The Covid Inquiry has come under fire for allocating over £3 million in contracts for emotional support services to prevent ‘retraumatising’ witnesses. The Telegraph has more.
Inquiry chiefs were accused of presiding over a waste of money which will run until the end of February 2026.
Although two contracts allocated to Health Assured Limited were terminated at the end of last month, all participants are still set to be offered emotional support as part of a commitment to remaining “trauma-informed” and a contract with Hestia Housing remains active.
A description of the support services on the Cabinet Office website said such an approach “means seeking to reduce the risk of retraumatisation to people who are engaging with the inquiry”.
It read: “Emotional support is one of the key ways of reducing retraumatisation by offering timely, sensitive, psychologically informed emotional support to people engaging with the inquiry’s work. Emotional support is not counselling or therapy.
“The focus is on facilitating the person’s engagement with the inquiry, creating support plans, facilitating stabilisation, providing psychological containment and facilitating the person’s journey through their engagement process.”
Sir Edward Leigh, a veteran Conservative MP who served as a minister under Margaret Thatcher, said: “It just all adds up to a fantastic waste of money.
“I think most people now recognise that the severity of lockdown was a huge mistake and has frankly traumatised generations of children, being kept away from school month after month.
“The inquiry really needs to focus on what most people want it to do, which is why we had to have successive lockdowns and severity of lockdowns. We know from the Swedish model it probably made very little difference to people’s long-term health.”
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That is basically modern society. A centralised bureaucracy spending confiscated money like drunken sailors.
2.6 trillion in public debt and counting.
Literally insane behaviour.
“Literally insane behaviour.”
Not insane if the real intention is to bankrupt the country.
Tbh, I’ve lost faith in the idea that there are people with a grand masterplan, scheming away at the construction of a new world order.
I think there are lots of different people scheming away at their own individual plans to enrich themselves, or keep themselves in power or boost themselves somehow.
And when it comes to the money, they don’t give a damn because racking up debt has long been accepted as a modus operandi. The way I see it, they all think “Why am I going to be the one to be sensible, when no one else is? I’m going to milk it like everyone else until the whole thing goes tits up.”
Basically there are no incentives to be sensible. All the incentives are to spend, spend, spend. And anyone who tries to hold back is basically being an idiot.
Which is not to say that there aren’t some central planners scheming away at how to take advantage of the moment when it all goes tits up. CBDCs being the obvious one. But again, all for their own narrow interest. I think, anyway.
I agree insofar is the useful idiots further down the food chain are concerned, but the Lockdowns & mandates with all the censorship were too coordinated.
I stick to my view that One World Government is the plan. Anything done by ‘the Establishment’ is deliberate. I am way past cock-ups.
This would be considered to be best practice in trauma informed care. I certainly wouldn’t be focusing too much on this. There are plenty of other aspects to this enquiry that need our attention.
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/this-cruel-and-dangerous-push-for-the-measles-jab-remind-you-of-anything/
A superbly researched article by Sally Beck at TCW looking at the lies spouted by those who know better around “vaccination.” The measles hysteria is properly demolished as is the modelling dishonesty.
Strange that millions can be made available for “emotional support services” but governments refuse to pay compensation for real, life-altering vaccine injuries. Very strange.
How about some emotional support for all the people who were victimized by the disciples of Sarst COVID during their attempts to fake a global emergency?
“The inquiry really needs to focus on what most people want it to do, which is why we had to have – any lockdowns at all, or any of the other pointless and damaging inhumane and ill-advised measures – other than possibly some measures akin to those suggested by the Great Barrington Declaration, or Sweden light! AKA the measures we already had.
And no explanation why they changed the Influenza Paper that Sweden followed, or why the changed it from HCID to medium risk. I think enough people have a good hunch why on here for the latter, so they can’t make repurposed drugs like HQC available.
“so they can’t make repurposed drugs like HQC available.”
That is exactly why the C1984 was downgraded.
Lionel Shriver has written a fabulous piece in Unherd about the insanity of social manias. I can’t recommend it highly enough.