It’s a shocking indictment of that state of our politics and governance that I saw a headline about 200 million being wasted and thought ‘That’s pretty low for a Government project, why are we even talking about it’?
Also, hilarious to see the anti-Scot government bias in the BBC reporting here.
“Labour questions PPE contract award and Baroness Mone links”
Which for the severity of it all, sounds pretty innocent right? Party in opposition questions a contract.
Then we have this situation
>Ferries **Scandal**: Shipyard takeover **’wasted’ £200m of public money**
How emotive of them! Lets look at the contents of the article, this is surely a done and dusted case of fraud right?
>Former Ferguson boss Jim McColl has claimed ministers wasted £200m by rejecting an offer
So, somebody who isn’t even a part of the Government is claiming ministers wasted money by rejecting an offer that they made
I wonder what the reason could be.
>The government said Mr McColl’s proposal breached EU state aid rules.
Oh.
But no fear
>Mr McColl gave details of the offer, including legal advice that it was compliant with EU rules
So apparently he got legal advice that is was fine and his argument is
>”If the government had received an independent opinion confirming it was legal, and accepted the proposal it would have saved at least £200 million of taxpayers money.”
**If**
This certainly all seems very up in the air and in debate for such an emotively worded headline.
Wow only wasted 200million?
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You sure? That seems very low for anything done under the Tory party.
Its not wasted, its just in the bank account of a Tory donor… business as usual.
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It’s a shocking indictment of that state of our politics and governance that I saw a headline about 200 million being wasted and thought ‘That’s pretty low for a Government project, why are we even talking about it’?
Also, hilarious to see the anti-Scot government bias in the BBC reporting here.
Lets take the current Mone case, the BBC [reported that](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/63746930) with this headline:
“Labour questions PPE contract award and Baroness Mone links”
Which for the severity of it all, sounds pretty innocent right? Party in opposition questions a contract.
Then we have this situation
>Ferries **Scandal**: Shipyard takeover **’wasted’ £200m of public money**
How emotive of them! Lets look at the contents of the article, this is surely a done and dusted case of fraud right?
>Former Ferguson boss Jim McColl has claimed ministers wasted £200m by rejecting an offer
So, somebody who isn’t even a part of the Government is claiming ministers wasted money by rejecting an offer that they made
I wonder what the reason could be.
>The government said Mr McColl’s proposal breached EU state aid rules.
Oh.
But no fear
>Mr McColl gave details of the offer, including legal advice that it was compliant with EU rules
So apparently he got legal advice that is was fine and his argument is
>”If the government had received an independent opinion confirming it was legal, and accepted the proposal it would have saved at least £200 million of taxpayers money.”
**If**
This certainly all seems very up in the air and in debate for such an emotively worded headline.
Wow only wasted 200million?
​
You sure? That seems very low for anything done under the Tory party.
Its not wasted, its just in the bank account of a Tory donor… business as usual.