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Mike Galsworthy 🦣Reform UK has uncovered the scandal of a “wasteful” £350m contract.
Small problem: it’s not a contract. Or £350m. Or a scandal.
Here’s how they got it completely wrong.
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Mrinappropriate@mikegalsworthy An excellent explanation of process. Thank you.
daym@mikegalsworthy "When you assume every framework is corrupt, every technical process is wasteful bureaucracy and every expert opinion shows establishment bias, you’ll break systems you don’t understand while trying to solve problems that don’t exist."
So eloquent!
So eloquent!
Knittingdancer🏴🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@mikegalsworthy This assumes it was in any way a good faith accusation with any genuine intent to manage spend.
Zia is allegedly a businessman. He will be familiar with the basics of purchasing processes, including framework agreements and and the even more mundane monotony of raising purchase requisitions.
I doubt he was after a fact or a saving, just something with which to generate outrage.
For the populists it's not about governing effectively and it's not about facts.
Stoneface Vimes@mikegalsworthy my debit card has a daily ATM withdrawal limit. Doesn't mean I'm taking £500 from the hole in the wall every day. In fact I haven't ever taken out that much even once. That's their level of incompetence - they'd assume I was.
Inc Hulk 🧪@mikegalsworthy Reform complain that their leaders and members are depicted as knuckle-dragging idiots. Unfortunately they display a level of intelligence of knuckle-dragging idiots.
Angua 
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OK Reform let's start again.
Arse --- Elbow.
OK Reform let's start again.
Arse --- Elbow.
Unredacted Epstein files now@mikegalsworthy In other words, Reform has no idea what it’s doing. Noted.
AntJBro@mikegalsworthy so why hasn’t the MSM uncovered the scandal of a bunch of even bigger f***wits taking control of local government? Because the paymasters say “sshh!” perhaps?
Dudula the Dud@mikegalsworthy not a shock.
Christian Kent@mikegalsworthy I wish they'd stick to #billiondollarnews (though I may need to start a #billionpoundnews hashtag) because … well, fixing just one of those will fix a whole ten of a hundred-million-dollar scandal
Arithmetic just really isn't popular with the confident speakers, the bloggers, is it
But 10x the waste never generates 10x the outrage, not ever
Test & Trace?
PPE?