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Post by dam on Dec 18, 2023 10:30:28 GMT
and it looks like she lied about it to get into a peerage I think Dave (sorry, Lord Dave of Chipping Norton) gave her the peerage in 2015ish for services to.. uh.. something? Maybe Prince Wills, or Osborne had a word, given their interests in her pre-PPE field. She's been long known to be an arse in Scotland, it was a bit of a surprise to us. It was so she could punt the No to independence line. Lots of stories about staff being mistreated. I knew people who worked for her, didn't sound like fun. athousandflowers.net/2015/08/02/weekly-wanker-054-michelle-mone/ |
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Post by simple on Dec 18, 2023 10:41:05 GMT
Wasn’t one of the big PPE contracts given to the landlord at Hancock’s local or something like that too?
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Post by otto on Dec 18, 2023 11:31:18 GMT
If they went for banning all algorithmic based social media feeds, I'd vote Tory. That stuff is cancer, the true AI threat. Meaningless unless the whole planet does it. Unless the Tories install some Great Firewall of China (which I'm sure they'd love to) then any unilateral measure by this little island ain't making any difference. |
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Post by askew on Dec 18, 2023 11:57:53 GMT
Wasn’t one of the big PPE contracts given to the landlord at Hancock’s local or something like that too? Matey was very entrepreneurial |
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Post by cubby on Dec 18, 2023 13:17:17 GMT
If they went for banning all algorithmic based social media feeds, I'd vote Tory. That stuff is cancer, the true AI threat. Meaningless unless the whole planet does it. Unless the Tories install some Great Firewall of China (which I'm sure they'd love to) then any unilateral measure by this little island ain't making any difference. Some of the moves by the EU have had a big impact on the Internet, for better or worse. It's such a big market that companies have had to bend to their will, so there is precedent at least. |
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Post by X201 on Dec 18, 2023 13:53:21 GMT
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Post by hicksy on Dec 18, 2023 14:02:48 GMT
Sweet as a nut. He even threw in a free packet of fish fingers. Bosh.
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Post by clemfandango on Dec 18, 2023 14:06:30 GMT
What is the Tory obsession with Evangelicalism, loads of their MPs are proper nasty god fearing thundercunts |
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Post by clemfandango on Dec 18, 2023 14:07:37 GMT
Wasn’t one of the big PPE contracts given to the landlord at Hancock’s local or something like that too? Matey was very entrepreneurial Wasn't he making test tubes on his farm or something like that? |
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Post by geefe on Dec 18, 2023 14:14:34 GMT
What is the Tory obsession with Evangelicalism, loads of their MPs are proper nasty god fearing thundercunts Well people into that sort of thing are typically more conservative in their views. If you interpret the bible the way they do, they see it as man, wife, two children living the chaste life. |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Dec 18, 2023 14:16:29 GMT
Two children?! Yeah not sure about that.
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Post by geefe on Dec 18, 2023 14:22:30 GMT
And there, user Jambo, you have peeled back the curtain
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Post by Rich on Dec 18, 2023 16:20:56 GMT
So today the Tory war via the Daily Mail is attacking Starmer for... *checks notes* trying to save the life of a dog in 2002.
They are fucking nuts.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Dec 18, 2023 16:22:36 GMT
So today the Tory war via the Daily Mail is attacking Starmer for... *checks notes* trying to save the life of a dog in 2002. They are fucking nuts. It's amazing isn't it. I saw the Telegraph had Jordan Peterson of all people doing a piece where he said that Starmer would make the UK like Venezuela in 20 years. Kier Starmer. That well known socialist. |
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Post by simple on Dec 18, 2023 16:48:03 GMT
Using the money he earned fighting crime to fund a donkey sanctuary was another baffling attack awhile back
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Post by Jambowayoh on Dec 18, 2023 16:51:46 GMT
Using the money he earned fighting crime to fund a donkey sanctuary was another baffling attack awhile back What a cunt. Helping animals. |
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Post by geefe on Dec 18, 2023 17:22:20 GMT
All that does is tell me they've got some desperate flailing going on. They're probably shitting it for when he gets in, as 5 (and most likely 10 if the covid enquiry stuff continues) years is a long time to make some changes.
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Post by Tomo on Dec 18, 2023 19:54:13 GMT
So I'm not surprised that people made a lot of money off these. The 30% margin MM made is just taking the piss. It's been years since we've made anywhere near that, with the drop in the value of the £, inflation etc. This is the staggering thing for me. They siphoned away £60m in profit. £29m funnelled into a Trust for the kids and the yachts. They are absolutely staggering profits. For what effectively appears to be placing an order on AliExpress. £5m would be an eye watering amount of money, but given the size of the awarded contract it would be a couple of percent and understandable. But given the state of the world now - and especially during the COVID pandemic - it shows just how rotten is the system. By my calculations, that could've been 166 quid for EVERY (360k) nurse in the UK. And that's one corrupt deal out of fk knows how many. |
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Post by elstoof on Dec 19, 2023 0:15:01 GMT
Lock them in a room with an industrial sized viral load of the rona, with only their own PPE for protection
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Post by Danno on Dec 19, 2023 3:11:51 GMT
Using the money he earned fighting crime to fund a donkey sanctuary was another baffling attack awhile back What a cunt. Helping animals. He bought the donkey sanctuary for his mum, so he probably hates the royal family and our veterans because her donkeys ate some German grown aristocratic poppys or something Also why won't he eat bacon in public eh? EH? |
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Post by mothercruncher on Dec 19, 2023 5:21:43 GMT
Also, donkeys are foreign. Why can’t he have a proper British sanctuary, one with robins or summat
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Post by Lizard on Dec 19, 2023 6:13:47 GMT
Turnip sanctuary.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Dec 19, 2023 6:45:44 GMT
I'm a bit removed from UK news while back in NZ but absolutely delighted to see the PPE headlines. I've read a few statements from Baroness Mone and the complete lack of humility or accountability is staggering.
Bypassing any tender process, abusing privilege to make obscene profits from a pandemic, hiding their involvement and lying about it for years! There's zero acknowledgement of guilt. Just a "poor us" victim mentality.
It's repulsive.
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Post by dfunked on Dec 19, 2023 7:11:55 GMT
I've only read a few text excerpts from the interview, but the "lying to the media is not a crime" bit really riled me up. Just such a typical modern Tory response.
Rishi's "we're taking this very seriously" is pretty obviously a "please God let there be another war or something so that the proles can just forget about this and move on"
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Post by mothercruncher on Dec 19, 2023 7:26:13 GMT
Indeed- she’s a moral vacuum but *technically* hasn’t done wrong so can she just get back to the yachts and champers please.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 19, 2023 7:29:15 GMT
Aye, most of the ire should be aimed at the Government, who designed the procurement processes, deliberately ignoring established providers in favour of 2 bit companies to enrich their mates. Makes me so furious. Private Eye has been banging on about this for yonks.
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Post by Lizard on Dec 19, 2023 7:34:16 GMT
Indeed- she’s a moral vacuum but *technically* hasn’t done wrong so can she just get back to the yachts and champers please. It's the way these cunts have been working for centuries. |
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Post by geefe on Dec 19, 2023 7:43:13 GMT
Today's news telling us what we already know - NHS dentists are gone. If we ever really had them.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 19, 2023 7:45:53 GMT
My dentist has just been taken over and luckily have added an NHS dentist, having been without one for yonks. Managed to get the kids in for their first check up in 18 months. He was glowing, "best teeth I've seen all week". Makes all the nagging worthwhile! Determined my kids aren't going to do what I did and neglect them.
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Post by X201 on Dec 19, 2023 7:45:53 GMT
Aye, most of the ire should be aimed at the Government, who designed the procurement processes, deliberately ignoring established providers in favour of 2 bit companies to enrich their mates. Makes me so furious. Private Eye has been banging on about this for yonks. The Private Eye ‘Profits of Doom’ feature. www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/profits-of-doom.pdf |
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