Guv’mints want to have their cake and eat it too. It is about time they get out of the way.

Liverpool Thalidomide victim Gary Skyner goes on hunger strike for compensation
Liverpool News , Sep 22 2009
by Liza Williams, Liverpool Daily Post
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/09/22/liverpool-thalidomide-victim-gary-skyner-goes-on-hunger-strike-for-compensation-92534-24747475/
SNIPS
A MERSEYSIDE thalidomide victim has gone on hunger strike in protest at the Government’s refusal to pay compensation to those affected by the drug.
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The father-of-two said: “I am prepared to go all the way with this but we have been forgotten for too long, enough is enough.
“I was diagnosed with a cardiac complaint in April and will therefore most likely not have a normal life expectancy.
“If this process has to accelerated because of our cause, then so be it.
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“The Government need to take responsibility because they granted a UK licence for the drug.
UNSNIP

Ivo:
Any law book on product liability will tell you that thalidomide shows that and why we need product-liability laws.

Guv’mints are liable for thalidomide because their regulators allowed thalidomide on the market and when the whistle on thalidomide was blown at a Düsseldorf congress of neurologists on 30 April – 01 May 1960, those same regulators have not done anything.
Thalidomide was eventually taken from the market on 27 November 1961, by its maker, Chemie Grünenthal GmbH, and thus not by the regulators who had allowed it in the first place. Comprendo?
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Gary says that he has not a normal life expectancy and that if this process has to be accelerated because of our cause, then so be it.

Yes, our Masters continue to argue that thalidomide shows the need for a welfare state, c.q. a police state,
while at the same time continuing to refuse compensation for the damage thalidomide monsters like myself suffer as a result of the guv’mints’ intentional acts of letting thalidomide be marketed for more than 18 months after 01 May 1960.

It is about time that this comedy stops.

Potverdorie!

Ivo Cerckel
honestmoney@maktoob.com
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