Michelle Mone

[jimbob]

And PestFix

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thegua ... l-pandemic

£18k in assets getting £344M contract.

[tenchboy]

Hmmm. I found Ayanda, but I'm sure that's not what I was thinking of
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53672841

[tenchboy]

Got one of 'em. Monarch Acoustics
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article
Daily Mail but best I can do right now

Small family run furniture firm's profits rocketed 4,700 PER CENT after shamed ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock personally recommended them for a PPE contract worth £29million

Do fer now

[jimbob]

Lord Bethel apparently managed to recover at least one message from his phone regarding this. They are fighting like rats in a sack.

https://x.com/jimbethell/status/1736772 ... 02293?s=61

You know.The phone which was broken, lost or whatever depending on when you asked him

Just wanted to quote this for "Siri, show me stupid evil"

[tenchboy]

Ah! t'were the Stanleys, not that they were corrupt, they couldn't deliver and paid back the advance, but the manner in which they paid the Tory party £5 000, then set up a company and then received millions from Nooky Hancock whose constituency covers Newmarket Racecourse which is owned by the Jockey Club in which the Stanleys have/had a prominent interest. I think that's it. Summaries here and here.

Heh! Just like old times.
No really And I'm repeating myselfview topic Funny how some things nag at you ent it?
Anyway, from there a summary by LBD (what hap't to them, we don't seem to hear so much from them these days) which includes Nick Hancocks pub landlord who got a contract for stuff and a couple of others too.

That's it. Back to the topic. It was nagging at me that's all,

[sTeamTraen]

She’s now having a go at Rishi Sunak

I’ve her looked at her Wikipedia page before but it’s quite something. This isn’t her first rodeo. In fact I am surprised to find she doesnt have a financial scandal connected with a rodeo company she set up before it went bust in suspicious circumstances

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_ ... oness_Mone

This probably makes me an awful person, but I would not be at all surprised if the stories of her tough childhood have not been somewhat embellished.

[jimbob]

Looks like her husband has been a bit naughty about ownership of a house in Belgravia

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/12/19 ... _it_again/

[noggins]

She’s now having a go at Rishi Sunak

I’ve her looked at her Wikipedia page before but it’s quite something. This isn’t her first rodeo. In fact I am surprised to find she doesnt have a financial scandal connected with a rodeo company she set up before it went bust in suspicious circumstances

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_ ... oness_Mone

This probably makes me an awful person, but I would not be at all surprised if the stories of her tough childhood have not been somewhat embellished.

Nah you're good.

Also: do read the Wikipedia page people.

[TopBadger]

Have now read the page... how the f.ck do these people get peerages?

[jimbob]

Have now read the page... how the f.ck do these people get peerages?

Seems entirely in keeping with the institution of the Lord's. Both in its current form and in fact every century since it was formed.

[tenchboy]

Looks like her husband has been a bit naughty about ownership of a house in Belgravia

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/12/19 ... _it_again/

I love the

appear to own a house in Belgravia

there.

Sort of...
Hello Darling
Hello Darling did you have a good day?
Yes Darling did you?
Yes Darling, I appear to have bought a house in Belgravia
Oh that's lovely Darling
etc

[Grumble]

People’s behaviour inside of Belgravia has left me aghast

[Stranger Mouse]

PPE Medpro must pay £122 million.

But will they?

Can they?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... faulty-ppe

[FlammableFlower]

As said elsewhere - even if they don't, it at least puts down a marker that the government will pursue people/companies, so may in the very least deter some in the future.

[Gfamily]

Various suggestions - including one that the couple go around the country and give everyone in the house £1.77 with an apology for taking it.

[Lew Dolby]

And they can take her title away from her asafp as far as I'm concerned.

I have a friend who's a Baroness (a working Labour Peer with a background in the charity sector). To equate Monie to her is a travesty.

[JQH]

Are they pursuing anybody else who got shitloads of cash for not very much? Such the landlord of Matt Hancock's local?

[headshot]

There were lots of very dodgy payout through the Cultural Recovery Fund. Government told the Arts Council to get it distributed asap, which meant that all the checks and balances went out the window.

I know of a number of companies who took the money and closed up shop not much later without producing any output. The fund was specifically created to fund projects and production - not just refill the coffers. There was no follow up or recoupment.