The Road to Serfdom
Delegation of powers is the first step
During the House of Commons Parliamentary debate on the MHRA on 16 January 2025, Sir Cristopher Chope MP made an important remark that we need to bear in mind if we are ever to take back what is ours:
Chope’s quote is from a 1944 book by the Austrian British economist Friedrich von Hayek.
TTE has documented the failure of the two key UK public health agencies (UKHSA, MHRA) and their addiction to secrecy and poor decision-making.
Here’s another example. At the Hallett Inquiry, Dame June Raine, CEO of the MHRA, was asked whether the British public was given Comirnaty manufactured following a different process from that used in the registration trial. Under oath, she answered, “Well, my understanding is that the manufacturing process would have been the same.” You can watch it here.
However, the statement given to the Inquiry by Ben Osborn, a senior Pfizer official, says:
In the same statement, Mr Osborn states that PfizerBioNTech started regular meetings with the government’s Vaccine Task Force (VTF) as early as August 2020. As seen in the MHRA papers series, the trial data was produced in clinical study report format in November 2020.
So, there are two hypotheses:
The manufacturers concealed the two manufacturing processes from Dame June. This is utterly implausible as lying is not what pharma does as the repercussions may be severe.
Dame June has no idea what she is talking about - a much more plausible explanation.
This post was written by two old geezers who think that lying in public is a stupid activity and that the pharmaceutical industry is not stupid.
Was there not a third possibility as raised by Clare Craig and others, that the question put to Dame June was potentially very deliberately and carefully crafted to allow her to answer the way she did (about so-called process A and B) without telling any untruths about Process 1 and 2?
If this is the case then any attempts at subterfuge have been rather counterproductive, in that they have ended up highlighting the concern rather than making it appear that this question about process has been put to bed.
I guess even entertaining the third possibility shows how little trust we have in the inquiry, given their clear bias and pre-determined assessments. Wouldn’t it be great if we were at least paying for an inquiry where the questioners approached the whole thing with a willingness to hear unpalatable truths and face difficult questions openly. As many have pointed out, the Scottish Inquiry is doing a better job at that, though it remains to be seen whether the lessons learned will be any different
This just proves what masks they wear. Hiding behind them. Totally taking you for fools. The problem is, liars should have good memories.. that is the problem.. they forget what they originally say.. then , backtrack. Do they actually think intelligent people like yourselves do not see exactly what is going on . They need removed from that dark place .. called.. cover-ups. Let the light shine brightly on them to reveal the truth. That would be the game changer for all of them. 😡