Damian Hastie
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Is the UK government at risk of losing £100 million plus in compensation to a family who made hundreds of millions from Covid?
How much did the brethren Hales family make from Covid?
My latest article on Open & Candid
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Michelle Donelan has a family link to a company that won £673 million of PPE contracts. Also family link to company that won £273 million Lateral Flow test contract.
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Putting an offer on place in Spain, Irish citizenship luckily for me gets around Brexit. Start of 7 yr plan to leave UK permanently.
The last week in Spain has really hit home. No shortages fuel,food, mask wearing close on 100%. Friendly helpful people. What happened to the UK?
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Covid Contract 🧵No 3
Inivos Ltd based in Peterborough. In 2020 they were awarded three Covid contracts by the DHSC worth £126.5 million
I have followed this company for the last 3 years. This I consider to be an astonishing story comparable to Medpro & Michelle Mone
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Why would the BBC invite guests on to a News programme, who are under investigation by the National Crime Agency?
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@GregHands
Is Sarah Winterton not the daughter of former Tory MPs Anne & Nick Winterton?
Who moved a flat into a trust to avoid inheritance tax and voted to keep MP expenses secret?
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Ive tracked £4 billion of the PPE contracts through a total of 175 companies.
Plymouth Brethren members have £900 million and 35 companies that have "won" contracts.
This is a tiny tiny church 🤔
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Covid Contract 🧵
Origin Packaging are a Hull based pharma packaging company. In Nov 2020 they were awarded a £115 mill covid contract by DHSC.
I have followed their accounts over last 3 years, what happened with this contract is a mystery🤔
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Covid Contract🧵 No 4
Accora Ltd are a bed, chair & mattress supplier to care homes & hospitals.
Based in Cambridge they were awarded two Covid contracts. One is not unusual.
The 2nd is however one of the stranger Covid contracts & was awarded via the VIP channel.
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Strange how it appears to be the same people who get angry about 500 migrants trying to cross the channel each week, don’t appear to be angry about 1000 people dying a week of Covid 🤔
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Education Secretary Michelle Donelan family links to Covid contracts
1) Unispace - £673 million. Sister in law is the cousin of director Sebastian Parsons & niece of Unispace founder Cyril Parsons.
2) Sante Global - £273 million. Sister in law is the cousin of Sebastian Parsons.
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Covid Contract 🧵No 9
Ciga Healthcare based in Ballymena NI. Pre pandemic they specialised in diagnostic tests with Suresign pregnancy kits as one of their main products
This has always been one of made favourite Tory Covid contract stories, belt in for this one!
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Covid Contracts 🧵No 10
Meller Designs PPE contracts have been reported on originally by Byline Times, Good Law Project, Open Democracy, The Mirror, The Time & others
I am going to throw light on something highly unusual that I believe has been missed up to now
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Covid Contract 🧵No 5
Blueleaf Ltd based in Horsham, a one stop shop for Care Homes. Awarded a PPE contract by DHSC
I have followed Blueleaf & their parent company Global Consortium Ltd over the last 3+ years. There is an anomaly in the contract award to Blueleaf vs DHSC spend
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In Carnforth, Lancashire, you can find a gated business park, 21 Ltd companies are registered at this park. There is a church AKA as a meeting room. This is a modern day operation for the sect known as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
@fascinatorfun
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Covid Contract 🧵No 8
Clandeboye Agencies a confectionary wholesaler from Antrim. Won DHSC contracts worth £107.5 million
I have followed this company for the last 3+ years, to try & uncover their profits
This thread also highlights an issue with the Govt DHSC spend reports
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Covid Contracts 🧵
Where are the profits for Medco Solutions?
Medco Solutions were awarded covid contracts totalling £950 million by DHSC. I have been tracking for the 3 years and they have just published the latest accounts & again it raises questions.
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Covid Contract🧵 No 6
Tower Supplies are a Poole based PPE supplier, who you would expect to be involved during a pandemic
They were awarded £40 million of contracts by DHSC
Approx 25% of the PPE supplied by Tower Supplies was marked as "Do Not Supply" by the govt.
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For all those Tories who said they would wait for the SG report & then for the Met investigation.
Why did you wait if you were going to back the crims anyway?
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Having spent the last 10 months exposing the PPE contracts scandal.
I watched Panorama, it was very good but it is the tip of the iceberg.
When will people wake up to see we are governed by crooks & thieves?
It is our money that they have given to friends & associates.
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Covid Contracts 🧵No 12
Liaoning Zhongqiao Overseas Exchange (LZOE) were awarded a contract worth £12.6 million for safety goggles via the VIP route, courtesy of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Michael Gove)
This is without doubt one of the strangest contract awards
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A hard weekend. 3 of my kids are now without a mum. Devastated for them. 2020 been an utterly shit year. So many people have lost loved ones.
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Michelle Mone and Medpro, Sunak and Moderna, Gove and his pals, Bethell and his magical reappearing phone.
It's definitely Panto season
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Covid Contracts 🧵No 11 Part 2
Unispace/Sante won £950 million of contracts
In part 2 I look at the incredible story of a company that had no background in PPE or Testing but became one of the DHSC biggest suppliers in the pandemic
Remember Unispace & their lost VIP referrer
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Covid Inquiry
Sunak
"It is all about handling the scientists, not the handling of the virus"
Cummings
"Rishi thinks just let people die and that's okay"
BBC Headline
Sunak
"The time has come to cut tax"
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Covid Contracts 🧵No 7
The early days & the first suppliers & dates matter
There were delays in publishing contracts & they were not published in the order they were awarded. I decided to look at the order by award date.
This raises many questions!
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Covid Contracts - Found 2 more companies who are ran by members of the Plymouth Brethren, that were awarded contracts worth over £10 million. As usual lots of links to other companies.
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Laughing at an unemployed GP, classy.
'You cannot employ lesser qualified people instead of GPs...the country is not stupid'.
PM Rishi Sunak is challenged on the NHS by a member of the public during a campaigning event in Wiltshire.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Cummings - one rule for him & one rule for the rest of us
Hancock - MP for Newmarket brings back Horse Racing
Jenrick - Helping Tory Donors avoid paying £40 mill in tax
Johnson - Shutting down journalists & scientists
60,000+ deaths, ignoring scientists on lockdown lift 😡
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@JolyonMaugham
Wernick Buildings Limited were also claiming furlough payments in December from the Govt.
Taking with one hand and erm…. taking with the other!
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@GillianKeegan
I remember attending a protest when at school in the 80's with my mother who was a Tory.
Also saw one of my teachers at the same protest. It was against the Tories & their treatment of nurses.
This is not new & yes some things never change!
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Today, we found out that Michael Gove was the Unispace referrer.
Covid Contracts 🧵No 11 Part 2
Unispace/Sante won £950 million of contracts
In part 2 I look at the incredible story of a company that had no background in PPE or Testing but became one of the DHSC biggest suppliers in the pandemic
Remember Unispace & their lost VIP referrer
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@IanDunt
IRONY ALERT - Tories take irony to new level by saying it was right for Cummings to attend SAGE whilst saying it was right for Johnson not to attend COBR meetings.
They really think we are stupid dont they?
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@Peston
The technology minister & formerly the digital & media minister.
Wait until you find out that she asked a question in parliament reference a contract tender for a company that she had family links to.
The same company later won £40 million in PPE contracts.
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June 2020, DHSC need 49 million sterile gowns.
Buckley Healthcare are asked to tender for 24 million. They have already supplied a Hospital in Leeds. They tender for £4.01 per gown.
PPE Medpro/Inivos win contracts at £4.87/£4.88 per gown
£42 million lost
#badbuying
#corrupt
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My research on PPE contracts in 2020 brought you the stories below, showing a corrupt govt. Sadly yet to no effect. The biggest is coming soon 😁
Plymouth Brethren
SG Recruitment
Meller Designs
Purple Surgical defrauded
EMS Healthcare
ANS Group
Fleetwood Strategy
P14
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Rule Britannia sang by an American. Mass waving of the Union Jack and the EU flag, the Saltire and Welsh flag. Inclusive, forward thinking internationalist that's what our great country is about. Not small minded inward looking and isolationist.
#StopBrexit
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If Sunak ignores the latest Braverman outburst, he may as well book his car to the Palace now.
We should be getting close to the police having to arrest a Home Secretary
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Covid Contracts 🧵No 11 Part 1
£950 Million Contracts. The story of Unispace Health Ltd an interior design co. & Sante Global LLP a new business
Slavery, a court case & a change of name involving the highest echelon of the Plymouth Brethren cult
Add in a mystery VIP referral
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My sister lifelong Labour voter "im not sure about Starmer" "these Johnson tories arent like Thatcher and they seem a lot more left wing and likeable" 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ i give up!!! How can people see these corrupt bastards this way?
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@MichelleMone
You wouldn't know the truth if it was a cold fish slapping you across the face.
That was a car crash interview
I think you may have convinced those that still believed you to no longer believe you.
Doug profiteered & even if others did, it isn't the defence you think it is!
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So according to DHSC spending records over £42 million was paid to Meller Designs before the first contract was even awarded! Plus £37 million on the day of the Bethell call
This was a serious WTF moment for me!
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Covid Contract Profits 🧵No 1
There are 6 companies that DHSC/UKHSA/SCCL spent more than £1 billion with during the Covid pandemic
This thread looks at the profit of 5 of the 6. I am missing information around Full Support Healthcare
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Watch out for Covid contract🧵 5 coming on Sunday, a long & somewhat unusual one!
Thanks for reading.
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@DominicRaab
Your whole government is a laughing stock this evening. Clearly another one that 👇
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Covid Contracts, I am now 99% certain I know the recipient of this £100 million transaction to other related parties.
The recipient shortened their accounting period by 2 days so they didn't report in their accounts for 2022. Though creditors show Corporation Tax £13 million+
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Exclusive Plymouth Brethren Covid Contracts🧵
When Covid contracts were being awarded, there was a common theme. The Govt used companies owned by members of the Exclusive Plymouth Brethren.
PPE, Tests, Ventilators, Visors, Beds, Packaging all supplied by Brethren companies.
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One footnote was that Ciga were also involved in the Operation Moonshot. That is a story to be told.
Thank you for reading & for those wondering, no links to the Plymouth Brethren.
Please watch out for No. 10 in the Covid Contract series coming soon.
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@tnewtondunn
Thanks Tom. I needed that update as was sat here and I was wondering how the PM was doing. Earlier I was thinking about the families of the 980 who had lost a loved one. Then realised I hadn't got my priorities right and switched to thinking about films the PM could watch.
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@bmay
Change "Stand up and fight", to "Sit down and eat". It doesn't change anything.
An utterly bizarre speech.
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Profiteering thread coming tomorrow.
As Barrowman admits PPE Medpro made £60 million, I will run through others that made 'super profits' from our taxpayer money in the pandemic.
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I see Tory MP Robert Buckland just remembered about Natalie Elphicke approaching him 4 years ago. I wondered what made him recollect 🤔
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Lord Strasburger, called for this to be fully investigated. How did Inivos win the contract & why did we pay £21 million more of taxpayers money, than the Buckley Healthcare Ltd offer?
The Inivos story doesn't end there though!
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@jemmaforte
@carolvorders
@ShaunBaileyUK
If you have "tits & boobs" or "played football" or "an opinion that is not in sync with the Tories" you should stay out of politics.
Welcome to the last throws of a Tory Government that is out of date, out of touch with the public and very shortly to be out on their arses.
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@Mark_J_Harper
This morning Sunak said these other projects were just illustrative. You flip you flop, you trip up over your own lies.
#GeneralElectionN0W
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Watch out Covid Contracts 🧵No.4 coming tomorrow night!
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Seriously! How do we have these people in govt?
Environment Secretary Therese Coffey on why better assets were not in place to help residents hit by floods:
"Most of our rain comes from the West. This was rain coming from the other way. We don't have quite as much experience on that." 👀 ~AA
#StormBabet
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Another example of a company being awarded a large contract without competition. In a field where they had no prior experience.
Through the Test & Trace VIP channel & via a Tory Lord who had previously benefitted from the services of the contract winner.
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@michaelgove
You have become a laughing stock. That is damaging to the Government and PM but then you might benefit eh Mr Gove win win
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Covid Contract 🧵No 13
Visage Ltd, £6.3 million in PPE contracts via the VIP channel
Referrer details lost, the PPE unfit for purpose & the connections to Rishi Sunak's father in law. One of over dozen connections to various Lords & Tories
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Innova Covid Contract🧵
The biggest covid contract winner was Innova. the government spent over £5 billion on their Lateral Flow Tests.
There has been some reporting, but I am going to add some info that hasn't been previously reported.
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This will hopefully picked up again and further questions asked
Thank you for reading
Covid Contract thread No 11 coming soon
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Company A wins £700 million contract from team in government
Company A uses Company B as a middleman to facilitate the supply of goods for the contract and pays Company B £100 million
Company B has just 2 employees, then employs 13 of the team from that government 🤷♂️
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When one man is responsible for 15% of all political donations in one year, then the system is not just broken, it is corrupt
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Michelle Donelan wasting £34k, time to bring out this thread that seems to have gained little interest at the time.
🧵Last year
@GoodLawProject
covered the link between Michelle Donelan now Secretary for Culture & PPE contracts winner Toffeln with her family links. Following more research I have uncovered a curious link between Donelan & another contract winner Tower Supplies.
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@implausibleblog
Tonight, this is the man who nearly died of pneumonia
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The first 2 contracts were awarded in May 2020, were for facemasks & with a value over £9 million.
Like many other companies PPE wasn't what Inivos normally supplied
The 3rd contract for £117 million of gowns was awarded 25th June 2020, it is the start of an astonishing story
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@RishiSunak
Pathetic absolutely pathetic, you and the Home Secretary both need to go and go now. You should have sacked her beforehand but you are a weak useless PM.
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Covid Contract 🧵No 14
Thriva are a healthcare company, a tech company doing testing
They were awarded contracts via the VIP route worth £64 million by the DHSC
A start up that have raised funds through investors
Thriva have strong connections to a number of Tory Lords
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Once the Inivos contract was published in September 2020 it became clear to Buckley he hadn't even been outbid. He priced his offer at £4.01 a gown. Inivos price was £4.89 or £21 million more expensive!
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I've been blocked by Prof Sikora. That's not very positive of him 😂
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@MichelleMone
You wanted to help out? You had the right political connections? You made huge profits? You then denied your involvement & threatened legal action 🤔
You don't seem to consider that high taxes (in part due to covid contracts), have taken their toll on many taxpayers
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@EdwardLeighMP
The problem though is that millions of weak Conservative voters & the rest of the electorate don't think like that & actually find repulsive.
Dividing your own party & alienating the rest of the electorate, yep that's an election winner
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Stand up & sign. Then the person next to you will stand up & sign. Then the nation will stand up & sign, then other nations will stand up & sign, then other planets will stand up & sign. Just sign it 😉
Petition: Call an immediate general election
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The next covid contract 🧵 will be delayed until tomorrow morning, this is due to finding something very odd when preparing the thread & I want to ensure it is factually correct. Thanks
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In the course of my research I also found that Paul Bristow Tory MP for Peterborough has made at least 2 visits to Inivos in the last 3 years. (Test Labs is part of Inivos).
The link doesn't end there though, following the visit in the first picture in Jan 2021.
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The Inivos story is complex and one that leaves many questions, particularly around the award of the £117 million contract for gowns. I am sure Adrian Buckley would like answers.
I suggest one for a commissioner?
To read the full story
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Questions around the Inivos contract for gowns have been asked frequently in both the Commons and the Lords.
In the commons by Angela Rayner around the selling of PPE & Deirdrie Brock around contracts previously awarded pre pandemic.
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In summary the DHSC transparency on spend must be questioned & I hope you found it interesting to see how a contract winner can create new companies & move the money around.
Thank you for reading. Covid contract thread 9 coming over the weekend.
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Lord Alton also raised a question in the Lords on the 31st Jan 2022
"Today the Minister might also like to provide the House with information about the £270 million spent on Zhende and Inivos products which are faulty and cannot be used in the NHS"
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Covid Contracts Profits 🧵No 2
The next 4 companies that were ranked 7th to 10th in terms of the the amount of spend by DHSC/UKHSA/SCCL during the Covid pandemic
Again I look at the profits made by these companies when compared to the spend.
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🧵The Australian Tax Office (ATO) raid on the Plymouth Brethren offices in Sydney.
I am informed this involved 25+ investigators from the ATO. They were there from Tuesday 19th March. They have taken away computers, phones.
Brethren companies won £3 billion of Covid contract.
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Catherine Baxendale was on the selection panel for the appointment of Richard Sharp as the BBC Chairman & was shortlisted to be a tory parliamentary candidate in 2017
Toby Baxendale is a director of Legatum Institute Foundation, The founders of the Legatum Institute think tank
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Both Toby & Catherine have also both donated 50k to the Tories as part of Cameron's leaders group
So another contract award that highlights the many contracts awarded to UK companies early in the pandemic having links to the Tories
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Medco Solutions have now won £712,710,000 covid contracts for PPE & LFT from the DHSC. Not bad for a company that only incorporated in March last year
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Meller Designs owner was David Meller
Meller is a Tory party donor & friend of Michael Gove. They were referred via the VIP channel by Gove
It is also reported that Meller contacted Lord Bethell to lobby and speed up the process of contracts award on the 6th April 2020
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@campbellclaret
@Mz_Kitten
Stopping wealth & tax evasion offshore would be a good place to start. Then bring in proper clear transparency across all govt contracts/investments.
Ensure real power to convict for any corruption & tax evasion. Levelling up would then naturally occur.
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Remember - phone call with Bethell 6th April 2020, first contract award 26th April
First Payment made by DHSC to Meller Designs
6th April 2020 for £37,752,000
Second Payment made by DHSC to Meller Designs
20th April 2020 £4,400,741
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If it was down to Origin then why would they then be included in a massive £3 billion framework agreement just weeks later?
It is also worth noting that Origin related company Snappd, has the same Australian business address as Medco Solutions.
Another covid contract mystery!!
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@GregHands
She could put it in a trust to avoid paying inheritance tax and claim rent for it on expenses. eh Greg? 😉
#Parents
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The first contract was awarded by NHS Scotland for beds to be supplied to the Glasgow version of the Nightingale hospitals. Value £248k. Makes sense!
The second contract was awarded by the DHSC with a value of £18.7 million. It was for Covid testing - a Covid test lab!!
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Thank you for reading.
Covid Contract thread no 6 coming tomorrow night.
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Buckley found a manufacturer did all the spade work and didn't get the contract. The story goes on in great detail to question whether someone (a Minister or Official) had passed all Buckley's work with the Chinese manufacturer to the company awarded the contract - Inivos
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Accora have since been included on a National Microbiology Framework agreement with other suppliers April 2021. A contract worth £15 billion.
Accora is owned by the Drake family. Members of the Exclusive Plymouth Brethren. They also have an interesting political background!
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Irving Armstrong is honorary Vice President of the NI branch of the Tory Party, previously the Chairman of the NI Tories.
You may know him better from this clip! He is the man who asks Boris Johnson the question.
Update. In answering a question from
@armstrong_irwin
, the PM invites people to call him up if they’re asked for customs forms. Fire them in the bin.
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