In June of this year, more than two million people looked with bemusement at Kings College NHS’s announcement that it had installed a permanent display of the gender ideology flag on one of its buildings.
— King's College NHS (@KingsCollegeNHS) June 2, 2023
Delighted to officially open the new connecting link-bridge at the PRUH today!
The bridge proudly features a large re-production of the Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag, designed and unveiled by @ValentinoInter!#valentinovecchietti #Pride pic.twitter.com/DIm5BFgiJp
Bemusement for three reasons.
- Gender ideology is harmful pseudo-science – it posits that we all have an inner gender identity around which it is reasonable to align our bodies by hormonal and surgical interventions which are irreversible and cause life-long harm. How can an actual NHS Trust complacently endorse this?
- The NHS is cash-strapped – why is it spending money on promoting harmful ideology?
- Flags matter – we should want to take them seriously. There are regulations around their display on public buildings. Kings College NHS effectively flouts these regulations; it’s a painting of a flag but it loudly does what flags do: “this is what we stand for.”
So what internal process led to such a prominent and public commitment to pseudo-science from an NHS Trust? What conversations took place? What money was spent? Does anyone dare object?
I decided to find out using the FOI process.
Firstly, the painting of the flag cost a paltry sum in the scale of NHS spending. What is most depressing about this FOI response from Kings College NHS (apart from the lackadaisical not-doing-the-maths) is the EDI-speak:
Secondly, who was consulted? The answer is just the EDI team. In fact, if you think about it, why would you bother to consult people when their freedom of speech has already been stifled? Who wants to be accused of hate or phobia? Only one response is allowed anyway. But the NHS Trust was possibly a bit embarrassed about this obvious truth so it initially implied to me that there was wider consultation and enthusiasm. It firstly said this:
But when I consulted elected members of the Local Authority they responded with this:
Unfortunately the recent monstrosity at Bromley Hospital sat completely beyond Bromley Council’s remit to control or prevent (we were not party to it in any way) and the Planning process which is set on rigid guidelines as to what people can and cannot do, had no means of denying the NHS the ability to erect it either.
This from the Council’s Chief Planner:
Dear Leader,
I think the response from the Trust isn’t quite correct.
The display of a mural was not part of this application (murals can require advertisement consent and not planning permission if they are considered to constitute an advertisement) – the elevations showed rainbow colouring on the building but there was no application for advertisement consent for the mural and it was not considered in the grant of planning permission. I would not say that the Council had “granted planning approval” for this mural and if it did need consent (I should add that I am not convinced it does) it would require advertisement consent and not planning permission.
Even if an application for advertisement consent had been submitted for the mural, the content of an advertisement is not something that the Council can control.
I hope that this helps.
Regards
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Did the Kings College NHS EDI team actually ‘make something up’ in its first response? It must have known that no planning permission was needed. This is another problem with gender ideology – it corrodes basic standards in organisations. Once a set of lies has been allowed to flourish inside an organisation how do you maintain a wider commitment to truth and standards?
I went back to them as follows:
I asked for any email exchanges that related to the planning of the flag/mural discussed below. You have not responded with any. But at point 3 you say that: “The viewpoints of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Trust Network representatives were taken and supported by our Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
1. Please can you provide me with the emails sent either to or from the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Trust Network representatives which discuss the potential display of this artwork showing the Intersex-Inclusive flag at Princess Royal University Hospital, as part of a new walk-bridge for patients and staff? If not emails, other documents discussing this proposal? There must be something?
And here below, finally, is the result. Here is how you get an NHS Trust to permanently display its commitment to pseudo-science. (Although, note that there were also “several unrecorded MS Teams meetings where the artwork and schemes were discussed, and approval was given”.)
That’s it. To get a large and permanent display of a commitment to pseudo-science from an NHS Trust requires two emails between “Gents”. Thanks, Mates.
How to solve?
There is no mechanism in place to shut the EDI juggernaut down. Indeed there is an entire architecture set up to keep it in place. Because if you complain or dissent you will be accused of transphobia and hate. There are badges, and pledges, and training sessions, and identity-group networks, and paid permanent EDI staff with nothing else to do and a strong incentive to keep it all in place, indeed ramp it up.
The LGBTQIA+ network? Kings College NHS now pays it (and other networks) £10k a year. For what?
There are five staff diversity networks which represent people with specific protected characteristics:
- Inter Faith & Belief Network (religion or belief)
- Women’s Network (sex)
- Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage Network (race)
- LGBTQ+ Network (sexual orientation and gender reassignment)
- Disability Network (disability).
Each network is allocated a budget of £10,000 per year from the EDI budget and is available on the basis that the network’s annual objectives and activities are agreed by the Network Steering Group and approved by the EDI Delivery Group on behalf of the Trust’s Executive team.
EDI staff? Kings College NHS has a Director and two Heads to oversee seven other staff. Surely this costs at least about half a million pounds a year for their salaries, pensions and office space. Extrapolate that across the NHS.
EDI gobbles up taxpayers’ cash when our tax burden is at an all time high.
When we have recruitment crises across sectors, EDI hoovers up staff diverting them from alternative jobs that could actually improve lives. Worse – it has them not just digging holes and filling them up – that would be bad enough; but no, they do real damage.
EDI divides us, trampling on free speech and diversity of thought, openness and dialogue in the workplace.
Most pernicious of all, EDI promotes and endorses pseudo-science which causes serious medical harm to vulnerable people.
How do we shut down the EDI industry? What needs to be done?
Stop Press: An X user tweeted images of what can be found adorning the inside walls of the same hospital.
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So who is going to gaol?
Speculation in the US is that Joe Biden will give Fauci and others a pre-emptive pardon.
It’s a start, and we should be grateful for that, but as Jeffrey Tucker says there is a long way to go before government’s and their letter agencies have any sense of contrition or that they got things so badly wrong that we will be dealing with the after effects of their mistakes for many generations to come.
It’s a start to what exactly???
Are you that deluded that you think someone will be held accountable and prosecuted…
I was trying to be positive but maybe that’s beyond you.
Nobody got anything wrong. The activities of all agents of government were set out for them. To we Sceptics, or should that be realists, government activities were patently corrupt but to the sheep it was all ‘ desperate times call for desperate measures’ and I don’t doubt many of the individual actors were well aware they were acting in a pantomime.
This was the greatest Scamdemic ever played against the people of this world ever although the nut zero scam will supersede it.
Quite, far too many people still mistake this for incompetence..
To us skeptics. Accusative pronoun after preposition.
They weren’t mistakes …. it was all deliberate.
Reading this while thinking about the incoming bird flu epidemic makes me frankly sick to the stomach.
” Industry mostly went along too, at least the highest reaches of it, even as small business was crushed”
And even more shamefully so did the Church. Then again, WW1 saw the Church glorifying the meatgrinder and shaming those that objected. Wars are started by the rich and fought over by the rest of us.
Unfortunately whilst our Christian beliefs and values are of fundamental importance to our civilization, the church whether that be COfE or the left footers, has always been hand in glove with the political establishment, just another way of shaking down the populace and keeping them in line.
Church made a 1934 Concordat with Hitler which effectively neutered the Church and put it under the Reich’s control.
2020 the Church did the same. I had many a fight with priest and bishop over this. The miserable cowardice to get some quid. They were paid to comply. Sermons were preached in which I (sitting undiapered, unstabbed) was classed as Satanic.
Arselings and limp wristed effiminates that most of them are.
As Hitler sneered the priests and bishops always vote with their pensions and salaries. So they do.
As Maajid Nawas puts it….”They shown their hand”. The 2009 Swine Flu faux pandemic was almost like a trial run when you look at what they tried to do.
HIV-AIDs.
$300 billion industry created saved CDC, NIAID from being defunded.
67 symptoms for HIV which does not exist. There is no simian virus flying around. The genesis story changed from the Gay Canadian Gaetan airline steward having sex with Africans and bringing it back to New York; to HIV has always existed in North America. Fake PCR tests. Massive propaganda. Choose a group – queers – which do poppers, pills, drugs, bath houses, and anal sex (rectal cancer etc). Lots of ‘symptoms’. Add in AZT their drug which killed thousands and made everyone ill. Magic Johnson was the poster boy, he got off the program, cleaned up his life and presto, became healthy.
Evil but admirable in a way that they were able to pull that off with nary a dissent. Fauci again of course. ‘The $cience’.
Yes there was an article on TCW a while back questioning any objective evidence of the existence of HIV beyond a cocktail of various illnesses.
Yawn yawn yawn….. There is absolutely nothing to add to this debate, it’s utterly exhausted, it’s been done a thousand times over, this is now all about distraction.
The only debate to have in regards to the Scandemic is how we should be ensuring they never do anything similar again.
“how we should be ensuring they never do anything similar again”
Totally agree, but surely the first step is for there to be a more general recognition of what happened?
Isnt 4 years enough???… 4 years and a ton of evidence??
If they havent got it by now, they never will… Only gotta look at Monro’s post 🤦♂️..
Bottom line… There’s no hope.. At all
4 years appear not to be enough – I find this somewhat puzzling but I guess we’re all different. I think the problem is that most people were hoodwinked and a lot of them probably know that but who wants to admit it, and who wants to face the fact that everything and everyone they trusted is rotten to the core (excuse the hyperbole)?
Probably not much hope in our lifetime, I agree, but doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying. You may view it as a distraction (not sure from that) but surely coming to terms with being more sceptical is a good foundation for thinking about everything else that is happening in our world?
In Britain, the problems were stupidity and incompetence at the highest level.
That’s it.
‘Matt Hancock speaking, in the House of Commons, “The Great Barrington Declaration is underpinned by two central claims and both are emphatically false. First, it says that if enough people get COVID, we will reach herd immunity. That is not true. The second central claim is that we can segregate the old and vulnerable on our way to herd immunity. That simply is not possible.’
(Note: this is also the man who said that he had put ‘a protective ring’ around care homes and then later admitted that to be nonsense: 18 May “We absolutely did throw a protective ring around social care, not least with the £3.2 billion-worth of funding we put in right at the start, topped up with £600 million-worth of funding on Friday.”
19 May “I am glad that we have been able to protect the majority of homes, and we will keep working to strengthen the protective ring that we have cast around all our care homes.”
’30 Nov 2023Mr Keith quoted England’s former deputy chief medical officer, Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, who said in his statement to the inquiry: “My view is a ring is a circle without a break in it.”
Addressing Mr Hancock, the barrister asked: “However you describe the protective processes you put in place around the care sector, they did not form an unbroken circle, did they?”
Mr Hancock replied: “It is quite clear from the evidence that Professor Van-Tam is right.”)
‘Well, first of all, he doesn’t understand what herd immunity means, right? So herd immunity…..Yeah, so I think he’s using it as a synonym for zero COVID. The COVID’s gone away because enough people are infected. COVID is a coronavirus. The other coronaviruses that are in common circulation in human populations produce colds. And they’re controlled by herd immunity. They’re not always increasing exponentially so that everyone gets it. What happens is they rise and fall with the season. Enough people get it and what herd immunity means is when one person has the infection, they spread it to one or fewer additional people…….So herd immunity is not a synonym for zero COVID. I think Hancock, I think, that’s the mistake he made there……it was clear in October of that year of 2020, and even more clear now that if you are infected, you actually gain substantial protection against re-infection. So there was a study that was just released actually recently, but verifies a whole long line of studies… This is out of Italy. At one year after infection, 0.3% are reinfected. So you’re infected, you recover from COVID and within the context of the full year, three out of 1,000 get reinfected. And almost always, it’s less severe than the first time, because your body still remembers how to fight it off.
(Now what about Hancock’s second claim…that you can’t protect the old and vulnerable)
That’s turned out to be catastrophically false. 80% of the deaths in the United States are people over 60. 80% of the deaths are people over 60. We did not protect the vulnerable because we didn’t even attempt to protect the vulnerable. Just to give you some sense of how backward it was, we sent people in the early days of the epidemic that were infected with COVID back into nursing homes who then infected a large number of vulnerable people, instead of realizing who the vulnerable were and seeking to protect them, that was the scarce resource. We thought hospital beds with a scarce resource. Most parts of the country in March, April 2020 were empty hospital beds.’
Jay Bhattacharya 21 Oct 2021
A Health Secretary in charge of a common cold coronavirus epidemic who is incapable of understanding herd immunity and who thinks it a really good idea discharging the elderly and infirm, many already infected with the coronavirus, out of hospital and back into care homes to free up hospital beds that, in most cases, were never required…..
If you were going to have a conspiracy, the well named Hancock would be far too stupid to participate.
And Britain’s Prime Minister…….enough said.
The whole idea of a coup is, apart from anything else, a mathematical impossibility:
‘I wanted to take the opposite approach, to see how these conspiracies might be possible. To do that, I looked at the vital requirement for a viable conspiracy – secrecy’
‘He then looked at the maximum number of people who could take part in an intrigue in order to maintain it. For a plot to last five years, the maximum was 2521 people……Even a straightforward cover-up of a single event, requiring no more complex machinations than everyone keeping their mouth shut, is likely to be blown if more than 650 people are accomplices.’
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-01-26-too-many-minions-spoil-plot#:~:text=If%20you're%20thinking%20of,very%20quickly%20give%20themselves%20away.
There was no coup…..only a whole bunch of hopelessly over-promoted ‘yes men’.
Wrong.. Again… There was no “incompetence”
Stick to Ukraine…
There was a lot of incompetence, Hancock is an utter, utter imbecile, but it’s quite true that the scamdemic hypothesis fits the (at present) known facts better than all the others.
That said I am still unconvinced by most of the hypotheses so far advanced as to the who and why.
Here’s some incompetence, although ”incontinence” might be more accurate as everyone’s walking like they shat themselves. What’s going on in Scotland ( another country I happen to not live in ), please? Anyone?…. Anyone?…
”SCOTLAND- The infantilisation of a nation.
The NHS instructs people to walk like penguins, to <checks notes> erm … protect’ them from the weather.
I shit you not, this is actual advice from the NHS in Scotland.”
https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1865742429543964722
Strange how global “incompetence” happened at the same time and exactly the same specifics…
Youve believed the forced narrative..
Of course it was “incompetence”.. Anything else is just a conspiracy theory… 🙄
Ps, Hancock is an imbecile agreed… An obedient imbecile..
Have you not seen the Dominic Cummings interview???
I quote.. “The Deep State runs the UK”
“Cabinet is just staged theatre”
From the horses mouth…. From the horses mouth….
The scandemic was NOT incompetence
Here you go…. What u make of this then….
https://youtu.be/zEnLI0eD-9k?si=SGOOd1f-b5J5CDtf
Do you really think the elected politicians made any decisions?
Do you think the elected politicians are making the decisions on the level of immigration, for example ???
Wake up..
And even if i told you the who and why, not only would you disbelieve it as you’re so wedded to the “incompetence” red herring but youd get offended too..
Maybe you just need another 4 years….
You’re wrong again pal, I’m not wedded to the incompetence narrative.
However I do not delude myself that I fully understand yet what is going on.
Although to be fair so far the conspiracy theorists (and I) have turned out right pretty well every time and the next chapter of the conspiracy is truly dark, and we’re going to need to start fighting back.
So yes, trying to hold off believing that just yet.
“A Health Secretary in charge of a common cold coronavirus epidemic who is incapable of understanding herd immunity”
Incapable, or unwilling, or uninterested, or good at playing the fool? “Herd immunity” is not rocket science. Christ I understand it, or think I do, and I’m just a f***wit with crap A level grades in non-STEM subjects.
“Hancock…took A-levels in Maths, Physics, Computing, and Economics.[3] He later studied computing at the further education college, West Cheshire College.[6][7] Hancock then studied at the University of Oxford where he was an undergraduate at Exeter College, and graduated with a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). He later earned a Master of Philosophy degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge, where he was a postgraduate student at Christ’s College.[7][8] ”
I know people who went to Oxford and Cambridge. All of them were “intelligent” using the normally accepted definition of the word. I’ve also met “stupid” people who can barely read, write or speak anything beyond basic sentences. Hancock may not be wise, certainly not honest, but he is not “stupid”.
He is rich, and not in prison, as far as I know healthy. The “stupid” people I know are generally poor.
There are many different measures of intelligence.
There are many different measures of ability.
Academic qualifications are but one.
Probably the best measure of all is empirical observation.
By that measure, the well named Hancock and the man who appointed him are both a pair of total feckwits.
We’ve observed what they did publicly, and what they said publicly about what they did and why they did it. We can’t know what they really think or what their real reasons were. We can speculate. My speculation is that they knew it was bullshit, based on the leaked WhatsApp messages and the fact they were all partying and shagging (assuming of course the leaked messages are not just another windup).
What worries me about your position as I understand it is that let’s say we get someone in government you deem “competent” – is that then job done? I would say not. The default position should be to question and doubt motives at every turn.
The vast majority of the population are perfectly happy with this representative democracy.
If you are not, then you will need not just a better alternative but to convince 70 million souls that it is a better alternative.
Do you have a better alternative?
Democracy: the least worst form of government.
I don’t see where I’ve written that I am not happy with “this representative democracy” – I just think it works much better if people are less trusting. I have always voted, previously for the least-bad candidate and latterly only for candidates who meet minimum standards, or I spoil my ballot paper. I certainly agree that the key task is to convince my fellow citizens of the rightness of my political views, especially regarding what the proper function of government is and what the limitations should be on political power. I’m not expecting politicians to stop being politicians without a fight.
The “too many minions” theory assumes that one whistleblower or one leak will blow the gaff. However, as we have seen with the climate scare, the truth can easily be drowned out in a sea of propaganda. Thousands of people with science degrees can declare that there is no climate crisis, but the scare continues.
As President Trump has just remarked, the world has recently gone a bit crazy.
However the U.S. is about to undergo a sea change regarding climate and healthcare policy in particular.
What happens in America never stays in America.
If the federal budget no longer supports either the existing covid or climate change narrative, then, as if by magic, that narrative will change.
As the man said, America is not a country, it’s a business.
Let’s see if any of the many covidians I know mention this report to me. I’m still waiting for the apologies and the admission they were wrong. An acquaintance of mine just texted me to postpone a meet up – he has “covid”. I don’t know how many boosters he has had but it’s definitely a few.
I think the wheels will somewhat come off the net zero wagon because I don’t think even Labour will want to have regular power cuts, so we will hobble along with the mess we currently have – overly expensive energy and subsidised EVs and useless technology receiving our money, but I think they won’t go the whole hog. Still, I thought that about “covid” too….
They were following Orders, almost certainly from the American Military Industrial Complex, – as did the rest of the Five Eyes and NATO members (although East Europe NATO members were “less successful” in complying with the instructions).
Sweden didn’t comply … and presumably didn’t get the Order … because at that point, Sweden although in the EU, wasn’t in NATO.
A very fair review of the report.
I would identify its worst errors as the uncritical lauding of Operation Warp Speed, and the failure to see the crucial role of the security state hiding behind the desperate attempts of Fauci and co to cover up the virus’s origins, and behind the “control the masses anyhow until the vaccines arrive” policy (and then we can control them forever).
The first probably reveals the political partisanship of the report, since Trump regarded Warp Speed as his success. The second? Willful blindness, or maybe the fear of congressmen ending up in a plane crash, like Assad.
To my mind the report gives a good deal of insight into the UK and Western bungling, especially when one factors in the military and intelligence involvement. Farrar and Vallance were deeply involved in the Fauci obfuscation, and were in a good position to manipulate wise fools like Hancock. And we know well from Ukraine, Iraq and now Syria how Western governments jump when US pressure is applied (for they all have dirty secrets known to the Washington/London Deep State).
Staggeringly good article. Alas, with the latest buzzword ‘quad-demic’ doing the rounds I have noted a significant return of the ghastly and ultimately useless face nappies, particularly in bus queues.
I wish this piece was mandatorily broadcast under balanced reporting rules. If just one mask wearer woke up it’d be worth it.
Dominic Cummings explains…. “The Deep State runs the UK”
“cabinet is just a staged theatre”
From the horses mouth….
Apply this to the “incompetence” theory…..
https://youtu.be/zEnLI0eD-9k?si=SGOOd1f-b5J5CDtf
“mistakenly called a vaccine.”
There was no mistake about that. They called it a vaccine to (a) get around the laws on medicinal testing and (b) so that the sheeple wouldn’t get worked up about it and be difficult. If they’d called it what it is … experimental human gene manipulation ….. they wouldn’t have been able to carry out their experiment on very many of them!
The people who authorised and carried this out … all of them, including the politicians who fronted the abuse and lied to their people …. are no better than Mengele and the Nazis.
This was a coup against science and against democracy, for purposes of industrial and political reset, not just in one nation but all nations at once
And most of us fell for it and perhaps, continue to fall for it.
Well, not most of us on here.
Scam after scam after scam. It seems our lives have been reduced to dealing with this constantly. The elite level people in positions of power have learned that the masses can be easily controlled and manipulated. Huge amounts of cash are available from government treasuries to those creative enough. As Morrison points out in his article today, the ozone hole over Antarctica was a total scam and that dates from the early 1990s. The easy cash has to dry up before this will stop.