For Everybody to See

by Helen Rennie-Smith, posted in Corruption, Lies, NHS, Principles of Democracy

“The contracts are there on record for everybody to see,” said the Prime Minister. Except for the 100 he’d forgotten about.

19 February 2021
The High Court rules that the Health Secretary acted unlawfully by not publishing contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds.

22 February 2021
The Prime Minister assured us that all was there to see.

5 March 2021
The High Court confirmed that out of 708 contracts there were still 100 unpublished.

Yet another example of how the Government misleads Parliament and the public.

The BBC keeps a timeline of the Government’s procurement of PPE during the pandemic.