Tory Peer's Home raided re massive PPE fraud. Not on BBC

[Voldemort]

The London home of Conservative peer Michelle Mone has been raided by police from National Crime Agency as part of a probe into allegations of multi-million pound PPE fraud. It's everywhere except the BBC News.

Her house was raided by the National Crime Agency in pursuit of evidence over fraud related to a company which sold over £122,000,000 of PPE to the government with the involvement of Gove and Lord Agnew, at over 200% markup

[Randy Winkman]

Because the BBC are so biased towards the Tories I guess.

Anyway, this is a link:

https://timesnewsnetwork.com/news/world/uk/bbc-ref...

[Blue62]

Randy Winkman said:

Because the BBC are so biased towards the Tories I guess.

Anyway, this is a link:

https://timesnewsnetwork.com/news/world/uk/bbc-ref...

It is curious that the story has appeared across most titles, including that bastion of objectivity the Telehraph, but the BBC has so far failed to report it and won’t comment on why? Maybe it’s unsubstantiated, but this woman (who Id never heard of) seems to fit the profile of a Boris groupie.

[bitchstewie]

Police raid Baroness Mone’s mansion in £200m PPE contract inquiry

Michelle Mone’s home raided as PPE firm linked to Tory peer investigated

[Gecko1978]

£122m.....all for one person or did a number of senior tories want to get a slice of the cake. If so this is way better than party gate

[andy_s]

TheInternet said:

Voldemort said:

It's everywhere except the BBC News.

It's not obviously on any proper news website I've looked at.

It was in the papers a bit a few days ago, the main issue was exposed in January. Maybe after Cliff the BBC are a bit reluctant to go dramatising ongoing enquiries at every step. January to now, 4 months before they spin the kip, desperation or just the complex nature of such enquiries, who knows.

[Randy Winkman]

The BBC do seem to run scared of certain parts of the establishment and certainly seem to be very pro-royalty. I guess that's why some people say they are biased towards the right. Nadine Dorries might be making that a bit worse but I'm not convinced it's much different.

[Drive Blind]

she's a grassing cow and I hope she gets jailed,

Charlie Mulgrew

[Halmyre]

Voldemort said:

The London home of Conservative peer Michelle Mone has been raided by police from National Crime Agency as part of a probe into allegations of multi-million pound PPE fraud. It's everywhere except the BBC News.

Her house was raided by the National Crime Agency in pursuit of evidence over fraud related to a company which sold over £122,000,000 of PPE to the government with the involvement of Gove and Lord Agnew, at over 200% markup

Couldn't happen to a nicer person.

[turbobloke]

Randy Winkman said:

Because the BBC are so biased towards the Tories I guess.

Anyway, this is a link:

https://timesnewsnetwork.com/news/world/uk/bbc-ref...

One item involving not doing asomething cancels decades of self-confessed bias - not a chance. More likely it's their Cliff Richard hangover, or in more mundane terms, there were no helicopters for hire.

Then again the BBC wasting over £2.2m of licence fees on damages and costs is chump change, particularly when compared to their ~£100m IT cancelled project fiasco (DMI).

[Far Cough]

Is this the same person who quickly initiated a PPE company for something like 12 days and was then awarded the massive govt contract over all the established providers in the market ??

[frisbee]

A number of Conservative peers have integrity, for example Lord Agnew who resigned due to the government's mishandling of bounce back loans and the subsequent fraud, others are slimy weasels who could slot straight into the current cabinet.

[turbobloke]

Far Cough said:

Is this the same person who quickly initiated a PPE company for something like 12 days and was then awarded the massive govt contract over all the established providers in the market ??

From memory the storyline was that her husband was involved in the company's financing, while she referred the company to the gov't via the Cabinet Office. Not sue she founded/initiated the company? The ultimo mystery.

[anonymous-user]

Far Cough said:

Is this the same person who quickly initiated a PPE company for something like 12 days and was then awarded the massive govt contract over all the established providers in the market ??

Sounds well dodgy

Her wiki page is interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Mone,_Baron...

I remember her becoming one of the poster girls for the ‘No’ Scotland independence vote, spreading fear and threatening to leave Scotland if they voted yes, I think Cameron rewarded her handsomely.

Which then fired him up to think he’d win the brexit campaign with the same project fear tactics.

Does seem odd that the bbc aren’t covering it.

[cqueen]

Personally I don't care about Boris and party gate, but I certainly do care about this. If it turns out to be true, the government officials involved should go to jail.

[anonymous-user]

turbobloke said:

Far Cough said:

Is this the same person who quickly initiated a PPE company for something like 12 days and was then awarded the massive govt contract over all the established providers in the market ??

From memory the storyline was that her husband was involved in the company's financing, while she referred the company to the gov't via the Cabinet Office. Not sue she founded/initiated the company? The ultimo mystery.

Lots of suitable vague “from memory” and “not sure” there.

You know that when not even TBs willing to properly defend her, she’s in all sorts of trouble.

[smn159]

El stovey said:

turbobloke said:

Far Cough said:

Is this the same person who quickly initiated a PPE company for something like 12 days and was then awarded the massive govt contract over all the established providers in the market ??

From memory the storyline was that her husband was involved in the company's financing, while she referred the company to the gov't via the Cabinet Office. Not sue she founded/initiated the company? The ultimo mystery.

Lots of suitable vague “from memory” and “not sure” there.

You know that when not even TBs willing to properly defend her, she’s in all sorts of trouble.

To be fair Central Office won't be working today so he's probably not had the talking points or multiple graphs yet

[bitchstewie]

cqueen said:

Personally I don't care about Boris and party gate, but I certainly do care about this. If it turns out to be true, the government officials involved should go to jail.

The whole VIP lane thing was unlawful.

Covid: Government's PPE 'VIP lane' unlawful, court rules

[andy_s]

bhstewie said:

cqueen said:

Personally I don't care about Boris and party gate, but I certainly do care about this. If it turns out to be true, the government officials involved should go to jail.

The whole VIP lane thing was unlawful.

Covid: Government's PPE 'VIP lane' unlawful, court rules

Have we so quickly forgotten the absolute hysteria for months around getting PPE...? This is sort of where this leads.

As I've often said, if you want things at scale and speed that the rest of the world is also begging for then you'll have to cut corners. If you cut corners you'll automatically get a portion of the criminal, the ineffective, the wasted and the inappropriate - it's sort of baked into the premise we were all shouting for.

Having said that, those that sought profit by criminal enterprise should be ruthlessly hunted down and shot, figuratively, as being traitors to the nation.

Is this the case here? No one yet knows.

[bitchstewie]

Depends whether you think it's right that you should get preferential access just because you're Matt Hancock's pub landlord I guess.