{"id":30540,"date":"2020-11-18T19:19:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30540"},"modified":"2020-11-18T19:19:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:19:22","slug":"the-fleecing-of-the-flock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30540","title":{"rendered":"The Fleecing of the Flock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Under_The_Table-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"The Fleecing of the Flock\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Under_The_Table-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Under_The_Table.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HERE IS A DAMNING EXCERPT FROM AN ARTICLE IN THE PRESTIGIOUS BMJ:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The UK\u2019s pandemic response relies too heavily on scientists and other government appointees with worrying competing interests, including shareholdings in companies that manufacture covid-19 diagnostic tests, treatments, and vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Government appointees are able to ignore or cherry pick science\u2014another form of misuse\u2014and indulge in anti-competitive practices that favour their own products and those of friends and associates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the key aspects of the whole COVID con is the deep and seemingly widespread corruption that lies behind its smoke screen of false stats, false claims and  engineered hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>This corruption amounts essentially to the tax payer being taken for a ride and thoroughly fleeced.<\/p>\n<p>The fleecing has been both cynical and half-heartedly hidden as if those engaged in it fear little the consequences of their crimes- the coup has revealed the toothlessness of a lame\/tame Parliament, police and judiciary and even of the MSM which should have a duty to thoroughly expose it. It could be said that in large measure the corruption has gone on on with the connivance of these estates.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID fiasco has done us all a favour in the sense that it has brought to light for us all to see the extent to which corruption has become rife.<\/p>\n<p>It is necessary for its own continued survival that integrity and honour and the concept of service to the People are restored to (or instilled in) government.<\/p>\n<p>It is necessary for the continued survival of the civilisation upon which we all depend that we refuse to tolerate being run by criminals and their henchmen.<\/p>\n<p>There lies before us the opportunity to put this right and to establish in perpetuity firm policies that prevent this sort of thing continually happening to us.<\/p>\n<p>BE VIGILANT<br \/>\nFIGHT BACK<br \/>\nDEMAND JUSTICE<\/p>\n<p>Footnote:<br \/>\nareas of corruption include but are not limited to:<br \/>\n*  Awarding of contracts for track and trace<br \/>\n*  Purchase of the seriously flawed PCR test<br \/>\n*  Purchase of PPE<br \/>\nIf anyone has good info\/articles on these areas of corruption and others please do let me have the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERE IS A DAMNING EXCERPT FROM AN ARTICLE IN THE PRESTIGIOUS BMJ: &#8220;The UK\u2019s pandemic response relies too heavily on scientists and other government appointees with worrying competing interests, including shareholdings in companies that manufacture covid-19 diagnostic tests, treatments, and vaccines. Government appointees are able to ignore or cherry pick science\u2014another form of misuse\u2014and indulge &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Fleecing of the Flock&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30542,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30540\/revisions\/30542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}