Citing the Magna Carta as a legal rationale is criminal enough…
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Because they’ll make the money back with two weeks of these people putting petrol in their cars?
Mappart. The historical detective 
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So are you saying she got the idea about Jurisdiction of Common Law from t’internet?
Criminally insane?
well a bit bonkers when the rules are going to see you with a 20K plus fine…
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She or someone who convinced her it was a good idea
I did like
“I do not consent to your fine”
I’m going to try that
I do not consent to that speeding ticket officer
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I get that supply and demand mean higher prices, but I wonder who the companies or people providing the PPE at inflated prices were.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55061183.
“… Had the government been able to pay 2019 prices, it would have spent £2.5bn on PPE in 2020.
“…In reality, it had spent £12.5bn, including hundreds of millions on “unsuitable” items that could not be used…”
If only reality didnt exist & it was only lucky Brittania trying to buy PPE and not 200 other countries, speculators & hedge funds.
And of course Brittania wasnt two weeks late to the party.
The PPE story was in February. The MSM ignored it and just highlighted lack of stock.
Now they act as if that panic never existed. It is bollocks.
Equally, a new PPE panic is inbound.
The worlds biggest Latex glove supplier (a Malaysian company) is having to shut most of its factories over Covid & corruption claims.
Latex gloves were already costing more than masks due to demand.
It will be a nightmare again.
Nobody has any stock.
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I would rather pay 10x the price for a mask or glove then have no mask or glove to give to a doctor or nurse.
We have paid on average 5x the price for kit
Some of that is waste, some of the is profiteering, some of that is supply and demand
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And some is inadequate planning, poor stock levels and NHS under funding, let’s not forget that.
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Imagine if we had spent £2.5bn, or whatever it would have been, in 2018 or 2019.
Howls of Govt wastes billions on hundreds of millions of face masks for some potential future outbreak which may never happen, instead of spending on beds or drugs needed now
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Aye, and hindsight is a wonderful thing, but foresight is manageable and the sole responsibility for procurement of PPE for the NHS lies with a private company that is wholly owned (iirc) by the Dept of Health. There should be no excuse for shitty stock levels and substandard products for this winter and next year, but i bet there are as the contracts for supply have been dished out to Tory cunts and their mates who are in it for a quick dividend and have no experience in providing PPE at all.
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No doubt
I was thinking about this from my perspective - if I got told to get hold of 1bn face mask at any cost immediately because we were running out and assuming the existing channels were exhausted. The first thing I would probably do is go through my contacts and think who has medical or procurement experience and be asking them to help out.
The problem is that does look like cronyism when in fact that motive is to sort out an issue
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As an example the 3M N95 masks was the de factory gold standard.
As of Narch, they were taking orders for delivery on October.
Does anyone believe UK Gov & their mates would have thought that far ahead?
Exactly.
Mate of mine got asked by a mate in Saudi who knew someone panicking in their NHS.
He had a mate who moved to China, worked as a consultant for Alibaba back in the day who phoned around.
They found a factory. Made about $10k each as so many in the chain on a container for a month of calls.
Which is about a days consulting fees for the UK crew of cronies who bought shit.
A lot of it is also structural. We’ve gone too far down the road of the just-in-time economy.
We need a bit more of just-in-case economics.
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An idiotic element of the Christmas easing is that most schools are still remaining open until Dec 18, allowing children to pick up the virus to give their grandparents five days later. Likewise teachers bringing it home to their wider family.
A tiny bit of joined up thinking would have told schools to close on the 11th to allow nearly two weeks quarantine (and give teachers some recovery time and recognition for the risks they’ve been forced to work under)
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This is one of the reasons I favour abolishing the House of Lords and replacing it with a People’s Assembly selected at random a la jury service.
They might not fall asleep quite so much. If such a body had equal voting power with those in the Commons, that might help inject a bit more common sense into legislation.
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