Time to disband PHE, burn it to the ground and salt the Earth.
Public Health England (PHE) published the long-awaited second part of its report into how the coronavirus has hit BAME communities harder.
It said ‘hostile environments’ towards immigrants may have affected settled BAME communities through ‘heightened prejudice’ and ‘societal tensions’ — but did not explain how this has directly raised the risk of Covid-19.
But, you know, racism…
Next week:- Why bald caucasians suffer worse from coronavirus.
Closely followed by
Why ginger haired suffer worse from ……….
But never ever coming
Why PHE did not warn us about the coming pandemic, because that would be racist against the FEAEM.
Far Eastern and Efnic Minority.
Oh, and by the give us more money.
PHE have also spent years hectoring us all about obesity and diabetes. In so far as these things are actually a problem at all, said problem has been caused by dietary advice based on flawed science. Dietary advice from, guess who, PHE.
Yet another quack science browbeating quango which would definitely not be missed if it disappeared or, better, was defunded overnight.
PHE’s days were already numbered after their manifold demonstrable failures in this event – they’ve probably got some wonderful diversity and inclusiveness policies but, at the job they’re actually paid to do, they’re less use than an ashtray on a motorbike. Case proven.
I suspect this intervention is their final throw of the dice, leaping onto the passing bandwagon of alleged BAME disadvantage to try to save their own skins. Hopefully Boris will see through it and still bin them at the earliest opportunity.
PFE (and a huge number of other NGOs) should be defunded as soon as possible. If ever there was a case of ‘here’s the findings, now let’s write some explanations’, then this report is it. The whole thing starts off with the conclusion (a foregone conclusion, of course) and then lists the usual leftist tropes completely unrelated to that conclusion.
Start with the PFE. Then stop contributing to the WHO. And then let’s declare year zero on the appalling NHS and start again- all good staff will have nothing to fear the others, well, not-so-much. (like the nurses who -literally – stock cackling loudly over one of them’s near-naked holiday snaps in a gaggle never numbering less than five while my poor father died in front of them, having been admitted three hours before and never got so see a doctor or even have a catheter fitted (which was really needed, believe me). We finally saw doctors whose main concern was only to impress how ill he was and please don’t sue us). I hate the NHS and it’s belligerent lack of concern, whilst posing under a ‘we are all heroes’ umbrella. Start again – keep the best, lose the rest.
But it will never happen.
Britain is so very broken.
Very well said. I’ve witnessed similar events in NHS hospitals and also been the subject of a similar, less severe (though no less worring at the time) experience.
The cut and thrust of market competition is the only way to solve this and I would rejoice at the horrific NHS edifice being torn apart to get there.
My mum visited dad in hospital and pointed out to the nurse that his catheter was on the floor. The nurse was going to stick it straight back in dads arm until mum, WW2 trained Registered Staff Nurse, pointed out the error in her ways.
What good will it do the BAME community to blame ‘racism’ when they could be spending their time finding the real reasons as they do will Cickle Cell disease.
Didn’t do us any good blaming the Black Death on the Jews or any passing foreigners.
Agree with you all
I was posting since late Feb (@TW) non-white/yellow at much higher risk and Gov’t should act now and withdraw them form ‘frontline’. Also asked why BBC, Guardian etc ignoring. Concluded: none wanted to be accused of racisim and whatever Gov’t did, it would be deemed racist
Reaction: ignored or castigated
Cowards the lot of them, do what is right
Shoppers ignore PHE
Littlejohn also mentions:
The Guardian Newspaper was founded by John Edward Taylor from the profits of Cotton Plantation Slavery and therefore should be shut down
https://www.change.org/p/independent-press-standards-organisation-shut-down-the-guardian-newspaper
Covid App.
Following a comment on YouTube I just checked my Android > Google Settings ->apps
‘Covid exposure notifications’ app is already on it, well I didn’t ask for it !
Advice welcome
A) how to disable it
B) how to delete it
Looks like they have snuck it in under cover of a system update. I’ve got it too.
Ah, more here:
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-android-covid19-idUSKBN23G2ZM
Do you believe that ? They have downloaded onto my phone, without my permission, something that will only work if we download the actual app ?
Well, it won’t work without the app, so not much we can do other than not use our phones.
Thanks, I figured that out now, it’s not the app itself just Google’s operating thingey.
Re Useless Quangos ( Genuine query- are there any useful ones?)
Good article at https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/10_quangos_that_can_kindle_the_bonfire
On the subject of the quangos, the eye watering amounts of money being wasted is quite scandalous. Presumably one problem is that closing them all down would cause a massive increase in unemployment. Flooding the jobs market with tens of thousands of unemployable bureaucrats wouldn’t be good.
I followed the further link to the story about people cancelling their TV licences. 550 households per day have done so since the beginning of the year. The BBC are claiming that there are normally fluctuations or that people have been struggling to pay during the lockdown.
Harry Fone is incorrect, it was John Prescott who first promised us a Bonfire of the Quangos at the start of Blairs first administration.
He was well on the way to closing down what is now called NHS Digital until someone told him that GP Surgeries would not be remunerated and screening for breast cancer would just stop.
By then most of the staff had got their P45s and the NHS had to start all over again.
@Nessimmersion
Not impressed with link’s accuracy, orders of magnitude out
PHE funding is £4.5 -£5 Billion pa, not £300 million
@Stonyground
Quite the opposite, it would be exellent. Cost to taxpayer reduced from ~>£50k to ~£5k pa for each of them. Plus, they’re no longer obstructing growth & progress
I was thinking more from the political point of view, that is people who want to get voted in again. Mass unemployment tends not to be a vote winner.
I believe mass sackings and unemployment of Gov’t/state bureaucrats would go down well. Public tend to care about factories closing, not Quangos
SNP have reduced school & FE funding & teachers a lot and they still win
Pcar.
That figure of 300 million is what is called technically correct. That is the sum spent by PHEengland, the rest of the 4 billion is spent by all the various partners, local public health boards and various mini me’s.
For the purposes of discussion 4 billion is the correct ball park.
For the taxpayers alliance, there is no point in using a figure for which the PHE/SJW/grauniad spokesweasel will refute, then the BBC will report it as comprehensively disproven and we have just lost in the court of public opinion yet again.
So the reason they are using 300 million is not so you can be unimpressed but so as not to give the opposition easy wins.
Thanks. However the problem is public won’t be concerned about £300 million pa
as it’s a trivial sum in the ~£800 billion Gov spends – it’s less than the £350m per day EU cost. Their other ‘waste’ are trivial too
PHE Accounts 18/19
Page14 : Cost to taxpayer £287m and 5,500 staff
– Ding, ding: =£52,182 cost per employee if nothing else done – doesn’t add up
Page138 : Expenditure for the year >£4 Billion
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/816884/PHE_Annual_Report_2018_2019_print.pdf
I would suggest you are better joining the tax payers alliance and redirecting their campaigns.
I can see both sides of the argument.
Yes you are correct- PHE wastes billions.
Yes the Beeboids will give the spokesweaels easy questions so they can lob the return out of the park.
With the correct press campaign, 300 million can seem like a lot of money with the correct confected outrage behind it.