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JIMNNINA said:
more bad smell

Health Secretary Matt Hancock owns shares in a company which was approved as a potential supplier for NHS trusts in England, it has emerged.
In March, he declared he had acquired more than 15% of Topwood Ltd, which was granted the approved status in 2019.
The firm, which specialises in the secure storage, shredding and scanning of documents, also won £300,000 of business from NHS Wales this year.
A government spokesman said there had been no conflict of interest.
He also said the health secretary had acted "entirely properly".
In March this year, Mr Hancock declared in the MPs' register of interests that he had acquired more than 15% of the shares in Topwood, under a "delegated management arrangement".
Public contract records show that the company was awarded a place in the Shared Business Services framework as a potential supplier for NHS local trusts in 2019, the year after Mr Hancock became health secretary.
The MPs' register did not mention that his sister Emily Gilruth - involved in the firm since its foundation in 2002 - owns a larger portion of the shares and is a director, or that Topwood has links to the NHS
Matt Hancock owns shares in NHS-approved firm - BBC News

A former head of the Civil Service has said he is "baffled" that approval was given for a top civil servant to take a job at Greensill Capital while still on the government payroll.
Lord Kerslake said he could "see no circumstances" under which Bill Crothers's appointment at the finance firm could have been "acceptable".
Greensill: Ex-Civil Service boss 'baffled' by business links - BBC News
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Well, we knew what we were electing with a Tory government. If only Labour had recognised the referendum result, it would have helped if they'd had an electable leader as well!
 
Old Cherry said:
Its a Shame and Embarrassment for this Nation that Labour or any other ' Opposition' Haven't Got a Bloody Clue how to challenge...so as a result we have to endure the Croneyism that always exists in a Right Wing Administration.
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There you have it. We have a leader of the opposition trying to appeal to Tory voters by not taking up a position of opposition.
 
more electable government behaving badly

The Tory peer who chairs NHS England is facing demands to explain why he helped arrange for Greensill Capital to lobby senior health service bosses, with Labour describing his role as “shocking”.
Lord Prior of Brampton is facing questions over a meeting he organised between the now collapsed finance firm’s founder Lex Greensill and the overall boss of the NHS and its chief financial officer.
Prior – a former Tory MP, health minister and Tory party deputy chair – also helped to facilitate a meeting at which Lex Greensill was able to lobby Lady Harding, the Tory peer who chairs NHS Improvement, the health service’s financial regulator.

That encounter led to Greensill being able to meet the chief executives of a number of NHS hospital trusts whose support he was seeking for a scheme to let the NHS’s 1.4m staff in England be paid daily by Greensill, via an app called Earnd, rather than monthly in what Labour said was a latter-day “junk bonds” exercise.

Harding is best known as the boss of the government’s heavily-criticised £37bn test and trace programme.

NHS England chair faces demands to explain role in Greensill lobbying | Greensill | The Guardian
 
We often have the negative impacts of brexit posted here and people asking "where is the brexit bonus?" so it's only fair to post some of the positive impacts. I should add that I am absolutely not suggesting that fewer foreigners is a positive thing but as someone who is concerned about the wages and the cost of living for lower paid workers I do see these things as positive.

Rental markets have been hit, reducing upward pressure on rents, particularly in London.

https://www.landlordtoday.co.uk/bre...tal-market-as-number-of-eu-nationals-plummets

Reduced pressure on public services.

https://www.theguardian.com/educati...chools-in-england-record-steep-fall-in-demand

Wage increases in hospitality

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2021/04/30/hospitality-wage-war-amid-brexit-and-covid-challenges/
 
Fishing crews have been "disastrously let down" by the government's failure to reach a deal with Norway, UK Fisheries chief executive has said.
UK fleets will not have access to Norway's sub-Arctic seas, following the breakdown of UK-Norway negotiations.
One trawler, which catches 10% of fish sold in chip shops, will be tied up for a year following the collapse in talks.
The government said it had offered a "fair deal" but the two sides were "too far apart" to agree a deal this year.

Jane Sandell chief executive of UK Fisheries, said the failure to reach an agreement would mean her firm having only 40% of the fishing opportunities of previous years.
Her Hull-based company employs approximately 100 crew and Ms Sandell said the news would be "absolutely devastating" for those workers and their families.
"It means so much in this area to our history and our culture... we are in total shock, we never believed this would actually happen."
She said the lack of a deal would mean their Kirkella trawler - which catches around 10% of all the fish sold in the UK chip shops - would be "tied up" for a year.

Brexit: Anger over government's failure to get Norway fishing deal - BBC News
 
JIMNNINA said:
Fishing crews have been "disastrously let down" by the government's failure to reach a deal with Norway, UK Fisheries chief executive has said.
UK fleets will not have access to Norway's sub-Arctic seas, following the breakdown of UK-Norway negotiations.
One trawler, which catches 10% of fish sold in chip shops, will be tied up for a year following the collapse in talks.
The government said it had offered a "fair deal" but the two sides were "too far apart" to agree a deal this year.

Jane Sandell chief executive of UK Fisheries, said the failure to reach an agreement would mean her firm having only 40% of the fishing opportunities of previous years.
Her Hull-based company employs approximately 100 crew and Ms Sandell said the news would be "absolutely devastating" for those workers and their families.
"It means so much in this area to our history and our culture... we are in total shock, we never believed this would actually happen."
She said the lack of a deal would mean their Kirkella trawler - which catches around 10% of all the fish sold in the UK chip shops - would be "tied up" for a year.

Brexit: Anger over government's failure to get Norway fishing deal - BBC News
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Are they safer on one side of the border in the Irish sea than another?
 
Are we revisting this thread just to keep the post count up with Pandemic thread. Think that battle is lost
 
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