Government gives diplomatic and financial backing to the worldwide sale and distribution of fake bomb detector.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/government-fake-bomb-detectors-bolton UK government promoted fake bomb detectors G200 "Bomb detector" Garry Bolton with G200 A warning goes around Whitehall that these fake "bomb detectors" are useless, yet at least three government departments, the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the government's trade arm, UKTI, gave promotional, diplomatic and financial backing to Gary Bolton to market and sell them around the world. Bolton's former business partner, Jim McCormick, was jailed for 10 years in May for selling around £50m worth of similar devices. The governments role in this farce demonstrates breathtaking incompetence by ministers and civil servants and demands immediate investigation. The waste of taxpayers money in this travesty is bad enough, but the loss of life resulting from the use of this piece of garbage, should result in the...