an election year.

@scottmorris8585 9 месяцев назад

"I would have thought this was fertile ground for journalists in election year" True! However, far too high a majority of UK media is controlled by media barons who won't hear a word said against their "blue" friends! Consequently, it's down to Labour to show up the Tory corruption. Unfortunately, Starmer is intent on showing the Tory-voting electorate how close the Labour Party is to true Tory values so they can switch to Labour. This means we won't hear a peep out of Starmer - and the Tories will get away with the entire fraud and corruption scandal, scot-free!

@hayleypbop6997 9 месяцев назад

Are we at a point where members of government should be tried in court but we lack to teeth to make it happen?

@supernoodles91 9 месяцев назад

'Is it too easy for the rich and famous to lie to the public...... .' My answer to that is 'Do Bears defecate in the woods'.

@jamieparry6420 9 месяцев назад

So glad they had that chap from Labour on so he could spend 5 minutes saying absolutely nothing.

@joeegg90 9 месяцев назад

Notice how the Tax Lawyer offered a simple clear statement how to stop this type of "defamation suit", in less than 10 seconds. Contrast that with the politician who talked around the matter, instead of agreeing with the lawyer, for a lot longer than 10 seconds.

@yttommy76 9 месяцев назад

💯 … sensible person with sensible solution - total Eejit with no solution

@ricardothorburn4089 9 месяцев назад

The politician is part of the problem. Labour will not do anything because they do not want to be the subject of scrutiny either.

@Dragonsitter 9 месяцев назад

She seems determined to take others with her especially about the WhatsApp messages!

@SL-sd3sg 9 месяцев назад

If a delivery is not what was expected (ie sterile) then faulty goods can be returned for full credit.

@colincampbell4261 9 месяцев назад

Then why was that not done?

@markwhite2207 9 месяцев назад

Wasn't it ever thus?... These people can Lawyer their way out of anything, morals bedamned.

@tuesdayschild8994 9 месяцев назад

The scrutiny to spend 1p of public money completely went out off the window. What happened to quality, price evaluation......200mil and 60mil of that is personal profit on inadequate goods. This is truly disgusting.

@David-j9h9g 9 месяцев назад

i think we r missing something here..few years before the risk assessment identifying lack of PPE as a problem..being totally ignored!!!!!

@chieftandriver703 9 месяцев назад

‘Is it too easy for the rich and famous to lie to the public?’ Ask 2 rich and famous people 🙄 If political journalists actually did their job there shouldn’t be a House of Lords to reward chancers and scammers

@albertbrammer9263 9 месяцев назад

BS "to protect her family".

@peacefulpleb 9 месяцев назад

MPs voting to amend the defamation law, particularly around Slap notices is Turkeys voting for Christmas. We'll see but I am cynical. Even the opposition sounds shaky on this, you can smell his lawyer's background in his answering. It remains to be seen whether Mone et al ever face justice.

@Oddball_KellysHeroes 9 месяцев назад

Pigs at the trough!

@parametr 9 месяцев назад

14:50 - this is a very simple way we could solve this - that's one way to do it. What we want to do is much more complicated, slow, expensive and inefficient - so... you'll instead do what I told you? - nope xD

@tinamac2380 9 месяцев назад

Kuenssberg and the BBC failing to ask the ‘difficult’ questions of a Tory, yet again. In a time of ‘national crisis’ government contracts should be by ‘not for profit’ principles. And, if companies refuse to comply, seize their means of production.

@timelwell7002 9 месяцев назад

I have a more cynical analysis as to why the UK government is NOT specifically calling for a ceasefire - because the Arms Industry are making SHED-LOADS of money supplying Israel with weapons and weapons training. This pre-dates the latest hospilities starting on the horrific attack on Israel on 7th October. Moreover, if the US government says 'JUMP' the UK government says 'HOW HIGH'? And the US provides the majority of weapons to Israel. It is notable that the largest exporter of weapons worldwide IS the USA, and the second largest is the UK. The billionaire shareholders of weapons manufacturers carry MASSIVE political 'clout' and have a SRANGLEHOLD on BOTH Republican AND Democratic Parties in the USA. And whilst the same is not true to the same degree in the UK, nonetheless we now have a VERY corrupt government in chrage in the form of this particular Tory government.

@janeknight3597 9 месяцев назад

Surely solicitors and barristers can implement the statement of truth suggestion as part of their process if they are sending threatening letters on behalf of a client??

@nickj9668 9 месяцев назад

Best practice can be overlooked if it’s not regulated/enforced (whether it should be is another matter). As a general principle, why would a law firm risk exposing their client to ‘X’ if there is no need to?

@grrr.9998 9 месяцев назад

When you pay some attention: "The system is broken and needs to be fixed." When you pay enough attention: "The system is working exactly as intended and needs to be destroyed."

@richwiskin4860 9 месяцев назад

Isn't the problem that the public just doesn't really care? We are largely a nation obsessed with holidays and material possessions and none of these moral issues affect that central and all important tenant of Western life. Additionally, politics and politicians are a joke. Any politician that steps outside the bounds of convention is disposed of by the media. So to do anything meaningful is career suicide. Hence we have the lowest calibre people in government in my memory. They can be easily manipulated by the rich and powerful and that leads to the type of behaviour your story is discussing. Without public engagement nothing will ever change. Great coverage btw.

@gargar1490 9 месяцев назад

Plain and simple, Moan and her side kick husband stole from the public purse and lied about it, and supplied shoddy equipment, what a joke.

@golfergreg636 9 месяцев назад

PPE Medpro was incorporated on May 12 2020 and received these massive contracts just a couple of months later because of the PPE VIP fast lane, at the same time at least 20 UK manufacturers of PPE had contacted the government and had not even had a reply. (See Rachel Reeves letter to Michael Gove)

@janholding5206 9 месяцев назад

They don't "win" the contracts, they are handed them on a plate!

@richardtuxford1812 9 месяцев назад

Dans recommendations for changing the liable laws sound interesting, I would be keen to know how feasible they are to implement

@blairrobert3438 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for this episode it was quite eye opening.

@youtubemusic8709 9 месяцев назад

She should have 200million of assets taken of her. Her products were faulty! Not fit for purpose. She also deserves to be in jail as she knew exactly what she was doing. Thats like me selling paper napkins as aprons I know there not fit for purpose but your giving me 200million. They need to prosecute!!!

@tompearce3610 9 месяцев назад

If there was a drive to get PPE as quickly as possible they would have used all the capacity from existing, NHS appproved suppliers...

@skycanecorsa100percentpure5 9 месяцев назад

Hancock gave his mate a pub manager a ppe contract for 10s of millions how many more mates got favours

@dean8282 9 месяцев назад

80% above market value PPE ripping off the tax payer? She cant see what done wrong?

@philipmulville8218 9 месяцев назад

Mr. Neidle knows his chips. Very interesting contribution 👏👏👏

@truth-hurts3089 9 месяцев назад

Emily should have interviewed Mone-er. Not Goonsberg.

@yttommy76 9 месяцев назад

Journalists lying to the public should also be perjury , politicians lying at the dispatch box should be perjury … the people in the country who would benefit most would be prison building construction companies. Getting a prison place would be more difficult than for a cat to solve a rubic cube.

@tobysimeons 9 месяцев назад

Jesus Christ. I can’t believe how much that Labour MP said without actually saying anything. “We need to do this, it’s important that we do that, it’s vital that we do this, we must remember that…” But never once clearly stating what it is we need to do. The lawyer on the other hand gave a superb answer on how we should change the law.

@RJAH355 9 месяцев назад

typical privileged politician who used taxpayers money to make herself even more millions by giving herself contracts.

@colbucks 9 месяцев назад

The debate is much bigger than whether she is right or wrong, it’s about the basic structure of society and how humanities ethics, principles and moral compass is so low that it’s barely there any longer. Whether a draconian system such as House of Lords or parliament drastically needs an overhaul from the roots up where the code of conduct is based on honour, which needs to be replaced with criminal charges. Has she done anything wrong, she lied… so ethically yes she has done something wrong. But regarding the making money, no she hasn’t done anything wrong, all she did was play the system. So the system is the thing that is wrong, we all know this but we have let politicians get away with for so long that they’re not held to account any longer.

@grahamcooper8905 9 месяцев назад

One word, corruption.

@grateberk6435 9 месяцев назад

Sunak, Johnson and Gove oversaw entire disgraceful episode.

@jimratbastardryan6295 9 месяцев назад

im not defending mone but come on the press moaning about someone lying is a joke

@spartacusforlife1508 9 месяцев назад

It's not so much that it's easy to lie. It's the fact that an ordinary citizen would have been, at least, had a police visit or asked to attend a police station. Because this involves politics and political corruption the police are pushy footing around. Let's actually state facts here. They supplied sub standard gowns which were never used yet still received full payment for the contract. Would that full payment have occured in any other business deal ? Only one word for it " corruption " especially when her husband was a tory donor and she was a tory peer. Meanwhile people, ordinary people, face jail for fiddling a few grand from universal credit

@robertgavin980 9 месяцев назад

Mone and her hubby must have been like pavlovs dogs when they heard about the amount of dosh up for grabs. I wonder how much of the dosh found it's way back to dodgy ministers?

@rosscom2272 9 месяцев назад

The Sunaks financial dealings needs scrutinised. Infosys is linked to BP, Moderna, a company in Rwanda among others. The Prime Miniature has a plethora of conflicts of interest.

@marcuswilson3485 9 месяцев назад

On behalf of the people of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I would like to humbly apologise for Michelle and Nichola.

@SUNXV1 9 месяцев назад

Read between the lines and what the politician means is nothing will change and the rich will always get away with all sorts of things.

@topcat1358 9 месяцев назад

If some people wanted the law changed as that lawyer says - You have to remember who is responsible for making the law.....Any guesses anyone?? Yep, you are probably correct - The Very people like Mone and politicians who worked with her!! LOL🤣🤣😂

@davebento1548 9 месяцев назад

1:38 Correction !!! the government was not desperate to find enough PPE supplies. It was not having to reach out to places it had never been to before for PPE. James o'Brien at the time was inundated with calls from manufacturers who had previously supplied PPE to the NHS. They were now working flat out supplying quality PPE all over the world. They were complaining that they were ringing the Tory government to offer to suppy the NHS and offering to prioritise the NHS PPE but were NOT! being called back. The accurate reporting at 1.38 would be " the government was so interested in robbing the taxpayer to give money to their mates like Mone that they ignored established quality suppliers and put NHS staff at risk by ordering often useless or dangerous PPE from people like Mone who knew nothing about PPE and set up companies 5 minutes before to rob the public at this time of crisis."

@MaxSafeheaD 9 месяцев назад

Remember the London riots. Remember when David Cameron was absolutley scathing in his condemnation of what he called a deep moral sickness within society? He made a specific example of the depraved sight of a Malaysian student, with a broken jaw, who was being robbed by people pretending to help him? Remember the sight of hoodlums, smashing into peoples businesses whilst they where totally vunerable, and looting them? During a time of national crisis and enormous sacrifice by our NHS and front line workers, they used their trusted, privelledged position in public service, to loot the treasury of BILLIONS. I suspect the only reason there isn't again, riots on the streets over this, is that actually, nobody is surprised.

@mariGentle 9 месяцев назад

Hearing you typing while your interviewee is talk is really irritating…. Btw the Ppe is stored at great expense to the public in storage facilities

@lisaglaze250 9 месяцев назад

We have a law in this country that if goods are not fit for purpose you get a full refund. Why didn't this happen?

@scottmorris8585 9 месяцев назад

I think that "complete impunity" would only apply, in practise, to wealthy Tories! Joe Bloggs and others would pretty soon find themselves fined and imprisoned. That's the way the Tories work!

@i-am-vonnegut 9 месяцев назад

Shouldn't one of the questions be, how?, how can someone like Mone become a lawmaker. Her credintials on law and policy are?? No, it's all about greasing palms! Personally I think it's easy to see we have the wrong people in the right places. It is not wrong for the populace to expect some expertise and integrity. We have anything but. The first step is acknowledgement our forthcoming issues hugely outweigh economics only. Therefore by extension we need far more than self entitled grifters with an economic degrees.

@al1356 9 месяцев назад

But it is not a crime is it. So she can’t be prosecuted because she hasn’t committed a crime. Just because we don’t like it doesn’t mean we should pursue a prosecution. Smacks of double standards, how often do the press break the law? I’d lie to a journalist as well, I’m not compelled to tell them anything. Get your own house in order before pushing this narrative. Or will you all club together to pay for Mr Morgan’s legal bill when he is forced to defend in a criminal investigation? I bet you don’t. I’m not sure which group I dislike more, MP’s or parasite journalists. Both liars and those found guilty should lose their jobs.

@victorsmith311 9 месяцев назад

Great work again by Emily Maitlis but this clip should be split up into 2 separate clips/subjects. Both equally important, but absolutely not connected. The individual parts could get many more shares.

@gohr13 9 месяцев назад

Why would it not be a crime she is directly covering up a crime, de frauding the public, enriching her self (by connection) or gaining from the winnings of the deal. The only case I can think of where threatening investigative journalists is what the lawyers workibg for Elizabeth Holmes ( theranos). But also if you represent the public you should be held to a higher moral standard.