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What they could do is make the relaxing of restrictions contingent on the percentage of the population vaccinated. Have a national vaccine drive, late opening of vaccination centres, pop up clinics, link it to an Ant and Dec gameshow. It could be a true collective effort. The Tories don't understand anything beyond the individual.
People on the VIP list for fast tracking Government Covid contracts. As dictated by Health Secretary Han****."You and me, Darling, obviously. Field Marshal Haig, Field
Marshal Haig’s wife, all Field Marshal Haig’s wife’s
friends, their families, their families’ servants, their
families’ servants’ tennis partners, and some chap I
bumped into the mess the other day called Bernard"
An inaccurate test meant that people were isolating without being infected and people believed that they weren't infected when in fact they were. So no I don't think an inaccurate test was in anyway beneficial when viewed in its totality.
I’d do it.
Han**** is in post because a)he voted for Bozo as leader and b)Because he’s a Brexit true believer
He has no qualifications for a Health Secretary.
Jeremy Hunt was the previous Health Secretary, he knew the department inside out. He’s on the back benches because he stood against Bozo for leader. Bozo’s vanity and narcissism put him there.
He was the most qualified to be put in post as Health Secretary in this time of National emergency. Bozo’s vanity and narcissism made Han**** Health Secretary and it’s vanity and narcissism that’s keeping him there.
"did you take nothing from what Cummings said?"
Other than he's a fraudulent narcissistic psychopath with a dodgy Russian background?
We're on a 'war footing'. The need for rapid appraisal of new health tech should be identified as a priority. Get someone competent in, sideline the deadwood, identify the systems pinch points, circumnavigate them with extra resources and manpower and get things moving.
We're in the middle of a global crisis. The Government should be ensuring that the MHRA receives the resources and manpower it needs to get the job done swiftly and diligently. These are not normal times! (to state the bleeding obvious!)
The civil service was denuded, scores of senior staff made to drop tools and try and deal with the mirage of a no deal brexit. Johnson removed the whip from anyone not a brexiteer (ie anyone competent) to be replaced by a newbieknuckledragger brexit true believer.
Incompetence welcomed in with open arms.
"With covid causing continuing suffering and disruption across the world we as a country can ill afford to rest on our laurals. It's vital for us to build on our successes and to learn from our mistakes and it's with this in mind that I'm proposing a rapid review of the government's pandemic response to report back before the autumn and before winter pressures rear their head again. I'd also like to request that the person who's stolen my trousers to return them this instance as it's too cold for me to sit behind this desk in my pants, and can someone tell me why the front row of the press corps has been replaced by animatronic Teddy bears. Wait a minute.. This is a dream isn't it?.. Oh thank god for that, I thought I was done for. .now how do I go about waking up? "
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/our-research/our-research-history
The Government part of a holy trinity? My arse it is.
“ UK funding cuts are a slap in the face for science”
https://www.ft.com/content/ac2042fa-41ed-473b-b3d0-0fe27eed38c7
“ Sir Jim McDonald, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said: “It would be entirely counter-productive if the research and innovation budget has to be stretched to breaking point because the 2020 spending review did not make sufficient allowances to cover the initial cost of association to Horizon Europe.”
“ Professor David Price, vice-provost of University College London, said uncertainty surrounding the financial commitments to Horizon Europe was “destabilising UK research and innovation just at the time when the government is promoting its ‘scientific superpower’ agenda”.
If cuts to domestic science budgets are needed to cover the costs, this “risks choking off the pipeline of research that has enabled UK universities to respond so effectively to the pandemic”, Prof Price said.”
“ “With such a significant shortfall in income, we can’t afford to keep spending at the same levels and this is forcing some incredibly difficult decisions,” said Iain Foulkes, executive director of research and innovation at Cancer Research UK. “While we are doing everything we can to minimise the impact, cuts to our life-saving research are sadly unavoidable.”
David Cameron introduced an old schoolfriend from Eton to a senior government adviser after he was approached about an offer to sell Covid-19 testing kits to the UK government, the Guardian can reveal.
The former prime minister introduced the friend, Hugh Warrender, a former hedge fund manager, to the influential Tory “fixer” Andrew Feldman, who at the time was working as a senior adviser at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
It is understood that Warrender, who attended Eton college with Cameron in the 1980s, was representing a supplier of testing kits from South Korea and contacted Cameron in early April last year.
The supplier, whose identity is not known, wanted to sell its kits to the government and enlisted Warrender to make contact with decision-makers in government.
When asked to identify his client, Warrender refused to disclose the name of the individual or company he was representing. Cameron, Lord Feldman and DHSC did not respond to questions about the supplier’s identity.“
We need less of the old school tie and more of the practical jumper!
No it hasn’t. More importantly, and to get back on the topic of elephants, does anyone else remember when Noakes slipped and fell over on the elephant dung in the Blue Peter studio? Classic.
Dear Marcus Rashford,
I hope you don’t mind me emailing, but I’m actually trying to contact Boris Johnson, alas to no avail. Seeing as you’ve had previous success in your dealings with the PM and in light of his immediate and long lasting affinity to our incredibly popular and eminently newsworthy national game I wonder if you could help? I have information with regards to a new Covid-19 lateral flow test, more accurate and easier to perform than all the tests currently on the market. Once more it’s been developed here in the UK, in Wetherby West Yorkshire. I’m aware that this is in ‘The North’ but I have it on good authority he needn’t come and visit (I’m not ‘avin that daft scruffy wazzock come up’ere, what would that nice Angela lady think abaht us? Were the exact words heard). Distributed in large numbers in areas of high risk by a professional local Public Health team coupled with immediate financial remuneration for those required to isolate could dramatically lower the ‘R’ number. Alternatively if they were spewed out willy nilly to all and sundry so they could have a drink inside a pub it could prove to be very populist. Sorry, popular.
If you could pass the gist of this message onto him I’d be most grateful. Failing that I’ll drop Mr ‘longest lead time for a ventilator ever’ Dyson a line. He can always send him a WhatsApp next time he’s in touch.
Yours Sincerely,
BlahBlack
Also worth highlighting..
“ This information does not represent an overview of the potential side effects associated with the vaccines. A list of the recognised adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines is provided in the information for healthcare professionals and the recipient information. These can also be found on the Coronavirus Yellow Card reporting site. Conclusions on the safety and risks of the vaccines cannot be made on the data shown in the Print alone.”
Let's be honest. This isn't 'according to Boris', it's reported by him. The WHO keep reiterating the fact that it's lockdown that's reduced cases, trying to ensure restrictions are relaxed in tandem with increasing immunity. Trying to avoid another Chile I guess. Johnson has a big dressing up box, he's not a multi-skilled savant!