The Devil is in the Detail...

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I'm angry, angry, angry. You might well ask, so what's new? Two things, one trivial, one slightly - I'm employing radically ironical understatement, here - less so. In the first instance, I simply have lost my best reading glasses, somewhere between leaving the pub - two drinks only! - and arriving home: this annoys me greatly, but in no way gets near to my ire at the sorry performance of the incumbent administration [UK customers only] regarding the PPE procurement debacle.

His Majesty's Opposition tabled a debate in the house, which was duly handled admirably by them this afternoon, offering the government every opportunity to come clean and open the books surrounding the VIP fast-track procurement process during the early days, weeks and months of the Covid-19 pandemic. No acceptable reply was forthcoming. No explanations, no apologies, not even any real attempt at mitigation was offered: just the usual, bullish bullshit and bluster, trotting out the same crap and partiality that has become the 'normal' in the Tory universe. It was instructive that their number on the government benches was, shall we say, countable on the fingers of one hand...

But, there is one absolute fact - and for once in this weird world of 'alternative facts' and fluid realities, a concrete and incontestable one - that should override all discussion and settle the debate, once and for all. PPE MedPro were fast-tracked their nearly £1/4 billion contracts on the say-so of a peer of the realm who has been subsequently proven to have pecuniary interests in those transactions, before the company was even incorporated. That, my dear reader, is simply, legally, fraud. And no fucker has pointed that one salient fact out: You can, and should, go to prison for that: Baroness Mone et al. are complicit in a financial crime, end of: this is no longer a matter for political debate, but one for the criminal courts. Please, people, just get on with your jobs: we're paying you, after all is said and done.

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