Mountain of dumped PPE discovered

ChroniC said:
Can't they be used?
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Friends of MP’s rushed out to buy PPE during the pandemic as they were given vip fast track contracts if they could get hold of any… they bought a load of knock off Chinese PPE that no one wanted, that didn’t actually work, sold it at massive profits to their government friends who bought it at silly high prices using tax payers money into their friends pockets, only to then realise it was useless tat and not up to any regulations.

It’s an utter scandal.

This fly tipping of the worthless tat is just the icing on the cake. An MP’s friend has made millions of pounds selling it to the government and then thrown it away when it was realised it was useless, with no refund to the government.
 
hurfdurf said:
Friends of MP’s rushed out to buy PPE during the pandemic as they were given vip fast track contracts if they could get hold of any… they bought a load of knock off Chinese PPE that no one wanted, that didn’t actually work, sold it at massive profits to their government friends who bought it at silly high prices using tax payers money into their friends pockets, only to then realise it was useless tat and not up to any regulations.

It’s an utter scandal.

This fly tipping of the worthless tat is just the icing on the cake. An MP’s friend has made millions of pounds selling it to the government and then thrown it away when it was realised it was useless, with no refund to the government.
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Sell it off as decorating covers or for cleaners or something. Just seems a waste.
 
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It's absolutely criminal. Even if it's not medical grade safe, I'm sure a lot of these could be used in environments like food prep.
 
hurfdurf said:
No one wants it, you can’t pay to give it away. It’s trash.
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I don't believe no-one wants it. Probably no-one wants to pay for it, but I'm sure you'll find plenty of smaller companies/charities/schools who would take small amounts for free. Just requires some forward thinking.
 
ChroniC said:
Sell it off as decorating covers or for cleaners or something. Just seems a waste.
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Semple said:
I don't believe no-one wants it. Probably no-one wants to pay for it, but I'm sure you'll find plenty of smaller companies/charities/schools who would take small amounts for free. Just requires some forward thinking.
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Yeah, but then that would require the people to acknowledge the goods they supplied weren't up to the required quality for what they had been paid for, which might have threatened the lucrative profits they were pocketing.

Those luxury yachts don't pay for themselves!
 
Semple said:
I don't believe no-one wants it. Probably no-one wants to pay for it, but I'm sure you'll find plenty of smaller companies/charities/schools who would take small amounts for free. Just requires some forward thinking.
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There'll be liability issues, our good samaritan laws aren't very clear.
 
This was the crazy cognitive dissonance going on during the covid time.

People talked of championing the environment while at the same time supporting the mass production of plastic items (which were unproven to stop the virus).
 
In a country where we pioneered research in to the vaccine, I can't believe the financial forensics cannot will not be performed to discover whomever profited from this scandal. They must have buried their tracks better than that mountain of PPE.
 
Mysterae_ said:
In a country where we pioneered research in to the vaccine, I can't believe the financial forensics cannot will not be performed to discover whomever profited from this scandal. They must have buried their tracks better than that mountain of PPE.
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Their tracks won't be buried. People will just be directed away from them.
 
hurfdurf said:
Friends of MP’s rushed out to buy PPE during the pandemic as they were given vip fast track contracts if they could get hold of any… they bought a load of knock off Chinese PPE that no one wanted, that didn’t actually work, sold it at massive profits to their government friends who bought it at silly high prices using tax payers money into their friends pockets, only to then realise it was useless tat and not up to any regulations.

It’s an utter scandal.

This fly tipping of the worthless tat is just the icing on the cake. An MP’s friend has made millions of pounds selling it to the government and then thrown it away when it was realised it was useless, with no refund to the government.
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Context: Global pandemic, no one can get hold of PPE, people literally screaming at the government on morning television that there's a shortage of PPE and Nurses are dying. The government went out and asked MPs if they knew anyone who might be able to source PPE, out of simple desperation and pragmatism, some of that PPE wasn't fit for purpose, there was definitely some fraud, but it wasn't some massive scam. "Rushing out to buy PPE" was almost an impossible task, we had RAF planes out picking up shipments, stuff that's unheard of outside of wartime.
 
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Roar87 said:
Context: Global pandemic, no one can get hold of PPE, people literally screaming at the government on morning television that there's a shortage of PPE and Nurses are dying. The government went out and asked MPs if they knew anyone who might be able to source PPE, out of simple desperation and pragmatism, some of that PPE wasn't fit for purpose, there was definitely some fraud, but it wasn't some massive scam. "Rushing out to buy PPE" was almost an impossible task, we had RAF planes out picking up shipments, stuff that's unheard of outside of wartime.
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And the UK companies with links to PPE procurement that were ignored in favour of the VIP minister introduction-only fast track? With companies that didn’t exist and many have paid little to no tax before being wound-up?

There was a massive push for PPE, there was also an opportunity to exploit the system because there were little-to-no safeguards in place for contracts worth millions. Nepotism was used instead of due diligence and this is why we paid through the nose for unusable PPE.
 
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