“My song The Scammers runs through decades of warnings, predictions, deadlines and public scares — from environmental predictions of the 1970s, through ozone, nuclear winter, Y2K, peak oil and climate warnings, right into the extraordinary years of COVID-19″
THE SCAMMERS
The warnings, the deadlines, the courtrooms — and where did the money go?
The Rola Colas Daily News doesn’t ask you to blindly believe anything.
It asks you to have a think.
My song The Scammers runs through decades of warnings, predictions, deadlines and public scares — from environmental predictions of the 1970s, through ozone, nuclear winter, Y2K, peak oil and climate warnings, right into the extraordinary years of COVID-19.
And there’s an important point behind the satire.
COVID-19 did not end when the restrictions ended.
The arguments moved into courtrooms.
THE COVID TIMELINE
2019 — COVID-19 emerges in China late in the year and subsequently spreads internationally.
2020 — Governments introduce lockdowns, business closures, travel restrictions, gathering limits, quarantine measures and mask requirements. Almost immediately, people begin challenging emergency powers through the courts.
2021 — Legal battles increasingly involve vaccination requirements, employment, religious exemptions, masks, passports and government authority.
2022 — The arguments continue through courts, inquiries and parliamentary investigations.
And this wasn’t happening in just one country.
The UK established its COVID-19 Inquiry to examine preparedness, the public-health response, healthcare and the economic response. Its later modules have examined political decision-making and procurement in detail.
BUT THEN WE GET TO THE MONEY
This is where things become particularly interesting.
During an emergency, governments had to purchase enormous quantities of PPE and other equipment quickly.
But how were those contracts awarded?
In the UK, a special High Priority Lane, commonly referred to as the VIP lane, was created for potential suppliers referred by MPs, ministers, peers and senior officials. The existence of the referral system isn’t a conspiracy theory — it is documented in government records.
And the story became even more controversial.
One of the most prominent examples was PPE Medpro, a company set up in May 2020. It subsequently received two contracts worth a combined £203 million for PPE. The company had entered the High Priority Lane after being referred by Baroness Michelle Mone. The government’s Public Accounts Committee recorded the history of those contracts and the subsequent legal dispute.
The point isn’t to declare every person involved guilty of wrongdoing.
The point is:
Follow the contracts.
Follow the referrals.
Follow the money.
Follow the companies.
Follow the connections.
And then ask who knew what, and when.
The UK government itself reported in 2025 that failed pandemic-era PPE contracts had cost the taxpayer an estimated £1.4 billion, with large quantities of PPE being non-compliant or otherwise unusable.
That’s not a conspiracy theory.
That’s a government investigation into government spending.
AND IRELAND?
Ireland had its own emergency procurement problems.
In December 2020, questions were raised in the Dáil about a €14 million ventilator contract awarded to an events-management company with no apparent previous expertise in ventilators. The issue was publicly raised in the Dáil and became part of wider questions about emergency procurement.
By 2023, the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee recorded serious problems involving HSE pandemic expenditure. Almost €483 million of PPE and hand-gel stocks had been written off because of unsuitability, obsolescence or price fluctuations. The Committee also highlighted weaknesses in oversight and reporting.
So when somebody says:
“There was nothing to investigate.”
Really?
There were contracts.
There were companies.
There were political referrals.
There were investigations.
There were parliamentary questions.
There were court cases.
And there were billions of pounds and euros involved.
WHO KNEW WHAT?
This is the question I want people to ask.
I’m not saying that every politician was corrupt.
I’m not saying every businessman who supplied PPE was corrupt.
I’m not saying every contract was fraudulent.
I’m saying that when politicians, advisers, civil servants, businessmen and newly created companies become involved in emergency procurement, the public has every right to ask questions.
And if someone gave privileged information to friends or associates, or helped them obtain contracts, that should be established through documents, emails, procurement records, inquiries and courts — not simply shouted across social media.
That’s why, if I name people in future articles, I’ll name them alongside the evidence and the official record.
Because there’s a difference between an accusation…
and something that has actually been established.
AND COVID WASN’T THE ONLY ONE
Look at 9/11.
The attacks happened on 11 September 2001.
More than two decades later, there are still investigations, litigation and legal proceedings connected with the attacks and their aftermath.
That doesn’t automatically prove every theory surrounding 9/11.
It demonstrates something much simpler:
Major events can leave legal questions that survive for decades.
And there are many more examples beyond COVID and 9/11.
SO WHAT IS THE POINT OF THE SONG?
The Scammers isn’t asking you to believe Rola Cola Ray.
It’s asking you to look.
Look at the dates.
Look at the predictions.
Look at the deadlines.
Look at the contracts.
Look at the companies.
Look at who referred whom.
Look at the inquiries.
Look at the court records.
Then make your own mind up.
Because sometimes the most interesting part of the story isn’t what somebody tells you.
It’s what happens when somebody takes the argument into a courtroom.
Have a think.
Don’t believe every political stink.
And remember…
You don’t just press a button to create a song.
You press play…
and then you decide for yourself.
These people have got away with “VERY BAD THINGS”, and nobody cares…
