Public Health England

[albie]

For the chop, to be replaced by a proxy for cronies who have services rendered;
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-husband-test-trace-chief-22128892

I suppose it spares Hancock from taking the axe to himself.
After all, it was the politician making the decisions, was it not?

The quote from Dr Michael Head in the Indy is to the point;
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/public-health-england-scrap-phe-matt-hancock-coronavirus-a9672891.html

Deckchairs? Titanic? Iceberg?

[ravenrover]

PHE is headed by Hancock-up, does that mean he goes as well?

[Filo]

PHE is headed by Hancock-up, does that mean he goes as well?

Not a chance, he is taking that action to deflect from himself, even though he is the Health Minister, Cummings will be running out of arse lickers if he sacks any of them

[BillyStubbsTears]

What's the betting on this ending well?

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/aug/17/dido-harding-to-run-agency-to-replace-public-health-england?__twitter_impression=true

I mean what could possibly go wrong? The woman who was in charge of a company which suffered one of the biggest cyber attacks of all time because it's defences were so poorly prepared, put in charge of an organisation that will have access to everyone's health data.

I must remind myself in the afterlife to come back as the offspring of nobility. It seems to make it far easier to ride out the odd career-ending f**k up.

[belton rover]

She might be saying ‘Thank You’ now, but it won’t be long before she will be waving the ‘White Flag’.

I’m here all week.

[Donnywolf]

Baroness Talk Talk falls on her feet again

Here she is explaining the Talk Talk debacle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apV5Q_f7KH0

Yes and those unelected bureaucrats we left the EU to be rid of seem to just keep rolling up and rolling along

When it was said "we" would take back control who was the "we" we had in mind

 A royal "we" perhaps

or "we" as a nation

or "we" as in the electorate

[idler]

She might be saying ‘Thank You’ now, but it won’t be long before she will be waving the ‘White Flag’.

I’m here all week.

At least she'll be earning enough to have Aeneas up as they say down south. 

[albie]

Still struggling to see what skills and expertise Dildo brings to this role in the health sector.

The "world beating" T+T she is strangely in charge of has been a complete failure, unless the point was really to transfer public funds to unsuitable private company donors.

At Talk Talk, she presided over a massive security breach;
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/talktalk-hack-customers-lost

This alone should have meant she was never to be trusted with digital security again.

Health data is an absolute goldmine for many companies looking to exploit the sector to make profit. There is no evidence that data will remain secure under her watch.

[wilts rover]

Imagine a country where a politician’s think tank calls for abolition of a major public health body.

It gets broken up during a pandemic, its replacement is established in a few days, and the politician’s wife, with no public health experience, is appointed to run it.

That’s us.

https://twitter.com/jonlis1/status/1295499575436947456

[i_ateallthepies]

We are now a global laughing stock.  A once great nation now required to accept unbridled corruption from those entrusted to look after the nation's interests.

[albie]

More Hancockery;
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/gushing-matt-hancock-tells-private-22540268

Fattening up for the sell off.

This is about weakening the influence of the public interest via the state and permanent administration, and replacing it with an outsourced sub-contracting model where the public sector is simply a funding mechanism.

Steve Bannon with bells on!

[SydneyRover]

Imagine a country where a politician’s think tank calls for abolition of a major public health body.

It gets broken up during a pandemic, its replacement is established in a few days, and the politician’s wife, with no public health experience, is appointed to run it.

That’s us.

https://twitter.com/jonlis1/status/1295499575436947456

It's similar to what happened in Russia, wonder where that idea came from?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Well anyway, it's good to know that Dido Harding has been chosen for a string of vital Govt management jobs for her manifest management abilities, not because she's part of an elite clique...

https://mobile.twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1295647672502833158

[Donnywolf]

.... and of course shes a Jokey Club Board Member and Serco CEO is Totes Chairman

Money in donations (as usual) was handed to Hancock (MP for Newmarket - the home of racing) and then the Cheltenham Festival was allowed to go ahead

https://mobile.twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1295650066833854469

Lots of "people" far more qualified than I am to comment (WHO for a start) , blame Cheltenham and to a degree Liverpools game with A Madrid as principal reasons we got off to such a bad start fighting the R Number - but at least the punters got their days out eh and the right people still made a pile out of the event

[albie]

PHE was an executive agency of the Department for Health and Social Care, and therefore under direct ministerial control.

Now if there have been shortcomings in the work of PHE, either in T+T or Covid arrangements, the buck stops with the relevant minister.

The boy Hancock seems to be saying that he does not hold liability for decisions he did not personally take. So if Dom/Sooty Bumble made choices from above, not his gig.

The take away here is that nobody is responsible, or willing to admit it, so best just carry on regardless.
The dog ate my homework excuse is alive and kicking!

[SydneyRover]

This

''Abolition of Public Health England just 'passing of blame for coronavirus mistakes'''

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/19/abolition-of-public-health-england-just-passing-of-blame-for-coronavirus-mistakes

[albie]

Discovered this gem of Dildo being awarded a wooden spoon by the Daily Mail for the customer service failures of Talk Talk;
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2084868/Customer-service-TalkTalk-gets-Wooden-Spoon-award-AGAIN.html

Two years running she won it!
How daft does she have to be to pose for a photo with a wooden spoon award?

[albie]

So to the next phase...Operation Moonshot!
Never heard of it, neither had I.

Here is an intro;
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/deloitte-gets-another-huge-covid-contract-for-crazy-plan-to-test-millions-each-day/

All of this reorganisation and re-allocation of resource going on without parliamentary scrutiny, being in the recess.
It looks like the HoC is just a bystander while major structural changes are pushed through without oversight.

Steve Bannon might be in hot water, but Dom swims on towards the shore.

[SydneyRover]

What are they going to be tested for ........ apathy? 

[albie]

M'Learned Friends poised to strike;
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/23/cross-party-mps-sue-government-for-details-of-covid-ppe-contracts

Farce doesn't begin to do it justice!

[SydneyRover]

This is blind panic by the looks of it and it remains to be seen if any of the beneficiaries were mates.