Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
Use semantics on a word in my post if it makes you feel superior (although qualifications and experience are not the same).


This is what the current Tories have been doing and I don't think any previous government would have gone as far as they have during a deadly health crisis.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/po...-donors/27/10/

"The Government has handed out PPE worth more than half a billion pounds to firms with links to the Conservative Party without letting other firms compete for the contracts, reports suggest."
the London economic is a leftist alternative news organisation. Of course they're going to be critical of this government no matter what they do. Putting that to one side, you'll be aware that all government contracts above a certain size are put before the parliamentary scrutiny committee made up of SNP and Labour MPs. I'd have thought that any malfeasance would have been highlighted by this committee, if there was indeed any wrongdoing. Likewise, all contracts are put before the minister by the civil service, who review the tenders according to pre-determined criteria. But all of this doesn't match the narrative so its ignored.