In spring 2022, Dame June Raine, Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), described the agency as having transformed itself “from watchdog to enabler”. In the same speech, she boasted that she “tore up the rule book and we allowed companies to immediately start juxtaposing, not sequential phases of clinical trials, but overlapping, beginning the next one before the previous had been finished”. Those changes would, no doubt, be welcome to a pharmaceutical industry now contributing 86% of the MHRA’s funding.
In 2005, the House of Commons Health Committee expressed concerns that pharmaceutical funding would lead the agency to “lose sight of the need to protect and promote public health above all else as it seeks to win fee income from the companies”. The Committee also criticised the MHRA saying that it “failed to adequately scrutinise licensing data and its post-marketing surveillance is inadequate” and that “greater transparency is also fundamental to the medicines regulatory system. There has to be better public access to materials considered by the MHRA prior to licensing”.
The public have a right of access to recorded information held by public authorities under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), one of the pillars upon which open government operates. The main principle behind the Act is that people have a right to know about the activities of public authorities unless there is a good reason – a presumption or assumption in favour of disclosure. In addition to requiring publication of certain information, the Act facilitates public use of Freedom of Information Requests (FOIR).
The MHRA’s website states: “The agency’s guiding principle is full transparency unless non-disclosure is justified on the basis of established freedom of information exemptions.”
In common with other public authorities, the MHRA published a series of quarterly ‘disclosure logs‘ of FOIRs “answered in full or in part”, starting in 2005. The disclosure logs were limited to a simple summary of requests and did not include the response. For example, there is a FOIR ref 20/521 with the intriguing title “Request for data – Covid” and the MHRA categorised its response as “Disclosed in Full”. There is no way of finding out what information was provided without submitting a further FOIR.
The publication of disclosure logs ceased at the end of 2020 and the following note was published on the MHRA’s website: “Redacted responses to all FOI requests received by the MHRA from January 1st 2021 are now published on this page. The last disclosure log we will publish is October 1st-December 31st 2020.”
The set of individual FOIRs, published from January 1st 2021, is incomplete with missing responses for the weeks commencing January 11th and 18th 2021, and for the week commencing August 9th 2021. From the end of June 2021, there was a publication hiatus until mid-August 2021. Subsequent publication was haphazard, with delays of up to several months, suggesting internal review issues. The posting of individual FOIRs stopped completely at the end of April 2022 and the MHRA no longer publishes individual FOIRs or disclosure logs.
This suppression of information by the MHRA comes at a time when public confidence in regulation is already fragile. By contrast, the Ministry of Defence, a public authority with good reason to be cautious about transparency, publishes timely, weekly sets of suitably redacted FOI responses. It appears the MoD has a considerably greater commitment to transparency than the MHRA.
The only option remaining for individuals is to make their own FOIR, ideally through a publicly accessible platform such as WhatDoTheyKnow.com (WDTK). It is perhaps unsurprising that there was an increase from 59 FOI requests to the MHRA through WDTK in 2020, to 118 in 2021, and 122 in 2022. Notably, the MHRA refused 24% of the WDTK FOIR submitted in 2022 while no requests had been refused in 2020 and 2021.
Analysis of the 44 FOIA requests submitted to MHRA through WDTK year to date 2023 shows that 16 are currently being processed and two have been reported as “data not held”. Of the remaining 26, ten are significantly late, two have been referred back for Internal Review, and one has been referred up to the Information Commissioner; taken together, this represents a major failure to respond to the satisfaction of the requester.
In an attempt to place the missing disclosure logs (since January 1st 2021) and the unpublished FOIR (since May 1st 2022) in the public domain, I submitted two requests to the MHRA through WDTK on January 5th and 18th 2023, respectively.
Two months having passed, I have yet to receive the disclosure logs. On March 5th, my request for the unpublished individual FOIRs was refused under section 22 of the Act with the following message:
No decision has been taken to stop the publishing of FOI responses. We remain committed to publishing responses, but we accept that there has been a long delay and a backlog of responses to publish has now developed. We intend to resume publishing towards the end of March with the aim to have caught up the backlog over the next two to three months, and then establishing a more regular publication cycle.
Whilst we recognise there is a clear public interest in providing copies of our FOI replies, doing so ahead of our proposed publication timeframe would involve taking resource from our front line customer team to focus on this activity, leading to a delay in responses to customers making contact with the team. Given that we have a plan to begin publishing shortly we do not believe the public interest is best served by bringing this activity forward.
It seems we have to wait until April 2023 to be given access to FOIA responses from a year ago!
Meanwhile, I have examined earlier requests escalated, as complaints, to the Information Commissioner (ICO). These show an average delay of just under a year between the initial request to the MHRA and the ICO’s decision. In 2017 there were just two complaints to the ICO about MHRA responses, and only one in each of the years 2018 to 2020. However, in 2021 30 complaints were taken to the ICO with 26 of the refusals being upheld, 12 citing section 14 of the Act (‘vexatious’ requests), the MHRA’s exemption of choice.
The ICO advises public authorities that for a request to be ‘vexatious’ it should be “likely to cause a disproportionate or unjustified level of disruption, irritation or distress”. Requests the MHRA apparently finds particularly vexatious are those seeking what the 2005 House of Commons Health Committee described as “materials considered by the MHRA prior to licensing”, as well as materials evidencing routine and additional pharmacovigilance activities.
In common with ICAN, HART and others, I have been seeking access to materials supporting the MHRA’s decision to license the AstraZeneca COVID-19 novel vaccine, Vaxzevria. Though quietly withdrawn from use in much of Europe, including the U.K., Vaxzevria remains licensed and has been administered to children. It has been disproportionately associated with adverse reactions and those damaged by it are being largely ignored by the authorities. Important information is being withheld from the public which has a right to see all the data provided by AstraZeneca to the MHRA.
In December 2020, Vaxzevria was granted temporary authorisation under Regulation 174 of the Human Medicine Regulations 2012. On June 24th 2021, it was authorised with a Conditional Marketing Authorisation (CMA), a label used to describe “medicinal products that address an unmet medical need, such as a lack of alternative therapy for a serious and life-threatening disease”. The MHRA Public Assessment Report on Vaxzevria goes on to state that: “CMAs may be granted where comprehensive clinical data are not yet complete.” The supporting Risk Management Plan for Vaxzevria identifies “missing information” and specifies a set of pharmacovigilance activities with milestone deliverables and due dates.
In late August 2022, I submitted a FOIA request for a number of these deliverables which, according to the Public Assessment Report, the MHRA should have received. The MHRA replied to say that the information I requested was “not held”, either because the surveillance activities had been “removed” or because delivery dates had slipped by up to a year, conveniently to December 2022. My requests for internal review have been “delayed” with the final message from the MHRA, dated January 20th 2023, stating “We apologise you have not yet received a response and we hope to respond to you as soon as we can.” At the time of writing, two subsequent FOIRs, submitted on February 4th 2023 and requesting specific deliverables identified in the current “Conditions of Authorisation for Vaxzevria” have yet to be satisfied.
The MHRA is in breach of the Act due to numerous delayed responses (from the second quarter of 2021) and withdrawal from its website of the ‘Publication Scheme’ in December 2014. It has also breached the Government’s principles of transparency and open government by removing its Publication Scheme in December 2014, ceasing publication of the Disclosure logs (from January 2021), ceasing publication of FOI responses (from May 2022), and arguably making excessive use of exemptions, particularly section 14 or ‘vexatious requests’ (from fourth quarter 2021 onwards).
The public have a right of access to the recorded information held by public authorities through an Act which is sometimes described as ‘purpose and applicant blind’. Instead, the MHRA has pulled up an information drawbridge, giving the impression that it is acting as ‘enabler’ for its paymaster, the pharmaceutical industry while being vexed, distressed or irritated by the public asking for important information.
It is time Parliament revisited observations it made in 2005 and asked whether it remains the case that the MHRA has “failed to adequately scrutinise licensing data and its post-marketing surveillance is inadequate” and whether it continues to “lose sight of the need to protect and promote public health above all else as it seeks to win fee income from the companies”. On behalf of those injured by the COVID-19 novel vaccines, enabled by the MHRA, Parliament should urgently be finding out what the agency has to hide.
Prior to his recent retirement, Charles served as a military pilot followed by senior roles in the City and in school leadership.
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This guy is awesome. It’s all about what inevitably happens when you don’t allow females to have their own personal spaces. 3min vid;
https://catholicvote.org/video/?v=jZRIoZ39opg
It is strange and troubling that this trans agenda has so quickly and thoroughly taken over the establishment. Thinking about this bought to my my mind the old song;
” Oh, you know all the words, and you sung all the notes,
But you never quite learned the song, she sang.”
I have sometimes asked the question, when you go trans; what changes? what can you now do that you could not do before?. Mostly the answer seems to be superficial stuff, you can have a feminine pronoun, wear skirts and dresses, paint your nails and have a fancy hair-do. You have learnt all the words and you sung all the notes, but you never quite learnt the feminine song, because the song you sing comes from within, your innate unchanging self. We are fooling ourselves and endangering women when we accept that men who know all the words and sing all the notes are somehow now singing a feminine song.
Steve – glad to encounter another ISB fan!
Cousin Caterpillar seems relevant to accepting your body as it is, too. Commenting on why he’s got seven pairs of legs and silky threads:
Who is ISB?
The Incredible String Band… sublime songs, though an acquired taste.
Thank you.
I think Doctor Dr Mchonk-Honk says it for me!!? Brilliant….!
https://rumble.com/v2xfo4o-doctor-dr-mchonk-honk-in-the-90s-we-are-so-oppressed.-we-have-no-rights..html
I would love to hear the rebuttal issued to this gentleman. 😀😀😀
So many terrible images and accounts coming out of France, all over Twitter. Absolutely the officer should be done for murder. There’s obviously no justification for what he did. If he needed to disable the boy why couldn’t he have at least used a taser?? But I feel that was just a catalyst for everything to kick off and people to behave worse than animals; desecrating war memorials, ransacking a fire engine, beating up random people…Just one more heinous example that certain scumbags need any excuse to commit atrocities and that these people seem to live with a significant amount of grievance and hostility towards others anyway;
”Father Francis Palle, 80 years old and member of the congregation of Saint Vincent de Paul in Saint-Étienne, was brutally attacked by rioters. The events unfolded on Friday, June 30, leaving Father Palle seriously injured and unconscious.
According to eyewitnesses, a group of rioters suddenly attacked Father Palle, surrounding and targeting him for no apparent reason. They hit him with extreme force, knocking him hard to the ground. Worse still, these individuals continued to beat him when he was already on the ground, leaving the priest in critical condition.
In addition to this brutal attack, the attackers also committed a theft by taking Father Palle’s mobile phone and wallet.
Local authorities were quickly alerted and dispatched an emergency team to the scene. Father Palle was immediately taken to the nearest hospital, where he is currently receiving intensive care for his serious injuries.
This brutal attack sparked outrage and dismay within the local community and beyond. Members of the Congregation of Saint Vincent de Paul, as well as many residents, rallied to condemn this act of inexcusable violence and expressed their support and prayers for Father Palle’s speedy recovery.”
https://tribunechretienne.com/le-pere-francis-palle-tabasse-et-laisse-inconscient/
And as all 3 articles above about France are behind a paywall ( Pfff!!! ) here’s a tad more from twitter;
”France has fallen…
Police are unable to control the migrant and left-wing riots taking place across the country. French media has surrendered and cannot keep track of the number of towns and cities across the country being looted, set on fire, and destroyed.
Islamic attacks, riots, murders, rapes, assaults, and lynching of police across France are part of a new normal in a country struggling with mass illegal migration.
France is now the main Islamic country in Europe, with more than 10% of its population being Muslim.
Islam is the second-largest religion in France, but it takes the first position when counting active practitioners.
There is no coming back from this – their future is Islamic!
(P.S. How are those strict “gun control” regulations working for the good guys in France? Politicians have left citizens defenseless)” Amy Mek June 30th.
How on earth do things ever go back to normal ( whatever ”normal” was over there ) for the French now?? It’s not like the police will ever arrest half of these people plus when does it end? Total loss of control with no sign of any sort of order being regained.
All 3 articles can be viewed using https://archive.is – just enter the URL / web address of the article into the box and press Enter
Thanks, good to know. I actually don’t even bother now, out of principle, as the info can always be found elsewhere without the hassle.
Mogs,
There is some evidence that the weapons being used by the rioters are ones which were sent to Ukraine….
https://t.me/intelslava/49590
“French police seized sniper rifles manufactured by Accuracy International from protesters , which were handed over to Ukraine last year.”
Wonder if it’s these ones;
https://rumble.com/v2x6dwm-france-has-fallen-to-islam-here-is-why.html
Possibly.
It’s all such a mess.
Isn’t this the situation WEF puppet Macron has long been working towards? Next steps being martial law, army on the street and suspension of elections. He can then implement the rest of the ‘Great Reset’ surveillance and control measures.
Absolutely!
Weapons sent to Ukraine eh?
They didn’t get very far then. It’s almost as if arming the rioters was deliberate.
No, surely not.
😆
I wonder which town / city in the UK will be the first to “spontaneously” erupt?
It will be one with a large cohort of the right demographic to react & most likely have 5G already deployed so that the desired reaction can be provoked.
With this in mind we have a few choices: Brum, London, Leeds amongst others spring to mind.
These EMF weapons were used in Rwanda, almost as if it were all a trial run for something much bigger in scale….
My thoughts exactly although I would also add Bradford, Rotherham, Rochdale and Oldham to the list – they all have previous.
True. Leicester too.
But but..how did they get them past the ‘EU Weapons Hub’??
https://euobserver.com/ukraine/155495
EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson announced a hub in Moldova to battle organised crime, particularly arms smuggling from war-torn Ukraine, at a meeting of EU interior ministers in Prague on Monday (11 July). 2022….
The EU Support Hub for Internal Security and Border Management will focus on preventing weapons, most of which are supplied by Nato members, from being smuggled out of Ukraine and ending up with criminal gangs.
….if they can’t stop dingys!
Thank you.
What it does demonstrate is that the armaments regulations are somewhat lax in France c.f some other European nations – on both sides of the fence. Too many Gendarmerie armed on duty, and too easy for the rest of the citizens to acquire various things.
“Police are unable to control the migrant and left-wing riots taking place across the country.”
“Left-wing riots”
WTF has politics got to do with these riots? I very much doubt that largely uneducated, immigrant mobs are pursuing a political agenda or care one way or another who is governing France.
It seems to be the inevitable pattern when economies are mismanaged and freedoms curtailed. The volatile rioters are always going to be the less savoury members of society, because they too have been economically harmed and restricted, but often more (because poorer) and have less to lose by rage… as well as being more antisocial anyway.
Add to that, of course, mass immigration of a religious group that is was politically militant from its inception, and is encouraged to challenge perceived antagonism to their religion with rage, and a Catholic priest becomes just a dhimmi who doesn’t know his place.
Can it ever be remedied? I don’t think it’s been tried, because France was about the first country to absorb millions from its North African colonies, and the rest of Europe is working hard to catch up in creating the boiling cauldrons.
I sincerely hope this is not true. This is f*cked up in the extreme if this actually happened. Good luck to Micron and the French MSM trying to cover this sh*t up and who the perpetrators consist of. Is this really all Muslims?? Don’t click on this if you’re not OK with seeing a man with his hands cut off. 🙁 🙁 🙁
https://odysee.com/@Per_h:3/France_hands_cut_of_20230630:3
Rioting is seldom all any one group. All the “worthless fellows” like to get in on the action once the balloon goes up. But one has to ask why the rioting began from the shooting of a young Muslim immigrant, and why rioters picked on an elderly priest…
… and why churches, in particular, have been burning in France for several years now.
I’ve no way of verifying the authenticity of the above photo, so I’m hoping beyond hope that it has been doctored. It is, after all, much easier to doctor still images than videos taken on someone’s phone. I’m hoping it’s fake news created by someone wanting to incite more hatred towards a certain population. There obviously is a lot of fake news around and it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s made up. However, I think if MSM or the so-called ”fact-checkers” start saying something specific is ”fake news” then we know that it’s real. This seems to be the general rule of thumb for the world nowadays.
Anything spouted by officialdom or. MSM should be treated as lies until we are satisfied otherwise.
France needs to be careful they don’t suffer from the Floyd Effect.
https://vdare.com/articles/sailer-speaks-did-black-lives-matter-get-all-those-black-lives-murdered-yes-yes-it-did
The always interesting Steve Sailer with data showing that black on black homicides and fatal car accidents involving blacks increased dramatically after the depolicing resulting from the George Floyd business.
No, no they’ve got it all wrong. It’s Russia that’s seething under the surface and will erupt at the first opportunity to oust the dictator – such as an army mutiny.
France is a bastion of the Western, and notably the EU, values of democracy and freedom, although Macron’s democratic mandate is admittedly a little shaky at present compared to Putin’s. Like Sunak’s and Biden’s, I suppose. Western nations only use riot police to preserve freedoms like the right to demonstrate.
That’s why nobody’s talking about regime change or Macron’s weakness in France in the press, though they’re still at it in Russia’s case.
….. Putin’s approval rating is now in the low 90%….while Macron’s hit a new low of 23% in the last poll (Feb)….
There isn’t a ‘Western’ leader that even comes close..all are under the 50% mark, except Berset in Switzerland….!!
Western MSM only follow the agenda…..the idea we can learn anything from them is tangible nonsense….
Of course it’s only because Russians have no freedom to know about anyone else, as we know because… we have been told it by our state-controlled Western media. We can’t hear from the Russian people themselves because their media have been censored for us to protect our democracy and freedom.
Funnily enough, all the Russians have VPNs and so are entirely up to speed on what the Western media is saying – and 90% of them still support Putin.
This, of course, is because Russians are a primitive peasant people with an economy the size of a football club, as we know because we have been told it by our state-controlled Western media.
..funnily enough I looked at the MSM earlier..very little on these World/Europe shattering events…the Telegraph leads with the cricket and there’s a small story way down the list..but they do mange a ‘How Russia is using the French riots as propaganda’..so points to them for keeping to the agenda..they are beyond laughable now, I don’t even read them…plus I think it’s only 77th that comment there anymore….
I do love the “The evil Russians are using the exposure of our leaders’ criminal acts and complete lack of any moral compass in their propaganda” line amusing.
If nothing else, the MSM news cycle has been a three year + masterclass in propaganda techniques.
Wow…great inaugural speech by NSW Minister John Ruddick..the first Liberal Democrat to be elected to the NSW Parliament…..if they are all like him, I hope there’s more soon..everywhere…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1zPTDEVxA
The brilliant Bob Moran…
https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1674908269221953540/photo/1
Still locked out.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable for Twitter to do this as it’s free to get an account, though I think it’s possibly a mistake. But it’s their mistake to make. My “excuse” for not having an account is it would lead me to spend more time posting and I don’t have the self control to stop myself. Curious to know what others think. Why not get an account if it allows you to access interesting content?
..that’s exactly what I did. I just joined..I’ve never been subject to emails or adverts….and I don’t Tweet..but I wanted to follow all the doctors/scientists etc etc…works for me, and while I know we have had this discussion before..about whether Elon is good/bad etc…
when you look at the Doctor Dr Mchonk-honk I posted earlier..it would never have been allowed on old, pre-Elon Twitter….
I know everyone has not got Twitter, but as this is just a picture I thought it would work…
Does this one work?
https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/other-work/rf7zplatvh06k9tay0sxy858fv0jg2
Thanks Mrs Gums.
And thanks Bob – brilliant.
I’ve posted this from Tik -tok which worked although I don’t subscribe so fingers crossed…this is Jo Linder a body-building ‘influencer’ Joesthetics…who has just died aged 30…I’ve seen the longer video and he says he was talked into the vax just by some mates who peer-pressured him!
https://www.tiktok.com/@getrawtalk/video/7241694765324963114
I posted it yesterday. 😉
Soz..saw your ‘two rugby players story’ yesterday….but not this…I’m still on holiday, so dipping in and out when I have a bit of time….
it will probably happen again!!! 😆