I have just received a very interesting MHRA reply to an FOI request about whether the Healthy Secretary delegated Covid vaccine decisions to the MHRA.
The MHRA said: “All the Covid vaccines and therapeutics authorisation decisions were taken by the Licensing Minister and were not delegated.”
What makes this so interesting is the wider context. Under the Human Medicines Regulations, the Licensing Authority is the Secretary of State for Health. He or she delegates to MHRA all the work associated with that – licensing of medicines, pharmacovigilance, inspection of manufacturers, enforcement and so on.
But for the Covid vaccines, MHRA is saying that the Secretary of State personally took all the decisions.
I read that as the blame game having started. I’ll explain why.
Back in 2020, MHRA would have known only too well that the clinical trials had been rushed (10 months compared with typical time to market of 5-10 years), had not been comprehensive (e.g. limited pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics) and wouldn’t finish until 2024. There were many warnings from experts around the world. MHRA’s line about ‘rolling review’ was, and remains, bunkum.
MHRA scientists and officials would have known about the problems (with all medicines) of scaling up production from small-scale, laboratory-based production for trials purposes to full-scale production. For example, larger quantities of ingredients can be more difficult to mix. They wouldn’t therefore have been surprised to have seen batch problems with the Covid vaccines around the world. One batch resulted in the hospitalisation of 120 children in Vietnam. One batch caused ocular injury to nurses when a vial was broken. In Japan, 1.63 million doses were recalled due to metallic contamination. Probably just the tip of the iceberg.
MHRA then saw adverse event reporting starting to reveal serious safety issues in the U.K. and around the world. First, myocarditis and blood clots, in March 2021, a few weeks after approval of the AstraZeneca vaccine (now effectively withdrawn) and later other heart issues, neurological problems and immunosuppression with Pfizer and Moderna.
MHRA knew in 2020 that the risk to younger age groups from Covid was very low and after rollout it would have seen assessments of vaccine effectiveness falling month on month. It wriggled hard against the evidence in the UKHSA weekly surveillance reports that vaccine effectiveness was even negative for younger age groups.
Since then the Covid vaccine narrative has continued to take a pounding as more clinicians around the world speak up, the research evidence about cardiac, neurological and immunosuppression problems continues to pile up, and the 1,000 per week excess deaths have still not been explained.
MHRA might have been criticised by Baroness Cumberlege for being “unresponsive and defensive”, but its staff aren’t all deaf, blind or stupid. They knew.
So my inference is that the blame game has started.
Mind you, MHRA is on a sticky wicket in any blame game. There are serious shortfalls in its own safety management:
- It doesn’t have a process for investigating individual Yellow Card reports. It says it tries to investigate individual fatal and serious Yellow Card reports but it doesn’t have a process so it doesn’t know how many it has investigated (FOI 21/1109);
- It’s never had a safety audit (FOI 22/562);
- It doesn’t actively seek out real-world data – for example, real-world population-level data such as hospitalisation for ‘adverse events of special interest’ segmented by vaccination status and age. In January 2022, MHRA did not hold such data (CSC 88243) and in August 2022, UKHSA (FOI 22/472) only held population level info on thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS). Instead, it wait for signal detection from Yellow Card reports of adverse events, which are massively under-reported;
- It doesn’t (or can’t) define the quantitative level of risk which is ‘acceptable’ as the basis of “acceptably safe” (FOI 22/390);
- It lost 20% of posts in 2021 due to funding cuts and has 20% vacancies below that new baseline (FOI 22/1007);
- It doesn’t have a process for delegating the authority to approve medicines for public use (FOI 22/1002) or governance of individuals competence (qualification, experience and training) (FOI 22/1007) to MHRA officers;
- It has hidden safety data (FOI 22/1083), redacting numbers in tables on the pretext of maintaining patient confidentiality;
- It appears quietly to have dropped a key strand of its Covid vaccine surveillance: Targeted Active Monitoring. FOI 22/1083 asked for a copy of the latest report but it was 15 months old (August 2021).
But back to “All the Covid vaccines and therapeutics authorisation decisions were taken by the Licensing Minister and were not delegated.” I’m left wondering what safety advice MHRA gave to Chris Whitty and ministers about the Covid vaccines back in late 2020 and early 2021 and subsequently as the serious safety issues started to emerge. And I wonder what briefings MHRA gave to the Commission on Human Medicines Expert Working Group on Covid Vaccine Benefits and Risks and to the COVID-19 Vaccines Safety Surveillance Methodologies Expert Working Group – neither publishes minutes.
It’s high time MPs and the Covid Inquiry started to ask some searching questions.
Until Nick retired a few years ago, he was a Senior Civil Servant in a Government Department.
Stop Press: A couple of rogue reporters tried to interview the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, as he made his way into Davos. He refused to answer a single question.
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The living legend that is Awkward Git on the Lockdown Sceptics subreddit has sent dozens if not hundreds of FOIs and other letters and requests for information to various bodies connected to the “vaccines”, covid tests etc. Getting the runaround is a pretty common outcome – body A says it’s body B that is responsible and vice versa.
Absolutely. The reply isn’t the beginning of any blame game, it’s a government agency saying: piss off you annoying little fly.
Re “MHRA knew in 2020 that the risk to younger age groups from Covid was very low and after rollout it would have seen assessments of vaccine effectiveness falling month on month.”
It’s mind-boggling! In what universe is it ethical to coerce people to have medical interventions for diseases that aren’t a threat to them?!
In Australia, millions of people have been subjected to Covid jab mandates – they’ve been pressured, coerced and manipulated to submit to the jabs to keep their jobs – No Jab, No Job – and to participate in civil society – No Jab, No Life.
It’s incredible what’s happened in Australia – the destruction of personal autonomy and bodily integrity, and all with the support of the medical ‘profession’.
When people here wake up and understand how they’ve been lied to and tricked into these medical interventions will there be uproar?
At the moment there seems to be collective amnesia about the appalling abuse of public trust that has been perpetrated to capture the Australian population for the ‘vaccine’ industry, e.g. the planned Moderna factory in Melbourne which it’s reported will produce 100 million jabs annually.
$cience. Follow the money. And the power.
Rona totalitarianism was never about a ‘disease’.
A virus is perfect as an excuse to make endless profits, ritualise & annualise the mRNA stabs, usher in Digital IDs, get the sheeple used to diapers and lockdowns, to ‘do their duty’ to save such and such.
No logic, no science, no morals, nothing. Unbridled Totalitarianism.
If it was about a disease, the “Healthy Secretary” in 2020 absolutely would have consulted groups like the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (and a properly functioning media would have held that man to account over it). I suggest he may have been at the very least criminally negligent.
Quite possibly impending economic collapse was something to do with it, though I still wonder if it was at least partly revenge for 2016. Take back control? Not likely!
The pharma companies are adhering to their playbook.
They strike while the iron is hot, they push hard and go so far that it makes it really hard for politicians to step back and before people start complaining about the jabs
They have orchestrated the introduction of mRNA technology to take over all future vaccination almost perfectly.
Just one fly in the ointment: nobody is going to want the injections.
Let’s hope you’re right!
So that’s why they set the scene with Covid jab mandates…mandated medical interventions in a supposed liberal democracy…
Seems like Australia is one of the test beds to check how far they can go with this.
Many of the jab mandates have been dropped now, but some still remain in place for medical folk and some businesses.
But the framework is in place to do this again, for the next orchestrated pandemic.
See for instance what happened in the state of Victoria, in this article published on the ABC in September 2021:
The Victorian Premier says the state is heading for a ‘vaccine economy’, here’s what that might look like
A ‘vaccine economy’…if you don’t comply and get the jabs you’re locked out… How bad is that?!
And Daniel Andrews was re-elected in Victoria after this tyranny! Seriously… What is going on with people here, so many captured – Stockholm Syndrome?
Could it happen again though? I sincerely hope not…
One thing is for sure, a ‘vaccine economy’ is going to be sparsely populated. I couldn’t believe dictator Dan was re-elected. Wasn’t he being investigated for corruption? I hope bin singer lady escaped.
Wasn’t it June Raine, the Head of the MHRA who decided that their role was to not regulate medicines, but to expedite their progress to market, and who proudly declared as much to the world. When the toxic mRNA jab rollout was gathering full steam. She clearly had forgotten the history of why the MHRA existed. I look at her and other egregious enemies of humanity like Tony Blair and wonder how they are allowed to walk the streets, while someone can be arrested on suspicion of silently praying while standing near an abortion clinic. As I said elsewhere yesterday, down is now up.
Very well articulated.
The UK is a Banana Republic.
Isn’t the whole World now a banana republic run by psychopaths and sociopaths?
Thought is crime, crime is just a (lucrative) statistic.
Pass the parcel has started.
Marvellous.
What about Wales and Scotland – is the Westminster Health Secretary’s role as Licensing Minister wholly delegated to the equivalent person in the Welsh and Scottish governments? Does anyone know?
In Australia, they’ve already started to shift blame and above all any liability to the doctors who performed the injections.
That’s surely gonna happen here too and next.
See a letter I’ve received from the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care that confirms:
But in my opinion no-one has given authentic voluntary informed consent… How can people give voluntary informed consent under coercive jab mandates?
Could be interesting times ahead…
It would appear that the MHRA (anag. HARM) has an analogous role to that of the Children’s Welfare Department on Epstein island.
One of the weird things about being a Minister is that you don’t have to be competent with the matter in hand, unlike most roles in industry, including medicine. In an ideal setup, the Permanent Secretary in the Service should be doing a proper job and telling them what to do, but who knows if they are any good in that department?
Competence is a contraindication.
And what was the authorization of the Covid jabs based on? RRR? ARR? An interesting one from Arkmedic wheedling out more fraud in Pfizer’s trial they tried to hide from us;
“You thought that the Pfizer vaccine had a myriad of magical powers? Nope.
Just to push the point home these are some of the things that people think the Pfizer study showed, but it did not;
Reduced COVID symptoms by 95%
Reduced COVID symptoms by any amount
Reduced transmission of COVID
Reduced deaths from COVID
Reduced deaths from any cause
Reduced the chance of getting “long COVID”
Reduced the number days taken off work
Reduced COVID hospitalisations or ICU admissions
Reduced the chance of testing positive for COVID by more than 2 months
Reduced the chance of testing positive for COVID at any other laboratory than Pearl River
When you put it like that it’s a bit of an eye-opener isn’t it? Especially: that all the PCR tests conducted in the study were sent to Pearl River (Pfizer’s lab) from all the study site locations in the world. Even if a test were conducted locally, the study authors did not use that test result – only the ones conducted at Pearl River were used for the analysis.”
https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/dont-be-arrsey
Hmm – “…wonder what briefings MHRA gave to…”.
I can honestly say that the MHRA didn’t need to brief me on anything. I instinctively knew that the narrative was a load of tripe and codswallop. I do not recall that the MHRA put up much of a fight to alert the ‘licensing minister’ that there were inherent dangers in pushing the jabs due to insufficient safety data.
Shysters!
Isn’t there a saying about don’t have a dog and bark yourself…
I am reminded of the truism, “Success has many fathers, but failure, alas, is a bastard…”
I briefly worked for the MHRA several years back as lead analyst among a team of external consultants. We were the second consultancy engaged on this work, and we inherited the wreckage of the prior engagement.
I had a chance to explore most of their systems and processes in detailed workshops. It wasn’t pretty. They talked up their PV (pharmacovigilance) capabilities, but the tech behind this was questionable.
The organisation was hide-bound, arrogant and thick-headed, preferring to exert power over their suppliers than engage in constructive discussions. Being govt workers they also had very generous employment terms.
The second engagement was also an expensive failure.
I seriously doubt their chances of having overcome these shortcomings over the intervening years.
https://expose-news.com/2023/01/18/whitty-lied-about-additional-22000-heart-related-deaths/
Apparently excess deaths are the result of a shortage of statins.
Witty eh?
Witty by Whitless.
Incidentally, I’ve heard that statins are a bit of a health scandal too. I certainly have no intention of taking them.
Statins are dangerous and the evidence is coming out now.
Statins are junk just like the “vaccines.”
Dr Malcolm Kendrick is rather vocal on this topic.
His excellent book “Doctoring Data” (2014) looks into the dubious ways pharma represent their products, and the weaknesses in their trial design & outcomes.
He’s also written “The Great Cholesterol Con” (which I haven’t read) – this goes way deeper into the subject.
Tony Bliar is at Davos lecturing on the need for vaccine passport ID etc etc !! Freak !!!…,
Amazing video, thanks for sharing
Now we can see why Raine boasted to her college chums that she had changed the MHRA from being a regulator into an enabler. Enabling them to pass the buck.
Absolutely love Avi and Ezra they and all at Rebel News are the bravest of the brave, proper journalists holding truth to power, on the other hand those in the MSM with very few exceptions are just supine craven hacks.
“supine craven hacks.” Otherwise known as Cowards.
Watching Bourla being challenged by real journalists was an absolute pleasure. I hope and pray that he’s faced with similar questions in a Court of Law before much longer.
So Handcock is personally responsible for authorising the Covid Monkey Juice despite the dodgy “trials” and evidence of harm. Shame about Crown Immunity, so it’ll have to be Malfeasance in Public Office.
So the MHRA staff watched this disaster unfolding and not one of them thought they should express concern. It also doesn’t say much for the people who readily accepted the vaccines without question.
I recall from somewhere, that if Civil Servants were concerned about something a Minister wanted them to do, the standard practice was to ask for a Memo from the Minister directing them to do what was being asked. This way Civil Servants had evidence and could prove they were acting on Ministerial direction, not by their own independent action, so they could nit have the buck passed to them and get the blame when it all went tits-up. How well they understand politicians.
It might be that knowing what they knew, the Civil Servants at the MHRA asked for a Memo and didn’t get one. The Hancock creature relying on everyone assuming the MHRA were responsible for the decision, not him, and avoiding blame.
It seems Sir Humphrey is having none of it.