Ahead of Rishi Sunak’s appearance at the Covid Inquiry, Matt Ridley, writing in the Telegraph, offers a rare defense of politicians, arguing that they have been unjustly held responsible for the errors of quangos and agencies. Here’s how his article begins:
On Monday, Rishi Sunak will appear at the Covid Inquiry. It barely matters what he says because it is as predictable as sunrise that he will be pilloried for the mistakes of others, that being the modern purpose of politicians, it seems.
In his own appearance, Boris Johnson said that he was “very much impressed and dependent upon the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Scientific Adviser, both of whom are outstanding experts in their field”. Weren’t we all? In those early months of 2020, most of us trusted Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty to find the best way through the impending pandemic. We were glad to “follow the science”.
Yet now we have to listen to a lawyer, Hugo Keith KC, tell us with the benefit of three years of hindsight, that the entire pandemic was all the fault of politicians.
The virus, the Chinese regime and the scientists are spotless in their reputations, it seems. Had Sunak and Johnson acted differently, then apparently almost nobody would have died.
This is claptrap. No country – not Sweden, not Japan, not Outer Mongolia – escaped the pandemic. Britain suffered about as many waves of the virus and excess deaths per head of population as France, Germany and Italy, and rather better than Spain. Many places that did well in the first wave did badly in later waves.
Not that Mr. Keith knows this: He shamelessly told Mr. Johnson that Britain had one of the worst pandemics in Europe and had to be corrected by the former Prime Minister.
Never in the history of Britain have politicians so clearly abandoned their own policies and instincts at the behest of the technocrats. This was made plain day after day as the scientists took to the airwaves and stood behind podiums, saying nothing different from the politicians who echoed and praised them.
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The problem with politicians attempting to defend themselves by transferring the blame to individual specialists is that they should know that such groups often have too narrow a view of the world. It is the top dogs role to take the whole field of advice into account so as to decide what to attempt to do,
“ It is the top dogs role to take the whole field of advice into account so as to decide what to attempt to do,”
True. However top dogs (even in the private sector) tend to favour advice which runs parallel with their own thinking and supports their own conclusions and proposed policy/action. Contrary opinions and evidence not welcome.
The problem with politicians is that they move their lips… actually, scrub the “their lips” bit.
Keep the men in white coats on tap, but not on top….Churchill. Didn’t Boris write a book on Churchill, he must’ve missed that bit!
That’s also the difference between scientists (theorists), and engineers (appliers) in which I would include many of the medical practitioners who worked tirelessly to develop and use successful early treatment protocols based on existing and known therapeutics, but were cruelly castigated, derided and ignored. This course of action, ignoring known therapeutics in favour of untested ‘vaccines’ and also instigating non-pharmaceutical interventions that were specifically rejected by the long established pandemic playbook, was entirely down to politically led/encouraged vested interests, but also supported by the rest of the establishment and the media. Who was at the top of the political tree driving this? Boris Johnson, Nick Hancock, Rishi Sunak, etc. Even Vallance and Whitty were captured by this, and laid down in obedience. They all failed us. They all failed. They were responsible.
It’s worse than shameless, worse still is we are being presented the bill for this farce. The state is debauched and best summed up by the ignorant smug faces of the judge presiding and that of the corrupt smarmy KC.
Seconded.
The public are being robbed both metaphorically and actually. And of course the politicians taking the flak are rather strangely complicit in their own lambasting so as ever there is clearly an even darker story behind the scenes.
The Pantomime playing out is quite clearly the one we are meant to fall for but in reality something nastier is occurring.
Leadership of any large organization will involve evaluating the views of your own and other “experts”. If you are unable or unwilling to do that then you are not fit to lead.
Anyway, the politicians were all on board, as was pretty much everyone else.
It’s not a “cover up”. There’s nothing to cover up (except perhaps for the communications from the WHO or US Military or whoever it was that tipped everyone the wink) – the lies, the evil and folly are all in plain site. No amount of evidence IMO is likely to change anyone’s mind – not that they will admit anyway. Most were on board with what happened, there’s no-one in a position of power with anything to gain from admitting the truth, and the general public certainly don’t want to be told they are chumps.
It’s just part of covid theatre – just a continuation of what started when covid was first “announced”.
“The Covid Inquiry Is a Shameless Cover-Up”
Isn’t that the purpose of all public enquiries into Government behaviour?
Had they been serious there would be a Royal Commission which has wider powers and evidence taken can be used for criminal prosecution.
We can all write the conclusion: mistakes were made; lessons have been learned.
Remember the JFK commission? All the worthies on it benefitted in some way from either his death, or from being on the commission an eg is Ford, a future president (just a coincidence). Most of these inquiries are enacted to reinforce the narrative, they are not set up to understand reality or truth.
The reason I’m bored rigid with all things ‘Covid’ and ‘Death jab’-related is because nobody will ever be held accountable and there really is nothing new to say on these subjects. Of course it’s a cover up. This farcical inquiry is entirely for show and will achieve precisely nothing. It’s been stated on DS a gazillion times now. Also, I think researchers could find literal HIV in the jabs and they wouldn’t be removed from the market. Nobody’s being held responsible and nobody’s getting punished for any of it, ever. This is what p*sses me off mightily if I stew on it.
I think this article from Joel Smalley ( who’s been consistently excellent throughout ) last month sums it up really. Any excess deaths are down to democide, the government and advisers all have blood on their hands and that’s why they’ll never admit to any wrong-doing, hence the patronising pantomime and nauseating insulting of the public’s intelligence must continue.
”For participants of the official inquiry (and all the other sitting MPs), I’ll describe what they show in very simple terms.
To the exact day, the only periods of unusual excess deaths lie entirely within the periods where the Government intervened.
Curious?
In case you missed it, this is the implication:
The most logical, plausible explanation is that the Government intervention is responsible for all the excess death. This is Ockam’s Razor. And this is what should be investigated and disproved unequivocally by any decent inquiry, using hard evidence, not dogmatic assertion, even from Experts™.
What occurred on 23rd March 2020 and 8th Dec 2020 was a co-ordinated event that hit the entire country simultaneously. This was not the sudden emergence of a virus (or even the sudden mutation of a virus to become super-deadly overnight), it was something else that occurred, literally overnight, that was guaranteed to impact everyone who was susceptible to it – the frail and elderly.
were responsible for all the excess death in England & Wales in 2020 and early 2021.
It was a pandemic of appalling Government policy. That is and always was the most plausible explanation.”
https://metatron.substack.com/p/the-inconvenient-and-damning-truth
“Inappropriate treatment of other conditions”…..Are you referring to the Medazolam & Morphine procedure as part of PATHWAYS.
Yes I take it that’s what Smalley is referring to in the article, also the inappropriate use of ventilators, presumably. I just think the most frustrating thing is that they ( the politicians and their advisors ) know they’re lying and they got it wrong, I’ve no doubt at all that they’re well aware of the damage they’ve caused through all of the Covid and death jab-related policies and advice directed at the public. But no amount of evidence which refutes or contradicts their bogus claims will ever make a blind bit of difference. This is evidenced in the walk-outs Bridgen has experienced in Parliament and also the meeting he arranged with fellow MPs and the vax injured but about one or two politicians actually turned up. He’s been snubbed, ridiculed and boycotted by his peers continuously. Hardly the actions of politicians who show an interest and care about their constituents welfare and concerns.
It’s now just all about passing the blame, toeing the party line and trying to wriggle off the hook whilst diverting attention elsewhere. The script must be stuck to at all costs and inconvenient, independent analyses from many researchers competent in crunching and interpreting the data will not get acknowledged, let alone considered, if it in any way contradicts the BS ‘Gospel’, according to the governments worldwide. Another example of ‘Lockstep’ then, that literally zero heads will roll and no accountability will be had in any country. And even if they lose their position in government they just pop up elsewhere, Van-Tam style, though I don’t know what Rochelle Walensky is doing nowadays, but I’m sure she’ll land on her feet wherever it is.
“HIV in the jabs”….From what I remember in 2020 they found HIV from the PCR tests.
Yep, the up ramp of the deaths graph looks unnatural, suddenly steep, as if a whole bunch were taken out in a few days. I.e. looks more like sudden onset of measures that killed, as opposed to the natural spread of disease.
I really think this is missing the point.
What would an inquiry that wasn’t a “cover up” look like? Most of the facts are know. What’s lacking is reflecting on the following
1) Are lockdowns ever justified?
2) Was there an “emergency”
3) What are the proper limits on state power?
4) What should be the protections on freedom of speech?
5) What should be the protections for bodily autonomy?
6) What is the proper role of the MHRA?
7) Why was a cost benefit analysis not performed? What is the proper measure of the cost of lost liberty?
8) We need to see unredacted copies of ALL communications to and from ministers and senior government officials, nationally and internationally
You could have a tripartite approach – a “defence” team that would be advocating that what was done was the right thing, and two “prosecution” teams – one that was advocating for more lockdowns and one that was advocating for none. The teams should be able to call any witness they chose, and witnesses should be testifying under oath, and any material asked for they would be legally compelled to supply. The terms of reference should be very broad – basically whatever each “team” felt was relevant.
For a new virus we still don’t have a patent 0. As an article on here showed there are discrepancies with that Chinese woman leaving Germany. Those questions were put to Hancock who did his best to avoid answering. At the actual enquiry, Hancock had an easy ride.
Indeed. They all had an easy ride. I would like to see people such as Drosten, Farrar , Birx and Fauci on the stand, cross-examined by hostile counsel briefed by experts like Mike Yeadon.
I think many agree the politicians screwed up and were responsible for unnecessary death and misery. BUT, for very different reasons.
One camp thinks they should have been even more aggressive, like Arden or Morrison, locking down sooner harder and longer.
Another camp thinks lockdowns led to unnecessary death and misery (and the jabs even more).
The enquiry has been set up to make politicians defend themselves against the first charge thereby pushing them as far away as.possible from admission of the second charge.
Obviously the second one is the correct charge, but we live in a world where established power lives divorced from reality, creates its.own reality and then tries to force it on everyone.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/truth-on-covid-will-out-or-will-it/
“ARCH WHISTLEBOWER Edward Snowden put it this way: ‘When exposi”ARCHng a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
“Now the UK has recently enhanced the Porton Down biological facility to develop a response aiming to stop the next pandemic ‘in its tracks‘. A clever trick indeed; to develop a solution to a hypothetical problem.”
The real problem is that not enough people have woken up to the level of depravity and evil that was unleashed via the C1984 Scamdemic. If the masses eventually realise what has happened all hell will break lose.
The BBC this morning mentioned because of ‘climate change’ disease ridden mosquitoes could end up in the UK. They could be gathering them Porten Down right now that’s how much I trust the buggers.
Dirty rubbish compared with what Porton Down are interested in, such as the more precise agent that was used to attempt the assassination of Skripal in Salisbury a few years ago.
They also have Sarin, the Nazi nerve agent discovered at the end of WW2 by the allies. They have also got the deadliest agent VX nerve agent, just a grain of that stuff can kill.
There’s far more health risks arriving each day via the unchecked dinghies. A headline you won’t hear on the BBC
Can we perhaps finally start calling things by their true names? From March 2020 – January 2022, we had a ‘pandemic’ of people dying after they had a positive Sars-CoV2 test result at some point in time in the past. Most of these people were well beyond their so-called average life expectancy and suffered from multiple co-morbidities. The only conceivable way to prevent this is Don’t do Sars-CoV2 tests. This obviously won’t stop people, especially old and frail people, from dying as they sort-of always do that, it’ll just take The Virus™ out of the equation. Insofar COVID actually caused any otherwise avoidable early deaths, we’ll never know that as nobody will ever be able to untangle this vast web of official fakery.
“nobody will ever be able to untangle this vast web of official fakery.”
I’m sure that was intentional
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/angus-dalgleishs-pandemic-and-its-consequences-presentation/
“he concluded the biochemistry of the spike had six inserts or ‘unique fingerprints . . . indicative of purposive manipulation’. My italics.
As he told us on Monday, he tried to share these findings with the government and their chief scientists only to have them ignored – despite their very real significance he was shut out and cold shouldered.”
As we all know it was always about the jabs.
Smoking Gun:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq2TZPEWjcA
Why the WEF wants you drinking alcohol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ0ixgDElH8
Looks a bit like teetotal propaganda, that YT entry! However, it is a big industry, and a useful source of revenue for the Treasury.
The point they were making was alcohol & drugs keep people passive and easier to control.
Johnson had 1 job, to apply common sense to fend off the ‘experts’. That job was all the easier because conventional epidemiology and the Great Barrington Declaration of the real top experts made the right answer (preserve normal life, offer targeted protection) obvious and credentialled. BUT JOHNSON WAS TOO WEAK to resist the the government/Big Pharma complex. That is unforgivable. Then he allowed the obscenity of vaccine mandates. That is criminal.
Johnson had our Chief Medical Officer giving him advice, and Sage, and ‘independent Sage’, and the Daily Mirror, and BBC, and every one who had done 30 minutes reading on the internet and thus became experts, and the WHO, and the UN and every other Thomas, Richard and Harold. All the time, Boris is absolutely no kind of expert, with very limited scientific knowledge, I would say, just like the rest of the cabinet. If you could manage to pick the right voices to listen to out of that lot, especially to reject your own officials advice and go in another direction, then you’re a better man than I, Gunga DIn.!.
“If you could manage to pick the right voices to listen to out of that lot, especially to reject your own officials advice and go in another direction, then you’re a better man than I, Gunga DIn.!.”
Well, early posters to the Lockdown Sceptics comment threads managed it!
Oh God, it was bleeding obvious from the start.
During our time in the EU it became routine for member state politicians to take the rap so the bureaucrats in Brussels could be seen as blameless, perfectly informed and competent. Yes, I know that sll seems unlikely but it was so.
I do not quite claim the EU was responsible for Whitehall adopting the same stance but the timing fits. Civil Servants used to give well informed considered advice, politicians decided and Civil Servants acted loyally. If there was a mess made on policy issues the politician took the rap in Parliament. If administrative error occured it was covered up to protect the blushes of Civil Servants.
Then and now, it appears, no Civil Servant can ever be punished for error or disciplined for incompetence. They might get moved sideways or upwards but never down.
When there are Quangos and NGOs involved it is worse.
Again and again the argument revolves around trusting the scientists. This was the fundamental flaw. What do scientists know about clinical medicine? You would not ask me, a clinician, about physics or engineering.
The government used the wrong experts, and those experts were arrogant enough to exclude the right experts. Had they not done this the death toll from clinical mismanagement would have been so reduced that the spread of the coronavirus would have been irrelevant..
Well done Doctor, you have realised the source of the problem. Diagnosis is correct, but it is not the diagnosis that the patient wants (in this case the politicians). In my view there was one primary error, in the first days of the fuss. It was that mechanical ventilation was the best treatmnet. Huge resources were applied to this, but the outcome was poor. Of course we know that mechanical ventilation of patients often does not have a good outcome, across the board something like 50% end up dead anyway (medical cases). Then we had the outright refusal to allow any treatment except the jab, although it was known that several drugs have good effect in similar cases. Pushing old people who were in hospital, presumably because they had problems which needed hospital treatments, into care homes with near zero facilities, was the next stupid idea.
Next we come to a confounding factor, the whole “testing” program. What was this intended to achieve? If a person is ill, they usually know about it. Why do they need to have confirmation that they don’t feel well? If there is a positive test result, does asking them to stay at home do anything useful? This is a fundamental question, because further confusion was caused because clinical isolation is not achieved by staying at home. If the “disease” is airbourne, general air circulation will spread it anyway, possibly at a slightly slower rate, but this in itself is not very useful. The tests were both uselessly non-specific (LFT), and didn’t detect active disease (PCR at 40 cycles), so what good could the testing ever achieve except a number of “cases”. This number was banded about by politicians a lot, but in reality just some kind of “fear factor”. It was a clear case of “the higher the better”, to gain cvontrol.
I think these are close to the conclusions that the inquiry should achieve, it certainly will not!
Is there a petition to stop the Hallett Enquiry that I have missed?
it’s already cost mega millions and is ratcheting up additional waste at the rate of a quarter of a million pounds a day – hardly surprising with as many as 66 lawyers in attendance in person earning a minimum of £250 an hour.
This is our money that’s being wasted and there are much better ways to spend it for the good of the people, especially since the Enquiry has obviously reached a foregone conclusion that will help nobody except the chosen few who have caused such immense harm.
No one could have exposed our politicians better than 1- What they did themselves to the population in 2020/2021 2- The current cover up . ANYONE was believed the politicians , believed the lies , should now be waking up.