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General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres

Lancashire’s Reform-run council has been accused of “selling off the family silver” through its plans to save £4m a year by closing five council-run care homes and five day centres and moving residents into the private sector.

Questions are also being asked about a potential conflict of interest involving Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, who owns a private care company with his wife.

www.theguardian.com

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres

Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
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Darat said:
Typical business trick. Get the homes off the balance sheet and it looks like a saving as the increased cost for housing them in private homes is a running cost.
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Fiscal balance sheet magic. One is a liability, the other is a cost. Same bucket of money, different ways of describing how you empty it.
 
Darat said:
And I bet the private provision will cost the LA a lot more.
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I'm not sure about England, but my experience in Scotland is that private provision is almost always more expenseive, and often of lower quality. Care provision is complex, and generalities can be misleading, but the private sector is very profit-driven, while the public sector has more of a focus on the core factors of care. That said, the private sector can often be more flexible, more available, and tends to lead in specialist provision for high-need cases.
 
News item that caught my eye involves Mone and her husband placing their company into administration. This means the Administrator will be looking for someone to buy the company. Failing that, it will have to be put into compulsory liquidation. The pair owe the government £148m re the PPE scandal and HMRC £39m. So, despite their huge profiteering, they haven't even paid up taxes owing in the UK.

A company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman owes £39m in tax on top of the £148m it was ordered to pay the government for breaching a contract to supply PPE.

Documents filed by PPE Medpro's administrator on Tuesday revealed the figure owed to His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Last month a court ruled the company breached a contract to supply medical gowns during the Covid pandemic because they did not meet certification requirements for sterility.

HMRC and the administrators declined to comment. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y95p045g9o
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Whilst Barrowman and Mone might have got away with fleecing the public over PPE via the government's so-called 'Fast Track Scheme', and let's face it, having it signed off went through the 'correct' channels designed to enrich Boris, Matt and their circle of chums under the guise of urgent medical need.

The pair will discover that fleecing HMRC isn't the same walk in the park, piece of cake, doddle or whatever one might call it. HMRC will bankurpt them so fast their feet won't touch the ground. In addition, I am looking forward to Official Receivers hauling them in for examination of their assets. I predict they will be added to the register of Dodgy Directors and banned from running a UK company for a long time. Once you are classed as a dodgy director and owe that much to HMRC the guys will soon be round to seize their assets which I dare say they were cunningly aiming to hold onto by going into Administration ( = as a limited liability enterprise). Directors only have limited liability protection dependent on whether their behaviour falls within ethical boundaries.
 
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Reform UK Council Grifter in Northumberland.

Councillor Shaun Knowles turned up to a meeting yesterday for the first time in just under 6 months.

This means he avoids disqualification by just a few days and keeps his councillor salary.

It’s also being reported that he is unresponsive to contact and has not been seen in his ward.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1986336782112239896
 
Andy_Ross said:
Of course they do

A company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman owes £39m in tax on top of the £148m it was ordered to pay the government for breaching a contract to supply PPE.

Documents filed by PPE Medpro's administrator on Tuesday revealed the figure owed to His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

www.bbc.co.uk

Mone-linked firm PPE Medpro owes £39m in tax - BBC News

Administrator's report shows firm owes £39m to HMRC on top of £148m owed to Department of Health
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It's almost like Mone is intrinsically incapable of being honest or acting in a legal manner...
 
Another one bites the dust

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has suspended another member of its “flagship” county council in Kent as it held its first full meeting since the party’s councillors were thrown into crisis by a leaked meeting revealing bitter internal tensions.

The departure of Isabella Kemp, who had also worked as a data protection officer at Reform’s HQ, means that the party has lost nine of the 57 councillors elected during the local elections in May.

www.theguardian.com

Reform UK suspends another member of Kent county council

Isabella Kemp’s departure means party has lost nine of 57 councillors elected in May, including four after video leak
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Andy_Ross said:
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Someone is, unsurprisingly, ill-informed about the makeup of the navy during the age of sail. For example, Nelson's flagship 'Victory' had crew from at least 22 different nations on board during the battle of Trafalgar, and this was by no means unique. Sailors were enlisted and pressed from all around the world, and were all considered broadly equal. There was no doubt a certain amount of predjudice and bigotry, but once the cannon balls start flying, those attitudes quickly go out of the window.
 
What a heap of ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊. How can Britain "become a ship of the line" under Farage? What line of battle is this? Which other ships are in the line?

Farage campaigned for years and years to get us to quit the line. We're strictly a "line" of 1 now.
 
Worm said:
Someone is, unsurprisingly, ill-informed about the makeup of the navy during the age of sail. For example, Nelson's flagship 'Victory' had crew from at least 22 different nations on board during the battle of Trafalgar, and this was by no means unique. Sailors were enlisted and pressed from all around the world, and were all considered broadly equal. There was no doubt a certain amount of predjudice and bigotry, but once the cannon balls start flying, those attitudes quickly go out of the window.
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Are you suggesting that Reform might have made a error in historical accuracy!!!! I am SHOCKED!!!
 
Worm said:
Someone is, unsurprisingly, ill-informed about the makeup of the navy during the age of sail. For example, Nelson's flagship 'Victory' had crew from at least 22 different nations on board during the battle of Trafalgar, and this was by no means unique. Sailors were enlisted and pressed from all around the world, and were all considered broadly equal. There was no doubt a certain amount of predjudice and bigotry, but once the cannon balls start flying, those attitudes quickly go out of the window.
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I was just thinking about that. I believe that there were even a couple of Frenchmen aboard.

The Royal Marine complement included a man from my home town, who's buried in the local chuchyard. It would be interesting to follow his journey from a small North Staffordshire market town to one of the greatest sea battles in history.
 
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