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Demanding Answers on Vaccine Passports

by Will Jones
12 September 2022 6:00 PM

There follows a letter from Alan Miller, Co-Founder of the Together Declaration, to Maggie Throup MP, whose recent response to Daily Sceptic reader Richard Morgan revealed that vaccine passports are ready to be “toggled” on when required. The document Ms. Throup enclosed explained: “The Government may introduce a mandatory Covid Pass to access high risk venues if the data suggests further measures are necessary to protect the NHS.” Alan asks Ms. Throup why she denied this in her cover letter as he warns once again of the serious threat to liberty of vaccine passports.

Dear Maggie Throup MP,

On behalf of Together’s now 300,000 signatories in the U.K., we were extremely concerned to read a media report on September 5th (“Vaccine Passports Are Alive and Kicking”) based on a new Freedom of Information request stating:

In April 2022, an Invitation to Tender (ITT) was issued by NHSX, and a Danish company called Netcompany Ltd won the £18m bid to: “Deliver the NHS Covid Pass App live service including operational management, incident management and support, and app development services.” …

Through a Freedom of Information request, I obtained a copy of the scope of works for the project (Department for Health & Social Security, Specification for Covid Pass Delivery Partner, Reference: C50516). On page nine is the following operational requirement:

“Domestic Pass for use in Voluntary and Mandatory Settings.

“The Government may introduce a mandatory Covid Pass to access high risk venues if the data suggests further measures are necessary to protect the NHS. In preparation for this eventuality, we have built the changes to support two levels of domestic passes. The functionality will be toggled off until required. This enables a quick response if/when the Government invokes a mandate. If a citizen is fully vaccinated, medically exempt or has been in a clinical trial, they will be eligible for an ‘all venues’ (mandatory) pass. If a citizen only has natural immunity or negative test results, they will only be eligible for a ‘limited venues’ (voluntary) pass.”

The covering letter from Maggie Throup, the MP fronting the programme, states:

“Although domestic certification is no longer being used in the U.K., the NHS Covid Pass still requires updating and maintaining for travel purposes.” This is plainly at odds with the operational requirement quoted above, where far more than travel purposes are envisaged.

In a few months, Together’s ‘Declaration’ was signed by 200,000 people in the U.K. to reject vaccine passports or any similar form of medical certification in the United Kingdom. We represent more than 200 organisations, business groups, campaigners and professionals who were and remain gravely concerned about the use of vaccine passports.

The introduction of vaccine passports was one of the most divisive proposals the Government sought to introduce. It was ill-founded from the start, and many see this project as a Trojan horse for introducing mandatory Digital I.D.

Of course, for a very long time Government denied there was any possibility of vaccine passports at all. Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told the U.K. public on BBC TV on February 7th 2021 that vaccine passports would be “discriminatory” and reassured the public that the Government had “no plans” to introduce them in Britain, even commenting “that’s not how we do things in the U.K.”.

There never was support for this authoritarian project, as seen by findings from your “Call for Evidence” consultation in March 2021. Over 52,000 people responded, and most voted against the introduction of vaccine passports.

In September 2021, the then Health Secretary Sajid Javid indicated that plans for vaccine passports had been scrapped. Yet, at the end of 2021 the Government introduced them anyway before supposedly withdrawing them in January 2022.

Clearly we see the invitation to tender was issued April 2022.

Then, on June 8th, Sir Desmond Swayne MP posed the question to Sajid Javid in Parliament: Why was the Department of Health even then advertising for a “permanent position” on £71,000 a year for “Deputy Director, Delivery Lead – Covid Pass?” for a programme that had supposedly ended? Javid’s response was deeply unconvincing.

The Department of Health is advertising for a 'Deputy Director, Delivery Lead – Covid Pass.' I think Sajid was taken by surprise when I asked for an explanation… pic.twitter.com/kSBRieLMIL

— rt hon Sir Desmond Swayne TD MP (@DesmondSwayne) June 8, 2022

‘Covid Pass’ seems to be the initiative that can never die. Is it any wonder the Government suffers from a perceived lack of trustworthiness when it apparently does not respect the wishes of British citizens or sticks to its Ministers’ briefings?

In the U.K., we enjoy many hard-won liberties and rights, all fought for and defended by our ancestors. These rights are not only fundamental to our understanding of democracy, they are rights we believe all humans should have. Some of us are lucky enough to have been born with these rights, but others have experienced the perils of segregation, suppression and surveillance first hand.

Therefore, on behalf of all Together Declaration signatories, given what the FOI request appears to have revealed, we request from you a clear answer to the question:

Given your statement that “Although domestic certification is no longer being used in the U.K., the NHS Covid Pass still requires updating and maintaining for travel purposes”, there can be only two explanations for the information revealed by the Freedom of Information request: either your covering letter was deliberately disingenuous, or you had not actually read the Specification behind your covering letter. Which is it?

Yours sincerely,

Alan Miller

Co-Founder Together

Tags: COVID-19TogetherTogether DeclarationVaccineVaccine Passports

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

Ah, the “toggle”.

So much snappier than the Sword of Damocles.

Last edited 2 years ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Yes! The seemingly inoffensive toggle, as on Paddington’s duffle coat.

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Agreed. I’ve said for a long time that until the Government officially repudiates any further restrictions, compelled accessories such as masks, and lockdowns, there’s a Sword of Damocles hanging over us.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

Indeed. The entire lockdown, mask, jab, and pass regime must be completely eradicated, root and branch, or else it will grow back with a vengeance!

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Yeh, it’s just the flip of a toggle switch. They are entirely clueless as to how businesses operate, and haven’t got the slightest interest in finding out.

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago

I’m afraid the Vaccine ID is the rock upon which they wish to build their satanic church, and as ridiculous as that may have sounded to the unawake two years ago, I think many are now slowly coming around to that conclusion. Are we in the End Times? I don’t know.

But I do know that spending £32 (or was it £33 billion?) on a piece of software subsequently declared useless was not done for fun, nor was it a mistake, or incompetence. Perhaps everyone gave a thumbs up to it at the Munich Security Council in February 2020 with Pelosi, Trudeau, Macron, Stoltenberg, Farrar etc.The money spent on this White Elephant is only 20% of what’s being spent on HS2. Can you imagine?Where did it all go? On a bit of coding? Many more questions need to be asked here? Dido Harding? All the gang? It’s the boot stamping on the human face that Orwell warns of, disguised in the pleasing form of an app on a Rose Gold iPhone 14.

It is impossible now to upgrade your phone OS without new baked-in ‘Vaccination Passes’ and ‘safety’ options updating and embedding themselves. A new Leave Your Smartphone at Home campaign needs to start at once. Use cash. All that jazz.

Apropos of something, the desire of BT etc to offer seamless connection between home and mobile internet connectivity will be of more benefit to the global state than it ever will to the consumer. Much like the smart meter.

If they could only get the lid off the next jar at Porton Down…

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  Occams Pangolin Pie

I use cash as much as I can and I replaced my smartphone with a flip phone. It uses Simplified Android, which is the open source Android code without all the intrusive Google crap. I have family abroad, so I need WhatsApp, otherwise I’d have a completely dumb phone and use regular text messaging. This phone is designed for older folks, so it’s incredibly basic and has a few apps that do what they have to do and that’s it. I love it: it’s a mobile phone, not a mobile computer/tracking device.
People have been mesmerised by expensive smart phones and ultimately enslaved by them. There should be a campaign to persuade people to carry dumb phones at the weekend at the very least: wean them off the wretched devices gradually.

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welshsceptic
welshsceptic
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

Thanks DomH75. Helpful to know you’re glad you did this. I’ve been thinking of doing the same for some time. But quick question – can you use a recently manufactured flip phone to create a temporary WiFi hotspot so you can use a laptop when away from home?

Or alternatively, since I’m planning on getting a VPN (probably Express VPN or Bitdefender) on my computer at home soon, is it possible to do the same for a smartphone and, if so, does that get rid of the need to ditch it for flip phone?

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

As I’m not the most tec-savvy person in the world, could you please be specific and tell me the name, manufacturer and model of the “flip phone.”

Much appreciated.

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Gefion
Gefion
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

I wanted one of these when my phone died. The family bought me an iPhone. I invariably leave it at home…

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
2 years ago

All the Government talking heads are lying Bar Stewards !

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morganlefey
morganlefey
2 years ago

these ‘vaccine passport’ notions violate our Magna Carta, which is our fundamental human rights statutory law, and which cannot be derogated

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VAX FREE IanC
VAX FREE IanC
2 years ago
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Yet derogate it they have. These entities have no respect or care for human rights or laws that don’t chime with their narrative or ambitions. they simply ignore and plough straight over them without fear of redress.

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