• Going up in flames

    Updated: 2023-07-31 07:14:00
    So where is that PPE the UK Government spent billions of pounds on during the pandemic? Well. according to the Mirror, NHS-owned PPE worth at least £225 million which never made it to the UK has been burned in China, releasing nearly 6,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere: Analysis found incinerating the mountain of plastic-laced equipment would have pumped out as much carbon as the electricity consumption of 3,750 UK households for a year. The UK ordered more than 30 billion items of protective-wear when the pandemic struck - with hundreds of millions of items coming from firms in ...

  • UKIP funders hosting asylum seeker barge

    Updated: 2023-07-30 07:09:00
    The Mirror reports that a family firm that donated more than £70,000 to UKIP is "profiteering from misery" by hosting the Government's controversial migrant barge. The paper adds that Langham Industries owns Portland Port, where the Bibby Stockholm is docked in a deal reported to be worth some £2.5million, while the Langham family owns luxurious properties and has links to high-profile politicians, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden. The paper reveals that their business made 19 donations to pro-Brexit party UKIP between 2003 and 2016: Late founder John Langham was described as an "avid supporter" ...

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