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"Hancock Cock Inn Cockup”

Ystdy, @MattHancock tried to get @AnnelieseDodds to withdraw a comment re his helping the ex-landlord of his local pub, the Cock Inn, to get a PPE contract

We’ve see the emails

Hancock & Lord Feldman helped 47 firms win 'VIP' contracts worth millions
Ystdy, @MattHancock went on the attack claiming Alex Bourne "never got a contract from the govt" & this was a "fabrication pushed by the Labour Party"

He was lying

@NAOorguk found PPE suppliers with links to Tory MPs were 10x more likely to win contracts
Digging by @JolyonMaugham reveals the contract went to Alpha Laboratories

That contract stipulates that Alpha Laboratories will sub-contract the manufacturing to Hinpack Ltd, owned by Alex Bourne

This info was redacted before publishing in what seems a clear attempt to deceive!
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1/. Fortunately for Tory Party donors, friends of govt ministers who had zero experience in supplying PPE, let alone handling multi-million pound contracts, a personal service, including “hand-holding” was provided

Did @MattHancock’s sister & his pub landlord make use of this?
2/. About £9 billion in PPE contacts went to companies run by friends or associates of Tory MP’s

In some cases they delivered unusable goods

The govt PPE tsar has financial interests/personal ties to at least 7 companies awarded hundreds of millions of £ in contracts #COVID19
3/. Corruption has become the air we breath

But don’t let that distract you

The #ContractScandal is part of the #HerdImmunityScandal

Investigating procurement ultimately leads to a dead end

The #PalantirPlan explores the motivations go beyond money.
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In March, I asked why the director of a UK company making PPE were exporting all over the world but hadn’t had orders from the UK

NHS frontline staff were dying

Were million pound contracts being held back to give to govt-linked companies that had no PPE procurement background?
“There were no gowns, visors, swabs or body bags in the govt’s pandemic stockpile when #Covid19 hit UK.”

“The govt ignored warnings from advisers about shortages.”

“NHS staff are being put at risk because of the shortage of PPE.”

Report by @BBCPanorama.
In April, @Channel4News has seen the inventory of the UK govt’s pandemic PPE stockpile. Almost 80% of respirators were out of date when #coronavirus hit.

The UK had had a three month head start to prepare for #COVID19

Covid wasn’t an “invisible mugger”
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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
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

2/
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

3/
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“The revelations from C4 #Dispatches...are breath-taking. It amounts to criminal negligence. Pure & simple.” @globalhlthtwit on #LockdownChaos

To understanding how the #ContractScandal fits into a much bigger & more sinister plan👇#Palantir #DidoHarding #SERCO #HerdImmunity
This diagram👆shows how the US & UK govts appear to have a joint/parallel #COVID19 strategy allowing the military-backed data-mining company, #Palantir, to control heath data

Parler, the SM platform is funded by the Mercers who funded #CambridgeAnalytica who worked with Palantir
“It’s very hard not to be speechless about this.”

Dr Tom Lewis on viewing #Dispatches footage taken by an undercover journalist exposing unsafe practices & “VIP processing” for paying customers, in the Randox testing labs. #LockdownChaos #COVID19 #coronavirus #Palantir #COVID
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“Sweden hoped herd immunity would curb #COVID19. Don't do what we did” write 25 leading Swedish scientists

“Sweden’s approach to COVID has led to death, grief & suffering. The only example we're setting is how not to deal with a deadly infectious disease” usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
UK & US are also attempting a
#HerdImmunity strategy despite the fact almost every epidemiologist/virologist will tell you that Herd Immunity is an “outcome”, never a “strategy”

Late lockdowns, keeping schools/workplaces open etc are political decisions not just scientific ones
I’m not a scientist. 8 months months ago, i knew nothing about communicable diseases

But I stumbled on @BorisJohnson’s #TakeItOnTheChin comments

They led me to the #GreenwichSpeech, the #HerdImmunityScandal, #Palantir/#PalantirPlan & #GenomeUK

I’ve just been joining the dots.
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The @BBCNews six o’clock news are talking about #PestFix & contact scandals

Well done @sophie_e_hill for #MyLittleCrony & all those at @GoodLawProject @BylineTimes @openDemocracy incldg @JolyonMaugham @peterjukes @NafeezAhmed @PeterKGeoghegan
@PaulLewis
Just as it is helpful to see a visualisation of the #ContractScandal, so it’s helpful to see a visualisation of the wider structure into which it fits

The shadowy surveillance firm, #Palantir, run #COVID digital health platforms In the UK, US & many other countries

Data heaven!
What this diagram shows is how the US & UK govts appear to have a joint/parallel #COVID19 strategy allowing the military-backed data-mining company, #Palantir, to access heath data

There are grave concerns around human rights & fears are that this data could include genetic data
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Pestfix are trying to block the @GoodLawProject finding out about their £109m PPE contract.

In May, @Under_Covid started looking at the #ContractScandal but others doing a fine job without us.

The only contracts we're interested in are the ones between #Palantir & #FacultyAI.
The govt has awarded a £240 million contract for PPE to Unispace Global Health, a firm founded & run by leading members of a hardline, conservative religious sect which preaches that the outside world is morally corrupting.
@WritesBright in @BylineTimes.
bylinetimes.com/2020/08/27/gov…
The govt spent £364 million on coveralls, but has delivered just 432,000

"The companies awarded the coverall contracts have interesting backgrounds".

Exclusive report by @WritesBright @BylineTimes #coronavirus #ContractScandal #COVID19 #COVID bylinetimes.com/2020/09/01/gov…
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Of the £1.7b in #coronavirus contracts granted by the govt without competitive tender, the £109m deal for PPE signed with PestFix, a pest control company in Littlehampton with assets of just £47,000, is most bizarre.

The MD was sourcing PPE on LinkedIn. ft.com/content/7fe7c2… ImageImageImageImage
The @Times picked up this story today & asked the Dept of Health why they awarded a £100m to a tiny pest control firm.

Their response was to attack the questioner & not give an answer to the question.

This a disturbingly familiar pattern with this govt.
thetimes.co.uk/article/108m-p… Image
Campaigners seek judicial review of the #PestFix contract.

An interesting quote at the end of the article: 67 million pieces of equipment delivered so far, which is said to be most of the contract.

This does not sounds like not a lot for £108million. ft.com/content/43bb10…
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