More Ruminations of an Old Geezer.

When will public decision-makers be held accountable?

TTE readers will be wondering what the devil is going on with government(s), regulators (now enablers) and the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA), given the public mess they have made in the last few days.

My view is that these folks are not used to the level of public scrutiny they have been exposed to. When confronted by people who will not be deflected or side tracked, they make the wrong calls, probably out of panic. We have our own evidence of this, but for now, let’s summarise what these bodies have been subjected to. 

Repeated Parliamentary Questions on their actions (or lack of) on Covid and avian influenza vaccines, a Parliamentary debate on 16 January led by the redoubtable Rt Hon Esther McVey MP, a slew of FOI questions to which we got ridiculous or non-answers and to top it all the withdrawal MHRA secret squirrel papers “collection”.  In all of these, TTE played a role, by and large, wholly ignored by the state media (as this is what is clear they have become). We…