(not satire – it’s G4S!)
G4S are back!
The disgraced firm – which failed to provide enough security guards for London’s 2012 Olympics and is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office for irregularities connected with other government contracts – has been given massive new contracts by the coalition government to implement new programmes for the long-term unemployed:
G4S back in favour at Whitehall
These contracts come after G4S also memorably mistakenly tagged a prisoner’s false leg so he was able to leave it at home and break a court-imposed curfew:
Prisoner escaped curfew after G4S mistakenly tagged his false leg!
And G4S were also responsible for this, erm, interesting scandal:
G4S Guards Sacked For Drinking Vodka Out Of Each Others’ Bottoms……
Just what is it about G4S that makes the government so keen to hand over millions of our tax money despite their proven and consistent incompetence at just about everything they try to do?
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Related articles by Tom Pride:
G4S are now teaching and looking after our children. Are we all mad?
Privatisation and handover of policing to G4S is already well underway…
Not satire – prisoner escaped curfew after G4S mistakenly tagged his false leg!
Oh dear! G4S were in charge of security at airport which let 9/11 hijackers slip through.
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Was one of the Coalition cabinet married to a G4S director? I seem to recall that having been suggested but can’t find the reference at the moment (mysteriously).
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sounds likely – before reading your comment I was thinking either someone in government is overly friendly with one or more of the directors or that they have a large number of shares in G4S or maybe it was just that millionaires in government are making sure to help out another hard-up millionaire!
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Is someone in government is overly friendly with one or more of the directors or that they have a large number of shares in G4S or maybe it was just that millionaires in government are making sure to help out another hard-up millionaire!
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Mike, you can find references on the link below under the header of ‘Revolving Door’.
‘Present day Home Secretary Theresa May’s husband is a director/shareholder in G4S. May has faced several conflict of interest allegations during her tenure. One of the most egregious was the case of G4S winning a £200m contract to run Lincolnshire police operations. G4S had recruited law firm White and Cade to support their bid. In a stunning coincidence, May invited Tom Winsor, a lawyer from the same firm, to conduct ‘an independent review of police reform’ in the run up to the bid – giving the lawyer access to privy information and contacts.’
http://www.scriptonitedaily.com/2014/01/14/mps-blow-250000-of-public-money-on-portraits-of-themselves-time-to-derail-the-gravy-train/
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Tory party funds will probably receive a huge boost from an “unnamed” benefactor in the coming weeks.
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Seriously, if they are determined that all work is farmed out to the private sector, then there are not that many companies to choose from. So we keep coming back to the same old suspects. The problem is the manic obsession with privatising what should be state services.
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Hang on a minute, let me get this right. A criminal government (unelected) has called in a criminal organisation (pending fraud) to redefine the population of this country as criminal unless they do as they are told – have I got this right????
Fucking bastards the lot of them
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Jeremy as if,
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So the contract to provide “the help and support the long-term unemployed need to assist them back into full-tome employment” is given not to a company specialising in job training or employment agency but to a security company with contracts for controlling criminals. What more eloquent expression of the government’s regard for the unemployed could there be?
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The trouble with government contracts, and the reason why these outfits are always screwing up, is that the lowest price is the key criterion for awarding them. In this case, maybe it’s ‘mate’s rates’.
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in his latest state of the nation speech david camoron has detailed plans in which the unemployed and disabled are to be fitted with security tags. The dwp have denied claims of nepotism and have declared that the g4s who will be given this contract are not the same g4s as tried to sabotage the olympics and definitely not the g4s mentioned in theresa mays wedding vows (in g4s and in health). Mr camoron continued to say that ( as his people knew he was performing gods work,) he was in talks with ATOS re the contract for oxygen outsourcing, and serco about the possibility of running the soul program. It has been widely believed that A4e has already held the contract for a tory specific soul program – but has lost the tender for the general program, after it was found they had managed to leave one intact in a single conservative (although to date I have been unable to track this individual down to provide evidence).
It is believed that in next weeks statement IDS is to reveal radical plans to provide special holiday camps for the poor/unemployed/disabled with state of the art shower blocks. Those attending will also be provided with a special service where their possessions will be cared for by the state for the duration of their stay.
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AND THE LABOUR PARTY STOOD AND WATCHED
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What would you expect tom from this government they will always drag the country into the gutter as they know no better
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And unfortunately we, the Great British public keep on playing their games/ dancing to the fiddlers tune. The psychopathy ridden ruling class know exactly how to control us – the masses (for masses see: caring , loving, human, generous, open, loyal,…)
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Does the money spent on G4S come out of the “welfare budget”?
Could this explain why, despite reducing claimants’ entitlements below the level necessary to support life, reducing unemployment, creating jobs and sundry similar achievements the government is, year on year, spending MORE on “welfare”?
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Hmm good point. Does it come out of welfare budget? I suppose it must, same as all the other useless “back to work” schemes run by private companies. I have been on these and the one thing they kept reiterating was that we must fill in all the paperwork or else THEY wouldn’t get their money!!
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The first link for more information about this “G4S back in favour….” unleashed an aggressive attempt to get me to sign up to the The Financial Times, not once but twice, the second offer being an “exclusive” one – exclusive to anyone who comes near the site I suspect.
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