I listened to the Michelle Mone interview and the reaction episode on Newscast and it just felt super frustrating. I don’t care about the corruption angle. Of *course* people in government are getting jobs for their friends. This surely doesn’t surprise anyone. Icky but not news. …
… The part that had me raging was *anyone* making 60 million pounds of profit from the pandemic. If they really want to stick to the “we did a public service and saved the government money” angle then they could have said “we did it for less than we thought, you can keep your 60 million, we didn’t need it, we’re just glad to have helped”. If it’s really a public service no one would give a fuck that she got her husband the job of helping out the NHS.
SIXTY MILLION POUNDS. “In trust to provide security for my family” I mean WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. How much money do you need?
@acf I looked up the company on Companies House and saw that it was created in May 2020. Imagine thinking “I’m going to create a new company just to rake in the cash while people are dying and the health care workers caring for them are being underpaid and worked to the bone”. I can sort of understand an existing company focusing on PPE, but starting a new one?
@mo my issue remains the 60 million profit. Whatever shenanigans happens between politicians and business to get the deal to get the masks so nurses weren’t wearing scarves across their mouths is fine with me, I’m even fine with a little profit but 60million profit on a 220 million deal is ludicrous.
@acf yeah, I struggle with the concept of “profit” a lot of the time. For me, a company should be trying to make enough money to pay its workers a good wage, to pay the owners a good wage, and to generate enough extra money to reinvest in growing the company. More is greed.
Don’t start me on Apple. It’s one of my huge personal conflicts!
@mo yup. Agreed.
@mo so the interview is interesting and does present a reasonable argument for that. Country was desperate. Mone had contacts in china who could do it cheap. Uk gov will only deal with a IK entity so they set up a new startup company that joins together the china folks and some logistics folks into a new thing that can make and deliver the masks.