Best bits: Patrick Vallance exposes chaos in Boris Johnson's pandemic planning at Covid Inquiry 

The British are so apathetic, in any other nation (France) there would be riots, marches, and demonstrations against the ruling party. The silence is deafening!

Not necessarily, should things come to light that Plod is interested in, there will be prosecutions

@@swally291 good idea, but they are so legally uncatchable, and they know it, but you app. do not.

Time for this to be reviewed and a new law in..dissolve the Tory party ,they deserve no less.

I hope all those who lost relatives ect act collectively and sue the pants off them for their incompetent

No accounting for looking through the hole n missing the doughnut.

Labour supported every mistake the government made.

@@roamingism Did Labour support the decade long underfunding of the NHS? No. Did they support the scrapping of the pandemic response plan? No. Did they support the granting of funds to provide PPE to VIPs who had no experience in that area of industry? No. Did they support Matt Hancock's plans for limiting testing for COVID? No.

​@@Cazgirl-hq4hi😂 Well put.

@@roamingism calling bull shit tory.

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we see the met police arrest us for showing decent to tory rule before they turned on there bread makers the tory .

To right. Over 100000 people and families suffered. He should be nicked and held accountable for his actions and choices.

Yes and proper accountability not some soft touch gesture

Well said ,lock em up including the colluding scientists

His book about the first man in England to get the vaccine? As jokes go, Matt Hancock found it amusing..

Correct.

Still not finished the book. Fact

The good people of the UK DESERVE BETTER.

The current PM isn't much better: he was even happier than BoZo to let us die.

He is thick as mince.

thicker than a boxin' day t # rd

Boris resented only getting upper second class honours with his degree in Literae Humaniores. Hence all the references in his speeches to topics from the 'O' level Latin syllabus.

He could speak the same amount of languages as your average third world taxi driver

I think he still is thick or has that changed? I'd hate to think that someone would view this as he was thick but isn't anymore, so we'll vote for him because some people are somewhat less intelligent than Boris which is frightening

Sounds about right and don't forget the old lessons learnt bullshit as well as if its just some exam with no repercussions

😂😂😂😂 i loughed so hard m8. So true tho

Labour: zzzzzzz Uh what year is it?

Labour or any other party in power would be no different. Politics is rotten to the core. Unless it is totally overhauled, nothing will change.

This inquiry is a complete and utter farce. They have already prearranged the 'outcome'. More lockdowns, harder, faster and if necessary, longer. Why no questions of why the pandemic happened, origins, Patrick Vallance's collusion with Fauci, Collins, et al. mRNA entering mainstream medicine, cancel culture of experts rather than open debate, etc. All an utter load of BS is this inquiry. Just like the one about the Iraq War. Look where Tony Blair is now. None of these people will be held accountable!!

He lacks the self awareness to resign. He is hoping his international troll army will make him save face.

Agreed! Will Cummings sink him or lie?

@@dianamincher6479 Both. Cummings will do whatever it takes to sink Sunak, and anyone else, but only for his own pleasure and not for the good of anyone else.

Did he say people should die?? Or was he really saying actually this is just a load of bollocks like most of us thought.

anyone sitting in the cabinet over that period will have to go or the tories will just lose most if not all their seats in the next election

Eugenicists. And putin wanted the west crumbled before his war. Special favors amongst special friends for that special operation.

@luminousfractal420 one big club who are the real players who is been played me you who knows the truth

This “inquiry” looks like some odd caricature of reality. They concentrate on showing how hard it was to get the Prime Minister to believe their fantasies that what they were doing was useful. Only problem was he didn’t have the self confidence to tell them all to F off

I disagree it should be a criminal criminal investigation

This isn't transparent. The source of lockdowns, China, who the world followed created them, not the science. Nobody, except possibly Sweden had the guts to come up with a differe😢nt solution.

@@commonsense9176 met police was part of the problem they aided the tory .punished us tax payers and looked the other way for the tory.how do we deal with the police .they dragged women away from a park due to wiayne couzens and but hurt trying to show who'e boss and pritti patel backed than thanked them the day after a night with the borrises at downing at street.

democide is a thing

Committees are one of the few aspects of Parliament that function as intended. It's a shame committees didn't have more powers to recommend criminal charges.

It's a non starter. They would just reject the premise of every question.

And ethics would be nice too...

Politics, phphilosophy and economics is the benchmark. The economics covers you for stats including graphs and the philosophy does the ethics. Science isI so specialised it is hard to know which one but an understanding of how science works would help.

I think Blowjob needed one as he is as thick as two short planks. Yet he went to Eton and according to Moggy people who go to state schools are as thick as potted plants. It seems to me they're the thick ones.

...the mps weren't asked. They out sourced all our powers to a small narrow minded comitee some of whom were open communists!!

I think you needed to read between the pauses ... 'I have been trying to follow the science but it's very difficult as it involves things I was too lazy to study and sometimes they show me squiggly lines on charts which are sometimes differently coloured and hard to keep up with. Are we finished? When do I get my gin and totty?'

The science isn’t hard to understand, even for someone who gave science up at 15, he just isn’t particularly competent or a particularly good critical thinker.

He gave up everything @15

He would have followed the science if it had either a gin or a skirt. Preferably both.

that was just early-crisis propaganda, to reduce the building questioning of obviously insane/lacklustre govt policy

They have lessons in entitlement

@@R08Tam Lessons in self-confidence, which the state system knocks out of your children.

@@jonzu217 Arrogance and contempt for people 'less' than you is not self-confidence, its a psychological complex

science or biology? Biology is a science ...

@@clowncarqingdao err.. meant physics and biology

Eton rifles.

Most of these politicians think Ethics is the county across the Thames from Kent 😂

Maths and science could be a requisite too

​@@jedimasterbazz basic information processing should be included, like English comprehansion, and understanding factual data. Even badic stuff like pie-charts or bar graphs.

You have it so wrong. They dont care, they cant. Look up eugenics london. Youll find the last 100years of history where darwins insane cousin tried to make his own genetics system to control breeding. It was on par with hitlers. He started by holding lectures at eton and other universities, as well as writing articles in the papers. Last forced sterilization was in the 1970's usa (they really lapped it up over there). They have ethics, it just involves ridding the planet of us lot. We have to get mental health evaluations in place for government members. And that all needs to be publicly available for scrutiny. Having purebred psychopaths with a wealth obsession in power left the door wide open for putin.

he nver had to think for any one but his own self serving interests every in parliment new what he was he been given many jobs before this and either been fired or fucked them up at our cost .EVERY BODY who claimed not to know needs to go too for lying

Neither do the public who vote berks like the ones who constitute the Tory government into power. Who in their right minds gives a pseud like Jacob Rees-Mogg a seat in Parliament?

Johnson studied classics; at the time it was seen as an easy option.

To win a modern general election you need a media savvy psychopath. As a professional comedian as well as a posh boy Boris was the ideal front man for the Tory party.

The system is good, then look before him

@@traceyomalley3797 Mrs May was far superior to Boris but obviously the Tory Party preferred him because he was better at papering over the cracks.

EXACTLY!!

then you’ve quite clearly not heard the half of it

No in the end they all pulled together? Playing the fool is part of the act!

He fell short of the old domestos injection trick but I think he was wilfully “unhearing” most of what the advisors were telling him. It’s pretty clear he wanted the thing to run riot and kill off a load of vulnerable people who would otherwise have been dependent on a functioning nhs and care system.

Johnson is Trump Lite.

Vallance is a snake.

​@@selesius4591how so?

I don’t fully agree - he is reluctant to be frank

Somebody had to do it. Suzanne.

Are you unaware of the video of Vallance declaring that 65% of the population should become infected?

He isn't thick. He just doesn't care

@@R08Tam On the contrary, if he was intelligent he'd at least pretend to care.

@@R08Tam He absolutely is thick! When you strip away all the quotes and latin phrases hammered into his head at school you're left with an empty man who knows absolutely nothing..

@@roderickjoyce6716 The UK is so broken he knows he doesn't even have to pretend. He is protected from all consequences by a system that has two tiers

I believe, it's been pointed out. The largest number of volunteers at the time he was elected. Had lower qualifications...a school level

Fat chance! Like the NHS, they bury their mistakes.

Exactly. The issue is these clowns Boris, Sunak, Hancock, Williamson, Hunt etc should never have been anywhere Downing Street and Government

I think Boris did more or less the best that he could?

​@@dianamincher6479Less.

But Rishi Sunak? What's he up to?

the tory and the media with the likes fo mrss kuntburger are as much to blame as a borris for backing lies that cost peoples lives .we cant even say let people die here face book and yout ube would community standards ban us .

Really? And the health of the average Scottish person is better as a result how exactly?

The Brexiters knew he was not the brightest spark, so if anyone is responsible it is the Brexiters who promoted him to high office. Not did they promote a buffoon to the highest office in the land, but also created the economic shambles that is Brexit.

*Unelected leader.

This a tory party with only the interests of doners, what else can you expect.

And Vallance is as thick as two planks for not being able to explain science to a classisist.

You are giving him far too many planks. One brain cell per plank, remember!

It's not has if the pandemic was the only thing that was happening he was trying to deal with the brexit negotiations afghanistan evacuation climate change war in Ukraine etc etc.

Don't you know that being able to quote ancient Greek or Latin authors is the apposite skill for a Prime Minister? There's always some pithy dictum you can quote to convince the hoi polloi that you are destined to be their leader. If that doesn't work, make some fatuous remark about Peppa Pig and chortle. /s

So true. And so many people with less money and power defend them to the hilt. The same people they don’t care about at all.

And no one is an expert in all areas. Their entire job is supposed to be listening to the general opinion and that of experts and making a decision based on that. Which he clearly didn’t have the skills to do.

@@snowyowel7961 Yet, despite all those urgent serious challenges, Johnson was more interested in dealing with his divorce from a wife he cheated on while she was fighting cancer, and trying to write a lazy book about Shakespeare for £500K.

What a boring day with these.

can you ?

I Ignored the science and I've never been more healthy. When are the sheep gonna shut up about "listening to the science?" Morons. Haven't learned a thing about propaganda. Science like cloth masks and avoiding all germs?? Wow.

😂🤣😂🤦🏽‍♂️🥴🤡 yeah ! right on !!! did you mean like the bit when they chanted ‘sAfE & eFfEcTivE & fULLy tEsTeD’ on a daily basis, for months & months on end ?

Its bs. All these guilty fkrs are trying to get away with the "im stupid" excuse. Ok mitch mcconnel went a bit further to escape but its the same shit.

"Wancock"... About sums him up.

Eugenicists. Putins people. And yup, purebred psychopaths.

Great statesmen don't have "empathy". Empathy is for losers. Statesmen have to be strong and tough, and decidedly non-emotional. Churchill bombed Dresden and sank the French fleet (Operation Catapult). To see what touchy-feely leaders do, look at the New Zealand PM and what a mess she made of Covid.

Sadly, sections of the population looked at Johnson and saw themselves represented. See above.

It seems to have been forgotten that we might have had Jeremy Corbyn musing on how to understand the problem and solution under a 'Socialist' dogma canopy! Margaret Thatcher was that rarity; trained as a scientist, but sadly was not around to apply her mind to the ghastly dilemma.

Look what Trump did

Bodger won't game a dam....He'll enjoy being in the limelight again.

@@susanmorgan3104 disagree, the worse his humiliation, the less his comedy routine is worth on the speaking circuit. Should be the event of the year.

He will lie his backside off surprise shocker

Sociopathy. They struggled with him because he is a psychopath.

How to look down on, and ridicule the plebs !!

Privilege

How to be a complete Bell end. And a set of thieves.

arrogance

he still is a top class Bozo

@@Gerrygambone True. 😔

He couldn't find the runway or the airport building?

@@dianamincher6479 ?

That name is derogatory - Bomboozled Boris (rather than) Bozo is better.

😂😂😂

Me too, and I'm a humanities graduate!

Can I check - what is the core concept?

@@plumbr13Sure, I'm rusty but heres an example. Imagine a petri dish with some bacterial cells. Everytime they reproduce through mitosis the populations number doubles, resulting in double the new cells from the next mitosis. The time between each mitosis will remain consistent but the population will experience exponential growth. If you plot the total population against the time intervals you will get an exponential curve with points going further and further up until they shoot off somewhere to the moon. You can also use the graph to produce a equation for the line that represents the rate of exponential growth assuming space and resources were limitless. This has predictive power, based on the interval number you can calculate the total population during that interval. If we can grasp this the Prime Minister definitely should, especially with repeated meetings like these.

Thatcher may have been a scientist but she was in no way an epidemiologist as the outcomes of her policy choices endlessly show

Yes it was, with a refreshing lack of Anglo-Saxon swear words.

Too damn right it is. The popcorn will be out for that for sure!

Yes exactly. Like the Daily Heil. That scumbag newspaper should have been abolished after World War II.

@@XvonPocalypse you heard him

That's being generous. In reality, he's probably just thick as a plank. Most people I know with ADHD are quick witted, just have a short attention span. Allegedly he has a degree from Oxford, so it's a reasonable expectation that he can read complex literature and problem solve, but we've seen no evidence of either in this sorry saga.

I just think he a spoilt brat.

You can;t be sure?

He got by on his Greek and Latin. Still is...

@@andrewclimo5709There are a few programs at Oxford that are infamous of not being competitive (for Oxford standards) in admissions, and Classics is one them.

Apparently not. It's more about how fast you can grasp "donations" from "free"market billionaires.

Isn't it their job to do everything to get the answers to their questions and lines of inquiry - how exactly would being impolite and judgmental help that? Even moreso, in this instance, this is, fundamentally, a witness to the chaos rather than a decision maker within it... any ire or judgment would be misplaced.

Agree. Such quiet, deliberate discussion of the death dealing decisions must drive the victims’ families absolutely mad. Definitely need a Nuremberg Trial for the perpetrators.

This guy was a scientific advisor, not a politician. He’s one of the few decent people in this trial.

It is quite difficult to warch this. As a kiwi I can only agree with what you have said.

All done in the past but ignored by those who follow unfortunately. The new issues need to update the advice but dropping things in preparation of the next one is very common to save money. I studied this long before covid and the science community was already warning various governments they had dropped the ball to save money and would eventually suffer for it.

Ok first step. Modern studies on airborne virus spread.... 28ft minimum safe distance. Not 6ft plucked out of a 1930's study on mucous ejections and modernised with "the warm air will lift the virus away" ..... Indoors? How does it lift it away indoors? Transport: travelling at 15mph a jogger or cyclist leaves a 70ft trail of viral cloud directly behind them. Boris' advice.... Open all car windows while driving. He spread it

The point is that Johnson can't work out the surface area of a banana as that involves maths and critical thinking. Try to keep up!

He's no sort of intellect

sir pat walked away with a cushty job at GSK & a sh*t load of pHARMa shares, he’s set for life, what’s not to like ??!??!?

He couldn't understand the pictures, which is what graphs are!

One school within one university. It also seems that they were more interested in the debating society of same university.

Vantam pretended to give Johnson his jab on morning TV.