Isabel Oakeshott, who ghost wrote Matt Hancock’s diaries, has handed over a cache of WhatsApp messages from Hancock’s phone to the Telegraph. Oakeshott was given the messages by Hancock as an aide-mémoire and she has now passed them on. They appear to be pretty sensational, revealing that the then Health Secretary ignored Sir Chris Whitty’s advice about testing people in the community before admitting them to care homes, among other things. The Telegraph has the most sensational revelations on its website. Best of them at the foot of this page.
Needless to say, the messages confirm the Daily Sceptic‘s general position at the time, namely, that the Government’s pandemic response was prompted by political calculation, not ‘the Science’. The files give the impression that nearly everything the Government did to try to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 – social distancing, tiers, lockdown, masking, closing schools, restricting access to care homes – was just nonsense it made up as it went along, desperate to be seen to be doing something. I think they also confirm my own analysis of the Government’s pandemic response, which is that it wasn’t part of some grand plot long planned in advance – the plandemic – but just a series of cock-ups made by people of limited intelligence desperate to shore up their own positions. A clown show, not a conspiracy.
It beggars belief that Hancock simply handed over these incriminating messages to Oakeshott without any guarantee she wouldn’t share them with anyone – but, then, he’s a bear of very little brain. She calls this a “sensational cache of private communications”, which seems about right.
Here is the Telegraph on what appears to be the most scandalous revelation in the files – Hancock’s decision to ignore Whitty’s advice about testing people in the community before admitting them into care homes.
Prof Sir Chris Whitty told the then Health Secretary early in April 2020, about a month into the pandemic, that there should be testing for “all going into care homes”. But Mr Hancock did not follow that guidance, telling his advisers that it “muddies the waters”.
Instead, he introduced guidance that made testing mandatory for those entering care homes from hospital, but not for those coming from the community. Prior to the guidance, care homes had been told that negative tests were not required even for hospital patients. The guidance stating that those coming in from the community should be tested was eventually introduced on August 14th.
Between April 17th and August 13th, 2020, a total of 17,678 people died of Covid in care homes in England.
In the first two years of the pandemic, there were more than 40,000 Covid deaths in care homes in England, as the most vulnerable in society bore the brunt of the fatalities.
Mr. Hancock himself later told MPs that transmission from the community – particularly from staff – was the “strongest route” for Covid into care homes.
The Telegraph has obtained more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages sent between the then Health Secretary and other ministers and officials at the height of the pandemic.
The messages comprise 2.3 million words – three times as many words as the King James Bible contains.
The communications span the years of the pandemic and reveal discussions between the then Health Secretary and those at the heart of the decision-making process, including the then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.
Other conversations involve Sir Chris, the Government’s Chief Medical Officer, and Sir Patrick Vallance, its Chief Scientific Adviser.
The messaging groups have names such as “Top Teams”, “COVID-19 senior group” and “crisis management” – the name of a group created to deal with the fallout from Mr. Hancock’s relationship with his aide, Gina Coladangelo.
Over the coming days, the Telegraph will reveal the messages, which lay bare the extent to which groupthink among aides and ministers affected pandemic decisions.
The messages also reveal the often casual approach that ministers took to making major decisions, including the call to close classrooms, introduce face masks in schools and provide testing in care homes.
They show how Mr. Hancock expressed concerns that expanding testing in care homes could “get in the way” of his self-imposed target of 100,000 Covid tests per day.
Very much worth reading in full.
Other stories from the files include: ‘How Matt Hancock hit his audacious 100,000 daily Covid testing target‘; ‘Matt Hancock was told care home Covid rules were “inhumane” – but kept them’; ‘Hancock adviser arranged personal test for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s child at time of massive shortage’; ‘“No one thinks testing is going well, Matt,” George Osborne told Hancock’.
We‘ll be bringing you more in the coming days.
Stop Press: Fraser Nelson makes a decent fist of trying to sum up the main take-away in his Telegraph column:
Over the next few days, the Lockdown Files will show how much political concerns shaped policy – with ‘the science’ used, all too often, as verbal dressing. If you suddenly find out that people don’t need to self-isolate for as long as you once thought, what do you do? Apologise, and let them away earlier? Or delay sharing the advice to avoid embarrassment? The closed-loop decision-making process, the confidence that no one might ever know, encouraged all kinds of political misbehaviour.
Worth reading in full.
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All these clowns should be fired, or if they’re already kicked up to the Lords or elsewhere, barred from public office. I can accept that it was a difficult time, and decisions has to be made on the hoof. But these messages reveal that they were just lying to us about “following the science” (whatever THE science is) and making it up as they went along, killing off old folks in care homes, riding roughshod over our freedoms and destroying the economy.
If this is the best leadership our country can offer we’re well and truly up the proverbial creek without a paddle.
Now let’s see the WhatsApp messages about the #NetZero nonsense too.
I can accept that it was a difficult time, and decisions has to be made on the hoof.
Oh, as far as it goes. But there was a pandemic response plan, drawn up in calm times, precisely aimed at dealing with this sort of situation.
Why did they tear it up and throw it away? Do the exact opposite?
Nope, they’re damned, every one of them.
Pig ignorant. Off-the-scale arrogance and narcissism. They enjoyed watching others suffer, as they indulged their sociopathic wet dreams. Damn them all.
‘Why did they tear it up and throw it away? Do the exact opposite?
… Pig ignorant….etc”
Yes!
The same reason the Blair Government tore up and threw away the plan to deal with Foot & Mouth outbreak. Then embroiled us in Iraq using ‘expert evidence’ to justify it and deceive us.
The whole point of War Gaming; Risk Assessments and resulting a Plan of Action is so that you DON’T have to make crucial decisions “on the hoof.”
They war-gamed (Operation Cygnus and the Report); that would/should have led to a Risk Assessment Tool with mitigation/implementation measures time-scaled and an Emergency Plan of Action in the event the emergency arose.
It appears that Hunt ignored the Operation Cygus Wargame, the Report was buried and then the Emergency Plan of Action was binned.
Why? There was no need for crucial decisions to be made on the hoof.
I absolutely agree with your conclusion that they ignored the Report (Hancock though not Hunt). Hancock was on record at one point saying that he had watched the film Contagion and was inspired by that!
What is missing from this account is an explanation as to why the measures taken/followed in the UK were also rolled out in many other countries. All the same cock-up? (Or another example of our World Leader tag, World Leader in Stupidity in this case.)
A slight correction – ‘The $cience.’
But it wasn’t a difficult time at all. The ‘difficulty’ was invented.
If the biggest scandal they can come up with is a lack of testing, these files are not terribly interesting. Respiratory viruses find their way into care homes one way or another. With proper treatment they didn’t have to kill anybody. What we’d actually like to know is:
I wonder, will the Gates-funded Telegraph cover these topics?
“We didn’t test enough” is from the “we didn’t lock down hard enough” school of pandemic management. It’s not a proper critique of what Hancock did. What is the Telegraph hiding from us? Much of the COVID “conspiracy” is actually the actions of the captured mainstream media, which in March 2020 was howling for the government to abandon its pandemic plans and replace them with lockdowns.
Or, to put it more succinctly, why did the UK act in Lockstep with pretty much all Western style governments across the world?
It goes without saying I do not accept Toby’s analysis:
“I think they also confirm my own analysis of the Government’s pandemic response, which is that it wasn’t part of some grand plot long planned in advance – the plandemic – but just a series of cock-ups made by people of limited intelligence desperate to shore up their own positions. A clown show, not a conspiracy.”
And if the government reaction was a cock-up why does Lockstep continue with assaults on farming, digital ID’S, CBDC, 15 minute ghettos and so on across those same Western type countries?
‘Cock-up’ has been demonstrably proven to be a myth pushed by MSM and therfore government and the Davos Deviants.
I tend to the view that this is another false flag, after all it’s not as if The Torygraph won’t have needed permission from Billy to run this story. Or perhaps it was TOLD to run the story. Handicock will certainly be seen as a piece of expendable rubbish by now.
Summat’s coming.
Agree. And for balance one should also read Nick Triggle’s comments on the story.
They’ll cover what they’re told, same as the Times muppets – there’s a reason why Times journalist Oliver Wright doesn’t do pieces on big pharma corruption anymore.
But we should trust these murderers on vaccines?
What about the DNR order , no Post Mortem’s ,no hospital visits ( even to dying patients ) locking people coming back to uk in hotels ,10 year jail threats for not filling in airport paperwork as ordered ! Midazolam , no funerals, no weddings ,& then we get to Masks leading onto the Jabs which is all beyond even Wancocks slimy input . ! Over reach Yes ! some cock up Yes! but there is too much of the same co-ordination around the world to render the little Twerp almost inconsequencel in The Great Build Back Better Reset scheme of things !
They murdered 30.000 and blamed it on the scamdemic. Maybe the fake news Torygraph might be interested in that story.
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So what are the consequences for political and bureaucratic decision makers (as well as media and legislative facilitators)? A catalogue of lying, coercion, corruption, stealing away of basic natural rights and ultimately of needless deaths. Any ordinary person guilty of these crimes (because that is what they are) would be prosecuted and charged. Yet these perpetrators are protected from any kind of legal consequences and even ‘rehabilitated’ on game shows. Where is the righteous anger in the general population? The problem with living in a big government social democracy is that most people are morons.
Probably not a conspiracy, no – not as far as our crappy government is concerned – not at first; but it’s impossible to deny that forces outside the UK had been at least trying to plan something big for some time – and when the time was right they made sure that Bill Gates eased his way into Hancock’s favours, and via that foul conduit into the lives of all of us. At some point, conspiracy became exactly the right word to describe what the ba**ards were doing, and if it wasn’t a planned assault at first, it certainly turned into one.
We already know all this.
This would only matter if any of these people would face some consequences. But they won’t. Which perversely will make it worse because it will just show the general population how helpless it is against state abuse.
The only effect will be to bury the Conservative Party even more and make it even more likely for Labour to win the next election. Which only matters if you believe in the Team A, Team B democracy charade.
Labour; who wanted all the nonsensical restrictions to be harder, faster, longer? Sounds like one of Baldrick’s cunning plans. On reflection that’s being very rude about Baldrick.
Hancock may have made up the Covid rules on the back of a fag packet; so how come the rest of the world did the same – more draconially in some places?
The cock up theorists will tell you that they all just copied each other’s cockups
And they wave away the visit by Gates Foundation reps to No.10 in early 2020 as inconsequential.
Dominic Cummings mentioned BG’s visits and conversations early 2020.
“the then Health Secretary ignored Sir Chris Whitty’s advise about testing people in the community before admitting them to care homes”
With what? A flawed test that even its inventor said shouldn’t be used as a diagnostic tool and which has proved to be used for spurious purposes.
We still haven’t got over this test, test, test nonsense just stop it can you.
“just a series of cock-ups made by people of limited intelligence desperate to shore up their own positions. A clown show, not a conspiracy”
Sorry not buying it……There is so much evidence that it was deliberate [world wide] destruction……Event 201 JUST for starters.
“I think they also confirm my own analysis of the Government’s pandemic response, which is that it wasn’t part of some grand plot long planned in advance – the plandemic – but just a series of cock-ups made by people of limited intelligence desperate to shore up their own positions.”
Or both. Planned elsewhere at far higher “pay grades” than the Clowns in our Government; with the Clowns simply following the lead of Fauci and his associates (including Farrar?)
Exactly !
Which is more likely?
1) A catalogue of cockups made by virtually every government on the planet because every government was filled to the brim with people so stupid that they struggle to tie there own shoelaces. That these incredibly stupid people all, like some kind of hive mind, foolishly decided to try to enforce an experimental product onto the populace, accidentally introduced authoritarian measures, propaganda and censorship only imagined by Orwell, and the sort of discrimination last seen in Nazi Germany. The biggest psyop in human history was an accident without an endgame.
2) It wasn’t all accidental. An opportunity was seized to initiate mass social and economic reform (I’ll ignore the possible implications of the ‘vaccines’). The biggest psyop in human history was not an accident and had/has an endgame.
How anyone can genuinely still believe 1) is beyond me tbh, but, either way, the system is fundamentally broken and must be replaced by something that represents the people, not the elites.
Before Digital ID gets us !!…
“Before Digital ID gets us !!…”
Which very definitely does not fall under the remit of “cock-up.”
Correctomondo!!!!!
Dear Toby, please explain to me
1) How Moderna took out a US patent on a key part of SARS-COV-2 in 2016 as this peer-reviewed, published paper shows:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fviro.2022.834808/full
2) The lock-step of governments’ responses across the world
Yes Tobes stop it … Once it took hold cock ups were swallowed up by a master plan !
I would bet Toby Young knows deep down that the mendacity and self serving sociopathy of our ruling politicians and bureaucrats (a.k.a. “the cock up”) only part explains what happened.
I think he knows they. are useful idiots being heavily influenced by global plutocrats, in myriad ways: fear of being shamed and ostracised (Bridgen), fear of being replaced by someone who will play ball (Lizz Truss), the incentive of cushy jobs after politics in return for carrying out very dirty work (Blair).
I mean, 20. years ago, it was absolutely de rigeur to accept that Rupert Murdoch had the power to put his finger on the electoral scales and essentially pick the PM, but for some bizarre reason nowadays someone far richer and more powerful like Bill Gates can’t influence UK public policy.
He knows. But deep down he’s an idealist and refuses to give up on the system. He said as much in the last London Calling podcast.
Changing the rules to make it possible to significantly overcount covid deaths and not trying to see whether combinations of existing safe and cheap treatments might save lives are not the actions of panicking fools.
Ivermectin and Hydroxichloroquine were actually banned and removed from pharmacies across most of the planet although Uttar Pradesh refused to do this and with notable success.
Also – No Jab no job !!.. + the sacking of thousands of health workers , , The specially constructed Fear Porn “look into their eyes” advert campaign ! Churches closed , Doctors surgery’s closed, Bunter shouting GET BOOSTED , Act like you’ve got it , 3 weeks to flatten the curve , The anti social stickers that were ready for use at a moments notice .., the list goes on & on
The huge piece of work of the Coronavirus Act which cannot have been written overnight but which supposedly was just plucked out of the air; the downgrading from a high consequence disease – which legally compels medics to repurpose any drug to treat symptoms – to medium consequence – which allowed for medical care by diktat & enabled the bioweapon injection to be introduced as there was “no treatment” available. Funny that, seeing as medics were expressly told not to treat until the patient was blue in the lips…. And that diktat was global.
Spot on !! The Downtick was me sorry , I thought I was replying
Yes this repurposing of effective drugs to allow the Jabs was the most obvious crime !
Apology accepted Freddy. Without repurposed drugs the way was left clear to poison everyone.
“…..just nonsense it made up as it went along, desperate to be seen to be doing something.” Is the nub of the problem. “Something must be done” is a strong political trait, and not necessarily in the interests of real people, unfortunately. What they are guilty of is promoting false education to start with, and all the follow on consequences of that.
One big question occurs. Why was the same cock up repeated at the same time all around the world? Global Group think???
Under the bus you go, Hancock. You didn’t follow Whitty’s advice, did you? The PCR testing nonsense has been side-stepped here.
Whitty’s position is, for the moment, made more secure. But Whitty did not follow his own advice as it changed throughout the hoax, culminating in asking for kids to be jabbed – and killed in double figures – with the mRNA toxin. Whitty will eventually have to go under the bus.
Who will be next? And do we have a bus big enough?
Am I over-cynical in wondering if this is part of the rehabilitation of Whitty so that they can wheel him out again as a ‘safe pair of hands’ for whatever next they have in store for us (bird flu, probably).
Yes where is Boris’s big red bus?
“It was all cockup” is getting tedious from Toby et all now!
Agreed. Feels like denial to me
Further proof, though not needed, that hancock is an odious pr@tt with blood on his hands. However, to conclude from this one article that the whole global covid fiasco and its aftermath is just a “cock-up” would be laughable if it were not such a serious matter. So we can all sleep safely knowing it was just incompetence. The vaccine injured and bereaved around the world can rest assured it was just a silly mistake and their inability to get recognotion, help, or compensation is also just a silly mistake. The odds against almost every country making similar cock-ups at the same time, repeating those cock-ups time and again even though they didn’t work, and planning for future cock-ups, are enormous. Presumably, all the spin-offs like digital ids, CBDCs, pandemic treatise, 15 minute cities, climate lockdowns, etc… are also “cock ups”? Come on. Cock-up? For pity’s sake.
Isabel Oakeshott must have loathed the little weasel when she completed his diaries.
Or like a deluded Prince Andrew he thinks he comes out well in them.
Once they are analysed, we shall have to wait and see whether they tell us anything new or are just another part of the bait and switch being carried out by previously avid pro-lockdown, pro-vaccination creeps coming out of the woodwork.
This is beside the point. The man made virus is the conspiracy, most likely originating from the US Defence Department and finessed or fried up in Wuhan. It’s whether Mancock knew all of this or not. Either way he was certainly making a shit tonne of money out of the Pandemic© along with Vallance, Whitty and the rest of the looters.
As Andrew Bridgen points out in a recent interview, he was offered “anything you want” from the government to back off and shut up and he has the text messages to prove it. It was after this that MPs and colleagues started coming up to him and expressing concern about him being “suicidal.” A bit like David Kelly was. Not at all sinister.
He also pointed out that here in the UK “we have the best politicians money can buy.”
‘A clown show, not a conspiracy.’
‘Clown show’ does not explain how the same ‘Clown show’ took place at the same time, with the same scripts and performance in nearly every Country on Earth (except Sweden), and involved the WHO with its constantly updating website which turned yesterday’s don’t do, into today’s must do, and changed decades old definitions of vaccine, case, pandemic, best practice, on their heads to accommodate the political game playing out.
I have never in my life, nor seen it recorded in history, such synchronicity among Governments, or the same notions and words/phrases just pop up simultaneously in the heads of politicians around the World.
If it was a Clown show, then the Clowns were on strings and somebody was pulling them from higher up.
I don’t think this is the source, but a picture is worth a thousand words:
https://disabilityarts.online/blog/liz-bentley/liz-the-great-reset-prodrome-and-the-tesco-delivery-man/img_3415/
I’ve never denied it was a political clown show. But there were deeply sinister, dangerous people and businesses such as Pfizer, ModeRNA, Gates, Soros and Schwab sitting in the background taking advantage.
Clown show or not, in the time our society was kept ‘off the road’, sinister people set about rebuilding our country ‘under the bonnet’ so we’re now living in a tyrannical parody of the country we lived in during 2019, with the precedent set that lockdowns and anything else top-down the Government chooses to do can be done, aided by its Nudge Unit (which should be banned as anti-democratic.)
As for the politicians and the likes of Whitty: jail for life and they should count themselves lucky we no longer have the death penalty.
Any word yet on MH’s bulk purchase of Midazolam and its intended use?
I think we need a new category of abuse to be legally registered…parallel to ‘domestic abuse’ – which now includes coercion to be taken seriously.
It could be called ‘civic abuse’ – abuse of a citizen’s rights by governmental authorities and any of their executive bureaucrats.
It mustn’t be nominal either, but have real, strong legal standing.
We have to have some recourse against the abuse we’ve been subjected to.
People have truly suffered.
Not just the obvious of injuries & increase in disabilities, but all the mental health aspects and destruction to social bonds & communities..not to mention the cruelty within personal bereavements.
Depression has now officially increased to unprecedented levels.
How much of this is due, in part, to the knowledge that we do not have the means of obtaining justice, no recourse?
Civic abuse is WRONG.
I think what Mark Steyn had to say about Toby is interesting.