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The virus has exposed not only gross incompetence, but cronyism & corruption at the heart of government
With contracts for chums and billions of tax-payers money siphoned off to the private sector
And unnecessary lives lost
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1/ #Dispatches #bbcnews #r4today
With contracts for chums and billions of tax-payers money siphoned off to the private sector
And unnecessary lives lost
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1/ #Dispatches #bbcnews #r4today
Testing and trace is a vital component of infectious disease control
Against the advice of public health experts, the government outsourced both elements of the process to favourable private companies, with no expertise
Resulting in a dog’s breakfast of incompetence
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Against the advice of public health experts, the government outsourced both elements of the process to favourable private companies, with no expertise
Resulting in a dog’s breakfast of incompetence
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Deloitte was given the contract, of undisclosed value, to set up off-site testing centres & run the new Lighthouse Laboratories, bypassing existing NHS infrastructure
Deloitte then went on to outsource the running of the testing centres to numerous other corporations
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Deloitte then went on to outsource the running of the testing centres to numerous other corporations
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From the start, there has been a catalogue of cock-ups
- samples lost
- leaking test vials
- barely trained staff
- people directed to nonexistent testing centres
A hospital in Surrey had to take over a centre as staff were sent wrong results
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- samples lost
- leaking test vials
- barely trained staff
- people directed to nonexistent testing centres
A hospital in Surrey had to take over a centre as staff were sent wrong results
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Delays in processing results has left NHS staff unable to work
GPs & local teams have been unable to receive timely, results from these private testing sites
It is this basic failure, that public health experts in Leicester state contributed to the extended lockdown there
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GPs & local teams have been unable to receive timely, results from these private testing sites
It is this basic failure, that public health experts in Leicester state contributed to the extended lockdown there
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Serco & Sitel (with NO expertise) have been awarded multi-million contracts to carry out a spectacularly ineffective tracing system
Again bypassing local public health teams, for which contact tracing is their bread and butter
Why?!!
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#contractsforchums
Again bypassing local public health teams, for which contact tracing is their bread and butter
Why?!!
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#contractsforchums
Serco has been spectacularly ineffective
(According to govt records, 1/3 of positives not contacted)
The consequence of these failures is soaring profits, predicted at £165m
This year, Serco will be paying out dividends to their shareholders, directly from taxpayers
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(According to govt records, 1/3 of positives not contacted)
The consequence of these failures is soaring profits, predicted at £165m
This year, Serco will be paying out dividends to their shareholders, directly from taxpayers
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CEO of Serco - Rupert Soames
Also, Grandson of Churchill & brother of Tory MP
Stated that the Covid response went
“a long way in cementing the position of private sector companies in the public sector supply chains”
#cronyism #Corruption #sackserco
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Also, Grandson of Churchill & brother of Tory MP
Stated that the Covid response went
“a long way in cementing the position of private sector companies in the public sector supply chains”
#cronyism #Corruption #sackserco
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For a govt ‘unable’ to fund school meals, they have extraordinarily cavalier attitude towards govt spending when it comes to the private sector
#ContractScandal
Contracts for PPE were given to, among others, a pest control company, employment agency, & confectionery
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#ContractScandal
Contracts for PPE were given to, among others, a pest control company, employment agency, & confectionery
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Ayanda Capital, which specialises in private equity, got a £150m contract for 50 million FFP2 masks
Not a SINGLE mask was used, as they failed safety standards
The approach to sell the masks came from Andrew Mills, government adviser AND a senior board adviser at Ayanda
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Not a SINGLE mask was used, as they failed safety standards
The approach to sell the masks came from Andrew Mills, government adviser AND a senior board adviser at Ayanda
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#ContractScandal & the list goes on
#contractsforchums #Chumocracy
Lucrative contracts for chums
Paid for by the public purse
Disgusting levels of Cronyism & corruption, that has potentially cost unnecessary lives lost
12/ #cronyism
#contractsforchums #Chumocracy
Lucrative contracts for chums
Paid for by the public purse
Disgusting levels of Cronyism & corruption, that has potentially cost unnecessary lives lost
12/ #cronyism
