IN November 2020, it was revealed that a Spanish businessman, Gabriel Gonzalez Andersson, was to receive a bonus of £21 million for his help in arranging a deal to supply PPE from China to Britain.
The Westminster Government had agreed to a £200m deal with American jewellery designer Michael Saiger to provide the PPE equipment. Saiger had no expertise in this product but had contacts in China. Andersson was a go-between.
One man receiving such a large bonus to help execute a deal which received no Westminster scrutiny before being agreed defies logic.
Compare that figure with the £23m being offered to help compensate the fishermen of Scotland, their families and all the processors and their families who are being served up to the wolves with this terrible Brexit deal.
Anyone who would vote for the likes of Rees-Mogg and his happy fish must be mad.
Douglas Stanley
Ayr
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