On Monday, the Sunday Times ran an article questioning the decision of Reform U.K. to propose a public inquiry into COVID-19 excess deaths and “controversially” —its words — “vaccine harms”. The article’s author, a prominent political editor, writes, “I ask Tice [then-leader of Reform] whether these pledges risk legitimising dangerous conspiracy theories at a time when Britain is experiencing a resurgence in measles.”
Both the comment, and the apparent assuredness with which it was penned, struck me as curious. Barely 10 days ago, British front pages were awash with the report of the Inquiry into the U.K.’s contaminated blood scandal. The Sunday Times admirably played a leading role not only in exposing the scandal but in campaigning for meaningful compensation for the victims. “For almost 40 years, The Sunday Times has been a leading voice for justice for the victims of the scandal” reads one editorial, from just two weeks ago.
The infected blood scandal report, authored by inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff, makes for gruelling reading. Its 2,000 plus pages chart a litany of avoidable failure after avoidable failure, and a four decade long tale of corruption and cover-up spanning almost every layer of the civil service, the U.K.’s national health service, pharmaceutical companies and senior Government figures.
Few topics seem as highly vexed as the question of the extent of injury and death resulting from mass Covid vaccination. But one would need to be wilfully blind not to spot that much of what has been detailed in the Infected Blood report — potential harms unheeded; thousands robbed of healthy life; benefits overstated and risks downplayed; unethical and unnecessary treatment of children — mirrors what are now documented failings of public health policy during the pandemic.
Sure, there is ambiguity and uncertainty over the scale of harm (a point in large part aggravated by the refusal of public health authorities to release complete and timely data, in itself an uncanny echo of the failures of the blood scandal). But the reality, inconvenient for some, is that there is by now a documented paper trail evidencing widespread and serious procedural and substantive failings in the accelerated approval of the Covid vaccines and the manner of their roll-out in the U.K.
Such evidenced failings include widespread unacknowledged adverse reactions; serial safety and efficacy mis-marketing by pharma companies and governments alike; unorthodox, unethical and unlawful statements and behaviour of key public health individuals and organisations around the world during the pandemic period; and a highly contentious and deeply unethical rollout of the vaccination programme to children (the latter in fact a topic covered by the Sunday Times).
“Adopting an attitude of denial towards the risks of treatment”, “Falsely reassuring the public and patients”, states the Infected Blood Inquiry Report, words which might equally apply to the myriad of exaggerated and unqualified statements about safety and efficacy made in relation to the Covid vaccines.
“Failure to put patient safety first”, identified as a thematic failure of the blood scandal, has been the subject of a recent campaign by a high profile group of U.K. Parliamentarians about the behaviour of the U.K.’s medical regulator, the MHRA, in relation to the Covid vaccine.
The use of generic ‘stock’ lines (in the case of the contaminated blood scandal, that patients had received the “best treatment available” and that there was “no conclusive proof that AIDS has been transmitted from American blood products”) draws extensive criticism in the report for giving “false reassurance… lack[ing] candour and by not telling the whole truth”.
“The line, which was wrong from the very outset, then became entrenched for around 20 years: a dogma became a mantra. It was enshrined. It was never questioned,” says Sir Brian in the infected blood report. How would the ubiquitous ‘safe and effective’ canon of the Covid era stand up to such critique?
“A lack of openness, transparency and candour, shown by the NHS and Government, such that the truth has been hidden for decades”, says Sir Brian’s report in relation to events of 30 years ago. In recent months U.K. Parliamentarians have forced numerous parliamentary debates on the subject of excess deaths and possible links with the Covid vaccine. Each time concerns have been met with the same familiar platitudinal responses from the U.K. Government and its agencies. “There is no evidence linking excess deaths to the COVID-19 vaccine”; “Vaccines are the best way to protect people from COVID-19”. Parliamentarians’ letters calling for transparency over data have gone largely unanswered, and parallel Freedom of Information Act requests have been subjected to extensive delays and seemingly confected obstructions.
Yet not only has press commentary about the stark similarities between suspected pandemic era failings and the findings of the infected blood report been notable through its complete absence; but public figures such as Tice, who have consistently raised reasonable questions about vaccine harms and excess deaths, find themselves accused of stoking conspiracy theories. “I was treated like I was crazy and a conspiracy theorist,” said Jason Evans, whose father was killed by the contaminated blood scandal and who had tried to voice concerns long before it became fashionable to do so.
“Where things appear to have gone wrong, and safety has been compromised, an attempt should be made to learn the lessons as quickly as possible,” cautioned Sir Brian in the Infected Blood Report, and nowhere is our moral duty to learn from our failures greater than where those failures lead to preventable injury and death. Far from being traduced as conspiracy theorists, those questioning excess deaths and vaccine harms should be platformed and amplified. An inquiry into vaccine harms would signal a determination to learn from the infected blood scandal and a resolve to avoid the same cycle of decades-long failure and cover-up.
Sir Brian Langstaff concludes his report by saying: “It will be astonishing to anyone who reads this report that these events could have happened in the U.K. It may also be surprising that the questions why so many deaths and infections occurred have not had answers before now.”
Well, we have our answer, do we not? When a deep societal denialism prevents us from confronting contemporaneous failures, when dissenters are shamed and censored and open debate is closed down, what hope can there be for learning?
Molly Kingsley is a founder of children’s rights campaign group UsForThem. This article was first published on the UsForThem Substack page. Subscribe here.
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“Those damned COVID Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists are just jumping on the infected blood scandal bandwagon! Despicable folks!”
I think it would be useful if people would stop using the dreadfully overused, and increasingly meaningless word, ‘conspiracy’, and use other words instead to convey whatever is meant.
Though I am beginning to see it as a badge of honour these days.
I prefer to call myself a conspiracy realist.
Dr David Martin “call me a collusion theorist”.
That’s good, I like it.
Consensus theorist!
Obfuscation, arse-covering and lazy acceptance of somebody else’s assertion.
Mr Bridgen and others, by their willingness to put themselves on the line, demonstrate an admirable bloody-mindedness that I identify with strongly.
After all, I think it’s a feature most of us here share. I’ve never been the type to ‘go along to get along’ and it’s not always made me the most popular individual. It would have been so much easier not to go against the flow, but it offends my inner sense of being and so I dig in my heels, time and again.
Off-T
Musk, love him or hate him, has won his legal case in Australia against censorship by diktat.
https://public.substack.com/p/free-speech-victory
Every time I see certain words used I note that they are used by the people who actually are what they complain about. David Lammy for example “Racist”. One of my favourites “Inclusive” which excludes more people than it includes.
“Conspiracy”, “Anti-Vax”, used by people who wish to cover things up by silencing all other opinion. The classic has to be “Freedom of Speech” where only the “right” people get to say anything. Fascist is another favourite of those who wish to eradicate and suppress everyone else but themselves and their lunatic opinions.
When people string several of these together, you know the persons being described as such are circling over the target.
Turdeau I recall strung together something like “Right wing, misogynist, racist , antivax conspiracy theorists”
https://youtu.be/3QH5H8wgXgU
But it occurs to me we need another: conspiracy theory theorists.
Isn’t anti-vax a dislike for hoovering?
I don’t dislike “hoovering,” although it is not an activity I have much affinity with.
The only Hoovers I like are the ones without the bag. One I got still going strong since 2004.
Someone even disliked that. What is your problem with bagless Hoovers?
a bit like Climate Change Denier then?
“… dangerous conspiracy theories…”
Dangerous only to the evil scum and their supporters and apologists who have blood on their hands.
When did legitimate concern, scepticism, and enquiry become conspiracy theory?
And isn’t claiming so a conspiracy theory?
Just ask Al Gore and Greta Thunberg …
legitimising dangerous conspiracy theories at a time when Britain is experiencing a resurgence in measles.”
What a prejudiced, pathetic little worm. There have been many conspiracy theories that are now reality. These pathetic people pushing censorship need to remember — there would be no woman’s voting rights, no gay rights, no Luther King is there was no free speech.
…”resurgence in measles”
I think at last count it was half-a-dozen cases.
Lying Next Tuesday.
According to Andrew Bridgen many MPs are aware of the scale of the jab injuries and they told him something along the lines of….’Now is not the time, maybe look into this in 20 years”. Any wonder why they run out from Parliament when this subject comes up. What you don’t know (or perceived not to know) don’t hurt.
“Now is not the time,…”?!!!
Remember those that said this.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see the establishment stooges like Andrew Mitchell (who made sure that the Commons chamber was cleared ahed of Andrew Bridgen’s December speech on vaccine harms) publicly humiliated.
Very well said. How malevolently ironic that the covid vaccine scandal may well be another infected blood scandal with concern now about blood from vaccinated donors.
The numbers would be too great too absorb. I think it is about 4.5 billion peole were given the spike. You can imagine the number of adverse events. No entity in the universe has the money to even consider such liability. This is coming out now because our overlords have decided that accelerationism is perhaps their best strategy. Nothing good is going to come of this as it stands they have already written it in to their business strategy.
Is the NHS concerned about possible contamination of transfusion blood supplies by mRNA-injected donors? Don’t hold your breath, it’s nowhere near ready to look into this latest ‘contaminated blood’ problem – believe me, I know from personal experience.
Despite the recent evidence of persistent and apparently bioactive components of the so-called Covid “vaccines” the medical sector appears to have little taste for assessing whether contaminated blood may present a health risk to those who refused to accept those products but who subsequently need to receive blood transfusions.
As for those unfortunate individuals with protected Draculoid tendencies, they will have to rely on the ardent protectors of Diversity for their own salvation.
During my recent chemotherapy program I developed autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a common side effect, and I needed repeated blood transfusions to bring it under control. This was successful, but . . . what now?
From the start of the catastrophically improper recent public health Covid antics I refused all contact with the genetic medicines misrepresented to the gullible public as “vaccines”. As a ‘highly vulnerable’ cancer patient in my late 80s, the pressure was intense, but with over half a century as a professional biologist and environmental ‘trouble-shooter’, including numerous forays into in public health fields, I can spot pseudoscience from a great distance, and that included the fallacies which the pharmaceutical sector, and its tame ‘experts’ were peddling from the very start of the Covidian Era
So I took care of my own ‘compromised’ immune system with large weekly doses of Vitamin D and a very small prophylactic weekly dose of Ivermectin. When eventually I did catch the Covid bug (from my first visit in 3 years to my world-famous cancer hospital, of course!) I spent 48 hours in bed and then went about my normal business with no further ill feelings.
The new evidence of residual components of the mRNA medicines in donated blood started to emerge immediately after my bout of anaemia, so shortly after my recent transfusions, I emailed my contact at the hospital, explaining my interest and offered to allow them to check my monthly blood samples for any traces of these unintended residues.
Since I had otherwise had no exposure through the standard ‘vaccinations’ and ‘boosters’ – an ideal guinea pig – I suggested this, just out of personal interest, and purely as a professional interested scientist. No legal implications, Squire, I told them, I was fully aware that the transfusions were undoubtedly essential in my cancer treatment.
Predictably, of course (silly me!) they chose not to reply, and I’ve not heard a whisper from them since – well, I guess I’d sort of expected that no-one wanted anything to do with such damned inquisitive scientists from outside the hallowed towers of medical practice. My own local GP and Specialist are quietly flustered when I raise such troublesome issues, and I suspect other seekers after enlightenment may have similar experience.
Yet with the old ‘Contaminated Blood’ scandal at last starting to raise its ugly head at last, I guess we ain’t heard nothin yet, and the abominably negligent and unethical genetic mistreatment based on the emergent mRNA pseudoscience will, eventually, come to take its rightful place in the backwaters of the Ivory Halls of Infamy established by Big Pharma.
At least many would feel there would be some sort of justice if the major bad actors were imprisoned and stripped of their huge pensions … Hancock, Fauci et al …
You can’t escape it even if you didn’t take it. I got nasty symptoms after close contact with a vaxxed. My mistake I know. This is a malaise that works on many levels. It is spread through the bioweapon but also food and household products. It is spread through the dismal decline in the weather and atmospheric conditions and is made most manifest through the doleful state of our culture. Take a walk down the average high street and you will need no further explanation. At least acknowledge that this is an adversary and a unifed force. It is difficult because they have scientifically crafted the technique of robbing you of the spunk to fight it.
Virtually no potato crop this year because of the wetness. All crops are down. There is no way a population of 60 million can be sustained on current yields. Don’t think that you will rely on imports the disruption is even worse in other parts of the world. Look at the prices of coffee, cocoa and olive oil. You won’t hear a peep about any of this in the media. They have their layered story – elites know that food shortages lead to their demise hence the attempt to instigate a nuclear war which would be a distracton and the sudden widespread reporting of vaccine damage even in the ultramontane DT. Surely it is obvious what is happening.
Many thanks to Molly Kingsley for all her efforts. Unfortunately, while there are clearly parallels between the infected blood scandal and the “covid vaccine” scandal, there is a key difference. The “covid vaccine” scandal involves a wider spectrum of villains – orders of magnitude wider. In fact, which powerful body, public or private, globally, does it NOT involve? Who other than a few brave people has anything to gain from admitting the despicable acts that have been committed? Sorry, public, we fooled and poisoned you all. Not going to happen.
Even the Football League. There was a good video some time back on UK Column where someone at a large gathering of Football managers condemned those that coerced people to get the jab. They had no answer of course, spinless gits just following orders.
“Covid vaccines are the new tainted blood”
Except they’re GMO’s not vaccines
The contaminated blood inquiry did demonstrate the shameless obfuscation of the British establishment – BUT it also demonstrated that the truth will out in the end. Keep going Molly!
In the end, eh? The intention of the miscreants, no doubt, was that they should be safely superannuated before the truth came out. I think they succeeded.
Mark Steyn was laughing about this irony on his Podcast. How can the state do this, they have betrayed the Nation etc etc. Yet so many still cannot join the dots.
I have commented here before that unless there is true accountability these
coverups will continue to happen: Blood contamination, post office scandal, Grenfell and now the Covid products.
I don’t recall any serious repercussions for the first three, apart from maybe some reputational damage. But even then it is often decades later.
I am not in favour of witch hunts, but acknowledging the issues when they become evident and addressing the misdemeanours is the least that should happen.
It is likely a cultural difference, but the ex-minister of Interior in Japan has publicly apologised for pushing these vaccines.
No one is in favour of witchhunts, but I am in favor of justice, and when it would give a signal warning to future emulators, of vindictive justice. We can identify a single person who is directly responsible for every covid jab death and injury throughout the world. That person is the minister in England – where the entire world rollout of the covid jabs was inaugurated at New Year 20/21 – who gave the order at that time for the spates of sudden deaths in UK care homes that occurred directly after visitation by the jabbers to be hushed up. The reports were on local TV news and in local newspapers for several days, before they suddenly stopped. The Pfizer1 jab was quickly pulled and the AZ substituted.
How was the unanimity of suppression achieved in a free country with a supposedly free press? If the story had been properly aired, the jab rollout could not have proceeded.
Who gave the order? His hands are red with blood and, no doubt, his pockets are stuffed with filthy lucre.
The NG163 NICE Guidelines stated that 2.5 MG of Midazolam should be injected regardless of body weight, age and comorbidities. And why was Midazolam removed from NG191 on Nov 30th 2023. Is the blame with NICE, NHS England or individual Drs & Nurses. Andrew Bridgen has covered this well.
I think one of the biggest problems in all these disasters is the press and its total lack of inquisitiveness, or rather its devotion to whatever the government wants it to write. I would be so ashamed to be a journalist these days, receiving my daily orders to write an article on global warming, safe vaccines, the wonderful ‘Mother of parliaments’ or some other juvenile nonsense.
There used to be times when the press would be hammering our politicians, embarrassing them, squeezing answers out of them, giving them a really difficult time. Now it is all just subservience and primitive propaganda.
Didn’t Tice agree with compulsory ‘vaccinations’ in certain employment sectors? Short memories
Yes Care Workers. They lost around 100K of them, just when they are needed.
Looks as though Reform wants to recruit Andrew Bridgen