1/. DAN WALKER: The guidance says you should choose what to do. What would you do
HELEN WHATELY: I’d choose to follow the guidance
Yet another car crash interview by govt minister, @Helen_Whately unable to say whether she will continue wearing face.
2/. Last year, @Helen_Whately attempted to blame scientists for the govt’s policy of transferring #COVID19 patients from hospitals into care homes without testing
3/. On 28/5/20, @Helen_Whately, was asked four times by Fiona Bruce on #BBCQT where we are with the app which is essential for tracking & tracing
She didn’t answer
#HelenWhately: The app will support the...the...the...the...as we go further down the path
4/. Asked why the govt deliberately transferred people from hospitals to care homes without tests, @Helen_Whately, first tried the “guided by science” line, THEN claims “the world” didn’t know that #COVID could be asymptomatic recently
The world DID know!
5/. Asked about Exercise Cygnus
the 2016 govt simulation of a disease outbreak, which exposed the UK’s lack of pandemic readiness, @Helen_Whately replies: "Could you tell me what you're talking about?"
6/. “It will be safe for children to be back in schools" @Helen_Whately claimed last August, despite admitting to @louiseminchin that she “hasn’t seen the paper”
7/. “They cover up crime with scandal & covers up malice with incompetence...They want to project an image of being inept, instead of as having a cruel & well-defined plan.”
@sarahkendzior wrote this on the Trump’s admin, but could have been writing about Boris Johnson’s govt👇
He uses this persona as a front for deflecting scrutiny, avoiding questions & building his Teflon brand
Now more than ever, we need journalists & MPs not to be bamboozled by bluster, distraction & lies.
9/. Like many of the Cabinet, Helen Whately went straight from university to management consultancy & to politics
She has no background or experience in social care
She voted along with 344 other MPs against the weekly testing of NHS & Social Care Staff.
10/. “This is the govt most days
on this programme. Sometimes I do think our viewers would appreciate a straight answer to a straight question" @mrdanwalker to @Helen_Whately
1/. “How is it that all scientists are not mystics?
Cosmologists not poets?
Biologists not shamans?
How is it that those to whom the Universe reveals such wonders, are not enraptured each day?
And each night, how do they close their eyes on this?”
2/. This👆clip shows the journey of the Hubble telescope ending at the Pillars of Creation - part of the in the Eagle Nebula - 6,500 light years away from earth
It’s so named because the pillars of hydrogen & dust are in the process of creating new stars
(Photo @NASAHubble 1995)
3/. The Sun is the star at the centre of our solar system
The solar system orbits the Milky Way, the spiral galaxy we call home
The Sun is just one of around 200 billion stars in the Milky Way
And the Milky Way is one of trillions of galaxies in the Universe
1/ A senior ExxonMobil lobbyist has been caught on camera claiming that the oil giant is waging a secret war on climate change legislation. The covert recordings filmed by @GreenpeaceUK & @UE lift the lid on the secretive world of US oil lobbying @alextomochannel4.com/news/revealed-…
2/. Lobbyist Keith McCoy thinks is being interviewed by a headhunter
He claims Exxon “aggressively” fought science to deny climate change action in order to maximise profit & shareholder return & lobbied key senators.
3/. As parts of the US & Canada are gripped by #heatwave, an investigation by @UE reveals how @exxonmobil’s leading lobbyists reveal how America’s biggest oil company undermined climate policy under the Trump admin & is doing the same with the @biden admin
2/. Last July - after much delay - the #RussiaReport was finally published
It’s findings were truly terrifying
It revealed the govt & intelligence agencies had actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in the Brexit vote
Self-sabotage
3/. The implications of the #RussiaReport fed into my ongoing investigation into what appears to be a global #DataGrab for population-wide genomic data
I’d already traced the plan back to 2015
Russian interference in the 2016 #Trump election & #Brexit vote made perfect sense!
#MattHancock often seems to have problems when asked simple questions
When FINALLY asked who issued the instruction to send people from hospitals to care homes without testing & if it was approved by a Minister &, if so, which one? - he lost his hearing!
When asked about the failure of the App & @didoharding’s “cherry on the cake” (the £37b Test & Trace fiasco) @MattHancock faked hysteria
“I think many of my viewers will think this isn’t a laughing matter,” said @KayBurley