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In the UK we need to have a serious talk about #procurement #Corruption #Transparency and how our #taxes are being spent There are dark goings on.  Why is there not more outrage about how the government and public bodies are using our money / our taxes?!! People are suffering, destitute, dying – yet a few well connected people and companies are getting very rich of the backs of people’s suffering. Below just scratches the surface: Why isn’t there huge outrage about what is happening to procurement in our #NHS? Why are we talking about Palantir’s £480m contract which gives them access to our NHS data?   Why is there not more discussion and debates in Parliament about this very questionable, controversial US spy-tech firm being given the #NHS’s biggest ever contract, despite warnings from data privacy campaigners. Palantir, owned by billionaire Donald Trump donor Peter Thiel, also won 5 other NHS deals without tender Why has the outsourcing company Atos that runs back-office operations at NS&I and has billed the Govt/taxpayer £1.2bn since 2016, but is failing to run its customer services properly, won 10-year contract supporting digital transformation in UK hospitals Experts continuously warned the technology Babylon Health (virtual appointments and diagnostic chatbots such as its GP at Hand), promoted as the future of the NHS by Matt Hancock was unproven and overhyped, yet they continue to win contracts.  The company now faces collapse after losing almost all of its $4.2 billion valuation. Not to mention defence procurement.   @VoteTrueAndFair believes we need an urgent overhaul of public procurement. As without public procurement reform - a government’s most effective tools for sustainable public sector reform, they cannot translate public policy into tangible results for all of us.

When you add up the amounts Truss, Braverman, Patel have had in severance pay for either doing wrong or being incompetent, and getting sacked it's truly galling at the best of times. But when you read today's Joseph Rowntree Foundation report of poverty and destitution @jrf_uk - 4 million experiencing the most extreme form of poverty - including 1 million children - single people 25 - 44 yrs remain the key group experiencing destitution, they are morally bankrupt. This is the most uncaring, self-serving group of politicians we've had for decades. Their immortality shames our nation. At @VoteTrueAndFair we 💯 agree with JRF: 'turning the tide on destitution is an urgent moral mission...we need political leadership for that mission'. #GeneralElectionN0W