Laurence Fox Has Raised £5 Million From Tory Donors
According to a piece in the Mail yesterday, Laurence Fox hasn’t raised £1 million to support his new political party, as reported in the Sunday Telegraph. He’s raised £5 million!
Laurence Fox is launching a new political party to fight the culture wars named Reclaim, and he has already raised more than £5million.
The actor, 42, has received substantial sums from former Tory donors and hopes to stand dozens of candidates across the UK.
The Lewis star says he wants to provide a movement for people who are “tired of being told that we represent the very thing we have, in history, stood together against”.
It comes as Nigel Farage has also threatened to launch an anti-lockdown party after criticising Boris Johnson’s draconian measures to curb the rise in coronavirus cases.
For anyone interested in joining Reclaim, there’s an expression of interest form here.
Stop Press: Patrick O’Flynn, a former UKIP MEP, has some cautionary words for Laurence in the Telegraph. His advice: sign up Nigel ASAP.
National Union of Students Ignores Imprisonment of Students, Launches Campaign to “Decolonise Education”
You couldn’t make it up. At the very moment that tens of thousands of students across the United Kingdom are being imprisoned in their halls of residence and threatened with expulsion if they show the slightest sign of resistance – the worst treatment of students by university authorities since the Second World War – the National Union of Students has launched a campaign to “decolonise education”. You can read all about it on the NUS website:
At the roots of these movements are a deep hunger and determination to rebuild how things are done, and remove all the things that have led to racism, colonialism and imperialism. And in their place, the aim and vision of a world that is accountable for this violence and works towards restorative justice.
This would be done by working together towards cultural, psychological and economic freedom. Decolonisation as theory and practice is used to imagine this and create what this change would look like.
Decolonisation in practice is about bringing to light and taking apart colonialist power in all its forms. For this, we also need to understand that society as we know it is built upon this power.
This includes all the things that perpetuate and reproduce the legacy of colonialism in areas like education, housing, finance, policing, healthcare and many more.
For example, if we look at education, it is about paying attention to how our education system, our schools, colleges and universities, and ways of learning are built on colonial histories. They all put whiteness at the centre and as a neutral perspective to learn about our world.
Decolonising means providing students, staff and their local communities with the tools and language to critically identify the ways our schools, colleges and universities are built using the same colonial hierarchies. It also means empowering them to confront, challenge and reject the status quo. They would then be able to reimagine how things can be done differently and create alternatives that would benefit us all.
Currently, we do not trust schools, colleges and universities senior leadership teams in their effort to decolonise their institution. And this makes sense: they benefit from it as individuals and don’t want to lose the power they gained from it. This is why we are supporting the creation of alternative learning spaces, such as the Free Black University, who are outside of the current model.
If I was a student, I think I’d want my trade union to focus on more pressing matters.
The Sun has a harrowing report of the restrictions that students at Manchester Metropolitan University are facing. Signs in the windows read “Help us!” and another renamed the institution “HMP MMU”. Students were initially ordered by the University to take down these signs, but the authorities then sheepishly acknowledged that they couldn’t actually prevent students from communicating with the outside world.
Stop Press: A reader has pointed out that virtually no one under 25 has died from Covid in Scotland.
In Scotland for those aged under 25 there has been zero deaths – that is not just those with co-morbidities, that is everyone. No man under 45 has died since June 3rd, there have been 11 in total. The last woman under 45 died on May 2nd, there have been six in total.
Mad SAGE Scientist Warns of Third Wave
Professor Mark Woolhouse, a member of SAGE , has warned that Londoners could be a facing a “third wave”! The Evening Standard has more.
London is in a “difficult place” and facing a ban on mixing households, a Labour MP has warned, amid warnings that any lockdown will only delay a “possible” third wave.
David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, said local lockdown measures, such as preventing residents from visiting other people’s homes, were “likely” to hit the capital. It came as Professor Mark Woolhouse, a member of the SAGE scientific advisory group, warned that a third coronavirus wave of COVID-19 is “entirely possible”.
This is like a game of bedwetters’ top trumps. How long before Professor John Edmunds appears on the Today programme to warn of a “fourth wave”?
Riot Police Throw Woman in Her Fifties to Ground at Anti-Lockdown Protest
The footage of the police “dispersing” yesterday’s ant-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square is pretty shocking. Kathy Gyngell has written an eye-witness account of what happened in the Conservative Woman.
As I reached the south-west corner of the Square I saw police by their motorbikes were donning helmets.
Heading on towards Pall Mall, I saw that grim faced masked police in vans were beginning to pull out from a side street parking. In my innocence I thought this over-manned convoy was off back to base because with no trouble and relatively few people they were just not needed.
How mistaken I turned out to be. It was not till I got home that I found to my horror from the news that far from going back to base this must have been the start of their mobilising against the crowd. Which indeed they did. Officers determined to disperse the crowd, penned it in. Protesters and police were hurt.
Why this clearly premeditated action? Who authorised it and on what grounds?
Who authorised them to pen the crowd in? There was no need – there was no overspill into surrounding streets. And why did the police not regard this crowd with the same tolerance they did with the recent BLM protests?
It has shocked me to the core. And now I see that Sky News instead of focusing on unjustifiable and provocative police action has chosen to relay selective vox pops of ‘conspiracy theorists’. So predictable!
I could have told Sky News that you don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to question the legitimacy or the rationality of the current Emergency powers – or to want to publicly protest against them.
Depressingly nearly all the papers today reporting the ‘clashes’ and the violence that occurred seem to have taken the pro-government line that the police enforcement of the government’s covid rules was justified, that they had a right to silence public dissent against them. They did not report that the police storming of the crowd after two and half hours of standing by was unprovoked or that there was every indication that their action was premeditated and planned. What I had witnessed was them moving into action when the rally was entirely peaceful and causing no disruption.
As a friend who was there to the bitter end reported back to me: ‘It was an amazing day but so tarnished by the police at the end. I feel deeply shocked by the way they stormed in. It was totally unnecessary and quite worrying in our democracy that this is how a peaceful demonstration is treated. It’s made the whole situation all the more worrying, I feel. It did feel amazing however to be surrounded by people not willing to accept this so-called New Normal.’
Worth reading in full.
If the police continue to behave in this heavy-handed and arbitrary manner, it will undermine the rule of law and destroy policing by consent.
Stop Press: If anyone knows the well-dressed, middle-aged victim of this police brutality, please tell her to get in touch. Would love to tell her story.
Postcard From Stockholm
A reader has just returned from a short break in Stockholm. Highly recommended.
A short break outside of this sceptered isle in 2020 is not easy. Every week the options for those who have an employment contract with limited annual leave decreases; two weeks quarantine is not an option. When Sweden was removed by Schapps from the “list”, the choice of Stockholm was made.
What would it be like? Would there be piles of dead bodies in the streets waiting to be removed?
Happily I can confirm all the media generated negative press is very far from the truth. The moment you touch down in Stockholm you feel free. That sense of fear and hysteria is lifted and carried away.
It is truly liberating. Outside of the airport in Stockholm I can confirm that the vast majority get on with their lives without having to wear masks in shops or on the public transport. There is hand sanitiser at various locations and social distancing is observed but the restaurants and bars appeared pretty normal and they even accept cash in the shops.
Once in a while you see a masked-up person but they are invariably foreign tourists. I never had to give my details for any track and trace; maybe there is a system but it wasn’t very evident.
I found Stockholm to be much more interesting than I imagined and the waterfront is stunning. The centre is free from rubbish and graffiti – unlike Paris and Berlin. Highlights are the Royal Palace which was so empty you could sit on the throne if you wanted and of course the Vasa Museum, showing the 17th Century ship in all its glory.
Maybe this week Sweden will be back on the naughty step but dear reader don’t be put off because the absence of queues and crowding is a blessing. Final tip: make sure you book to return on Friday evening rather than Saturday for obvious reasons.
NHS Track and Trace Orders Nokia Owners to Download COVID-19 App
In a cock-up that will surprise absolutely no one, NHS Test and Trace is sending texts to ancient Nokia phones telling their owners to to download the COVID-19 app. Er, what? A reader has been in touch to tell me her 88 year-old mother got this message yesterday and was left feeling somewhat confused. She sent me a photo of her mum’s phone.
Round-Up
- “Coronavirus rule changes: What you can and can’t do in England from tomorrow” – A summary in the Mirror of the new rules that kicked in today. Most alarming is that anyone contacted by NHS Test and Trace is now legally obliged to self-isolate for 10 days and if you break the rules can be fined up to £10,000 – with the police carrying out spot checks to make sure you’re complying, according to the Mail. New regulations here
- “Correcting Britain’s Vitamin D deficiency could save thousands of lives” – Matt Ridley and David Davis point out that a groundbreaking new study shows regular does of Vitamin D can cut the mortality rate from COVID-19 by 50%
- “What kind of a country have we become when arrogant bullying is seen as the proper function of Ministers?” – Lord Sumption give Boris both barrels in the Mail on Sunday
- “Don’t fine students for partying – pay their fees instead” – Some common sense from the always dependable Prof Carl Heneghan
- “Schools in England told not to use anti-capitalist material in teaching” – The DfE has issued guidance advising schools not to use teaching resources from organisations that have expressed a desire to end capitalism, e.g. BLM. The Guardian has gone full mental jacket
- “BLM Co-Founder’s Ties to Pro-Communist China Group: Mike Gonzalez” – Interesting lecture by Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow of the Heritage Foundation, on the links between BLM and the Chinese Communist Party
- “Critical race theorists are ‘destroying the US’ from the inside” – Interview with Christopher Rufo for The Outsiders on Sky News Australia
- “Where is the voice of the left as ‘libertarians’ annex the COVID-19 debate?” – Kenan Malik in the Observer asks where the left-wing defenders of our civil liberties are in the lockdown debate. I agree with him, although he doesn’t appear to realise that judging from his opening paragraph
- “Warning of 50,000 Covid cases a day likely to be wrong, Oxford professor says” – In case you missed it, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan interview Prof Sunetra Gupta for their Planet Normal podcast
- “Lowdown on the Lockdown” – A Canadian sceptic called Rod Fraser describes his small acts of rebellion during Ontario’s shutdown
- “Florida Re-opens” – Ron DeSantis for President. The Mail reports that bars and restaurants in Florida are now at full capacity
- “Some Travellers Miss Flying So Much, They’re Taking Planes to Nowhere” – Travellers have taken to getting in a place that takes off, flies around for a bit, then returns them to where they started
- “Pub curfews cause social distancing CHAOS as 1,000s spill on to streets at same time when bars shut at 10pm” – Who could have possible predicted that?
- “Coronavirus infections NOT rising as fast as ‘nightmare projection’ from Government’s chief scientists, data reveals” – The Sun crunches the numbers and finds that Whitty and Vallance’s predictions are not coming true. If we had started to follow the scientist’s feared trend, the country would have reached closer to 8-9,000 daily cases by now. But on Saturday only 6,024 new infections were reported
- “Beware of the stool pigeons” – Good piece by Luke Perry in Bournbrook magazine
- “Government faces ‘certain’ defeat on Coronavirus Act, says Steve Baker” – Shame. Couldn’t happen to a nicer Government
- “We must learn to live with coronavirus – just like Samuel Pepys lived with the Great Plague” – Sociology Prof and Sage member Robert Dingwall in the Mail
- “Writers and actors including Ian McEwan and Griff Rhys Jones rally around JK Rowling amid onslaught of social media abuse and deaths threats over ‘transphobia’ row” – Good to see JKR getting some much deserved solidarity
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Just two today: “Rebel Rebel” by David Bowie and “Your Application’s Failed” by Roxy Music.
Love in the Time of Covid
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums, including a dating forum called “Love in a Covid Climate” that has attracted a bit of attention. We have a team of moderators in place to remove spam and deal with the trolls, but sometimes it takes a little while so please bear with us. You have to register to use the Forums, but that should just be a one-time thing. Any problems, email the Lockdown Sceptics webmaster Ian Rons here.
Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today it’s the turn of the British Library which, according to chief librarian Liz Jolly, is absolutely neck deep in racism. The Telegraph has more.
The British Library’s chief librarian has claimed “racism is a creation of white people” and backed calls for major cultural change at the institution, the Telegraph can reveal.
Liz Jolly manages the vast collection of literary treasures held by the institution, and is supporting changes to displays and collections in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests. Reforms are being proposed by a “Decolonising Working Group”, which claims the British Library’s London building is an imperialism symbol because it resembles a battleship.
Staff being supported to decolonise the UK’s national library have also suggested that traditional puppet Mr Punch reflects “colonial violence”
The Telegraph has exclusively obtained documents revealing these claims, and a letter endorsed hundreds of employees which declared a racial “state of emergency” at the institution.
In response to this emergency, an internal report called for the removal of statues of the library’s founding fathers, replacing “Eurocentric” maps, and reviewing collections of western classical music which staff branded part of the “outdated notion” of Western Civilization.
The institution recently faced calls for defunding from MPs after the Telegraph revealed employees had urged colleagues to donate to Black Lives Matter and back the work of Labour MP Dianne Abbott.
The Telegraph can now reveal that Chief Librarian Ms Jolly has urged white staff to support the institution’s plans to purge the library of perceived racism.
In a video clip obtained by the Telegraph she tells colleagues: “I think, as I have said before, that we need to make sure some white colleagues are involved, because racism is a creation of white people.”
Ms Jolly receives between £120,000 and £125,000 per year for her work as Chief Librarian, a role she has held since 2018.
She has given her support to a broad “Anti-Racism Project” proposed in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, telling colleagues “particularly pressing” work was ongoing to review “artworks in the St Pancras building”.
Ms Jolly assured staff that the project is “about developing and delivering major cultural change”, and part of this would be ensuring the repository of literary treasures will “reflect the diversity of Britain today”.
This followed on from a letter declaring a “state of emergency” at the library, signed by 200 employees, demanding BAME staff should review any job cuts which might affect employees with “protected characteristics” to ensure continued diversity at the library, better treatment of these workers, and ensuring the BAME Network has a say in who is employed as Head of Collections.
To tackle the legacy of “colonial violence” at the library, the letter also demands a statue of founder Sir Hans Sloane be removed.
This recommended removal is echoed in a report by the Decolonising Working Group, which claims that the “physical space” of the British Library contains “manifestations of the institution’s racism” by glorifying the British Empire.
Staff claim in the report that: “This glorification is hard to miss in the structure of the building itself, designed as it is in the form of a battleship, by far the greatest symbol of British imperialism.”
The building was designed by architect and former naval officer Sir Colin Wilson, who added maritime references such as portholes to the building.
In the report aimed at reforming the British Library “as a space”, visual aspects including a portrait of Mr Punch which hangs in the institution is critiqued.
The character, popular at seaside shows is: “A theatrical figure from the heyday of Victorian imperialism who ‘entertained’ through an abuse of women and children that mirrored colonial Violence.”
Given that the British Library is guilty of promoting racism and glorifying colonial violence, shouldn’t it stop receiving money from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport? Oliver Dowden, time to wield the axe.
Stop Press: Free Speech Union Advisory Council member Zoe Strempel is not a fan of diversity training. Her latest Telegraph column on the subject is well worth a read.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
We’ve created a one-stop shop down here for people who want to buy (or make) a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and it has the advantage of not explicitly claiming you have a disability. But if you have no qualms about that (or you are disabled), you can buy a lanyard from Amazon saying you do have a disability/medical exemption here (takes a while to arrive). The Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. You can get a “Hidden Disability” tag from ebay here and an “exempt” card with lanyard for just £1.49 from Etsy here. And, finally, if you feel obliged to wear a mask but want to signal your disapproval of having to do so, you can get a “sexy world” mask with the Swedish flag on it here.
Don’t forget to sign the petition on the UK Government’s petitions website calling for an end to mandatory face nappies in shops here.
Here’s a round-up of the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of mask (threadbare at best).
And here’s a round-up from the good people at Law or Fiction on what constitutes a “reasonable excuse” for not wearing a mask.
Stop Press: A reader tells me about his day out on the Dorset coast over the weekend. He was shocked to see so many people wearing face nappies.
Yesterday my wife and I enjoyed a truly wonderful day out, in the sea air of the Dorset coast. We headed for Lulworth Cove, parked the car, and after coffee walked the the Coast Path until our knees told us to turn back and head for a crab sandwich lunch. The place was busy but not impossibly so, and in any event neither of us were seeking absolute solitude.
But oh dear me, the face nappies! Even by the clear blue sea, with God’s own fresh northerly breeze, they were everywhere. Stout parties of all ages, whose breathing one supposes would be laboured at the best of times, were determined to make life even more difficult for themselves. And plenty of fit youngsters in the same face gear – when they weren’t smoking. It was a real pleasure to chat to couples of our vintage whose attitudes matched our own. I was inclined to shout “take off your silly nappies and enjoy the air, you dummies”, but it will require far more than my exhortations to get this brainwashed nation to snap out of its daydream.
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I had a text from ‘NHS Test and Trace’ today. I called the doctors and asked why they have passed my private teIephone. I’m not going to rest on this. Its totally against GDPR and the right to a private life and all the rest of it. fkn cnuts
Off topic, but did anyone watch newsnight last night with the NI Prof telling sumption that we cant afford democracy we have to follow the sage crew. I was beyond angry. Sumption was very diplomatic, I nearly smashed the telly, I couldnt believe it the Prof was shoutikng and really angry. I would have knocked him out if I could have been in the same room as him. Who the fak do they think they are these Sage pr!cks
Is the NHS COVID-19 app source code available?
‘We have made the source code available on Github.
https://faq.covid19.nhs.uk/article/KA-01157/en-us‘
https://github.com/nhsx/covid19-app-system-public
https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-ios-ag-public
https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-android-ag-public ‘
What the NHS wants your children to think about their data privacy, no doubt some kids will download the app:
:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-covid-19-app-privacy-information/nhs-covid-19-app-privacy-notice-for-young-people
And Silke David precised this about retention of data, but couldn’t link, here it is:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-covid-19-app-privacy-information/nhs-covid-19-app-our-processing-of-special-categories-of-personal-data
‘Our retention periods are referenced in the DPIA, and we comply with the broader DHSC retention and erasure polices.
For data held on the app:
Test codes which link to a test result – 24 to 48 hours Daily codes used for contact tracing – 14 days Details from QR scans from venue check-ins – 21 days For the analytical data set we have set the following two retention periods:
hold organisations to account is held for 8 years monitor communicable diseases, for example in the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, are retained for 5 years (if they contain personal data which is not the case in this instance) and 20 years for anonymous data prior to any review We ensure the DHSC secure computing infrastructure only processes data that has been anonymised once it enters the infrastructure, with the exception of a… Read more »
Yes! It does indeed appear to be there on github!
https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-android-ag-public
https://github.com/nhsx/covid19-app-system-public
The first one is the app, the second is the backend. On cursory inspection it looks OK although the development history isn’t there– it’s just been dumped on github in one go.
The code is as over-engineered as Fergie’s is under-engineered. Here is an example:
class InfectiousnessFactorCalculator { companion object { private const val sigma = 2.75 } // Calculated using equation 3 from the paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11057.pdf fun infectiousnessFactor(daysFromOnset: Int): Double { val step1 = daysFromOnset / sigma val step2 = step1.pow(2) val step3 = -0.5 * step2 return exp(step3) } }You can go and read that ridiculous pdf if you like.
Anyway this is useful in case the time comes when it’s necessary to have a hacked version of the app in circulation that distracts the stasi with illegal parties hosted by the mysterious Constant Lambert and his/her co-conspirators.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Lambert
I don’t know owt about computers, anything distractive would be purely convivial in my case…
Headline at the Scotsman
University students claim to have been left for days without food
University students have claimed they are being left without food for days while isolating due to the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.
Resigster wall for more.
Also at the scotsman this!
Nicola Sturgeon says human rights issues outweighed by right to not get Covid-19
Nicola Sturgeon has said people’s human right not to be infected with a serious virus is more important than other human rights considerations.
Notice the weasel words.. ‘a serious virus’ ie ebola, covid is listed on the death cert of 17 scots under 45, 6 of ťhose female the last of whom died in May.
This is going some even for Sturgeon. The “human right not to get infected with a serious virus” will be the sole right accorded to us in the New British Bill of Rights. And even that will be a complete sham.
What a stupid, stupid woman.
People really are being governed by the brain dead from ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’.
She obviously has something missing in her life to generate this lack of understanding. I know that too much absorption in politics can warp you – but we can’t let that take over national priorities – whatever its source, be it Johnson’s innate psychopathic narcissism, or any other emotional black hole.
Florida Govenor: Masks are no longer required anywhere in the state, and cities cannot fine people for not wearing one. Restaurants, bars and all other businesses can open at 100% full capacity. The state will not close again.
This is important. Florida is a significant state that others will follow. Ron DeSantis has been making good noises for some time, but this is his best effort yet. No masks required anywhere is a stunning retraction. The satanic viper’s nest at the WHO will be seething with rage.
Despite it all i’m having a fucking blast. High on life and music and motorbikes. They can kiss my skinny ass for all i care. I won’t take their vax nor wear a mask and i won’t take their test. The puny boring muppets that pass for humanity are scared of the day they never saw and deserve the tyranny. I couldn’t give a fuck. They’ll have to shoot me to get me to comply and i’ll only be complying because i’m dead.
Time to start doing what you want, when you want where you want.
I don’t need no permission from some fool who thinks they have control over me. They’re just another bag of shit too scared to be an individual
Compliance is death. Many of us are already partially dead (I know I am). Agreed on the vaccine, I’ll take the bullet every time, and they will need to get that fucking serious before their miserable needle comes within 100 yards of my body.
You’re born dying that’s why i smoke, drink, ride bikes, climb mountains and fuck loose woman. May as well party while you slowly decay in to a spec of dust. All the mask wearers haven’t lived. They’ve all got some eternal life fantasy going on. I have more fun in one day than most of these wankers have in a lifetime, same goes for the clowns whom believe in conspiracies and believe they’re out to get them, they’re the same as the mask wearers only they’re scared of shadows and think by knowing stuff they think others don’t know will make them live forever.
They all forget that life comes at you fast, faster than you can run
I appreciate what you say, but although they might not realise it, the Maskies and Lockdown Lunatics are by far the bigger risk takers. The Filthy Face Rag crew are concentrating pathogens in the mouth and nose area. The Lockdown Lunatics are playing with fire: risking our economy, health service, children’s education and our whole cukture – and for what?
I smoke, drink and believe in (some) conspiracies, so not sure quite where that puts me on your scale. And you have definitely courted conspiracies on here before. But I have lived a good deal more than the zombies, albeit not very much this year. Never mind. Can I get a refund on the earth life ticket? Fucking rip-off if you ask me.
The laughing stock that is channel four news and jon snow lost his temper today. Actually did. Because shit weasel hancock was smarming his was through yet another interview. Jon Snow gave him a blast.
You can see the incident here – 2.5 million people have already.
https://twitter.com/Barcajim3/status/1310670512465555456?s=20
GREAT!
Yes – good to see Jon Snow back on his old form. He does have a record of being a proper journalist.
Handoncock looked so sadly out of his depth that you would have had to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
That’s probably because earlier I called out John Snow and the rest of these Muppets on CH4 news on here….Butterfly, Amazon jungle, Tsunami…
I thank you.
Sinister words came out of elwood in parliament. He spoke of a country where some are vaccinated and therefore liberated while others are not vaccinated and still under restrictions. Super serious words.
See this tweet which encloses the transcript. https://twitter.com/frog_escalator/status/1310707812453015552?s=20
Elwood is increasingly looking like a dark horse for taking over after the Johnson puppet show has run its course. Such a man can deliver the very darkest levels of the plan with consummate ease. Take the vaccine and you will be liberated to experience a hell as yet unvisited upon this sorry planet.
He has been given some very dubious powers behind the scenes.
UK Column have been keeping an eye on him.
Did i mention how they can kiss my ass, you should ask them to kiss yours
I wouldn’t want to infect my arse.
He’s a snake, no doubt about it.
Leader of military government, once Johnson and co have wrecked the country.
Actually, he’s a classic, dangerous cupid stunt with no grasp or brain.
Ellwood is on at 20.24 p.m.
https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/f9b43e59-b2a3-4d9e-ab6c-f9e3620128aa
You can watch Swayne, Chope, Drax, Steve Baker, Redwood etc all live. Rachel Hopkins on drastic and tragic effect of delays in cancer treatments., and on the statement that guidance has been changed today so humanist weddings can now have 15 guests, like every other wedding. ( mentioned by Stefarm, who wants one, earlier today).
A message for sadiq khan about trafalger sq.
https://twitter.com/Albion_Rover/status/1310700941033832449?s=20
Sadistic Khan = Spawn of Satan
Him, like all religious people should be barred from any kind of job outside sweeping up on account of if you believe in god you’re insane
I believe in God and also in personal freedom. The only person who helped me during lockdown is a deeply religious lady.
you can believe in what you like but must understand your belief in God being real has no evidence and is i fact a delusion. You may not like that but it’s true. Therefore as a delusional sick i the head person you shouldn’t have power over me in any way whatsoever. If religious people had common decency they’d appreciate this and not run for office.
Thanks for all your comments with your support for Mrs Two-Six’s decision, we are reading them now and she feels happier, your comments have really helped and are appreciated.
Good to know we aren’t alone.
Cheers!
An interesting comment I saw on the Daily Telegraph, from a former police detective, regarding breaking self-isolation rules:
I will be following social distancing and hand hygiene. Anything else and I want to see the data.
I was a police officer for thirty years and a detective for twenty-five of those. I will not be compliant to repression. A few pointers to those with time on their hands and of a like mind.
If you are spoken to by a police officer you are not obliged to say anything whatsoever. Do not answer ANY questions. Do not give your details. It is up to them to prove the offence they are alleging. If it is a result of a neighbours call they will then be forced to rely on a statement from the neighbour and their appearance as a witness in court.
You may be arrested if you refuse to give your details. Refusing to give your details is NOT an offence, you will be arrested on the basis of the self-isolation allegation. If you continue to refuse your details it is likely you will be held and appear before the next court ( IF the neighbour has made a… Read more »
That’s good advice. But I’d also be querying evidence on social distancing and hand hygiene. Can anyone actually point to peer reviewed evidence regarding these “essential” practices? Or masks? or asymptomatic transmission? Or Aerosol transmission? Or any type of transmission, for that matter?
Thank you!
This whole mess needs mass defiance and active undermining. Has anyone any thoughts about a campaign we could run to prevent enforcement of these human rights violating illegal hosue arrests which have no form of habeus corpus applied to them. Any thoughts about what a campaign to sabotage this might look like?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2798-3.epdf?sharing_token=uEUn7jqOpl9pPZd5hQH-ydRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PNa0tpUm38tEAOEu3ocLlP6tjVQGYR4DvBAUmCP3KKUBOfiH60azV6GvChsQTBRqzQ6nm4sz3nKdXUsZRVCOB34QAtDoLaJnFGDViTWMvQG0A4EEbyyCuc_-4P3_t7ayQ%3D
Article on vaccine trials concluding that it’s possible there will be one in the marketplace in 2020.
Some take away points. Most vaccines caused side effects ( of course 80 odd percent of those who get Covid have no side symptoms )
Pre existing Immunity to Covid infection was noted in a couple of phase 2 trials. So finally proof that not everyone will be equally affected !
All vaccines are working on Lower respiratory tract infections and not upper respiratory tract. Which means there will likely remain a high degree of virus spreading from those who are vaccinated. The holy grail is a URT vaccine but none are in phase 2 trials or close.
Magic bullet times are not ahead.
“It’s possible there will be one in the marketplace in 2020.”
Makes my blood run cold. This is our death sentence. Time for another cold one. Light ’em if you got ’em.
No meeting people at the pub = no pubs. Johnson and his fellow wankers continue their scorched earth policy against their own country. Number of deaths with virus today? 13.
Except in the Palace of Westminster of course. I bet they are still smoking in those bars, 13 years after it became illegal to do so everywhere else. And probably much else besides.
Just been watching an old series on the firestick.
Here’s a beautiful quote for all those of us who feel disempowered:
Small acts can have ripple effects.
Believe it!
Good from Rich in tomorrow’s DM, which seems to be slowly growing a backbone.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: These restrictions are an assault on our liberties
https://mol.im/a/8782781
I’m no fan of Littlejohn, but encouraging nonetheless that this criminal gang are now under fire from journalists who should be their staunchest supporters. Death by a thousand cuts for this lot is just fine by me.
I love his description of ‘Priti Flamingo’ and of Hancock as an ‘infuriating little squit’ – very apt!
After Sainsbury’s sent out an email about their new face mask nonsense, I emailed their CEO basically stating that I’m exempt and I feel victimised because of it (I haven’t been to Sainsbury’s in a long time, but still). Here’s the reply I received:
I can confirm that customer and colleague safety is of paramount importance to us here at Sainsbury’s so we will be doing our utmost to keep you all safe when visiting or working in our stores.
Our colleagues have been fully briefed regarding the latest government announcement. We want all to respect our request to wear a face covering when they shop in our stores. Along with our regular tannoy announcements and posters inside and outside stores reminding customers to keep a safe distance from others and wear a face covering. We will also be asking greeters to have face masks available for customers who may have forgotten theirs. As a result, from today we will respectfully ask every customer shopping in our stores to wear a face covering or mask. I must advise that customers with underlining health conditions will be exempt from the above.
I trust this clarifies our position and we hope this has gave… Read more »
That is pretty much a word for word rehash of their original email. Disappointing.
Yeah. I replied back essentially saying you’ve just pointed out all the ways I’m going to be harassed, now please respond to my actual concerns. We’ll see if they reply again.. though I imagine it will be another cut and paste job.
I won’t be going to Sainsbury’s again regardless. I’ve been going to ALDI lately, they haven’t gone fully mental yet have they?
Aldi fine last Tuesday evening – but that was aeons ago covid-wise.
So far, Aldi and Lidl seem to be winning in the laid-back stakes. Let’s hope it lasts!
Don’t forget Iceland. My son just got an immediate delivery slot from them. I’ve never shopped there though, so can’t comment.
Was the typo (?) underlining in their original?
“Along with our regular tannoy announcements and posters inside and outside stores reminding customers to keep a safe distance from others and wear a face covering.”
Which is why I have not set foot in any supermarket since 24th July. Cowardly? Undoubtedly. Preserving my sanity? Definitely.
Tesco’s in Lewes today. Not a peep out of anybody. Nobody on the door. Waiting to check in at the Ivy Tower Bridge on Friday & got the mask schtick from the maitre D. Firm ‘Exempt’ from my partner before I could open my mouth. Apparently the middle aged woman behind said “Good scam”. Wasn’t sure if it was admiration or snide. Let it go – just in case.
Lecture opportunity missed.
Time to start carrying a Sharpie – or fatter would be better.
How tight do the screws need to get before people start to think “maybe this is down to more than simple incompetence”?
I think some people would accept a lifetime of draconian measures, they are sadly that brainwashed and convinced that this is the new plague. Remember many cult members choose death over reality – and those still hiding at home have reached that stage (including two of my neighbours).
A cult indeed!
Jonestown. Yes – death is preferable to abandoning a concept that is so deeply absorbed into the psyche that it has become the greater part of life’s raison d’etre. There will be a lot of death coming down the tracks, none of it Covid.
I am ashamed to provide a BBC link, but this was a magnificent two-part documentary about Jonestown. First broadcast on BBC Four on 7th & 8th January 2020, just as our current madness was brewing. Prescient to say the least.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d27r
Wonder if they’d dare screen it now!
Still available on iPlayer, 5 months after its previously advertised expiry date. I’m re-watching it right now.
You do have to discriminate between BBC News and Current Affairs and the wider output.
Johnsontown.
It’s horrible to admit, but this truly is brainwashing. And so effective! It’s hard to stomach that it’s been so easy this far but then again, so many people believed that Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were necessary, and the disconnect from the death and suffering those events caused was absolute. The more pliable and unquestioning people are, the happier TPtB are. But I think they’ve made a mistake assuming the students (and their parents) will just go along with this charade. AT least I hope so.
More are aware now than they were 6 months ago. But we are still talking about a minority. The cult that has our society in its grip will not stop until it has killed in great numbers. Same as all preceding cults in history (see Jonestown links below).
Johnson is the worst of all worlds – utterly incompetent, completely narcissistic and totally controlled. Surely one of the worst political leaders of all time in the entirety of human history.
Perhaps he was maneuvered into a position of power due to those very qualities. A man who no one seems to know for definite how many children he has and with which partners is probably pretty compromised and easy to manipulate by the rich and powerful who really run the country.
I agree with all those points, but especially the one about being totally controlled. He is not in control here. This is only going to get worse if we let it. The increasingly draconian restrictions have nothing to do with the potential lethality of a “novel virus”. Previous influenzas haven’t caused so much as a stir with the public. We have to ask ourselves, why this time? What’s going on behind the scenes?
Johnson is controlled regardless of who is pulling the strings. He has no attention to detail and no interest in anything he is doing (other than being PM), so is utterly reliant on a coterie of loyal advisors to tell him what to do and say. Add in the blackmail potential his reckless life has opened him up to and the sky’s the limit.
I used to strongly support him. Makes it even worse. He’s like a flat stone that has been sent skipping and bouncing across the top of a pond and has finally sunk.
Great Reset!
Reset, yes, but not great.
Depends who benefits!
There have been others, pretty bad…
He may not be as destructive (yet), but he has much less charisma than many of the totalitarians of the 20th century. This has surprised me, because I always thought his carefully stage-managed public persona was the only thing he had going for him. Turns out he is flat as a pancake. And he even lacks the bureaucratic zeal of Stalin. The very definition of the hollow man.
Cutting, but sadly so true.
Very far, if the “poor Boris, nearly died” bollox persists.
Just browsed the legal bit and gdpr info on NHS t&t, if you test positive, they keep your info for 8!!! Years.
Good news, if you are the contact of a + person, they ONLY keep your details for 5 years!!
Can you give the link please, then I’ll pass this on. Ta.
Buried deep inside FAQ dataprotecton in the NHS t&t app info. In one section they say no personal info, in another it is personal info in case someone test + in 5 years time. Am on my phone from which too difficult to copy the webpage info.
By ‘details’ do you mean DNA?
One rule for them, another for us..
Why can’t our Fuhrer Boris Johnson get proper advisers like Trump has:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-coronavirus-adviser-atlas-fires-back-against-redfield-criticisms-says-advice-to-trump-based-on-current-science
According to an NBC News report, Redfield slammed Atlas during a phone call made in public on an commercial airline, saying: “Everything he says is false.”
Usually the ones who say things like that are the ones who are lying!
Any good liar knows to throw in some truth.
We boomers (I’m a tail end boomer) must be the most entitled generation of all time. Our parents and grandparents went to war to preserve our freedom with hundreds of thousands of young men willingly laying down their lives to ensure their descendants had a better life than they did. The post war years brought us prosperity and opportunity unknown to earlier generations and now, as we enter or approach old age, we stridently demand that our children and grandchildren lay down their freedom, education, employment and future prosperity so we can feel ‘safe’ from a disease with a case fatality rate of less than 1% and an average age of death of 82.5 years.
That’s a great summary. I reckon whatever generation I’m supposed to be in (X I think, the one after yours) has had it even better to this point though, so don’t beat yourself up too much. I pity the poor fuckers who are in their 20s or younger, they will never know any of the freedom or prosperity that we enjoyed and took for granted (and totally squandered).
Yeah, the past is always a Golden Age. What with the Cuban Missile crisis, the Cold War, the 3 day week, Vietnam, the Falklands, Chernobyl, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, interest rates at 10-20 %, one could go on. I lived through it all, we all had an absolute ball (not), and got so rich and prosperous on credit that we ended up with the mightiest financial crisis since the 1930’s, which still hangs over us to this day.
Get real.
There have always been maniacs messing things up. But the difference now is that the whole world has gone nuts.
Yugoslavia is a good call. That place was a vicious, genocidal bloodbath for the entirety of the 90s, and even more tragic given that it was probably the most successful socialist nation in Eastern Europe. I completely ignored it at the time, I was too busy watching football and getting pissed. Two visits to Sarajevo in the last 10 years very quickly disavowed me of my decadent ignorance.
Your whiney “poor us” response kind of makes my point. Not actually sure how Yugoslavia or Vietnam ruined your life chances but I was able to by my first house when I was 25 despite high interest rates. My husband bought his first home aged 18 while having just qualified as a plumber! Many first time buyers today are in their early 40s with young people in their 20s forced to delay marriage and family because they can’t afford to get on the housing ladder. Meanwhile people of mine and my parents generation have made fortunes off the rise in house prices over the last 40 years.
When we bought our houses, mortgages were via building societies whose first responsibility was to look after their shareholders’ money.
If I remember correctly, they would lend only 2.5x the salary of ONE half of a couple.
If you were single, you had to be able to cover the whole amount from your salary. Deposits were 10% and mortgages were for 20 years.
Thatcher changed all that when she let banks do mortgages – and the rest is history, economic crashes included.
What is the generation of the politicians that have wreaked this havoc, however? Not, I think, the Baby Boomers.
Boris Johnson is one month older than me. Boomers are generally accepted to have been born between 1946 and 1964.
Then we need to make a distinction in that period. I certainly separate my generation from children like the narcissist clown. I wouldn’t want to be associated in any way. I’d grown up a bit by 1964, whilst Johnson was just starting his eternal infancy. Sorry about your proximity 🙂
Most boomer parents didn’t send their kids to Eton.
I’m not stridently demanding that!
My protests may be feeble but hopefully they’ll add to the roar.
The divisiveness of the Covid narrative is completely deliberate (just like with Brexit). As is the dumbing down of the population over many decades. While we’re busy tearing each other apart, or apologising for our privileged positions, all manner of things are going on in the wings.
That’s it for me, I’m finished with having the latest smartphone.
Having bought just about every iPhone since the 3GS, I’ve just taken my sim out of my iPhone 11 and replaced it into an old iPhone 5s, which is the newest smartphone I have that can’t download the NHS App. I’ve also disabled the QR scanning ability.
If they think I’m going to splurge vast amounts of money on their products just so they can spy on me, and rebuke me, then they can feck off.
Other benefits I have noticed, it’s the nicest designed phone they ever made, it fits in my pocket, it has a headphone socket, and despite being seven years old and with its original battery the battery life is actually better.
Does a 5s have a scanning ability? I haven’t found it yet!
Proof masks don’t work has just been tweeted to Boris, Hancock, Freeman and Sturgeon by David Scott.
https://twitter.com/Albion_Rover/status/1310679853457432578?s=20
CDC paper from 2018.
But things have changed now, because experts suggest science. Plus over 66.6% of demons believe that masks are 100% effective in transforming human beings into mindless slaves.
2M social distancing is 6 feet
No more than 6 in a group
6 months of restrictions.
These people represent the beast
Just to stress the point, the study relates to mask usage in hospital settings. If masks aren’t effective in hospitals where staff are trained in strict hygiene procedures, how on earth can filthy face rags pulled out of trouser pockets and handbag jumble help protect us?
Precisely. Even lab confirmed effects mean little when you increase the scope to a society.
I am open to be proven wrong on this social experiment, keep an open mind and all that. But it’s not forthcoming. Masks haven’t worked in stopping new wave in France, Spain, Ireland, UK, the list goes on.
The problem is that its an unfalsifiable argument because they always claim it would have been worse.
If they read it they’ll ignore it. They don’t care. They have no capacity to engage in critical thinking.
They have the capacity but lack the desire!
I’ve never wrote to an MP before but I will write to thank MP Desmond Swayne. It’s took 6 months for someone to have the balls to challenge this despot government. Pressure is finally mounting on the government I don’t think this will prevail to Christmas at this rate.
It makes sense to send emails of support to MPs who stand up as sceptics. Let them know that there are folks in this shitty country who are still decent enough to offer their votes to people who stand up for vital freedom rather than cowardly safety. Show MPs that turning lockdown sceptic is a sure path to keeping their seat.
He was impressive – spoke without notes as well!
Great! There are still conservative voices in the Conservative party.
Just watched it here:
https://youtu.be/jqIYDTIdg2o
Anyone speaking out from the opposition benches?
Anyone speaking out from the opposition benches?
What opposition?
Very few indeed;
https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/f9b43e59-b2a3-4d9e-ab6c-f9e3620128aa
session ended 10.15p.m.
Change of subject – How is VAR this year? Any problems with the handball rule?
Nobody is watching, so it doesn’t matter! I used to think the masses would revolt if they were denied their bread and circuses. I was wrong. And I was a season ticket holder at a small West London club for 20 years, so this is not snobbery.
They’re not really being denied them though – Sky, BT Sport, etc.
It’s just another example of clown world!
Rakin steerling, everything that’s wrong with Britain summed up in two words
Grrrrrrrr
Ha!
And the lunacy continues in Brum: https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/26/school-says-it-will-make-children-eat-outside-all-winter-even-when-its-raining-13329845/
Apologies if you’ve already seen this – it was published on Saturday.
That’s appalling.
Ms Suddon said they had to find a compromise between pupils’ comfort and their safety – and they had opted for safety.
Hmmm. Can’t see how letting kids get soaked and frozen keeps them safe.
4 people under the age of 19 have died of coronavirus.What planet do these teachers inhabit
Are the teachers eating outside too?
The head certainly should!
Its reminicent of tge way children were treated in Edwardian britain and earlier. Wonder how many lockdown supporters are okay with that idea in principle.
It is also clearly lunatic thinking and the schools board ought to remove the head. Safe guarding children? Risk assessment? Simply terminate their contract with honest reference.
I am generalising here, but the kind of people who are school governors these days are pretty much the kind who are fully signed up to this stuff.
Parents should be up in arms about this! if it were my child they would be coming home for lunch..
I have tried to reason with our head teacher to no avail. My younger has to be outside (and masked) during all breaks and lunch with nowhere to sit to eat
And if it’s raining tough.
Barbaric!
And unnecessary!!!
Not if you’re at work and school’s some distance away.
I play games on my mobile phone funded by ads. Today every other ad is for the NHS track and trace app. I also received a email “Strongly recommending” I download it.No thank you, the few people I see would tell me if they tested positive. I’ve o wish to be under house arrest for a false alarm.
Sounds fun, is Love Island worth a try?
How much more: people in the north east now forbidden to meet with people not in their family.
Unbelievable. Matt Hancock has lost touch with reality.
That happened in March.
Can’t argue with that. But now we’re pretty much back to full ‘lockdown’ for a few positive test results. What is he thinking?
Hopefully this is a prelude to the Government declaring victory (‘Thanks to our decisive action’ etc.) over the pernicious virus. Perhaps by mid-December? Santa Boris saves Christmas. New Year honours for the usual suspects (Ferguson, Whitty et al). Hancock off to the Lords?
I just despair. This will be rolled out in the Northwest, the Midlands and who knows elsewhere. All we will be allowed to do soon is work from home ( those of us who have jobs). That’s it. Every other aspect of life will be banned. 6 months is all it took to collapse society and still most people will just go along with it. It doesn’t matter that the weight of evidence shows that these measures are in effective, that the illness is not the huge killer it is made out to be, that the collateral damage is off the scale. None of this matters because they won’t change course.
Spot on. All human interaction banned in perpetuity. I just wish the puppets fronting up this freak show would say it in as many words. It wouldn’t make any difference to the zombies, so why not?
So are you still allowed to go to work and meet your colleagues?
And still people just accept it.Pubs are finished then.Why are people meekly going along with this?
Video of the trafalger police thugs shouting and getting hyped for a fight Before matching off to do battle with an entirely peaceful protest.
https://twitter.com/cosmic_rising/status/1310292244029681667?s=20
Chilling stuff!
That’s the Pall Mall side, west of Traf Sq, but they were all getting togged up on the other side, on Willliam IV St when I passed them. Loads more than last week (19th). Hopefully there will be loads more of us at the next one!!
It seems they came at you from both sides at the same time.
Uk column today has a good section on the trafalger policing, if you were their I think you may value giving the uk column segment a watch. Ex police have written in to them. More than I can relate.
I watched it, good session. They came in from both sides in front of the National Gallery, and at the far side of the Square (couldn’t see that part though). But the ones who waded right in ended up kettled by us protestors. If we’d been violent it would have been a lot worse. Sure, it was a bit tense, but nowhere near as bad as the press like to make out…
Saturday 12 noon Hyde Park.
Just sent to Sir Desmond Swayne:
Dear Sir Desmond,
Thank you for saying today in the House what so many people in the country have been thinking for months about the government’s disproportionate response to COVID-19, but which so few other parliamentarians have had the courage to say.
Lucy Allen spoke well too
https://www.lucyallan.com/news/lucy-contributes-coronavirus-debate-parliament
What’s she on about, ‘not getting it right first time around’? Expecting another pandemic?
No, she didn´t.