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While our backs were turned during the general election, the 77th World Health Assembly took place in Geneva at which UK civil servants and diplomats agreed to the biggest loss of sovereignty since the Maastricht Treaty, and the biggest infringement on our right to choose what we do with our bodies.
Amendments to Article 18 of the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR) set in stone their powers to recommend countries implement vaccine mandates, border closures, and quarantines during future pandemics; and contrary to what the globalists tell you, the IHR are an instrument of international law that is legally-binding under Article 22 of the WHO constitution.
WHO bureaucrats also agreed among themselves that the appalling Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and future director-generals, should be given the power to determine public health emergencies, including pandemics, under amendments to Article 12. You will have seen him scaremongering at the UN General Assembly this week in New York in yet another bid to build his empire.
But the power grab did not stop there. The new changes oblige countries to set up or expand surveillance networks and report back to their global public health lords and masters in Geneva (under amendments to Article 5); create National IHR Authorities (“mini embassies”) to oversee countries’ implementation of the regulations; and establish the Soviet sounding “States Parties Committee” to supervise their implementation between countries.
None of this should come as a surprise. Indeed, Dr Abdullah Assiri, co-chair of the WHO’s Working Group on Amendments to the IHRs let slip what the WHO wants in a clip of its proceedings where he admitted: “Prioritising actions that may restrict individual liberties, mandating and sharing of information, knowledge and resources and pandemic control efforts are all necessary during a pandemic.”
If the thought of losing control over your body during a pandemic doesn’t worry you, nor your country losing control over an important area of public health policy, then the enormous cost of expanding the WHO’s empire should.
The findings of a recent preliminary report from the University of Leeds analysed data from G20 nations, the World Bank, the WHO, and the WHO Secretariat, and estimates that the proposed amendments to the IHR, plus the ongoing work to a new “Pandemic Preparedness Treaty”, could cost taxpayers across the world as much as US$357 billion (£266 billion) over ten years to implement.
Taxpayers’ hard-earned money
While Rachel Reeves insists there is no money for pensioners to keep warm this winter, you can guarantee she will find money to help the WHO fund this. Just like international aid, housing illegal immigrants, and funding large public sector pay increases, this Government will raid taxpayers’ hard-earned money to keep this latest globalist project on track.
The UK already pays a hefty amount to the WHO, contributing £396 million in the last biennium budget cycle, the fourth highest of every country on the planet. But, of course, more money can always be found for the things that globalists care about.
Much like Maastricht, the people have not been allowed a referendum on these dangerous and expensive proposals. But at least in the 1990s, MPs were allowed to debate and vote on our entry into the EU. Our new Prime Minister, the ultimate dictator of course, has no wish for MPs to discuss these major changes in the House of Commons, but in my view, we absolutely should.
Only four countries raised any reservations and discussed the possibility of rejecting the IHR amendments at the World Health Assembly, including Argentina, Iran, Russia and Slovakia. No other nation did, and that is frankly shameful.
With only six months left for national governments to decide if they will opt out of the new IHR amendments, time is running out if we are to save our sovereignty, our individual rights, and our money from the clutches of the WHO.
I therefore urge my fellow MPs to join me in calling for an urgent debate and vote in the House of Commons so we can block this dangerous, unnecessary, and expensive “pandemic power grab”.
Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, MP for Clacton, and the co-founder and chairman of Action on World Health