The pandemic inquiry has shattered illusions about former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon’s handling of the Covid crisis and revealed a hidden agenda, says Iain Martin in the Times. Here’s an excerpt.
The Covid inquiry is sitting in Edinburgh on the Scottish leg of its U.K. tour, and what have they been putting in Baroness Hallett’s porridge? When the inquiry Chairwoman intervenes to question witnesses there’s a magnificent steeliness, tempered at times by playfulness, about her approach. This is a revelation for those of us who have criticised the hearings in London, where too often the inquiry team seems to assume wrongheadedly that the only problem with lockdown was that it wasn’t stricter.
On tour, they have acquired some real grit. Jamie Dawson KC, Counsel to the Inquiry in Scotland, has a precise, unflouncy style. Think Dr. Finlay making a citizen’s arrest. It makes for a welcome contrast to the somewhat theatrical style of Hugo Keith KC, lead counsel in London (think Nigel Havers mildly annoyed at receiving a parking ticket). Next week, Nicola Sturgeon is up before Hallett and Dawson, and I for one cannot wait.
Sturgeon has a great many questions to answer: about the deletion of evidence, the decision-making process over which she presided and her real aims in establishing a Covid policy that was so much more draconian — tougher curbs on movement, for longer.
The point, incredibly given this was a global pandemic, was to emphasise the contrast with supposedly dirty England and use the emergency as an opportunity to sow further division between the constituent parts of this United Kingdom. To use the disease to create a comparison between shambolic Boris Johnson, unpopular in Scotland, and St. Nicola. To present Scottish voters with such a contrast that they would decide to make the break. Documents revealed by the inquiry show Scottish ministers were discussing early in the pandemic how to exploit it to get the independence campaign going again. A senior official, Ken Thomson, scribbled “Indy is back” in his notes of meetings with senior ministers.
This is not to exonerate those in charge in Whitehall. All sorts of mistakes were made on both sides of the border. But the carefully constructed nationalist myth of the pandemic — that the Scottish Government under Sturgeon was handling the Covid emergency so much better than anywhere else in Britain, and certainly much better than the beastly English — is being exploded in these hearings.
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“pandemic”….”mistakes”….
God give me strength!
SNP used COVID for political gain.
COVID Inquiry now use the SNP for political gain.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-insane-experiment-behind-the-covid-pandemic-and-disease-x-part-one/
Seriously DS people have a read of this.
The brilliant Paula Jardine blows the Scamdemic wide open.
The yanks had a competition to produce a virus and a vaccine to beat the virus.
This will definitely be ATL tomorrow.
The whole bl**dy lot of them need locking up. The biggest hazards faced by humanity come from these idiots and their ilk.
Round up the biologists, the nudgers, the climate buffoons and the rest, and shove them on an island together somewhere, Alcatraz is probably still available, or there’s a couple of uninhabited rocks off Scotland that could be re-purposed.
Seconded
Hey ho the witch is dead, hey ho the wicked witch is dead.
Well said!
It has shattered illusions about many politicians, and their theoretical servants, not just her. Incompetence and opportunism spring to mind. Will it lead to reduced turnout at elections? We’ll see.
There are no good politicians. —-Some are just WORSE.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-another-40billion-of-your-cash-down-the-net-zero-black-hole/
We’re in for at least another £40 billion for carbon capture – that’s today’s science best known as ‘ how to catch faeries in a bottle’ – at Drax.
Followed by the Met Office fiddling figures with windspeeds taken from Mountain tops – very scientific.
BS aplenty here. Thanks once again to Paul Homewood at TCW.
”This just in!” Only because I know DS won’t touch it……Looks like it’s business as usual for Netanyahu and we’re not going to be rid of these terrorist-supporting, Jew-hating, anti-West rape-apologist yobs from our streets any time soon. This from the ICJ just this aft. I smell a DS mod incoming right about now…
”In the final verdict, the ICJ declared that Israel must, under the Genocide Convention, take all measures in its power to prevent the commission of forbidden acts, including causing death, causing injury, imposing dangerous conditions of life, and preventing births. It also specified that Israel is required to prevent its military in particular from any of these acts, and punish any calls for genocide or related forbidden acts.
Israel must take immediate and effective measures to allow basic services to address the standard of life for “Palestinians” in the Gaza Strip, and prevent the destruction of evidence of forbidden acts in the Gaza Strip.
In addition, Israel must within a month submit a report on all provisional measures ordered, stating what actions have been taken to comply with the provisional measures, and that the report will be communicated to South Africa.
As part of the ICJ provisional measures in the genocide case against Israel, the court has ordered that Israel also take immediate and effective action to prevent and punish direct and indirect calls to genocide and related prohibited acts.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/384220
Maybe off topic but the DT and other MSM are shutting down comments on the Nottingham murderer.
There are 2 points that are not being mentioned in any press reports that I have seen.
1. Assuming the timelines given are correct, his first contact with mental health teams etc. was 2 months into the 2020 lockdown.
2. He was not noted as a heavy cannabis user until lockdown.
I do not think these are just coincidence with respect to his subsequent behaviours.
“Deleted”?——-I thought nothing could be permanently deleted, and that memory on computer was just written over? etc etc etc These emails must be somewhere.
GCHQ can read the lot.
But they won’t tell the plebs…
And in case you thought even Apple/WhatsApp encryption was unbreakable, Lol.
To a degree, this applies to magnetic storage media where every write leaves a permanent trace which can principally be used to recover it (depending on how much money/ time someone wants to put into this). It’s certainly wrong flash ROM devices (so-called SSDs). With these, you’re usually lucky when the content of a not overwritten write can be recovered.
“All sorts of mistakes were made on both sides of the border.”
No.
After the second mistake, it is calculated, deliberate, malintended series of acts.
We must not accept ‘error’ and ‘lessons will be learned’.
Only gaol time for these creatures will suffice.
“malintended”
Fortunately there is no such word – yet.
I do believe we should not fall for our oppressors language so mal, mis, dis and similar should not be used where a proper word applies.
Mis and disinformation are just a cover for the blunter – Lies. So why not be honest?
We need to keep our standards up.