Self-Sufficiency in Style

stop the world?

part seven

In parts one to six we introduced you to Britain's Swine Fever and Foot and Mouth epidemics and made some startling claims about their worldwide significance. 

The writer introduced himself and his wife into the story and told you that a government veterinary surgeon faked a blood test and travelled between clean and infected farms.

We told you how the police warned us to be careful and how we used many different channels of complaint, even notifying a Select Committee of the House of Commons that there was a cover-up under way.

We introduced the possibility that Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of England was involved - and risked ridicule.

Today, nobody is laughing at the writer, St James's Palace is in disarray with a whole series of allegations.

Our pigs were killed by the government and an attempt was made to force us from our home. We attempted to secure the protection of the House of Commons.

We had emailed a copy of our complaint to the Chief Veterinary Officer to the Select Committee and added a request for their protection.

Later that day, we received an email from the Divisional Veterinary Manager of Dumfries and Galloway (500 miles away in Scotland.) 

It was obviously an attempt to reassure us without admitting anything. 

It told us that the "Mr.X", who had behaved so disgracefully, had been replaced. The new man introduced himself at length in a most reassuring way.

It went on to confirm that the original, and legal, cleansing operation would be reinstated and sought our co-operation. The former SAS Major was to be replaced by Ministry staff.

No reference was made to our complaints, either in respect of the original blood test faking or the intimidation. The letter was obviously carefully drafted.

We breathed a heartfelt sigh of relief and emailed back promising our full co-operation.

Before the readers start to relax, Mr. X was to reappear during the subsequent Foot and Mouth Epidemic. 

He has been rewarded for his efforts by promotion and is now one of Britain's top veterinary civil servants.

The only possible conclusion is that he was acting under orders.

The instruction that we were to be forced from our home had come from the top.

Scotland is to appear in this story many times and in different roles.

We had the full attention of the DVM from Scotland and an accompanying Veterinary Officer.

There were a number of email exchanges on the Sunday. This included a request from us for protection from the Major, who had been in touch yet again on the telephone. The new DVM took charge of that matter.

The new team travelled down from Scotland overnight, stopped at the HQ for the Swine Fever epidemic at Bury St. Edmunds and arrived at Hangman's Cottage by appointment on Tuesday.

The two visitors obviously knew who the complaint of blood test faking lay against, even though we had not discriminated between the two sets of tests for fear of encouraging falsification of the records.

The Veterinary Officer produced a handwritten report, we later learned this was in his own handwriting - and that it had been compiled from the official government records at Bury St Edmunds.

It was a bombshell - completely unexpected. There was the evidence of faking - completely obvious.

The report was handwritten.

The report showed THREE.

We knew that the strange vet had been ordered to take one blood test from the sow and one from twenty percent of the offspring (see Stop the World - Part Three).

We could not forget it. The writer had actually told them that twenty percent of four piglets was one. The two assistants were witnesses.

She had actually taken successfully two tests, both from piglets, labeling one as being from the sow, and trying to drag Mrs. P into her deception. 

She had lipped Mrs. P when she objected - "You are too honest for your own good."

The handwritten documents showed three blood tests, not two - all were marked as clear of disease.

It was no longer one man and one woman's word against a government official.

We were vindicated by the official record.

The writer's excitement must have shown, but our guests seemed not to have noticed.

We are quite convinced that, at that stage, they were honest officials doing their best to solve a problem.

They offered the writer the chance to take a photocopy of the document, no doubt as evidence of good faith.

The writer's copier is slow and unreliable, instead it was agreed that an email report would be sent by them from Bury St. Edmunds in the morning.

The excitement must have shown.

Britain would have had a new heir to the Throne of England. 

Charles, Prince of Wales,  would already be in exile or retirement.

Exaggeration? No, read on.

The Foot and Mouth protestors, many now friends, have drawn the wrong deductions.

The Ministry was lying, but not about when they first realised that they had a second disaster following the first.

They did not know that Foot and Mouth was in Britain. 

It probably was, but they did not know. They were so busy trying to cover-up on Swine Fever, they were not even looking.

If it was here, the two officials from Scotland, did not know. We are sure of that.

They were as interested as we were in the origins of Swine Fever.

We had a full, frank and open discussion on the possibilities. They asked for information and it was freely given.

We gained the impression that they knew little of what had been actually going on in East Anglia. 

At that time, they were honest civil servants doing their job.

We protested by return email. 

Guess what? The original handwritten draft could not be found.

When it was located, many hours later, it showed "two." ...and the sow plus one piglet, not the two youngsters actually tested.

Britain's corrupt State Veterinary Service had struck again.

This was the third falsification of records - each by a different official.

The infamous State Veterinary Service, fakers "par excellence", had struck again.

A cover-up that we intend to expose.

Something very serious was going on.

It was not just a question of an errant official being protected by their colleagues.

It was not a question of her bosses covering up her misdemeanours.

This was a determined high-level attempt to cover-up something far more alarming.

The Headquarters of the Ministry at Page Street in London had clearly gone to the trouble of removing Mr. X and sending in two clean officials to put things right. Why on earth would they jeopardise this by faking the records yet again?

We know that he could not be Mr. X, he had been sent back to his home district. Anyway, one Divisional Manager would not have the authority to instruct the assistant of another on a matter as sensitive as this.

We do not think it was the Divisional Veterinary Manager from Scotland. It seems that his assistant must have been involved, the handwriting was his, we were told. From the circumstances, it seems likely he was ordered to alter the written record. 

But the former SAS man had told us the name of the man instructing him though. This man was at Bury St. Edmunds at the time. He was clearly implicated in whatever was going on, if the former Army officer is to be believed.

We do believe the Major.  The named official is senior.  Now, it looks very likely that he was taking his instructions directly from friends of the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, rather than from the elected government. We did not know this at the time.

This group of sycophants and fraudsters caused and covered up the Swine Fever Epidemic. They were later to influence the disastrous Foot and Mouth Epidemic. Some were also heavily involved in the origins of Mad Cow or BSE.

How did they get away with it? 

We will go on to explain in future episodes and to outline the serious implications for Canada and the United States.

On the Monday we received an email that we were to be denied the protection of the House of Commons, although copies of the submission would be circulated to all members of the Committee, even though they were unable to consider individual complaints against MAFF.

Interestingly, they did confirm that MAFF had not been informed of the complaint.

Absolutely nothing happened. Zilch. All these eminent MPs from all three political parties did nothing. 

Logically, either they did not get the submission, or they received it with a "little note" or maybe they were tipped off that Prince Charles was involved.

You have no future in politics if you take on the House of Windsor.

There was one other more sinister possibility.

Not one of the senior MPs from all three main political parties seemed to take any action.

Did they ever receive the submission?

Was it altered?

What were they told?

Members of Parliament actually present on the Committee that day, included:

Mr. David Curry- Chairman
Mr. David Drew, Mr. Michael Jack, Mr. Austin Mitchell, Mr. Lembit Opik, Dr. George Turner

This was not international terrorism.

Britain has allowed the world to believe that it might be - in order to protect Prince Charles.

Whilst the problems were all in Britain, the implications will deeply disturb North American farmers.

They assume that the British Government decided to keep this information from the public.

This theory does not explain the blood test faking. Both epidemics predated September 11 and Islamic terrorists are unlikely to target pigs.

Anyway, as previously explained, the writer had defence connections and rather than threatening him, it would have been easy to pick up the telephone. He would have co-operated on matters on national security.

No, the only terrorists were nearer home, as we shall see.

This story is far from over.

As he has no desire to spend any time in the cellars of the House for contempt, it is impossible to publish it here.

Its existence is confirmed on the WWW, under the writer's real name "George Gardiner." 

It was never printed  "to save printing costs."

It is however possible for anyone to see it at the House of Lords.

We can't tell you, but you can make an appointment to go and see for yourself.

The Major had delivered two truck loads of old road sweepings onto our drive despite protests.

We had to clear up the mess part by hand, part with heavy equipment

- but not before it  had given the government's own vehicle a puncture.

Not that it mattered, we had not had the disease.

There were no problems, although the work was not actually completely finished. The staff were eventually all withdrawn to deal with the Foot and Mouth epidemic.

We were left with a lot of clearing up to do.

The Major had delivered truck loads of old road sweepings onto our main drive, despite protests.

This was contaminated with pieces of metal - which even gave the government's own vehicles a puncture.

They did promise to use a metal detector to check for more, but we didn't see them again. We picked it out by hand.

At the same time, we continued an acrimonious correspondence with the Chief Veterinary Officer of the UK in trying to get him to take some action.

We will tell you later about this correspondence and what happened when we visited our MP, the Right Honourable John McGregor - now Lord McGregor of Pulham Market in the County of Norfolk.

There were more shocks to come.

Back to the Parliamentary route.

As always, please check our facts, you are not going to be asked to take much on trust. You can do most of it from your computer.

Requests for inspection of the writer's submission to the Agriculture Committee of The House of Commons should be addressed to the Record Office, House of Lords, London SW1A OPW (Tel 020 7219 3074). 

Its actual existence can be verified Here - as can the fact that it was not printed "to save printing costs."

Since Part 5 was published, there are so many enquiries into the affairs of Prince Charles and so much press comment worldwide that we need not list them.  The CSF and FMD crisis are not yet amongst them.

Much of the information on this page, but not all, was given long ago on uk.business agriculture and on "Pigging It" where there is an account of the Swine Fever Epidemic, in arrears. 

The best independent source of information on Foot and Mouth can be found on Warmwell.

Norfolk, 24 March  2003

the world of food and agricultural crime

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 the appropriately  named Hangman's Cottage, just to the south of Misery Corner.