The Covid inquiry is a abysmal, wasteful spectacle that appears to be interested only in vilifying Tory politicians
£200m fiasco
IS the Covid inquiry still worth its monstrous cost?
It appears to be interested only in vilifying Tory politicians and exonerating scientists and health officials even when their preparation and advice was woeful.
We are now invited to be outraged that Sir Patrick Vallance was told, third-hand, that Rishi Sunak wanted to “let people die”.
In fact the PM was rightly warning about the horrific cost of lockdowns, a view vindicated by our lethal NHS waiting lists and ruinous debts.
Similarly, his “Eat Out To Help Out” scheme, which shored up broke restaurants, is being blamed for a surge in cases in 2020. Except Europe had a second wave almost identical.
This gravy train for grandstanding lawyers is likely to cost at least £200million.
And its only justification has been lost. That is to find out if we are prepared for another pandemic — and whether lockdowns were ever provably worthwhile.
The inquiry seems to have little interest in the former. The latter, it has already decided, is beyond doubt.
It only questions whether shutdowns should have been earlier and longer.
What an abysmal, wasteful spectacle.
UNbelievable
IRAN is a terror state run by Islamist fanatics who foment war around the world.
These evil men are detested by their people, whom they savagely oppress and execute for dissent. Human rights there barely exist, especially for women.
Who could be more perfect than Iran, then, to chair the United Nations’ Human Rights Forum?
We wish it was just our joke. But it is true. And the joke is on British taxpayers.
We foot a £100million-a-year bill so the UN’s deranged lefties can pontificate from their ivory tower in Manhattan.
What do we get in return? Ian Fry, a bow-tied clown known as a “UN Special Rapporteur”, berates us for banging up two of his Just Stop Oil soul-mates for longer than he would like.
Those idiots should count their blessings they only shut down the M25.
If they’d tried it in Tehran they would now be minus a head.
As for Mr Fry, he seems fed up his whingeing letter to the Government received no formal reply. A fair point.
It only needed two words, after all.
Police farce
THE police shambles over Nicola Bulley was a direct result of the toxic “Leveson Inquiry” into the Press.
That all but outlawed private briefings to crime reporters, once crucial in major cases.
The resulting information vacuum was filled by malevolent online trolls and self-appointed sleuths.
Among other failings, police then published Nicola’s medical details which proved irrelevant.
Can today’s cops learn from this?
The media is not their enemy.