Government destroys £1.4bn of PPE from one Covid deal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cll476qzm85o
Posted by Jonny_the_Rocket
Government destroys £1.4bn of PPE from one Covid deal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cll476qzm85o
Posted by Jonny_the_Rocket
4 Comments
This is the sort mismanagement of funds that will make the Tories disappear forever.
You can tell how litigious someone is. Read that report and count the amount of times the BBC state the (now) billionaires may have not done anything improper…whilst then describing quotes, purchases, previous action against the press, hiding their affairs etc.
A bigger problem is the government trying to hide this, reporting total destroyed PPE is a small fraction of this….which has been found through free media investigating.
I’m the last person to defend theTories (and I’m not now, as any government would surely have done the same) but this is surely rock and a hard place type stuff?
They had to order loads and indeed there was plenty of criticism at the time that they hadn’t stockpiled, but as this story shows, it has a shelf life so you’re always going to have to destroy stockpiles if you’ve got pandemic levels of PPE constantly available. You need orders of magnitude more PPE in a pandemic so when you’re not in a pandemic, you can’t just use it up, otherwise surely they’d have used this?
Disgusting. Procurement during covid was one of the biggest scams in history.