UPDATE: Unbelievably, despite its disastrous performance and despite having its contract terminated after just 7 months – Coperforma still trousered £16.2 million of taxpayers’ money and was given a ‘good behaviour’ payment:
Outrage as firm handed ‘good behaviour’ payment over failing service
In 2009 the Daily Mailtold its readers the UK would be better off if it was run by Tesco:
Well, we no longer have to wonder what the UK would be like if it were run by Tesco. Because the shambolic privatised Sussex ambulance service in disastrous meltdown at the moment is being run by a private company whose chairman is billionaire Tesco heir John Porter.
The company – Coperforma – is being paid £63.5m for this shambles:
Ambulance privatisation descends into ‘total shambles’
That chairman by the way would be John Porter – son of the infamous disgraced Tory council leader Lady Shirley Porter.
So back to the Daily…
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