Michael Gove And The Government’s Ppe Vip Lane

[Hymie]

On last Sunday’s Laura Kuenssberg TV programme, Gove refused to comment of the Medpro/Michelle Mone scandal; but he did say that all PPE procurement decisions were taken through a painstaking process by a team of civil servants and that the decisions were only taken after proper, coherent and fair procurement process.

 

However according to the Commons Public Accounts Committee, ‘The story of PPE purchasing is perhaps the most shameful episode in the UK government response to the pandemic’ said the committee chair (Dame Meg Hillier) in June 2022, adding ‘Government splurged huge amounts of money, paying obscenely inflated prices and payments to middlemen in a chaotic rush in which they chucked out even the most cursory due diligence’.

 

Source: Private Eye

 

I’ve posted this under News, but perhaps given the amount of tax-payer money the Tories have given to their mates, it should be listed under Scams.

[gulliver1]

Michael Gove   "The Minister for Levelling up"...The Tories won't need levelling up at The GE,,,,They will be Flattened and Buried.🤣

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I heard -  "painstaking and fair"

and thought god what a loser....

But Mone gives a ticket to Starmer to reform the Lords, the only thing is  - he has no idea what

[nicebloke1]

Gove is just another massive liar. Had it been done proper, there would have been proper checks that the PPE was up to standard before parting with 200 million.

[Peter Pedant]

well yeah and no

the gubmint looks at an average civil servant who says - "now minister can  we really do that?"

and he thinks - Jesus get someone from industry who can

Success - Baroness harding - who organised covid vaccine

failure - Mone  who looked on it as another gross  profit making oppo, ( and also Virgin, Branson did bagga all, didnt he).

too many people who are all talk