Read it and Weep

This little exchange in the Spectator tells us what we have long suspected. It shows us that SAGE is as corrupt as the government. It shows that we are at best, government by fools and at worst by mendacious scumbags intent upon laying waste to our economy and way of life.

In any sane society, this revelation would spell the end of a government, but I fully expect this to largely pass under the radar. This is after all, “the science.”

Revealingly, he seemed to think my question odd: if it’s quite plausible that Omicron is mild and doesn’t the threaten the NHS, what would be the point of including that as a ‘scenario’? He seemed to suggest that he has been given a very limited brief, and asked to churn out worse-case scenarios without being asked to comment on how plausible they are.

Scum. Evil scum. To say that I hate them with every fibre of my being is to be kind. And let me say again, there is nothing remotely scientific about modelling. It is guesswork, nothing more.

22 Comments

  1. I saw this. The guy has basically admitted that the computer models served no purpose other than providing the government with the answer that they had asked for. The end of the government is maybe too much to hope for but, at the very least we should be seeing mass disobedience with regard to their latest raft of rules. There seems to be no hope of that, I went to Beverley yesterday and the masks were everywhere even outdoors. A guy wearing one while riding a push bike and several lone car drivers wearing them.

  2. It’s called “policy-based evidence-making” and it’s inevitable in this context. Government “research” rarely asks for unknown answers because they might not turn out to be what the relevant state agency wants. It will almost always be commissioned to justify state action now or provide a defence for it later. In a way, I’m encouraged when people are naïve enough to be surprised. It just shows there are good people out there — people who (unlike the denizens of the Deep State) would be ashamed if all their “earnings” were taken from fellow-citizens by force.

    • the very definition of “junk science” which first came to my attention when the modelling produced scary numbers to justify the introduction of the comprehensive smoking ban.

  3. Yes compliance is the norm.
    Once again this week i was the only customer in both Morrisons and Lidl without a strip of blue cloth across the mug, Mrs the only one in Asda.

    I despair now at my fellow Brits, increasingly have more in common with europeans than i do my own kind who in vast numbers are going along sheep like unable to comprehend that whilst they continue to comply they’ll be complying for ever.

    Gave up the Speccie subs earlier in the year, thought too many times i’d clicked on the grauniad site by mistake.

    • Oddly enough, I see a mix. Sure, the cretins wearing masks or those idiotic face shields out in the open are about, but far from mass compliance. Which is good.

    • On my way to the local StandSit In The Park Cafe this morning I had to wade through far too many masktards standing in the open air talking. In the packed cafe, everyone was bare-faced, although the staff were muzzled, albeit haphazardly/half-heartedly.

  4. “Because they might not turn out to be what the relevant state agency wants”

    The TV series “Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister” showed this has long been the case…

  5. The thing is, the whole business leaves us looking like conspiracy nuts. How likely is it that Covid has been used by most of the world’s governments to perpetrate a massive stitch up and only a handful of bloggers and their followers know the truth? If the mainstream media did their job this stuff might be a little more widely known.

    • Because the long march through the education system is now bearing fruit. Who is taught to question things, and given the mental processes and inclination to find out whether what you are being told is true or not? Certainly not the mass populace of under educated dunces who care only for the next episode of Strictly Come Dancing on Ice while Baking a Cake, or the bazillionth ‘derby’ football game between Rovers and Athletic.

  6. The thing that concerns me is how this process, replicated across a range of policy issues will direct those policies toward a desired outcome by the policy directors. Whoever they turn out to be.

    This is either overt fraud or deliberate economic sabotage. It also have an older name though, begins with a T, ends with an N with a reason in the middle.

  7. Cummings on substack, although still massively long of himself, says that the basic issue with the government and civil service around it is the sub-par quality of it. That basically, we are governed by morons and the system is such that it will never change.

    His solution is to have more government, mine is to hang them all.

  8. This government seems to be Conservative in name only. In many ways it resembles a far left government.

  9. The question that I keep on coming back to is why? We know that our MPs are a bunch of venal self serving bastards and that a significant proportion of them are as thick as mince but what is in it for them to deliberately cause so much harm to their own country?

    • Isn’t the answer in your question? The thick as mince bit. 🙂

      No pay from the state (the constituents can contribute directly) and lifetime maximum of 2 terms would be a start.

      Also banning of statutory instruments allowing civil servants to make up rules as they wish.

      After hanging them all to encourage the others.

      • Its fairly obvious that all the sensible people (I do not say clever, because you can be very ‘clever’ but also lack any common sense at all) go into careers that can make decent money in the private sector, and where you can achieve something. Whereas all the clever idiots, narcissists and boot lickers are drawn like moths to a flame towards politics and state employ.

        Its the consequence of selecting those for ‘top’ jobs from those who complete a decade or more of purely intellectual education. It selects for intellectualism, which is not the same thing as intelligence, because it omits the ability to be able to deal with the physical world as well as the intellectual one.

        Its is my contention that a good ruler should be as able to build a decent brick wall as write an essay on the history of Rome. Maybe thats why Churchill was such a good leader, he was an amateur bricklayer in his wilderness years. The experience of working with your hands to make things teaches you a lot about what you as a human can achieve, and just as importantly what you can’t. It makes you humble, because you realise you are a small cog in a far greater machine, not just thinking your intellect makes you better than everyone else.

        So there’s my proposal – anyone wishing to become an MP or senior civil servant must submit an article of practical construction or manufacture for their prospective constituents/employers to judge them on. A piece of furniture perhaps, or a piece of clothing, or a building, or some engineering work. Anything to show they are capable with hands as well as pure brainwork. Should open up doors to plenty who are currently ignored and close them to plenty more who shouldn’t be anywhere near the top in the first place.

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