Comment on Daily Mail events firm is given £500k government contract to run UK COP28 events

• Syldon@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  About 15 food banks.

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see…

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    • Syldon@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mate what do you think they are doing for £500k. They are supplying a table and a couple of bodies for support. They are not paying for transport, or even hotel room hire. If they were having to pay for the lease of the event office, which is unlikely, how much do you think this is? It is not a great deal. Someone is pocketing a few hundred thousand from this.

      The tender was not allowed to go to any other supplier. That in itself raises questions of why they are refusing to follow accepted guidelines. They have very close links to oil companies, which means the oil companies will have an influence on position and effectiveness of each group. Energy companies do not want an effective COP event.

      All of this and yet you want to throw in inuendo and derision. Defending these scumbags is a pitiful hill to die on.

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      • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you need to provide more than just hyperbolic speculation if you want to be taken seriously. Otherwise derision it is.

        You’re literally asserting that an events company is not allowed to work for COP if it has in anyway in the past worked for an oil company. What exactly do you think they’re doing for “big oil”? Destabilising governments via secret backroom deals? Please.

        “The government told DeSmog that dmg events was providing “logistical support” for all countries represented at COP28, suggesting that officials were not allowed to open the contract to competition.”

        I have no means to confirm this statement but neither do you and neither does the article. It tried to connect two different events (COP 28 and an oil event listed in their annual report) and claim some sort of nefarious link. This is really poor journalism. Really poor. At the very least they could have compared this spending to other country’s spending on a similar event spend at COP 28.

        So cut out the hyperbole and provide some actual facts rather than hysterical gossip.

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