Rishi Sunak has come out of the Covid closet and revealed what most of us already knew in an interview with The Spectator. He ‘reveals’ that the lockdowns were not costed in terms of their potential harms, dissenting voices were suppressed by leading members of the lockdown implementation, ‘the science’ was nothing of the sort, the SAGE minutes were cooked, and the public were taken for a right royal ride by clowns like Johnson, Hancock, Whitty and Vallance. As is clearly explained today in The Daily Telegraph—which now sees itself as the repository of all wisdom in hindsight regarding lockdown—those of us on the lockdown sceptics side were right all along. But we did not need hindsight, we predicted with certainty that a previously untested and unrecommended strategy of social and economic lockdown would lead to deaths, destruction of businesses, disaster for schoolchildren and students and inflation, and we were right on every point. As a wise man (Dr Niall McCrae) said to me in April 2020: “When all this over, we will all be lockdown sceptics.”
And Rishi Sunak, clearly in the knowledge that his political career has hit the buffers, has decided in a fit of childish impetuousness to tell us all now that he knew all along (I am 100% sure that is correct) and that he spoke out and tried to stop it (50% on that one). But he gets null points for not having the guts to both speak out at the time and resign from The Cabinet. After all, it is not as if he is short of a few quid. I guess he was under orders from his masters at Davos to stay put and play his part—which, don’t forget, he did with aplomb—in bringing economic catastrophe on the United Kingdom the worst of which is yet to come.
As the valiant Kathy Gyngell says in TCW Defending Freedom: “If this is really what happened, it is beyond unforgivable that Sunak didn’t yell from the rooftops about the disaster he foresaw” and even more to the point: “…if the minutes of Sage were false, and Sunak knew they were false, there are grounds for criminal investigation into misconduct in public office.” And I would definitely include the former Chancellor of the Exchequer amongst those to be prosecuted. At the risk of enacting Godwin’s Law Sunak’s bleating that he ‘wasn’t allowed’ to speak out publicly about the ways and means of SAGE sounds terribly to me like ‘I was only following orders.”
Perhaps Rishi Sunak sees what is going to come for the lockdown fanatics and mask mandate maniacs. Perhaps there are stirrings in the higher echelons, now that we know precisely what a disaster lockdown was, that someone’s head must roll. We live in hope. Our future Prime Minister (if the runes are being read properly) says that she would not impose another lockdown. My advice to her would be, don’t even think about it because next time round, nobody will listen or obey. Lockdown has destroyed something else that was already in very short supply: any degree of trust in our politicians.
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