PPE failures left NHS staff poorly protected, inquiry finds
Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts
Abe Bourne56Fraud, on a massive scale. Why is no one in prison?
jonnygf.bsky.social43Johnson, Hancock Gove Harding Mone should all be in jail
Chris Smith34How much of it ended up in the pockets of Tory cronies?
Dr Gary Enever32Jeremy Hunt dismantled pandemic supplies before covid. Failure before, failure during.
Joe Daziel30When you consider that companies with a track record of providing NHS compliant PPE were passed over as price inflated contracts for defective products were awarded to Tory donors pivoting from their core business to exploit the pandemic, it's even more galling. 😡
Offa’s Tyke18Tell me something I don’t know. This inquiry is a joke. Any prosecutions? Any money returned? No? Just telling us what we all knew in 2020… Great. 😒
Esheru18And at the next opportunity it will happen again, because lessons are never learned. New guidelines are never implemented and there is no accountability by politicians for this colossal amount of waste. What safeguards were put into place to stop rampant greed by banks after the last crisis? None!
David Higgins12To be fair, the PPE procurement did achieve one of its key aims: making some total wankers extremely rich.
Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙11“Wasted” = redirected public money to Tory chums and donors.
Nelly Probin9Six years to conclude the obvious. What a complete waste of time, effort and money. A total let down.
Vera Fang8Johnson, Sunak, Hancock, Gove, Williamson et al should be serving prison sentences for what they did (and failed to do) at the most challenging time the country faced since WW2. Spivs, gangsters, profiteers and charlatans. The lot of them.
Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙8Corruption and cronyism was so blatant that I suspect it played a major part in folks rejecting the Tories in 2024. We could all see what was happening and they just continued lining their mates' pockets! Never forget Never forgive £10billion literally up in smoke FFS!
Liz Crosbie #AllianceNowUK #FBPE8This should lead to prosecutions 👇
Janey Llou (Jane to my friends)5Angela Rayner should never have apologised. They were, are and always will be scum.
R1ch1e54If you or I wasted ten billion of taxpayers money, or handed it to cronies and friends, we would quite rightly be in prison. The privileged that did waste ten billion will face no consequences, as is the norm. #Covid #PPE #Conservatives
Icosahedral Misfortune4The entire COVID Inquiry has uncovered a lot. Now would be the perfect time to start investigations into those responsible, with an aim to see justice served for all the people who no longer have a voice to demand it.
Gove, Hancock, Johnson et al should never be listened to on anything ever again. “PPE failures left NHS staff poorly protected and wasted £10bn, Covid inquiry finds” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gareth01088the best way to achieve that would be to lock the bastards up
lindamortimer15.bsky.social6The nearest I came to throwing my shoes at the TV was when Hancock said he’d protected care homes ! No gloves , aprons thinner than plastic carrier bags and a paper face mask to last the weekend
Môr Leidr5I wish those with long covid, and those families bereaved by this, would sue those responsible Could they?
David Nice4They should be in prison. But the Old Boys' Network always protects its own.
firstprinciples.bsky.social2Ah, but the procurement VIP lane saw all the 'right' people rewarded handsomely, so there's that to make us all feel better
spikeyscabiosa.bsky.social2Not only that, they should be jailed!
Eerke Boiten10It's a bit shocking that it's taken 6 years for the PPE corruption scandal to be officially recognised as such when the world suspected it from day 1. Has anything happened to Michelle Mone recently, still in the Lords??
Antony Carpen6PMQs will be interesting to see how LOTO defends the conduct of the government she was part of.
Môr Leidr5Our political classes, including Labour now, seem to be almost entirely made up of people on the make (there are exceptions) People wanting to BE rich &/or important Instead of people wanting to DO stuff that improves all our lives
Redkite Traveller2If there ever IS an interview with these bstards, the opening line is "when are you paying us back you crooked fcuks"
The UK squandered £10bn on personal protective equipment during the Covid-19 pandemic, a public inquiry has said, as it hit out at the contentious “VIP lane” for procuring masks and gowns as “unfair” and “inherently biased” www.ft.com/content/2a56...
Leigh Sparks13Not really the UK, but the Tory Government under Johnson and their buddies. The framing matters here in my view.
Soluble10*the Conservative government of the day: Johnson and his corrupt mates. Don't muddy the waters with "the UK".
Louise R9Johnson’s government were such an unserious government for the worst time.
Dave Robinson9So who gets held accountable?
Jockyfox6And the tax payer never got any of it back … while Mone, a lot of Tory MPs and their mates got very very rich 🤑 🤬
Cambridger6So who is going to be held to account, how, with what consequences and when??
The UK wasted nearly £10bn on PPE during the Covid–19 pandemic, public inquiry chaired by Heather Hallett finds. The Johnson government’s “VIP lane” led to “unfairness” and was “inherently biased towards those with connections to the UK government,” she added.
Pete Morgan6"Of the 36 referrers of successful offers into the VIP lane, 15 had a connection with the Tory party" Wasted = Swindled
Proper gander2Patiently waiting for those responsible to be held accountable. Any minute now, any minute…
Treacle210bn handed to friends and family of the tory party.
James H-B1Wake me when there's consequences
Nate O49Notable how a government-run VIP lane was obviously corrupt both from first principles and immediate contemporaneous evidence, and yet there will never be any consequences for the politicians that set it up and the Tory-connected millionaires that pilfered the public purse to the tune of £10bn
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧27We literally called out Matt Hancock giving a contract to his pub landlord at the time
Cheekysaurus3And now, back to squeezing every last penny from the disabled and long-term sick. As you were.
This confirms the ~£10bn wasted by Johnson's govt on unusable PPE. The same estimate (credit partly to Jolyon Maugham) that I have been relying on for some years. Up to ~£7bn profit went to Tory friends, donors and families. People who would have survived, died. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test10We don't know how many would have survived if Johnson had not bungled the UK govt's pandemic response. My guesstimate has always been at least 100,000. We do now know that a substantial number of deaths were attributable to govt focusing on a devastatingly corrupt scheme to enrich its friends.
Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test2It's fitting news for Bastille Day. That uprising, which was the start of the French revolution, was partly the result of the French people blaming Marie Antoinette's profligacy for their sufferings.
