Contagion: Matt Hancock (in his own mind), yesterday.
Tory ‘Death Secretary’ Matt Hancock has admitted he decided to order 100 million doses of anti-Covid-19 vaccine – not on the basis of expert advice but after watching the Hollywood blockbuster Contagion.
Matt Hancock tells Nick Ferrari he was inspired to order 100 million doses of the Oxford jab instead of 30 million because of the film Contagion, which taught him there would be a scramble for the vaccine.@NickFerrariLBC | @MattHancockpic.twitter.com/H8SQiVM9hw
And this comment could explain everything about the way the UK is currently being run:
Matt Hancock confirming that his response to the pandemic was helped by watching Contagion while Boris Johnson got a similar benefit from watching Mr Bean
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People are saying great things about a new documentary about the National Health Service, which is available for viewing online.
The Great NHS Heist is a film by Dr Bob Gill that professes to detail how the UK has been robbed of its most precious possession.
According to the film’s publicity:
“The British National Health Service is the nation’s proudest achievement, lifting the burden from the sick, and copied across the world,
“But it has been under sustained attack over decades by successive governments.
“Realising that privatisation would be unpopular, the Thatcher Government instead started a programme of outsourcing that was continued and expanded under the Blair New Labour Government and up to the present.
“It required careful planning and a series of legal and structural changes spanning 30 years to bring it to the brink of American corporate capture; or, as one former policy adviser put it, reduced to “a funding stream and a logo”.
“A docile and complicit media have failed to hold power to account and inform the public about what is really happening to their NHS.
“Austerity and chaos over Brexit has provided perfect cover for the engineered failure of services, necessary to persuade the public to fall out of love with the NHS.
“NHS land, patient data and tax-funded budgets are all up for grabs.
“How did we get here? This film reveals The Great NHS Heist.”
Well, we already knew about the engineered failure of services being designed to convince the public that a private service is better – we have Noam Chomsky to thank for that:
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Bully: Luciana Berger is no longer a member of the Labour Party, but she intimidated it into forcing the cancellation of a film screening in order to silence dissent against her story about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
Labour’s latest bid to smear and discredit people who speak against fake “anti-Semitism” accusations against party members is a disgrace that flies against a basic rule of British justice.
Of course the usual fellow-travellers in the mainstream media have kicked up a song and dance about it so you’ll know that Labour MP Chris Williamson was attacked yesterday (February 26) by his former party colleague Luciana Berger after it was revealed his office had booked a room in the House of Commons to host a screening of the film WitchHunt, about the accusations of anti-Semitism against Jackie Walker, who is herself Jewish but whose Labour Party membership has been suspended for a specious reason (you can read about that – and see why the allegation is false – here).
Ms Berger tweeted:
For a @UKLabour MP to host this film, with a “guest” who hasn’t yet had their #antisemitism disciplinary hearing (8 months after @uklabour leadership promised it would be concluded) is beyond offensive. https://t.co/DZ5uf2ZztO
That’s right – Ms Berger was trying to silence an innocent woman, preventing her from stating her side of the story.
Now, why would she want to do that – especially when one realises that she hasn’t even seen the film herself?
It seems she succeeded, too – the screening has now been cancelled as a result of the adverse publicity Ms Berger created, even though it has nothing to do with her; she isn’t a member of the Labour Party any more.
It had been arranged with Mr Williamson’s office by Jewish Voice for Labour. In a press release, the organisation stated:
“Intimidation forces cancellation of WitchHunt film in Parliament
“A documentary film exploring the background to accusations of antisemitism in the Labour Party, due to be screened in the House of Commons on Monday March 4, has been cancelled after an outcry from people who have not seen it.
“Within hours of an invitation being sent to Labour MPs and journalists, the Jewish News reported calls for expulsion from the Labour Party of Chris Williamson MP whose office had booked the room to show the 62-minute documentary, titled WitchHunt. Williamson had no other role in organising the event.
“Neve Gordon, Professor of international law at Queen Mary University of London, who was due to take part in a panel discussion after the screening next Monday, said: ‘This is outrageous. It certainly confirms the significance of the movie.’
“The documentary has been acclaimed by leading filmmakers Mike Leigh and Peter Kosminsky, both of whom are Jewish, and by Israeli historian Professor Avi Shlaim (Oxford University). His statement, which topped the invitation, says: ‘Anyone who speaks or writes in the public domain about antisemitism and the current state of the Labour Party has a duty to see this film and address the issues it raises.’
“The film is due for release online on March 17th following a tour with director Jon Pullman to a number of cities including Nottingham, Brighton, Edinburgh and Derry.
“Pullman said: ‘We hope that people concerned with the struggle against racism and antisemitism take the time to see the film, and then make their own mind up. To have it publicly denounced as ‘offensive’ by people who have not seen it raises question about what is happening to democracy in this country.'”
The testimonial from Mr Kosminsky is particularly pertinent as it states: “[WitchHunt] packs a powerful punch, telling a story we just aren’t hearing at the moment.”
The reason for that should be obvious from Ms Berger’s tweet.
She got exactly what she deserved, though. Let’s take a look at some of the comments her tweet, and my response, attracted:
Luciana – you frequently jump before you are hurt. You have done enough damage to @UKLabour and attempted too often to undermine the leadership of @jeremycorbyn while you were a member of the party. Now you have run off with your "chums" we had hoped the whining would stop.
— Robin Vyrnwy-Pierce #ReportAntiSemitism (@Rhobyngoch) February 26, 2019
The demand for the expulsion of @DerbyChrisW for hosting a Jewish group’s film show tonight in parliament is a clear sign that madness reigns in our politics. Appeasement of this madness has merely made it more acute. #Labour#Corbyn
— Keir Still Not Twenty Points Ahead Starmer 📉 (@TheBirmingham6) February 24, 2019
“A message to anyone who dissents: ‘We can get you.'”
Chilling.
And that is exactly what we have seen in this heavy-handed intervention from Ms Berger.
AFTERWORD: It should be noted that Jewish News reported the screening of WitchHunt was due to take place shortly before the Jewish Labour Movement was due to debate its future with the Labour Party, with “some members pushing for disaffiliation”. Let us hope that this happens and Labour separates itself from this poisonous organisation which is far more interested in supporting the Zionist project in Israel than in standing up for Jewish people in the UK who may disagree with its political stance. Consider its own mission statements (as reported here) for evidence.
Ms Walker will face her Labour Party disciplinary hearing on March 26. Here’s a tweet about it that you might find interesting:
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