UPDATED Dominic Cummings specifically stated now in the press briefing that he had been eager to “get back to work to get vaccine deals through, move regulations aside” and that is why he drove to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight.
Now it may be entirely a coincidence that the place to which he chose to drive for his eyesight test happened to be the site of the major factory of GlaxoSmithKline. It may be an entire coincidence that two days later, on the very day Cummings actually started work back in Downing Street he has stated was “to get vaccine deals through”, GlaxoSmithKline announced an agreement to develop the vaccine.
It is however plainly not crazy to ask the question. This astonishing Twitter pile-on against Clive Lewis for retweeting my piece says something very worrying, when you consider that the large majority of those piling in are supposedly part of the “opposition” and include many journalists. A society where it is viewed as a sign of madness to look into the prospect of corruption involving a company as massively, provenly corrupt as GlaxoSmithKline and a figure as shady as Cummings, is a very unhealthy society indeed.
One red flag to me is the number of trolls claiming GlaxoSmithKline only has a small and remote office in Barnard Castle. This is not the entire site, and in a further £96 million investment two new blocks are in construction or recently finished:
So to return to my original posting:
In 2012 GlaxoSmithKline were fined $3 billion for fraud, overcharging and making false claims about medicines in the USA. In 2016, GlaxoSmithKline were fined £37.6 million in the UK for bribing companies not to produce generic copies of their out of patent drugs, thus overcharging the NHS.
Despite the fines, these frauds were still massively profitable for GlaxoSmithKline. A perfunctory search on the company brings up similar frauds and fines it perpetrated in South Africa and India. All this within the last decade. I cannot find any information that anyone was jailed, or even sacked, for these criminal activities. It is absolutely astonishing that such an habitually criminal enterprise carries on serenely in the UK. And what is particularly interesting today is that it carries on its crooked activity from its massive manufacturing and research base in Barnard Castle, County Durham.
On 12 April Dominic Cummings was seen in Castle Barnard during lockdown. Two days later, GlaxoSmithKline of Barnard Castle signed an agreement to develop and manufacture a Covid-19 vaccine with Sanofi of France.
Of course, that could be coincidence. As a child I lived in nearby Peterlee and I know families may go to Barnard Castle just for relaxation. Even when that is illegal. But GlaxoSmithKline Barnard Castle has been working 24/7 during the coronavirus crisis including the weekends. It was working.
The government’s extraordinary refusal to confirm or deny Cummings visit to Barnard Castle appears to make little sense if he just went there for a walk.
But surely if he was discussing Covid-19 vaccine business on behalf of the government, that would answer all the critics of his trip, would it not? They would want to trumpet it from the hills? I mean to believe otherwise, you would have to propound a crazed conspiracy theory. You would have to believe that criminal activity may be occurring again involving GlaxoSmithKline of the kind which might lead to fines of 37.6 million pounds for overcharging the NHS, or of three billion dollars for fraudulent medical claims in the USA. Nobody sane believes that kind of thing, do they?
UPDATED: I should never be surprised by the puerile nature of debate on the internet, but I frequently am. There appears to be organised pushback stating that this article is only speculation. Of course it is. It states a number of facts not generally known, and wonders if there is a connection. It does not claim to have proof Cummings visited GSK, let alone of what he did when there. But both GSK and Cummings are known bad actors.
The even sillier argument is that Barnard Castle is the research and manufacturing centre and not the corporate HQ and therefore no deal could have been done there. Because when a company is involved in a massive criminal conspiracy, as GSK undeniably was in the multi-billion fraud in the USA or its price-fixing to the NHS, such criminal actions obviously can only be arranged in the main London company boardroom during normal working hours with lots of people around and the maximum chance of inconvenient people finding out what is happening? That is a stupid argument.
Equally, those who claim I have uncovered a criminal conspiracy are wrong. I have not. All I have done is put together some circumstances around Cummings denied trip to Barnard Castle, that could potentially provide a more reasonable explanation for why he would take the risk of going there, and why the government would stake all politically on denying it, than a day trip for a walk for his wife’s birthday. I have not proven anything.
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Keep it up! Very interesting indeed!
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“UPDATED: I should never be surprised by the puerile nature of debate on the internet, but I frequently am. There appears to be organised pushback stating that this article is only speculation.”
Really? To “push back” against statements such as “On 12 April Dominic Cummings was seen in Castle Barnard during lockdown. Two days later, GlaxoSmithKline of Barnard Castle signed an agreement to develop and manufacture a Covid-19 vaccine with Sanofi of France.” is puerile?
How about:
1. GSK are working 24/7 on a vaccine, with or without hook-ups with other companies, because success means mega-profits, the simple logic of Capitalism.
2. BJ will do all he can to protect DC because he is vital for his post-Brexit plans including executive branch reforms, the simple logic of politics.
how does that refute the suggestion cummings may have been at the glaxo research base? i don’t follow your logic.
What I was trying to convey is that the simplest explanations are usually correct, especially in politics.
The only “conspiracies” that work are those that are not conspiracies at all. The 30-odd years it took for knowledge of Bletchley Park’s WW2 role to become public happened because all those involved believed in the project, i.e. it was ideologically based. Similarly, as Noam Chomsky repeatedly points out, there is no need for a “media conspiracy” to support Capitalism in general, and neo-liberalism in particular, because they all believe in it, i.e. they are ideologically aligned with the system.
In this case, DC thought that he didn’t have to follow the official guidance on coronavirus that everyone else chose to, got caught out and is being supported to within an inch of his political life by BJ because the latter feels that he is vital for his ‘project’. In other words, arrogance meets political expediency and fuck the general public, as the MSM seems to have unanimously concluded. No need for ‘Ripping Yarns’ or ‘Five Go Mad In Dorset’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Go_Mad_in_Dorset)-type shenanigans.
You seem to have completely missed the point. The puerile nature of the pushback lies not in the fact that it was there, as you are arguing – “Really? To “push back” against statements such as “On 12 April ….” – but the fact that the pushback consisted largely of arguments that what was being said was speculation, when no-one, least of all Craig, was trying to pretend it wasn’t. – “There appears to be organised pushback stating that this article is only speculation. Of course it is.”
Update : Cummings wife Mary Wakefield is a journalist on the Spectator. Towards the end of April she published an account in it of how the coronavirus had impacted the Cummings,-Wakefield household. It runs something like this. At end of March she started to feel unwell and was worried it might be the coronavirus so she phoned Cummings who rushed home to look after her and their 4 year old son Cedd. As it turned out she had only mild symptoms but Cummings was taken very poorly and remained so for the next 6 days while she looked after him and built polystyrene castles with Cedd. After 6 days when she was getting worried enough about him to thinking contacting hospital, he started to improve. Next thing they heard Boris had been taken into intensive care. Which was around ,6/7 April.
Polystyrene castles! Not cardboard buses?
Mrs Pau!
The plot thickens. Morag Cummings, his mother said that her brother who very much liked Dominic, died on 5th April when he was spotted in Durham. I do not know why this is relevant because the uncle died in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Whilst I would pass my condolences on to the Cummings family, I have no reason why this could be a mitigating factor for Dominic to be in Durham.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/dominic-cummings-trip-durham-coincided-18305879
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Laws_(judge)
He was 74, so I assume that Dominic’s parents would be in an at risk category, agewise for catching Covid-19, therefore, why would Dominic put his parents at risk by transporting 2 infected adults and a child to be with them?
If your wife was ill with Covid-19, would your first move be to take a 260 mile traipse up country in an enclosed space, with all the stress that involved? Did they have any stops for fuel or comfort breaks, where they could have infected other members of the public?
Thankyou to Craig for providing the Barnard information.
Either of these could well be true or even neither!
It’s up to each reader or follower of the story to decide the validity of each based on the facts that ARE known not supposition.
There is another possibility. What if Cunnings, ever the strategist, told Johnson in advance what he intended to do, in effect asking for permission? And what if Johnson, with his penchant for defying rules and regulations, blithely told him to go ahead? Of course there would have been caveats – e.g., ‘Don’t whateve you do let Joe Public catch you in flagrente’ — but once permission had been granted, the pair of them would have been in it together, and Johnson would have been unable to sack Cummings without exposing his own culpability.
Kuhnberg
Exactly what I think – well almost – I would say Cummings told him and it was then up to Johnson to have the courage to say no you are not doing that. Johnson, of course, being the coward he is bottled it.
I can’t imagine Cummings asking permission from Boris or anyone. He’s too full of his own self-importance.
I have much admiration for your blog on the subject of GSK & Cummings. It is ‘very interesting’, and you word it so well. A very good read indeed.
Boris Johnson, needs Cummings.
Cummings is the ideas man.
The idea as far as the Pandemic goes is and always has been herd immunity.
The only thing that got in the way was a panic that too many would get it too quickly.
Now the fear is it is on its last legs, so more now need to catch it, to build up a 50%+ herd immunity.
This keeps Cummings as Johnsons top man, annoys a lot of people, like the BBC and the bishops and the Labour Party, and gets us a chance to develope our vaccine and test it on willing home grown guinnea pigs.
As Cummings has flouted the rules, the rules are now meaningless, which is what Cummings and Johnson, now want.
Let it rip.
michael norton
Most reliable sources seem to think you would need between 70% to 90% to achieve herd immunity, which would mean tens of thousands more deaths. I hope to God they are not aiming for that, because I for one have not tired of this life just yet.
https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/achieving-herd-immunity-with-covid19.html
This is being promoted as a lovely walk through the bluebell woods near Barnard Castle, for Dominic Cummings and his family, so why am I suspicious? Driving 30 miles to the walk was definitely against the rules at the time. The public spirited person who spotted him, just happened to note the car registration- where? In the car park? What car park? I have been on lots of lovely walks near where I live, on public and cycle paths maintained by the Councils. (Thanks Councils). We meet and greet lots of young families, standing aside for cyclists who give us smiles and waves in return. It’s very uplifting, but I am not sure I would have recognised Dominic Cumming, in spite of his distinctive appearance. I would have assumed a lookalike if I encountered him hin an unexpected location. Car parks are usually at the start of the walk, so did this person spot Dominic Cumming getting out of his car? – or-perish the thought- was his visit to Barnard Castle anticipated?
Perhaps the public spirited citizen spotted Cummins and then, being unsure of his identity, followed him back to his car, taking the registration number which would allow the authorities to verify ownership of said vehicle – bingo – seemingly said vehicle is connected to Cummins, ergo public spirited citizen received confirmation as to the probable identity of the person he spotted where they shouldn’t be
This afternoon, Dominic Cummings stated his drive to Barnard Castle was to ‘test his eyesight’. Yes really! He had his wife and son in the car with him. He also stated they did not go for a walk, but spent some time sitting on a seat by the river. There’s something else going on here.
He may be a ‘known bad actor’ to some, but he’s a hero to a slight majority of others.
Your inference that all Brexit supporters are fans of Dominic Cummings does not really survive the Steve Baker test.
craig, you are quite correct.
Very interesting and thought provoking! Thank you.
Watching the News and looking at papers I thought Barnard Castle was just a tourist site. The main news channels must know about the connection between Barnard Castle and GlaxoSmithKline but have not mentioned it. Looking at the map it appears that GlaxoSmithKline research facility is over 500 meter away from the Castle. I guess a short taxi ride. The GlaxoSmithKline research facility have at the entrance the outline of a solider titled never forget. Is that never forget how profitable a good war can be.
Obviously no one from GlaxoSmithKline has gone to jail for there crimes that amount to at least murder in the second degree.
You can end up in jail for a minor drug charge. If you are in America and it is your third minor charge you can get life. Where yo can go to a for profit prison and be used as a slave to work for the rest of your life.
But if you are HSBC bank you can get caught laundering drug money. But no one goes to jail. You get a billion dollar fine but that’s the price of doing business.
Indeed. Until I read this blog I was under the impression that Cummings had done no more than say, take a trip to the Lake District.
You’d take a taxi 500 metres?
GSK have factory in Montrose. It has become a tradition in Montrose that the retire an employee early and get him elected to Angus Council. The present SNP GSM Councillor is called Duff AKA Swick.
Cllr Duff until he arrived in Montrose was active in the Tory party in Perthshire and had a Damascene conversion when he sussed that to get elected he would have to leave the Tories and join the Tartan Tories,this he did and now he works full time at getting himself elected to the Scottish Parliament. His time as a Cllr has shown that he cannot be trusted and this has lead to him being reported for malfeasance in public office.
I believe I know him – a very nice man. I am not too inclined to believe anything awful about him without further reason Rab – he gave me dinner in his home and organised a meeting for me!
https://www.thecanary.co/discovery/health/2017/11/09/distracted-government-just-gave-another-top-job-one-big-business-buddies/
“On Wednesday 8 November [2017] Theresa May’s government quietly made a new appointment to its ranks. But far from being an independent adviser, the person has come straight from one of the largest corporations on the planet. And to make matters worse, it is the second government appointment from this company in the space of a week.
Vallance’s CV offers another reason for his appointment. Because he is currently President of Research and Development (R&D) at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK); having joined the multinational in 2006, he was appointed to its Board in January. And Vallance is the second government appointment from GSK in the space of a week.
On 3 November, Sir Andrew Witty received the appointment of Chair of the NHS’ new Accelerated Access Collaborative, a programme designed to “speed up the time it takes for patients to benefit from ground-breaking products”. The programme will accelerate the time it takes new drugs to get from laboratories like GSK’s to the NHS. Witty was CEO of GSK from 2008 until March this year, and he now sits as a Director of private healthcare company UnitedHealth. UnitedHealth was NHS England boss Simon Steven’s former employer.
Did Cummings ever actually have Covid 19 or not? It seems he was too busy driving and doing deals in that period!
It’s always carefully stated that Cummings ‘developed coronavirus symptoms’. While Johnson and Hancock tested positive for the virus, there is no mention of Cummings testing positive or having a test at all.
One would think he’d be tested given his proximity to at least one serious case of Covid-19. Especially if he was concerned about his family.
There is also the possibility that he was tested and the result was negative but that would perhaps undermine his current narrative.
The motto on Cummings’ lanyard reads:
“In God We Trust, All Others We Monitor”. Which is the US Naval Intelligence’s motto.
Weird or what?
Why do Twitter attach this message ‘The following media includes potentially sensitive content’ to this photo of Cummings?
https://twitter.com/RhonaSimms/status/1264532696891621377/photo/1
Twitter in the UK has been under the control of Dara Nasr for the past seven years. He was previously with Google.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dara-nasr-33396a6/?originalSubdomain=uk
The chairman of Twitter is an American Iranian – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid_Kordestani
Mary, I read somewhere that the surname Cummings can be an issue on Twitter, or other social media due, to abbreviated use of that word in a sexual respect. Therefore when this all hit the fan at the end of last week the subject was not trending on Twitter as Twitter is designed to prevent sexual/pornographic content from trending. The warning with the photograph could be for the same reason.
Scoop Murray strikes again. Great stuff. Some very interesting comments too. What a shoddy den of thieves the Westminster administration, and it’s MSM courtiers are. What surprises me is the the rage expressed in the tabloids against DC. Seems that treating the press with utter contempt has a down side.
To be fair, utter contempt is the very least they deserve. Hopefully a few will be bankrupted by the lockdown.
This could get interesting. It would be worth checking for any private jets flying into Teesside International Airport on or around April 12th – there would be next to nothing coming and going from TIA in that time frame to muddy the waters. If there was a ‘signing off’ of some sort it would have been done by a senior Glaxo exec, not a UK based one. Hal Barron, Glaxo’s R&D head, would be the most likely candidate, he’s cited as their top traveling exec – mainly to the UK. His hotel bills alone for trips to the UK in 2018 were $294,547. Glaxo maintain their own vast fleet of executive jets as Glaxo Aviation Inc, the tail numbers are always suffixed ‘GX’
Pharma top travelling execs https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/pharma-s-top-jet-setting-executives-2018
That company is more powerful than most countries. Have you asked about flights into or out of TIA around that time on any plane-spotting or aviation heads’ forums?
I believe if you are a paying subscriber to Flightradar24 there is a back in time feature that allows you see what aircraft registrations arrived or left particular airports – where they came from, where they were going. Yes, it might be worth raising the question with a few aviation enthusiasts.
Dear Craig , Well done, for writing this article. We need more brave people like you. A real human being! Who has integrity, which is a rare commodity these days. I truly admire people like yourself. Because I do know, how dangerous it is. In exposing this “other parallel universe “, that is so evil! We just did not open our eyes to it. But we have now! Take care kind regards Taryn x
If anyone reading this is knowledgeable about Church of England politics they might go through the lists of bishops who have and haven’t weighed in against Dominic Cummings and assess them according to how far up the candle (“friendly with Rome”) they are, and if they are high up the candle then whether they’re chums with Opus Dei or the Jesuits or whoever. I suspect they may all be pretty low down the candle and basically be anti-GSK, viewing GSK as a long-term cooperator with Rome in hospitals around the world, but I haven’t got time to look at this.
Some will probably think this is ridiculous, but it is remarkable that so many bishops have publicly involved themselves in the “Cummings in the North” story, despite (like other religious leaders in Britain) having kept such a low profile during the Covid-19 upheaval, even allowing the government to run ceremonial clapping and mass-participation rainbow displays without their involvement. (Symbolic importance of the rainbow is noted.) You would have thought they would have wanted to give comfort to people during a plague. Isn’t giving comfort to those who are ill or dying or in hardship or distress one of the main functions of religion? Their appearance in this story requires explanation and didn’t “just happen”.
What’s in the vaccine? What’s in the plan for the vaccine?
For one point of entry, start here: “Ethicists have expressed concerns that the vaccine, developed at Oxford University, used cell lines obtained from an aborted child in the early 1970s.”
Interesting read, whatever the truth.
Thanks for your work, Craig! This Government has got away with far too much.
I’m still a little troubled Craig, despite your update comments you are doing what the conspiracy theorists all do: connecting people you don’t like together. It’s just that you don’t go Boom! afterwards as I saw on a twitter posted example which tried to link the Gates foundation (which they don’t like) to the Wuhan Institute of Technology while assuming their premise, that the virus was released from there was true. A classic circular example of begging the question.
You have done the same except using GSK’s dodgy past and someone we are pretty sure is dodgy. it’s lazy speculation and could have been done without the need for your update and triggering the conspiracy theorists.
BTW there is NO evidence the virus came from the WIV, we could tell if it did and all the Western virologists have said that the virus does not carry the telltale signs of having been worked on in a lab. That it came from the Wuhan wet markets is far and away the most likely source. Remember SARS came from the same place, which is why the WIV was set up, to monitor emerging viruses there.
On the contrary:
https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741
Circumstantial, but a huge coincidence if it did not come from the lab.
I strikes me that throughout the Salmond and now the Craig affair there has been the aroma of London. The incompetent drafting and fashionable if CIAish mud slinging all cheerled by the London rags. How No.10 must have gloated at the predicament created for these two, coupled with the more important self destructive SNP infighting and the portrayal of venerable Scottish institutions as incompetent, degenerate laughing stocks. Cui bono.
If anything this fiasco demonstrates and perhaps was designed to demonstrate we do not currently have the calibre of personnel in public office to be capable of successfully running a country.
Is there even evidence of a continuing Police Scotland, “Salmond Squad” or did the plod who announced himself as such do so with a Yorkshire accent. English plod have had the power to operate in Scotland for some time now. But I speculate, the movers and shakers within Scotland (and I am not referring to the parties (were they perjurers?) previously portrayed as victims, of whom I have no knowledge, jigsaw or otherwise) are all well acquainted with each other and feed at the same trough. Perhaps, like clockwork mice they have simply been wound up and let loose to scurry about randomly bumping into things.
If the seed was sown in London, with the notion that it might aid the Tories in Scotland that would not preclude the possibility of the involvement of a certain Mr Cummings. Otherwise I am at a loss as to the zest with which Craig has in lockstep with MSM seized upon the man’s domestic travel arrangements. Of course MSM is not so keen to shine a light on big pharma but it seems to me we are changing the subject, being distracted.
Meanwhile in the real world big pharma which is the real miracle worker of health continues to be a dreadful business, in which patents are far too short,the regulatory cycle is far too long, the cost of drug trials is far too high ( because doctors screw that as another nice little earner, not just the NHS)
It costs 500 million to bring a new successful drug to market. Most drugs and drug companies fail.. The company then has barely seven years to make it pay. So dose prices are far too high. Because patents are too short.
As a result of the pitiful returns, nobody wants to make originator drugs any more, they want to steal the IPR to make generics. That’s why there are no new antibiotics.
So mr Craig Murray : who is going to fund the next drugs . You?
Campaign for patent life to be longer, and do Barnard castle a favour.
Too funny ; Why not compare the research costs of big pharma with their advertising costs. You can start with GSK if you want. When they start spending more on research than adverts then maybe you will have a point 🙂
Cummings’ house. ‘Anti-elite’ my eye.
7 AUGUST, 2019
‘Anti-elite’ Dominic Cummings lives in £1.6 MILLION Islington townhouse
Downing Street chief and former Vote Leave boss lives in luxurious £1.6 million townhouse with a ‘tapestry room’ – and his wife’s family owns a castle.
https://www.theredroar.com/2019/08/revealed-anti-elite-dominic-cummings-lives-in-1-6-million-islington-townhouse/
Investigative journalism is key to any democracy!
Joining the dots and following the facts is necessary to determine the answers to: who – what – why – when – how!
The outcomes are conclusions which can the be tested against the facts and assumptions.
Well done. Good work. Keep calm and carry on challenging. We need a “George Galloway” challenger to the establishment.
I have mentioned in previous posts here Ben Goldacre’s book “Bad Pharma.” It gives a great insight into the shady practices of Big Pharma in multiple arenas. He also has a website badscience.net. He doesn’t seem to be active there since 2017 but is active here https://ebmdatalab.net/ with some interesting NHS stuff.
Big Pharma is about as upstanding and trustworthy as Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Tech and any other “Big” corporatised industry. It’s all about profit and there doesn’t seem to be any effective legislation to prevent and/or punish corporate behaviours that most of us would consider unethical. Similarly in politics, ethics doesn’t seem to exist. I often wonder how a “duty of candour” as applied to medical practitioners would work in politics and the corporate world.
https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations-enforcement/regulation-20-duty-candour
Big Pharma is however different from the other Big industries. You can choose not to smoke, choose not to use a car etc but you don’t get much choice when you are ill. You can choose to remain ill or die but that is not much of a choice. Drug treatments are commoditised. A huge portion of NHS costs are drugs. Worldwide £600 billion plus. Whilst the NHS is free at the point of service Big Pharma is extracting profit from the NHS. Excess profit. Much more so in the USA. It really is time that patents for drugs were overhauled. Is there any incentive in government given the large tax takes from companies such as GSK?
My rant aside, if the UK government is in talks with GSK about a Sar-Cov2 vaccine, is there necessarily anyhting wrong with that? I mean, shouldn’t they be in such talks with someone about a vaccine? Again, arguments about vaccines aside, shouldn’t government be pursuing a possible public health measure that might have huge significance? And why shouldn’t a British company be involved and facilitated by a British government?
As for Dominic Cummings, I don’t think he will be much longer in his role.
Thanks for the link to Ben Goldacres current stuff. Always used to read his old blog but as you say, been dead for years.
Well done, a sage, logical argument, thank you.
Of course, Cummings knows where all the bodies are buried so Johnson has no choice but to support him – damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. This is what happens when you’re mentally challenged and get into bed with the Devil !
My prophecy is that Cummings will, eventually, resign ‘to save the government from being distracted by this affair’, he’ll receive a large payoff and go and work for a large corporation (GSK).
I must say I wondered about that, too. It just struck me as odd that you would explain how you wanted to self-isolate at your elderly parents’ farm, then swan off again to Barnard Castle. I must admit that I did not know that the pharmaceutical industry was there, too, but, yes, it does raise more salient questions that have been posed thus far. Don’t expect the media to be asking these pertinent questions any time soon, though. The hypocrisy of the Scottish media and Unionist politicians, in particular, disgusts me after they bayed for the blood of Ms Calderwood and tried to tarnish the FM through her.
GSK is the last big league Pharma UK company left. Big pharma is hugely big and waging constant war to stay afloat. I believe there were once 400 plus major companies in world, now down to about 8. it may be less now. Developing a new product costs billions from lab to market and a failure can destroy a company. Boots went down that way years ago then snaffled by Bayer. It’s a rough world with sick people and health systems the victims.
Israel is now a big player. There have been many acquisitions.
‘Of particular importance is the lucrative US market, to which Israel is the fourth-largest supplier of pharmaceutical products. Over the last two decades, the value of Israeli pharma exports to the US spiked dramatically from $208m in 1997 to $5.4bn in 2012, according to data from Israel’s Ministry of Economy.’
The BoD boast – ‘One of my favourite statistics about surging British-Israel trade is that one out of every seven prescriptions filled by the NHS is sourced from Israeli pharmaceutical companies.
Even supplying Trump’s drug of choice to the US free of charge! How kind of them.
‘ Israel’s Teva donating potential COVID-19 treatment to US hospitals
Teva Pharmaceuticals to donate 6 million hydroxychloroquine tablets through wholesalers to hospitals by March 31, and 10 million within a month.’
https://www.israel21c.org/israels-teva-donating-potential-covid-19-treatment-to-us-hospitals/
The high dependence of the NHS on Israeli ethical drugs is just one of the symbols of deepening economic relationship between the UK and Israel which with the passage of time has the power to overcome the focus of diplomacy on settlements and Gaza and to reset the dial around commercial relationships.’ (2015)
https://www.bod.org.uk/the-israeli-drug-company-which-is-taking-on-the-world/
By the way, Peter Lee
http://www.peterloud.co.uk/photos/Miners_Banners/2012/Wheatley%20Hill_8389-h720.jpg
It pains me that my home town of Durham is being associated with this grubby incident
Does this highly secretive negotiation have anything to do with GSK buying the coal mine near its factory noted for its medical qualities in Barnard Castle , and using it to help develop a vaccine which will make the treated wastewater 100% pure?
THF, They were probably discussing how to suppress this line of reasoning;
https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1182/rr-10
Thanks, Bill.
Craig should use the money we gave him for his petition defense to buy up the mine.
If successful, it would put us all on easy street.