[thread] On Dominic “super duper” Cummings & SAGE
If I were a journalist - a list of questions
I will phrase them as if to Boris Johnson
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
If I were a journalist - a list of questions
I will phrase them as if to Boris Johnson
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
Q1. When was the decision to appoint Dominic Cummings and Ben Warner made?
Q2. What selection, interview, approval and clearance process was followed around their appointment?
Q3. Was this appointment for them to observe SAGE meetings or to participate in said meetings?
Q4. Can you cite every precedent where political appointees were appointed as members of SAGE in a participating or observing role?
Q5. Do you think it is appropriate that a man who was found in contempt of Parliament be appointed to such a position in an independent advisory committee?
Q6. Was the seriousness of the covid pandemic something that motivated your chief advisor and a colleague being appointed to SAGE?
Q7. Why was this seriousness not something that motivated your presence in chairing what was it - oh yes - 5 COBRA meetings?
Q7. Do you think that political appointees - particularly a bully such as Dominic Cummings and a colleague from the cheating lying racist organisation of Vote Leave imperilled or raised questions about the independence of SAGE being compromised?
Q8. Was Dominic Cummings and Ben Warner’s involvement in SAGE one of or the reason why you have refused to publish SAGE members, participants or minutes ?
Q9. Can you quantify what and when the benefit of Dominic Cummings and Ben Warner gave to the government approach to covid so it can be overlaid with COBRA, WHO and U.K. infection response timelines?
Q10. If you were confident of your decisions in SAGE why could you not openly admit them - after all the reassurance and confidence that the public would gain from knowing the chief advisor to the PM is straining every sinew on behalf of a nation would be a positive?
Q11. Given how you have evaded SAGE transparency and Dominic Cummings and COBRA
If Labour were in power and Seumas Milne was the individual being questioned as to the why, how, when, where & what in relation to SAGE would you take their pathetic deflections to avoid answering?
If Labour were in power and Seumas Milne was the individual being questioned as to the why, how, when, where & what in relation to SAGE would you take their pathetic deflections to avoid answering?
Q12. When you lied to the nation and said you visited a hospital and shook the hands of covid patients - why did you do that?
Q13. When you joked about “Operation Last Gasp” why can you not be honest and say you did and mimic Donald J Trump who does take pride in his jokes and sarcasm?
Disclaimer:do not ingest or inject disinfectant folks
Disclaimer:do not ingest or inject disinfectant folks
Q14. Why is your government suppressing the report and lessons learnt output from Operation Cygnus?
What do you fear from that report?
What do you fear from that report?
Q15. the 2019 National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) was signed off by Sir Patrick Vallance - Who was this report distributed to and what actions were taken in response to it?
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
Q16. The EU ventilator and PPE procurement schemes - why did your government invent a tissue of lies and obfuscation as to your choices around it?
Q17. If the U.K. did the right thing at the right time what does that make New Zealand’s approach?
Q18. Are you ashamed you did not enforce a ban on mass gatherings rather than just nudges earlier ?
Q19. "fix the roof when the sun is shining"
In light of the above statement - why was the decision made to reduce U.K. pandemic stock values by 40%
With a brexit dividend of £350m/week why penny pinch on pandemic stocks ?
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
In light of the above statement - why was the decision made to reduce U.K. pandemic stock values by 40%
With a brexit dividend of £350m/week why penny pinch on pandemic stocks ?
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
Q20. Why in response to PPE shortages was whistleblowers targeted, guidance changed, medical staff targeted in an attack unsubstantiated that they were misusing PPE - why did your government do that rather than play and own the ball?
Q21. If 100k tests a day was a promise, a contract a shall we “let us” say the word or the British government
Why change that to 100k capacity?
Why did you promise 250k tests a day?
How far after wave 1 peak will 250k tests/day be ready?
Why change that to 100k capacity?
Why did you promise 250k tests a day?
How far after wave 1 peak will 250k tests/day be ready?
Q22. Your father Stanley said that people only started taking covid seriously when you were positively tested for covid?
Now for those of us who can’t spell 🤥 properly and are illiterate - can you outline what date your government took it seriously and what your response was?
Now for those of us who can’t spell 🤥 properly and are illiterate - can you outline what date your government took it seriously and what your response was?
Q23. Donald Trump was warned intelligence briefings from December 2019 onwards.
What warnings & when did you receive from US or any other U.K. intelligence agencies or bodies?
What warnings & when did you receive from US or any other U.K. intelligence agencies or bodies?
Q24. Dr Fauci admitted that the US government was first aware of community transmission eg human to human in mid-end January 2020
When did the U.K. government first become aware of human - human transmission and from whom?
When did the U.K. government first become aware of human - human transmission and from whom?
Q25. As many of your ministers and MPs and Fact Check U.K. and other propagandists coordinated so well an attack on Keir Starmer on PPE - why could they not play the ball and not the man?
Q26. NHS nightingale
A white elephant?
And did you focus group the weaponisation and selecting of the naming of that hospital?
A white elephant?
And did you focus group the weaponisation and selecting of the naming of that hospital?
Q27. Is your government proud that it is exploiting the aftermath of a global pandemic, the deaths and the socioeconomic consequence of covid in which to mask, hide, camouflage the eternal hollow sunlit uplands of brexit?
Q28. Like the Russian report , the Jennifer Acruri report, the report on electoral cheating - will they remain as elusive as the brexit plan you said you had on 14/6/2016
nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1…
nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1…
Q29. Do you agree with 👇 ?
"My Britain is one where the rule of law is upheld, impartially even against the most powerful bodies in our community and where those entrusted with upholding the law, whether policemen or judges, are given respect, support and encouragement. "
"My Britain is one where the rule of law is upheld, impartially even against the most powerful bodies in our community and where those entrusted with upholding the law, whether policemen or judges, are given respect, support and encouragement. "
Q30. Why did you unlawfully prorogue Parliament?
Is your contempt for Parliament as great for the U.K. parliament as it was for the Turkish Parliament you used to incite racism and xenophobia as part of Vote Leave?
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Is your contempt for Parliament as great for the U.K. parliament as it was for the Turkish Parliament you used to incite racism and xenophobia as part of Vote Leave?
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Questions over
(For now)
I modelled this on Alistair Campbell ‘s article here
thearticle.com/media-question…
(For now)
I modelled this on Alistair Campbell ‘s article here
thearticle.com/media-question…
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