- “Britain at risk of £24 billion Trump tariff raid over VAT” – The UK is facing the prospect of 21% tariffs on some exports to the US if Trump imposes duties on Britain based on VAT charges, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer EU split as UK ‘won’t retaliate’ on Trump’s 25% steel tariffs” – Hopes that Britain might be spared a 25% tariff on steel imports to the US by refusing to fall in with the EU’s retaliatory import duties have been dealt a huge blow as Trump complained of the “huge deficit” in trade between our two countries, says the Mail.
- “Le snub! Britain refuses to sign global AI agreement at French summit” – Britain and the US have not put their names to the AI Action Summit declaration following two days of talks in the French capital, reports the Mail.
- “Brussels threatens to derail Macron’s French tech revolution” – A spiralling web of red tape threatens to undermine the French President’s grand AI ambitions, says Matthew Field in the Telegraph.
- “Brexit Britain can escape ‘old Europe’ to build big tech industry, says investor” – The head of one of the world’s biggest hedge funds argues that Brexit frees Britain from Europe’s bureaucratic shackles, providing an opportunity to join the US tech boom, according to the Telegraph.
- “Chagos case judge is ex-China official who backed Russian invasion of Ukraine” – One of the international judges who ruled against Britain over the Chagos Islands is a former Chinese government official who backed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, reports the Telegraph.
- “Court gives Gazans right to settle in UK” – Palestinian migrants have been granted the right to live in the UK after applying through a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees, says the Telegraph.
- “The £1 million private jet flight that deported 47 illegal migrants to Albania” – A deportation flight carrying illegal migrants and criminals to Albania had just 47 on board at a cost of £1 million to the taxpayer, reports GB News. That works out at £21,276 per deportee.
- “Labour’s new borders watchdog will WFH… in Finland! Tories blast plan” – Labour’s choice to head a new borders watchdog has hinted he plans to work part of the time from his home in Finland, according to the Mail.
- “Labour suspends 11 councillors over vile WhatsApp group” – Labour has suspended 11 councillors over a WhatsApp group where messages mocked pensioners and made misogynistic and homophobic remarks, reports the Mail.
- “MP joked about Jewish clothing in Labour WhatsApp group” – WhatsApp messages sent by a suspended Labour MP, which appear to mock Jewish clothing, threaten to spark a new antisemitism row, says the Times.
- “Met Police could be forced to rehire officers sacked over abuse allegations” – The Met could be forced to reinstate hundreds of officers accused of sexual and domestic abuse after a judgment at the High Court, reports the Telegraph.
- “Criminal offense” – In Takimag, Steven Tucker slams the UK’s overzealous approach to policing insults.
- “Lefty lawyers like Starmer and Hermer have poisoned our children against Britain” – The Attorney General and his ilk find virtue in every country’s point of view save their own, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “The cult of victimhood has made children miserable” – Thanks to yet another government-funded study, we now know that children cope better with stress when taught that it’s part of everyday life, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Britain is failing Gen Z” – In the Spectator, Niall Gooch says that for Gen Z Britain is piling on taxes, pricing out home ownership and killing patriotism – so why would they fight for their country?
- “A Tory-Reform pact is a fantasy – but not for the reasons Kemi thinks” – In the Telegraph, Stephen Davies demolishes the idea of a Tory-Reform pact, highlighting that Britain’s Right is too divided by nationalism and free markets to ever unite.
- “Assisted dying’s safeguards were always a sham” – In the Telegraph, Madeline Grant slams Kim Leadbeater and her allies for dismantling the assisted dying Bill’s safeguards, deceiving MPs and turning the process into a sham.
- “Inside the People’s Vaccine Inquiry” – In TCW, Dr Elizabeth Evans blasts the reckless Covid vaccine roll-out as a catastrophic ethical failure.
- “Cancer deaths rose in Japan in 2022 and 2023, post-mRNA Covid shots” – On Substack, Alex Berenson reports that Japan saw 12,000 excess cancer deaths in 2022–23 – the strongest statistical signal yet of a link between mRNA Covid jabs and cancer.
- “All charges against Dr Charles Hoffe have been dropped by the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons” – On Substack, Dr Pierre Kory celebrates the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons dropping all charges against Dr Charles Hoffe for speaking out about mRNA vaccines.
- “New journal co-founded by NIH nominee raises eyebrows, misinformation fears” – The Journal of the Academy of Public Health claims to open up scientific communication, but its unusual editorial policies have some scientists concerned, says Catherine Offord in Science.
- “Wired’s Scicomm Writer Emily Mullin Attacks Independent Research, Because of Course” – In the Disinformation Chronicle, Paul E. Thacker takes aim at Emily Mullin, a science writer for Wired, who has raised bogus rears about the Journal of the Academy of Public Health.
- “Save our ostriches update” – On Substack, James Roguski urges immediate action to stop the Canadian Government from culling 400 healthy ostriches over supposed avian flu concerns.
- “In Soviet Germany, the Government protests you” – On Substack, Eugyppius exposes how Germany’s leftist Government funds protests to demonise half the country while the CDU flirts with breaking the cordon sanitaire separating mainstream German political parties from the AfD.
- “Ukraine may be Russian one day, says Trump as he hints at rare earths deal” – Trump has suggested Ukraine “may be Russian someday” while pushing for a deal exchanging US aid for Kyiv’s rare minerals, reports the Mail.
- “Release hostages by noon Saturday or war begins again, says Netanyahu” – Benjamin Netanyahu says that the ceasefire will be over and Israel will resume “intense fighting” in Gaza if Hamas doesn’t release the remaining hostages by midday Saturday, according to the Times of Israel.
- “Why Hamas does not really want to derail the hostage deal” – In the Telegraph, Henry Bodkin argues that Hamas’s postponement of hostage releases is a tactical move to secure more concessions from Israel and remind Trump of its influence.
- “Accept displaced Gazans or face aid cuts, Trump tells Jordan and Egypt” – Trump has threatened to cut off aid to Jordan and Egypt should they refuse to accept Palestinians from Gaza, according to ABC News.
- “Democrats loved ‘unelected power’ until Trump turned their own weapons against them” – The party of FDR and Obama created a powerful executive to ram through ‘progressive’ programmes, writes Charles Lipton in the Telegraph. Now it’s being used to dismantle them.
- “Counting coup” – On Substack, Thomas Buckley argues that Trump’s reforms aren’t a coup but a long-overdue reckoning.
- “Why aren’t Scotland’s politicians standing up for Sandie Peggie?” – Scotland’s leaders remain terrified to speak up about the Sandie Peggie case lest they feel the wrath of trans rights activists, says Euan McColm in the Spectator. This is no way to go on.
- “Deloitte UK refuses to scrap DEI rules in split with US office” – The boss of Deloitte UK has signalled a split with the firm’s US arm by reaffirming its diversity, equity and inclusion targets, reports the Independent.
- “Barcelona’s Mapi Leon denies inappropriately touching rival and asking her ‘do you have a d—?’” – A female Spanish footballer has denied touching an opponent in the crotch area and asking: “Do you have a d—?” according to JOE.
- “At last, the Church of England is standing up to wokery” – Make Holy Communion more inclusive by using non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread? You’ve got to be joking, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Channel 4’s sanctimonious moralising is the last gasp of the old, pro-migration regime” – Channel 4’s latest reality show sells a woke morality tale about immigration the public are no longer willing to buy, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “‘What’s happened to you?’” – On TalkTV, journalist Yvonne Ridley tries telling Julia Hartley-Brewer that the Israeli hostages were treated “well”. What follows is the most entertaining WTF moment of the year.
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It’s normal for there to be costs if one party wants to get out of an agreed contract. I don’t really blame Pfizer for negotiating hard on the existing terms (I blame them for fraudulently selling a defective product). By only charging 50% for the not-to-be-produced doses they’re probably taking a hit to their anticipated profit margins. I do blame the government negotiators who recommended signing the contracts and the government, of course.
What government negotiators? Ursula von der Leyen, unelected head of the EU Commission, carried out the negotiations with pfisser on her own, the details of which she has refused to share to this day. The individual governments were then told what share of the poison they would be required to purchase and at what price. I wouldn’t be surprised if even the various ministers of health of EU countries never actually saw or read the full contract but just signed on the dotted line as instructed.
To the best of my knowledge, national parliaments have still not been shown the contracts, even though as people’s representatives they have every right to demand to see exactly what it is that taxpayer money is being wasted on.
My comment stands: UvdL was the government lead negotiator though I’d be astonished if she actually attended most negotiation meetings online or in person. And any member of government who signs a contract just on the say-so of their delegated negotiator(s) is a culpable fool.
The down-vote was me – sorry. I’ve clearly got a fat finger problem.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound like I was disagreeing with you. You’re absolutely right about government negotiators and shyster ministers who sign such contracts on the say-so of someone else.
The thing is, in this case there is missing information about von der Leyen’s dealings with Bourla, which she and the Commission are keeping hidden, despite the EU Ombudsman and the MEP Covid-19 Committee seeking clarification (among others).
I don’t think the pfisser contracts were ever ‘negotiated’ in the traditional sense. I believe pfisser’s lawyers drew up the contracts and said ‘take it or leave’ to moronic, panicking governments who needed to find a way out of the lockdown catastrophe they inflicted on all of us. Von der Leyen may have ‘negotiated’ on price (who knows, maybe not just that for the product… she has got form, see her past as German Defence Minister) and quantity, but I think that is it. But she did so for the entire EU at that point and I don’t think there was much choice for the individual countries (which does not mean I am excusing their heinous and grossly negligent behaviour when it comes to the vaxx – but the rot came from the top).
You are spot on about those responsible at national level for signing the contracts. I don’t believe for one second then Dutch health minister De Jonge read the contract, I doubt he would have understood even half the implications, if the leaked contracts I’ve seen are genuine. He will have been instructed by PM Rutte to sign, Rutte in turn always doing as he is told by Brussels. They should all rot.
Damned right.
What government negotiators? Ursula von der Leyen, unelected head of the EU Commission, carried out the negotiations with pfisser on her own
Ursula von der Leyen’s job is to put the political directives from the EU council into practice, ie, from the council of the represenatives of elected goverments of the EU member states (who will have voted on them). She has no authority to act on her own. Considering that this is solidly Wikipedia-level-knowledge, is there a chance that you will ever take note of it? You were indeed being sold down the river but not by the evil unelected EU bureaucrats American phantasists have wet dreams of but by the French government, its eternal sidekick, the German government, and by whatever other EU governments either agreed with that (Ratte) or were paid to remain silent (Poland, presumably).
I used to produce a lot of marketing material for clients in the private sector but could never break in to the lucrative public sector. For me the very rewarding contracts handed out to friends who dealt with local authorities where for ever forbidden for me because they would only give work to companies who had previously worked with them. I never found out how they got them in the first case but I suspect it was because of the generous hospitality provided.
That was a couple of decades ago, but I understand from my daughter-in-law, who works in waste and recycling, that the same is true now and the profligacy of local authorities still rolls on unabated.
She tells me that the negotiators she deals with have no idea how to specify what they want and constantly change the target, cancel meetings at the last moment (despite her having travelled half way across the country to meet them and are generally totally unprofessional.
Just show that Pfizer’s testing was fraudulent and/or that it suppressed adverse results and/or that the whole EU Pfizer deal is corrupt based on Von der Leyen’s related party dealings.
Yep. The whole deal, agreed by one, unaccountable person and then forced on all EU states, is indeed corrupt. All EU states need to step up and repudiate the contracts, including any confidentiality clause, as the contracts are 100% against the public interest. About time governments remembered they are there to serve the public interest, not corporate interests.
I would love to see pfisser suing ALL EU states (and other countries would undoubtedly follow suit) for breach of contract in their own courts and for breach of a confidentiality clause.
So, you only need to pay us half – for the future contracted doses that we’re not going to produce anyway. Lol.
Got to hand it to the bigpharma lawyers, mind you they’ve had the pants down of governments and pandemicists worldwide for decades – aids, bird flu, ebola, monkeypox, tamiflu, swine flu etc.
Interesting calculations from Steve Kirsch showing that the Covid jabs have 1000X more deaths than the acceptable safety limit. The flu shot looks pretty deadly too.
”Just because there are deaths, doesn’t mean the vaccine caused the death. There is a background rate of deaths that will be associated with VAERS reports because people can die coincidentally to a vaccination.
We know for a fact the flu vaccine is deadly and should be pulled from the market because we showed you the charts from Medicare which is fully reported and the gold standard. Have you ever noticed that the CDC will never show you that graph?
So when we see a .35 deaths per million doses in VAERS, it’s an indicator of an unsafe vaccine.
Now for the money shot. So basically, all the vaccines with .25 or higher red bars are highly likely to be unsafe as well.
Do you see any vaccines which meet that criteria?
If you don’t, then I have some good news for you: the CDC is looking to hire you in their Vaccine Safety Monitoring Department where you can work among other blind people there such as John Su.
I count 19 vaccines above the threshold, and just 4 below.
In other words, it’s highly likely most of the vaccines you thought were safe… Well, they probably aren’t.”
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-covid-vaccines-have-an-estimated
Windfall profits tax?
Sorry Polish Minister but if you signed a contract you should honour it. The fact that you are an imbecile is irrelevant. It’s not true either, to say that not yet produced doses cost nothing. The plant and infrastructure to produce the quantities you asked for have to be factored in.
All Governments in their rush to respond to the confected ‘emergency’ allowed big pharma to bend them over and give them a hard shafting. It’s a bit rich now to complain about it.
Rishi’s shareholding in Moderna says thanks by the way.
The Polish Minister didn’t sign a contract: Fonda Lyin’ of the EU did.
The Polish Minister, rather like the Swedish Democrats (Government Coalition Partner) are waking up to the reality of being a member of the EU.
Ursula Fonda Lyin !
love that one RTSC
If this happened (which it did), it happened because the EU governments agreed on tasking the EU civil service (not the proper term, but that’s what it is) with implementing a joint vaccine purchase strategy. There must have been a council vote on this. It’s possible (I don’t know this) that the Polish government objected and got overrruled by a majority but even if this was the case, the power to make this purchase was properly delegated which is as good as You have signed a contract (and got shafted by people who were more cunning than you).
Contracts can be broken if one party did not act in good faith.
Anyway, the only thing stopping them breaking the contract is the possible consequences. If enough sovereign nations broke their contracts with the pushers of the “vaccines”, who would punish these countries? Big pharma? Would that be such a bad thing?
“..if you signed a contract you should honour it.”
There is an expectation, and particularly where public money is involved, that contracts are signed in good faith – on both sides. This is clearly not the case with these gene therapy shots which are proven to be not just 100% useless but 100% dangerous. So, to all intents and purposes expecting governments to continue to hand over taxpayers money for garbage is a complete nonsense. Notwithstanding the contract small print the Polish minister is behaving decently and honourably in refusing to pay for any more crap.
I would go further – all governments should announce that as pfisser and the rest have failed to supply true vaccines they will now be sued, individually and collectively by the respective governments. Let’s not forget that the drugs were marketed based on wholly corrupt and false claims of efficacy.
Given that pfisser has sought to hide its initial findings on the drug’s “effectiveness” for 75 years I think I can confidently predict the outcome of any court case.
Your case is entirely without merit.
Very well said. The governments would have a very good case, and they probably know it. The reason they will probably not pursue it is because they don’t want to look stupid.
Thanks tof.
And because they might need Pfizer’s ‘help’ in any future scamdemic.
Good point
As does the B&M Gates foundation, which luckily invested £55m in Moderna in Sept 2019, before covid was a thing, and before Moderna had ever brought a product to market.
“live up to its responsibility towards EU citizens and member states and work in good faith towards a solution that is fair for everyone”. Poland wants to continue to believe that the pharmaceutical industry is not only about money.”
he said, with his tongue rammed firmly into his cheek!
Simple. Publish the complete texts of the contracts signed on behalf of the Polish government, with full mea culpa, and public opinion with do the rest.
When they see in black and white that their government was forced to risk forfeiture of military bases as penalty for nonpayment, and other countries’ people translate across, the globe’s de-dollarisation will take on a whole new trajectory.
surely any country pointing out the Pfizer’s ‘safe and effective’ trials on their gene therapy product were fraudulent – could break any contract, including the ‘no liability’ clause.
RFKjr’s presidential candidacy is of huge importance for exposing vaccine harms and regulatory corruption. Though he’s heavily censored still in the dinosaur media, the likes of Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly and the All-In podcast are giving him a political wingspan wide enough to fly above the fog. His campaign isn’t putting vaccines front and centre, but he always gets asked and then he just tells the truth without apology. This is far bigger than just the mRNA vaccines.
https://youtu.be/nA0OXZuaG0g
Polish Health Minister Pfizer jab Pointless.
How many in Poland have died from having this jab pointed into them?
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22.1% excess deaths here in the UK in week ending 21 April..
2540 non Covid excees deaths in 1 week.. More excess deaths than at the height of the so called “pandemic”
Where’s the debate?, wheres Whitty et al with their graphs and daily broadcast now???
The only politician who raised these concerns gets thrown out of Parliament, even that he was democratically elected by his constituents.
Similar excess deaths in all vaxxed countries
A highly effective “vaccine”??? No it wasn’t.
Cancer relapses through the roof………… Bio weapon would be a more appropriate term.
At some point even the intelligent stupid, which includes most of my family, will twig that something is amiss and if that happens, the awakening will have begun.
The solution to the experimental Covid “Vaccine” lake is simple. Tear up the disgraceful Government contracts.
Then sue Pfizer and the rest of them for fraudulent trials that we now know allowed billions across the world to be injected with a toxic gene therapy that is neither safe, nor effective. Fraud makes indemnity null and void. The world would be a safer and better place without these monster Big Pharma killing machines. They need to be taken down in every country until their businesses are completely destroyed and $billions are donated to the millions injured.