Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
I really don't think that's the case tbh. And I'm not downplaying it, but to think this is extraordinary are wrong really. The stand out nature of it is because of Covid. Even this story, about s so ial gathering, it's clearly impossible to compare this to normal times.
Either it's normal for the government to secretly give a huge number of untendered contracts to completely unsuitable associates or it's not.

Let's say it is normal, and I don't think it is. It's very unlikely that every government has done this equally, so there's probably one who has done it more.

The chances of it being normal AND more common in the past is small imo, so I'm quite happy to disagree and say this is the most corrupt government the UK I know of.