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Wouldn’t the Scottish equivalent of PHE be securing their own suppliers? Gompels employed 65 people as of last July - I doubt they’ve cornered the market.
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Gompels is a private company, used by all devolved nations until April 1st when it suddenly seems to have acted on instruction from Whitehall not to sell to anyone other than PHE.
The Times reported that "Scottish Care, which represents the independent social care sector, claimed that the UK's four largest PPE suppliers had stopped sending orders to Scotland". Gompels own website supports that claim.
Scotland does source its own equipment, for instance in getting Covid tests and equipment from South Korea that PHE refused and setting up testing stations to deliver these, to but if four of the biggest suppliers in the UK decide to abruptly stop providing this service it's going to cause disruption-isn't that obvious?
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I literally posted a screenshot from one of the primary UK PPE suppliers saying they will not supply Scottish or Welsh orgs on instruction from PHE.
Tell me where that comes from a "nationalist playbook"?