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Myself and my daughter both Testing positive for Covid earlier.

Now I have to ring my elderly parents and tell them not to come for Christmas....for the third year in a row!!
😖 Ave had it the last two years at Christmas. I do not want a hat trick. Good luck with it me man. If you have been diagnosed now. It may be clear Christmas Day
 

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😖 Ave had it the last two years at Christmas. I do not want a hat trick. Good luck with it me man. If you have been diagnosed now. It may be clear Christmas Day
Last year it was my mother tripping going up the stairs and breaking a rib!! Previous year was my wife with Covid.

Four years this bloody virus has been around and this is my first positive test.
 

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How is it when the house is 19° she's "freezing" and demands we put the heating on, yet when she drags me out to Blenheim Palace for their Christmas nonsense, and it's 3°, I'm wearing two coats shivering and can't feel my hands - and she's absolutely fine waltzing about in a thin jumper! What's that all about?
 

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How is it when the house is 19° she's "freezing" and demands we put the heating on, yet when she drags me out to Blenheim Palace for their Christmas nonsense, and it's 3°, I'm wearing two coats shivering and can't feel my hands - and she's absolutely fine waltzing about in a thin jumper! What's that all about?

Need my hand warmers 🤣
 

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How is it when the house is 19° she's "freezing" and demands we put the heating on, yet when she drags me out to Blenheim Palace for their Christmas nonsense, and it's 3°, I'm wearing two coats shivering and can't feel my hands - and she's absolutely fine waltzing about in a thin jumper! What's that all about?
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Do you do twitter? @goodlawproject

Also Carol Vordemanon there. She's taking no prisoners!
CV has been ranting about Mone and others for ages. A couple of years at least. She says their profits should go back to the treasury.
CV has been a life-long Conservative Party supporter. Not sure if that is still the case.
Mone might be right about being a scapegoat, but we have to start somewhere. Sixty million would be a good start.
 

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CV has been ranting about Mone and others for ages. A couple of years at least. She says their profits should go back to the treasury.
CV has been a life-long Conservative Party supporter. Not sure if that is still the case.
Mone might be right about being a scapegoat, but we have to start somewhere. Sixty million would be a good start.
My problem is that we, the whole world was caught by a shortage of PPE. It became a classic case of Supply And demand. This government and others paid massively over the odds for equipment. Mone and others got very rich using a VIP “fast lane”. I have a feeling that this is going to go on and on and a few people could well have squeaky bums in the not to distant future.
Just one thing re the Mone situation. Was the PPE that they ordered fit for purpose. Was it used, I am sure I have read that it wasn’t. If that’s the case, the £60 million is the least we should get back.
 

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My problem is that we, the whole world was caught by a shortage of PPE. It became a classic case of Supply And demand. This government and others paid massively over the odds for equipment. Mone and others got very rich using a VIP “fast lane”. I have a feeling that this is going to go on and on and a few people could well have squeaky bums in the not to distant future.
Just one thing re the Mone situation. Was the PPE that they ordered fit for purpose. Was it used, I am sure I have read that it wasn’t. If that’s the case, the £60 million is the least we should get back.
Maybe try looking into what happened before commenting?
 

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My problem is that we, the whole world was caught by a shortage of PPE. It became a classic case of Supply And demand. This government and others paid massively over the odds for equipment. Mone and others got very rich using a VIP “fast lane”. I have a feeling that this is going to go on and on and a few people could well have squeaky bums in the not to distant future.
Just one thing re the Mone situation. Was the PPE that they ordered fit for purpose. Was it used, I am sure I have read that it wasn’t. If that’s the case, the £60 million is the least we should get back.

The real scandal is the contracts awarded via the VIP lane to companies set up overnight, with no previous track record of supplying PPE, set up specifically to cash in.

Meanwhile there was a British-based company with 1600 employees and 135 years experience of providing PPE, including during the SARS and Ebola outbreaks, and a long history of supplying govt departments, and had £44m worth of approved and certified protective clothing sitting in their UK warehouse, but who found it impossible to get any meaningful contracts because they didn't have the right friends in the right high places.



And to answer your question, sterile medical gowns provided by PPE Medpro under a £122m contract were never used after failing tests.
 

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called HMRC. 5 times i was cut off after circa 2 minutes. Finally 6th attempt worked. Calling about a rebate for 2020/2021 that i had to write a paper (!!) letter to initiate the claim. Sent in May, my rebate for 2021/2 and 2022/3 was processsed in several weeks after this date (all 3 years due to me paying circa 6k Bupa benfit as p11d on tax form when i had also been paying it monthly through payroll!!!! :eek:).I called 20 Sep to find out what was going on. They said that my claim was closed by mistake and that they would get it started again and should be sorted in 6 weeks. 12 weeks later and they still cannot give me any info on the delay other than it was sent to be dealt with. Now awaiting a call in next 2 days from a manager!
 

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called HMRC. 5 times i was cut off after circa 2 minutes. Finally 6th attempt worked. Calling about a rebate for 2020/2021 that i had to write a paper (!!) letter to initiate the claim. Sent in May, my rebate for 2021/2 and 2022/3 was processsed in several weeks after this date (all 3 years due to me paying circa 6k Bupa benfit as p11d on tax form when i had also been paying it monthly through payroll!!!! :eek:).I called 20 Sep to find out what was going on. They said that my claim was closed by mistake and that they would get it started again and should be sorted in 6 weeks. 12 weeks later and they still cannot give me any info on the delay other than it was sent to be dealt with. Now awaiting a call in next 2 days from a manager!
You were lucky, last time I called them, I was on hold for 40 minutes twice before getting cut off.
 

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The real scandal is the contracts awarded via the VIP lane to companies set up overnight, with no previous track record of supplying PPE, set up specifically to cash in.

Meanwhile there was a British-based company with 1600 employees and 135 years experience of providing PPE, including during the SARS and Ebola outbreaks, and a long history of supplying govt departments, and had £44m worth of approved and certified protective clothing sitting in their UK warehouse, but who found it impossible to get any meaningful contracts because they didn't have the right friends in the right high places.



And to answer your question, sterile medical gowns provided by PPE Medpro under a £122m contract were never used after failing tests.
When I worked at Thoresby Colliery we used Arco PPE. it was quality gear 👍 All to a high standard.In fact I remember when the Contract went out to tender. A rep came in looking at all the PPE we had. He said “ can you tell me why in this day and age of high visibilty PPE. They/company insist on us giving them a price for a black donkey jacket coat to wear down a coal mine”. I had to laugh.
 
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