Johnson’s contempt of the courts as Covid contracts are STILL unpublished
UK prime minister Boris Johnson missed his calling in life: he belongs in the circus.
Who can doubt that Boris And His Amazing Talking Backside would be a hit with audiences across the country, if not the globe?
And let’s be honest, it would be a far more appropriate place for him to make the kind of utterances he does.
There can be little doubt that most of Johnson’s conversation comes, not from his mouth, but from the other end.
He tends to give vent to short bursts of hot air with very little real content. And such content as there is, stinks.
A prime example of this verbal flatulence is the moment he claimed that all Covid-related contracts were “on the record for everyone to see” after Matt Hancock had been found to have broken the law by failing to publish them.
And were they?
Challenged about the ruling in the House of Commons on 22 February, Mr Johnson said: “All the details are on the record.”
The prime minister added: “The contracts are there on the record for everybody to see.”
But three days later, in a written legal response to the Good Law Project, seen by the BBC, government lawyers admitted 100 contracts for suppliers and services relating to Covid-19 signed before 7 October had yet to be published.
So they weren’t. And nobody is surprised because we all know that Johnson’s words don’t come from his mouth but from somewhere much lower down.
The other Tory claim about this – that the government has been “working tirelessly” to deliver protection for health and social care staff – was disproved the moment it was uttered.
We all remember that health staff had to fight Covid with no personal protective equipment at all when the first wave of the pandemic broke over the UK.
And social care staff actually carried it between homes, infecting – and killing – 30,000 residents.
When the High Court made its judgement against Matt Hancock last month, he was ordered to publish details of his contracts and pay £85,000 towards the costs of the Good Law Project, whose members brought the case.
The government hasn’t published those contracts. Shouldn’t Hancock now suffer a stronger penalty?
Source: Covid contracts still unpublished despite Boris Johnson’s claim – BBC News
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It’s just the old adage how can you tell a Tory is lying? his mouth is moving!
So the chief BS of the Tory scum lied again and surprise suppose they found another 100 contracts they just forgot to show the people!
How they have been giving our money to there cronies again! FFS they have given billions to these scum for what? Well, we’re not allowed to know or how much was any use as most of these contracts deliver rubbish…
Talk about naked contempt for the rules, the law and the public but what do you expect Tory scum? They do this every time then get nice little jobs at the end what a surprise with the same companies that they just given billions to what a coincidence…!
‘When the High Court made its judgement against Matt Hancock last month, he was ordered to publish details of his contracts and pay £85,000 towards the costs of the Good Law Project, whose members brought the case.
The government hasn’t published those contracts. Shouldn’t Hancock now suffer a stronger penalty?’
Proves yet again the corrupt fascist tory government hold the law in contempt! How dare the fascist tories refuse to obey the law – oh wait they are the ones deciding what constitutes the law. The punishment for refusing to publish these fake contracts must be 100 days in prison because that is what would happen to us peasants if we refused to obey the law!
Little fascist dictator dick johnson and his crooked cabal continue to hold the UK law in contempt and I see no foreseeable change because this one party fascist state will continue its murderous course of action!
Furthermore this proves UK is now a one party fascist state wherein democracy no longer exists!