In todays news...

[Horse]

Yes I kinda assume so

Or they've found a way to compress time by a factor of about 20, in which case WTF are they doing wasting it on sewage.

As seen on TV: Dr Poo

[demographic]

Well, it seems that the National Crime Agency at least is taking the PPE scandal seriously. Medpro was one of the "PPE" companies that sprang into existence right about the time everyone was scrabbling about for PPE and had no prior experience delivering it.

"National Crime Agency officers have raided the home of Baroness Mone, the former lingerie tycoon, as part of an investigation into PPE contracts worth more than £200 million.

Homes and offices in London and the Isle of Man were visited by officers understood to be looking for documents in relation to suspected fraud offences.

The Tory peer, 50, was believed to have been present at one address searched, according to The Sun. No arrests were made.

The agency is investigating a company called PPE Medpro, which won two contracts from the Department of Health and Social Care in 2020 to supply surgical gowns and masks to the NHS. The contracts were worth £80 million and £122m respectively and were awarded two weeks apart without competitive tender.

The company was due to supply 25 million sterile gowns and masks but its hospital gowns were never used because they did not receive regulatory approval.

Attention was focused on Lady Mone, who founded the Ultimo lingerie range, after it emerged that the government had awarded the contracts to the business which had been placed in a “high-priority lane”, a fast-track process for referred companies. It is said to have given companies a greater chance of being awarded a PPE deal.

It was reported that Lady Mone made the referrals to Lord Agnew, a fellow Tory peer who was a Cabinet Office minister responsible for procurement.

She denies this and said that she “never had any role or function in PPE Medpro”.

However, in a leaked email seen by the Financial Times, an NHS official wrote in February last year that “Baroness Mone is going to Michael Gove and Matt Hancock today as she is incandescent with rage on the way she believes Medpro have been treated.”

PPE Medpro was set up on the Isle of Man in May 2020 and one of its directors, Anthony Page, is also a director of the Knox House Trust, part of the Knox group, a group of companies founded by Mone’s Glasgow-born husband, the businessman Douglas Barrowman.

Mr Page had been the registered secretary for MGM Media, a company that manages Mone’s personal brand, according to the House of Lords register of financial interests until he left that role on the day PPE Medpro was set up.

In January the House of Lords commissioner began an inquiry into whether Mone may have breached the Lords’ code of conduct by failing to declare an interest in the company and by lobbying for it to be awarded government contracts.

Lady Mone, made a peer by David Cameron in 2015, has a £25million estate on the Isle of Man, as well as having a Belgravia home.

In January it emerged she had been referred to the House of Lords Commissioners for Standards.

Labour peer George Foulkes accused her of failing to fully disclose her alleged interests in PPE Medpro and asked if she breached lobbying rules. Lady Mone has rejected the allegations.

[Yorick]

There are several words to describe this idiot....

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-not ... e-61307006

[Mr. Dazzle]

I mean...she has cracked down

[irie]

There are several words to describe this idiot....

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-not ... e-61307006

Evidently chasing pie vans.

[Saga Lout]

Most of those are static camera sites so not exactly hidden
Also contrary to what the beeb says, out of those 5 offences, 4 out of 5 are outside schools (Chilwell Olympia is Chilwell comp. school and Woodside Road camera is outside Nottingham University where the students cross to the halls)

Yebutt. She was worried about her children.

The case was adjourned until 19 July, where Henry is expected to argue two of the five offences were due to "emergencies", with one being when she was "very concerned for one of her children".

Not so worried about other people's children, but, you know, who is?

[Count Steer]

There are several words to describe this idiot....

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-not ... e-61307006

'Unemployed' would be good.

(I'd say the same for all the PCCs and their support teams though. My first cost saving when I become top banana. ).

[slowsider]

Ouch.
Virgin flight returns to LHR to change pilot

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... lying-test

[Horse]

The three armed Kenyan wildlife officers must have been on high alert as they cautiously approached a homestead following reports that a stray lion had been sighted in the area.

But that soon turned to astonishment when all they found was a shopping bag in a hedge - albeit one with a realistic image of a lion's head on it.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61335539

[Demannu]

So how long before the next GE will the conservatives ditch BJ?
One suspects it will need to be at least a year away to allow for any further 'indiscretions' to be spun away and show us the new whiter than white, party of law and order.

[Mr. Dazzle]

The three armed Kenyan wildlife officers must have been on high alert as they cautiously approached a homestead following reports that a stray lion had been sighted in the area.

But that soon turned to astonishment when all they found was a shopping bag in a hedge - albeit one with a realistic image of a lion's head on it.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61335539

Didn't our own plod have a run in with a giant stuffed tiger a few years back?

EDIT: Yes!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-13507026

[Horse]

The three armed Kenyan wildlife officers must have been on high alert as they cautiously approached a homestead following reports that a stray lion had been sighted in the area.

But that soon turned to astonishment when all they found was a shopping bag in a hedge - albeit one with a realistic image of a lion's head on it.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61335539

Didn't our own plod have a run in with a giant stuffed tiger a few years back?

EDIT: Yes!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-13507026

I thought you meant BigYin or Mr Tack

There was a Mr Tack story of him, hands over ears, kicking a suspected bomb in a carrier bag.

[Count Steer]

So how long before the next GE will the conservatives ditch BJ?
One suspects it will need to be at least a year away to allow for any further 'indiscretions' to be spun away and show us the new whiter than white, party of law and order.

I got stuck in a bit of a mental 'do loop' over the local elections. Why do we even go through the process of picking people to run sizeable organisations with big budgets based solely on their political affiliations rather than the skills needed to do the job? Wouldn't it be better if people applied based on their skills and experience in running businesses, education, infrastructure?.....imagine, elections based on competence!

Then I woke up.

[Mussels]

So how long before the next GE will the conservatives ditch BJ?
One suspects it will need to be at least a year away to allow for any further 'indiscretions' to be spun away and show us the new whiter than white, party of law and order.

I got stuck in a bit of a mental 'do loop' over the local elections. Why do we even go through the process of picking people to run sizeable organisations with big budgets based solely on their political affiliations rather than the skills needed to do the job? Wouldn't it be better if people applied based on their skills and experience in running businesses, education, infrastructure?.....imagine, elections based on competence!

Then I woke up.

The Bristol mayor should be embarrassed, he's done such a poor job they would rather not have one at all than get a new mayor.

[Asian Boss]

So how long before the next GE will the conservatives ditch BJ?
One suspects it will need to be at least a year away to allow for any further 'indiscretions' to be spun away and show us the new whiter than white, party of law and order.

More like the party of getting it done, sending them back and defending the statues.

[Felix]

Good luck and fingers crossed Dave Myers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61345107

[Greenman]

So how long before the next GE will the conservatives ditch BJ?
One suspects it will need to be at least a year away to allow for any further 'indiscretions' to be spun away and show us the new whiter than white, party of law and order.

I got stuck in a bit of a mental 'do loop' over the local elections. Why do we even go through the process of picking people to run sizeable organisations with big budgets based solely on their political affiliations rather than the skills needed to do the job? Wouldn't it be better if people applied based on their skills and experience in running businesses, education, infrastructure?.....imagine, elections based on competence!

Then I woke up.

The Bristol mayor should be embarrassed, he's done such a poor job they would rather not have one at all than get a new mayor.

Us Bristolians knew this when the first Mayor was being elected. It's just jobs for the boys. Create a job that pays a good rate and get your mates to apply. All they have to do is visit a few land marks and do a few interviews, i can't see that they have done anything else for the city. Marvin seems like a decent guy but what is the point in the role?

Don't get me started on this tool also, mr red trousers!, he fucked up all our roads and was responsible for the 20mph speed limit apparently!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03j8nq4

[irie]

Greeny will love this!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/asia/mil ... index.html

The Thai government will distribute one million free cannabis plants to households across the nation in June to mark a new rule allowing people to grow cannabis at home, its health minister has said.

[Saga Lout]

Funny/not funny.

Man Dies Of Heart Attack While Burying Girlfriend He Strangled, Police Say

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/girlfrie ... d742f6f003

I suppose he's saved the state the cost of a trial, years of prison time and multiple appeals.

[Horse]

Funny/not funny.

Man Dies Of Heart Attack While Burying Girlfriend He Strangled, Police Say

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/girlfrie ... d742f6f003

I suppose he's saved the state the cost of a trial, years of prison time and multiple appeals.

What a waste

Could at least have died while the grave was open, then fallen in.