[arista]

[MHRA investigating former publican Alex Bourne who
won £30m of work producing Covid test vials]


[The former publican and neighbour
of Matt Hancock who secured lucrative
work producing millions of vials for NHS Covid tests
is under investigation by the
UK’s medical regulator, the Guardian can reveal.
Alex Bourne, who used to run the Cock Inn near
the health secretary’s old constituency home
in Thurlow, won about £30m of work producing
the test tubes despite having no prior experience
in the medical devices industry.

Prior to the pandemic, his company, Hinpack,
made plastic cups and takeaway boxes
for the catering industry.
Now it supplies tens of millions of vials
from its production site on an
industrial potato farm complex in Cambridgeshire.]


[The Medicines and Healthcare products
Regulatory Agency (MHRA) confirmed
it has launched an investigation into
Bourne’s company. “We take all reports
of non-compliance very seriously,”
said Graeme Tunbridge,
director of devices at the MHRA.
“We are currently investigating
allegations about Hinpack and will take
appropriate action as necessary.
Patient safety is our top priority.”

The Guardian understands the MHRA
investigation was launched after
officers from the local
South Cambridgeshire council passed on
some concerns reported to them about
hygiene and safety standards around
the end of January.
Through his lawyers, Bourne said he
was unaware of any MHRA investigation
and had not been contacted by the regulator.]


https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ical-regulator

Ref : A Front page from Nov. 2020
to show the Happy Fella Alex who got the deal.



Posted on Slim's Thread
https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/for...d.php?t=371881

[Cherie]

Jobs for the boys, who knew

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Jobs for the boys, who knew

Slim made a thread on it.

[Tom4784]

We've known this for a while now, the tories love to give their friends lucrative contracts that they don't deserve but nothing will come of this since tory voters don't hold tories accountable for anything. They'll just ignore it because it doesn't go along with their french vanilla fantasy.

[Livia]

Tony Blair doesn't have the monopoly on cronyism, they're all at it. And always have been. And it's universal, not just in politics.

[Ammi]

... many people have died that should never have... because we were responsible for making so many awful decisions ...but hey, Alex...how’d you like to make some money on these vials...


.....it’s actually pretty disgusting with all of these contracts that are being given to friends and relatives etc...and we don’t know if the government officials are profiting themselves, if they have shares etc...with the blood their hands have on them...?..this is the expenses scandal and then some more if they are...


...I might dust off my laptop tomorrow and log onto Companies House to see who all of the shareholders etc are....

[Ammi]

...it doesn’t mean that we have to accept cronyism, though...it’s wrong, wrong, wrong at any time and in every way...but these are friends and family etc who are being favoured while life is being lost...would we not always hope for the ‘best qualified and only that’ in these times...I think that we would...and not, well others have done this or that or whatever...

[arista]

Originally Posted by Livia

Tony Blair doesn't have the monopoly on cronyism, they're all at it. And always have been. And it's universal, not just in politics.

Yes New Labour
were the same.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Ammi

... many people have died that should never have... because we were responsible for making so many awful decisions ...but hey, Alex...how’d you like to make some money on these vials...


.....it’s actually pretty disgusting with all of these contracts that are being given to friends and relatives etc...and we don’t know if the government officials are profiting themselves, if they have shares etc...with the blood their hands have on them...?..this is the expenses scandal and then some more if they are...


...I might dust off my laptop tomorrow and log onto Companies House to see who all of the shareholders etc are....

Dead right there Ammi, all through.

Your first paragraph particularly too spot on absolutely.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

Slim made a thread on it.

Of course its something thats been going on for years, not what you know, who you know and you get it everywhere

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...it doesn’t mean that we have to accept cronyism, though...it’s wrong, wrong, wrong at any time and in every way...but these are friends and family etc who are being favoured while life is being lost...would we not always hope for the ‘best qualified and only that’ in these times...I think that we would...and not, well others have done this or that or whatever...

Especially when Blair hasn't been pm for nearly 14 years, and the tories have held power for over a decade. Blair wasn't even the first to do it, when it was blatantly happening before he was anywhere near power.

What does make this so egregious, is the use of people dying to dish these contracts out in the middle of a pandemic. We get criticised on here for bringing up history, but as long as it's not relevant recent history, it's all good.

[Ammi]

...any same unethical and wrong is not what we should accept from any government, Arista...that’s a very low aspiration...why would we ever vote then, what would there be to vote for ...

[Crimson Dynamo]

its how business is done

im sure every member on tibb has got a job from a friend or relative at one point

Blair and New Labour did it at pro level

and cough: Union contracts...

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

its how business is done

No it isn't, as proven by the law breaking.

[Ammi]

...it’s not how business is done and especially not for any government official... that’s why it’s under investigation atm by UK's medical regulator...exactly because it’s not how it’s always done but it appears to be more and more, how it’s been done by this government...

[Ammi]

...we aim for excellence in out governments and not for...oh, Alex got a new car and it’s rather lovely...

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

No it isn't, as proven by the law breaking.

im afraid the man accused lawyers have flatly refused any law was broken so as it stands law breaking is a mere accusation.

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

im afraid the man accused lawyers have flatly refused any law was broken so as it stands law breaking is a mere accusation.

Can you pop that into a coherent sentence, please?

[bots]

having been in competitive tender situations more times than i can count, nothing pisses me off more than contracts being awarded to buddies rather than on merit. It's being investigated and that is the right approach

[arista]

[Tom4784]

It kind of says it all when people are going 'well Tony Blair....' He hasn't been in power for well over a decade, he is irrelevant. I'm so tired of people throwing themselves at the tories feet, refusing to hold them accountable for anything, allowing them to walk all over them. It's just really pathetic.

We are a pathetic country that allows **** like this to happen as long as it's the tories doing it. Consequences are only for other parties and people the tories don't like. This country needs to grow a ****ing spine.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

im afraid the man accused lawyers have flatly refused any law was broken so as it stands law breaking is a mere accusation.

His lawyers would say that!

You probably already realise this, LT but I do want to mention this: I previously mentioned Blair because of the "Tony's Cronies" thing. Comparisons and examples are allowed in the kind of debate with which I (and you) are familiar.

[arista]

Matt Hancock quietly removes picture of his local pub
The Cock Inn from wall of his study
as he defends handing £30milllion
Covid contracts to the former landlord

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hes-probe.html

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

Matt Hancock quietly removes picture of his local pub
The Cock Inn from wall of his study
as he defends handing £30milllion
Covid contracts to the former landlord

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hes-probe.html

jobs for the boys strikes again