The Government has been caught shamefully playing hardball with the victims of Covid vaccine injuries, refusing to settle payouts despite devastating harms, as legal bills mount. The Telegraph has more.
Jamie Scott is nothing if not a fighter. He must be to have survived a reaction to his COVID-19 vaccine so violent that hospital doctors phoned his wife three times to tell her to get to his bedside because he was about to die. Each time he pulled through.
Fit and healthy before the jab, the 47-year-old father-of-two has suffered a permanent brain injury that prevents him from working. Or even being able to look after his children on his own for anything more than an hour.
Photographs released to the Telegraph show Mr. Scott in intensive care, a spaghetti of tubes keeping him alive. Scarring snakes all the way round his scalp, the result of an emergency craniotomy that removed part of his skull to reduce swelling on the brain that was about to kill him.
The battle to stay alive was, however, just the beginning. In the past three years, Mr. Scott and his indomitable wife Kate have waged a war to get fair compensation for themselves and other victims of the jab. They are Davids fighting the twin Goliaths of AstraZeneca, the pharmaceutical giant, and the might of the British Government. It is proving a daunting, frustrating and at times heartbreakingly impossible challenge.
AstraZeneca is one of the U.K.’s biggest companies, the second largest in the FTSE 100, worth a staggering £185 billion. Business is so good that Sir Pascal Soriot, its Chief Executive, is the highest paid among FTSE-100 bosses.
Yet this week, as AstraZeneca confirmed Sir Pascal’s annual salary would rise to £18.7 million, the Telegraph obtained court documents that showed the pharmaceuticals firm was admitting for the first time in legal proceedings that its vaccine can “in very rare cases” cause an illness which is fatal about 20% of the time. When its symptoms of blood clots and low blood plate counts are not deadly it leaves its victims with devastating injuries. In the same documents, AstraZeneca accepts that it has no idea why the vaccine, developed in conjunction with the University of Oxford, should do that. “The causal mechanism is not known,” the company said in correspondence with Jamie Scott’s lawyers.
It’s a legal mess made more complicated because the Government indemnified AstraZeneca and other Covid vaccine-makers ahead of the mass rollout that began to much fanfare in December 2020. In other words, though AstraZeneca is one of the U.K.’s wealthiest businesses (it generated revenue of £37bn in 2023) it will be the British taxpayer that will foot any legal bills and damages should Mr. Scott and 50 other claimants win their class action suit against the company. The details of the indemnification agreement have never been made public.
In the legal case, AstraZeneca is accused of playing hardball, but it is unclear whether behind the scenes the U.K. Treasury is baulking at any payout. For the victims, it is simply prolonging their agony. …
Even though it encouraged AstraZeneca, based in Cambridge, to enter into the deal – the claim is Boris Johnson’s administration wanted the vaccine to be an all-British affair – Ministers have so far refused to intervene. They could increase the Government’s own compensation deal or else step in now and settle the class action being brought against AstraZeneca. The sums are not huge, maybe as much as £100m in total compensation. But with every day the Government refuses to intervene, the legal bills go up while the victims get nothing.
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“It comes a week after Brussels launched a crackdown on an influx of cheap EV imports from China, which they claim have benefited from unfair state subsidies. “
Er, aren’t EVs in Europe also subsidised? Isn’t the reason the Chinese ones are cheaper that they are cheap crap?
Surely the EU should be launching a campaign advising that the reason Chinese EV’s are cheap is because they are manufactured using electricity produced by burning coal and not via the not as cheap eco method of waiting for the wind to blow.
That should do it eh Fond of Lying? Hit ’em where it hurts.
Yeah that should put off all the virtue signalling crowd.
Cheap crap is better than expensive crap, I suppose…
Yes I suppose so though I’ve no intention of ever owning an EV – though a friend of a friend did have an old milk float they used to save them the daily walk from home to their local railway station
Exactly. The EU accusing other regimes of unfairly manipulating markets is like Harold Shipman accusing his colleagues of medical malpractice.
Well that’s some good news at last!
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/democracy-in-decay-parliaments-legion-of-the-damned/
A properly thought provoking article concerning our failed democracy by Andrew Cadman at TCW which ends on a note of optimism:
“over the next five years many defeats lie ahead, the future will seem ever darker and hope ever more diminished. However, as Farage himself says, good ultimately will defeat evil, and no matter how much we will mourn the destruction of all we hold sacred, what we have lost and have yet to lose, let us have faith in, build and look forward to the new truly democratic – directly democratic – golden age that our children will inherit.”
And running alongside collapsing EV sales we have the eco gravy train which is filling up with renewable subsidies supplied by taxpayers.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/on-the-renewable-energy-gravy-train-only-the-subsidies-keep-flowing/
“A TaxPayers’ Alliance investigation Council energy companies of 13 local authorities which had invested in energy companies found that they lost more than £74million of council tax receipts in ill-conceived ventures. And the unavoidable reality of cold windless nights and a frequently sunless UK which make Net Zero impossible is simply ignored.
The question that all candidates should be asked in this upcoming election is who’s paying and for whose benefit? Why are taxpayers funding an eco-lobby sustainables gravy train which helps the balance sheets of the globalist corporations and the wallets of their cronies, while putting up consumers’ own energy bills? Economic vandalism at its worst in exchange for virtue-signalling at its finest just about sums it up.”
In a way EV’s are an example of old fashioned Soviet style,top-down, market authoritarianism. They are also a glaring example of how the eco-techno-crats do not understand motorists, motoring and why EVs are not an easy direct swap for ICE cars.
Thank goodness there are so many brilliant small business garage outfits out there, like Barry in Barnstaple, who seem so keen and capable of keeping elderly ICE cars driving on to ”infinity and beyond”!
But in the end if they stick to this EV Net-Zero policy, small garage businesses and much of the economy linked to motoring will be devastated and the lives of ordinary people will be immiserated by a huge reduction in travel freedoms.
Just asked my local Reform candidate ‘Adam Jones’ if he would be willing to talk with UK Column. I will await a reply.
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https://anthonycolpo.substack.com/p/censorship-industrial-complex-loses
A superb sledgehammer job on the BMJ Public Health magazine offshoot…
“Something unusual happened on June 3, 2024. BMJ Public Health, a prominent peer-reviewed British Medical Journal offshoot that covers public health research and policy, published a paper by Dutch researchers exploring the excess mortality in various countries during 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Three of the four authors, led by Saskia Mostert, hailed from the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Mostert is one of the relatively few researchers with sufficient character to speak out against the abundant corruption within the health and medicine fields.”
Although BMJ Public Health published the article which exposed the huge numbers of deaths generated worldwide by the toxic injections it has since rowed back and has attempted to throw the authors to the wolves.
Obviously there is no suggestion that Billy and his murderous cohort are involved. Honestly.
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I posted at the time of the October 7th massacre in Israel that I did not believe for one minute that the IDF could not have known in advance of the incoming attack. I believe this article provides the proof.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/international-criminal-court-icc-prosecutor-karim-a-a-khan-kc-accuses-palestine-of-waging-war-against-israel/5857711
https://youtu.be/7qI0xQSn8Y0?si=4CpsHjKG_z8JFHqt
This is it:
Kneel, ” I choose Davos over Westminster.”
I read a comment yesterday which made me smile. Imagine EVs were the norm and the combustion engine came along. The benefits of this new combustion engine technology would include a longer range, a lighter car so less impact on roads, getting rid of long charging times, preserving Earth’s metals, cheaper….What is not to like?
I understand that one of Trumps election strategies is to reverse the push for EVs and re-position ICE cars as the main stay of motoring. If the USA does go back to ICE cars it makes you wonder where that will leave Europe and the UK?
Also, backing down on EVs is one way to ‘put one over’ on China, the Chinese have gone big on EVs driven by state driven subsidies and direction. Any backing down on EVs will leave China with egg on its face and piles of unwanted EVs in parking lots.
My prediction is that in 20-30 years time neither current type ICE or EV vehicles will be the mode of transport. I think the human ingenuity will come up with new workable technology to replace both ICE and lithium-ion EVs. The currenty EV debacle is that result of an ignorant, authoritarian and blinkered drive to force the introduction of a new unsuitable and unworkable technology.
The only problem is that Trump is the only one doing that —-(Well maybe Reform might force a few rethinks here and there) but once Trump is dead and buried the global communism will be free to march ahead.
They could be contemplating the latter for all we know.
Given the weight I wonder what the survival rate looks like for pedestrians hit by them?
Ah so the Protection Racket EU wants to save the planet, but they want all the Europeans to pay top dollar for the cars that are going to save it? —–Has there even been a bigger politically motivated disorganised clutter of incompetence, mixed with ideology, subsidy farming, and this desire by the world government people at the UN and WEF to control every aspect of every person’s life on the planet in what is really a Communist World Government pretending they are saving us from a planetary emergency but with not a shred of evidence. ——-In the past communism was something that happened in various places and was mostly gotten rid of because people want FREEDOM, not Tyranny. No one ever jumped across the Berlin wall from West to East. They all jumped in this direction to prosperity and freedom. But now we have a serious problem because the technocrats are using climate to control not just a few countries here and there, but the whole planet. —————–Wakey wakey people. —None of this has anything to do with the bloody climate.
After the Wall came down, we thought Communism was finished!
Balls to the Wall:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_3TlrZLpQ0
Oh, let me think: where does the EU electric car, and other electric industries, principally buy batteries from? Which country controls almost the entire market?
How does it even begin to be possible that people so dense can get into any position of power? All China has to do is stick the same percentage tariff on every Chinese item that EU manufacturers need to make cars that set on fire. This is hardly rocket science.
Given that manufacturers in Europe will be required to hit nonsensical targets all that China has to do is wait for the European car industry to go bust. Then they buy it all up at rock bottom prices as they have done with so much else.
China is in the same position as OPEC: when you control the market and the availability you control the price. The EU is heading down the dust pipe but not to as good a tune as the old Status Quo hit.
It’s worth pointing out that EU electric cars are so expensive because the EU manufacturers have to pay extraordinary amounts for electricity to make their cars. In the UK, for example, the hidden tax on gas and electricity, if removed, would cut the price by a third at least. Remove the subsidies on top and you lopped off an easy 50%. La La Land is exactly the same.
Deliberately murdering your industries is not some other countries fault.
But people are blissfully unaware that the whole Green Agenda as Klaus Schwab freely admitted is to “Bring about the collapse of Industrial Society”. ——Our Political Class that are telling us they are going to give us growth and clean cheaper energy are a pack of lying UN lackey parasites speaking with forked tongue. Green = Anti Growth. Green = Lower Living Standard. Green = Going without.
I’m in Italy at the moment. Been here for a week. I’ve not seen ONE electric vehicle so far.