2017 The year we all realised Richard Branson is greedy lying capitalist T**T
2017 has been a year of political change, disasters and terror attacks but one person will be remembered for being a greedy capitalist liar, His name is Richard Branson.
Tory donor Billionaire Richard Branson not only made up lies about Jeremy Corbyn whilst releasing heavily edited CCTV images on his Virgin trains but he also sued our NHS for £2 million.
Traingate:
The case has sparked fury for “wasting” taxpayer money fighting against a private company.
The entrepreneur’s Virgin Care had bid to win the three-year continuation of a deal to provide children’s medical services in Surrey.
The deal covered health visitors, school nurses and speech and occupational therapy for children.
He lost the contract to a rival consortium of in-house NHS providers and a social enterprise - Surrey Health Children and Families Services.
The partnership between the local hospital NHS Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation Trust and two local social enterprises took over the service in April.
However, Virgin Care, which has 400 contracts with the NHS, said there were “serious flaws in the procurement process”.
The company started legal proceedings against NHS England, Surrey County Council and six clinical commissioning groups (CCG) in November last year.
The High Court case has now been settled in secret and a payout made.
Virgin and the CCGs said the matter has been resolved, stating the terms were confidential. But board papers for one of the six CCGs involved state that its “liability” in the case is £328,000.
A finance paper published by NHS Surrey Downs, one of the six CCGs involved - state its liability for the case was £328,000.
The report was removed from its website after Health Service Journal made enquiries about the settlement.
A CCG spokesperson said the reference had been removed because “the level of detail should not have been included in the report.”
It really is safe to say Richard Branson is tosser of the year.
Tory donor Billionaire Richard Branson not only made up lies about Jeremy Corbyn whilst releasing heavily edited CCTV images on his Virgin trains but he also sued our NHS for £2 million.
Traingate:
For those of you who don’t remember, Traingate was that time Jeremy Corbyn made a video about the state of our privatised rail system whilst sat on the floor of an obviously packed Virgin train.
The story really hit the airwaves after extremely ambiguous CCTV footage was released by Richard Branson’s company seeming to show Corbyn and his team walking past a few empty seats.
Despite the fact that footage on social media also proved countless other passengers were sat on the floor of the train, the entire media immediately jumped to the conclusion that Jeremy Corbyn must have been lying about the train being ‘ram-packed’.
Ridiculously, Traingate was one of the biggest political stories of last year. Had the same scenario occurred with any other politician, nobody would have even batted an eyelid.
But because Jeremy Corbyn has an impeccable track record of honesty and integrity, the media saw the ambiguity of the Traingate situation as a fantastic opportunity to call into question his honesty. And, for a few days last summer, the unrelenting media smears continued with wave after wave of ridiculous front page headlines.
The BBC gave the story top billing on their website. Whereas the red top rags and right-wing radio ranters ran endless analysis denouncing the Labour leader as some kind of hideously devious devil-man.
In reality, even if Corbyn had been bending the truth with his train-floor video, the media’s response was beyond hysterical, and the extent of coverage given to such an innocuous story showed just how out to get him the media were.
But now, new CCTV footage has been obtained by Double Down News, and it doesn’t make good viewing for Richard Branson, Virgin or the entire media and political establishment that were so quick to denounce Jeremy Corbyn as a bona fide liar.
Yes, that’s right. The newly obtained footage proves beyond doubt that Jeremy Corbyn and his team were actually telling the truth.
The filmmaker who recorded Jeremy’s speech on the floor of the Virgin train, Yannis Mendez, made a request to Virgin demanding they release the complete CCTV footage rather than the snippets they had leaked to the press.
However, Virgin said they were unable to comply because of ‘technical difficulties’. But, after 7 months, Virgin was forced to comply with the demand.
Sued the NHS:
The entrepreneur’s Virgin Care had bid to win the three-year continuation of a deal to provide children’s medical services in Surrey.
The deal covered health visitors, school nurses and speech and occupational therapy for children.
He lost the contract to a rival consortium of in-house NHS providers and a social enterprise - Surrey Health Children and Families Services.
The partnership between the local hospital NHS Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation Trust and two local social enterprises took over the service in April.
However, Virgin Care, which has 400 contracts with the NHS, said there were “serious flaws in the procurement process”.
The company started legal proceedings against NHS England, Surrey County Council and six clinical commissioning groups (CCG) in November last year.
The High Court case has now been settled in secret and a payout made.
Virgin and the CCGs said the matter has been resolved, stating the terms were confidential. But board papers for one of the six CCGs involved state that its “liability” in the case is £328,000.
A finance paper published by NHS Surrey Downs, one of the six CCGs involved - state its liability for the case was £328,000.
The report was removed from its website after Health Service Journal made enquiries about the settlement.
A CCG spokesperson said the reference had been removed because “the level of detail should not have been included in the report.”
It really is safe to say Richard Branson is tosser of the year.
