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andmarwood.bsky.social
The money wasn't 'wasted'.
The VIP lane wasn't 'misguided'.
It was corruption.
And this is all a blatant fcking whitewash.
#CovidInquiry
#VIPLanes
#PPEScandal
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jul 14
Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded.

The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts
Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2026 at 9:52 PM
andmarwood.bsky.social
Dear #CovidCorruptionCommissioner
#MetPolice
#NationalCrimeAgency
#SeriousFraudOffice
#CrownProsecutionService

What's happening about this?
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
November 20, 2024 at 11:33 AM
andmarwood.bsky.social
“biggest misspending scandal of all time” starts to look like an understatement.
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
#CovidInquiry
September 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
andmarwood.bsky.social
And yet nobody is in jail...
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
#TheCovidContracts
October 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
andmarwood.bsky.social
Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman should be in jail.

Instead they're swanning around Florida's "billionaire island".

#TheCovidContracts
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
drrachelclarke.com Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Oct 26
Of course she has. The small matter of owing £122 million to UK taxpayers for her disgusting profiteering in a global pandemic means nothing to Michelle Mone.

NHS staff died in my hospital from the Covid they caught there - her dodgy PPE racket was vile.
October 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
andmarwood.bsky.social
We need to follow Iceland's example:
Arrest them, prosecute them, send them to prison!
#CovidInquiry
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
wrbski.bsky.social wrbski.bsky.social @wrbski.bsky.social · Sep 22
The conclusion "when our country faced one of its darkest hours, certain people in charge saw not a crisis, but an opportunity." is no longer shocking but is the objectively established fact.

They should all be in jail. Deliberate, massive corruption, in this context perhaps even treason.
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
andmarwood.bsky.social
It's nowhere near a vendetta yet, Michelle.
The public won't be satisfied until you're in jail.
#VIPLanes
#PPEScandal
#TheCovidContracts
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Oct 2
Michelle Mone has demanded Keir Starmer ends the 'vendetta' against her after a firm linked to her was ordered to repay £122 million to the UK Government
Michelle Mone demands Keir Starmer ends Labour's 'vendetta' over PPE scandal
www.thenational.scot
October 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
andmarwood.bsky.social
There has not been enough uproar about The Covid Contracts programme on ITV.

These politicians and their cronies stole billions from the country and allowed people to die while they did it.

They should be facing criminal charges.

#TheCovidContracts
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
drrachelclarke.com Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Sep 21
Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money".

Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions.

Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
TV tonight: an essential record of the Covid contracts scandal
An investigation into the extent of greed and deception in PPE provision. Plus: weird drama Coldwater goes off the rails. Here’s what to watch this evening
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
andmarwood.bsky.social
Dear @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social,

Hancock, Johnson, Sunak, Gove...

Is there ANY way we can get this lot inside a court room facing charges??

#TheCovidInquiry
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
andmarwood.bsky.social
And how many of those responsible have gone to jail yet?
#TheCovidContracts
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
October 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
andmarwood.bsky.social
Dear #CovidCorruptionCommissioner
#MetPolice
#NationalCrimeAgency
#SeriousFraudOffice
#CrownProsecutionService

What's happening about this?
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
Collage of mocked-up pictures showing Matt Hancock, Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove each being arrested. All of them should be investigated (and charged) for corruption during the Covid-19 pandemic. The evidence against them is huge.
September 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
andmarwood.bsky.social
The weight of evidence against Matt Hancock & the rest of Johnson's WhatsApp cronies is completely overwhelming.

If there are no arrests or prosecutions, it will be the biggest & most obvious cover-up ever.

And Labour will be 100% complicit in that cover-up.

#CovidInquiry
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
September 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
howard86.bsky.social
Kemi Badenoch just said that the Tories "cleaned up" during the pandemic.

They and their mates certainly did.

#VIPLanes #PMQs
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
andmarwood.bsky.social
If Michelle Mone doesn't get charged, prosecuted and sentenced to jail, then you'll know exactly what to expect from the rest of the Covid Inquiry...
...a whitewash.

#TheCovidContracts
#VIPLanes
#PPEScandal
September 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
andmarwood.bsky.social
#MondayMystery
This is from a year ago and guess what?
— Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman are still free and living it large.

#CovidInquiry
#VIPLanes
#CronyContracts
January 5, 2026 at 7:47 AM
muttispeaks.bsky.social
Farage stated that you’d have to go really far back in history to find less trust in politicians. Clearly has poor memory- #wallpapergate #partygate #VIPlanes#latelickdowns #Johnson #Truss
August 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
andmarwood.bsky.social
Why isn't Dominic Cummings in jail?

#TheCovidContracts
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
andmarwood.bsky.social
The problem is lack of accountability.

The #VIPLanes and the #TheCovidContracts highlighted it, but the problem is endemic in government - MPs are not being properly held to account.
premnsikka.bsky.social Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Oct 14
Another corporate scandal.

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing.

98% of the the 23,000 homes fitted with botched external wall insulation need repairs.

Companies have vanished, people left with the problems.
Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds
Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
andmarwood.bsky.social
Additionally, what about Dido Harding and the diabolical Test & Trace program that cost astronomically more than any other country's and yet did not work as well?

Where is she now because she's not behind bars, that's for sure.

#TheCovidContracts
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
Over £37bn on Test & Trace!
Picture of MS Office's "Clippy", the really useless help assistant, saying, "I see you are trying to use Excel to run a National Pandemic Test and Trace Scheme. Would you like me to help you invest the saved millions in an offshore account?"
September 25, 2025 at 6:49 AM
andmarwood.bsky.social
Repost if you think Matt Hancock should be facing criminal charges
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
#CovidInquiry
Matt Hancock pictured grinning with his pub landlord friend, Alex Bourne. Bourne's company, Hinpack Limited, which had no experience of supplying medical equipment, was given a £30 million contract to provide test tubes for Covid tests. Bourne texted Hancock to enquire about a contract. The picture has text added that suggests Matt Hancock is a tosser who should be arrested, and that Bourne probably is as well.
September 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
andmarwood.bsky.social
#PPEScandal
#VIPLanes
bylinetimes.bsky.social Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Sep 23
Billions siphoned. Donors rewarded. Democracy sidelined.

@russellscott1.bsky.social's new book 'VIP Lane' is the forensic exposé behind ITV’s five-star Covid Contracts documentary.

Get it here: subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/vip-...
September 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
andmarwood.bsky.social
£122 million.
It's not enough.

#TheCovidContracts
#VIPLanes
#PPEScandal
andmarwood.bsky.social Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · Oct 1
This is good, but it's small change compared to the billions lost.

What we really want to see is charges brought in the separate ongoing investigation by the National Crime Agency, begun in May 2021, for criminal offences during the process of procuring the contracts.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 1
UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE
October 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
andmarwood.bsky.social
This should just be for starters, of course.

#CovidInquiry
#VIPLanes
#CronyContracts
Sign the Petition
Strip Michelle Mone of her peerage
www.change.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:49 AM
ladywicket.bsky.social
“… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.”
Terry Pratchett; Snuff
#DiscWorld #MoaningMone #Gove #Hancock #VIPLanes #PPEScandal #CovidProfiteers #HouseOfCards #ToriesCorruptToTheCore
December 19, 2023 at 10:42 AM
airwaves1.bsky.social
As UK citizens we have every right to know the back alleys where our tax money travels & those who facilitate it, we were let down by tory cronyism at the highest level.
Labour assured the nation there would be no stone left unturned in their efforts to expose the truth of the #Covid #PPE #VIPLanes
March 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM