The U.K. has used just 142 million of the stockpile of 650 million vaccine doses it purchased, leaving an estimated £4 billion worth of vaccines unused and, at current levels of take-up, likely going to waste. The vaccines typically have an expiration date of six to 12 months after manufacture – though it’s not clear how many of the 650 million doses have already been manufactured and put in storage and how many are on order for future manufacture and delivery.
Officials have not revealed exactly how much was paid for the Pfizer vaccines, which comprise nearly a third of the total ordered, but the U.S. Government is reputed to have paid around $20 (£16) a dose.
The Moderna vaccine is said to have cost a bit less, perhaps about $15 (£12) per dose, and the Astra Zeneca considerably less, perhaps as low as $4 (£3) per dose as it was sold at cost. There are no data on the other five types ordered, all of which are as yet completely unused.
If an average price of $10 (£8) per dose is assumed, the total bill for all the unused vaccine doses will amount to around $5 billion or £4 billion. Will the public be forgiving of this massive waste of public funds on account of it occurring with good intentions during a state of emergency? That remains to be seen.
It is however far from the only example of pandemic profligacy. The losses due to fraud and delinquent business loans are colossal, with City AM reporting that the Treasury’s £4.3bn fraud write-off is likely to be eclipsed by £20bn of Covid loan defaults. The Government has also written off £8.7bn it spent on protective equipment bought during the pandemic, with £673m of equipment unusable, £750m not used before its expiry date, £2.6bn of equipment judged to be unsuitable for use in the NHS, and £4.7bn being due to the Government paying more for it during the acute global shortage than it is now worth. The Government also spent £569m buying 20,900 ventilators, of which only 2,150 (10%) were used, the rest being left idle in a Ministry of Defence warehouse.
This gross misuse of taxpayers’ money must be examined in the independent inquiry and by Government so the lessons can be learned and in future a robust management system applied in real time so that even stocks purchased in haste and with urgency are kept in reasonable proportion to anticipated demand.
The over-reaction and panic in spring 2020 resulted in decisions that have now turned out to be a huge waste of public money. If there was perceived to be a shortage of anything that might conceivably be needed to fulfil the needs of the public emergency, the public purse was always open.
Actually, the purse appeared to be treated more like Mary Poppins’ bottomless magic carpet bag, with no sign of any prudent oversight applied to funding decisions as long as they served the purpose of proving to the public that the Government was ‘doing something’ about Covid. The results of that fiscal incontinence are now clear for all to see.
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When governments signed up for Pfizer vaccines, they agreed to break the Law – the arrangement is that Pfizer controls both the prices and supply of mRNA vaccines and the governments concerned, pay up, irrespective of if they are used or wasted, furthermore, the governments concerned, protect Pfizer from any legal issues and pay for Pfizer’s legal protection, without any cost to Pfizer, so you can see why governments are so enthusiastic to get people vaccinated, irrespective of the damage caused. If anyone wants a copy (in English) of the original “secret” contract, I have a copy which I can send to your e.mail address as an attachment – from memory, it is less than 1mb in size.
The vaccines were promoted as just that, but now it has been discovered that the mRNA vaccines are Synthetic Gene Therapy mRNA vaccines with a 99% Graphene Oxide component in them, which form a neural network in your body, which sends data by 5G from your body to somewhere, but nobody knows where or why – in other words, your body acts like an iPhone and the neural network tracks where you are constantly. Of concern is if/when the receiver is switched… Read more »
Instead of binning these excess vaccines, why don’t we forcibly stick them into the Establishment’s arms all the way down from the WHO to the national cabinet officers and their Deep State apparatchiks? After all, they are “perfectly safe and effective.” That way they will at least suffer the same fate as the folks they duped.
“Will the public be forgiving of this massive waste of public funds on account of it occurring with good intentions during a state of emergency?”
The public don’t appear to be too bothered about the £37 billion – more than the quarterly turnover of Microsoft or the combined cost of Crossrail and the Channel Tunnel – utterly wasted on a single bugridden Smartphone app that they admit didn’t save single life and could have been written better by any half competent GCSE IT student, so I can’t see why not.
Vote Conservative.
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Time to sue the 500+ MPs who voted for all this nonsense, take Matthew Hancock to the bankruptcy courts, along with Boris Johnson, Patrick Vallance, Chris Whitty and any number of other financial ignorami who have acted out a scam that has been done regularly the past 30 years by the biopharma mafia.
Scream about a new deadly ‘disease’, get Governments to vastly overspend on the ‘cure’ or the ‘vaccine’, then keep quiet when all the waste due to the lack of necessity to buy all that stuff becomes apparent.
You would have thought that Ministers and Permanent Secretaries should not be appointed if they don’t even recognise this basic financial scam perpetrated by Wall Street and the City.
Just proves again that this government cannot actually count, or read a graph.
Crooked folks got rich off the back of this garbage whilst other innocent folks got injured or died
As ever government squandering our money.
Is there any way I can legally stop paying tax.
After all, if this lot are just going to pi$$ it up a wall, why should I contribute?
“…so the lessons can be learned..”
Oh, please. Don’t use that over-used, worn out old hack of a statement.
From the total mis-management of COVID-19 to the abuse of thousands of children by pak-origin mu$lims, it’s always “lessons will be learned”. Yet they never are.
The amount of money they printed and squandered is criminal. However, in the great scheme of things, I’m fairly relaxed that the money for the jabs I have refused to subject myself to has been wasted.
So basically the idiots in government rolled over to Pfizer and Moderna and bought 10 doses for every person in the U.K.? That’s criminal. Somebody needs to answer for this – but of course they won’t. Have you seen the latest Pfizer data release? I wouldn’t touch their product with my worst enemy’s barge pole, never mind my own.
Perhaps another television campaign with David Walliams, Jim Broadbent and Elton John can create the necessary take up of those unused vaccines? No?
Shame on all of them. And Lenny Henry and Adil Ray to name another few happy to take the government shilling and “persuade” their brothers and sisters to go to the jabbing centre
This.
Yes I remember that rag The Daily Fail going on endlessly about Corbyn’s magic money tree. Hardly a murmur though about Johnson’s magic money forest.
Where on Earth are they going to find an arse big enough to stick that many vaccines up??
Boris?
A stockpile of 650 million doses. So, assuming official population figures the intention is 10 jabs per citizen.
Firkin hell. That’s not genocide, that’s total wipeout. An empty island.
Well you have to get the UK in line with those Deagel forecasts somehow HP!
That’s alright they’ll do exactly what they did with the swine flu vaccines that were left over…they’ll repurpose them as that years flu vaccine without telling anyone. My friend, when she knew they were going to do this with with the swine flu vaccines, went off sick from the local surgery for over a week because she thought people should know what they were getting…I still don’t think people know this happened….
I didn’t know that.
Yet another reason to avoid the NHS and rely on diet, exercise, etc to stay healthy as long as possible.
I suspect that they lost a fair bit with ‘flu vaccines, when they extended the age range for free admissions a year or so ago. The shelf life of those is quite short, so it’s possible that a lot had to be chucked out, if the offer was not taken up. They’ll keep quiet about that.
Just arrived through the front door! That’s the kind of news I’m happy to receive!
I read it online occasionally. Pity it’s not mainstream.
“Will the public be forgiving of this massive waste of public funds”
What recourse do the public have?
They shut down the economy
They closed the NHS
They closed the schools
They overspent on the wrong PPE while feathering their own and their buddies’ nests
They were defrauded of £billions by the chancellor’s furlough scheme
They ignored the rules when they felt like it, which was all the time
They fired people for not having the state injectable
They coerced people including children into having the state injectable
They have given away our food and fuel security
They are flooding the country with illegal immigrants
And now they are spaffing more £billions on fomenting their very own nuclear war
Why would anyone think they care about the public’s forgiveness?
Are the public even aware? Talk about this to any upstanding subject and they’ll more than likely accuse you of being a conspiracy theorist from the land of Zog, at least that’s my general experience.
And mine – as soon as I even get into the foothills of this conversation with my family they close me down.
Money for old rope, all round. Tory chums and donors, fill your boots. The rest of you, empty your pockets- by order of the Fat Controller.
Both parents in their seventies have been offered a fourth jab – they’re not taking up the offer.
Fool me … four times … shame on me.
I had a communication recently from someone I occasionally buy from on eBay that proudly stated ‘4th jab very soon!’ Unbelievable.
These are the people who collected every badge possible in the Cubs. I joined as a kid but after attending half a dozen times couldn’t stand the bleating so told my Mum I’d never go back.
I have never since joined a club of any sort as I find them full of squabbling, backstabbing losers who need the support of likeminded peers to justify their miserable existence.
A little self reflection may be of benefit here. ‘Everyone is out of step except me’.
I’m certainly not alone in this view.
Get your next order in sharpish.
Thank God.
Sadly, if my Mum is offered a 4th Jab she likely will if she hasn’t done so already.
John Stossel is the rare American TV journalist who challenges many of the false or dubious narratives that become accepted parts of “conventional wisdom.”
I often use an example from one of Stossel’s TV specials to illustrate government waste – all in the name of “protecting” people from some minuscule health risk.
In this episode, Stossel focussed on the “threat” of lead in the soil in some western state. The government was spending tens of millions of dollars to haul off dirt from some contaminated industrial site. This project took years.
Stossel provided a contrarian expert who said that the risk of children or anyone having harmful effects from this lead might manifest itself years later … if this hypothetical person ate a bucket of lead-contaminated sand ever day for years.
Stossel then asked a great question: What if the $20 million (or whatever the figure was) spent on lead-removal had instead been spent on projects that everyone KNEW would save lives?
The example he gave was highway guardrails. We know that thousands of Americans die or suffer severe injuries every year when their cars run off the shoulder of the road, flip or hit a tree … or cross… Read more »
They could always spend the money on teaching people to drive properly!
In the UK you can learn to drive in a Ferrari, take your driving test in a Lamborghini, then drive home from the testing station, unaccompanied, in an Aston Martin, or for that matter, a street adapted F1 car.
By any reasonably logical thought progression, that is insane. An alternative might be to learn in a car with a specific, low, power to weight ratio. pass a secondary test and progress to, say, a family sized car with a better power to weight ratio. Pass a third test and the choice of car is unlimited.
The onus of responsibility is then on the driver to keep safe, and they are equipped with the knowledge to do so. Rather than governments making allowances for people driving vehicles they are ill equipped to handle.
My point being is that we shouldn’t miss the obvious answers for the want of being clever. Why didn’t our government anticipate take up of ‘vaccines’ would fall off? Why didn’t they understand the logistics of PPE. Indeed, why didn’t they have adequate stockpiles of PPE and a coherent pandemic plan already in place, including Nightingale… Read more »
We had a plan for what to do with an influenza and virus epidemic. It lasted as long as it took the Unions to hear the words ‘Herd Immunity’. It went out the window faster than shit off a shiny shovel. We had to do what everyone else was doing. Anything other was unforgivable as we would not have been following the science.
If the influenza and virus epidemic plans didn’t include discussions with all relevant parties, it wasn’t a plan.
Which is what I’m driving at. A government plan would include all interested parties who would be legally bound to a particular course of action. Deviate from that without incredibly sound reasons for doing so runs the risk (or in fact the duty) of prosecution. That includes the Whitty’s and Vallences, and, of course, Parliament – responsible individuals thereof.
No one making decisions has skin in the game. If politicians, unions, medical officers or anyone else associated with government gets something wrong, they pay no price.
The argument goes that no one would enter politics if they were held responsible for failures, but that’s bollox. Corporations are run by people who are held responsible for the companies actions.
Occasionally pursued across the world if things really go bad, Polly Peck’s CEO Asil Nadir jailed for 10 years, Worldcom’s CEO Bernard Ebbers jailed for 25 years, and Bernie Madoff who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion, jailed for 150 years.
Why is no one in our government facing a prison term for perpetrating a financial disaster far worse… Read more »
The Pandemic Prepared Ness plan covered all that. Developed over years. It was discarded in days. Yes, the Unions played a huge part in the lockdown fiasco, and must be accountable along with Boris et al.
Excellent post – couldn’t agree more.
Actually, we were following the plan – Agenda 2030.
In our neck of the UK, we know that any government official who promises “investment” is just using Orwellian language to hide the fact that a big demolition job is on the way. Usually something of architectural value.
Will I forgive any of their criminal wastings of public funds?
Never. Never. Never.
But I’m also proud that I helped them waste the snake oil, by not having any of it.
I hope they dispose of it properly; Wouldn’t want that shit in the water supply.
Hate to tell you CG, but if it can be passed to an infant from mother’s breast milk (Pfizer latest doc release suggests it can) then it might already be in there.
Most certainly is, with all the contaminated masks lying about and getting into the water course.
This really worries me. We have a grandchild due in a few weeks and Mum is at least double perforated. Stupid girl.
Hope all goes well HP. Let us know.
Remember this and the events of the previous two years, tomorrow.
And what? I get a choice of voting for Red, yellow or blue lower-minions of the uni-party. All undoubtedly supported the bullshit throughout – although I can’t confirm that as the yellow and blue candidates can’t even be arsed to print leaflets or have an online presence, because red is always the vastly most popular colour in this particular shit-hole. So I am going to vote with extreme profanity, for the third election in a row.
Or just spoil your paper – iirc they get shown to candidates for them to confirm as spoiled, so probably the spicier inscriptions will be immortalised by being snapped and ‘shared’ via dumb-phones.
Do you have the numbers correct ? 650 M is almost 10 for every person in the UK , with a disease with an IFR of 0.27 then being ( very ) generous and saying 10 % of people may benefit from this therapy then that is still @ 100 doses ordered for each . How can nobody not put this simple math together ? is anyone in government or working in public service have any level of responsibility and thinking of the tax payer or are they just all “at it “
what is the sell by date on the stuff?
would you put it past them to tamper with the sell by date labels?
I am afraid I wouldn’t.
I think they already did
Never underestimate the ability of a government to waste Taxpayers money.
They were expecting a lot of cross-Channel migrants through their open borders policy.
It’s 8 per person (20% of the 650 million having been used) and if you were “new to the game” you’d need 4 shots to catch up..but even so still a gross misuse of public funds, to make a huge understatement. What happened to “give shots to Africa”? They have clearly refused to have them.
But…..but….if it saves just one life…..
I remember the good old days when people were losing their minds over the fact that we had to pay out £40bn to leave the EU. Now the Government regularly pees that up the wall on any old crap that the pharmaceutical companies and their mates want to sell them.
The intention is to help bust the £, bring on the coming Financial Meltdown and bring on their next perverse treat….the “Corporate Fascist Digital Currency”!
According to Vernon Coleman, who hasn’t been wrong on any of this to date, there is something like only 8 months left before it happens.
https://www.vernoncoleman.com/eightmonths.htm
“In this video I’m going to provide the proof that the Great Reset is much further along than most people realise. I’m going to show that everything that has been happening during the last two years – the covid fraud, the net zero fraud, the sanctions against Russia, the transgender controversy – is part of the plan leading the world into the biggest recession since the 1930s – as I’ve been predicting for longer than I like to remember – and possibly worse than that. Closing down Russia’s access to its dollars will cost us all huge amounts of money.
The New World Order is already here. We’re living in it. And things are going to get far, far worse during the coming months because we are now already in the kill phase of the Great Reset. Decisions are made by or according to the demands of a tiny group of lobbyists and cultists who have been manipulated into representing the interests of the conspirators – either wittingly or though stupidity and ignorance
The… Read more »
“Follow the money.” I’m a decades-long contrarian, but I say everything connects back to the effort to protect the Magic Fiat Printing Press.
No “non-kook” talks about the on-going effort to rig precious metal “markets,” but I think this is the most important fraud/scandal/vital operation for our real rulers.
Without that Magic Printing Press, all of these billions of dollars in wasteful spending would not have been possible.
I’ll be interested to see how the Great Reset works when Xi, Putin and Modi (who supports Putin) not to mention 1 billion Africans are told to follow the instruction of Klaus Schwab.
Another western financial meltdown is inevitable at some point but it seems Russia and China at least are insulating themselves from that particular event.
India is ramping up wheat production to help alleviate the loss from Ukrainian production shortfalls.
But I’m not convinced there will be a production shortfall from Ukraine. The war is being waged in cities, not in the fields, and I’m not sure the Russians would wast their time end resources rounding up or shooting farmers. So other than trade route disruption I’m not sure what’s stopping farmers getting on with their businesses.
But the media just loves yet another bit or fear porn.
Fair points RHS – I would imagine you are right re India/china/Russia – which case it will be an east / west slit then which will surely not make trading difficult between those two blocs because whatever the east does the west seems hell bent on GR and average man on the street is completely oblivious to what is coming
meant to write split not slit
Dr Vernon Coleman pointed me in the right direction when this Scamdemic started. And Milo, as you say he has been spot on throughout all this. If Dr Coleman says 8 months – I’ve read this piece some time ago – then it’s eight months.
I don’t want to belittle him in any way because I think he has been incredibly brave to take them all on and stick his neck out the way he has, but I would love to know what crystal ball he is consulting!!
He has been right about everything from the get go. I used to read his articles and think “how awful a prospect – there is no way that will ever happen” and then lo and behold it did. If he is right about the time frame, 8 months, and if RHS is right about the Eastern bloc not buying in and taking orders from Schwab – and why would they? Trump wouldn’t which was why they took him out – then it will be a Western world GR.
We are living in quite a ‘special’ time.We are experiencing the worst Government in our history in every respect .It may well destroy 1,000 years of British history and take down our country, completely mesmerised as it is like a bunch of ‘Groupies’,by the deranged Psychopaths who have now clearly taken over all our Global Institutions.
Another wasted £4 billion ( how much has Johnson spaffed up the wall now?) on the ‘clot shots’ people no longer want, while the browbeaten population are forced to struggle to pay for food heating and cooking under their propaganda slogan ‘Save Ukraine'(?) and the threat of total war promised by our “Foreign” Secretary.
Then the Non-Conservative ( National Demolition Party) has the brass cheek to ask people to vote for their local ‘candidate’ …..surely only totally ‘lost’ sheepie and total fools will?
Susanna Reid in her interview with the man calling himself the UK’s prime minister yesterday put to him the case of the 77year old widow who’s heating bills are now so unaffordable that she has had to economise by only eating one meal per day and spends the day using her bus pass to ride the bus to save on her heating bill.
He didn’t blink so much as an eyelid.
He’s a man of the people.
Imagine all that fagging he had to endure at Eton.
Not true, he was very magnanimous, only taking credit for the free bus pass.