Michelle Mone 'admits involvement in VIP Lane PPE company' for first time

Michelle Mone 'admits involvement in VIP Lane PPE company' for first time | LBC

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7 ай бұрын

After three years of investigating and denials from three different law firms, the Guardian's David Conn has finally received an admission that Baroness Mone had an affiliation with PPE Medpro. The Guardian say that her husband Douglas Barrowman has also admitted involvement. The company received £200 million in contracts during the pandemic, but £122 million of equipment they provided was deemed not fit for purpose. David Conn reveals his findings to James O'Brien.
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@poplife123 7 ай бұрын

Bottom line: 1) This money needs to be recovered with interest 2) The fraudulent perpetrators need to be prosecuted 3) Governance and procurement procedures must be improved in relation public funds

@JHatLpool 7 ай бұрын

In relation to point (3), you may find that sound governance and procurement procedures are already in place. Typically government ignores/ overrides the regulations when it sees fit.

@choltrig 7 ай бұрын

They are way to wealthy to go to jail in Britain.

@marythorpe928 7 ай бұрын

Totally agree with you, however, we still have the corrupt Tories in power, and it was them that gave all of our Tax's to the equally corrupt perpetrators ...

@user-dz8kk6gr5s 7 ай бұрын

Starmer said he's going after them

@samsoncooper1 7 ай бұрын

Starmer has said a lot of things...

@Ettrick8 7 ай бұрын

How any law-abiding, honest and decent person votes conservative beats me

@chrisbartholomew54 7 ай бұрын

I agree but Labour Party mps. Enough said

@mrdynamitehee 7 ай бұрын

I think the point is: people who value those traits in human beings are not the kind of people who vote Conservative. And Conservatism knows it, which is why they feed their ignorant voters hate, grievance, resentment and constant self-victimization instead. One of the world’s best grifts.

@davidrice6224 7 ай бұрын

@@chrisbartholomew54 no comparison between the two - Labour aren't perfect but they are compared to this corrupt self-serving conservative shower.

@suds2808 7 ай бұрын

Because labour are worse and can’t let the loony left get in.

@djabbt4171 7 ай бұрын

Well, they're not law abiding, honest or decent

@donna25871 7 ай бұрын

Who gave Mone her life peerage - David Cameron. This honours list for friends of the PM needs to stop because it’s so corrupt.

@LordBillington42 7 ай бұрын

Amazing how the Lords reforms ended up somehow being more bent and troublesome than hereditary peerages. That takes some doing!

@DizzyVizion 7 ай бұрын

She literally got her peerage because she went on the TV and threatened to leave Scotland if it became independent. Scummy to the bone.

@Whateverpoopiepants 7 ай бұрын

Liz truss has nominated a life term peer for every 4 days she was in office ! It’s berserk.

@jnae2006 7 ай бұрын

The Lords need to be abolished getting paid over 300 pound a day for doing nothing

@Billy-rq7jm 7 ай бұрын

Cameron gave her more than a peerage 😮😮😮😮

@DJB01 7 ай бұрын

Corrupt Conservatives? Well I never…

@Alexios-tf5yx 7 ай бұрын

Aye. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

@strikeforcealpha9343 7 ай бұрын

Won't somebody think of the children???

@paulqueenan178 7 ай бұрын

Their all corrupt not just the tories

@DJWESG1 7 ай бұрын

@@Alexios-tf5yx power didn't corrupt them 😅😅

@charlescutts8102 7 ай бұрын

😂

@davidmontgomery9846 7 ай бұрын

She should be in prison and all of the others who ripped the country off should be in there with her .

@chrisChris6969 7 ай бұрын

The person who was delivering pizzas or working on side whilst claiming benifts, is the only type of person who goes to jail . Not the super rich swindler

@johnwhalley8270 7 ай бұрын

@@FrankGrimes4051Dennis, 19 getting ten years for getting caught with a spliff

@thewashingtontapes5476 7 ай бұрын

Maybe that's why the Tories have overseen a scenario where there is no space in British jails so judges can't sentence them to a custodial term

@fooballers7883 7 ай бұрын

a jew never goes to jail... what are u on about

@user-dz8kk6gr5s 7 ай бұрын

Definatly

@rohanchapman4159 7 ай бұрын

Make them pay every thing back to us with costs and interest, then take away her Title. Not a Public Servant by any measure

@hg82met 7 ай бұрын

Please, this is a banana republic, not a functioning democracy.

@factstrumpprejudice6740 7 ай бұрын

This is clearly a delusional fantasy, capitalism is simply theft by another name and its laws that legalise theft.

@leroysimon5692 7 ай бұрын

👋🏾👋🏾👍🏾

@robertreape 7 ай бұрын

That will never happen I'm afraid, this is the conservative party we are talking about.

@petewitkowski5315 6 ай бұрын

You forgot to mention jail time for all those involved.

@gavp5928 7 ай бұрын

I'm disgusted. Disgusted in all involved. Its a disgrace. If it was the common person on the street, they'd be likely jailed for fraud & embezzlement.

@amoscampbell1965 7 ай бұрын

Pronto

@leroysimon5692 7 ай бұрын

👍🏾

@dean8282 7 ай бұрын

How many lost their lives because this one was unusable? It's costing the taxpayer thousands to now be burnt and dispose of.

@tonybarden9187 7 ай бұрын

Just have to correct your statement, with likely jailed, to would be jailed.

@TheVicar 7 ай бұрын

@@dean8282 Some of those who won the PPE contracts, for useless PPE, won the contracts to then store and dispose of that PPE You couldn't make it up

@johngregson9827 7 ай бұрын

Whilst people were dying they only thought to make a few quid, absolutely disgusting human beings. When do the police 👮‍♀️ take action in this scandal

@petyrkowalski9887 7 ай бұрын

Write to your MP and ask… I have.

@JRattheranch 7 ай бұрын

Excuse me? A few quid 🧐🤔? A few millions! 😡

@garriejackson9551 7 ай бұрын

The Tories loved the pandemic, all the lot of um could see pound signs and was a free for all cash cow..kaching

@kieranharwood7186 7 ай бұрын

Why would the police arrest friends of the people who pay their wages? The police aren't there to enforce the law, they're there to protect the ruling class.

@alantravers4264 7 ай бұрын

Spot on and this needs to change NOW

@bozjankwestmacott 7 ай бұрын

I do hope Gove is being investigated as he put her forward

@hg82met 7 ай бұрын

We can only dream. Consequences are for little people.

@britnatzaredemocracydenier5922 7 ай бұрын

It's ok a labour and tories pact working together in my council to keep out the snp in Edinburgh have spent money on king charles partys which was destined for disabled childrens xmas partys ... THEY'RE BOTH CORRUPT PARTYS

@saadabbas7282 7 ай бұрын

it's not just gove , this is why they fight for "power" self interest and lackeys for the real masters.

@britnatzaredemocracydenier5922 7 ай бұрын

@@saadabbas7282 kid starver starmer and richi susnake are both in israhells pocket and supporting warcrimes and apartheid

@user-lj5gn4yi9i 7 ай бұрын

@@hg82met"we investigated ourselves and found there was no intentional wrongdoing, ps,lessons will be learned."

@TmanNoOther 7 ай бұрын

This should not go unpunished! Not just her, everyone else who acted in a fraudulent manner should face criminal prosecutions

@leroysimon5692 7 ай бұрын

👍🏾

@jaymundo4979 7 ай бұрын

But it probably will go unpunished

@sphinx1017 7 ай бұрын

Sadly we all know nothing will happen and they will all get to keep the money they stole.

@charlieboy57 7 ай бұрын

Who else got a contract ?

@user-gb8qk3de9x 7 ай бұрын

They won't get punished, Borris got the minimum fine for attending multiple parties with put ppe or social distancing. While other people received thousands of pounds worth of fines over BS. During lockdown I watched the metropolitan police eat at places with no social distancing but would stop people on the street having a socially distanced conversation, I watched them ignore a group of 40 odd in a park, none of them from the same house hold sharing a sheesha, letting there kids run riot in a park, just to arrest a teenager smoking a joint hidden in the woods. The government of this country or the police adhere to the law, only the laws they feel to, but that will depend on the time.

@saturdayplayer2492 7 ай бұрын

If it was not fit for purpose then they should be able to retrieve the money and prosecute those responsible. Take away her honour.

@GG-hu9dn 7 ай бұрын

And put the dog in jail where it belongs!

@noelfleming3567 7 ай бұрын

👍👏

@neilgodwin6531 7 ай бұрын

She has no honour. In either sense. A peerage, but no honour. It was a payment, not an Honour

@saturdayplayer2492 7 ай бұрын

@@neilgodwin6531 Sums up Boris' government.

@marksykes1191 7 ай бұрын

What honour ?

@spiritualanarchist8162 7 ай бұрын

Getting into the U.K government is like winning the lottery for sociopaths. It's an all you can steal banquet.

@2handsandwiches 7 ай бұрын

Yes and the rothschilds are laughing at us too

@MrPhantom1961 7 ай бұрын

steel banquet, you mean like a steel band?

@spiritualanarchist8162 7 ай бұрын

@@MrPhantom1961 Lol. I stand corrected.

@ifv2089 5 ай бұрын

The Corruption is highly frustrating, And They love it.

@robertgreen9829 7 ай бұрын

My daughter works for the fraud department of a local council and they look into things as small as falsely getting disabled parking permits where people get fines for these sorts of things. What sort of investigation will go into the legitimacy of people making fortunes from terribly PPE contracts and the people awarding those contracts

@noelfleming3567 7 ай бұрын

None😂😂

@jackryder-sw9rk 7 ай бұрын

None as these rich people donate to the Tory party

@paulwilson7234 7 ай бұрын

A very fair point .

@1netakeent 7 ай бұрын

Not a single thing will be done because people seem to think governments are democratic 😂😂

@alphabetacanton 7 ай бұрын

I was called up by my council because they found "two" names residing in my property while claiming Single Occupancy Discount. Turns out there is one version with my adopted English first name and my Chinese last name and another version with my Chinese first name, followed by my English first name, and my Chinese last name. I never used the latter version in all my dealings with the council or my usual life (including banking,) only when I do major things like applying for my passport. Don't know how my council stumbled across my other names. I had to send a copy of my British Passport to them to prove that I am the same person in either version. Of course, when you are robbing the government of 65 millions, you don't get any scrutiny.

@ozzy6626 7 ай бұрын

As a nurse working all through the pandemic 😷 putting myself at risk, worrying about what I might be bringing home after a shift, not having the right PPE. This Conservative government disgusting me. How anyone can ever vote for them ever again, is beyond me! If you care about the NHS, VOTE THEM OUT!!!

@petertownley7296 7 ай бұрын

community socail care myself cost me £15 for 2 masks i have weak immunity from med pro

@trevorstephenson5766 7 ай бұрын

I fully agree-i was working in urgent care throughout the pandemic-luckily never had to drop a shift but lost a couple of colleagues-the trouble is what would heir apparent Starmer do??-he and Streeting have already declared more involvement from American companies!! I will not be voting for him!💚

@user-ir8gk5tx8j 7 ай бұрын

@@trevorstephenson5766the NHS is in trouble if someone with your brain power is working there

@mandywaddell1967 7 ай бұрын

@@trevorstephenson5766unfortunately, no matter what anyone thinks of Keir Starmer when Clegg made the decision to "jump into bed" with David Cameron and decided to form a coalition government with the Tory's he decimated the Lib Dem party and made this Country into a 2 party political system and that remains now. Next Theresa May when she needed her government propping up she ended up with the DUP and look where that ended. The moral of the story is that the ONLY way to get these corrupt Tory's out is to vote against them and that will have to be by voting Labour because the. Lib Dems will never be able to overturn the Tory's and people have to be realistic about that!

@anne-mariemarshall 7 ай бұрын

Ozzy, similar story from me. As a community practitioner, I was regularly in contact with people who had COVID. We were initially given face masks which were subsequently withdrawn because they were not fit for purpose, a little plastic pinnie and a flimsy pair of 'protective' gloves. Ultimately, me and virtually all my colleagues caught Covid. Mone and all her cronies who were involved in this (what appears to be) fraudulent activity need to be arrested and face trial in a court of law. These parliamentary slap on the wrist investigations simply will not do😮 It beggars belief that there is still a sizable (hopefully) minority who for want of greed or misplaced loyalty still try to support these wrongdoers and who still, after the abundance of wrongdoing by the Tories, who still intend to vote for them in the next general election. One thing is certain. They will never, ever get my vote. I would rather vote for screaming Lord Sutch and his bunch of monster raving loonies than the corrupted Tories.

@jaynasher7720 7 ай бұрын

Why is that woman still walking the streets with 37 million of our money, where,s the police ffs

@PorthLlwyd 7 ай бұрын

What crime has she committed?

@greengiant2613 7 ай бұрын

@@PorthLlwydstealing from the taxpayers? Corruption? Lying to parliament?

@PorthLlwyd 7 ай бұрын

@@greengiant2613 Only one of those is a crime.

@davidtracey5471 7 ай бұрын

@@PorthLlwydIs your name Mone?

@bulldog1066jpd 7 ай бұрын

She's not walking the streets in the uk, she's living it up on her yacht in the Caribbean

@geoff9759 7 ай бұрын

The most disgusting thing is none of this corruption will result in a criminal prosecution and jail time for those involved as should happen. This country makes me sick.

@IMBlakeley 7 ай бұрын

But imagine a poor person stealing a sandwich, they'd be prosecuted for sure.

@DJWESG1 7 ай бұрын

Depends who is in power.. I mean, you could go the traditional two party route, or.. You could put me in power and you'd have an entirely different result. I wonder, do the British public really want rid of the tory party? 🤔

@annem5899 7 ай бұрын

Yes they would and they have stolen millions ,give that money back disgusting .

@greenman1411 7 ай бұрын

It's a shame that Starmer isn't still the DPP.

@IMBlakeley 7 ай бұрын

@@greenman1411 He'd be turning a blind eye to that too. His record is not stellar.

@hg82met 7 ай бұрын

And this is still costing us. "The unusable PPE cost nearly £200m to store in the first nine months of 2022-23, and the DHSC estimates that its future storage and disposal costs for unusable PPE will be around £319m." But there is no money for teachers or nurses or doctors.

@willumwhitmore9419 7 ай бұрын

and more money spent on disposal

@govermentsoundsystemrootik8887 7 ай бұрын

Let that be you or me that defrauded this government by let's say even £1,000,000 we would have been locked up & the keys thrown away...,let that sink in & yet here we are.

@user-lj5gn4yi9i 7 ай бұрын

@@govermentsoundsystemrootik8887. Try being overpaid £10 in benefit money. You will be on the front page of the daily mail and express. Oh; and headline news on GBN !!!

@user-dz8kk6gr5s 7 ай бұрын

Taken us all for mugs

@user-dz8kk6gr5s 7 ай бұрын

@@govermentsoundsystemrootik8887definitely time gross incompetence and incompetence carried a custodial sentence

@emmabrooker166 7 ай бұрын

So what did Hancock know as Sec for Health? What did Sunak know as Chancellor? What did Blojob know as PM? Get them all in the dock 😡

@michaelkennedy2790 7 ай бұрын

Sunak knew everything...he signed off all ppe contracts Then recently stopped any investigation into them as they 'were not in the public interest ' he the most complicit of them all!

@fooballers7883 7 ай бұрын

dall farter sunak is worried about being tried as a war criminal...

@vinparaffin6082 7 ай бұрын

@@michaelkennedy2790..SPOT ON !👍👌

@sallywright8065 7 ай бұрын

They all knew there was nothing to be scared of.

@TheReverendJones-lv5bz 7 ай бұрын

@footballer, 😂😂😂😂 not heard that one before 👍

@Energyflash1979 7 ай бұрын

£65m could prevent anyone from using a food bank in the UK yet more people are using them each week. Yet it ends up in the already wealthiest back accounts and trust funds to cater for a family of 4

@georgelonghurst2672 7 ай бұрын

that seems cheap only 65m ?

@tarlocksagoo7190 7 ай бұрын

This is corruption at its highest level. This so-called Baroness and her husband need to be charged criminally as well as the politicians who allowed this to happen.

@piqueblinders7948 7 ай бұрын

What appals me now is how little coverage of this development is in the major UK news sites and papers. BBC, ITV, Sky, not to mention the Mail etc (from whom we expect nothing) are absolutely silent about it. The only we can find out about this sort of stuff is via LBC and the Guardian who are sadly not communicating to a vast audience. Millions and millions of pounds of money and so many are silent

@paulascott3942 7 ай бұрын

They're too busy covering all the red flag operations and distractions all around the world , so we don't see what went on during the " pandemic"

@dean8282 7 ай бұрын

The mainstream media and Tories are in bed together. This was always the case for last 40 years.

@chuffyify 7 ай бұрын

They only mention what they want to ram down people throats is why the mainstream can’t be trusted and why more alternative media is the better option…MSM at one point in the past might have reported, but are now wholly complicit in holding back on real new

@Debagio 7 ай бұрын

Because the majority of the UK press are Tory mouthpieces.

@thomasford6605 7 ай бұрын

Very true. I don't even watch mainstream media anymore. They only push the parts of the narrative they are told to sell. Sickening

@ageoflove1980 7 ай бұрын

There is hope. In The Netherlands the state is actually sueing a man called Sywert van Lienden. As his position as a political lobbyist and commentator managed to secure contracts for many millions in PPE which turned out to be of sub-par quality and hardly usable. They are confiscating over 21 million euro of his personal wealth so you can imagine the huge profits that were made during this chaotic period.

@tonychorley4936 7 ай бұрын

But the government already knows, denies everything and does nothing.

@blazzz13 7 ай бұрын

Ah but that's in the Netherlands. I don't know much about your class system, but here in Britain the Tories are "the party of natural government" who pass laws that only apply to the plebs.

@davidcjupp 7 ай бұрын

Great news but I'd put money on it that this is why they have denied it for two years, to have time to either move/protect the money and get their stories straight and vetted legally to avoid prosecution.

@ageoflove1980 7 ай бұрын

@@davidcjupp I understand why you would say that but they actually really seem to go after this guy. His company and all his assets were seized and auctioned off.

@sandybowyer7941 7 ай бұрын

So, there IS hope ...... time will tell 😊😊😊 .

@doogle212 7 ай бұрын

She was given her peerage for supporting the Better Together campaign in 2014. Many of us in Scotland have been calling her out since then but were dismissed as bitter nats.

@daffytree2605 7 ай бұрын

So are you bitter Nat,I'm Scottish I'm a nationalist and I find her behaviour reprehensible,but she is not alone.

@doogle212 7 ай бұрын

@@daffytree2605 did you feel that way about her when she was awarded her peerage?

@daffytree2605 7 ай бұрын

@@doogle212 until the ppe matter I can honestly say I had no idea who she was,but you didn't answer my question.

@doogle212 7 ай бұрын

@@daffytree2605 you didn't ask any

@daffytree2605 7 ай бұрын

@@doogle212 re read it

@Human_Herbivore 7 ай бұрын

I'm struggling to remember a single day when we didn't hear of some crooked activities of this government.

@michaelmccarthy9411 7 ай бұрын

Please don't call her a Baroness any more. She is a complete disgrace and should be kicked out of the house of lords!

@vinparaffin6082 7 ай бұрын

Michael, is that it! I suppose it's better than sitting in front of a political panel and saying "I'm sorry", and riding off into the sunset with their ill gotten gains...............but not much!!!

@annem5899 7 ай бұрын

Yes I agree,but in my opinion the house of lords is outraged and needs to go,.

@michaelmccarthy9411 7 ай бұрын

@@annem5899 outraged? Does that have a meaning?

@michaelmccarthy9411 7 ай бұрын

@@DRobbo7798 I can agree with that.

@michaelmccarthy9411 7 ай бұрын

When Ireland needed PPE the government negotiated directly with Chinese suppliers and then sent a series of Aer Lingus A330 aircraft to Beijing to bring it back. No third parties ripping off millions, nor any need of them!

@2handsandwiches 7 ай бұрын

Getting supplies from the PRC 😂 that's the problem,

@framazz7575 7 ай бұрын

@@2handsandwiches Ireland did much better than the UK, did the hoover maker succeed in creating ventilators? 😀

@braderley 7 ай бұрын

Irish is the new American ffs 😂 get back in your lane

@2handsandwiches 7 ай бұрын

@@framazz7575 I don't think either country faired well from the biggest scam in living history, it just went to show how many compliant sheeple live among us.

@michaelmccarthy9411 7 ай бұрын

@@braderley you should try to make some sense

@Probabilityislife 7 ай бұрын

If you've lived the last 20 years as a British citizen and you can't see what's clearly happening then you deserve everything that's coming to you.

@jessiepooch 7 ай бұрын

Real helpful.

@undeadmaster666 7 ай бұрын

take them both to prison and take all there money and give it to the tax payer. its our money that they stole after all.

@James-wg6nd 7 ай бұрын

13 years of these rich tory looters in Power 😢

@ThomasKing19933 7 ай бұрын

This is just blatant fraud.

@Daithai96 7 ай бұрын

So glad to see her back in the news. Hope she's forced to pay back every penny of her pandemic profiteering.

@Zero_Ninety 7 ай бұрын

She needs to go to jail, pronto.

@FrankDunne-ui9ji 7 ай бұрын

She did its called the house of Lords.

@daronchristie4031 7 ай бұрын

All I want to know is when is she going to prison…? 🤔

@annem5899 7 ай бұрын

Yes me also can you imagine if it was any other person we would be in prison it's shameful.

@normasnokas 7 ай бұрын

I wonder if anyone in government has said that Barrowman and Mone had nothing to do with PPE Medpro, given that they knew they were deeply involved?

@gjaxx 7 ай бұрын

Dowden will be along in a minute to explain how everything was completely above board

@SuellaForPresident 7 ай бұрын

Jail

@sommerrog 7 ай бұрын

This is like a banana republic level of corruption.

@tonybullion2537 7 ай бұрын

@sommerrog This country has been brought to its knees by the successive Tory governments and the level of corruption is even worse than that of a 'Banana Republic'.

@user-sd3ik9rt6d 7 ай бұрын

Jail time?

@vivburgess4300 7 ай бұрын

This is going to be investigated in the Covid Inquiry, I hope. I'd like to see Mone answering questions as well as all those involved in the PPE fraud.

@hg82met 7 ай бұрын

Sorry to burst your bubble but the Covid Inquiry will not lead to anything. It's just funnelling more millions of taxpayers' money to expensive lawyers, and in the end not a single one of these individuals will face any consequences.

@Anon-xd3cf 7 ай бұрын

I hope not... That farce will no doubt find she did nothing wrong...and probably even that she should have been awarded a bigger contract.

@user-dz8kk6gr5s 7 ай бұрын

She will supply a sick note

@tonychorley4936 7 ай бұрын

Doubt anything useful will come out of the enquiry. No lessons learnt, and the government continuing to lie through its teeth just as it has over the PPE debacle.

@dudushe 7 ай бұрын

What for? I want her in jail, and her entire family made destitute.

@kristianspeke1 7 ай бұрын

When are they being sent to jail for corruption then

@annem5899 7 ай бұрын

Exactly .

@robertstorey7476 7 ай бұрын

Wherever the profits have gone they need to be handed back to the Treasury.

@hg82met 7 ай бұрын

It's safely stashed in some tax haven, don't worry.

@annem5899 7 ай бұрын

Yes absolutely,but will it happen they are thieves .

@SarahTheNearlyInSP 7 ай бұрын

I keep saying to people "this is like the dying days of Major's government". It's becoming clear to me I'm wrong. It's 1000 times worse....

@geeksworkshop 7 ай бұрын

It seems like, you only get a peerage if you are a crook or an entertainer. All that money straight into trust funds for her kids.... How they don't end up in jail is a complete crime. What set of laws for us and no laws for them.

@factstrumpprejudice6740 7 ай бұрын

The entertainers are simply a cover seeking to legitimise the insanity of peerages.

@timgrey4107 7 ай бұрын

Corruption at the highest level ..its disgusting ..get these lot out

@vinparaffin6082 7 ай бұрын

No,get them in!...................JAIL!

@michaelhaigh9182 6 ай бұрын

The Higher you go the more curupt it is ?

@alexsmith358 7 ай бұрын

At what point do the prison sentences start ?

@spencergregory8049 7 ай бұрын

Exactly that. And the reimbursement of the COVID fines

@propagandaisnottrue2121 7 ай бұрын

As soon as we go to sleep and dream. This is the tip of the iceberg. Politicians are some of the biggest criminals in the world.

@pipins3616 7 ай бұрын

@@spencergregory8049if you broke the law then your fine is deserved

@spencergregory8049 7 ай бұрын

@@pipins3616 I didn't.

@Barry-tl3ru 7 ай бұрын

I did all the time .total con job.

@hg82met 7 ай бұрын

Was there ever a doubt or suggestion that she wasn't involved? The headline I'd like to see is that Sunak is doing something about it. But of course he isn't. He's too weak.

@faridajafery8108 7 ай бұрын

hg82 sunak is complicit. He was part of the whole pantomime

@TabsT-vy5jy 7 ай бұрын

They're all corrupt, sunak, truss, Boris, starmer, gove etc.

@johnwright9372 7 ай бұрын

Sunak was the Chancellor who allowed the tens of billions to be scammed.

@martinmcdonald4207 7 ай бұрын

Let the law of the land deal with her and all Tory thieves involved in the PPE theft. Sunak has nothing to bring to this case unless he is found to have been one of those Tory thieves.

@vinparaffin6082 7 ай бұрын

@@faridajafery8108.....You beat me to it! COMPLICITY AT ITS FINEST!!

@philjames6206 7 ай бұрын

Steal a basket of food from M&S and you shall go to court. Steal £223 million for garbage PPE and you will take a trip around the World on a luxury yacht. £65 million for Barrowman and Mone. Twelve years and total repayment sounds about right.

@annem5899 7 ай бұрын

Totally agree ,nothing less and every penny returned .

@Chafflives 7 ай бұрын

Thank-you James for not letting this disgraceful issue, perpetrated at the expense of all those who suffered and those that died during the crisis, be swept under the carpet and be forgotten. Shame on her and those others involved.

@sallyp2450 7 ай бұрын

This scandal should be the prompt for Sunak, our disingenuous prime miniature, to call a general election.

@defaultpanic 7 ай бұрын

Which is exactly why that won't happen. Sunak knows he just has to forcibly stop the boats to win the next election, which is, I'm afraid to say, exactly what will happen.

@gavinrussell9841 7 ай бұрын

He’ll drag it out as long as the process allows. He has no honour.

@phildobson2168 7 ай бұрын

The nation is in a state of emergency and you need ppe supplies urgently. Do you A) Go to trusted industry suppliers B) ask if any mates could cobble something together. I am dumbfounded at this government.

@MrsGardiner 7 ай бұрын

First they forbade the NHS buyers to buy PPE, with the argument that they would outbid each other and get it too expensive, and then they gave out contracts through the VIP lane.

@sandybowyer7941 7 ай бұрын

WONDER WHY ?????? 😮.

@johnmccloskey5826 7 ай бұрын

We saw the pandemic as a threat to life and (Lady) Mone saw it as an opportunity to rob the public purse.

@sandybowyer7941 7 ай бұрын

Just like : A TORY !!!!!!

@anthonyshiach5049 7 ай бұрын

These people are unbelievable! Morals of the gutter! This government has allowed this to happen unchecked with no accountability!!

@sandybowyer7941 7 ай бұрын

Quite RIGHT ✅️ 👌 👏 👍 😌.

@youtoucan2312 7 ай бұрын

Money, with interest. Substantial fines. Substantial prosecutions of ALL involved (including Government). Change to the Governmental rules to prevent this crime EVER occurring again.

@erbil2011 7 ай бұрын

Just people being unbelievably exploitative and greedy; totally sickening. Criminal behaviour.

@genektegezoink 6 ай бұрын

David Conn deserves a huge amount of credit for his investigative reporting on Mone's connection to PPE Medpro.

@tawAAkul 7 ай бұрын

Needs proper inquiry. Scandalous

@hg82met 7 ай бұрын

An inquiry with the power to prosecute. Not some costly navel-gazing exercise.

@pepsimac 7 ай бұрын

someone give that man a glass of water 🤦🏻‍♂

@isaaclyne123 7 ай бұрын

Michelle Mone in the procurement session under oath please

@eljay5746 7 ай бұрын

They will probably apologise & wander off into the sunset. No criminal prosecutions will probably take place.

@joshrogers7816 7 ай бұрын

Ah thanks for this update as I was wondering what was happening with Baroness Mone. Isn't it time that Michael Gove, who was in charge of the Cabinet Office during this period, is investigated. Talk about the power behind the throne.

@SleepCove 7 ай бұрын

The profit margins they made is insanely immoral

@tonychorley4936 7 ай бұрын

And of course, not forgetting the pub landlord who became a multi millionaire from supplying PPE never having sourced more than plastic cups. What on earth is taking so long to recoup the money.

@carlosdeferrer3585 7 ай бұрын

Unfortunately all that will come of this is the old "lessons have been learned and measures put in place to help in the future" until the next scandal. Unless there are some actual consequences to those that lie, break the law or are just plain corrupt this cycle will continue.

@sandybowyer7941 7 ай бұрын

Quite right ✅️.

@elfynjones2117 5 ай бұрын

sadly you are spot on.

@ezmepetersen2503 7 ай бұрын

MedPro insists the gowns were up to standard. The question is....How did MedPro secure these items when they were not even a business entity until after the lockdown began and who were their suppliers? I wouldnt agreed to supply a new customer when my existing customers, with a track record for paying, were crying out for orders to be fulfilled. Yet MedPro were somehow able to agree terms with suppliers and jump the queue in order to fulfill an order for tens of thousands of items. So, what I'm saying is, it just doesn't fly.

@mikelee7967 7 ай бұрын

Abolish the house of lords.

@Gph0367 7 ай бұрын

And the monarchy!!

@edwardbernthal160 7 ай бұрын

@@Gph0367 and get presidents like a lot of other countries, oooohh yes, can we have a Trump or even better a Putin.

@sarangistudent8614 7 ай бұрын

@@edwardbernthal160shame we would never get anyone like Kalam

@hypatia4754 7 ай бұрын

@@edwardbernthal160lol we already got Bojo, what are you on about? At least we can get rid of him, unlike the biggest landlord in the country

@alistairmcgregor8820 7 ай бұрын

Sounds as though Michael Gove was heavily involved in the Michelle Mone scandal from his appearances on tv despite his denials of any impropriety.

@peterbedford380 7 ай бұрын

Gigantic fraud but what will happen these are extremely rich people making money out of grief absolutely shameless

@sandybowyer7941 7 ай бұрын

Needs addressing ( NOW ) !!!!!!

@suecole7338 7 ай бұрын

"Governance and procurement procedures must be improved in relation to public funds". The NHS already have governance and procedures in place but they were bypassed by the UK Government in favour of their friends.

@Alex-cw3rz 7 ай бұрын

It's not just that she was on a VIP Lane even though she had never been involved in this industry, not just did we pay over the odds for what we bought, not one of the products could be used. Keep in mind that means people will have been put a risk just for profit.

@sandybowyer7941 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯 CRIMINAL !

@Ironside-fz9vd 7 ай бұрын

If a "benefits scrounger" fiddled like this there would be no hesitation in prosecution.

@justsomebloke6784 7 ай бұрын

I imagine that we will be told that "It was not in the public's best interests to know the truth"

@manonwaterloobridge8408 7 ай бұрын

Well done James .

@derekwhite2929 7 ай бұрын

The emergency carers I've been recently assigned are rapidly ploughing through the mountains of that dodgily acquired PPE

@cobbler40 7 ай бұрын

There were British companies producing PPE in the UK who were bypassed.

@snsn7251 7 ай бұрын

They have no credibility or shame

@joannag2089 7 ай бұрын

Cool. Thanks for letting us know. So what time are we gonna be seeing police tents outside their houses?

@jeffsimon9594 7 ай бұрын

James is angry at them, that is their punishment

@phil4162 7 ай бұрын

It’s been a disgrace from day 1. These people are so used to getting away with their snout in the trough they do it in plane sight. It’s about time she was remanded in custody along with the rest of them. Utterly corrupt , utterly shambolic.

@marktony9737 7 ай бұрын

They should serve time, but they won't.

@tarquinbullocks1703 7 ай бұрын

What does someone have to do to have their peerage removed? You'd certainly think "Baroness" Mone would qualify. As to her responsibilities to attend the House of Lords and vote on legislation, she is currently taking a leave of absence and before that... "Mone has previously been criticised for her low attendance in the Lords, with a Sunday National investigation discovering she only attended on four days over a six months period."

@user-xk4jx1xl7f 7 ай бұрын

Well, I really don't think I'd bother going into work either if I was "gifted" £29 million.

@colinstephenson5386 7 ай бұрын

Another thought , I wonder how much work and Taxpayers money has been used investigating the solicitor/Lawyer Moynihan in seeking some kind of mitigation ?

@kenmay1572 7 ай бұрын

So why did they deny (lie) their involvement at the outset?

@PhantomRaspberryBlower 7 ай бұрын

There needs to be equal attention given to the attempts to cover up what looks like illegal activity. This is not a one off offence but a major cover up that has lasted years, no doubt breaking several laws in the process.

@spankflaps1365 7 ай бұрын

I think Ms. Mone spent most of the £200 million on makeup, and then applied it with a trowel.

@faridajafery8108 7 ай бұрын

😂😂 and still managed to.look the way she does!!!

@randomman47 7 ай бұрын

*shovel

@earnestequivocation6250 7 ай бұрын

Why isn’t she in jail?

@deekireland3682 7 ай бұрын

Whilst we keep calling it the “VIP LANE” when the Conservatives are calling it a “High Priority Lane” it’s a get out for the slippery Tories they’ll say “Oh my mistake, I didn’t know you meant, that Lane.

@krispysox 7 ай бұрын

Ironic that last night people were celebrating the failure of Guy Fawkes. He is the hero we need right now.

@MrBanzoid 7 ай бұрын

Guy Fawkes was the only one to enter the Houses of Parliament with honest intentions.

@Alex-cw3rz 7 ай бұрын

There needs to be prison sentences and all money plus interest payed back.

@fozzy20 7 ай бұрын

It's almost as if theyr'e trying to get ahead of the covid inquiry because they know it's all going to come out.

@DaGabbaGangsta 7 ай бұрын

Either way bang to rights, but yeah they have changed their plea to guilty

@DaGabbaGangsta 7 ай бұрын

Tories are heading for a supernova

@vinparaffin6082 7 ай бұрын

@@DaGabbaGangsta...being Tories,it has to be a Champagne one!

@ripcord9881 7 ай бұрын

So does this make her a liar? Abhorrent behaviour. This government is full of duplicity and is vile.

@1netakeent 7 ай бұрын

Let's remember how they criminalised other companies and people selling PPE and COVID related items. Getting the competition put the way so they could fleece everyone as much as possible.

@Lynn.hot.legs.peters 7 ай бұрын

First job for Labour...... Public enquiry into fraud for. Brexit and HS2

@factstrumpprejudice6740 7 ай бұрын

Well, that's not going to happen, Starmer is simply Tory light.

@IMBlakeley 7 ай бұрын

I wish. I'd not trust Kief to do anything honourable

@johnwright9372 7 ай бұрын

I do not hold out any great hope that Starmer will do much as he, like Sunak, is spineless. Let us wait and see, but by the time he MAY be in No 10, the criminals will have had ample time to hide or destroy evidence. I wonder if the police have enough qualified, experienced detectives or resources left to carry out a thorough investigation into anything but Suella Braverman's cosmetic political campaigns.

@colinstephenson5386 7 ай бұрын

Hello peterfoley shortly after you mention Labour you receive two replies attacking Mr Starmer , I think many of the people having a go at Mr Starmer aren’t Labour supporters just Right Wing Hard Of Thinking types trying to undermine Mr Starmer , I am not happy with his seemingly abandonment of socialism, I do hope it’s his strategy to defeat the conservatives in the next Elections , something has to be done to rid the country of the present Government ,

@factstrumpprejudice6740 7 ай бұрын

@@colinstephenson5386 I am critical of Starmer because of his values, I'm a little old, was labour mayor of my town during the early 80's, then, Starmer would be conservative, because that is what he is.

@mickreaddin4979 7 ай бұрын

Tories and their friends decided to fleece the British public on the backs of the dying or dead.

@chrissaltmarsh6777 7 ай бұрын

Why did they admit they were involved now? Do they know that the ordure will hit the air conditionioning soon? That the game is, as one could say, up? Can a person get de-baronessed?

@colinstephenson5386 7 ай бұрын

Something we need to know is after denying their involvement and the Government refusing to properly acknowledge or become involved in the situation, why now are they willing to admit that they were up to their necks with the Government’s schemes ? Also what if any part did the Conservative Government have to do with this admission ? Seems rather strange this coming out of cover at this particular moment , People on the streets is a lifestyle, The increasingly large amounts of protesters for Palestine against the conservatives supporting Israel? Plus various other deflection’s cascading down on a repressed citizenship , I honestly believe this Government ain’t got a clue how to govern the country but their wizards at frightening the horses so to speak , what’s going on ? What are they up too ?

@sandybowyer7941 7 ай бұрын

The desperate TORIES WILL DO ( ANYTHING ) TO DEFLECT FROM THEIR WRONGDOING !! 😢😢😢.

@nickmannion3879 7 ай бұрын

I would suggest that this admission indicates that a behind the scenes govt/HMRC/whichsoever Dept is responsible deal is being struck for repayment of a 'certain amount', a non apology apology and if done then no prosecution. The stench....follow the stench...

@dannymunroe6996 7 ай бұрын

One can only assume that this vast corruption of tax payer's monies has been shared out amongst a few of those @ the top of the hill,hence,the reluctance to get to the bottom of it. One rule for them & another for us...Mr O' we know we can always rely on you to hold the Fort....You're the voice & conscience of the voiceless...Peace out 👊🏾

@lilianecasner3336 7 ай бұрын

Let's have the money back!!! Why should they keep it outrageous these people make me sick,yet they will get away with it where's the justice,for God's sake they should be in prison

@imck357 7 ай бұрын

Mone said she'd leave Scotland if it left uk... Cameron loved this and gave her a title.. btw she keft uk never mind Scotland... Isle of if man i believe or Monaco.. not popular in Scotland

@vinparaffin6082 7 ай бұрын

Yeah, and you ought to see her pad in the Isle of Man !