One’s nose was to the grindstone last week catching up on such a terrific backlog of work that, by the end of the week, the season of goodwill had faded into the mists of time.
Two days were spent in Hatfield. Most of the time was spent driving there. But I spent a day with the wonderful Dr Clare Craig – a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists – who has done so much to demolish the myths around the ‘pandemic’. We recently re-ran the review of her book Spiked, which is about how useless and damaging the Covid vaccines were.
I was asked by the editor of the Daily Sceptic to attend an inquest into the sudden death of a young man, and Dr Craig was an expert witness for the family who suspected that the death of the young man was associated with the fact that he had taken three doses of the Pfizer mRNA-based Covid vaccine. My report in the Daily Sceptic explains how 23-year-old Kieran Duce came home after a night out, alcohol had been consumed, went to bed and died, possibly ten minutes afterwards.
Kieran had no relevant medical history; his blood alcohol was way below the level that is considered fatal, and there was evidence of white blood cells in his heart tissue which could suggest that he had myocarditis. Dr Craig laid out to the coroner the facts regarding the link between the Covid vaccines and myocarditis. The death was recorded as ‘related to alcohol’. These are the facts, to comment further could be misconstrued by the coroner so I will leave that one there for readers to ponder.
Outsourcing Authority in the Name of Harmony
I don’t hold a candle for Israel or the Zionist cause – but understand why many do. Nor do I get too worked up about whether the Palestinians should have their own homeland. My position is that it is not compulsory to have a view or to support either cause and that the part of the world where they kill each other over these questions is a long way from where I live, and there is only so much energy I can spare for getting worked up about abstract causes.
But I do get a whole hive of bees under my bonnet about issues closer to home. We seem to be caving in to the malicious influence of Islam, the enemy within our society. Not only do we tolerate barbaric halal slaughter, but halal meat is also provided exclusively in many UK university refectories. Presumably someone is afraid that someone gets offended and, of course, offending some of the adherents to Islam can end up ‘messy’, to say the least.
There are other malign influences such as alcohol not being served at some official functions and – by far the stupidest example ever – some eejit in the NHS suggested a few years ago that alcohol gels should no longer be used for hand sterilisation in case…you can complete the sentence, I am sure. Of course, no Muslims had been consulted; there is not the least problem for them in using alcohol as a cleaning and sterilising agent.
Then there is the emerging evidence that West Midlands Police had not only consulted but appears to have lied about consulting local mosques about what to do about a visit to Birmingham of the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv last year. They decided to ban the Maccabi fans from attending the match. Maccabi fans, admittedly, have a reputation for violence but so do Millwall fans and, to my knowledge, they are not banned from visiting any football grounds.
When my own team, Hull City, delivered Millwall a sound beating at home, their fans did an estimated £1 million of damage to our stadium. The solution was not to ban them but to police them properly – and so far, successfully – on subsequent visits.
There is evidence that local adherents to the religion of peace in Birmingham were planning a very violent welcome for the Maccabi fans should they visit Birmingham. Of course, that evidence has been used to support the common mealy-mouthed ‘for their own protection’ mantra when the Maccabi fans were banned.
It seems also that the local mosques have even influenced the appointment of the local police hierarchy. Do the local synagogues, churches and Hindu temples have any such influence or are they ever consulted about visiting football fans? I am sure I am safe in assuming that they are not.
The police and the city of Birmingham are, surely, free to issue whatever bans they consider necessary. Had they banned the Maccabi fans on the basis that they are a load of violent thugs – something not far from the truth – then that’s OK. But there should be absolutely no circumstances under which Muslims are consulted about any groups of visitors to their vicinity.
The correct response to their threats of violence would have been to warn them within an inch of their beards that any local or imported Muslims caught committing acts of violence against Maccabi fans would find themselves behind bars awaiting trial, along with any Maccabi fans also apprehended.
Where our police forces are concerned, West Midlands are not alone. Real crimes should be taken more seriously than ‘non-crimes’, proper vetting of potential officers must take priority over inclusivity and diversity, and common sense must take precedence over consultation.
Roger Watson is a retired academic, editor and writer. He writes regularly for a range of conservative journals including The Salisbury Review and The European Conservative. He has travelled and worked extensively in the Far East and the Middle East. He lives in Kingston upon Hull, UK.
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Consultation creates many lucrative jobs and seldom, if ever, is conducted without the final report being already written in line with whatever the person or organisation commissioning it wants the outcome to be.
Often very true. But not always – not when I was the author. Of course, the downside was that the next consultancy did not automatically have my name on it. One can see the pressure on consultancies to toe the line and ensure a good income flow, so one should really not take any notice of most consultants’ reports. They just put the public sectors’ ideas into proper English and a logical order allowing the public sector to say – Look, our independent consultant concludes this – or that, as the case may be. Independent, my arse. Academics are some of the worst, They would sell their own grandmother to supplement their salaries.
I recall I was asked to assess an agricultural policy measure designed to boost farmers incomes. We surveyed and assessed. I had to work with some academics who were attached to my team. I did all the quantitative analysis as they were not up to it. And although I asked for specific written contributions, when it came to editing the final report, I had to ditch most of it as it was just waffle. Anyway, I sent the draft final report round to them seeking comments, but I didn’t get any. They obviously could not see any extra benefit from reading and commenting on it as, in their view, they had done the contracted days. Then we turn up at the Ministry to present “our” findings. Conclusion, 97 per cent of the programme cost had been a waste of money – farmers had been paid to do things which they were going to do anyway, subsidy or not. Shock horror! Ministry officials were taken aback. They had used these academics before and always got a nice pat on the back from them. Time to turn the tide! The Ministry official said that while it was disappointing, there were many positives from the programme and perhaps it would be better to emphasise them in the report. The academics fell over themselves agreeing with him, and everything seemed to be business as usual. Except that I was the team leader and I brought them back to reality. I refused to change the conclusions.
I was a commercial consultant and depended on these jobs for my living. For the academics, it was just a bonus. No wonder I developed complete contempt for the so-called academic experts that jumped on to every consultancy they could.
Well written Roger I tend to agree with Nathaniel Spit about the consultancy racket I have never read a consultancy report I agreed with and is being used by the labour as an excuse to cover their totally inept form of government it is being used by the arsehole Starmer as an excuse to cover his own total lack of ability.
I was thinking more about “community consultation” which is usually bogus or faked by only asking and recording the responses of “the chosen demographic” (Islamisists too often these days). However it equally applies to Consultancy where the brief gives the desired outcome, and heaven forbid if it doesn’t yield that then the report is suppressed.