The release of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages from the British government cabinet members is the most monumental crack in the dam of silence of any government to date. Those who choose to bury their heads in the sand, dismissing this as a “UK problem”, are beyond naive. The messages are very likely emblematic of what occurred in every government around the world that followed the cruel, non-fact based lockdown, mask, and vaccine policies.
Here are some key links to follow this breaking story:
- The primary source, from The Telegraph
- An interview with Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who made the WhatsApp messages public
- Related interview with Richard Tice
- The BBC’s analysis of the leaked messages
- This past week’s Planet Normal podcast that focuses, in part, on the revelations
Here are the words of Planet Normal listeners, whose messages were read aloud:
Political expediency always seemingly trumps transparency. What Matt Hancock meant by his protective ring around care homes was really to say that the country was woefully unprepared but we are scrambling around, doing the best we can with limited resources, instead of frankly lying. This was compounded by dogmatic drowning out of dissenting voices such as The Great Barrington Declaration. The government, therefore, deserves no slack whatsosever. It imposed utterly draconian controls on the population, ruthlessly enforced by the police to the minutiae, whilst electing to ignore and denigrate respected epidemiologists. Meanwhile, Hancock played his opt-out Joker card, pleading the love my life, a new relationship gambit. Tawdry conduct.
Lockdown was comfortably the most spectacularly moronic Public Health policy enacted in recorded history. A failure that could have been avoided by the basic safety net of a cost-benefit analysis. Instead we had a government of scientifically illiterate cowards slavishly following popularity polls. We have a political class composed of liars, charlatans, and dross united in utter and complete ineptitude. And now we are paying the price:
- Excess deaths due to the NHS turning itself into a single disease service are now costing far more life years than were ever supposedly saved.
- Isn’t it typical of Conservatives/Labour that the Covid inquiry is already a very slow running joke.
- Civil servants names have been blocked out.
The sad fact is our politicians and civil service mandarins are utterly third-rate trash. We deserve better.

