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Baroness Mone allowed to collect rent on property after freeze order amended

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Entrepreneur Michelle Mone is admiited to the House of Lords as Baroness Mone of Mayfair, after being made a Tory peer, October 2015

A FORMER Conservative peer under investigation for her alleged role in a £148 million Covid equipment scandal was allowed to continue collecting an estimated £15,000 a week in rent.

A court amended a previous order to freeze £75m of British assets belonging to Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband after one of his companies received £122m in government contracts for unsuitable medical gowns.

Baroness Mone and Doug Barrowman will now be allowed to keep the estimated £15,000-a-week in rent from a £25m mansion in Belgravia, central London, as the inquiry continues.

The National Crime Agency opened an investigation into the Covid-era deal, which supplied 25 million defective surgical gowns to the government, which Mr Barrowman’s firm imported from China.

A court first ordered the couple’s assets to be frozen two years ago, while the NCA looked into the deal with PPE Medpro.

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‘Too little, too late’

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Covid-19 signage at the entrance to Craigavon Area Hospital in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, May 5, 2020

Tens of thousands of lives were lost as PM embraced a ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture in No 10, Covid inquiry finds

BRITAIN’S pandemic response was “too little, too late” with tens of thousands of lives were lost as absent PM Boris Johnson embraced a “toxic and chaotic” culture in No 10, a damning Covid inquiry report found today.

More than 23,000 lives could have been saved if ministers imposed a lockdown just a week earlier in March 2020, Baroness Heather Hallett found.

She said that by the end of January 2020 it “should have been clear that the virus posed a serious and immediate threat” but all four British governments failed to act until it was “too late.”

Baroness Hallett described February 2020 as “a lost month” involving an “inexcusable” lack of urgency overall in government as Mr Johnson was too optimistic in his outlook in the early months of 2020.

By failing to tackle the “toxic and chaotic culture” in No 10 throughout the pandemic “and, at times, actively encouraging it — Mr Johnson reinforced a culture in which the loudest voices prevailed and the views of other colleagues, particularly women, often went ignored, to the detriment of good decision-making,” the retired judge and cross-bench peer said.

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Image of Elmo (left) and former Prime Minister Tory idiot Boris Johnson (right)

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Thoughts of the Day 22 October 2024

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Thought of the Day was just on BBC Radio 4. I had to switch it off at the first mention of Jesus. FM, these insane God-squadders assume that they know Jesus personally. That’s part of their illness, that they assume that they’re living a divine life when often they’re just mass-murdering mass-murderers or supporters of mass-murdering mass-murderers using religion as a pretext. Is there a difference?

Anyway back to today’s Thoughts of the Day, I was intending a light one today about how things often go wrong when you’re on a deadline. I’m still isolating having caught Covid, very nearly over it now but FM can that sneak up on you when you’re not expecting it and on a deadline? That can knock you out for a week at least. Imagine you had the work’s laptop at home too because of that looming deadline. I suppose that someone could collect the work’s laptop if you put it in the freezer overnight, but how do you get it from the freezer to the front door? You can hardly leave it outdoors all night.

Then there’s a simple puncture of course – you need to race those so-important documents to the airport. They’re so important plans for World War 3. Oh FM you got a puncture, that’s a nasty big nail in your tyre. You can’t help it of course, could strike at any time and there’s no spare.

FM, you stood on your glasses, had to wear some emergency ones and all those shipping containers got sent to Ireland, Iran and Iraq instead of Israel. They could take months to get back on course.

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Failed communities unite to demand government action on Grenfell anniversary

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A general view of the remains of Grenfell Tower in London, June 14, 2022

VICTIMS of the government’s systemic failures have demanded that the next prime minister take recommendations from public inquiries seriously.

Communities affected by the infected blood scandal, Covid and the Grenfell fire are calling for a new mechanism to ensure that their struggles are not in vain.

They have joined forces on the seventh anniversary of the Grenfell Tower blaze, in which 72 residents were killed after a fire ripped through the 24-storey block in north Kensington.

Campaigners united for the annual memorial walk from Notting Hill Methodist Church this evening.

Lobby Akinnola from the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice (CBFFJ) said he was “honoured to stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with Grenfell survivors, and all victims of state failures who continue to fight for justice and reform.”

He backed calls for a national oversight mechanism to “help make sure that recommendations turn into action and action turns into change.”

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Edward Daffarn, from Grenfell United, who lived on the 16th floor of the tower block said: “It’s really important that communities impacted by these disasters stand together. We can’t all fight individually.”

He said the message to government is simple: “They need to ensure that recommendations that come out of public inquiries are implemented.”

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NHS staff throw scrubs at Downing Street in protest at compulsory jabs

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NHS staff throw their uniforms in protest at compulsory vaccination

NHS staff throw scrubs at Downing Street in protest at compulsory jabs

Thousands of NHS workers and anti-vaxxers have protested against compulsory Covid jabs across the country.

Healthcare staff were pictured throwing their scrubs at police outside Downing Street in London, while crowds chanted ‘no vax mandate’.

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Specialist nurse Cara Barnes, from West Yorkshire, claims the jab – which the World Health Organisation says has saved hundreds of thousands of lives – is  an ‘experimental drug’.

She said: ‘I am not prepared to be injected with an experimental drug.

‘Coercion is not a choice. It is not the fault of the NHS but I am disappointed – this is not how I saw my 30-year career-ending.’

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Ambulance worker Christabelle Gregory, 32, who was protesting in London, said: ‘People were once clapping for us but there’s no appreciation any more. I’m young and I’ve got antibodies from working on the frontline, so I don’t want the vaccine.’ 

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