Has Boris finally played his last card?

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Rome Declaration​

We, Leaders of G20 and other states, in the presence of the Heads of international and regional organisations meeting at the Global Health Summit in Rome, May 21, 2021, having shared our experience of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, and welcoming relevant work in this regard, including that presented during the pre-Summit, today:

Reaffirm that the pandemic continues to be an unprecedented global health and socio-economic crisis, with disproportionate direct and indirect effects on the most vulnerable, on women, girls and children, as well as on frontline workers and the elderly. It will not be over until all countries are able to bring the disease under control and therefore, large-scale, global, safe, effective and equitable vaccination in combination with appropriate other public health measures remains our top priority, alongside a return to strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth.

Convey our condolences for lives lost and express our appreciation for healthcare and all frontline workers’ vital efforts in responding to the pandemic.

Welcome the World Health Organization’s (WHO) designation of 2021 as the Year of Health and Care Workers, and reaffirm our full support for the leading and coordinating role of the WHO in the COVID-19 response and the broader global health agenda.
Underline that sustained investments in global health, towards achieving Universal Health Coverage with primary healthcare at its centre, One Health, and preparedness and resilience, are broad social and macro-economic investments in global public goods, and that the cost of inaction is orders of magnitude greater.

Recognise the very damaging impact of the pandemic on progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). We reaffirm our commitment to achieving them to strengthen efforts to build back better (as in UNGA resolution, 11th September 2020), and to the
nternational Health Regulations 2005 (IHR), which together will improve resilience and global health outcomes.

Strongly underline the urgent need to scale up efforts, including through synergies between the public and private sectors and multilateral efforts, to enhance timely, global and equitable access to safe, effective and affordable COVID-19 tools (vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and personal protective equipment, henceforth ‘tools’). Recognise the necessity to underpin these efforts with strengthened health systems, recalling the G20 extraordinary Summit of 26 March 2020.

Recognising the role of extensive COVID-19 immunisation as a global public good, we reaffirm our support for all collaborative efforts in this respect, especially the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A). We underline the importance of addressing the ACT-A funding gap, in order to help it fulfil its mandate. We note the intention to conduct a comprehensive strategic review as basis for a possible adaptation and extension of its mandate to the end of 2022. We emphasise our support for global sharing of safe, effective, quality and affordable vaccine doses including working with the ACT-A vaccines pillar (COVAX), when domestic situations permit. We welcome the June 2021 COVID-19 Vaccines Advance Market Commitment (COVAX AMC) Summit and we note the Charter for Equitable Access to COVID-19 tools.

Note the COVAX Vaccine Manufacturing Working Group, supporting the COVAX Manufacturing Task Force, led by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), GAVI and UNICEF, that includes partners such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Medicines Patent
Pool. We affirm our support for efforts to strengthen supply chains and boost and diversify global vaccine-manufacturing capacity, including for the materials needed to produce vaccines, including by sharing risks, and welcome the vaccines technology transfer hub launched by the WHO. We ask the Working Group and Task Force to report on their progress to the G20 in time for the Leaders’ Summit in October. This report will be informed by the WTO and other international stakeholders and organisations, consistent with their mandates and decision-making rules, on how to improve equitable access in the current crisis.

Applaud the unprecedented achievement of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines within one year, and highlight the importance of continued investment in research and innovation, including in multilateral and other collaborative efforts, to further accelerate the development of safe and effective tools.

Underline the importance of working with all relevant public and private partners rapidly to increase the equitable availability of tools and to enhance access to them. Short-term options include: sharing existing products, including of vaccines through COVAX; Diversifying production capacity; Identifying and addressing bottlenecks in production; Facilitating trade and transparency across the entire value chain; Promoting increased efficiency in the use of capacities and global distribution by cooperation and expansion of existing capacities, including by working consistently within the TRIPS agreement and the 2001 Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health; and Promoting the use of tools such as voluntary licencing agreements of intellectual property, voluntary technology and know-how transfers, and patent pooling on mutually-agreed terms.

Welcome high-level political leadership for preparedness and response in relation to health emergencies. Note proposals on a possible international instrument or agreement with regards to pandemic prevention and preparedness, in the context of the WHO, and efforts by the WHO, World
Organisation for Animal Health, Food and Agriculture Organisation, United Nations Environment Programme and others in relation to strengthening the implementation of the One Health approach through their One Health High-Level Expert Panel.

Beyond these statements in view of the ongoing pandemic, we set out principles and guiding commitments below. These serve as voluntary orientation for current and future action for global health to support the financing, building, and sustaining of effective health system capabilities and capacities and Universal Health Coverage to improve preparedness, early warning of, prevention, detection, coordinated response, and resilience to, and recovery from, the current pandemic and future potential public health emergencies.

These mutually reinforcing principles reconfirm our commitment to global solidarity, equity, and multilateral co-operation; to effective governance; to put people at the centre of preparedness and equip them to respond effectively; to build on science and evidence-based policies and create trust; and to promote sustained financing for global health.

from global health summit europa eu rome declaration en

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

 

[casiquaire]

Had Boris not just recovered from Covid?
Back then, the thinking was, if you had had Covid you would be immune.
Making out these hypocrites were not following lockdown rules because the virus isn't deadly, (overlooking the fact that Boris had recently been in an ICU for days, and looked like the walking dead for ages after) is clutching at straws.

Well hes claiming hes had it (this is the problem with liars like Boris and their facts....), but what about the 100 odd other people going in and out of these parties, do we know they all had covid so were able to hide behind the thought pattern of "ive had covid so im immune"........i dont buy that tbh and we have no way of knowing how many of them believed theyd had covid. Im suggesting that they were simply hiding behind the knowledge that according to their scientists/doctors that you had a slim to none chance of it killing you if you were relatively fit and healthy and when you look at the figures of people dying directly from it with no other factors thats supposed to be true, isnt the average age about 80..........yet they told us a different story. Its the disproportionate rules and regulations thats caused unknown misery throughout this country while theyve been popping bottles and sneering and laughing at us while we are locked in our houses which is the issue.

 

[SamBally]

Had Boris not just recovered from Covid?
Back then, the thinking was, if you had had Covid you would be immune.
Making out these hypocrites were not following lockdown rules because the virus isn't deadly, (overlooking the fact that Boris had recently been in an ICU for days, and looked like the walking dead for ages after) is clutching at straws.

Which is an important observation.

This is a complex multi-layered situation which when broken down into its individual components, as more information slowly emerges, paints a very different picture. Allegedly party discipline rapidly declined when Boris was extremely sick and after he sacrificed his right-hand man Dominic Cummings and there are persistent rumours within political circles that the PM's health has never fully recovered.

The tory party much like labour is a so-called 'broad church' and the 1922 Committee of right-wing backbenchers wields enormous influence. The vultures on the right started hovering the moment they sensed a weakness in Boris. Covid 19 in that context was the catalyst but was not responsible for the dissatisfaction at the direction Boris was leading the party. Boris got Brexit done, that was his brief and he was never going to be tolerated once he attempted to steer the tory party in a more 'centrist' "leveling up" direction irrespective of Covid or not.

Tory MPs and staffers having inappropriate piss ups was of course nothing to do with any ridiculous Covid 19 conspiracy and all to do with prevailing preexisting attitudes within the tory party (and the political class) "do as we say not as we do".

 

[Saphire]

Well hes claiming hes had it (this is the problem with liars like Boris and their facts....), but what about the 100 odd other people going in and out of these parties, do we know they all had covid so were able to hide behind the thought pattern of "ive had covid so im immune"........i dont buy that tbh and we have no way of knowing how many of them believed theyd had covid. Im suggesting that they were simply hiding behind the knowledge that according to their scientists/doctors that you had a slim to none chance of it killing you if you were relatively fit and healthy and when you look at the figures of people dying directly from it with no other factors thats supposed to be true, isnt the average age about 80..........yet they told us a different story. Its the disproportionate rules and regulations thats caused unknown misery throughout this country while theyve been popping bottles and sneering and laughing at us while we are locked in our houses which is the issue.

Well if that's your opinion, you of course are entitled to it.
However, pre vaccination programme, I know of four people who died with Covid, none of them were in their 70's or 80's, two had no underlying illness, the other two would no doubt have lived for many years with their pre-existing conditions had they not caught Covid.

Do you also think the nurses and Dr's in the hospital where Boris was 'said' to be in the ICU, went along with the great deception too?

 

[casiquaire]

Well if that's your opinion, you of course are entitled to it.
However, pre vaccination programme, I know of four people who died with Covid, none of them were in their 70's or 80's, two had no underlying illness, the other two would no doubt have lived for many years with their pre-existing conditions had they not caught Covid.

Do you also think the nurses and Dr's in the hospital where Boris was 'said' to be in the ICU, went along with the great deception too?

Well i know he did wheel out two nurses at the time who he gave glowing remarks to so who knows, but there lies the problem if you are caught out as a liar, youre going to have people questioning every thing youve ever said or done, even if things end up being true. Its about trust. The man simply cannot be trusted, he could have been at deaths door, it doesnt excuse his subsequent behaviour and that was the overall point of my remark, theres been deception and it hasnt been for the greater good either.

 

[AGirlHasNoName]

 

[Saphire]

Well i know he did wheel out two nurses at the time who he gave glowing remarks to so who knows, but there lies the problem if you are caught out as a liar, youre going to have people questioning every thing youve ever said or done, even if things end up being true. Its about trust. The man simply cannot be trusted, he could have been at deaths door, it doesnt excuse his subsequent behaviour and that was the overall point of my remark, theres been deception and it hasnt been for the greater good either.

I don't disagree, Boris a liar and a hypocrite.
I don't for one minute believe he wasn't in the ICU with Covid, and I know from my own experiences that people who had no underlying illnesses, and also people who were far younger than octogenarians, caught covid and sadly died from it.

 

[BlackMagicBabeXx]

Rome Declaration​

We, Leaders of G20 and other states, in the presence of the Heads of international and regional organisations meeting at the Global Health Summit in Rome, May 21, 2021, having shared our experience of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, and welcoming relevant work in this regard, including that presented during the pre-Summit, today:

Reaffirm that the pandemic continues to be an unprecedented global health and socio-economic crisis, with disproportionate direct and indirect effects on the most vulnerable, on women, girls and children, as well as on frontline workers and the elderly. It will not be over until all countries are able to bring the disease under control and therefore, large-scale, global, safe, effective and equitable vaccination in combination with appropriate other public health measures remains our top priority, alongside a return to strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth.

Convey our condolences for lives lost and express our appreciation for healthcare and all frontline workers’ vital efforts in responding to the pandemic.

Welcome the World Health Organization’s (WHO) designation of 2021 as the Year of Health and Care Workers, and reaffirm our full support for the leading and coordinating role of the WHO in the COVID-19 response and the broader global health agenda.
Underline that sustained investments in global health, towards achieving Universal Health Coverage with primary healthcare at its centre, One Health, and preparedness and resilience, are broad social and macro-economic investments in global public goods, and that the cost of inaction is orders of magnitude greater.

Recognise the very damaging impact of the pandemic on progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). We reaffirm our commitment to achieving them to strengthen efforts to build back better (as in UNGA resolution, 11th September 2020), and to the
nternational Health Regulations 2005 (IHR), which together will improve resilience and global health outcomes.

Strongly underline the urgent need to scale up efforts, including through synergies between the public and private sectors and multilateral efforts, to enhance timely, global and equitable access to safe, effective and affordable COVID-19 tools (vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and personal protective equipment, henceforth ‘tools’). Recognise the necessity to underpin these efforts with strengthened health systems, recalling the G20 extraordinary Summit of 26 March 2020.

Recognising the role of extensive COVID-19 immunisation as a global public good, we reaffirm our support for all collaborative efforts in this respect, especially the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A). We underline the importance of addressing the ACT-A funding gap, in order to help it fulfil its mandate. We note the intention to conduct a comprehensive strategic review as basis for a possible adaptation and extension of its mandate to the end of 2022. We emphasise our support for global sharing of safe, effective, quality and affordable vaccine doses including working with the ACT-A vaccines pillar (COVAX), when domestic situations permit. We welcome the June 2021 COVID-19 Vaccines Advance Market Commitment (COVAX AMC) Summit and we note the Charter for Equitable Access to COVID-19 tools.

Note the COVAX Vaccine Manufacturing Working Group, supporting the COVAX Manufacturing Task Force, led by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), GAVI and UNICEF, that includes partners such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Medicines Patent
Pool. We affirm our support for efforts to strengthen supply chains and boost and diversify global vaccine-manufacturing capacity, including for the materials needed to produce vaccines, including by sharing risks, and welcome the vaccines technology transfer hub launched by the WHO. We ask the Working Group and Task Force to report on their progress to the G20 in time for the Leaders’ Summit in October. This report will be informed by the WTO and other international stakeholders and organisations, consistent with their mandates and decision-making rules, on how to improve equitable access in the current crisis.

Applaud the unprecedented achievement of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines within one year, and highlight the importance of continued investment in research and innovation, including in multilateral and other collaborative efforts, to further accelerate the development of safe and effective tools.

Underline the importance of working with all relevant public and private partners rapidly to increase the equitable availability of tools and to enhance access to them. Short-term options include: sharing existing products, including of vaccines through COVAX; Diversifying production capacity; Identifying and addressing bottlenecks in production; Facilitating trade and transparency across the entire value chain; Promoting increased efficiency in the use of capacities and global distribution by cooperation and expansion of existing capacities, including by working consistently within the TRIPS agreement and the 2001 Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health; and Promoting the use of tools such as voluntary licencing agreements of intellectual property, voluntary technology and know-how transfers, and patent pooling on mutually-agreed terms.

Welcome high-level political leadership for preparedness and response in relation to health emergencies. Note proposals on a possible international instrument or agreement with regards to pandemic prevention and preparedness, in the context of the WHO, and efforts by the WHO, World
Organisation for Animal Health, Food and Agriculture Organisation, United Nations Environment Programme and others in relation to strengthening the implementation of the One Health approach through their One Health High-Level Expert Panel.

Beyond these statements in view of the ongoing pandemic, we set out principles and guiding commitments below. These serve as voluntary orientation for current and future action for global health to support the financing, building, and sustaining of effective health system capabilities and capacities and Universal Health Coverage to improve preparedness, early warning of, prevention, detection, coordinated response, and resilience to, and recovery from, the current pandemic and future potential public health emergencies.

These mutually reinforcing principles reconfirm our commitment to global solidarity, equity, and multilateral co-operation; to effective governance; to put people at the centre of preparedness and equip them to respond effectively; to build on science and evidence-based policies and create trust; and to promote sustained financing for global health.

from global health summit europa eu rome declaration en

Phew i nearly fell asleep reading all that lol totally zombied now like Boris

 

[MajesticMR]

If so, should he resign? (bet he doesn't) Should he be fired and charged with law breaking?
Or is this all just a big storm in a teacup...he has apologised, and he only acted how many other people acted when they bent the lockdown rules a bit?

he hasn't even had to get a hair cut this whole time I doubt he'd be penalized for anything lol

 

[BlackMagicBabeXx]

He imposed the bliddy lockdown he had no right to bend his own rules tsk

 

[Wojcik]

If so, should he resign? (bet he doesn't) Should he be fired and charged with law breaking?
Or is this all just a big storm in a teacup...he has apologised, and he only acted how many other people acted when they bent the lockdown rules a bit?

Well if he does resign, i expect those who also broke lockdown rules to also resign and be charged with breaking the law. Do i think this will happen? Of course not. While they were telling the public how dangerous this so called virus was, and implementing these rules where people were shut in their homes, they were out partying and having a good old time.

There could be a motion of no confidence tabled, but i don't think we'll see that until May at the local elections, where they may finally seal Boris' fate.
But just like Theresa May and her Pmship, it's very difficult to vote out a leader of a political party because politicians who do know that their seats are likely at stake in an election.

 

[Saphire]

Well if he does resign, i expect those who also broke lockdown rules to also resign and be charged with breaking the law. Do i think this will happen? Of course not. While they were telling the public how dangerous this so called virus was, and implementing these rules where people were shut in their homes, they were out partying and having a good old time.

There could be a motion of no confidence tabled, but i don't think we'll see that until May at the local elections, where they may finally seal Boris' fate.
But just like Theresa May and her Pmship, it's very difficult to vote out a leader of a political party because politicians who do know that their seats are likely at stake in an election.

Another problem is...vote out one buffoon...but which buffoon do you vote for to replace him ?

 

[Moriarty]

He imposed the bliddy lockdown he had no right to bend his own rules tsk

Obviously he knew the threat wasnt real, or politicians are immune to covid?

Just for chuckles

 

[Wojcik]

Another problem is...vote out one buffoon...but which buffoon do you vote for to replace him ?

Exactly. Whether a blue or red rosette wins or loses, it doesn't really matter. It's all the same.

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Police interview Johnson in reference to Downing Street parties held during lockdown.