MPs condemn Michelle Mone PPE firm revelations
MPs reacted with outrage following the growing controversy over a PPE company linked to the Tory peer Michelle Mone after The Guardian reported that Mone referred the company to Tory ministers Michael Gove and Theodore Agnew.
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Mone's referral got PPE Medpro a 'VIP lane' securing it two contracts worth more £203m. Millions of pounds of PPE Medpro's profits were later transferred to a secret offshore trust fund of which Mone and her family members were beneficiaries. PPE Medpro insists the gowns passed inspection and that the company are entitled to keep the money.
Neil O’Brien, the junior health minister, defended the government's actions, denying that political connections played a role in the distribution of contracts, adding that the referral system connected ministers with members of the public who wanted to help plug shortages.
During the Urgent Question tabled by Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi said it was 'absolutely sickening, shameful and unforgivable' that 'chums of the Conservative party were profiteering' as the country struggled with the pandemic.
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It’s time the Police investigated this lot under oath and brought criminal prosecutions. Until that happens we can have no confidence in either house or any MP.
@niburu3406
Жыл бұрын
Are the police any better? They have covered up quite a few issues
@awtistiaeth4699
Жыл бұрын
Agreed, but not going to happen. Just like trump is unlikely to be prosecuted for theft. "One rule for the rulers, a different rule for the ruled".
@alisdairmclean8605
Жыл бұрын
Do mean the MET??????
@normanchristie4524
Жыл бұрын
And it should NOT be the Met!
@jibjub2121
Жыл бұрын
The police don't investigate tories
Criminal referrals need to be made
Greed, corruption and the usual suspects - they should be Imprisoned right now
@davidyoung5830
10 ай бұрын
Problem is as we saw with Partygate, the Top Police officers are Political appointees and they dont like having to investigate their own! They are as thick as thieves, with a presumption of innocence not afforded any member of the public, proving exactly how rotten and corrupt the whole system is!
We the tax payers want our money back Michelle Mone!
@normankennith7919
Жыл бұрын
mone should start getting out her 'growler' & using it to pay back the uk taxpayer's money!!!
@andydudley1775
Жыл бұрын
we cant it off shore like she is no doubt
Jeremy Hunt started running down NHS PPE stockpiles just a few years before the pandemic whilst he was health minister in spite of being advised to do the opposite!
@eustacequinlank7418
Жыл бұрын
Yes, the 2016 Cygnus report, they just ignored it.
@cosmicrayabsorber
Жыл бұрын
Must have had advanced knowledge
@frankzappa951
6 ай бұрын
Somebody “had a word” obviously.
The House of Commons should be full when discussing this terrible state of affairs
@roncollins9222
Жыл бұрын
Yes you're right, June, there should be a special debate... But do we think there will be...?
@ann-mariepaliukenas19
Жыл бұрын
They are all guilty cowards who probably benefited by it.
@petermorffew9851
Жыл бұрын
The PM is too scared to face the music. The very person who threw the £millions and friends, their families, MPs and favourites.
@thereds1959
Жыл бұрын
Xmas party time 🧐
@childofthe60s100
Жыл бұрын
They are all at home, making money transfers to offshore accounts, to hide their culpability.
They ignored regular NHS suppliers and gave contracts to people on the VIP lane instead who were not qualified to produce medical equipment and PPE.
@andrewcoxhead6451
Жыл бұрын
One of the mps who gave a contact to his mate, is in Australia and trying to make himself more normal...what a @unt!!!
@niburu3406
Жыл бұрын
Bring back the birch -
@roderickjoyce6716
Жыл бұрын
@@niburu3406 the stocks
@marimorgan9200
Жыл бұрын
Shameful!
@countycricklewood
Жыл бұрын
And if you own a pub near Huncuck, your in list
Why are there so few MPs in the chamber and why aren't the police investigating this?
@Genghis-Khan121
Жыл бұрын
Because it’s so far not been proven !
@red_velvetcake1759
Жыл бұрын
@@Genghis-Khan121 you are aware the police don't just have to investigate crimes that are already proven, that's the job of the court
@ganrimmonim
Жыл бұрын
@@Genghis-Khan121 that's why the police should be investigating, if no crime has been committed then Scotland Yard can say 'we investigated and there was no evidence that any crime had been committed". That's basically what police are there for.
@J1122
Жыл бұрын
@@ganrimmonim hes dumb keep it moving
@kieranclarges2514
Жыл бұрын
My guess would be that without these MPs voting to give this government "Special Powers" none of this would have been possible and they dont want to be there on the off chance they incriminate themselves further and as for the police, If you look back, The police only investigate MPs when ordered to by other MPs. Of course this is not how its supposed work but i imagine they dont want to bite the hands of their masters.
This case must be discussed during PMQs
@noramartin96
Жыл бұрын
You don't think he will give a straight answer do you
@merseyviking
Жыл бұрын
PMQs isn't a discussion any more, it's just playground-style "you smell of wee!" "Well you smell of poo!" "Your mum smells of poo!" etc. etc.
@midlandgeordie
Жыл бұрын
Sunak won’t answer the question!
@peterlfc1387
Жыл бұрын
We’d only hear more lies.
@SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14
Жыл бұрын
I'm sure Kier will bring it up, whether the right dishonourable member the prime minister actually answers is a different story
So many of these Tory ministers profitted from the pandemic. £29m for one Tory peer is gross while ordinary people continue to suffer the harsh reality of poverty.
Time for the public to police the MPs and time that there were consequences for actions. Criminal actions need to be investigated immediately. These tories need to be locked up if found to be guilty of corruption not some 6 day suspension from parliament.
Can’t believe how few MPs are here in the House talking about this. No surprise that so much money ended up taken out of circulation and put in to off shore accounts!!.
@petermorffew9851
Жыл бұрын
Under the shadow of the PM who was Chancellor at the time. Wasted money just like his "Eat out to help out".
@smellslikethinice1107
Жыл бұрын
At this point, if the UK doesn't rise up, we deserve everything that is coming our way for several years.
@MarcoSpeaksNadsat
Жыл бұрын
They are all at in some shape or other. Both parties.
@dash1141
Жыл бұрын
They all stand to lose out on this - as they’re all as culpable, nevermind covetous
@beatpeace879
Жыл бұрын
Cos they were guilty that’s why they weren’t their
HOW is this not a crime?
Now you know where your money goes , no money for hospitals or the other public things ! Down the drain!
@JoButterwick
Жыл бұрын
Into Tory pockets and offshore accounts
@eustacequinlank7418
Жыл бұрын
@@JoButterwick Which shall be recovered.
@JoButterwick
Жыл бұрын
@@eustacequinlank7418 I hope you’re right.
Mone is a con woman,most of us in Scotland already knew this,no surprise.
@georgemorrison9280
Жыл бұрын
She’s a piece of work …of that there is no doubt .
@HuplesCat
Жыл бұрын
No. She is a criminal
Corruption at its very worst. They should all be put in jail for a long time or until every penny is returned to the tax payer.
In March 2020, I worked for a company that happened to have nearly 30 pallets of hand sanitiser at a time when it was in very short supply. We worked for weeks trying to speak to the Health department offering to donate some or all of it to the NHS, but they wouldn't even return our calls and emails. In the end, we sold it all at cost to independent retailers across the country with fresh labels printed with a specified msrp price to avoid opportunistic price gouging. I guess we weren't part of the Tory inner circle of profiteers
@childofthe60s100
Жыл бұрын
Aren't they the seediest, trashiest group of opportunists, that have ever disgraced our parliament?
@cosmicrayabsorber
Жыл бұрын
They're all equally as bad as each other in my opinion
@0ihatetrolls01
Жыл бұрын
@@cosmicrayabsorber Who is they?
@cosmicrayabsorber
Жыл бұрын
@@0ihatetrolls01 All politicians
@cpn9072
Жыл бұрын
Actually there are reasons why the NHS specifically and the Health sector generally would refuse the donation. The only donation they would ever consider would be directly from the actual manufacturer who could guarantee that the supply had been manufactured in a controlled fashion meeting the regulatory requirements. Any company outside of that direct chain, would need to absolutely guarantee that the material purchased was correctly manufactured and had been stored in an appropriately hygienic environment. Outside of that would you want your son/daughter, parent to be treated with material that had suspect provenance
"We were desperate to help the NHS AND at the same time, we were even MORE desperate to help our friends' pockets. So...we combined the 2. Why are you frustrated??"
I want the Tory government held accountable for the fraudulent use of tax payers money.
@andydudley1775
Жыл бұрын
what ever funds they have should be taken every penny and thrown out the house.
Absolute disgrace.Shows how corrupt that MP’S are.These MP’S need taken to task and charged with criminal offences and jailed.
@patrickbracken3363
Жыл бұрын
The tories, Joan, its the tories.
@GrahamJRowe
Жыл бұрын
Michelle Mone sits in the House of Lords
@eh1702
Жыл бұрын
Mone was never in her life elected by anyone to anything. She made some money selling bras and she was a Scot that the Tories could cultivate. So they made her a legislator.
@patrickbracken3363
Жыл бұрын
@@quill9105 is that what your crystal ball tells you? The Tories think they are born to govern and that the plebs can be pacified with a few daily mail headlines and a "get brexit done" bit of sloganeering. Labour aren't perfect but they're not that.
Open corruption ...
If you steal money you go to prison why don't they 🤬
Unbelievable that these arrogant Tories are getting away with such criminally
disgrace
Oh boy do we need a clearout😮
@IbrahimMohamed-kw7vi
Жыл бұрын
These tories are making my blood boil
We knew this already though? But this is MORE people involved than we already knew. Disgusting evil people
Money needs to be recovered. Stop this inertia
Been stealing for themselves as long as there's been rich fools💯🤔 Ethics nor empathy,do they comprehend.
Can't the police look into this? There has to be justice ⚖
@lubindignand877
Жыл бұрын
The police have most probably been paid not to look into this.
@alisdairmclean8605
Жыл бұрын
I wouldn't get you hopes up. I mean the MET!!
@judvu1926
Жыл бұрын
The Home office ( Suella Braverman) is in charge of the police force . Kier Starmer being the former public prosecutor should have something to say next PM 's question time .
@amblonyx9516
Жыл бұрын
The police have already raided private homes over this. I'd urge you to read the full press reports - this isn't over...
@raycroal
Жыл бұрын
@@judvu1926 he will never go to the real places he should go, i have watched starmer pull his punches far too often to ever believe he isn't in the same gang as the rest of the criminals
Absolutely disgusting that so few are there. They are being paid and therefore should have to turn up every day whether they're interested or not! None of us would get away with staying home bc we aren't interested in working today, why should they?! And why aren't the police investigating this and why hasn't anyone been sacked or charged?!
@noramartin96
Жыл бұрын
They are all off to the JUngle.sorry house of Lords
Dennis Skinner :- "Half the tories opposite are crooks" Mr Speaker :- "Withdraw that comment Mr Skinner" Dennis Skinner :- "Okay, half the tories opposite are not crooks".
@vincentbrannelly8786
Жыл бұрын
Twas always thus my friend . My father was a miner and suffered fools lightly. He respected Skinner and so did I .
Surely this should all be in the hands of a police investigation.....
Bunch of thieves
How does the common person challenge the criminals in power?
If there were items of PPE either not received, unusable or substandard. A full refund would be expected. If this is written off that is very poor accounting. Were these items paid for up front, if not why were the companies paid at all and items not returned as unusable. Did they only buy from disreputable sources?
@judvu1926
Жыл бұрын
You can't call Steptoe and Son or Del boy disreputable characters surely ? 😂😆😉
@siraff4461
Жыл бұрын
@@judvu1926 Next to this lot they look like angels.
Trust the Tories to help themselves to our cash.Greed is leading to the destruction of the NHS.
@Biigfish559
Жыл бұрын
yes and sadly even among some of it's managers as past events show
She should be tried before a jury of her peers.
@niburu3406
Жыл бұрын
Agree with the trial but would not trust a jury of her peers - how far is this corruption supported and shared?
Sadly these criminals will never see the inside of a jail cell. Ironically they will have a banquet on their Manx estate to celebrate thwarting justice yet again. Guests of honour will be Boris and Lord Snotty, and his pals to celebrate old Etonian exceptionalism. They wait glee for the onset of Klaus Schwab's Great Reset in 2030.
Michelle Mone set a PPI supply company up about 6 months before th C-Vid farce. I wonder who gave her the tip off ?
@IbrahimMohamed-kw7vi
Жыл бұрын
Probably offered the guy a massage 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
shameful and awful excuses
It shouldn't be called the house commons. It should be called the house of criminals 😂
@childofthe60s100
Жыл бұрын
That's the best comment on here (even including mine!). Yes - let's start the meme - The House Of Criminals - and hope it goes viral. THE HOUSE OF CRIMINALS
@stevengreen9960
Жыл бұрын
@@childofthe60s100 it's true tho that's all's I've heard for the last2 years now it's criminals running the country
@janetharris8146
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@WhoAmEye_WhoAreEwe
Жыл бұрын
@@childofthe60s100 - I'm on board, citizen. :)
@caffreys1979
Жыл бұрын
Agree Steven! or "House of Corruption".
a scandal of such a level and yet so few mps could be arsed to turn up ,
"PPE Medpro" was added on the VIP lane, before this company was even registered, as I understand. Lady Michelle's [Mone] lobby work. Then Lady Michell aggressively lobbied to secure even more government contracts, but fortunately by then government officials were weary.
@arthurmackrell8154
Жыл бұрын
In today's papers it says that she pocketed £29million as she as a Lord recommended the Company!! Nice little bonus for corruption.
@theuglykwan
Жыл бұрын
@@arthurmackrell8154 She's been corrupt since she first started business. She got grants from various govt funds to support female business owners when really her lingerie business was a joint company with her ex husband. He just hung back while she took the limelight. Her rise was marred with corruption and lies. She sold slimming pills she claimed were responsible for her own dramatic weight loss. She actually had her stomach stapled.
@annecampbell9236
6 ай бұрын
You mean WARY NOT WEARY!
If I purchased a faulty item then I'd take/send back to the seller and ask for my money back (or replacement which in this case doesn't apply) someone, somewhere has to reimburse the 10 b tax payers money or face the consequences of losing their jobs !
@jilllawton8556
Жыл бұрын
Exactly.
If they can waste £10bn on unfit PPE and put £20bn into science research, WHY, can they only put £3.3bn into the NHS this year after stripping it bare over the past 12 years??!!
This is what they do with our tax money all the time...all the money we pay for public services and it goes in their pockets.
It's not greed it's theft 🤬
@lorrainetaylor8570
Жыл бұрын
Yes theft and corruption!
@kevinhayes7830
Жыл бұрын
@jmc quite right 👍
@kevinhayes7830
Жыл бұрын
@@lorrainetaylor8570 spot on 😎👍
Where is the public enquiry on how Dido Harding spent £30 billion on a Covid computer system?
The NCA should investigate this and shouldn't worry about political pressure.
@newwalrus4913
Жыл бұрын
They are investigating it, they raided lady Michelle mones residences not all that long ago and have found profitable offshore bank accounts linked to her.
@davidhooper1767
Жыл бұрын
@@newwalrus4913 When was this I've not seen anything in the news.
Hands up all those that think Sod All will be done... Just remember that the Outrage is ONLY BECAUSE THEY WERE FOUND OUT...! ! !
Why are there so few Conservative MPs in parliament that day!
It is not £tens-of-millions or even £hundreds-of-millions... It is £billions.
Corporations stealing public money?? In America this is a typical Thursday. 🤷🏻♂️
@arghjayem
Жыл бұрын
Yeah that’s the point. We don’t wanna follow in your silly footsteps. 🤔🤷
@unconventionalideas5683
Жыл бұрын
@@arghjayemI’m not sure it is anything quite like this. This sort of thing would produce a scandal, at the equivalent sort of valuation.
Sometimes I think if some specific politicans dispeared, nothing of value would be lost.
@andrewcoxhead6451
Жыл бұрын
Make that about 90% and I might agree with you
Absolutely despicable! One Scandal after another on a Weekly basis now, going back years. The Political System in Westminster, needs a full review, the way business is done behind closed doors, along with underhanded deals carried out with a Nod and a Wink to benefit individuals in a Golden Circle. Who Works for Who?
@Tor010
Жыл бұрын
Everyone who didnt vote Tory seen this. All the middle classes are getting affected by poverty now so apparently that makes it a real problem for government
The part of an iceberg visible above water is nothing compared to what is unseen below the waterline.
Recover all monies from improperly filled contracts and jail the offenders
The Tories here in Australia did exactly the same thing
@midlandgeordie
Жыл бұрын
No surprise!
@haruhisuzumiya6650
10 ай бұрын
Federal ICAC now
Hancock has been found guilty yet it's hardly reported and he can carry on with life
@albertsmith1048
Жыл бұрын
Guilty of what exactly, trying to get folk out of hospital beds so others could be admitted?.
@unconventionalideas5683
Жыл бұрын
@@albertsmith1048 Committing criminal violations of his own Covid lockdown rules.
This should be heard in a full House of Commons, so, where are all of the so called law makers........hiding perhaps????
@theuglykwan
Жыл бұрын
It's the result of lack of checks and balances. Govt polices themselves for the most part.
Mone's tweeted defence: 'don't believe everything you think'. Well she's definitely innocent then.
@normankennith7919
Жыл бұрын
michelle 'growler' mone!!!!
Corruption by MPs doesn't seem to be important enough to bother with they should be dragged there by the public and made to face the consequences.
I was working in the House of Lords on the day when Michelle Mone was ennobled. The place looked like a Cheshire housewives' festival. She and her pals looked distinctly dodgy. This news doesn't surprise me at all
Only Angela has the Balls to hold these Crooks to account.
Guy fawkes was right!
GE, labour government and full enquiry needed asap.
You have been looking for 9 billions for nurses? You found it.
A huge point is that tenders were put in by genuine British companies who had experience in the field who were ignored. Rushing to order inferior goods from china costing billions that now sit in hundreds of containers. Biggest rip of allowed by incompetence. They come out with the same retoric that it was urgently needed. That doesn't wash with me.
Yes accounability is a MUST. If this happened in any business there would be dismissal & pay back. This is Not the tax payers debt
We know and they know that we,the sheep, will bleat for a while and then move on.
How about we focus on all the MPs having energy bills paid for on expenses, in ALL PARTIES!!!
@topfuelteddy
Жыл бұрын
Swept under the carpet as per .
@beardtrick
Жыл бұрын
No more expenses Billy... you been away a long time
@amblonyx9516
Жыл бұрын
How about we keep the focus where it currently belongs? The TENS OF MILLIONS of public money apparently funnelled to individuals - who are NOT elected MPs, but nevertheless with connections to our government. Again, NOT all parties, but the one that's in power. Rather than fanning a smokescreen? This one will run and run.
@beardtrick
Жыл бұрын
@@amblonyx9516 break up my party?....
@amblonyx9516
Жыл бұрын
@@beardtrick If you mean break up the Tories (your meaning is unclear) - no need to waste any energy on that. They're doing it to themselves ;)
Watching my MP standing there brazenly defending the indefensible is sickening.
That Michelle Mone character has to go to jail surely
Part of the 40 billion we've all to pay back!
.... and still they seek to justify ...
When will we get our money back?
‘Michelle Mone’? Michelle Money, more like. 💰 💰 💰
@briane5706
Жыл бұрын
LoadsaMoné?
@barryjohn6101
Жыл бұрын
I wonder how many blows she did to get those contracts
Breaking news?? They have been doing this, and far worse, for 800 years!
The Tory MP sitting behind the Tory Minister is probably totting up the profit he made on the PPE scandal on his phone!
Just proves the pandemic was never about health.
@patrickbracken3363
Жыл бұрын
No, it proves that tory profiteers abused the public health crisis to fill their pockets and party in downing street.
@haruhisuzumiya6650
10 ай бұрын
It was about health, Tories saw this as a perfect opportunity to practice Disaster Capitalism 😂
5 billion items of ppe is nothing when they count one box of 100 pairs of gloves as 200 items!
@enkig2624
Жыл бұрын
That is how you account for actual product units. You can't treat a box 100 vs a box of 50 as equal. You actually said 5 billion is nothing???
@sudsey6713
Жыл бұрын
@@enkig2624 yes I know that's how they count it but they keep boasting about how much there was and in all reality 5 billion didn't hardly scratch the surface. Many many hospitals were having to reuse ppe equipment, many were having to struggle on without the equipment they should have had so yes although 5 billion isn't actually zero, it was nothing compared to what was actually needed
This Scandal must never go away untill an independent transparent investigation by a third party is conducted and publicly available..
'Sickening, shameful, unforgivable' -- but not surprising or unexpected. I think that in itself says allot about the current party.
Always wondered how she was supposed to have made millions by selling bras. She's a James Stunt type of business person.
They are all liars .
@patrickbracken3363
Жыл бұрын
The tories are
@niburu3406
Жыл бұрын
Janet - and thieves
@andrew300169
Жыл бұрын
Some are, other aren’t, this whole they are all bad makes you part of the problem
@barryjohn6101
Жыл бұрын
The biggest lie. Is.. The treatment works.
Of course this was criminal. Can you imagine the backlash if this level of corruption happened in a developing country? Our people are now impoverished whilst these criminals sit it luxury. There is not even a plan to recover our money.
Did the Chancellor of the day support this process?
Too right.
there was a genuine need for access to ppe. there was no need whatsoever for individuals to make massive profits at the expense of the taxpayer.
If they'd taken notice of the Cygnus report of 2016 we wouldn't have been short of PPE
For shame.
There should be no such thing as Parliamentary Privilege. Will there come a time when every single MP has to swear on his or her Religious book before making a statement in the house, in the same way as a person does in a court room. It seems that the higher the office, the more you can get away with. Perjury comes second nature to these people, and they know that the only way they can found guilty, is through the ballot box. The damage is well and truly done by the time that happens.
If the PPE was unsuitable, why doesn't the government reclaim/sue/not pay?
What’s downright disgusting, sickening and shameful is that hundreds of PEOPLE die not even 100 yards from the borders of all of these countries!
So, what is going to be done about this issue and particularly with this shameful woman Mone? She has the name and the money!
The PPE was not up to scratch ,,, not medical grade stuff. Incompetence comes to mind.
It's just shameful can't someone make a complaint to the police.
Who's mate / uncle / local pub landlord got paid?
Bah.. free Assange and look the Pandora's Box opening..
@niburu3406
Жыл бұрын
And there is Pandora files with much more than this
and this comes as a surprise to people??? they were all cashing in on the pandemic, made a lot of people rich while we all suffered