Masks to Continue into 2022 – Vallance
The Government’s Chief Scientist, Sir Patrick Vallance, has said that people should still expect to be wearing masks next winter. The Telegraph has the details.
The public may have to wear masks for another year, despite a “watershed moment” beginning Britain’s national vaccination programme, Sir Patrick Vallance has said.
As hospitals across the country began administering jabs to the most vulnerable, the chief scientific adviser suggested that restrictions may remain in place long after its full rollout. …
Sir Patrick said: “It may be that next winter even with vaccination we need measures such as masks in place; we don’t know yet how good all the vaccines are going to be at preventing the transmission of the virus.”
The Government scientist also said it would take “quite a long time” to make sure everyone in priority groups receives their jabs, urging the public to “stick to the rules”.
Sir Patrick said that the public could not afford to “let our guard down” as the vaccine is rolled out.
What he doesn’t explain is why, once the vulnerable who wish to be are vaccinated, it is so important to prevent transmission of a virus that will hardly kill anyone or make them unwell. Begs the question: At what point will the scientific and medical advisers recognise that it is more important to let people get on with their lives and jobs?
Mark Harper, chairman of the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of Conservative MPs, yesterday urged the Government to set out how freedoms would be restored to those who were vaccinated.
“It’s really positive news that those most vulnerable to Covid-19 are now starting to get vaccinated,” he told The Telegraph.
“They will be wondering, once they’ve had their second doses and are fully protected, how quickly they can start seeing their children and grandchildren and getting back to normal. It would be a real benefit if the Government could set that out as soon as possible.”
Harper put similar points to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the Commons, who replied:
The House might be relieved to know that (Mr Harper) and I agree with each other on the need to ensure that as the vaccine is rolled out to vulnerable groups, so we therefore monitor the impact of the vaccine on reducing cases, reducing hospitalisations and reducing the number of people who sadly die from this disease, and taking that basis for the judgment of how soon we can lift the restrictions. He and I want to lift the restrictions as soon as is safely possible and the question of that judgment of how safely is one that we will have to monitor and debate in this House over the coming weeks and months.
This is similar to what he said on talkRADIO in the morning. He told Julia Hartley-Brewer that the Government could ease Covid restrictions once all of the most vulnerable people have received the vaccine, rather than waiting until everyone has been vaccinated.
So which is it? Lifting restrictions once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, or keeping it all going just in case? Given how it’s all gone since March we can probably guess what the Government will be pushed towards by its over-cautious advisers. Do we have any confidence ministers will have the courage and presence of mind to resist their “reasonable worst case” whisperings, backed up with shonky models and dodgy data? At least we can be grateful the CRG can bring something stronger than persuasion.
More Dodgy Data For Lockdown II
In another embarrassing revision of the data that backed up the Government’s lockdown case in October, the ONS infection survey which at the time indicated a spike in infections has now had its modelled estimate for the period revised to show an almost flat line. Ross Clark in the Spectator has more.
Each week, the ONS has produced two graphs: one showing the ‘officially reported estimates’ for the number of new daily infections per 100,000 people over the past seven days. Beside that, it also publishes a graph of ‘modelled estimates’ – which are adjusted for such things as false positives and false negatives and show a smoothed-out line of how the ONS thinks infections have changed day by day. Until last week, the two graphs broadly agreed with each other, as you can see from this edition published on October 30th.
I choose this edition because it is the latest one which would have been available when the Prime Minister and cabinet made their decision to place England in a second lockdown, a decision made the following day.
Both graphs show the infection rate doubling in the two weeks to October 17th, the latest date for which data was then available. The government has been criticised for basing its decision on the ‘dodgy graph’ which claimed that deaths could rise to 4,000 a day by December – an estimate which was already out of date by the end of October. But the ONS data could, on its own, have been used to justify a second lockdown.
However, look at the latest edition of the ONS’ infection survey, published last Friday, December 4th, and something very off seems to have happened. The two graphs – the ‘officially-reported estimate’ and the ‘modelled estimate’ no longer agree.
In fact, they show a very different picture. The modelled estimate now suggests that infection rates in October were much lower than previous thought – indeed, it suggests that the infection rate hardly changed throughout the whole month.
While the graph published on October 30th could be used to argue for an immediate lockdown, that published on December 4th suggested there was no emergency and that the Tier system might have been given more time to work. As it happened, the next edition, published on November 6th, showed that new cases had begun to fall even before lockdown was enacted.
Ross notes that this shows “modelling can be just as unreliable when it is used to try to tell what has already happened” as when predicting the future.
The new estimate may still be some way out, however, as it disagrees significantly with the King’s College ZOE app, which is perhaps the most reliable of the surveys, being the only one to rely on reported symptoms and not just PCR tests. The ZOE app shows the infection peak on November 4th, just before lockdown, and falling since, unlike the (current) ONS modelled estimate which puts the peak a week or so later.
Hard to follow “the Science” when the compass needle never stops moving.
No Excess Deaths in Sweden This Year – Study
A team of researchers from the Clinical Effectiveness Research Group at the University of Oslo in Norway has looked at all-cause mortality for Sweden for the past five years (July to July) and found that it barely increased in 2019-20 despite the coronavirus epidemic in the spring. The pre-print study compared the no-lockdown country to its neighbour (and home country of the research team) Norway.
Our study shows that although Covid-19 associated mortality rate was almost 15-fold higher in Sweden than in Norway during the epidemic, all-cause mortality was not higher in Sweden compared with three of the four preceding years. An increase in all-cause mortality was only observed in comparison to the immediately preceding period (2018/19), because mortality was lower than in the previous years. The excess mortality was confined to individuals older than 70 years. In contrast, mortality rates were lower than expected for all ages in Norway and individuals younger than 70 years in Sweden. …
Our study shows that all-cause mortality was largely unchanged during the epidemic as compared to the previous four years in Norway and Sweden, two countries which employed very different strategies against the epidemic. Excess mortality from Covid-19 may be less pronounced than previously perceived in Sweden, and mortality displacement might explain part of the observed findings.
Most significantly they found that the mortality rate among over 80s in Sweden rose only slightly in 2019-20 on the five-year average, from 201 to 204 per 100,000 people, which is a ratio of just 1.01. In other age groups it was at the average rate or below.
1.01 mortality ratio among the over 80s – that, my friends, is all the difference Covid made in a country that stayed open and free with few restrictions on daily life. And in a way that’s the only number that matters in this whole debate. Not exactly worth crippling an economy over and destroying millions of lives and livelihoods.
Read the full study here. News Medical covered the findings here.
More Evidence of a Pseudo-epidemic?
The latest ONS figures out yesterday show total deaths in England and Wales in week 48 (ending November 27th) down by 79 compared with the previous week. However, Covid deaths are up by 343. Meanwhile, non-Covid deaths are right down at 941 below average. This mismatch between Covid deaths (up) and overall deaths (down) and the sharp reduction in deaths attributed to other causes are classic signs of a pseudo-epidemic resulting from mass PCR testing, as described by Dr Mike Yeadon for Lockdown Sceptics here.
It’s important to appreciate while digesting this counter-narrative which, unlike the official line, is at least internally consistent, that the only data suggesting a ‘second wave’ is upon us are PCR results. Everything is dependent on this. A “case” is a positive PCR test. No symptoms are involved. A “COVID-19 admission” to a hospital is a person testing positive by PCR before, on entry or at any time during a hospital stay, no matter the reason for the admission or the symptoms the patient is presenting. A “COVID-19 death” is any death within 28 days of a positive PCR test. If there is any doubt about the reliability of the PCR test, all of this falls away at a single stroke. …
The pandemic was over by June and herd immunity was the main force which turned the pandemic and pressed it into retreat. In the autumn, the claimed “cases” are an artefact of a deranged testing system, which I explain in detail below. While there is some COVID-19 along the lines of the “secondary ripple” concept explained above, it has occurred primarily in regions, cities and districts that were less hard hit in the spring. Real COVID-19 is self-limiting and may already have peaked in some Northern towns. It will not return in force, and the example again is London. Even here, certain boroughs, e.g. Camden and Sutton, have had minimal positive test results. I’ve explained a number of times how this happened – the prominent role of prior immunity is often ignored or misunderstood. The extent of this was so large that, coupled with the uneven spread of infection, it needed only a low percentage of the population to be infected before herd immunity was reached.
That’s it. All the rest is a PCR false positive pseudo-epidemic.
What’s the evidence for this?
The key sign of a PCR false positive pseudo-epidemic is the relative paucity of excess deaths equal to the deaths claimed to be occurring as a result of the lethal infective agent. This key sign is present.
It all comes back to the questions sceptics have been asking throughout this epidemic: How many “Covid” deaths are actually caused by the disease? How many “cases” are genuine infections?
Read Mike’s brilliant piece here if you missed it last week.
US Senator Rand Paul: Why Aren’t We Using Proven Covid Treatments?
At a US Senate hearing yesterday on “Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution” before Senator Rand Paul and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee a number of doctors advocated the use of various treatments that studies and clinical practice have shown to be effective. They included Vitamin D, Ivermectin and HCQ.
Fox News posted this video from the hearing showing Dr Pierre Kory, Associate Professor of Medicine at St. Luke’s Aurora Medical Centre, titled “‘I CAN’T KEEP DOING THIS’: Doctor pleads for review of data during COVID-19 Senate hearing”. A report on Dr Kory’s contribution from Newswise is here.
The resistance to the use of cheap and proven safe and effective therapeutics such as Vitamin D, Ivermectin and HCQ in this epidemic has been one of numerous mysteries that has cost many lives. Still the Government is not following the evidence on this.
A comprehensive overview of the scientific and clinical studies relating to Ivermectin, Vitamin D and other treatments can be found here. The Swiss Doctor’s page on recommended treatment is here.
Round-up
- “Scaring Ourselves to Death” – Keith Gandal on the AIER blog explores the evidence on how panic and stress increase deaths in an epidemic
- “V-Day must mark the beginning of the end for controls on people’s behaviour” – Telegraph editorial that argues “once the elderly and vulnerable are vaccinated, limiting fatalities and pressure on hospitals, there can be no justification to continue with controls on people’s movements and behaviour”
- “Oxford vaccine results leave regulators with ‘dilemma’, warns scientist” – Sarah Knapton in the Telegraph on the continuing challenges and disappointments with the Oxford vaccine now that the results have been published in the Lancet
- “The Vicar of Dibley taking the knee for BLM makes one thing clear – the BBC has lost the plot” – Good comment from Allison Pearson in the Telegraph on the latest knee-taking shenanigans
- “Covid blood test can predict patient survival chances” – Guardian report on a remarkable blood test for proteins that has so far correctly predicted the outcome for 18 of 19 severely ill patients who survived and five of five who died. Sounds very much like confirmation of the importance of pre-existing immunity…
- “Effect of internationally imported cases on internal spread of COVID-19” – New Lancet study showing that restrictions on international travel “have little effect on COVID-19 epidemics if there are many more cases resulting from local transmission compared with imported cases”. Be warned though: it is a model
- “FDA announces deaths of two Pfizer vaccine trial participants” – One was immunocompromised, says the Jerusalem Post. The FDA Briefing Document states one died of a heart attack 65 days after the second dose, while the other died from arteriosclerosis three days after the first dose. Both have been deemed unrelated
- “People advised to put off Christmas get-togethers” – New advice for the people of Wales from their killjoy scientific advisers, in BBC News. They are “strongly advised” to consider “postponing celebrations until later next year”. So, next Christmas then?
- “Why Did the U.S. Copy China on Virus Control?” – An excellent question from Stacey Rudin in AIER
- “Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya on the Lockdown Fiasco” – Tom Woods interviews the Great Barrington Declaration co-author in his latest podcast
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Four today: “Come And Get It” by Badfinger, “You Can Have Mine” by Augustana, “Someone told a lie” by Steppenwolf and “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” by Manic Street Preachers.
Love in the Time of Covid
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, we bring you a branch of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which tweeted on Sunday (and subsequently deleted) a tweet that read: “The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.” Breitbart has the story.
Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation Corey DeAngelis noted Monday CTU “filed a request for an injunction to stop in-person instruction that is supposed to start January 11th” – the day after it deleted its tweet condemning the reopening of schools.
DeAngelis further observed the “reopening” scheduled for January 11th in Chicago is “only for ‘students in pre-K and cluster programs.’”
Elementary and middle school students are scheduled to return to in-person instruction in February.
He continued that, while CTU quoted Dr. Anthony Fauci in its request for an injunction, it omitted Fauci’s quote in which he stated, “The default position should be to try as best as possible within reason to keep the children in school […] the spread among children & from children is not really big at all.”
On this issue at least the CDC appears to be taking a sensible line.
On Wednesday, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also repeated his call for schools to open for in-person learning, stating that schools are not a major cause of coronavirus contagion.
“[W]e now have substantial data that shows that schools’ face-to-face learning can be conducted in K-12, and particularly in the elementary and middle schools in a safe and responsible way,” Redfield said.
The CDC director explained infections that do occur among teachers and students are largely due to the spread of the virus within communities or in homes.
“We’re not seeing intra-school transmission,” Redfield affirmed, adding: “I just think it’s healthy for these kids to be in school. That said, they got to do it safely and they’ve got to do it responsibly. And when this was started over the summer, no one really knew for certain. They thought that these public health measures would work.”
“But now the data clearly shows us that you can operate these schools in face-to-face learning in a safe and responsible way,” the CDC director said.
“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 £1.99 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 masks in shops here.
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption.
If you’re a shop owner and you want to let your customers know you will not be insisting on face masks or asking them what their reasons for exemption are, you can download a friendly sign to stick in your window here.
And here’s an excellent piece about the ineffectiveness of masks by a Roger W. Koops, who has a doctorate in organic chemistry. See also the Swiss Doctor’s thorough review of the scientific evidence here.
Stop Press: A sharp-eyed reader spotted that in the Scottish Government’s fatuous “COVID Guide to Etiquette” that we highlighted yesterday the woman shown on page five isn’t wearing her mask over her nose – contrary to official guidance.
Sloppy graphic design and an own goal from the mask zealots.
The Great Barrington Declaration
The Great Barrington Declaration, a petition started by Professor Martin Kulldorff, Professor Sunetra Gupta and Professor Jay Bhattacharya calling for a strategy of “Focused Protection” (protect the elderly and the vulnerable and let everyone else get on with life), was launched in October and the lockdown zealots have been doing their best to discredit it ever since. If you googled it a week after launch, the top hits were three smear pieces from the Guardian, including: “Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including ‘Dr Johnny Bananas’.” (Freddie Sayers at UnHerd warned us about this the day before it appeared.) On the bright side, Google UK has stopped shadow banning it, so the actual Declaration now tops the search results – and Toby’s Spectator piece about the attempt to suppress it is among the top hits – although discussion of it has been censored by Reddit. The reason the zealots hate it, of course, is that it gives the lie to their claim that “the science” only supports their strategy. These three scientists are every bit as eminent – more eminent – than the pro-lockdown fanatics so expect no let up in the attacks. (Wikipedia has also done a smear job.)
You can find it here. Please sign it. Now well over 700,000 signatures.
Update: The authors of the GDB have expanded the FAQs to deal with some of the arguments and smears that have been made against their proposal. Worth reading in full.
Update 2: Many of the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration are involved with new UK anti-lockdown campaign Recovery. Find out more and join here.
Update 3: You can watch Sunetra Gupta set out the case for “Focused Protection” here and Jay Bhattacharya make it here.
Update 4: The three GBD authors plus Prof Carl Heneghan of CEBM have launched a new website collateralglobal.org, “a global repository for research into the collateral effects of the COVID-19 lockdown measures”. Follow Collateral Global on Twitter here.
Judicial Reviews Against the Government
There are now so many JRs being brought against the Government and its ministers, we thought we’d include them all in one place down here.
First, there’s the Simon Dolan case. You can see all the latest updates and contribute to that cause here.
Then there’s the Robin Tilbrook case. You can read about that and contribute here.
Then there’s John’s Campaign which is focused specifically on care homes. Find out more about that here.
There’s the GoodLawProject’s Judicial Review of the Government’s award of lucrative PPE contracts to various private companies. You can find out more about that here and contribute to the crowdfunder here.
The Night Time Industries Association has instructed lawyers to JR any further restrictions on restaurants, pubs and bars.
And last but not least there’s the Free Speech Union‘s challenge to Ofcom over its ‘coronavirus guidance’. You can read about that and make a donation here.
Samaritans
If you are struggling to cope, please call Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email jo@samaritans.org or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch. Samaritans is available round the clock, every single day of the year, providing a safe place for anyone struggling to cope, whoever they are, however they feel, whatever life has done to them.
Quotation Corner
We know they are lying. They know they are lying, They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
Charles Mackay
They who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions…
Ideology – that is what gives the evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get into the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man, who knows where it hurts, is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialist.
Sir Winston Churchill
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.
Richard Feynman
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Necessity is the plea for every restriction of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt the Younger
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Joseph Goebbels (attributed)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
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And Finally…
Stop Press: The polls are now open for the best political cartoon of the year. But one cartoonist found he’d been left out of the party: the Telegraph‘s Bob Moran, a lockdown sceptic whose work regularly features on this site. He took to Twitter to highlight this injustice.
Toby has already been in contact to ask Bob if he’d like the Free Speech Union to take up his case, but he is too gracious to pursue it. Shame. If he was allowed to enter he would surely win the competition hands down.
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Isn’t it time to designate these organisations either unions or terrorists so that the assets of the individuals can be seized.
Only when they lose access to the wealth that allows them to behave like this will they stop.
I’d go more medieval than that. Using the principle of actions speaking louder than words, condemn all those convicted to live without petroleum-derived products for one year. That is not just fuel of course, but all plastics, many cosmetics and a constellation of other wonderful things our chemists have invented over the years to improve our lives. Some of them life savers.
You can’t easily make toilet roll without a machine that requires lubrication. That alone should give them pause for thought.
Surely “condemn” is not the right word, Vaxtastic. You’re helping them to be true to their ideals. I’m all in favour of that. Nothing like ideological consistency.
Of course. I meant sentencing. With condemnation
Or just shoot them. They believe in reincarnation, so what do they care?
(The first sentence above is a joke. Please do not shoot anybody. The second sentence is not a joke.)
Then, after millions of years, pump the petroleum created from their bodies out of the ground and burn it as wastefully as possible
I saw a bit of the
All looking so earnest as they shuffled along the roads, no life in them whatsover, apart from the regular actorvists banging drums, singing their well rehearsed songs. Oh, and hardly any police!
useful idiotsprotest yesterday. Mostly oldies, all wearing their fluoride made gore-tex, carrying petroleum-oil based banners, and stuff. I bet NONE of them have a car or drive regularly.That’s something I always think when seeing one of these pictures: The groups seem to be composed of middle-class people who are either 25 years younger or 25 years older than me, ie, those who don’t yet work and those who work no longer.
You mean, the devil makes work for idle hands?
They are primarily LibDem voters, whose sole interest is telling other people what to do and how to run their lives.
Look into the eyes of a LibDem voter and you will recognise a sociopath.
They would be the worst type of people to be in charge – zealots and fanatics one and all with their ‘to them’ good intentions paving the way to hell.
Well said! After once spending two hours at a formal lunch on the same table as one of these psychopaths who spent the whole time telling the rest of us how we should be thinking – I’m all for bringing back the stocks (with tomatoes in tins supplied free).
I noticed those people who protest tend to be middle class and very into cycling on bicycles made from titanium and lycra made from oil. They also tend to be university educated and therefore not very sensible. What they don’t realise is they are the ones the Globalists want to wipe off the planet. They are in their stupidity creating their own demise.
The only time the police self service is under a real strain is when they don’t have enough officers to protect politicians, which appears to be their main purpose, along with rugby-tackling elderly white ladies protesting about the mandatory vaxxing of children.
Miners in 1984 were sometimes stopped on their way to demonstrations before they’d even driven a few miles.
These XR demonstrations are being “allowed” to happen.
XR could be proscribed.
Attacking the population in general, including patients on their way to hospital, is f***ing vile and reminiscent of hijacking planes full of innocent civilians.
What is extremely interesting is that the MSM and the political class are keeping completely shtum about where XR are really coming from. Mustn’t upset Princy?
Why is the Steiner cult even allowed to operate schools in this country, let alone inspect them themselves outside of the normal inspection systems?
But… if you happen to have your way blocked by XRers, there’s an easy way to become a hero. You’d have almost the whole country behind you.
They are indeed, just compare and contrast to the treatment meted out on people causing far less disruption but protesting about the “wrong thing” ie freedom from government tyranny.
Just try having a peaceful demonstration to protest mass immigration and see what happens. A hate crime.
Or you can have several peaceful demonstrations against Lockdown, mandatory mask wearing, etcetera etcetera and just be ignored.
Our big local refinery has a High Court injunction in place against these spoiled brats.
Anyway it will take them some time to walk here, or cycle, or whatever eco-friendly means of transport they may choose to employ.
XR is just more subversion imo.
XR have government approval, that’s obvious.
Approval from Carrie Antionette, and that’s all that counts
XR and its various bizarre re-brandings are clearly an establishment tool.
Almost the whole country behind you . . . . except all of those in Westminster, Whitehall and the teaching profession.
They should be deported to an Islamic country, accompanied by an announcement they’re gay….
Surely they are’ tolerated’ by our own Government and funded by Billionaire donors?
This guy who is working for the banking cartels and orchestrating ER and all the rest of this divisive nonsense would be a good start. The scammers Johnson, father and son, are nothing but traitors who are deceiving, betraying and screwing the British people on a monumental and outrageous scale.Look at the state of them. Why do we put up with this crap from these vile people.
The Oxford Global Depopulation Agenda 2025
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LyLretdObH0d/
I think we need to realise that as with the US, the UK is fully penetrated and being directed by the private banking cartels, being brought down via Soviet style infiltration and destruction. The City of London FFS! Its right here. This is what is going on, these are the people who are doing it. People like DOminic Raab are their latest reps, sent to destroy our world on a promise of fortune and favour. They are now so out of control that it is imperative that people become political. We vote these scumbag traitors out and we vote ourselves in. Simple as that. Fuck these traitors and criminals destroying our lives trying to turn us into slaves.
Amazing insight into this here:.
125. The Ukrainian Future – Smart Cities – The 4th Industrial Revolution With Julianne Romanello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqiHnpCuuhM
”Vote”? You really think we’d be allowed to vote them out?
”If voting made a difference they wouldn’t let us do it.”
Anyway – Dominion vote-counting machines have already proved their worth.
Most are funded by Government through our taxes. We are paying for our own misery and destruction. NGOs are anything but. It’s time people circumvented Government and created new ways of working, travelling etc. We must stop the brainwashing of those that have plenty of time on their hands.
Get Justin Trudeau to sort them out! ….and leave Canadians alone.
Another well funded “grassroots” organization appears in an Anglosphere country. Curious.
What others are on your list?
Extinction Rebellion and BLM spring to mind.
Same cast, same executive producer, slightly different costumes.
Not enough car chases though.
Probably most of the ‘woke’ movement in all its forms and guises too.
Narcissistic bastards. Complete and utter scum.
Whilst this country’s people are already suffering with energy poverty and sky high fuel costs. A lot of people, who actually have to drive places to earn a living and pay into this bankrupt system, are already getting hammered. These mentally ill wasters, having a day out with their flags, making matters worse, for everybody. This makes me absolutely furious.
And yet, what chance of this disgraceful government, who is on the same side as the idiots, actually defending law and order, and our way of life?
I agree. I think we need to do a better job emphasizing the selfishness of their acts, not their supposed noble aims. Condemn their actions and contrast them with the ordinary person doing their best in challenging circumstances as you suggest.
There’s nothing selfish about their behaviour, they’re demanding altruism and trying to enforce it.
A master of the ironic.
No, just understanding of the nature of altruism, communism, fascism and national socialism.
I would say, it is one thing to protest. But the blocking of access to hospitals requires a robust response to send a very clear message. The kind of response that requires a visit to A&E if they don’t take the hint.
I’m confident the subsequent investigation could be roundly ignored by most of us. Lessons learned and all that.
Maybe that visit to A & E should be required to be made without the use of oil. I figure that leaves the option of walking or riding a horse if one is available (even bicycles use oil, so they are out). See how they like that.
Walking. Or, rather, limping as the case may be.
No horses, they have shoes made of steel which require oil in manufacture. Sorry they’ll have to walk.
Just look at their awful, depressing ‘flags’. What the hell are their symbols supposed to represent, other than hucksterism? These people represent nothing of substance.
Moderately repurposed swastikas as far as I can tell. Moved a few lines, but definitely the same set of runes. Achtung, baby!
Just think, the swastika looks ‘prettier’ than the bollocks the climatemongers are offering. Wrap you swede round that.
I dunno, perhaps the climatemongers are trying to depress us. Perhaps they are trying to depress themselves. Surely they need motivation, or demotivation, as it were, to stay ‘enthusiastic’.
No, they are not trying to depress themselves. Their actions are classic displacement. No rational person would endorse stopping oil; we would regress to a medieval-like society.
These people are already depressed. Life’s losers unable to manage the existential angst that they don’t really matter. Has it all been for nothing? etc etc
I don’t disagree with you. You misunderstand. I can see the ambiguity in my words. I am not disputing that these nutcases are already depressed. That is surely a given. Perhaps I should have said, ‘Perhaps they are trying to further depress themselves,’ as in perhaps they looking to justify their own depression.
Pardon me for the ambiguity. Needless to say, I utterly agree with you.
I think that is it. Find some outlet for the frustration of a life not well lived. Or, for the younger ones, a salve for their fear of a competitive world.
Quite how their solution will help with any of that is anyone’s guess. But then again we live in a world where men can get surgically castrated and then congratulated for their bravery
I fear you miss the deeper angle. As a Christian, the answer is clear. These lunatics are trying to find meaning in a world devoid of God. Granted, there may be professing Christians among them, but these will be few and far between, and mostly if not all will be apostate Christians.
I don’t necessarily disagree. The decline of Christianity has left a God-sized hole in many people’s lives.
Indeed. We see it everywhere, including this forum, with ugly bags of mostly water whinging about their ‘rights’, oblivious to the fact that, on an atheist ontology, they have no rights! Astonishing.
As I already wrote once in the past: I think that man is a religious animal and doing away with the God of a sophisticated, philosophical religion (like Christianity) doesn’t change that. Hence, the fear of the unknown which begets gods gets channeled into something else. The first deities of mankind where weather gods due the weather being the potentially as dangerous as advantageous unknown on this planet, with people desiring both protection from and influence on the weather and both supposed to be enabled (to some degree) by religious rites.
Turns out the modern, atheistic climate anxious have effectively degenerated into a seriously atavistic version of that which is presumably close to the beginning of religion in the stone age: Their weather god is no longer a powerful but principally human being open to reason and persuasion and capable of compassion but it’s an inexplainable, irrational and extremely powerful beast god which will kill all human life on earth unless continuously placated by performing the right kind of rites, especially, continuous self-denigration and prostration: The very idea that man could be the master of his own destiny and activley shape his future is believed to be a preposterous sin with ultimatively lethal outcome.
Please be ‘Christian’ and accept the presence of other faiths. If not accept that you are simply promoting one dogma over another.
I totally agree that these people lack faith in anything other than an agenda set out form then by manipulating NWO cartels.
1. Why the quotation marks around ‘Christian’?
2. Of course I accept the presence of other faiths. I’d have to be mentally challenged not to notice and accept this undeniable reality.
Do you think I am unaware of the existence of other faiths, or that I’m aware but intolerant of other faiths?
Yes, I absolutely promote one dogma or set of dogmas over others. Are you saying there are no true dogmas?
Be careful how you answer that last question.
Their “bow-tie” / double axe head symbol always reminds me of HSBC’s corporate logo. Presumably both have some occultic / symbolic payload.
This sort of stuff used to be all over the net but doing a quick search didn’t instantly bring up the answer…
Another on-message, astroturf group protesting on behalf of the the elites.
Starts to look like more state-sponsored terrorism against the average person.
Let’s hope the local elections send a clear message to Fat Zero and his band of equally useless, globalist grifters.
Useful idiots, the lot of them.
Idiots.
Easter coming up and we have fuel shortages and chaos at airports all it would seem with the tacit approval of the powers that be. The official message seems to be; do not travel this Easter, just sit at home and make jolly Easter bonnets out of re-cycled Christmas cards and think yourselves lucky you are not being shelled………….yet!
We are being played for a ship of fools, I must admit if I lived in France I would be voting for Marine le Pen, I have no idea what her policies are? but she seems to annoy the hell out of everyone else, which at the moment seems to me to be a good enough reason to vote for anyone.
If we lived in France we’d be burning tyres. Can you imagine how crazy that would make these people? Lol
When people do not integrate in society and cause disturbances of the peace and material hardship towards others, they belong in prison. All of these people are not exercising any sort of legal right to protest. Considering we are living in such difficult times, with everything becoming more and more expensive, the last thing we need are literal terrorists making our lives even harder.
That’s what the punishment of exile was often for. Used to great effect by the Greeks if I recall.
It was also a punishment meted out under the old Irish Brehon laws. Some postulate that a certain well-known Irish demographic have their origins in those who were exiled.
There will soon be no “society” left for them to ‘integrate in’ – that’s the whole idea!
Are you still a stranger to the ‘ Great Reset ‘- you do know they are all in on it?
Smash to pieces so Johnson can “Build Back Better”?
Johnson is just the puppet, The anti-human megalomaniacs behind the Great Reset are those who see themselves as those who should Build Back Better. Better for them, of course, but not for thee or me. Whether or not they succeed remains to be seen.
Thank god 2 out of 3 are open. They want us to DEMAND that these protests are stopped, that means all protest, even peaceful, BILL going through soon. There are already laws to stop the chaos being caused now, vandalism etc, but they want this, to push the BILL through.
Always an agenda, always an ulterior motive, and ALWAYS at the expense of the public.
I see the logic. Tacitly encourage obviously selfish protests out of sync with ordinary people, then use the disgust to discourage scrutiny of a bill that will make legitimate protests more difficult to pull off. Clever.
Some info…
The XR symbol represents an hourglass. It’s a rotation of the dagaz rune, meaning “day” and representing the dawn of light as one epoch gives way to the next.
Now take a look at the symbol for The Exchange, based in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
That’s a triquetra. It’s also the symbol of the Steinerite bank called Triodos.
Then look at the address that Roger Hallam and Gail Bradbrook, two leading figures in XR, give for themselves in official filings for a company called “Compassionate Revolution”.
The idea about the “fifth extinction” is part of a belief system in which “epochs” come to an end when the population have lost their way and the “root race of the next epoch” has started rising. That’s what these people see themselves as part of. That’s what they mean when they involve themselves in stuff such as “Transition Towns”.
Apparently there is now a group called “Doctors for Extinction Rebellion” with members in Britain and…can anyone guess?…yes, that’s right…Switzerland.
One of them is Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the Lancet. See how high this goes?
Are any lawyers reading this? Aren’t they breaking the law by using the red cross symbol? I thought it was protected under both English and international law.
Well, these people have a common purpose. YouknowhatImsayin
Yes. That sinister fifth-column organisation has been busy paving the way for this lunacy.
Here’s an impressive orga chart of networked secret societies and other affiliations – on steroids!
https://archive.org/details/ChartAccompanyingTheSocialistNetworkNestaHWebster/mode/1up
– and that was just the left side of the political spectrum LOL!
The Red Cross is a protected insignia under international law and as far as I am aware is owned by the committee of the International Red Cross.
Beginning of a deep exposure of corruption in Tulsa USA. Corruption of the local institutions such as education by nefarious actors, with scholar and thinker Julianne Romanello laying it out dropping so many nuggets of information. She is very impressive, forming a working project with Brendon O Connell who opens the clip with a very insightful commentary and summing up of the world we are seeing unravel in real time. Excellent work here
125. The Ukrainian Future – Smart Cities – The 4th Industrial Revolution With Julianne Romanello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqiHnpCuuhM
Our disruption will not stop until the fossil fuel economy comes to an end
The idea that the fossil fuel economy could be ended on short notice by people, who – with vocal support of the UN (a UN secretary reportedly said continued use of North Sea oil and gas would be morally and economically mad) – make lifes of ordinary Londoners miserable, is breathtakingly idiotic. Hence, this is obviously just an attempt to blackmail the UK government into spending more money on things the UN approves of despite this is demonstrably harmful to the population of the UK.
Diesen Wasserkopf von sich vollständig verselbständigt habender, internationaler Bürokratie müßte man mal einschlagen.
(Roughly This hydrocephalus – idiomatic in German – of out-of-control international bureaucracy should be kicked in)
I wonder when people will wake up and realize we are at war with globalists, and they have specifically targeted the countries with a bothersome history of being preoccupied with individual liberty. We are quite an inconvenience to their plans.
Indeed Vaxtastic and our own PM is one of those we are at war with in his submission to globalist policies.
On Friday, I drove to High Wycombe from Buckingham (just try doing this by public transport) for an Hospital appointment for a contact lens check up.
On my return I needed to fill up with diesel. There was none to be had. And there is STILL none to be had.
Another appointment has been scheduled for Wednesday 13 April at 11:15. Unless I can get some diesel I am left with four options, none of which are particularly attractive:
I am certain that I am far from alone in experiencing this massive inconvenience.
Buy a second hand petrol car with 12 months MOT for a few hundred pounds, use it for a few weeks, and sell it on again when done.
Not a bad idea that. I hadn’t thought of that one!
Any friends in your church or elsewhere? When I had loads of hospital appointments a few years ago there was no shortage of people happy to take me to whereever.
Still not a mention of the petrol problems on the news this morning.
You mean pandering to the unicorn rainbow brigade didn’t help?! I’m shocked!
Perhaps next time if we pander harder and longer they’ll like that more
I once read the XR website to try and figure out their agenda, but found it impossible to discern what they are even for. It is literally waffle. Essentially seems to say: “join our movement if you want to feel good about yourself…” Like some fruity, spiritual dance class mixed with creative writing for people on strong medication. Whoever is bankrolling them had the right idea – a herd of essentially mindless, useful idiots, some of whom will glue themselves to things, and all willing to dress up to make that special impression for the media, whose cameras are always present and rolling. Not co-ordinated at all, of course.
They literally look like a crowd of NPCs. There are maybe half-a-dozen faces there, repeated. It’s like masks-off at the end of a week long Klan rally where nobody has showered.
This is a terror organisation, and it should be treated as such by the courts. No more revolving door: 6 months inside, and then upwards from there.
How about death by brutal torture and hanging?
Maybe a bit much. Might elicit sympathy. What about a year working at an oil refinery
A one year apprenticeship in a deep, dark coal mine would be a start.
Ten years hard labour more like. Breaking rocks is the level they’d regress us all to, so them first.
There are already laws on the books to deal with this. The police are failing to do their jobs. Because of police failure the government will introduce draconian restrictions and further infringements on our rights. Do not fall for it. The fault lies entirely with the police, who no longer exist to uphold the law.
They changed that. They are there to create “social cohesion”, whatever that means. Hitchens is good on that.
Hitchens is good on pretty much everything.
Mainly the virtue signalling myopic upper-middle class who want to close down the oil industry and industrialise the countryside with solar and wind – more subsidies for the landed gentry, paid for by the ordinary working and middle classes. We have a PM who is not interested in energy security for the nation – advised by some very wealthy, and well known land-owning individuals.
Where did all Boris’s water canons go?
They are only for use on those the establishment doesn’t like.
That would be people like us then.
This ‘crisis’ suits Johnson and Co’s anti-car (ie anti-personal transport) agenda, thus they’ll act lightly and late against these criminals.
Time for Johnson to stop fighting his proxy war in Ukraine and step down from government.
Time for Johnson to F O.
The planet!
Police told to stand down as usual? “Orders from the top” is it?
They really are serious about destroying this country aren’t they?
This is what happened when our cowardly and gullible Parliament hands perpetual “Emergency Powers” to do what he pleases to a clownish, narcissist maverick who wants to be ‘King of the World ‘and takes all his orders from Davos!
Hose the feckers down with petrol.
What a bunch of absolute fuckwit pawns.
If they lock themselves to pipes leave them there, who cares.
Blocking vital transport links, well Boris knows where the water cannon are stored. Get them out and wash them off the street.
It’s clear these fools are tolerated and the police just stand and watch.
Why aren’t these eco loons being arrested and prosecuted with heavy fines or even jail time for organisers / persistent offenders? Presumably the loon in No. 10 and his co-conspirators see them as supporting his zany net zero policies.
How come this handful of eXtremely Righteous muppets get all the coverage when tge freedom marches last year in central London with crowds vastly larger garnered barely a whisper in the Corporate media? XR can only be useful idiots for the power elite.
I wonder if any of these twats are going to use any form of petrol-driven vehicle in the next day or two… I think it’s quite likely that they are.
Isn’t it strange how the Government takes such a softly, softly approach to these Eco Terrorists. You could be forgiven for thinking they are doing what the Eco Loons in Government want.
All planned and controlled by Soros and the Globalists. They want us broken, miserable and slaves to their ideology.
If the official police are unable to deal with this nonsense I’d have thought it’s time for a little citizen’s policing as per the XR caused chaos. How many men would it take to remove these imbeciles on a daily basis until they get fed up and go home.
Must say I’m rather fed up with XR. They are playing into the hands of the globalist agenda – destroy the economy, disrupt supply, jack up prices etc. I wonder where they think all their stuff comes from and how it got there and how they got to the oil terminals in the first place. I would have more respect for them if they rode horses, grew all their own veg and powered their homes with wind or micro-hydro but the chances are they don’t. They are just disrupting an economy that is trying to get back to some sort of functioning and it’s the small to medium sized businesses that struggle the most. The capitalist system is not ideal in any sense but we have to transition off it in a manageable way, we are not going to be successful with this shock treatment. They want to p*ss off the sleeping masses and wake them up but this is not the way.
Who is paying these eco warriors? You would think they would be a bit more concerned about the dangerous experimental biologicals wiping out huge swathes of people. Guess not. Paid actors?
I’m tempted to highlight a Z in the extinction rebellion symbol
If only the police use the same force against these terrorists as they used against people protesting against lockdowns!!!
No coincidence that all the ‘colleges’ are on their Easter break at the moment. These loons need to be arrested en-masse as they start to protest and locked up until term-time re-starts, then taken to court and the proverbial book thrown at them.
Perhaps it’s in situations like this that police tactics like those used in Ottawa and Victoria would be excusable. These are hardly harmless demonstrators – they are causing REAL harm.
They don’t need to – they just need a set of bolt-cutters and something to remove superglue at best, plus a load of Police vans to transport the ‘protesters’ to the local Nick.
If all they do is lock themselves to pipes, that won’t stop any fuel flowing. I doubt if they’d be so stupid as to turn any valve (not easy) to try and shut off flow, given the consequences might be very dire for them and the area if they caused an explosion (remember Buncefield).
If they chain (etc) themselves to the gate, then it should just take minutes to remove them. Why the Police just don’t do this is beyond me – do they sympathise? If so, they need replacing.
Imagine how they all got there and how all their clothes and banners were made.
Idiots. But you have to question why now and why are they allowed to be like this? Answer: it isn’t due to ‘freedom’.
This is what the powers that be want, disharmony.
These brainless idiot puppets are being paid by jewish networks and their bankers. Note how they always have all the new gear, posters, tchirts, banners, etc, etc… This is all part of the communist green agenda which seeks to destroy industry in the west..
Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme:
– ” Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies:
– ” A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De- development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.”
Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defence Fund:
– ” The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.”
But many people have discerned the real motives of this agenda:
Professor Richard S Lindzen, speech criticized by politicians and activists who claim “the science is settled”, and demand “unprecedented changes in all aspects of society”:
– ” an implausible conjecture backed by false evidence, repeated incessantly, has become ‘knowledge ,’ used to promote the overturn of industrial civilization.”
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, let slip during a February 2015 press conference in Brussels that:
– “ The U.N. ‘s real purpose in pushing climate hysteria is to end capitalism throughout the world. This is the first time in human history that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally changing [getting rid of] the economic development model that has reigned since the Industrial Revolution…[she called for a] centralized transformation that is going to make the life of everyone on the planet very different.”
Ernesto Araújo, Brazilian foreign minister of Bolssonaro government, in his blog:
– “ This dogma has been used to justify increasing the regulatory power of states over the economy and the power of international institutions on the nation states and their populations, as well as to stifle economic growth in democratic capitalist countries and to promote the growth of China…the center-left Workers [party] in Brazil is criminalizing sex and reproduction, saying that all heterosexual intercourse is rape and every baby is a risk to the planet as it will increase carbon emissions.”
William Norman Grigg:
– “… the environmental movement is animated by a desire to regiment human society rather than ‘save the planet’. The movement’s economic outlook is socialist, its political ambitions are totalitarian, and its religious affinities are unmistakably pagan.”
Berit Kjos, “A Common Core for a Global Community”:
– “ Today’s emphasis on ‘saving the earth’ will surely involve mental manipulation and moral degradation. The earth-centered ‘new’ spirituality will fit well in a culture of promiscuity, propaganda , and paganism. And the seductions of the occult will speed the rising hostility towards biblical truth and values. Everything must change! Make no mistake about it, in a world where the ‘global collective’ determines the outcomes, Christianity will not be tolerated.”