Michelle Mone Kapoot.

What a life journey
Good looking Scottish girl creates a great underwear company, sold for millions, gets a Knighthood, well female equivalent...
Covid comes along, her and her hubby create a medical mask company, get awarded a dubious 150 million contract to supply said products, turn out they were useless as well as being way overpriced...
Now ordered to repay 120 million to taxpayer...
Obviously, bankruptcy the next step

The issue isn't that Mone's company offered the contract, it's that the civil service green lighted it. Of course, all of the people deliciously paid to scrutinize the deals on behalf of the taxpayer, waltzed off into the sunset to catch another seat on a different gravy train, before collecting their platinum plated, index linked pensions.

Went into administration yesterday!

Will be lucky to get a copper coin off  of the Sweaty piece of filth

I agree with your summing up.  She is an embarrassment.  But we did not elevate her to the HofL.  And crooks are crooks no matter their place of birth.  Some of them go on to do time then become TV darlings.  Look at Jeffrey Archer.

My pet hate too Cider.

and all the barristers on a grand a day...sublime outcome.

That she has not already faced charges is a disgrace.
Whatever the Party they cannot get their snouts in the trough fast enough

do think her connection to business would see her face charges..wasnt it barrowmans company?

And the daughter of a fishwife still avows injustice!

She’d be kinky in that House of Lords red cape at Christmas in her webbing under my tree and forgiven

Where’s Clipper ?

Scapegoat….certainly agree she should pay the lot but she ain’t alone tbh….

Hand…c@ck…..where is it hiding ?

122 million for plastic aprons…..lol

The principle was pretty sound anyway. You have a business with a heritage of producing clothing on a mass scale, with the requisite infrastructure. Straight forward enough to pivot toward producing masks, aprons et al. The gaping flaw was the contracts, which is on the civil service, not the business Mone was associated with. The price that the civil service agreed must have been absurd, as well as paying out before delivery inspection. The kit is probably actually useable, but being rejected on some obscure irrelevant technicality.

Large tenders for government contracts don’t always go to the lowest…..

Taxpayers money = confetti…..

Lots of fudging during covid i bet…..

Clipper gone all quiet….

I was going on and on about it back in 2020. Mone is just a convenient devil for the establishment. They are the real devils. They were giving £50K to anyone who started a 'new business' on the companies house website for £12. One individual did it 17 times. Obviously we'll never see a penny of it, the businesses didn't exist. And nobody who handed out the money will face any accountability.

£12 and showered with confetti…….you couldn’t make me up….

I doubt Michelle would have got a sniff if she was still running her bra factory in East Kilbride and not within the circus on the Thames tbh…

company doesnt excist on a fri,in business on monday with £100 in its account gets £250 mill contract, its products are unusable/destroyed,company buys £100 mill + LEAR JET, company gets fined £122 mill, day after going in to liquidation,
no one arrested
TORY TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS,nothing to see here

Why did the civil service pay them millions before the goods were delivered and examined

the £ is peanuts in grand scale ,the real story is someone in HOL, watching 1000,s die a horrible death on her TV screen,1st thought was HOW DO WE MAKE £ OUT OF THIS

Maybe she had a view of covid based in realism, and not legacy media and government propaganda. In any case, pretty much every idiot around was demanding PPE at any cost.

I seem to recall all the legacy broadcasters and news channels live streaming a plane landing with a few pallets of PPE on it From Turkey iirc.

People had lost their frigging minds over a virus slightly more lethal than flu.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15154233

the sort of cnt i'd love to have personal spat with

where were the companies the NHS had been obtaining their products from for the previous years?

Give me a dose of 1st spike Covid over flu any day

An anti-corruption charity says it has identified significant concerns in contracts worth over £15.3bn awarded by the Conservative government during the Covid pandemic, equivalent to one in every £3 spent.
Transparency International UK found 135 “high-risk” contracts with at least three red flags - warning signs of a risk of corruption.
Twenty-eight contracts worth £4.1bn went to firms with known political connections, while 51 worth £4bn went through a "VIP lane" for companies recommended by MPs and peers, a practice the High Court ruled was unlawful.
A Conservative spokesperson said: “Government policy was in no way influenced by the donations the party received – they are entirely separate.”
Transparency International UK analysed 5,000 contracts for red flags.
The charity said its analysis also indicated that almost two thirds of high-value contracts to supply items such as masks and protective medical equipment during the pandemic, adding up to a total of £30.7bn, were awarded without any competition.
A further eight contracts worth a total of £500m went to suppliers no more than 100 days old – another red flag for corruption.
Normal safeguards designed to protect the process of bidding for government contracts from corruption were suspended during the pandemic.
The government, led by Boris Johnson, justified this at the time by stressing the need to short-cut the bidding process to accelerate the supply of much-needed items such as personal protective equipment (PPE).
But Transparency International UK, a core participant in the Covid-19 inquiry which begins its third module on Monday, said the suspension of normal safeguards was often unjustifiable, costing the public purse billions and eroding trust in political institutions.

anti-corruption charity

the very definition of an oxymoron

What was squandered on PPE is a tiny fraction of what was squandered on "track and trace" (not possible), ventilators (largely unused), furlough (pluck a round number out of the air), loans schemes (never to be paid back) and so many more insanity-driven schemes. Quite why all the focus is on this woman who managed to trouser about 0.005% of what was trousered (given away) is a bit of a mystery.

DEFLECTION

It was all the sleazy Tories' fault innit. As per in hell's post, which must have been lifted from a liberalist platform.

any 'charitys' where the CEO works for charity?

UK suffered 30,000 fewer excess deaths during Covid pandemic than statisticians originally claimed

ONS analysis suggests 20,000 fewer deaths occurred in 2023 than estimated

The new method adjusts rates for trends in population size and age structure

Britain suffered just a third of the total excess deaths previously estimated in 2023, it was revealed today.

Fresh analysis of official statistics show 20,000 fewer deaths than expected occurred in the UK last year.

Tolls for 2020 and 2021 — at the height of the Covid crisis — were also revised downwards.

its a relief that noone is dying these days ,cider

5 years later the trousering is still going on thanks to the "covid inquiry" - another 200m trousered, this time by lawyers, for an inquiry which will come to the conclusion that for the next pandemic we need to squander even more money.

funnily enough I only found that piece when searching for what 'excess deaths' are currently. only to find that the ONS have changed their methodology. quelle surprise! too many excess deaths after the pandemic, so they changed the figures retrospectively. figures that were the basis for wasting hundreds of £billions

There aren't words good enough to explain the absolute scandal of the manipulation of data and statistics, used to justify lockdown in the first place, and cover up the damage afterwards (plus of course, gaslighting people to take multiple covid jabs).

Small fry to what this lot had

The approach came from a firm whose “micro-company” accounts revealed issued share capital of £1 and negative £2k in net assets.
The referral from No.10 was enough to land Innova a place on the VIP lane and the firm subsequently went on to win contracts worth in excess of £4bn – making Innova by far the biggest winners of Covid testing deals during the pandemic.

Good Law Project approached No.10 Downing Street, DHSC and Innova and Disruptive Nanotechnology for an explanation of how a tiny company with no assets pushing a highly controversial product won such privileged access to the heart of Government. But no explanation was forthcoming.

Two middlemen – Charles Palmer and Kim Thonger emailed Dominic Cummings directly at 10.39 am on 29 July 2020 on behalf of Innova Medical Group.
Included in the 29 July 2020 email was a letter addressed to Mr Cummings with former health secretary Matt Hancock and current Net Zero minister Grant Shapps also CC’d.
The brief letter included a plea for the Government to “engage” with Palmer and Thonger over Innova’s “game-changer” Covid test.
Within one hour of Dominic Cumings receiving the email, he had referred it to former No.10 advisor William Warr who had in turn referred the offer onto Emma Stanton, the former Director for Supplies and Innovation working on ‘Test and Trace’. Warr also thanked the pair for the “note to Dom”.

Less than two months later, Innova was awarded its first contract, valued at £103m – without competition, to supply lateral flow tests. Innova went on to win 12 contracts to supply Covid tests totalling more than £4bn in value.
Charles Palmer and Kim Thonger contacted Dominic Cummings in July 2020 via their company Disruptive Nanotechnology (trading as Tried and Tested). Companies House records at the time show the firm had only £85 in the bank and owed £3,592 in debts.

Following the eye-watering Innova deals, Disruptive Nanotechnology’s profits surged in 2020/21 to £20.5m with a further £18m cash in the bank. Palmer and Thonger were the company’s only employees at the time.

According to reports, Innova medical group have also cashed in during the pandemic, last year, executives were discovered flying the globe in newly registered Gulfstream jets and purchasing ‘multi million-dollar homes’ directly off the back of contracts awarded by the government.

The decision by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to award contracts worth £4bn to Innova has been controversial. In June 2021, US regulators issued a strict public warning and banned the use of Innova Covid tests due to “significant concerns that the performance of the test has not been adequately established, presenting a risk to health.” The scathing FDA “warning letter” also suggested that Innova may have falsified evidence in support of the efficacy of the tests.

The FDA issued a “Class I recall”, the most serious type of notice, and advised consumers to either “destroy” Innova’s antigen tests or throw them in the “trash”. Six days later the United Kingdom government awarded Innova a further contract, valued at £518m.

Burnt through billions and plenty made a few quid.

Good Law Project

ffs in hell

quite incredible what goes on away from the BF forum daily

Michelle ONELONGMONE, now complaining that

WE BUY ANY YACHT
and
WE BUY ANY LEAR JETS

are having her eyes out with their offer,s

bit profound that if you use predictive text and put
MICHELLE MONE in it comes up MICHELLE MONEY

Have to be the best two posts yet on the subject.