There should be a proper tendering procedure for any temporary buildings hired by the Tories while they try to shrug out of doing anything about the schools they have left to fall down.
We need to demand that any procedure be fully-transparent and open to all qualified providers – not the usual cowboy Tory donors.
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Labour reveals two-candidate shortlist in North East mayoral race
Labour reveals two-candidate shortlist in North East mayoral race I really hope Labour gets it arse kicked up North and that Jamie runs as an independent. https://t.co/MFS14M5GWU
— National Supply Teachers Association. (@paysupplystaff) June 16, 2023
DWP’s ‘shocking’ refusal to allow benefit appeal for woman who was sectioned
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It’s amazing how some writers spin out an article when all we really need is a quick run-down of the facts.
We all know dentistry in the UK is in crisis. Many of us can’t get in to a dentist for a check-up and the reason is simple: there aren’t enough dentists in the UK.
Why aren’t there enough? Two reasons, according to Novara Media‘s article:
The real reason for this understaffing… was austerity: the government has slashed funding for NHS dental services by 8% in real terms since 2010. In 2013, David Cameron placed a hard cap on the number of trainee dental places his government would fund (the cap was lifted briefly in 2020-21, but was reimposed in 2022 and remains in place despite the current crisis).
Perhaps the most significant government contribution to the current crisis in British dentistry dates back to 2006, when Tony Blair introduced a new contract between the NHS and its dentists. Prior to that point, dentists were paid for each piece of work they did. As a result of the 2006 reform, dentists are now paid for a certain number of “units of dental activity”, with little distinction made between complex operations and simple treatments. If they don’t complete nearly all of this work (96%), dentists have to pay back some of their fee. But this is complicated by the fact that the total amount of work they can do is itself capped, meaning that if they do too much work, they have to turn patients away. The result is that many NHS dentists find themselves unable to make a decent living due to the low pay involved in dentistry (45% reported a decline in NHS pay since 2020), not to mention chronically overworked: 87% have felt symptoms of stress and anxiety in the past year.
So politicians created this crisis with a stupid contract and with funding cuts.
The answer is clear: change the contract to re-incentivise dentists, and restore funding levels.
Any government failing to do that is creating its own toothache (sorry).
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Neil O’Brien: why has he been allowed to work in a government department that hands out contracts to his wife’s firm?
Here’s another Tory conflict of interest – and it’s nepotism again, too.
Like prime minister Rishi Sunak, the Conservative minister for Primary Health Care – Neil O’Brien – is married to a woman with an interest in a private firm that receives government contracts.
His wife Jemma is GP engagement lead at Circle Health, which receives public money from the Tories to perform operations at its 54 private hospitals (Circle was the first private health firm to take over an NHS hospital).
Tory Neil O'Brien MP Minister for Primary Health Care on TV today Guess what?
HIS WIFE has top job in private healthcare Circle Health Group, 54 private hospitals "have your NHS treatment at one of our hospitals….all costs will be covered by the NHS" RThttps://t.co/i3hTydvF0k
What is this man doing in a government department that may hand contracts to a company where his wife works?
It’s a clear conflict of interest.
And it’s actually a miracle that we’ve found out about it from the new MPs’ register of interests, that has attracted ridicule for failing to list all of the businesses that are at least part-owned by Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty.
From the Mirror article:
Mr Sunak has been accused of a “complete lack of transparency” over his own wife’s investments.
The list of interests did not include details of the shareholdings owned by his heiress wife, Akshata Murty.
Under the section for relevant interests held by a spouse or close relative, Mr Sunak’s entry included his wife’s venture capital company Catamaran Ventures and unnamed “direct shareholdings”.
A footnote adds that these include her “minority shareholding” in Koru Kids, but no details were given for any of her other shareholdings.
Farcically, the list did not include her £468million stake in Infosys, the Indian IT firm founded by her billionaire father.
And Infosys get government contracts, of course.
Corrupt?
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Backhander: have the Tories been funnelling public money to their friends and donors in return for practically nothing? And if so, shouldn’t these people face justice?
Take a look at this:
🔴MATT HANCOCK: Covid Fraud
▪️Matt Hancock gave Frances Stanley a £14 MILLION PPE contract AFTER she donated £5,000.
This is just one of many accounts showing that Tory friends and donors have benefited from government contracts.
The latest apparent beneficiary is Akshata Murty, the wife of the prime minister himself – Rishi Sunak.
Yet all these financial arrangements go uninvestigated.
Personally, I think retweeting the message above might not be enough to achieve the necessary.
By all means do, but consider contacting your own MP as well, to express your own desire for an investigation into connections between Tory MPs and party or personal donors who receive large business contracts – especially deals that, for one reason or another – fall through.
Such bad deals endanger lives – as we discovered during the Covid crisis, when huge amounts of duff personal protective equipment were bought by the Tories from donors and friends, when reliable gear could have been purchased from reputable sources – that didn’t have friends in the Tory government.
It is in the national interest for us to find out for sure what has been going on.
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Akshata Murty and her husband, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak: he has taken extraordinary steps to hide any commercial interests either of them have from the electorate. We must therefore conclude that he may be dishonestly using his position to funnel public money into his bank accounts and hers.
The row over whether Rishi Sunak’s wife benefited from the work that went into an ’emergency alert’ test affecting mobile phones on Sunday (April 23) shows one thing: the public do not believe the prime minister’s latest declaration of interests.
Sunak published a new register of MPs’ financial interests last week, in response to anger over his failure to declare that a company part-owned by Akshata Murty will benefit from a new policy to attract people into child-minding.
It doesn’t include significant details, either of his own personal financial investments or his wife’s.
Some of us have drawn the obvious conclusion: that Sunak thinks he and his wife are above such declarations – even though he takes public money, the same as the lowliest Universal Credit claimant.
And UC claimants have to declare their partners’ financial interests:
One rule for the 'new elite' – another rule for UK Citizens. A UC claimant would have to declare their partners financial interests. https://t.co/sfsOGHwMaL
He didn’t even bother to turn up to an Urgent Question demanding a statement on his entry in the register, on the day the stink over alleged interest in the “emergency alert” broke out across the social media:
Rishi Sunak fails to turn up to the Urgent Question demanding he make a statement on his Register of Ministerial Interests and the Ministerial Code.
Instead, one of his lieutenants piped up to say it’s unreasonable to demand of the prime minister what his government demands of every benefit claimant. This confirms that Sunak thinks he’s better than the rest of us and doesn’t need to give an account of himself.
Rishi Sunak last week finally published the Ministerial register of interests, minus any real details of his own financial interests, or those of his family. https://t.co/JFnLaAryUR
Apparently Sunak’s entry on the register includes his local rotary club, brass band and community pub but not any business interests owned by him or his wife.
The Byline Times article states:
A spokesperson for Sunak insisted that only such declarations judged to be “relevant” had been added to the list.
This means that while, according to Sunak, the fact the he is a patron of his local brass band is judged to be a “relevant” interest relating to his role as Prime Minister, the fact that his wife is now set to potentially massively financially benefit from a Government policy, is not.
Also not included in the new register are any of the Prime Minister’s own personal financial interests, save from the fact that they are now contained within what Downing Street refer to as a “blind management trust”.
This arrangement is ostensibly designed to prevent the Prime Minister from personally being involved in any future investment decisions that may be affected by his own policies.
However, by placing his existing investments within this “blind” arrangement, the public are prevented from ever knowing which Government policies are directly enriching the Prime Minister and his family.
It is hard to think of a reasonable justification for this continued refusal to be fully open about his own financial interests and those of his wife.
It is clear that Rishi Sunak is doing everything he can to prevent the rest of us from knowing how many commercial pies he and his wife have stuck their grubby fingers into.
It is dishonesty at the top level of government. No wonder he is currently being investigated over whether he has approved a policy that funnels money to a company part-owned by his wife. Other government contracts with companies owned by her should also be investigated.
The dishonesty implied by any investigation is exactly the opposite of what Sunak himself promised when he became prime minister.
By his own standards, he does not deserve to remain in office. There’s a local election next week in England and Northern Ireland; I hope voters there use it to drive that point home.
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Alert: apparently the contract for the smartphone test that happened yesterday (April 23, 2023) was given to Fujitsu, the firm that bungled the Horizon Post Office software – and which immediately sub-contracted it to Infosys, the firm run by UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law, in which his wife holds millions of pounds worth of shares. Conflict of interest?
It seems the test of the ’emergency alert’ signal on everybody’s smartphone may be another example of Tory nepotism and corruption.
Here’s how:
I wonder why the media are silent on the company responsible for yesterdays “Special Alert”
UK Government award contract to Fujitsu who subsequently sub contract the work to Indian company Infosys
I wonder who has a family stake holding in Infosys 👀#GMB#BBCBreakfast
— Hector Brocklebank 🇷🇺 🏴 (@HBFash1007) April 24, 2023
The contract certainly went to Fujitsu – I have found articles here and here supporting that claim.
I have yet to find proof that it was sub-contracted to Infosys, although it is certainly true that the company owned by UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law, in which his wife holds millions of pounds worth of shares, has worked on other such systems in the past. If anybody can confirm or deny the claim, This Site would like to hear about it.
The Cabinet Office has been contacted for comment.
If it is the case, then I cannot recall Sunak ever declaring this interest when the contract was handed out. At a time when he is under investigation for failing to declare his interest in another government contract handed out to one of his wife’s companies… might this be damaging for him?
ADDITIONAL: A Government spokesperson said: “This is completely untrue – there are no connections with Infosys in the running of the Emergency Alerts system.”
More information to follow in an article later.
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Akshata Murty and her husband, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak: it is hard to believe their actions have been entirely innocent.
There’s a lot of “nothing to see here, guv” about the way the government – and Rishi Sunak in particular – has handled the controversy over it handing public money to firms in which his wife holds shares.
After it was found that Akshata Murty had shares in Koru Kids, a childcare agency set to benefit from a policy in last month’s budget, Sunak has published a new list of his own financial interests including it. It seems to have been omitted previously.
We have also heard that the government has awarded a contract to her father’s firm Infosys, in which she also has shares. This business was found to be operating in Russia after the government imposed sanctions on any commercial operation doing so, and its bosses promised to withdraw from that country after the transgression was discovered.
It was subsequently revealed that Infosys had not withdrawn from Russia immediately – but Sunak’s government gave it a contract worth a small fortune anyway.
So that’s two infringements – of government policy and Parliamentary rules – in favour of Rishi Sunak’s wife.
Before either of them, we learned that Ms Murty had avoided paying £20 million in taxes by holding non-domiciled tax status. This created a huge stink as she was understood to be living in the prime minister’s Downing Street flat with him – a tax avoider living in the heart of government.
There were calls for Sunak to be removed as prime minister over it.
But then Ms Murty agreed to give up her non-dom status and start paying the full amount of UK taxes.
That leads to the very obvious question posed in the second of the two tweets below:
“If Rishi Sunak’s wife is suddenly prepared to hand over several million to keep her husband in a £150k job… you really need to think about why this might be.”
Yes, indeed.
The logical inference from it all is that he has been using his position in that job to funnel huge amounts of cash into private firms in which his wife has an interest. Do we even know if he has declared all her shareholdings now?
Public opinion seems clear:
Sunak has been quietly funnelling money to private equity ever since he got into Number 11.
He did it all through the Covid lockdowns (see my pinned Tweet).
Rishi Sunak’s childcare shares row exposes the Tories’ obsession with bypassing the state. Tory social engineering to create markets, enrich a few. Sunak's wife benefited from tax handouts to agencies. Tory MPs told not to raise the issue in the Commons.https://t.co/mKSaspzR5s
It is all speculation. But the facts on which it is based are irrefutable.
Akshata Murty did give up her non-dom status and agree to pay millions of pounds in tax, in order to ensure her husband stayed in his £150k-per-year job.
And Rishi Sunak’s government did hand large amounts of money to private businesses in which his wife had shares.
It’s extremely hard to see any of it as innocent.
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This should be a no-brainer for everyone who opposes Conservative Parliamentarians being on the take:
The Guardian reports that Mone lobbied Ministers for contracts worth £200m for a company she was linked to – allegations she denies. If found to have profited by millions, she should be expelled from the Lords and pay back EVERY PENNY! Agree? Sign here: https://t.co/EGW6sD9IEI
The Guardian newspaper reports Conservative peer “Michelle Mone and her children secretly received £29m originating from the profits of a PPE business that was awarded large government contracts after she recommended it to ministers.” Isolation gowns provided by the business were deemed unfit for use, all while our NHS heroes were putting their lives on the line – including by wearing DIY PPE to protect themselves and the public.
We – the undersigned – are calling on the Commissioner for Standards to conclude the investigation into Michelle Mone as soon as is possible. Mone disputes the Guardian’s allegations, but if she is found to have done what is reported, she should be expelled from the House of Lords and made to pay back every penny in profit to taxpayers.
Personally, I’d also include any interest earned on it while it was in her family’s bank accounts.
Are you going to sign?
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Michael Gove: this minister (who once got caught making a joke about rape on the radio, by the way) was in charge of handing out procurement contracts for PPE. At the time, This Site pointed out that they seemed to be going to his friends.
What does Michael Gove know about the contract under which Michelle Mone’s company won a PPE contract via the illegal VIP lane?
A leaked email has shown that he was involved…
Leaked email shows Gove was secretly involved in procuring £203m of govt PPE contracts for Michelle Mone's company via the VIP lane. Mone used private emails (against the rules) to contact procurement minister Lord Agnew, copying in Gove through his private Gmail account
… but look what happened when he was challenged about it!
Michael Gove left spluttering in the face of these straight forward questions: What do you remember about the PPE contract with Michelle Mone? What do you remember about the personal email she sent you?
Apparently this will be examined by the independent inquiry into Covid-19 this spring, and it has been suggested that Gove was trying hard not to say anything that may be used in evidence.
This could be highly informative!
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