Critics are calling out Keir Starmer for going back on his promise for change by appointing Sir Patrick Vallance as a minister. The Telegraph has more.
Sir Patrick was unveiled as the new Minister of State for Science on Friday, having served as the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser from 2018 to 2023.
He became a household name during the Covid pandemic and would appear most days at televised briefings with Boris Johnson, the then Prime Minister, and Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Adviser.
Speaking at the Covid Inquiry in November, Sir Patrick suggested lockdowns should have been “broader”, “harder” and “earlier”, while also arguing local restrictions were left too late.
Sir Keir came under fire after appointing the scientist to his frontbench team by those who questioned the severity of coronavirus policies at the time.
Richard Tice, the Chairman of Reform U.K. and the new MP for Boston and Skegness, co-founded the party with Nigel Farage during the second national lockdown to oppose the Government’s direction of travel.
Mr. Tice told the Telegraph: “The reality is that we’ve been proven right on lockdowns, they were catastrophic at every level.
“What Starmer is doing is reinforcing the status quo. He’s actually, in a sense, protecting the objective of the Covid Inquiry, which is to validate the recommendations of the likes of Vallance and Whitty.
“Frankly, I think this appointment is a major conflict of interest and as such it’s disgraceful. There’s no change, there’s actually a doubling down of the establishment protecting itself.”
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Don’t panic everyone. The Great British Public when it comes down to it will resist total stupidity and greed. I have previously suggested that at the next election, if Labour mucks it up, they will once again be out. The stats show there’s not a lot between then and the Tories except Reform, which both parties will eventually agree is to neither’s benefit, and a merger will occur. Most ministerial appointments are pretty anodyne and replace one mediocrity with another. Except Vallance, whose appointment is a kick in the face for common sense and completely inexplicable, given his record and the fact that he never listened to those who had an alternative plan for managing Covid. As one of those I am personally affronted.
Meanwhile Andrew Bridgen has been lost to the Commons, and one can only hope he might be able to have some influence outside it.
What you realise about this appointment is nothing changes but the colour of the rosette!
Who are the looters? Checkout the UB40 lyrics, very apt!
https://genius.com/Ub40-who-you-fighting-for-lyrics
Vallance doesn’t understand science. I will take a science exam with him and beat him hands down.
Yes but none of it is about science. ———“The Science” is just the excuse government use for policies they want.
Not “Science Minister” ———“Official Science Minister”.—- So, this is the guy that will now be wheeled out to present all of the official science that government will use as the excuses for public policies. No evidence will be required, only “consensus”. But whenever was science decided by a show of hands from a bunch of government funded data adjusters?
So Starmer’s appointed a blatant liar and propagandist as Minister for #Science.
It would be interesting to see Vallance’s Investment Portfolio for Climate Change. The one for Big Pharma fully explained his understanding of “science.”
Are you sure it is not Minister of State for The Science?
Would you mind if I add a slight correction:
The $cience.
And another
The Seance
Looks likely the Leftards have won in France as well. Can we do a swap of BankBallance for Le Penn?
Yes ! Defeat from the Jaws of Victory ! Wonder how that happened ! I think we are fucked !!!!…
France has fallen!
We won’t be far behind !
Sir Kiernocchio and Sir BankBalance, what a bloody combination on Day Three of Starmergeddon. One would generally say “Well, it can’t get worse” but just wait until Browns Constitution kicks in along with Pay Per Mile, Ulez, £100 on car tax and a quid on Petrol. That’s just getting revved up.
I read somewhere that before the Glasgow CoP Sir Patrick prepped Boris Johnson with the UN’s most unbelievable temperature forecast, known as RCP 8.5.
Here is a National Centre for Atmospheric Research scientist debunking RCP 8.5:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/how-climate-change-became-apocalyptic
Science minister.
What a fucking waste of time and money.
Science needs a ministry to direct it as much as I need an mRNA jab every 6 months
Indeed. There is a “Football Governance Bill” which was in committee stage when Parliament was dissolved. Our country is being invaded and they want to get involved in “governing” football – one of the few things that the UK does reasonably well (by which I mean, it seems very popular and not in need of much “governance”).
I suspect this appointment has been made in order that preparations can be made for Scamdemic ll which is due to land this Autumn / Winter, or even September according to a Global Research article which I posted yesterday.
I agree, but I hope more people will rebel this time.
Don’t agree with Tice on everything but can’t disagree with that. Now have a chat with Andrew Bridgen who is also taking his mate Hand-cock to court.
What a bunch of cunts.
😂😂😂. And that!
I have never understood why an object of desire should be used as a term of abuse, but there you are. Its use here is inappropriate, because these megalomaniacs are so blinded with ambition they cannot see that the coming avalanche of oppression will bury them too. They are just gullible idiots. There is a sense that chaos is deliberately being created to facilitate the imposition of the new order, but I don’t doubt Farage’s sincerity and never have. Compulsory face coverings are now being reintroduced in various health settings – see Smile Free. It must not be made so easy for these tyrants this time.
Congratulations to everyone who voted Labour – we have a despicable lockdown fanatic as “science minister”!
The elites are just circling the waggons. It’s my belief that Farage was brought into the game by the establishment to legitimise a clearly illegitimate system. I’m not necessarily saying he knew what his part was, but it certainly introduced the illusion of choice whilst actually doing exactly the opposite. We will likely see their first term as one in which they simply close ranks and tweak laws to lockin a socialist government. Term two will see a step change whereby real socialism will be introduced. By the time the middle-class tw*ts that read the Guardian are aware of what they’ve done it’ll be way too late. I believe we had one chance and that’s now passed. Stock up on the rice.
And weapons of some sort.
We are already neck deep in socialism, FL.
The state doesn’t actually need to own the means of production. They de facto own everything by firstly creating all the rules and regulations by which pretty much every single industry needs to operate. And secondly by taking a cut from everyone at every turn. From workers’ wages. From consumers when they spend. From company profits.
All you’re seeing is what every greedy,, corrupt, out of control business partner does which is try and take more and more at everyone else’s expense. And take all the credit for what goes well and blame someone else for all that goes wrong.
That is the state of the western “free market”
They are the looters.
A visionary (whose name escapes me) once described them as such.
Impossible not to agree.
Nothing I disagree with. The point I’ve always tried to make (not very well at times) is how to make it visible to everyone else. I’ve since come to the conclusion that most others just don’t want it to be visible – almost everyone chose the blue pill.
Money is nice, but Power is nicer.
And Power Without Responsibility is only beaten by Power Without Responsibility and Awareness of the Consequences.
Speaking of which, I expect ramping up of NET Zero policies, and much else besides.
Stakeholder Capitalism———-A pincer movement of Government and Big Corporations.
Extraordinary theories require extraordinary evidence. —-Where is your evidence that Farage was “brought into the game”?
As well as, I think we will discover in time, a lockdown fanatic Prime Minister! The Starmer-led opposition during “Operation Brainwash” rolled over like a poodle and accepted stay-at-home orders, business closures, school closures and all the rest of it without a whisper of challenge.
Oh Mr “Change”, how he thought these such marvellous ideas!
So a cabinet chock-full of lockdown-peddlers, net-zero zealots and a leader who will alienate the female contingent of the UK population because he does not know what they are….
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh yes of course almost all of them will be lockdown fanatics, but the appointment of a public face of lockdown is a clear signal of where they stand.
And where they intend going.
I don’t know quite where Sir Keir stood (or cowered) during the run up to lockdown. Suffice to say that Jeremy Corbin as the outgoing ‘leader’ of the Labour party fully cooperated with the passage of the Act which enabled the first lockdown in the UK. I daresay he completely supported his leader.
From memory I don’t recall Starmer voting against a single lockdown measure.
He’s a WEFfer and will have been given his orders.