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Michelle Mone

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Fraudornot · 17/12/2023 13:17

Has anyone watched the BBC interview this morning?
AIBU to think there is no way the pair of them are convincing anyone that they have done nothing wrong?

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SerendipityJane · 24/12/2023 19:15

Callipygion · 24/12/2023 18:54

Isn’t Gove guilty of lobbying for contracts for his mates too? I thought he had.

I wasn't claiming he was Gandhi incarnate 😀Merely that he said he had passed everything he had to the serious farce squad.

Mind you, his backing leasehold reforms really doesn't square with how much of a cunt I had him dialled in as.

Callipygion · 24/12/2023 18:54

Isn’t Gove guilty of lobbying for contracts for his mates too? I thought he had.

User135644 · 24/12/2023 15:59

SerendipityJane · 24/12/2023 10:55

Amazingly the only Tory to have shown any sense of justice is Michael Gove.

When Michael Gove appears to be doing the right thing, you know your country is broken beyond repair.

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The whole episode is post-Thatcherite Capitalism in all its glory. Anything for a profit, anything for a few quid. No wonder she can't understand the fuss.

User135644 · 24/12/2023 15:56

newnamethanks · 24/12/2023 09:34

Absolute truth. They should be in prison but will all end up in House of Lords, still sucking up public funds, eating and drinking their subdidised meals and generally strutting around telling us plebs what fantastic job they did. Utterly sickening.

Millions of bootlickers will still vote Tory.

SerendipityJane · 24/12/2023 10:55

Callipygion · 24/12/2023 10:53

This! Absolutely this. It makes me sick to my stomach what they (appear) to have got away with. Who can hold them to account? Why aren’t the police - National Fraud Squad? - investigating! It’s obscene profiteering.

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Amazingly the only Tory to have shown any sense of justice is Michael Gove.

When Michael Gove appears to be doing the right thing, you know your country is broken beyond repair.

Callipygion · 24/12/2023 10:53

Iknewbeforeithappened · 24/12/2023 06:07

It isn't just the setting up of a fraudulent company to supply useless products. The government/ cabinet office was complicit in making it impossible for professional, competent suppliers to provide safe products through the usual channels.
Public health departments have always had the expertise around contact tracing, from smallpox and TB in the 50s, through "AIDS" in the 80s, the more recent Novichock poisoning in Salisbury, just 3 examples. There was never any need to appoint a proven incompetent like Dido Harding to set up a new service and give her huge sums of money to waste.
It was all a cynical profiteering bandwagon. Those people should pay the money back to our public services.

This! Absolutely this. It makes me sick to my stomach what they (appear) to have got away with. Who can hold them to account? Why aren’t the police - National Fraud Squad? - investigating! It’s obscene profiteering.

newnamethanks · 24/12/2023 09:34

Absolute truth. They should be in prison but will all end up in House of Lords, still sucking up public funds, eating and drinking their subdidised meals and generally strutting around telling us plebs what fantastic job they did. Utterly sickening.

Iknewbeforeithappened · 24/12/2023 06:07

It isn't just the setting up of a fraudulent company to supply useless products. The government/ cabinet office was complicit in making it impossible for professional, competent suppliers to provide safe products through the usual channels.
Public health departments have always had the expertise around contact tracing, from smallpox and TB in the 50s, through "AIDS" in the 80s, the more recent Novichock poisoning in Salisbury, just 3 examples. There was never any need to appoint a proven incompetent like Dido Harding to set up a new service and give her huge sums of money to waste.
It was all a cynical profiteering bandwagon. Those people should pay the money back to our public services.

newnamethanks · 22/12/2023 20:19

😂

SerendipityJane · 22/12/2023 18:05

Satire

Michelle Mone
newnamethanks · 22/12/2023 11:54

Byline Times talking to OBrien about MM on LBC now.

whirlingdevonish · 22/12/2023 07:45

It is sad @Seymour5 . I guess she's joining the club though isn't she? In among the greedy gifts who may have been born with it and have a sense of entitlement. Learned behaviour. Not a good look in either case

Seymour5 · 22/12/2023 06:39

Her story is a bit rags to riches. It always saddens me when someone who knows what it’s like to struggle in life becomes disgustingly greedy. She’s a prime example.

Fieldofbrokenpromises · 21/12/2023 17:20

Merrymouse · 21/12/2023 13:09

The problem with being rich is it’s very very expensive (or so I understand from Succession)

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😂Aye, it's a fucking nightmare, so it is.

Fieldofbrokenpromises · 21/12/2023 17:18

Finally got chance to see this interview; it was even worse than I expected.
Mone and Barrowman apparently don't like publicity or press intrusion.

Don't take our money and pose on the fucking yacht you bought with it then.

SerendipityJane · 21/12/2023 16:43

The second article explains why they are taking her to court. She threatened them with defamation suits whilst lying

Oh dear Oscar ...

newnamethanks · 21/12/2023 14:44

Did 👑 Mone once flog undies from a market stall? She seems to think that if she shouts loud and long enough that will be sufficient to crush any opposition. Doing her own threatening in the guise of being her 'in-house legal team' is not on when you're a Peer of the Realm. Have some class, woman, pay a lawyer to do it for you.

Merrymouse · 21/12/2023 13:09

Kendodd · 21/12/2023 12:53

Seeing her whinging on the BBC about how terrible and unfair it all is, she could just give the 60 million back, that't improve public opion of her. Or donate it to the NHS.

The problem with being rich is it’s very very expensive (or so I understand from Succession)

ArcaneWireless · 21/12/2023 13:01

That would be a start kendodd

I reckon I’ve more chance of losing 5 stone before Hogmanay though…

Kendodd · 21/12/2023 12:53

Seeing her whinging on the BBC about how terrible and unfair it all is, she could just give the 60 million back, that't improve public opion of her. Or donate it to the NHS.

Roussette · 21/12/2023 12:23

BIossomtoes · 21/12/2023 10:03

Excellent. Hope they win.

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Yes, this is the New European.

The first article is really quite funny. MM disguising herself as a legal expert!
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/how-michelle-mone-tried-to-silence-the-new-european/

The second article explains why they are taking her to court. She threatened them with defamation suits whilst lying

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/why-were-suing-michelle-mone/

How Michelle Mone tried to silence the New European

The lying baroness’s web of deceit has been revealed after her disastrous Laura Kuenssberg interview

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/how-michelle-mone-tried-to-silence-the-new-european

Merrymouse · 21/12/2023 12:19

I think there might be a dispute about whether the PPE was damaged in transit and who is responsible for this - but as MM is so clearly dishonest I wouldn’t take her word for it.

Callipygion · 21/12/2023 11:49

Edinburghguy · 20/12/2023 22:30

Exactly - they will argue that they have technically not done anything wrong but everybody knows they’re morally bankrupt.

They have though, they supplied PPE that was below the required standard. If you buy something that is not fit for purpose you would ask for your money back, wouldn’t you, they should be refunding all the money they took.

BIossomtoes · 21/12/2023 10:03

fiftiesmum · 21/12/2023 09:58

Just squeezed on to the today programme this morning - she took the publishers of a newspaper to court for saying she/they had used the money to buy a boat (the lady m aka the pandemic princess) they are now suing her for their legal expenses

Excellent. Hope they win.

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