As Vaccine Demand Collapses, U.K. Faces £4 Billion of Waste With 80% of its 650 Million Dose Stockpile Unused

The U.K. has used just 142 million of the stockpile of 650 million vaccine doses it purchased, leaving an estimated £4 billion worth of vaccines unused and, at current levels of take-up, likely going to waste. The vaccines typically have an expiration date of six to 12 months after manufacture – though it’s not clear how many of the 650 million doses have already been manufactured and put in storage and how many are on order for future manufacture and delivery.

Officials have not revealed exactly how much was paid for the Pfizer vaccines, which comprise nearly a third of the total ordered, but the U.S. Government is reputed to have paid around $20 (£16) a dose.

The Moderna vaccine is said to have cost a bit less, perhaps about $15 (£12) per dose, and the Astra Zeneca considerably less, perhaps as low as $4 (£3) per dose as it was sold at cost. There are no data on the other five types ordered, all of which are as yet completely unused.

If an average price of $10 (£8) per dose is assumed, the total bill for all the unused vaccine doses will amount to around $5 billion or £4 billion. Will the public be forgiving of this massive waste of public funds on account of it occurring with good intentions during a state of emergency? That remains to be seen.

It is however far from the only example of pandemic profligacy. The losses due to fraud and delinquent business loans are colossal, with City AM reporting that the Treasury’s £4.3bn fraud write-off is likely to be eclipsed by £20bn of Covid loan defaults. The Government has also written off £8.7bn it spent on protective equipment bought during the pandemic, with £673m of equipment unusable, £750m not used before its expiry date, £2.6bn of equipment judged to be unsuitable for use in the NHS, and £4.7bn being due to the Government paying more for it during the acute global shortage than it is now worth. The Government also spent £569m buying 20,900 ventilators, of which only 2,150 (10%) were used, the rest being left idle in a Ministry of Defence warehouse.

This gross misuse of taxpayers’ money must be examined in the independent inquiry and by Government so the lessons can be learned and in future a robust management system applied in real time so that even stocks purchased in haste and with urgency are kept in reasonable proportion to anticipated demand.

The over-reaction and panic in spring 2020 resulted in decisions that have now turned out to be a huge waste of public money. If there was perceived to be a shortage of anything that might conceivably be needed to fulfil the needs of the public emergency, the public purse was always open.

Actually, the purse appeared to be treated more like Mary Poppins’ bottomless magic carpet bag, with no sign of any prudent oversight applied to funding decisions as long as they served the purpose of proving to the public that the Government was ‘doing something’ about Covid. The results of that fiscal incontinence are now clear for all to see.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

£4bn a mere drop in the ocean

Total wasted on this fraud was £450bn

MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

£4bn would just about cover Boris’ party bill.

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Or “Child Support” for a year or two?

twinkytwonk
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Or the money distributed to Matt handcocks neighbours

Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Almost.

Username1
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Only around one third of taxpayers spent more on tax than they got in the form of government services pre-covid. So 10 million people have to pay 45,000 back. Businesses pay tax of course, but that’s priced into the cost of the goods and services you buy. The end result is rampant inflation which has already started due to devaluation of the £.

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

The only plus to take from this that the vaccine demand they thought would be there has collapsed.

If that demand isn’t there they will need something else to hang the digital ID on.

Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Billy Gates is already working hard on Pandemic 2, so worry not.

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

We should all be working very hard on the incarceration of Billy Gates, be that through official channels, kidnap or whatever other means are necessary to stop the nutcase continuing his larceny any longer.

ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Total wasted on this fraud was £450bn

That’ll be £6.5k for each member of the UK Population, or about £10k per tax payer 😮

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Another ‘hit’! Inflation should take care of the rest of people’s meagre savings- those who still bother!

rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

‘Savings’ are only worth holding if the rate of return matches or outstrips inflation.

Invest in other asset classes if cash is a bad investment.

LMS2
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

How many hospitals and staff could that money have bought?

RedhotScot
3 years ago

Dear God.

NonCompliant
3 years ago

I know of one or two places i’d like to stick them. 😉

MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago

The Tory party will be flush for years as all those donations from grateful beneficiaries roll in.

Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

The House of Lords will doubtless have a further addition of ermine vermin.

Username1
3 years ago

Could have provided a personal nurse/carer each for every older person or person at risk for 2 years at a 100th (or 1000th?) of the cost of lockdowns, dodgy loans, free money for the middle classes who were furloughed, eviceration of SME business, lost education, homes, jobs. But no. And there will never be an apology, never mind “Nuremberg Trial”.

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  Username1

They could have flown a couple of Boeing 747’s over the UK and dispensed a whole load of brand new twenty pound notes up and down the country to the good locked down citizens of the UK and still have had money left over to, I don’t know, ‘save the NHS’?

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Too busy running the mysterious ( poisonous?) “Chem Trails” apparently!

Exactly what is going on in the sky and why don’t we know about it?

If you haven’t seen them yet your time will come! They are like nothing we have ever seen in the sky before.

loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago

A billion here a billion there pretty soon you’re talking real money.

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

There is no “real” money left and unlike the Russians, Brown sold off all the gold in his UK “Bargain Basement” !

TheEngineer
TheEngineer
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

…and sold it off in a manner that would guarantee the lowest price. That drop in the gold price is still known as Brown’s Bottom (ugh!). Stinks of corruption.

NeilofWatford
3 years ago

Which the British taxpayer will pay for.
Along with broken businesses, lost education, bloated/lazy WFH civil servants and massive public debt.

Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

As football fans might chant

‘Your not clapping anymore’

Abergele man died after scan results left on desk for six days – BBC News

Where exactly was Consultant Alonso when he was ‘Off site’

Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B
Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B
Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

They seek him here they seek him there

Dr Garcia Alonso: Clinical oncology (bupa.co.uk)

Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Terribly unfair. After all, a chap’s got to having a few profitable hobbies, or sidelines.

RedhotScot
3 years ago

It appears he’s self employed. Many ‘NHS’ Doctors are, as are most Consultants, hence the term ‘Consultant’. The problem is, who ‘left it on his desk’? And what hospital process allowed that most basic of errors to occur. In years gone by the patients details would have been kept in a paper file, stored in a filing cabinet somewhere. A Computer system is little more than an electronic filing cabinet. Why wasn’t the scan result immediately processed into the patients electronic file regardless of whether the consultant had seen it or not. When I had my hip replaced recently, I would go for a clinic meeting with the surgeon and he’d occasionally send me for an X-Ray, to return to his office when it was completed. By the time I got back to his office, the X-Ray was up on his screen for us to examine. How many years has the NHS been running, and we still have life limiting, procedural cock up’s that just shouldn’t be happening. If you follow the link to the “prevention of future deaths report.” you will see innumerable instances of cock up’s like this, and they just keep happening. I also suspect no one… Read more »

jingleballix
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

With respect to this gentleman, and his family, I don’t think 6 days made any difference whatsoever……

……besides, as a heavy long-term smoker, he has to shoulder responsibility for not living as long as he might have.

Nevertheless, shocking NHS inefficiency.

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

I didn’t see where it said he was a “heavy long-term smoker.” In fact, I can’t find any reference to smoking.

Mr Gittins said the evidence indicated that, had treatment for the clot began sooner, there would have been a better prospect of it being successful.

On the balance of probabilities, he added it was likely that Mr Reynolds would not have died on 15 May 2021 had his scan had been acted upon when reported.

Judging by that quote he wouldn’t have died from the blood clot. Cancer of the oesophagus, perhaps, but not the blood clot.

eastender53
3 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

Do you drink alcohol, eat meat, engage in ‘extreme’ or indeed any contact sport? Do you take foreign holidays where you might pick up an infection new to your immune system? Do you drive a car, or, heaven forbid, a motor bike? If the answer to any of these questions is yes then you have knowingly exposed yourself to an increased risk, and by your logic caused your own medical problems.

Smelly Melly
3 years ago

So by not being vaxxed I saved the country money. Another reason to be smug and feel superior.

MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Nope.
Pfizer et al get paid whether you get clot shot or not.
Pharma always gets paid.

JohnK
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

And immune to liability as well; you can’t get a better deal than that.

Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Nope, you have sixty quids worth of unused death gunk sitting in a warehouse near you

Get down there and claim it

Free Lemming
3 years ago

It is meaningless compared to the value of what these things have bought. Knowledge. They now know how compliant and easily manipulated the masses are; they suspected before, but now they know. If the world survives war then I am in no doubt what the end result of that will be, and the foundations and knowledge for societal and economic reform will have been laid by the Covid con.

crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Yes. Every country now has a compliance percentage and register, together with the DNA of the most gullible. What could possibly go wrong!

MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago

The Tories knew that the declaration of an emergency would allow them to side step the normal contractual scrutiny and indemnify themselves for raping the living daylights out of the taxpayer as they served up massive and unnecessary covid contracts to their chums.

They will do it again just as soon as they can.

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Because there is no opposition to stop them

LMS2
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Labour would have been no different. Look at the left-wing governments elsewhere. Lockdown would have been harsher, and lasted longer, eg, California.

Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

I think Milo is making this exact point: Labour is not an opposition.

We are the only opposition!

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

They are doing it again. Food crisis. Remember?

huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

We are way beyond politics.

A passerby
A passerby
3 years ago

Is it flammable by any chance?

crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  A passerby

It’s certainly incendiary.

Ross Hendry
3 years ago

Oh God. What a complete farce we’ve had for the last 2+ years.

Have we all gone mad?

crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

I haven’t. Doesn’t sound like you have.

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

They are still working on that!

LMS2
3 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

Not us.
can’t say the same for Matt Hancock and chums.

jingleballix
3 years ago

Well, they can always give them to those that want them every November.

Isaac Phiri
Isaac Phiri
3 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

Its for the children…..

crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

Can we burn effigies of them on the 5th?

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

no reason why you can’t attach something that looks like a jab vial to your guy fawkes effigy! after all, one wanted to destroy the houses of parliament and the other effectively has.

Julian
3 years ago

All of the money spent on vaccines was wasted, not just the unused portion.

miketa1957
miketa1957
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Wasted implies neither benefit nor non-beneift.

Sforzesca
Sforzesca
3 years ago

Well, that’s a lot more than 5 million remaining “unvaccinated” then, is it not Vallance?
Beyond evil the lot of them.

May you and those behind this rot in Hell.
I say this because I believe our Judicial System has been nobbled, so there’s zero chance of you lot swinging on this earth.

BeBopRockSteady
3 years ago

Exactly what happened following the swine flu scare across Europe.

I think we have to refer to this as a business model now rather than a fraud.

realarthurdent
3 years ago

650 million leftover doses, 650 MPs in the House of Commons.

Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

After all, the vaccine is safe and effective. Right?

Ross Hendry
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

A million each. Sounds very fair!

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

and the numbers are perfect!

what are the chances of that?

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Man, I needed that laugh realarthur!!

Dorian_Hawkmoon
3 years ago

Such fun. Let’s do it all again, chucking our kit and money into the black hole that is the corrupt and dysfunctional EU satrapy out East.

Isaac Phiri
Isaac Phiri
3 years ago

oh well…
lets jack up NI to pay for the stuff that could have been covered by this…

psychedelia smith
3 years ago

A direct and terrifyingly easy transfer of wealth from us to the Gates/Fauci/WEF cartel and the Chinese – who are quite possibly part of the same cartel.

Anyone ever read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged? It was written in the 1950’s but it’s absolutely prophetic. These people are the Looters.

RedhotScot
3 years ago

Do you really imagine Xi would take orders from Schwab?

Superunknown
Superunknown
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

He wouldn’t, but it doesn’t stop the envious governments of the world wanting to emulate China’s success, all the benefits of capitalism and complete control over the populace, what’s not to like?

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Superunknown

Putin and Modi as well? I don’t think so.

There are about 30 countries including India and China who support Russia in the current conflict.

The Great Reset is a figment of Schwab’s fevered imagination. He’s a con man who has suckered Gates and all the rest of them.

Bernie Madoff did the same with his Ponzi scheme to millions of people.

Superunknown
Superunknown
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

I agree, Schwab’s blueprint is based on the Chinese system, that’s why the western governments have a hard on for it, they can’t just “switch” to communism after knocking it for so long, and especially not while they are “at war” with the very country who made it popular in the first place.
Xi, Putin and Modi don’t have to agree or like it, this isn’t communism, it’s a very western great reset.

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Superunknown

Not much of a great reset when countries can simply say, err no thanks, I’l go over to the Russian/Indian/Chinese side where there’s at least a bit of choice. India is only the largest democracy in the world.

Superunknown
Superunknown
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

How many people who fell for covid and are falling for the likes of Macron, Trudeau, & Ardern who are fully subscribed members of the WEF are going to leave and go to Russia, India or China?
They can’t see what is happening or why, they will just accept it as the “new normal” no questions asked.
This clearly isn’t an issue for the likes of China, they already have this system in place, it will only become an issue for them, and the other countries who don’t sign up, when the great reset nations turn in unison upon them.
As far as Indian democracy goes, don’t they still have the caste system?

BeBopRockSteady
3 years ago

John Galt stalks the land

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

We are living in quite a ‘special’ time.We are experiencing the worst Government in our history in every respect .It may well destroy 1,000 years of British history and take down our country, completely mesmerised as it is like a bunch of ‘Groupies’,by the deranged Psychopaths who have now clearly taken over all our Global Institutions.

Another wasted £4 billion ( how much has Johnson spaffed up the wall now?) on the ‘clot shots’ people no longer want, while the browbeaten population are forced to struggle to pay for food heating and cooking under their propaganda slogan ‘Save Ukraine'(?) and the threat of total war promised by our “Foreign” Secretary.

Then the Non-Conservative ( National Demolition Party) has the brass cheek to ask people to vote for their local ‘candidate’ …..surely only totally ‘lost’ sheepie and total fools will?

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Susanna Reid in her interview with the man calling himself the UK’s prime minister yesterday put to him the case of the 77year old widow who’s heating bills are now so unaffordable that she has had to economise by only eating one meal per day and spends the day using her bus pass to ride the bus to save on her heating bill.

He didn’t blink so much as an eyelid.

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

He’s a man of the people.

Imagine all that fagging he had to endure at Eton.

CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Not true, he was very magnanimous, only taking credit for the free bus pass.

The Dogman
The Dogman
3 years ago

I remember the good old days when people were losing their minds over the fact that we had to pay out £40bn to leave the EU. Now the Government regularly pees that up the wall on any old crap that the pharmaceutical companies and their mates want to sell them.

David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  The Dogman

The intention is to help bust the £, bring on the coming Financial Meltdown and bring on their next perverse treat….the “Corporate Fascist Digital Currency”!

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

According to Vernon Coleman, who hasn’t been wrong on any of this to date, there is something like only 8 months left before it happens. https://www.vernoncoleman.com/eightmonths.htm “In this video I’m going to provide the proof that the Great Reset is much further along than most people realise. I’m going to show that everything that has been happening during the last two years – the covid fraud, the net zero fraud, the sanctions against Russia, the transgender controversy – is part of the plan leading the world into the biggest recession since the 1930s – as I’ve been predicting for longer than I like to remember – and possibly worse than that. Closing down Russia’s access to its dollars will cost us all huge amounts of money. The New World Order is already here. We’re living in it. And things are going to get far, far worse during the coming months because we are now already in the kill phase of the Great Reset. Decisions are made by or according to the demands of a tiny group of lobbyists and cultists who have been manipulated into representing the interests of the conspirators – either wittingly or though stupidity and ignorance The… Read more »

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

“Follow the money.” I’m a decades-long contrarian, but I say everything connects back to the effort to protect the Magic Fiat Printing Press.

No “non-kook” talks about the on-going effort to rig precious metal “markets,” but I think this is the most important fraud/scandal/vital operation for our real rulers.

Without that Magic Printing Press, all of these billions of dollars in wasteful spending would not have been possible.

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

I’ll be interested to see how the Great Reset works when Xi, Putin and Modi (who supports Putin) not to mention 1 billion Africans are told to follow the instruction of Klaus Schwab.

Another western financial meltdown is inevitable at some point but it seems Russia and China at least are insulating themselves from that particular event.

India is ramping up wheat production to help alleviate the loss from Ukrainian production shortfalls.

But I’m not convinced there will be a production shortfall from Ukraine. The war is being waged in cities, not in the fields, and I’m not sure the Russians would wast their time end resources rounding up or shooting farmers. So other than trade route disruption I’m not sure what’s stopping farmers getting on with their businesses.

But the media just loves yet another bit or fear porn.

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Fair points RHS – I would imagine you are right re India/china/Russia – which case it will be an east / west slit then which will surely not make trading difficult between those two blocs because whatever the east does the west seems hell bent on GR and average man on the street is completely oblivious to what is coming

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

meant to write split not slit

huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Dr Vernon Coleman pointed me in the right direction when this Scamdemic started. And Milo, as you say he has been spot on throughout all this. If Dr Coleman says 8 months – I’ve read this piece some time ago – then it’s eight months.

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I don’t want to belittle him in any way because I think he has been incredibly brave to take them all on and stick his neck out the way he has, but I would love to know what crystal ball he is consulting!!

He has been right about everything from the get go. I used to read his articles and think “how awful a prospect – there is no way that will ever happen” and then lo and behold it did. If he is right about the time frame, 8 months, and if RHS is right about the Eastern bloc not buying in and taking orders from Schwab – and why would they? Trump wouldn’t which was why they took him out – then it will be a Western world GR.

Hypatia
Hypatia
3 years ago

But…..but….if it saves just one life…..

Guido
Guido
3 years ago

Do you have the numbers correct ? 650 M is almost 10 for every person in the UK , with a disease with an IFR of 0.27 then being ( very ) generous and saying 10 % of people may benefit from this therapy then that is still @ 100 doses ordered for each . How can nobody not put this simple math together ? is anyone in government or working in public service have any level of responsibility and thinking of the tax payer or are they just all “at it “

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  Guido

what is the sell by date on the stuff?

would you put it past them to tamper with the sell by date labels?

I am afraid I wouldn’t.

sophie123
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

I think they already did

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Guido

Never underestimate the ability of a government to waste Taxpayers money.

beornwulf
beornwulf
3 years ago
Reply to  Guido

They were expecting a lot of cross-Channel migrants through their open borders policy.

Username1
3 years ago
Reply to  Guido

It’s 8 per person (20% of the 650 million having been used) and if you were “new to the game” you’d need 4 shots to catch up..but even so still a gross misuse of public funds, to make a huge understatement. What happened to “give shots to Africa”? They have clearly refused to have them.

BJs Brain is Missing
3 years ago

Remember this and the events of the previous two years, tomorrow.

TheBluePill
3 years ago

And what? I get a choice of voting for Red, yellow or blue lower-minions of the uni-party. All undoubtedly supported the bullshit throughout – although I can’t confirm that as the yellow and blue candidates can’t even be arsed to print leaflets or have an online presence, because red is always the vastly most popular colour in this particular shit-hole. So I am going to vote with extreme profanity, for the third election in a row.

CrouplessCoup
CrouplessCoup
3 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

Or just spoil your paper – iirc they get shown to candidates for them to confirm as spoiled, so probably the spicier inscriptions will be immortalised by being snapped and ‘shared’ via dumb-phones.

crisisgarden
3 years ago

I hope they dispose of it properly; Wouldn’t want that shit in the water supply.

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Hate to tell you CG, but if it can be passed to an infant from mother’s breast milk (Pfizer latest doc release suggests it can) then it might already be in there.

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Most certainly is, with all the contaminated masks lying about and getting into the water course.

huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

This really worries me. We have a grandchild due in a few weeks and Mum is at least double perforated. Stupid girl.

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Hope all goes well HP. Let us know.

Annie
3 years ago

Will I forgive any of their criminal wastings of public funds?
Never. Never. Never.
But I’m also proud that I helped them waste the snake oil, by not having any of it.

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago

John Stossel is the rare American TV journalist who challenges many of the false or dubious narratives that become accepted parts of “conventional wisdom.” I often use an example from one of Stossel’s TV specials to illustrate government waste – all in the name of “protecting” people from some minuscule health risk. In this episode, Stossel focussed on the “threat” of lead in the soil in some western state. The government was spending tens of millions of dollars to haul off dirt from some contaminated industrial site. This project took years. Stossel provided a contrarian expert who said that the risk of children or anyone having harmful effects from this lead might manifest itself years later … if this hypothetical person ate a bucket of lead-contaminated sand ever day for years. Stossel then asked a great question: What if the $20 million (or whatever the figure was) spent on lead-removal had instead been spent on projects that everyone KNEW would save lives? The example he gave was highway guardrails. We know that thousands of Americans die or suffer severe injuries every year when their cars run off the shoulder of the road, flip or hit a tree … or cross… Read more »

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

They could always spend the money on teaching people to drive properly! In the UK you can learn to drive in a Ferrari, take your driving test in a Lamborghini, then drive home from the testing station, unaccompanied, in an Aston Martin, or for that matter, a street adapted F1 car. By any reasonably logical thought progression, that is insane. An alternative might be to learn in a car with a specific, low, power to weight ratio. pass a secondary test and progress to, say, a family sized car with a better power to weight ratio. Pass a third test and the choice of car is unlimited. The onus of responsibility is then on the driver to keep safe, and they are equipped with the knowledge to do so. Rather than governments making allowances for people driving vehicles they are ill equipped to handle. My point being is that we shouldn’t miss the obvious answers for the want of being clever. Why didn’t our government anticipate take up of ‘vaccines’ would fall off? Why didn’t they understand the logistics of PPE. Indeed, why didn’t they have adequate stockpiles of PPE and a coherent pandemic plan already in place, including Nightingale… Read more »

NeilParkin
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

We had a plan for what to do with an influenza and virus epidemic. It lasted as long as it took the Unions to hear the words ‘Herd Immunity’. It went out the window faster than shit off a shiny shovel. We had to do what everyone else was doing. Anything other was unforgivable as we would not have been following the science.

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

If the influenza and virus epidemic plans didn’t include discussions with all relevant parties, it wasn’t a plan. Which is what I’m driving at. A government plan would include all interested parties who would be legally bound to a particular course of action. Deviate from that without incredibly sound reasons for doing so runs the risk (or in fact the duty) of prosecution. That includes the Whitty’s and Vallences, and, of course, Parliament – responsible individuals thereof. No one making decisions has skin in the game. If politicians, unions, medical officers or anyone else associated with government gets something wrong, they pay no price. The argument goes that no one would enter politics if they were held responsible for failures, but that’s bollox. Corporations are run by people who are held responsible for the companies actions. Occasionally pursued across the world if things really go bad, Polly Peck’s CEO Asil Nadir jailed for 10 years, Worldcom’s CEO Bernard Ebbers jailed for 25 years, and Bernie Madoff who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion, jailed for 150 years. Why is no one in our government facing a prison term for perpetrating a financial disaster far worse… Read more »

eastender53
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

The Pandemic Prepared Ness plan covered all that. Developed over years. It was discarded in days. Yes, the Unions played a huge part in the lockdown fiasco, and must be accountable along with Boris et al.

Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Excellent post – couldn’t agree more.

huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Actually, we were following the plan – Agenda 2030.

huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

In our neck of the UK, we know that any government official who promises “investment” is just using Orwellian language to hide the fact that a big demolition job is on the way. Usually something of architectural value.

Just Passing Through
3 years ago

Both parents in their seventies have been offered a fourth jab – they’re not taking up the offer.

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago

Fool me … four times … shame on me.

beornwulf
beornwulf
3 years ago

I had a communication recently from someone I occasionally buy from on eBay that proudly stated ‘4th jab very soon!’ Unbelievable.

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  beornwulf

These are the people who collected every badge possible in the Cubs. I joined as a kid but after attending half a dozen times couldn’t stand the bleating so told my Mum I’d never go back.

I have never since joined a club of any sort as I find them full of squabbling, backstabbing losers who need the support of likeminded peers to justify their miserable existence.

eastender53
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

A little self reflection may be of benefit here. ‘Everyone is out of step except me’.

RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  eastender53

I’m certainly not alone in this view.

huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  beornwulf

Get your next order in sharpish.

huxleypiggles
3 years ago

Thank God.

Milo
Milo
3 years ago

Sadly, if my Mum is offered a 4th Jab she likely will if she hasn’t done so already.