(1) Patrick Vallance (from Guardian Nov 20 2023)
Vallance diary:
“PM meeting – begins to argue for letting it all rip. Saying yes there will be more casualties but so be it – ‘they have had a good innings’,” before...saying: “DC says ‘Rishi thinks just let people die and that’s okay’.
Out of bedrooms and wards
long lines of the dead
walk towards you
asking you,
'Who were you to decide that
our innings was over?
Who gave you the umpire's white coat
and upraised finger?
Did you think we would never speak
from the graves you gave us?
(2)
’Patrick Vallance wrote in his diary that Johnson said of the Pandemic:
“Most people who die have reached their time anyway.”
His worldview was ready to pounce on us
as if our 'time' is logged in on a universal spreadsheet
which gave him the right to send us off to the morgue.
(3)
Vallance's diary from October 2020
"PM meeting – begins to argue for letting it all rip. Saying yes there will be more casualties but so be it – ‘they have had a good innings’, ' before saying that “Most people who die have reached their time anyway.”
If true, these statements
gives us a picture of a Prime Minister
who thinks that our lives are governed
by some kind of cricket score card
with the twist that the scores are worked out
before the players take to the field.
When Johnson comes before the Inquiry,
perhaps the KC can press him on the point,
in particular by asking him
who it is who writes this score card and why.
When he gets an answer,
there's a follow-up question along the lines of
'So what's the point of doing anything to prevent
disease, poverty or war, anyway?'
(4)
Jolly old Boris
he always made us smile!
Seems like he was killing us
all the while!
