I understand that our glorious leader, having once sold a large amount of our gold reserves off at a knock down price (at the bottom of the market), is about to flog off some large stocks of flu retrovirus treatments (Tamiflu et al).Oddly enough, Nanny's predicted Swine Flu epidemic didn't quite kill off vast swathes of the population. Nanny is now sitting on vast stockpiles of Tamiflu etc, which of course she will not be able to sell at the price she bought them for.
Someone, somewhere, did very well out of this "epidemic". However, it certainly wasn't the British taxpayer!
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ReplyDeleteKen, you are being far too easy on Buck Frown by saying "... our glorious leader, having once sold a large amount of our gold reserves off at a knock down price (at the bottom of the market)..." He waited for the market to stabilise on the floor then announced in advance he was going to sell off several tranches of gold, so pushing the price down into the lower basement.
ReplyDeleteIn view of his handling of this Tamiflu busimess, not to mention his selling off of our gold reserves at such a 'favourable' rate to this country, would it be uncharitable of me if I stated that I would not trust him to run an icecream stall on Brighton beach during the high season, and in the middle of a heatwave?
ReplyDeleteIn view of his handling of this Tamiflu busimess, not to mention his selling off of our gold reserves at such a 'favourable' rate to this country, would it be uncharitable of me if I stated that I would not trust him to run an icecream stall on Brighton beach during the high season, and in the middle of a heatwave?
ReplyDeleteThey should really stockpile what they have left as there will undoubtedly be another meat product related flu scare next year.
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ReplyDeleteIn 2003, I had the pleasure of meeting at a social occasion a guy who had worked for Don Rumsfeld years before in the pharmaceutical business. He did indeed confirm that Rumsfeld, though a hopelessly incompetent CEO, was quite adept at using his political connections to advance the interests of Searle, the company which he headed. This, in effect, was what he was being paid for. I wouldn't be surprised by anything that Rumsfeld got up to. Oh, and by the way, like our current president, he's a product of Chicago-style politics at its finest.
The story I saw was that there was a huge stockpile of Tamiflu nearing its use-by date and that - as with the previous bird 'flu scare - swine 'flu conveniently popped up so that it was a cinch for the manufacturers to offload the drug onto the US government.
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