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ARCHIVE JULY 2002

Aug 10 ~ Reform of the House of Lords has slipped into the clutches of spin doctors.

Aug 10 ~ " New Labour has shown itself to be horribly old Labour in its often visceral distaste for the countryside"

Aug 10 ~ day of protest on hold

Aug 9 ~"..there are many people like me who have watched DEFRA manipulate data and refuse to answer reasonable questions over the last 12 months.."

Aug 9 ~ "..the announcement was widely regarded as a cynical 11th-hour attempt to stave off a national day of action by farmers on Monday.

Aug 9 ~ "The Drummond Report will make you mad when you read it. It is so relevant.... Feb 1999..."

Aug 9 ~ A proper investigation into CSF would be bound to throw light on the origins of FMD ...

Aug 9 ~ "...will remain in place until permanent rules are brought into force early next year. "

Aug 9 ~ Which vets and scientists say so?

Aug 9 ~ 20 day standstill is tinkered with - just enough to confuse

Aug 9 ~ Where is the honest broker who can draw all the strands together?

Aug 9 ~" I am sorry if I sound irritated by your reply to my letter: there are many people like me who have watched DEFRA manipulate data and refuse to answer reasonable questions over the last 12 months;

Aug 9 ~ "The government are in no doubt that much of the contiguous cull was illegal,"

Aug 8 ~ "...DEFRA are already considering the LLI Report and the RS Report on FMD and selectively choosing which policies it wishes to take forward."

Aug 8 ~ Not "hindsight", Mrs Beckett. Not "entirely consistent with the information and advice then available." The Drummond report (new page) was in government hands in February 1999, but "not implemented because of lack of resources .." and "it is enough to make one gasp. ..."

Aug 8 ~ "The Drummond Report (1999) ...predicts virtually every disaster that befell the Government

Aug 8 ~ The legality of the killing: Byrne, Brown and Campbell

Aug 7 ~ Meacher dropped on the orders of Alistair Campbell?

Aug 7 ~"a good media performer

Aug 7 ~ Downing Street Dirty Tricks

Aug 6 ~ No 20 day movement ban in Korea.

Aug 6 ~ Will no one rid me of these turbulent peers?

Aug 5 ~ "How can there be ANY excuse for ignorance?"

Aug 5 ~"Emergency Vaccination: "The Government should prepare the regulatory framework and practical arrangements

Aug 5 ~ "We have been unable to establish the precise rationale for the target of 48 hours, nor ascertain the source of that timescale" wrote Dr Iain Anderson (page 93)

Aug 5 ~ Professor King still says he "sees no reason yet to switch from the established slaughter policy"

Aug 5 ~ The Science Committee, the modellers and Page Street disregarded Dr Donaldson's work.

Aug 5 ~ Why did the Science Group enlist the support of the NFU against vaccination?

Aug 4 ~ The Science Group had enjoyed enormous power without any formal responsibility (Dr David Shannon)

Aug 4 ~" the truth has a habit of biting people when they least expect it"

Aug 3 ~ FARMERS : WE WILL PARALYSE BRITAIN!

Aug 3 ~ "To be fair to Ian Anderson"

Aug 3 ~ Brussels FMD DECISION DELAYED

Aug 2 ~ red tape will wreck livelihoods.

August 2 ~ Excuses and evasions are unacceptable

August 2 ~ "..200 pages of bland waffle, complete with those pretty pictures, the Anderson report performs the miracle of airbrushing

August 1 ~ The fallacies - 1 Contiguous culling without testing was legal under EU law. (It wasn't)

August 1 ~ The fallacies - 2. Contiguous culling was necessary even if animals appeared healthy. (It wasn't)

Aug 1 ~ The fallacies - 3. Eighty per cent (80%) of cases were transmitted by local infection. (We don't know. Defra won't release the information)

Aug 1 ~ Precise details of how 88% of IPs became infected have not been published by DEFRA

August 1 ~ "The Government should be able to justify its statements.... using the actual epidemic data for this outbreak"

August 1 ~ Lessons Learned misreports FMD proved premises by an extra 33%

August 1 ~ It wasn't the scale of this epidemic that was unprecedented, it was the scale of the unnecessary slaughter.

August 1 ~ The contiguous cull did nothing to bring the disease under control

August 1 ~ "the British consumer must be made aware of how fragile food production is in the UK. It is on a knife-edge at the moment."

Aug 1 ~" the FMD experience shows that the grossest actions of the government can be glossed over with spin..."

July 31/Aug 1 ~ "If Dr Anderson has been misled then any of his conclusions regarding the scale of the epidemic and the culling policies adopted are not valid"

July 31/Aug 1 ~ The most likely explanation is that the UK epidemic actually started at least a week earlier: that is around 1 February 2001

July 31 ~" ..an affront that your veterinary and scientific advisers can meddle with people's lives ...."

July 30 ~"It's much easier just to go on looking at our own toecaps, while not noticing the elephant in the room"

July 30 ~ The line-up of those invited to private meetings with Dr Anderson -with the very obvious exception of warmwell and NFMG - looks like Tony Blair's Christmas card list

July 29/30 ~The hurrying through of this bill to give retrospective legality to a massacre that was both callous and unnecessary, shows how much the government realised the illegality of the measures.

July 29 ~ "The tongueless man gets his land took" (old saying)

July 29 ~ Margaret Beckett's Office continues to duck and weave

July 28 ~ MAGNUS LINKLATER: So that's it then - no one to blame for F&M disaster

July 28 ~ "the NFU should be treated for what it is ... a busted flush" ( Jonathan Dimbleby today)

July 28 ~ Britain should already have been equipped and obliged by law to carry out a full-scale emergency vaccination programme within days of the first outbreak being identified. ....

July 28 ~ "with respect to investigation of origin and spread" No one took any notice! A memo dated July 18 2000 SIX MONTHS before the government became aware that the worst had indeed happened, a disregarded warning from Mr J M Scudamore

July 28 ~ "Complacency caused them to be unprepared, even though officials knew that the disease was an increasing threat."

July 28 ~" if animals on these farms had been exposed to foot and mouth virus visible signs of disease would have been apparent "

July 27 ~ Et Tu Farmers Guardian?

July 27 ~" I simply can not believe that it is impossible to identify the person who instituted the 3k cull"

July 27 ~ "Will the Minister explain why we need to speed up this plan?

July 26/7 ~ Why this haste?

July 26 ~" I am not alone in having serious doubts about what the Government seek to do in Part 2 of the Bill.

July 26 ~ "There is absolutely no evidence that there is any BSE in sheep, and it's not that people haven't been looking. They have, but they haven't found it." ( Professor Hugh Pennington, eminent Aberdeen University bacteriologist)

July 26 ~ Resolved in the negative, and amendment disagreed to accordingly

July 26 ~ The Lessons Learned Inquiry failed to act on the recommendation of the Northumberland Report; to listen to dissenting voices.

July 26 ~ "Why did the LL Inquiry ignore the EU Decision relating to compensation for vaccination and vaccinated animals?"

July 26 ~ If the Bill is passed it will pave the way for the government to use.... pre-emptive slaughter policies such as the contiguous cull during future disease outbreaks.

July 26 ~ "I think we need to move on"

July 26 ~ the Inquiries should "conduct themselves transparently, taking evidence from as many sources as possible in public unless there are very clear reasons not to do so."

July 25 ~ "A few humble words of regret and apology would have moved mountains"

July 25 ~ "The last thing Defra ministers can afford to admit is the truth: that the contiguous cull, although never properly tested in the courts, was a straightforward criminal act committed by a British government on a massive scale." Private Eye

July 25 ~ Today Lord Whitty will try to convince the House of Lords that they must debate in Committee the scrapie clauses of the Animal Health Bill.

July 25 ~ "I'm not scared of this Government, as I can't think of anything else they could possibly do to make my life any worse than they already have done."

July 25 ~ "Anderson does genuflect toward the case for vaccination but he seems to shy away from the impications of his analysis"

July 25 ~ "Ministers were interviewed by Dr Anderson..... But we, the public, are not allowed to know what he asked them or what their answers were..."

July 24 ~ Fordyce is suffering from FMD battle fatigue

July 24 ~ "what faith can we put in the prospects of the more equivocal recommendations of Dr Iain Anderson?"

July 24 ~ "10 million dead animals, a wrecked rural economy and countless ruined lives, those who insisted on the absurd, heartless and bewildering cull should resign."

July 24 ~ Animal Health Bill to make its unwelcome return tomorrow

July 24 ~ p 50 and 52 of The Lessons Learned Inquiry report do not tie in with the Dutch explanation given to the Veterinary Standing Committee 3/04/01

July 23 ~ The Western Morning News have published this letter from a thoroughly exasperated Nick Green in Cumbria

July 23 ~ Latest Warmwell updates not available to many users.

July 23 ~ "The victims of this epidemic, the farmers, were smeared as the villains. Dodgy farming practices were blamed for the outbreak.."

July 23 ~ Factual Error in LLI report

July 23 ~ Anderson puts down the red carpet for the Animal Health Bill

July 23 ~ Were the people in Number 10 fools or knaves?

July 23 ~ " laughable in its naive acceptance of the prim official version."

July 22/23 ~ National Foot and Mouth Group: Despair at Lessons Learned Inquiry Report

July 22 ~ Anderson Inquiry whitewash over contiguous cull

July 22 ~ The Anderson Inquiry fails to understand the nature of the lost opportunity of rapid diagnosis

July 22 ~ Anderson slates poor record keeping which made "the task of constructing an audit trail extremely difficult in some vital policy areas, including the contiguous and 3 km culls"

July 22 ~ Anderson: "At times there were polarised views within the group but no convincing mechanism for handling conflicts of opinion.

July 22 ~ Anderson: "We have ..formed a view that the option of vaccination should be a part of any future strategy for the control of FMD.

July 22 ~ "The RSI report agreed with everything we (NFU) had said!" (Ben Gill, on BBC TV this morning at the Welsh Agric. Show, Builth Wells )

July 22 ~ The sub text of the RS report contains the real criticisms

July 22 ~ The Report of the Lessons Learned Inquiry will be published on today at 4 p.m..

July 22 ~"There will be resignation calls, but no one will go"

July 22 ~ "But Dr Anderson's 200-page report has not come to a conclusion on the most pressing question: whether the Prime Minister delayed calling in the Army because he wanted to avoid the impression of a nation in crisis before the general election."

July 22 ~ "Did political motives and concern over the General Election date influence ministerial decisions?" asks David Lidington,

July 21 ~Why did all those in charge behave so irrationally?

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