I posted this in Twitter last night:
If Hancock was an auditor this would probably end his career. So why doesn't it as a cabinet minister? https://t.co/3MbQE4vJ1J
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) April 15, 2021
The contract was worth £300,000.
I belong to a profession where conflicts of interest have been recognised as a threat to objectivity for decades. Any that arise are treated very seriously. As I suggested, abusing this rule is likely to be career ending. So it is possible to enforce such controls.
But apparently not in government.
That, though, is not because it is impossible to do so. It is because those in charge do not want to do so, and that's because they want to gain from abusing this most basic ethical standard of conduct.
It's that choice that is corrupt, as of course is everything that flows from it.
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What a joke.
I have to do procurement in my job for contracts for much less than that and it makes things really difficult.
Obviously the Tories are having a ball – having their cake AND eating it.
That’s actually our cake they’re eating.
Key to understanding what you call “corruption” is Dominic Cummings statement that the Dept of Health is a smoking ruin. The Tory electorate just loved the fact that long last someone cut through proper procurement processses and put a hedge fund manager in charge of vaccine buying.
Win some loose some. Many can relate to deals done in a pub.
Doing away with burocacy is for many voters not a lack of ethics but the intended Brexit bonus.
Howzat!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/interesting-case-zaire-question-mmt-cannot-answer
These issues have been answered time and again by MMT
Really rather pathetic that they are asked again
Or that you think that they have merit
Posts that attempt to justify shortcuts in public process on the grounds of ‘getting the job done’ amount to trolling in the context of this website. We do not need to discuss whether transparency of process is the bedrock of anti-corruption in the public (and, indeed, private) sector.
@ John Hedges
The article you link to helpfully finishes with an unsubtle strawman, as if to underline the intellectually dishonest approach:
“Under MMT tenets, this should not have happened; indeed, it should be impossible. And yet, it happened all the same.”
You need to understand that hyperinflation is not caused by turning on the printing presses, that is merely a result of the underlying issues in governance and the productive capacity of an economy.
Read this for a better understanding:
https://clintballinger.wordpress.com/2021/01/12/the-myth-of-hyperinflation/
The Tories saw that the unwise electorates gave them a huge majority and the mainstream media being on their side, so are acting as though they own the entire country by mocking the economy, insulting a very important trading partner (the EU), breaking international laws, lying which has been normalised and accepted in parliament even by the house speaker and so they are abusing their power even in a deliberate way and getting away with it. The UK is heading for a very serious moral and economic decline and nobody seems to care.