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White van man on... PPE contracts

So that geezer Matt Hancock didn’t fill out the right forms when he decided to order a squillion masks and a million plastic visors, the sort you wear when you’re using an oxy-acetylene torch and they turned out to be the wrong size and as useful as chocolate teapots.

So that geezer Matt Hancock didn't fill out the right forms when he decided to order a squillion masks and a million plastic visors, the sort you wear when you're using an oxy-acetylene torch and they turned out to be the wrong size and as useful as chocolate teapots.

Well you can't get everything right in a pandemic. I mean no one's complaining that we bought up every vaccine in sight while the Europeans were still working out the 52-page form they had to fill in to make sure they complied with someat called procurement rules made up in Brussels probably over a three course lunch paid by us taxpayers even though the Italians and the French always ignore rules anyway.

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