Families of the Israelis who died at the Nova Music Festival on October 7 have formed an organisation to demand an official state ‘Commission of Inquiry’ into what happened.
This Writer’s big question is: why has this hardly been reported?
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đšđźđ± âFamilies of the ISRAELI victims at the Nova Music Festival on October 7 demand the immediate formation of an official INVESTIGATION committee.
Several reports have confirmed that the Israeli army was the one that shelled the celebrants at the festival, leading to⊠pic.twitter.com/e9LbgpwEkA
And here‘s a partial translation of an article on Israeli media:
The families of those killed in the “Nova” and “Psydak” nature parties gathered yesterday (Monday) for the first time to establish a headquarters that will be called “The Flowers of the Parties”.
The families explained that the background for establishing the headquarters is the state’s ignoring them and seeing them as “transparent”.
Erez Sarfati, the father of the late Ron Sarfati, who was murdered at the Nova party, told the participants: “On the seventh of October, over 350 party goers who went to celebrate life were murdered, since then no official has contacted us.
“It is clear to us that the country is in an ongoing war, we are clear that the abductees need to be taken care of and everyone returned now, but we are not ready to be transparent in the eyes of the state’s captains.
“We all watch every night and are shocked by the headlines of the leaders, what kind of victory is this? We all lost and no one looks us in the eye and apologizes for this abominable failure.
“We will not allow the continuation of the cover-up of what happened to our dear ones.”
The implication is that Israeli military personnel did indeed fire at festival attendees, and did indeed kill some of them – a claim that has been hotly contested by the Israeli government and its military ever since.
I wonder whether the international media are ignoring this story in the hope that it will go away.
Then they’ll be able to carry on spouting the official line from liars like Eylon Levy.
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Lee Anderson (right) with his leader Boris Johnson: no wonder Anderson thinks he can get away with a Big Lie when his boss is the biggest liar of them all.
This MP is a disgrace to his Ashfield constituency.
He stood up in the House of Commons and admitted that his local food bank won’t give out desperately-needed parcels to people unless they sign up to take a course in budgeting and cooking skills –Â but you’ll notice he never said anything about whether such courses were effective in reducing demand.
Mr Anderson invited MPs to visit a food bank in his Nottinghamshire constituency where he said people “have to register for a budgeting course and a cooking course” if they receive parcels.
“We show them how to cook cheap and nutritious meals on a budget,” he added. “We can make a meal for about 30p a day and this is cooking from scratch.”
“There’s not this massive use for food banks in this country. We’ve got generation after generation who can not cook properly… they can not budget.”
Here’s video of what he said, along with some of the more well-informed comments by opposition MPs:
As usual, though, the best commentary on this came from the food writer and blogger Jack Monroe, who slated Anderson’s comment in an LBC interview:
“It’s not a lack of skills or knowledge that is causing people to struggle in food poverty in this country…it’s the lack of resources, it’s the lack of finances.
“It’s not that people don’t know what to do with a bag of pasta, it’s that they don’t have the 29p to buy it in the first place.
“Helping somebody conditional on them saying ‘you know what, I’m a terrible kind of poor person, this is all my own fault, please teach me how to be better at being poor’, is disgusting, actually.
“In his own constituency one in three live in poverty…I don’t think he’s the one to be touting the solution.”
Jack, who is a genuine national treasure, went further on the Cooking on a Bootstrap website, reminding us all of the main reasons people can’t afford food any more – and the fatal results of these Conservative Party policies:
If the âlet them eat 30p mealsâ brigade were really concerned for the welfare of people suffering, and I mean suffering, under the worst cost of living crisis this country has known for decades, they would take heed from the thousands of stories of people who have died at the hands of the callous DWP machine, and the people who enthusiastically grease its sharp and unforgiving cogs.
Stephanie Bottrill, a mother of three who was so concerned about the impact that the bedroom tax would have on her family, that she walked out in front of an articulated lorry.
Phillipa Day, whose overdose resulted in a coroners report stating that the flaws in her PIP assessment led to her death. A nine day inquest uncovered multiple failings by both the DWP and the private sector contractor Capita in the handling of her case. The coroner issued the DWP a PFD report â Prevention Of Future Deaths â which was supposed to force them to make significant changes to the system in order to prevent this entirely needless tragedy from ever happening again. Did they implement the recommended changes? Of course not. Not then, and not after multiple more coroners reports and PFDs from multiple subsequent deaths in similar circumstances.
Jodey Whiting took her own life after her benefits were stopped. Her family received a letter endorsing the DWPs actions, incorrectly stating that Jodey was fit to work, and mailed it to them as their daughter lay in a mortuary, awaiting her untimely and again, utterly preventable, burial. Following her death, and with his life thrown into utter turmoil at the loss of his mother, her 19 year old son Cory also killed himself.
I have thousands of these stories, each and every one a heartbreakingly familiar narrative: a vulnerable person denied absolutely vital assistance, unable to bear the pain of a day to day life scrabbling at the periphery of insecurity and just-about-survival, choosing a devastatingly permanent ending to a story that they didnât get the luxury of choosing their own adventure in. God, they didnât even get the luxury of choosing their own living accommodation, the colour of their front doors, or the meagre combination of basic store cupboard staples that made up their dinners.
What kind of world do we live in, where these horrific and very real examples of destitution and desperation are not a clarion call for an immediate overhaul of a barbaric and repeatedly proven fatal ideology?
And it begs the point, that with several hundred thousand pounds of full time staff at their disposal to do the everyday grunt work, youâd think that MPs would use a fraction of that generous budget to actually do some research in their chosen field.
Yes indeed. Lee Anderson’s most recent expenses claim alone came to ÂŁ220,000. That will have included the cost of employing his support staff, so the question goes straight to the point.
The painful reality is that when most basic of human needs costs more than the meagre payments that the recipients are forced to subsist on, cheap pasta and canned beans arenât going to make a jot of difference unless youâre willing to stuff them up your jumper and make a run for it. Those that claim to be the party of clever economics and fiscal responsibility would do well to remember this simple truth: the square root of fuck all is always going to be absolutely fuck all, no matter how creatively youâre told to to dice it.
I make no apology for the strong language; sometimes people need to be told the facts in the hardest possible terms, just so they’ll sink in.
You’ll hear it again in the following video rant from another great social media icon, Cornish Damo:
You can't cook with nothing, you can't budget with nothing, so says Jack Monroe. Obvious to ordinary folk but not to a political pygmy like Tory Lee Anderson who blames the poor for not being very good at being poor, not that he'd know with his expenses bill. #DamoRants#Foodpic.twitter.com/Hf7VInU7yV
— Damien Willey #BigPowerOff (@KernowDamo) May 12, 2022
Sadly, This Writer doubts that any amount of factual argument will persuade people like Anderson to change their tune, because they believe in the tactic the Tories stole (back) from the Nazi propagandist Goebbels:Â The Big Lie.
Anderson thinks if he keeps repeating, often enough, the lie that poverty is entirely the fault of people who are poor, and not of those who have deprived them of decent, affordable food, housing, energy, water and all the other necessities of life, we will all eventually believe that lie.
It’s up to you to prove him wrong.
ADDITIONAL: This could be very embarrassing for Mr Anderson:
I saw an article earlier where the food bank in question put the record straight because Anderson was wrong – cooking and budgeting classes are voluntary, not mandatory.
— Socially Distant (@press_not_sorry) May 13, 2022
— Socially Distant (@press_not_sorry) May 13, 2022
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Here’s something that happened after the end of the last Parliamentary session, but that should be raised in the new one.
More than 20,000 people died in care homes because of decisions made by Boris Johnson’s ministers (notably then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock).
Johnson made a statement in Parliament that ministers were not aware of asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19 at the time they were ordering that care home residents in hospital should be sent back. The evidence shows it was false.
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting claimed this was not true, highlighting a point of order raised by Labourâs Thangam Debbonaire, the shadow leader of the House of Commons.
Speaking to MPs on Thursday, Ms Debbonaire claimed the government was provided with evidence at the beginning of 2020 that pointed to that asymptomatic transmission of the Covid virus.
âOn 28 January 2020, advice from Sage on asymptomatic transmission included that âearly indications imply some is occurring,ââ she said. On 24 February, the Lancet published a paper finding that infected individuals can be infectious before they become symptomatic.
âOn 13 March, Patrick Vallance told the Today programme that âit’s quite likely that there is some degree of asymptomatic transmissionâ. Yet it wasnât until 15 April that the governmentâs guidance was changed to require patients were tested before being discharged to care homes.â
Ms Debbonaire said Johnson might have “inadvertently” misled the House of Commons, but This Writer disagrees.
Either he was briefed on asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19, or he deliberately chose to miss the briefings at one or several of the COBRA meetings that he skipped (due to laziness?) in early 2020. In any case, the responsibility to know the facts fell on Johnson.
Therefore, if he told the Commons that ministers didn’t know about asymptomatic transmission, he was deliberately choosing to mislead MPs. He should be challenged and he should resign.
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Lying: Boris Johnson has fed us a lot of diseased tripe about Covid-19 since February 2020 and the news media have been happy to help him. They’re still doing it now.
Feeling good about yourself because you’re double-vaccinated and the Tories have ended social distancing rules? How do you feel about this, then?
According to the media the pandemic is over. Unfortunately not for the 181 poor souls who died yesterday or the near 40k infected.
I know what some of you will say: it’s still better than everywhere else because Boris Johnson and his crooks have done such a good job with the vaccine. Right?
UK has highest COVID rate in Western Europe – 40,000 new cases reported yesterday. Other countries performing better due to combo of vaccine uptake and social distancing. Not either/or but both. This should be our leading story today. Take the vaccine, wear masks, save lives.
Don’t take my word for it. Here’s someone who’s just back from abroad:
Just arrived this morning back in plague island after 2 1/2 months in France. 1st pee break maybe 1% of people wearing a mask OMFG⊠Iâve just read the uk had 40k infections yesterday. But the govt say itâs all over.
The death toll since Johnson’s so-called Freedom Day (July 19) is appalling – and families of the deceased are being urged to take action:
Twelve thousand, six hundred and seventy-five Covid victims have died since the abandonment of all caution on "freedom day". May their souls rest in peace, and may their families rise in fury.
A class-action civil lawsuit against the government is sorely neededâperhaps even criminal charges filed against politicians for gross negligence manslaughter.
And nearly as many more people are expected to die before Christmas – who would live if Johnson only saw sense and re-imposed life-saving restrictions. Ah, but he’s on his holibobs, isn’t he?
>10000 people have died of covid since 19 Jul when all restrictions were lifted. At current rates 8000+ will not live to celebrate xmas. At least half of them would not die if we retain some measures considered mild by most other countries.
Meanwhile the media are feeding is misinformation. Consider the BBC’s claims that the vaccination programme is good reason to excuse the government for the tens of thousands of deaths it caused at the start of the pandemic crisis:
BBC News says the success of the vaccination programme has redeemed the faults made earlier in the pandemic. Donât agree, and itâs a total insult to everyone who has died, their families and friends
— Annrj#3.5%#FBPE#Wearamask#NeverEmbracingBrexit (@AnnJarvis13) October 12, 2021
It is reckoned that 20,000 people died because of mistakes made in the first few weeks of the crisis. That’s as many as are expected to have died between July 19 and December 25, after Johnson’s Freedom Day stunt.
Oh, and then there’s this:
Apparently, 75% of covid patients in hospital, have been double jabbed ?
Yes. Why are the deaths 6x higher *with* the jabs than they were last year without them? Anyone? https://t.co/LOlJTInxQX
— Rhiannon of Palestine đŽó §ó ąó ·ó Źó łó ż đ”đž (@rhiannon_arian) October 14, 2021
And still the Tory apologists leap forward to excuse them. Jolyon Rubinstein is (almost) right on the button with his comment below (one Tory has stepped forward to apologise – although he’s nobody important):
Just take this in. The worst public health response EVER in U.K. history. Not ONE apology from a Minister. NO responsibility taken. NO resignations. PM on HOLIDAY. 130k dead. 20k zoom funerals. This is England.
Along came Ryan (below) to let the Tories off the hook with a lot of twaddle.
Blame game gets us nowhere
Itâs not like thereâs a play book or an instruction manual for this type of event it was play it by ear, listen to expert advice and take action accordingly.
This was not inflicted on us by the government (as far as we know) itâs a natural disaster
If the blame game gets us nowhere, why is Health Secretary Sajid Javid preparing to blame GPs for failing to hold enough face-to-face appointments with patients, after creating a funding scheme that doesn’t help?
Not only that, but we know that the government didn’t pay attention to expert advice and take action accordingly.
Covid-19 is indeed (partially) a natural disaster, but it is one that has been made much worse by Boris Johnson and his cronies.
The situation is crystallised by the hypocrisy of the “He’s doing his best” narrative about Boris Johnson:
This week 250 children in England will be hospitalised with Covid. 2 or 3 will die. A thousand adults will die. Meanwhile, our PM is "doing the best he can". pic.twitter.com/qKGvisZ8g2
Yes, he’s “doing his best” by pretending to be Picasso in some paradise villa. Meanwhile:
Can anyone explain why as a Dr I can 'do my best' but make 1 fatal mistake; be sued & possibly lose my career but a PM can make a series of culpable errors costing 1,000s their lives and folk go 'Oh bless, he needs a holiday'?
I am angry that even in the face of a damming report the media states âBoris was doing his bestâ. On 19.03.2020 he said âI am confident we can send Covid packing and turn the tide of the outbreak in 12 weeks.â We now have one of the highest death rates in the world. His best?
Of course we know why Johnson took his holiday this week. It was to avoid having to answer the damning report on the government’s response to Covid-19 that became public this week.
He left that to his ministers, including a Health Secretary who hasn’t even bothered to read it…
The health secretary said: âI actually havenât had the opportunity to study every word of the report." https://t.co/wzEGIp5pdI
… and a former Health Secretary who lied to us that one of the countries that has performed best in handling the pandemic is now doing worse than the UK. It isn’t. New Zealand is much, much healthier than we are:
Jeremy Hunt has twice said that New Zealand is now doing worse than the UK on Covid. Here are the stats for New Zealand since the start of the pandemic: Total cases in New Zealand: 4,704 Total Covid deaths in New Zealand: 28#r4today#FactCheck
The situation in the UK is about to get much, much worse. And that will happen because your Tory government couldn’t be bothered to prevent it, and because its complacent, client news media couldn’t be bothered to warn you.
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Did he say it? That hardly matters now – Boris Johnson’s own behaviour shows he agrees with the sentiment.
“Let the bodies pile high,” he said. And he meant it!
Boris Johnson has triggered a wave of outrage after he said he did not care about the increase in cancer deaths caused by his government’s failure to make the NHS capable of dealing with a pandemic like Covid.
NHS staff and resources had to be diverted from services like cancer care, meaning thousands more people have died who would not have if care had continued uninterrupted.
Not only that, but deaths attributed to Covid mean life expectancy for men has fallen. It’s being said that this is for the first time ever, although This Site has carried articles in the past that would dispute that.
And what did Johnson say? Well, see for yourself:
Boris Johnson tonight on the BBC "I've given you the most important metric which is, never mind life expectancy, never mind cancer outcomes, look at wage growth."
Wage growth between April and June this year was recorded at 8.8 per cent by the Office for National Statistics – but those experts said the figure must be treated with “caution” – and for very good reason:
Annual growth in average employee pay is being affected by temporary factors that have inflated the increase in the headline growth rate; compositional effects where there has been a fall in the number and proportion of lower-paid employee jobs, therefore increasing average earnings; and base effects where the latest months are now compared with low base periods when earnings were first affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The base effect refers to the comparison of the latest months with the low base periods of April to June 2020, when earnings were affected by the coronavirus pandemic and negative pay growth rates were seen… The composition effect is where pay growth has been affected by a changing composition of employee jobs, which has increased average pay and needs to be considered when interpreting average pay growth.
In brief: there is no reason to celebrate huge wage rises because they only relate to last year’s huge wage fall.
Meanwhile, according to The Independent,
Life expectancy for men has fallen for the first time since records began, government figures revealed in September â as the higher deaths than usual caused by the pandemic begin to make an impact.
More than half a million cancer patients are missing out on vital healthcare support due to severe staff shortages across the NHS, new research from Macmillan Cancer Support revealed last month.
One in four of people who were diagnosed with cancer in the last two years have gone without proper support from a specialist nurse during that time, equating to roughly 630,000 patients, the charity said.
So Johnson’s comment was entirely backward.
The right thing to say would have been “Never mind the misleading wage rises; the important metrics are the falls in life expectancy and cancer outcomes.”
And we all know it. Ian Lavery certainly wasn’t the only one to pick up on the reversal:
The most important metric is wage growth, not the how many people are dying đđ»
The man who said "let the bodies pile high" now says "I've given you the most important metric which is, never mind life expectancy, never mind cancer outcomes, look at wage growth."
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It’s not over: the reason recorded Covid-19 infections are falling is that school pupils aren’t being tested; they’re on holiday.
News media like the BBC are all over the fact that the number of recorded Covid-19 infections has dropped for the seventh day running.
They’re practically ignoring the fact that the daily death total has leapt to 131 – the highest number since March.
Bit of a discrepancy, that.
The reason could be that fewer people have been tested over the last seven days.
The reason for that?
Most of the schools broke up for the summer nearly a week ago. Our kids aren’t being tested any more.
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RIP democracy: Boris Johnson cut aid to foreign countries without offering MPs a chance to vote on it. His claim that the law allows such a move is highly debatable.Â
The message This Writer took from MPs’ failure to force a vote on reversing foreign aid cuts is that it means there will be hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths in affected countries.
That was said by Tory Andrew Mitchell, who seems to have come a long way since the “BikeGate” controversy.
And the really offensive part was that the decision to cut foreign aid from 0.7 per cent to 0.5 per cent of National Income (do they mean Gross Domestic Product?) was taken without allowing Parliament to vote on it.
It was an offence against democracy, because Boris Johnson’s Tory government believes in dictatorship instead.
And (obviously) it believes in finding ways to ensure that as many people as possible die.
Ministers have said it is possible to vary the amount spent without changing the 2015 law that makes the target binding.
But the decision to make the change unilaterally means there is no deadline for restoring that target – meaning the government could leave the cut in place indefinitely.
Isn’t there a more important question to be answered, about what’s being done with this aid money?
Isn’t it important that it should be used to ensure that the nations receiving the money need less and less of it in the future?
Has that been happening? How can we check?
There are many questions to be answered about foreign aid and This Writer hopes the debate on Tuesday (June 8) provides some of the answers.
The joy of it is that the Tory government has shot itself in the foot, whatever happens.
It has already garnered bad publicity over this in the week before the UK hosts the G7 summit.
It will receive more bad publicity with the debate.
And Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said he wants a substantive vote, which means if Boris Johnson refuses to grant it, he’ll have even more bad publicity.
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Smug: Priti Patel seems to think she can say anything she likes about court cases and lawyers. Sadly, the failure of the authorities to punish her suggests that she is right. No wonder she often has that smug grin on her face.
An ill-advised tweet by Priti Patel – the UK’s Home Secretary, in charge of the country’s police service (but not, thankfully, justice) could have derailed a major criminal case, it has been revealed.
Four alleged people-smugglers have now been found guilty of manslaughter in the so-called Essex lorry deaths trial, after 39 people were found dead inside a lorry when it was inspected on its way into the UK from continental Europe.
On October 23, the anniversary of the tragedy, Priti Patel’s Twitter account posted: “One year ago today, 39 people lost their lives in horrific circumstances at the hands of ruthless criminals.
“My thoughts remain with everyone who was affected by that day, particularly the loved ones of the people who so tragically died.”
This public comment could have prejudiced the then-ongoing trial and for that reason was certainly in contempt of court.
Patel should have known this. In fact, This Writer finds it hard to believe that she didn’t.
Considering her other recent behaviour, it seems more likely that she thought she could get away with saying anything she liked – because she is a Conservative cabinet minister. Once again, it would be a case in which the Tories put themselves above the law.
According to The Mirror,
The post was retweeted and liked more than 300 times before it came to the attention of a defence lawyer and the trial was halted.
In the absence of the jury, Alisdair Williamson QC complained about the description of “ruthless criminals”, especially as she was a senior Government minister.
The judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, did not authorise action against Patel but pointed out to jurors that many messages were likely to appear on the social media – and all should be ignored.
“It’s a fundamental principle of our criminal justice system that those on trial are presumed to be innocent until proven to be guilty and it is you and you alone who are going to decide whether they are guilty or not guilty.”
Quite right.
Patel had no right to suggest that anybody was a “ruthless criminal” until the jury came to a decision supporting such a claim.
But then, considering her other ill-advised tweets about “activist lawyers”, which led to at least one attack on a firm of solicitors, it seems clear that she believes herself to be above the rules that affect the rest of us.
Sadly, Mr Justice Sweeney’s lack of action against her, along with the failure of the police to act over the other matter, tends to prove her right.
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The worst aspect of this is that there probably isn’t a connection.
Gail Ward caused serious embarrassment to the Department for Work and Pensions in 2018 when in response to a Freedom of Information request, the government department had to admit 111,000 people had died while claiming Employment and Support Allowance.
Then Ms Ward, 63, was told by the same organisation that she didn’t qualify for Personal Independence Payments.
For clarity, she has Prinzmetalâs angina, a rare form of angina where attacks can occur even when resting. The rare heart condition means she can collapse at any moment.
It can cause arteries in the heart to spasm during times of stress or cold weather, which severely limits a personâs independence and can also be life-threatening.
She also has arthritis and hip dysplasia.
Ms Ward had been claiming Disability Living Allowance but, after she was ordered to attend a mandatory reassessment for PIP, she was told that her benefits would stop because she failed to meet the qualifying criteria.
How many times have we heard that before?
Look at her condition again. Of course she met the qualifying criteria. The DWP just wanted to cause her a bit of additional stress, and see if it aggravates her condition enough to kill her.
And if that happened, the people responsible would probably have had the nerve to say, at least she won’t be added to the death figures she uncovered, because she was claiming PIP, not ESA.
The cancellation of her benefit payments meant Ms Ward was unable to pay her bills and ended up in debt.
She was also stripped of her mobility car – which is common behaviour for the DWP.
It took her 15 months to get an appeal to the tribunal stage.
Now here’s the payoff: despite being unable to attend on the day, having been taken ill that morning, the tribunal still found in Ms Ward’s favour and awarded her the full amount of PIP.
Now she has criticised the assessment process and demanded answers about the way decisions are made.
Of course, we all know why the DWP’s assessors do what they do.
But with her record, Gail Ward might just be able to force them to confess it.
A body-bag: No, it isn’t being modelled by Mr Rees-Mogg.
The Minister for the 18th Century, Jacob Rees-Mogg, caused a bit of a stir this week when he attacked a doctor who advised the government on “no deal” Brexit – in flagrant contradiction of the evidence.
Consultant neurologist Dr David Nicholl helped draft the Project Yellowhammer document that predicted shortages of medicines, food and fuel if “no deal” Brexit happens.
Dr Nicholl asked Mr Rees-Mogg, now Leader of the House of Commons, in an exchange on LBC radio, âWhat level of mortality rate are you willing to accept in the light of a no-deal Brexit?â
The cabinet member bit back hard: âIâm surprised that a doctor in your position would be fear-mongering in this way on public radio. I think itâs deeply irresponsible, Dr Nicholl, of you to call in and try to spread fear across the country. Itâs typical of Remainer campaigners to try and you should be quite ashamed.”
Oh, really?
Then why has the National Health Service been stockpiling body-bags?
We knew this was happening back in February, when a letter from then-health minister Stephen Hammond identified body-bags as an important consumable being protected by health service bosses.
But now we know why.
This Independent article quotes Dr Paul Williams, a Labour supporter of the anti-Brexit Best for Britain group, said: âThis exchange shows how little regard the government has for those who rely on access to medicines. Their reckless pursuit of a no-deal Brexit is putting lives at risk.â
And it reported a revelation by The Sunday Times “that doctors had warned the NHS to brace itself for the âbiggest threat it has ever facedâ if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
“Confidential files seen by the newspaper revealed lists of drugs it has been impossible to stockpile, putting patients at potential risk.”
Dr Nicholl was reported to have used the exchange with Mr Rees-Mogg to argue that people would die because of problems with access to drugs and radioisotopes.
And all the cabinet minister could do was moan that the Yellowhammer report had been written by “Remoaners”.
Who do you believe? The cabinet minister – or the expert with a doctorate?
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