Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
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.
As is quite obvious, and as has been discussed on here numerous times, the normal tendering process rightly went out the window during covid as we needed equipment urgently. Normal tender might take several months.

And I'm not saying there's no corruption because there is. But there is a tendency to think everything is new but it very rarely is. Corruption scandals haunt all parties in all countries to varying degrees.

Covid aside which did change tender processes, I don't really think there is much stand out