PN>>18451000 (You), >>18451005 (You), >>18451025 (You), >>18451060 (You) The PM on Hancock: 'totally fucking hopeless' The PM on Hancock: 'totally fucking hopeless'

>>18451060

Anons it valuable to read this entire thread, plus his other articles, he ends this with questions to ask

5/5entire article important read

‘On PPE it’s a disaster. I can’t think of anything except taking Hancock off… At this point, months after it had started, there was still no analytical function in the Cabinet Office to figure out covid policy. One day around then, having been told repeatedly there was a ‘new unit’ in the Cabinet Office but having failed to see any trace of improvement, I walked around 70 Whitehall in search of this team. It turned out to be a Potemkin team. There was a room. There were a couple of people in it. But the analytical team was not there. Where are they? ‘In CLG.’There is no analytical capability [in the Cabinet Office]. My unit does not actualy exist.’ (I will write separately about this crucial issue.)

Did things improve? No.

On 15 April No10 was told that a lot of testing capacity was being wasted (not used) because DHSC had left in place rules that were limiting those eligible for tests, despite care homes screaming. In response I said that the rules should be changed ‘immediately’ and this be communicated immediately to Hancock, which it was by a No10 official minutes later. The care homes nightmare continued. It was clear that Hancock’s claims on this, as on other things, were false.

On 3 May, the PM’s private office told DHSC that we needed an urgent meeting the next day to discuss testing and care homes. I wrote to the PM: ‘I think we are negligently killing the most vulnerablewho we are supposed to be shielding and I am extremely worried about it’ and we must force DHSC to put all the details on the table. The PM agreed and we dug into DHSC plans and Hancock’s claims.

On 4 May the PPE situation was so bad that it was agreed in No10 that we could not possibly claim to have passed the ‘PPE test’ for reopening. On 7 May afterwe’d dug into the care home situation, I concluded to the PM that Hancock’s failures and dishonesty made him unfit for his job, that there was still no serious testing in care homes and this was killing people.

The PM agreed but still he would not act

Hancock: ‘everybody got the treatment they needed’. Hancock repeated to MPs his claim from summer 2020 that ‘everybody got the treatment they needed.’

This is false, he knows it’s false, the PM knows it’s false, families of the dead know it’s false, the CSA and CMO know it’s false.

Vallance and Whitty briefed me, the PM, Hancock and assorted officials around the Cabinet table on NHS data last summer. They said explicitly: the data shows that death rates spiked sharply upwards around the April peak, roughly doubling, because patients did not get the treatment they needed because the NHS was under so much pressure. MPs should demand this data and a briefing from PV/CW to explain it.

This was discussed a few times with the PM because a) it was relevant to the error made in the original planning — i.e the original graphs did not take into account that deaths would be higher than the simplistic calculations predicted because once the NHS was overwhelmed a lot more people would die than if they could get ICU treatment, and b) this was relevant to the threat of a second 2020 wave: if the NHS got close to capacity again then we should assume that, like the first wave, ICU care would be rationed. This obviously did happen again December-January because of the PM’s failure to act soon enough.

__There is so much more that could be said..

A few simple questions to ask the PM

•Given his failures on testing, care homes and PPE why did you keep in post a Secretary of State you described yourself as ‘totally fucking hopeless’ and how many more people died as a result of your failure to remove him?

• Why is No10 lying, including to Parliament, about the fact that the original plan was ‘herd immunity by September’ and had to be abandoned?

• When did Patrick Vallance brief you on NHS data showing that the death rate at the first April peak was much higher than before/after the peak and do you now agree with Hancock that every patient got the treatment they needed?

• Do you now agree with Hancock that there was no shortage of PPE or do you agree with yourself in April 2020 that PPE supply was ‘a disaster’ that required moving Hancock?

• How many people died in care homes because of what you called the ‘disaster’ on PPE and what you called Hancock’s ‘totally fucking hopeless’ performance on testing in March?

• When will the SoS come to the House

https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/the-pm-on-hancock-totally-fucking

PN>>18450681 J6 Videos website is back up

Anons how do we save youtube offline? Is there a converter that can be used? Which one?

>>18451172

Thx anons you are the best!

5 Mar, 2023 18:31

Jill Biden comments on mental competency test for elderly politicians

The US first lady believes it’s “ridiculous”

US First Lady Jill Biden has dismissed concerns about her husband’s mental acuity after Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley called for mandatory mental capacity tests for political candidates above the age of 75.

“Ridiculous,” she said to CNN in an interview set to be aired on Monday. She cited Joe Biden’s rigorous travel schedule as evidence of his effervescence, mentioning his recent surprise visit to Kiev.

“How many 30-year-olds could travel to Poland, get on the train?” she asked rhetorically. “Go nine more hours, go to Ukraine, meet with President Zelensky? So, look at the man,” she added of her husband, who is 80 years old. “Look what he’s doing. Look what he continues to do each and every day.” (I don’t know maybe 500,000,000 30 years old could outdo him and do even more. What a stupid question, he’s chock full of drugs and takes a nap 10x a day.)

Asked if she believed her husband would ever take such a mental capacity test, Jill Biden responded, “We would never even discuss something like that.”

The first lady’s comments come after Haley, 51, said earlier this month that the US needed to “move past the stale ideas and faded names of the past” ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Her stance was seen not just as a salvo against the Biden administration, but also Donald Trump, who would be 78 at the time of the next election.

Should the race once again be between Biden and Trump, the winner would be the oldest candidate ever to be elected to the White House.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who is 81, also pushed back against Haley’s suggestion, telling CBS News last month that such suggestions are “ageist.”

“We are fighting racism. We’re fighting sexism. We’re fighting homophobia. I think we should also be fighting ageism,” Sanders said. “Trust me, look at people and say, ‘You know, this person is competent. This person’s incompetent.’ There are a lot of 40-year-olds out there who ain’t particularly competent.”

Biden has yet to confirm if he intends to seek re-election in 2024. If he were to win a second term in Washington,he would be 82 years old on inauguration day.

https://www.rt.com/news/572503-us-biden-mental-test/

Her arguments sounds like she has dementia

5 Mar, 2023 15:12

Biden ‘pressed’ Baltic leaders over Russia – WSJ

There are doubts that Washington believes Ukraine can achieve victory, a source told the outlet

US President Joe Biden “pressed” the leaders of the Baltic nations over their calls for Russia to be defeated in Ukraine, an informed source told the Wall Street Journal.

Biden raised the issue with the presidents of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia during his visit to Poland's capital Warsaw in late February, the outlet reported on Friday, citing a person briefed on the conversations.

The source did not reveal exactly what the US president said, but noted thatBiden's words left “doubts among officialsas to whether Washington believed that [Ukraine’s victory on the battlefield] was a realistic goal.”

In its article, the WSJ pointed to “concerns”among Kiev’s allies in Eastern Europe about “the thinking emerging in Western capitals that Ukraine should prepare at some stage for negotiations with the Kremlin.”

During his trip to Poland, Biden together with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attended a summit of the so-called Bucharest Nine (B-9) countries, which comprise Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia as well as Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

The three Baltic nations, which are all former Soviet republics and now EU and NATO members, have been among the harshest critics of Russia since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, insisting on more weapons deliveries to Kiev and harsher sanctions against Moscow.

Last month, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda called on Ukraine’s Western backers to cross all “red lines” on arms supplies to the government of Vladimir Zelensky, as they were “in our minds and don’t really exist in reality.”He said his “message” to the US and its allies was: “Not [to] waste the time. Be decisive, be united and take decisions as quickly as possible.”

In late January, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov saidMoscow had “noticed the increasingly aggressive attitudeof the representatives of the Baltic nations and Poland” towards the conflict in Ukraine.

“They are obviously ready to do everything to provoke further growth in confrontation, perhaps with little thought of the consequences,” Peskov claimed, while expressing regret that major European countries have been failing to perform their “balancing role” and calm down those with “extremist tendencies.” (Kek!)

https://www.rt.com/news/572498-biden-baltics-us-ukraine/

>>18451449

Most Americans are left with a lot of doubts when he speaks too, if you can call it speaking.

>>18451456

Kek, true that

So the posting baker is back

5 Mar, 2023 16:07

NATO and EU states already parties to Ukraine conflict – top Hungarian MP

Military aid provided by members of both blocs makes them participants in the hostilities, the parliamentary speaker said

Massive deliveries of military aid to Ukraine have made multiple NATO andEU nations partiesto the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, according to Laszlo Kover, the speaker of Hungary’s National Assembly.

Speaking to Hir TV late on Friday, Kover said certain members of the two blocsare already participants in the conflict, despite not “yet”actually engaging in the fighting themselves. He did not identify the countries to which he was referring.

“Members of NATO and the EU have already sent almost $60 billionworth of lethal military equipment to Ukraine, one of the warring parties. This means that individual countries – members of the European Union and NATO – are participants of this war, although not yet fighting,” he said.

The speaker also shared his opinion on the potential accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO.

While the move has already been approved by the vast majority of member states in the US-led military alliance, it has been opposed by Hungary and Türkiye. Budapest is expected to dispatch a delegation to the two Nordic nations shortly in an effort to resolve differences regarding the accession bids, Kover noted.

Both Finland and Sweden have caused “damage” to Hungary, repeatedly making hostile moves against Budapest within the EU, he continued.

“They cause specific, measurable damage to Hungary’s national interests.These people are putting pressure on the European institutionsso that they do not allocate the EU funds due to Hungary. This is about specific damage, not just that our souls are sensitive,” Kover explained.

He also claimed that their potential accession to NATO would not increase the “sense of security” within the bloc, but rather yield the opposite result, greatly extending the alliance’s border with Russia.

Earlier this week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called for the creation of a “European NATO,” arguing that America’s desire to further expand its its influence has led to the current tensions between the West and Russia. The EU needs to create a military bloc of its own to become free of American influence and stop doing Washington’s bidding, Orban suggested.

Hungary has repeatedly called for peace since the outbreak of conflict between Moscow and Kiev, criticizing both the Western sanctions imposed on Russia and the continuous flow of arms to Ukraine. Budapest has also been the only NATO nation to voice support for China’s recently unveiled peace plan for Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/news/572497-nato-eu-ukraine-conflict/

EU is destroying itself

5 Mar, 2023 12:15

US assesses training Ukrainians to fly F-16s – NBC

Two pilots have arrived at a military base in Arizona, officials have told the broadcaster

The US has invited Ukrainian pilots to a military base in Tucson, Arizona to establish how long it will take to train them to fly Western fighter jets, including F-16s, unnamed officials told NBC.

Two airmen from Ukraine have arrived on American soil so far, with more likely to follow, the broadcaster reported on Saturday. According to its sources, the US authorities plan to bring as many as ten Ukrainian aviators to the country this month.

The pilots have beenworking on simulatorsand there are no plans for them to fly actual aircraft, the officials noted. (Why can’t they do this from Ukraine?)

The program has two goals: improving the Ukrainians’ skills and assessing how long it will take to train them to effectively operate F-16s and other Western-made warplanes, they added. (It will take forever, but they will fuck up our jets before the leave, guaranteed, they ruin everything they touch.)

“The program is about assessing their abilities as pilots so we can better advise them on how to use capabilities they have and we have given them,” a Biden administration official explained.

It’s the first time that Ukrainian pilots, who have been trained to fly Soviet-designed aircraft that differ significantly from their Western counterparts, have taken part in such a program in the US, NBC pointed out.

The officials who talked to the broadcaster stressed that the development did not mean there had been any change in Washington’s stance on the delivery of F-16s to Kiev amid its conflict with Moscow.

“I’m ruling it out for now,” US President Joe Biden said last week when asked about the possibility of arming Ukraine with American fighter jets. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky “doesn’t need F-16s now. There is no basis upon which there is a rationale, according to our military, now, to provide F-16s,” Biden told ABC.

Kiev has intensified calls for NATO to supply it with fighter jets – particularly F-16 aircraft – in recent months after securing a pledge from EU countries, the US and UK to provide dozens of Leopard 2, M1 Abrams and Challenger 2 main battle tanks, respectively.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said discussions about the delivery of fighter jets to Kiev once again underline the growing involvement of Western countries in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He reiterated Moscow’s stance that such actions only serve to escalate and prolong the fighting, and would lead to more bloodshed while failing to change the ultimate outcome of Russia’s military operation.

(Does anyone know pilots in AZ and their thoughts on training terrorists on our most elite and expensive jets? This is disgusting!)

https://www.rt.com/russia/572493-us-ukraine-pilots-jets/

5 Mar, 2023 08:47

UK child food poverty soars – survey

One in five households reported skipping meals or not eating for a whole day in January, according to the Food Foundation

The number of children afflicted by food poverty in the UKnearly doubled in January from a year ago, The Guardian has reported, citing a survey by the think tank Food Foundation.

According to the findings, 22% of households polled reported either skipping mealsor not eating for a whole day last month. In January 2022, the figure stood at only 12%. The overall number of British children suffering from a lack of food has now reached almost 4 million, data showed.

The alarming trend comes as the country suffers from record-high food inflation, spurred by soaring energy costs. The indicator now stands at 17.1%, according to the latest figures released by market researcher Kantar earlier this week, with milk, eggs, and margarine showing the fastest price growth. The cost-of-living crisis is further exacerbated by thegovernment’s recent decision to cut back support for household energy bills.

The public is now urging the British authorities to expand free school meals across the country. A separate survey by the Food Foundation found that 80% of respondents were in favor of making all British children eligible for free meals in school. Currently, only households with an annual income under £7,400 qualify for free meals, leaving some 800,000 children living in poverty but ineligible for the benefit, according to Child Poverty Action Group.

“By extending free school meals to more children in England in the next budget, the government could deliver a policy change that is popular with voters, targeted and timely, and truly delivers on levelling up,” Anna Taylor, the CEO of Food Foundation, said, commenting on the findings.

According to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, free school meals could save families about £440 per child annually. Earlier this month, he announced that London schools would offer free meals to all primary school pupils for a year starting in September.

https://www.rt.com/business/572331-uk-child-food-poverty-soars/

5 Mar, 2023 12:16

Ex-minister wanted to ‘frighten’ Brits into Covid compliance – leaked messages

Texts reveal that Matt Hancock wanted his announcement of a new Covid variant to have 'maximum impact'

Former UK health secretary Matt Hancock wanted to “frighten the pants off everyone” to ensure compliance with the government’s Covid-19 restrictions, a trove of leaked text messages has revealed.

More than 100,000 text messages were leaked to the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Among them is a purported exchange between Hancock and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case in which Case suggested in January 2021 that “fear” would be a “vital” factor in ensuring UK citizens’ compliance with Covid restrictions.

They also appear to show that Hancock discussed when to reveal information to the public about the discovery of a new strain of the virus in the hope of maximizing the impact of lockdown rules.

“Rather than doing too much forward signalling, we can roll pitch with the new strain,” a purported message from Case reads. Hancock reportedly responded: “We frighten the pants of (sic) everyone with the new strain.”

“When do we deploy the new variant,”Hancock apparently asks in a subsequent message.

The alleged text message conversation, which took place on December 13, 2020, came at a time when concerns were rising about a sharp increase in Covid cases in southeast England. Hancock revealed a day later, on December 14, that a new variant of Covid-19 had been identified in the country.

Five days later London and southeast England entered a so-called tier 4 alert status which imposed increased Covid restrictions over the Christmas period, as Boris Johnson’s Conservative government axed plans to relax rules. On January 6 2021, England entered what was a third national lockdown.

The reported messages also revealed that Hancock and other government figures were concerned thatLondon mayor, Sadiq Khan, may resist plansto impose a strict lockdown on the English capital. The mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, had previously clashed with the government over its plans to introduce strict lockdown rules in the area.

Hancock has responded to the leaks saying thatthere is “absolutely no public interest case” for the “huge breach” of text messages, which he described as a “massive betrayal”. (Oh man this asshole is so wrong, the public interest is multiplying by the minute)

“As we have seen, releasing them in this way gives a partial biased account to suit an anti-lockdown agenda,” Hancock said on Thursday.

The messages were given to the Sunday Telegraph by journalist Isabel Oakeshott, a prominent critic of lockdowns who had been collaborating with Hancock on his memoir. Oakeshott has maintained that the leaks of the text messages are in the public interest.

https://www.rt.com/news/572494-uk-hancock-text-messages-covid/

(Just wait until the public finds out he was responsible for the majority of deaths in the country, because he was such a liar!)

Matt Hancock resigns as health secretary after day of humiliation

Toby Helm, Michael Savage and Peter Walker

Sat 26 Jun 2021 15.10 EDT

Matt Hancock has resigned as health secretary after Tory MPs, ministers and grassroots Conservatives defied Boris Johnson and demanded he be dismissed from the government.

It is understood that Hancock had been considering resigning since Friday after his apology for kissing his closest aide, Gina Coladangelo, in his ministerial office – in breach of his own Covid-19 rules – failed to quell public outrage.

Theresignation is a massive blow to the authority of the prime minister, who had stood by the 42-year-old following his apology, declaring the matter to be “closed”.

In his resignation letter Hancock said: “We have worked so hard as a country to fight the pandemic. The last thing I would want is for my private life to distract attention from the single-minded focus that is leading us out of this crisis. I want to reiterate my apology for breaking the guidance, and apologise to my family and loved ones for putting them through this. I also need [to] be with my children at this time.”

Johnson said in his reply that he was sorry to lose Hancock and that he “should leave office very proud of what you have achieved – not just in tackling the pandemic, but even before Covid-19 struck us”.But Johnson appeared to offer a way back to government. “I am grateful for your support and believe that your contribution to public service is far from over.”

Labour leader Keir Starmer said Hancock was “right to resign. But Boris Johnson should have sacked him”.

It was becoming increasingly clear from early yesterday that Hancock’s position was untenable and that Johnson’s defence of him was creating an angry public mood. There were also reportsthat Hancock had told his wife of 15 years on Thursday night that he was leaving her. Before the story of his affair was reported in the Sun, Martha Hancock is said to have been unaware of it.

It is understood that Coladangelo is also leaving her role as a non-executive director of the health department, following a series of questions about how she secured the role and her influence within Hancock’s office.

Yesterday it emerged Hancock had this month traveled to Oxford with Coladangelo for a G7 meeting of health ministers. Sources confirmed that the Department of Health and Social Care – and therefore the taxpayer – paid the costs.

Hancock faced a fresh investigation last night after it wasclaimed that he used a personal email account to conduct vital Department of Health business, including negotiating ­multimillion-pound Covid contracts. Senior health officials had previously warned about Hancock’s conduct, saying that he “only” deals with his private office “via Gmail account”.

The health secretary was given an official email account, but it was reported that he preferred to use his personal one. The practice, in contravention of official guidelines, means officialsmay not have a complete record of government dealings prior to and during the pandemic.

Hancock’s private email usage meansofficials will struggle to obtain evidence of his conduct in officebefore an independent inquiry into the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Meanwhile Tory MPs said they had spent the past 24 hours being bombarded with furious complaints from constituents.

The Observer has been told that Hancock took part by Zoom in the annual meeting of his West Suffolk Conservative Association on Friday evening, talking about the vaccination programme and local issues but refusing to take any questions about his rule-breaking or relationship with Coladangelo, whom he has known since university days at Oxford.

The front page headline in his local newspaper, the Eastern Daily Press, yesterday said: “A Complete and Utter Hypocrite”.

North Norfolk MP Duncan Baker told the paper: “In my view, people in high public office and great positions of responsibility should act with the appropriate morals and ethics that come with that role. Matt Hancock, on a number of measures has fallen short of that.” Asked whether Hancock should therefore resign, Baker responded: “Yes”, before adding “and I have said that to the government”.

Hancock had been due within days to put before parliament a bill on the future of theNHS that would concentrate more powers in his own handsand also to make announcements about Covid data and easing of restrictions.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/26/matt-hancock-resigns-after-questions-over-relationship-with-aide

>>18451730

This guy should be hung for all the people he killed. The MPs are cowards like Boris Johnson was, they all knew he lied constantly and totally mismanaged Covid

>>18451704

More money, what is it for to take their children to Bidan? If he’s a clone he’s the same disgusting creature

No more money for foreign countries

>>18451678

So whats the deal, why are children going hungry? I bet migrants are going hungry

>>18451608

Why isnt this asshole banned from twitter

>>18451787

Yes, the poor UK is overrun with illegals and gov doesnt seem to care

>>18451755

I don’t care for MTG she’s harsh and arrogant at this point

>>18451820

Why did they ask him on? And so the ghost author did the same thing with Brexit and revealed confidential info. She must sleep with all of them, you’d think no one would hire her again. But I’m glad she did it

>>18451847

Yes youre right, they care for illegals, not citizens