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Covid inquiry spotlight turns to Rishi Sunak – and he’s trying to squirm out of it

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Rishi Sunak: this little howler pushed up Covid infections massively. If Rishi Sunak didn’t consult scientists before making it happen, he could be in serious trouble with the Covid inquiry. Is that why he’s trying to hide information from that investigation?

Allegations that the government ignored scientific advice during the Covid-19 pandemic have shifted the focus of the inquiry into its actions at that time onto Rishi Sunak and his ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ fiasco.

Here’s the gist:

The article says the inquiry will focus partly on Sunak – particularly over the way the Treasury failed to involve scientists in decisions and the formulation of policy.

Inquiry chair Baroness Hallett has sent questions to then-prime minister Boris Johnson, asking if scientific evidence and opinion was sought before ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ was launched…

which appears not to have been the case.

The Observer article states:

Prof John Edmunds of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who was a member of the Sage committee of advisers to ministers and who has submitted written evidence to the inquiry, said the controversial Eat Out to Help Out scheme – which gave people discounts for eating in restaurants and pubs – was never discussed with scientists.

Eat Out to Help Out was launched in August 2020. It allowed diners to claim 50% off more than 160m meals at a cost to the Treasury of about £850m. In the process, it also drove new Covid-19 infections up by between 8 and 17%, according to a study carried out by Thiemo Fetzer, an economist at the University of Warwick, a few weeks later.

“If we had [been consulted], I would have been clear what I thought about it,” said Edmunds. “As far as I am concerned, it was a spectacularly stupid idea and an obscene way to spend public money.”

That’s interesting, because Sunak himself is on video record as having insisted that he spoke to scientists about ‘Eat Out to Help Out’:

Another critical decision set to be investigated by Hallett was made in September 2020, when the government was urged by Sage to impose a mini-lockdown to dampen rising case numbers, with both Johnson and Sunak opposing the move.

“I said then that the question was either do it now and get on top of the epidemic and keep it under control, or be forced into doing it in a few weeks’ time, by which time the epidemic will be much worse,” Edmunds said.

“There will be many more hospitalisations and deaths, and you will have to take more stringent action. Unfortunately that is exactly what happened.”

Considering the accusations against him, it may be no surprise that Rishi Sunak’s government – through the Cabinet Office, is trying to deny the Covid inquiry access to WhatsApp messages between government ministers.

The claim is that it would be an invasion of privacy to let the inquiry have (for example) all of the WhatsApp messages Boris Johnson sent via his personal phone because they would include “unambiguously irrelevant” material.

But Sunak and the government want to be the arbiters of which material is relevant and which isn’t –

-and that creates a serious credibility problem: why should the organisation under investigation dictate what evidence is permissible or not?

The Cabinet Office – on behalf of Sunak’s government – has launched a judicial review to keep some of the WhatsApps (and other material) away from the inquiry. Apparently this is going to cost you, me and the rest of the UK public a fortune:

(Again: it won’t cost taxpayers’ money – it will cost public money. We then pay tax according to what the Treasury reckons is needed to keep inflation from going through the roof. You can probably tell that the current mob aren’t very good at making that prediction.)

(Oh – and we’re also funding the Covid inquiry, meaning we’re footing the bill for both sides in the dispute.)

But here’s a twist:

… Or is it?

It seems to me that it is actually reasonable to withhold the information on ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ from the Good Law Project – for the time being. The Cabinet Office has said it is handing “all relevant material to the Covid Inquiry – and ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ is definitely relevant to the Covid inquiry.

The claim – by the Cabinet Office – is that it has given all relevant information to the inquiry, so we would be justified in expecting the ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ stuff to have gone there already.

Refusing to hand other information to the inquiry on grounds that it is not relevant does not contradict this claim.

But it makes the result of the judicial inquiry all the more important.

Because if the government wins in court, but doesn’t hand over information about ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ over to the inquiry, it will have no excuse not to hand it over to the Good Law Project.

Right?

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Boris Johnson says he has handed unredacted WhatsApps to Covid inquiry. Really?

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Boris Johnson: Let’s hope he hasn’t confused the ‘send’ and ‘delete’ buttons! (Again?)

Boris Johnson has handed his full and unredacted WhatsApps and documents to the Cabinet Office, his spokesperson has said.

Do we believe him?

Johnson has released a statement in which he “urges” the government to “urgently disclose [the documents] to the inquiry”.

His spokesperson claimed the Cabinet Office “had access to this material for several months”, and he “would immediately disclose it directly to the inquiry if asked”.

The spokesperson said: “While Mr Johnson understands the government’s position, and does not seek to contradict it, he is perfectly happy for the inquiry to have access to this material in whatever form it requires.

“Mr Johnson cooperated with the inquiry in full from the beginning of this process and continues to do so. Indeed, he established the inquiry.

“He looks forward to continuing to assist the Inquiry with its important work.”

You see, the reason for my doubt is his previous reticence about such material.

When his former legal team provided diaries to the Cabinet Office which suggested he had breached non-contact rules during lockdown in ways that had not previously been disclosed, wasn’t he absolutely furious?

Didn’t he sack that government-appointed legal team?

And didn’t he hire a new crew at four times the cost?

So when he says he has provided full, unredacted messages, I have a doubt.

If Baroness Hallett complains that she hasn’t got everything, don’t be surprised!

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Evidence deadline extended for Tory government that wants to corrupt Covid-19 inquiry

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Social media junkie: Boris Johnson is probably deleting WhatsApp messages in this shot. “Less than two days until the new deadline! Must hurry! Veni, vici, voodoo! Posterus erectus!”

The Cabinet Office has been given an extra two days to divvy up all of Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and notebooks written during the Covid-19 pandemic to the inquiry into how the government handled it – or face court action.

The original deadline was 4pm on Tuesday (May 30). It has now been extended until 4pm on Thursday (June 1).

Claims that some of the material is “unambiguously irrelevant” have been dismissed by the inquiry’s chair, Baroness Hallett. She said it is her role – not that of the government – to decide what is relevant.

Her point is excellent. No inquiry into the activities of the government can be said to be fair if the government dictates the evidence that is submitted to it. In fact, any such affair could only be considered corrupt to the core.

Indeed, that is exactly what many are already saying about the way the Cabinet Office has been digging in its heels:

Let’s stick with Antony Seldon for a moment, because he made this great character analysis of Boris Johnson:

Clearly the consensus is that the Cabinet Office should swallow its pride and dish the dirt.

But in the interests of balance, let’s have a dissenting viewpoint:

(For information: Andrea Jenkyns is a Tory MP who is currently deputy chairwoman of the Brexiteer European Research Group (ERG). Her claim that other Tories got the leader they wanted in Rishi Sunak suggest a developing schism among Tory MPs that could split the party as it grows – and let’s hope it does.)

Now you can understand why BBC-style impartiality is for the birds. This MP wants us to leave Johnson alone because he’s got his missus up the duff yet again?

If that’s the criterion for abandoning justice these days, the courts could clear their backlog by allowing all suspects a night of “compassionate leave” but denying them the use of birth control.

I don’t think the victims of crime would be prepared to accept that – so we should be glad that Baroness Hallett isn’t about to, either.

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Here’s why the Cabinet Office referred Boris Johnson to police for MORE Covid rule breaches

Partygate: here’s a shot of Boris Johnson at a Downing Street party that took place during Covid-19 lockdown. Did he mislead Parliament about them?

This could be the stupidest blunder in a lifetime of stupid blunders for Boris Johnson.

It seems that, because his defence against allegations that he misled Parliament is being bankrolled by the public (with around a quarter of a million pounds spent so far), Johnson’s lawyers have to provide the Cabinet Office with all information relevant to his behaviour during the times concerned.

Such information was contained in his diary – but after reading it, officials reported Johnson to the police in both London and Thames Valley.

Apparently it contains information on further breaches of the rule against mixing with other people during the Covid-19 lockdowns between June 2020 and May 2021.

Both police services refer to breaches of the Health Protection Regulations.

Here’s some meat to cover the bones of this story:

Some of Johnson’s friends (yes, apparently he still has some) in the Conservative Party have come to his defence – like Ben Bradley:

So he reckons we’ve all moved on.

Some of us haven’t moved on from his libelling of Jeremy Corbyn, back in 2018 (his apology for doing so remains the most-shared tweet ever published by a Conservative MP). Or from his suggestion that the online reporter who revealed the libel should be castrated. Or, indeed, from his desire to starve hungry children by denying the extension of free school meals in holidays during the Covid-19 lockdown periods.

Perhaps Mr Bradley should have kept his mouth shut.

Then again, perhaps Johnson should have kept his mouth shut too, when he said he had no knowledge of any Covid-19 rule breaches involving him.

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Anti-vax MP Andrew Bridgen expelled from the Conservative Party

Andrew Bridgen: he’s not a Tory MP anymore.

The Conservative Party has expelled Andrew Bridgen for saying Covid-19 vaccinations were “the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust”.

A party disciplinary panel said he had to go for making the comparison, and for breaching lobbying rules.

He had failed to declare an interest in a firm called Mere Plantations while lobbying on behalf of that firm, He had also attacked the integrity of then-Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone, and he tried to claim that her investigation was part of a personal attack by whoever made the complaint against him (further details are here).

Everybody involved seems to be delighted, for a change.

The Tories are happy to be rid of Bridgen, with prime minister Rishi Sunak saying Bridgen’s comments were “totally unacceptable”. Whether that’s true or not, This Writer will leave for you to decide.

And Bridgen seems happy to be out of the Tory Party, saying he had been expelled under “false pretences” amid a “culture of corruption, collusion and cover-ups”.

He said the Conservative Party had made an example of him because of his vocal criticism of the vaccine rollout.

He said he would “continue to fight for justice for all those harmed, injured and bereaved due to governmental incompetence” – and he’ll campaign to be returned to his Parliamentary seat at the next general election.

It seems the House of Commons is filling up with MPs who have been cut loose from their parties, saying it is the parties’ dogma that is at fault.

How long before they become the largest group in Parliament?

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Boris Johnson almost gave the late Queen Covid-19 – claim

‘Covid Boris’: this satirical image was made when Johnson caught the virus in April 2020.

Given the evidence, I can only agree with the author of the tweet immediately below.

The quoted material is from The Times, although it is behind a paywall:

For those who can’t read image files, the passage refers to Boris Johnson’s aborted weekly meeting with the late Queen, after he had contracted Covid-19 in early 2020:

“… the Queen turned to an aide and commented that she couldn’t hear a word of what Johnson had said, he was coughing so much. Had the meeting gone ahead as planned, the head of government would probably have given the head of state the virus, a scandal not even Johnson could have downplayed.”

He didn’t care at the time, and This Writer doubts he would have, even if he had infected the Queen and she had died.

So I agree with Judy Hamilton: Boris Johnson should never – ever – be given a position of responsibility again.

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Rishi Sunak lost more cash to fraud than Liz Truss wasted. Why’s HE a safe pair of hands?

The National Audit Office has published a report showing that, in the first year of the Covid-19 crisis, Rishi Sunak allowed up to £58.8 billion of public money to be given away to fraudsters.

And now he’s making absolutely no effort to get it back.

It’s more money than Liz Truss spaffed away when she trashed the economy last year.

And I have to wonder whether its the reason Tories always leave fraud off their figures when they talk about crime levels since 2010.

The big issue is the fact that the Tory government will claw back even the tiniest scrap of cash from the poorest people in society, like people on benefits who make mistakes in their claims because they don’t understand the system (see this article)…

… but they never try to claw back enormous wodges of it that have gone out to rich people. Is it because the beneficiaries are their own toff buddies?

The level of corruption that is implied here is monumental.

Think it through, and you may well come to the conclusion that everybody in a position of power is on the take, and they all fear taking action to shut down anybody else’s scam because it may lead to them being accused, starting a cascade that could topple the Establishment like a rotting house of cards collapsing into dust.

… Oh, you don’t think so?

Then when may we expect the first recovery, or prosecution?

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Will you sign the petition to have Michelle Mone ejected from the Lords?

Petition: Lady Mone.

This should be a no-brainer for everyone who opposes Conservative Parliamentarians being on the take:

The petition states:

The Guardian newspaper reports Conservative peer “Michelle Mone and her children secretly received £29m originating from the profits of a PPE business that was awarded large government contracts after she recommended it to ministers.” Isolation gowns provided by the business were deemed unfit for use, all while our NHS heroes were putting their lives on the line – including by wearing DIY PPE to protect themselves and the public.

We – the undersigned – are calling on the Commissioner for Standards to conclude the investigation into Michelle Mone as soon as is possible. Mone disputes the Guardian’s allegations, but if she is found to have done what is reported, she should be expelled from the House of Lords and made to pay back every penny in profit to taxpayers.

Personally, I’d also include any interest earned on it while it was in her family’s bank accounts.

Are you going to sign?

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Economic expert tells Rees-Mogg truths about Brexit; Mogg repeats vaccine line

Jacob Rees-Mogg: he’s got his own show now.

This would be amusing if people weren’t so determined to believe Jacob Rees-Mogg’s falsehoods.

The tweet is clear and so is the video clip:

Best line? “By now even Larry the Cat knows he’s lying.”

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Mainstream media have discovered Sunak’s ‘Eat Out’ scheme spread Covid-19 – two years too late

Profiting from death: after he served up this little howler – and pushed up Covid-19 infections massively, Rishi Sunak became prime minister. Shouldn’t he be paying for the consequences of his actions?

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Congratulations to Metro* for discovering that Rishi Sunak’s ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme of summer 2020 actually spread Covid-19 and may have caused thousands of deaths. Better late than never!

This site, and others on the social media, broke the story in December 2020.

This is the reason people should be reading Vox Political. They should be reading Another Angry Voice, Skwawkbox, The Canary and all the other independent news-related websites because that’s where they’re going to find out the things they need to know, at the time they need to know them.

And this is the reason you should be telling everybody you know.

Rishi Sunak may be responsible for killing off thousands of UK citizens – including your relatives, perhaps – and what’s his punishment? He’s now the prime minister. He’s already the richest man in the UK. Doesn’t he deserve to be in prison for dreaming up a scheme that killed many people?

He might have been, if enough attention had been drawn to what he had done at the right time.

But it wasn’t. The mainstream media ignored it – and that meant most people did too.

And now it has been (re)discovered via Matt Hancock’s leaked WhatsApp messages:

The Prime Minister is under pressure over his ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme during the pandemic with claims of a ‘cover up’ and that it spread Covid.

Leaked messages show … concern from then Health Secretary Matt Hancock about how Eat Out to Help Out was spreading the virus.

Mr Hancock told [then-Cabinet Secrtary Simon] Case that the scheme was driving up Covid cases in some of the worst hit areas and that the problems it was causing were ‘serious’.

But he added that he had ‘kept it out of the news’, according to the Telegraph.

Those WhatsApp messages were sent in August 2020. I published my story in December that year, as follows:

Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak made certain that thousands more people caught Covid-19 than would otherwise have done so, with his Eat Out to Help Out scheme.

Research by the University of Warwick has shown that the initiative is likely to blame for 17 per cent of infections – one in six outbreaks – between August and early September (when it was overtaken by outbreaks linked to schools that had reopened at Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab’s insistence, we may conclude).

People will have died from catching the virus after taking part in Sunak’s crackpot plan.

But nobody has been asking him any hard questions!

Isn’t it time these Tories took responsibility for the fatal consequences of their decisions and left public life for good, under a cloud of shame?

Note that I quoted the Daily Mail, which seems to have done as little as possible about the story.

Obviously, nobody involved has left public life for good under a cloud of shame.

They’re all still here, rubbing our noses in their ability to get away with – if not murder, then possibly mass manslaughter.

*In this instance – I’m sure other mainstream media outlets are also covering this story now, at long last.

Source: Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out ‘spread Covid but was covered up’ | Metro News

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