Tuesday 28 April 2020

Cygnus Signals

In October 2016, NHS England carried out an enormous simulation exercise called Exercise Cygnus, to estimate the impact of a coronavirus pandemic. It found that that impact would be the collapse of the NHS due to a lack of resources. The full results remain classified, on the grounds that they are "too terrifying" to be made public.

Today, Piers Morgan exposed that Victoria Atkins, who is now the Minister for Safeguarding and who was in October 2016 a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee, had never heard of Exercise Cygnus. (By the way, Atkins is married to Paul Kenward, who is the Managing Director of British Sugar. She herself is a a Type 1 diabetic. Well, it made me laugh, anyway.)

Clearly, Atkins belongs to the Matt Hancock school of well-briefed competence. Hancock has just criticised Panorama, but you could no doubt make a programme in which Army, Navy and Air Force Officers, or at least recently retired ones, spilled the beans about a similar lack of protective kit and about that lack's potentially or actually fatal consequences. They would almost certainly be Tories. But so what? They would be telling the truth.

There were no gowns, visors, swabs or body bags in the Government's pandemic stockpile when Covid-19 hit the United Kingdom. Is that the case, or is it not? Piers Morgan would ask. Andrew Neil would ask. Keir Starmer, on the other hand, would not ask. He would identify and sack the whistleblowers rather the wrongdoers.

That has been his approach to the report that exposed what everyone had always known, that the Labour Party was staffed by out-of-control racists who were heavily influenced by the anti-black fanaticism, alien to these shores, of liberal Jewish New York. See also the Equality and Human Rights Commission. And prepare to treat its findings accordingly.

In the meantime, rejoice in the travails of HSBC even before the boycott and divestment campaign against a company whose Head of Media and Communications UK was London Regional Director of the Labour Party when he called Diane Abbott an Angry Black Woman. If he were still there once street demonstrations became possible again, then there would be such outside the Birmingham headquarters of HSBC, led and addressed by Angry Black Women.

In any case, Starmer hates the NHS. He is Pharma Starmer. Not only that, but he refuses to be in any way accountable for that sorry fact. He simply refuses to discuss Ben Nunn, who has passed seamlessly from having been Starmer's Political Adviser to being the Labour Party's Director of Communications.

Nunn was previously, and indeed very recently, the Associate Director of Incisive Health. That is a major driver of NHS privatisation, and it was founded by a Special Adviser to Andrew Lansley. So there we are. Pharma Starmer. The principal enemy of the NHS in Britain today. Even so, let nothing you dismay. The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.

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