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Hadrian wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 11:37 am

mickmike wilson wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:48 pm

It’s been a long while since I read the article but basically most of the money disappeared along with these 2 week old companies who had zero previous experience in providing PPE, Total con job.

So capitalising A BILLION POUNDS referring to an article you once read but can't quite remember. How very Internet!

Shame we don't have a National Audit Office in the UK.

In an emergency situation, the government will have 'wasted' loads of money in trying to secure ventilators that in the end weren't needed or couldn't be made to work as intended, buying any PPE from anywhere - some of which wasn't up to the task, buying options for vaccines that didn't get in the end get through the trials or couldn't be produced soon enough, all in a scramble against competition from around the world last spring.

Of course they could have followed the usual civil service routine by consulting widely, devising a specification, asking for competitive tenders, assessing the results and choosing suppliers who were by then too busy. The first face masks might be arriving about now...

Hadrian wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 11:37 am

mickmike wilson wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:48 pm

It’s been a long while since I read the article but basically most of the money disappeared along with these 2 week old companies who had zero previous experience in providing PPE, Total con job.

So capitalising A BILLION POUNDS referring to an article you once read but can't quite remember. How very Internet!

Shame we don't have a National Audit Office in the UK.

In an emergency situation, the government will have 'wasted' loads of money in trying to secure ventilators that in the end weren't needed or couldn't be made to work as intended, buying any PPE from anywhere - some of which wasn't up to the task, buying options for vaccines that didn't get in the end get through the trials or couldn't be produced soon enough, all in a scramble against competition from around the world last spring.

Of course they could have followed the usual civil service routine by consulting widely, devising a specification, asking for competitive tenders, assessing the results and choosing suppliers who were by then too busy. The first face masks might be arriving about now...

boyliegladbach wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:19 am

Bingo wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 10:56 am The Barrow bashers will be out in force and its hard to defend this one, lots of goodwill lost i feel ... well at least the club have tweeted a video of two of the team talking shite

We can't defend anyway.

Hadrian wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 3:28 pm The likes of DD, The Canary, Guido Fawkes, etc can offer alternative views but in general I think I'll stick with the professionals for my news, thanks.

Zuluwarrior wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:04 am It’s just wrong we can’t justify signing lots of new players then using the furlough scheme (designed to help those in real need) to sack off players we don’t feel like using ...

Zuluwarrior wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:04 am It’s just wrong we can’t justify signing lots of new players then using the furlough scheme (designed to help those in real need) to sack off players we don’t feel like using ...

SKIPPER wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:10 am

Zuluwarrior wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:04 am It’s just wrong we can’t justify signing lots of new players then using the furlough scheme (designed to help those in real need) to sack off players we don’t feel like using ...

The new players were not signed in order to put others on furlough. It has been explained several times (though it doesn't placate the conspiracy theorists) that the plan was to loan the surplus players to NL/NLN clubs. This went pear-shaped when finances of those clubs hit the buffers with meltdown over covid grants. The prospect of the season being curtailed meant all transfers/loans stopped.By then the signing of new players was already advanced and furloughing was the only answer.

SKIPPER wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:10 am

Zuluwarrior wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:04 am It’s just wrong we can’t justify signing lots of new players then using the furlough scheme (designed to help those in real need) to sack off players we don’t feel like using ...

The new players were not signed in order to put others on furlough. It has been explained several times (though it doesn't placate the conspiracy theorists) that the plan was to loan the surplus players to NL/NLN clubs. This went pear-shaped when finances of those clubs hit the buffers with meltdown over covid grants. The prospect of the season being curtailed meant all transfers/loans stopped.By then the signing of new players was already advanced and furloughing was the only answer.