"Britain’s unspoken vice is elite secrecy, but we are waking up to how long we have been taken for fools"

Telegraph: 20th May 2024: Sherelle Jacobs writes on what the blood scandal tells us about how the elites really view us

"...Taken in isolation... national outrages... the infected blood disaster... the Post Office disgrace... the pandemic response, elicit an impotent shiver of revulsion from a deferential, if disillusioned, nation... 

With the release of the Infected Blood Inquiry’s report, we are left to process the revelation that the NHS is not so much a sacred institution as a corrupted priesthood. 

...If there was something seedily mafia-esque about the subterfuge that characterised the Post Office scandal, the cover-up surrounding the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history has whiffs of impudent zealotry... speaks to an enduring culture of cover-up that... is still endemic in the NHS, with hospitals still hiding evidence of poor care...

...an ossified bureaucracy has “learnt” how to preserve itself from democratic scrutiny – burying errors under layers of obfuscation planted by generations of civil servants who stick to an “authorised account of events”...

...Britain’s crisis of institutions is becoming dangerous. It is impossible to ignore the fact that an archaic, entrenched, corrupted bureaucracy...

FULL ARTICLE HERE