The Times has published the latest instalment in Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott’s new book Failures of State, an exercise, it seems, in recording the Official Narrative.
In the excerpt the authors lay the blame for the second wave at the feet of Chancellor Rishi Sunak, quoting a SAGE source that he was “the main person who was responsible for the second wave”. The editors picked this incendiary quote as the title of the piece.
Calvert and Arbuthnott write:
The Government had been warned about the consequences of a second wave but, by the end of July, the scientists on SAGE were reporting that they had no confidence that R was not now above the one threshold. The Government’s limited room for manoeuvre was acknowledged by Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, at a hastily arranged press conference. “We have probably reached near the limits, or the limits, of what we can do in terms of opening up society,” he said.
The following Monday, August 3rd, was going to be the start of Eat Out to Help Out, come what may. According to a Conservative MP source, both Matt Hancock and Michael Gove were concerned about pressing ahead, but “the voices that were prevailing in government, for whatever reason, were those that were pushing a case that was based purely on economic recovery at all costs as fast as possible”.
By mid-August, positive tests had risen to more than a thousand a day. The Commons all-party coronavirus group wrote directly to the Prime Minister. “It is already clear that to minimise the risk of a second wave occurring . . . an urgent change in government approach is required,” said the letter.
One researcher claimed the scheme boosted Covid infections by 8-17%.
The Eat Out to Help Out initiative was hailed as a triumph for Chancellor Rishi Sunak, but it was too effective, according to researchers from Warwick University, who found that it had increased COVID-19 cases by between 8% and 17%. The report’s author, Professor Thiemo Fetzer, wasn’t alone in concluding that the scheme was a mistake. “It wasn’t about support for restaurants, otherwise it would have counted for takeaways,” a SAGE source said. “It was to break our fear and it worked.” He added: “We were obviously going to have to reverse that. It just seemed insane.”
Ross Clark in the Spectator questioned the idea that Eat Out to Help Out was responsible for a resurgence in the virus last October when the theory was first aired, noting that areas of Scotland where hospitality was severely restricted were also seeing infections rise.
If eating out really is so hazardous, why have infections continued to rise in Tier 3 areas and in Scotland’s central belt where pubs and restaurants have had their business severely curtailed? It is all very nice to have data, but to blame Eat Out to Help Out for between 8% and 17% of clusters (in a month when transmission was very low in any case) seems just a little too neat. All we can say for sure is that the scheme has been responsible for an extra £500 million of public debt – and that any benefits it brought the hospitality industry have since been undermined by further restrictions.
At the end of January Ross’s scepticism was confirmed by Treasury analysis, which found a mismatch between where the scheme was popular and where cases were rising fastest.
More than 160 million punters were given 50% off meals to try to get people back into struggling pubs and restaurants, with the scheme credited for getting 400,000 workers off furlough.
Now data published by the Treasury shows areas with the high take up of the scheme also still had the low virus levels between August and October.
The figures show places such as Westminster and Scarborough and North Devon had very high take-up of Eat Out to Help Out, but very low subsequent Covid cases.
Meanwhile Knowsley, Rochdale, Merthyr Tydfil had far higher Covid rates, but lower levels of use of the scheme.
The Treasury said: “These figures confirm that take-up of Eat Out to Help Out does not correlate with incidence of Covid regionally – and indeed where it does the relationship is negative.”
LS Fact Check Verdict: False.
There is no observable relationship between areas which embraced Eat Out to Help Out and areas which had larger autumn and winter surges. Internationally, US states like Florida which did not re-impose restrictions over the winter did not fare worse than the UK. There is therefore no sound basis for alleging that “Rishi Sunak was the main person responsible for Covid’s second wave”.
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Didn’t they have some riot police beefed up by foreign thugs when they wanted to duff up peaceful anti-lockdown protesters?
A different story though when they’re told to enforce actual laws South of the river. Crooks.
No longer called the Boy Scouts as it is now open to girls (though the ‘Girl’ Guides seems to have survived). Oh well, there’s always the Boys’ Brigade.
I wonder what these groups will have to do about the “trans” business…
Brown Owl becomes Rainbow Owl?
They already have Rainbows…. then Brownies…. Wonder how long Brownies will last before they are accused of being wascist??
The Scout group in the village has had a long history of taking girls as there wasn’t & still isn’t a guide pack within walking or short driving distance.
This was instigated to meet a need for the children of the village. Met & still meets the need for children to make bangs, dirty, learn critical thinking skills & enjoy being children.
“The CDC is pushing it [child ‘vaccination’] much more strongly [than ‘JVC’ (sic) ]”.
The CDC that is in bed with big pharma. They’re all following “the science” though…
I spoke with Dr Kat Lindley last night, a press release has already gone out re this yet the meeting to make the decision is later today. She’s speaking against this & presenting evidence to support this position.
It’s to tag every man, woman & child in preparation for the control grid & to reduce the population to their desirable level. Plus there will be no control group if every child is tagged.
This article just published today makes one weep for the innocent children & the utter depravity of the parents who allowed their babies to be trial participants.
https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-pfizer-data-shots-2657512798.html
Ooh, Whitby has voted to limit second homes (Patrick Chrystis, GB News)!
I seem to remember that this has been done in other places (the Yorkshire Dales?). Whilst the libertarian in me does balk somewhat at this (the same as with restrictions on what country people can live in), the trouble is that people sometimes buy a second home but only visit occasionally, thus not contributing much to the local economy, and also forcing housing costs up to unacceptable levels if too many people do it. Thus I have been moving towards the position that these rights must necessarily be conditional, rather like with Gordon Brown’s five tests for joining the Euro. Thus if you want to have a lot of second home owners coming into a certain area, take measures to ensure that housing is still available to local people below a certain price – and if it threatens to go above this price it has to be suspended. Obviously things will be different for different areas, but in general, there should be a principle of consent from the majority of people affected so far as possible. Likewise with immigration, it should both be beneficial and be seen to be beneficial. And if it is a matter of saving people from persecution, it should be proven that this is indeed necessary to save people from persecution (thus it might be reasonable for us to take in a certain amount of people from Hong Kong or the Ukraine)
In a similar vein, the UK should be free to deal with people entering the country illegally in a way that it sees fit (eg Kigali). If the ECHR wants to stop this, perhaps they can arrange for them to go to a processing centre in Strassburg? No? I thought not…
Mmmmm, I think the devil is in the detail. The non-binding vote in Whitby relates only to new-builds. 2nd home owners are not known for buying new homes on new estates. I doubt there is competition between 2nd home owners & locals for the properties covered by this vote.
On the BBC yesterday they interviewed a 19 year old hairdresser who seemed to be blaming 2nd home owners for her inability to buy locally, I’m not sure I’d agree.
Inevitably 2nd home owners push up prices but I doubt that this vote does anything to address the problem.
Whitby is the nearest town to me…about 3-4 miles away. I assure you people do buy second homes here, even ones on estates..usually because they are small estates, or in town, or near the sea/beach. I don’t have strong feelings one way or another to be honest, but I do know that one of the effects people don’t mention is that some smaller schools have had to close, over the years, and children have to be bussed to central schools…because obviously the people who buy second homes are often retired with no young children….……
……my friend lives on the West Cliff, and it’s like a ghost town in the winter when people don’t visit their houses as often…but I don’t know if you can do much about it.
I buy all my meat and veg locally, we have fantastic butchers near us…so I’m not sure what that’s about…in my village we have an ‘award-winning’ butcher…people travel for miles to go there….
…..but I think this a problem everywhere isn’t it…young people unable to get on the housing ladder? What can be done about it I’m not sure…
Lucky you living where you do!
The village where I live doesn’t have a second home problem, second homes tend to be moored in the Marina, but house prices are obscene which is a barrier for people wanting to stay in the village as it’s a lovely place to live & raise children – why I moved here. The solution to this agreed on by consultation with all the village residents was to identify a part of the village where housing could be built purely for folk with a connection to the village to rent or to part own. The prices are about 2/3rds of other comparable property in the village would go for. It has bungalows, 2, 3 & 4 bed houses. The plan was such that the area could be extended for more houses to meet future needs. It is in one of the best spots on the edge of the village & is a lovely community in itself. Children playing out etc.
Local solutions required for what is a local problem.
All beautiful rural areas are plagued by this; it’s not helped either by useless Housing Associations, which seemed to have changed their role from Social Housing agents to Property companies. We live in a gorgeous village in Somerset, with the usual number of – as they are known here – “Down from Londoners” who contribute nothing to the village. We have quite a lot of social housing, controlled by Aster. When a lease ends or a tenant moves, they almost always flog the property. claiming it would not be worth doing it up for rentals. Why? Because they do next to no maintenance unless you are a mardy tenant, like our lovely neighbour, a Yorkie, who doesn’t take no for an answer.
Result? No housing for young villagers. Nice AirBnB properties for people who don’t live here to rent.
As for Cornwall.
It can be dreadful living next to an airb&b or a holiday rental. Relatives who live and work in Cornwall decided to move when the house next door became a holiday let, and they had to put up with constant noisy bbqs and parties every week from the different holidaying residents.
“We have quite a lot of social housing, controlled by Aster. When a lease ends or a tenant moves, they almost always flog the property.”
The original purpose was always to sell. To get to that point they serve a limited time as rentals – “Well we tried -” and then the profits come in.
In reality this is building private property by the back door. Difficult to argue against social housing developments for fear of the ‘nimby’ label.
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The Covid jab has been quietly added to the list of childhood vaccines. Along with an annual flu jab “if necessary.”
They are creating children who effectively have no immune system and will be vulnerable to every germ they come into contact with.
Apologies, have linked this before and most on here must have seen it, but it’s so close to the truth it’s scary.
Imagine anyone nowadays letting their children “swim in the Hudson River”, (obviously the local alternative applies), the phone to the do-gooders at SS (Social Services), would be red hot.
BTW, this is in direct comparison to my generation….outside all day playing in the dirt, no real handwashing culture at home, weekly bath at my grans as we didn’t have one, use of filthy communal outside toilet in early childhood, and hardly a days illness in my life!**
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Today’s kids are having their immune systems destroyed; and hardly anyone gives a fig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29lF43mUlo
Childhood autism has gone from around 1 in 150 in 2000
to 1 in 44 in 2018…according to the CDC
But it is not…most definitely not to do with vaccination……
In 1962 children got five vaccinations, by 1983 it had risen to 24, by 2018 it was 72 doses by the time you are 18!…I think they get around 22 before they are 12 months old…..
I’d upload a graphic but just realised that the app isn’t there!!
“They are creating children who effectively have no immune system and will be vulnerable to every germ they come into contact with.”
And probably sterile.
The flu jab is also mRNA based now!
This generation’s Thalidomide
As was frequently posted on this site by many “it’s not over.“
We have got at least one and possibly more very sick downtickers on the site.
Every comment deploring the addition of a C1984 injection to childhood vaccines has received at least one downtick.
Very sad that individuals with no empathy, obviously no children and not a warm nerve in their bodies can condone such a move.
Ordinarily I would wish them a Foxtrot Oscar but they are not even worth that they are simply first class rubbish.
A cracking piece in TCW by Frank Wright:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/were-the-losers-in-this-global-game-of-charades/
Basically we are in a state of chaos that is out of control.
I don’t know if I agree or not. Chaos for sure but whether it is now out of control I’m not yet convinced. The situation is certainly going to escalate before Christmas and probably dangerously.
If civil unrest breaks out who knows where we end up.
Have the Davos mob lost it? Possibly. Russia is digging in and I don’t mean militarily. China, as ever is going its own way and India is flexing its muscles – understandably. Brazil and 42 African nations won’t bend the knee, rightly.
The dollar’s collapse is inevitable and probably will take the pound with it. The US and Europe appear to be turning themselves in to a Third World hell hole.
It’s going to get very bloody nasty.
It is. There is some hope in the UK though. A very high ranking army officer has served notice on every MP & every servant of the Crown who heads up a department. They have excuse that they don’t know.
The government & army are surprised that things haven’t kicked off sooner, which they’re prepared for. There is a network of veterans who are prepared to uphold their oath to the Queen to protect her subjects.
With normal folk in our communities, dealing with them with kindness, calmness & compassion works as it defuses volatility. The psycho & sociopaths need to be treated with the same type of behaviour as they’re dishing out.
Yesterday evening’s zoom meeting & then a smaller discussion was very interesting! Dr Tau Braun is an expert in counter terrorism & the cabal are frightened of him as he has more knowledge than they on countering their terrorist acts.
The following Biblical passage seems to be a good place to seek inspiration from, if not religious, think of it as a metaphor for what & who we’re battling & what you can do to strengthen your resolve & the tools to use in this war.
Ephesians 6:10-18 KJV
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints
Out of interest, where did you hear this? Who is it?
Thanks
I didn’t make a note of his name & it has been consigned to my forgettory but I heard it from a credible legal source who helped with the drafting of the notice. It was in a discussion yesterday evening.
I’m not going to put my source’s name out there as it isn’t my place to do so.
The guy who’s served notice has no fear.
Can anyone point me in the direction of data showing sea level rises around the coast of Britain since 1980 or so? My understanding is that it’s 1.4mm/year, but has that actually happened?
The reason I mention this is due to a report the BBC are bigging up about 200,000 being abandoned by 2050. They did a piece from Norfolk about homes being abandoned, of course the reason is coastal erosion not sea level rises, but I’m struggling to get decent data on actual sea level rises. By my estimate, by 2050 sea levels may be just over an inch higher than they are now, not enough to cause widespread panic I would have thought?
I don’t know where to direct you for that information. Sorry.
I vaguely recall watching a programme aeons ago when the BBC had credibility about the British Isles & how coastal towns, villages etc had suffered from the sea. One point they made was that it wasn’t the sea levels that were rising in the south but the land mass was pivoting in the middle of the British mainland with the south sinking & the north rising.
I may be wrong & if any of you can support or challenge this, I’d appreciate it!
Browsing for the term “mean sea level changes” came up with this entry: https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/176/1/19/2019967?login=false It contains a lot of historic records over the last century. If you just read it’s summary, you will see that they were (in 2009) sceotical about the accuracy, and interpretation of the results obtained.
Don’t know if you can access Twitter, but I like Latimer Alder for his climate sanity…·
From my postbag: June 10th.
‘Dear Latimer
I’m in UK and can’t swim. I’m terrified that the sea will rise because of Climate Change and drown me.
How many people have drowned around the world because of climate change?’
A: None.. Sea’s rising at only 1 foot (34 cms) per 100 years.
LOL!
That report on the BBC was almost criminal in the way it was presented.
It suggested that coastal erosion was due to climate change and rising sea levels.
I come from the East Coast of Yorkshire where there are houses falling into the sea and further south there is a lighthouse almost a mile away from the receding sea. The sand has simply moved over the years. Nothing to do with the sea level.
What was irritating was the way the presenter kept saying, time after time, that the sea level was the cause of the problem.
Yes, I saw an article in the Telegraph recently about a woman who’s house is getting ever nearer to falling into the sea in Happisburgh, Norfolk. All caused by climate change…..As I know the area I know this isn’t a recent thing, but when I looked it up I found it had been going on since the 1800’s, so what did they blame it on then?
1845 A twelve-acre field at Happisburgh was drilled with wheat. A north-west gale raged all night, and by new morning the field had disappeared.
1854 White’s Directory for this year reported that the sea had encroached 250 yards in the last 70 years at Happisburgh.
1855 Doggett’s Farm -the house. a large barn and the premises – were lost to the sea.
1883 The Low Lighthouse was threatened with erosion. It was withdrawn from service and demolished.
and on and on…..!
How I hate these fuc****s….
Today, the Biden Administration is announcing an operational plan that will ensure that vaccines—if authorized by FDA and recommended by CDC—are readily available for our youngest kids and that we continue the critical work of ensuring that all families know the benefits of getting their children vaccinated against COVID-19.
re the story ATL about baby vaccination in the US…
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-omg-the-pfizer-data-for-kids/comments?s=
Urgent:OMG the Pfizer data for kids under five….
Alex Berenson
June14
That 80 percent figure for efficacy you’ve seen reported is worse than a joke, it’s essentially a fabrication.
Here’s what the Food and Drug Administration and Pfizer did; they only counted cases after the THIRD mRNA dose.
But of the 375 Sars-Cov-2 infections in the trial, 365 occurred before the third dose. Only 10 occurred after the third dose.
Yes, you are reading that right. The efficacy figure is based on 3 PERCENT OF ALL THE INFECTIONS IN THE TRIAL. (Which is why the confidence intervals are so large.)
Count the other 97 percent of the infections, and the vaccine was roughly 20 percent effective over the entire trial – far, far below what the FDA said was approvable in 2020. The confidence intervals went below zero for kids under two, meaning the possibility that the vaccine increased the risk of infection cannot be excluded. And cases of severe Covid – including one two-year-old who was hospitalized – were mostly in the mRNA group.
Great interview with Naomi Wolf (on the Pfizer papers)…On The War Room,
don’t watch it if you don’t like hearing about deaths and injuries to babies by the vaccine death dealers….
https://rumble.com/v18dfcj-dr.-naomi-wolf-on-infertility-and-the-who-and-dealing-with-censorship.html
Brilliant article explaining how the Pfizer trial was gamed to get approval. All fraudulent. If fraud is upheld by a court, then it renders the bioweapon injection manufacturer liable for any harms caused by their toxin.
Evil barstewards springs to mind.
https://doctors4covidethics.org/did-pfizer-perform-adequate-safety-testing-for-its-covid-19-mrna-vaccine-in-preclinical-studies-evidence-of-scientific-and-regulatory-fraud/
First I’ve heard of the Sainted Jacinda’s father sanctioning house arrest for inhabitants of an island in the Pacific for asserting their bodily sovereignty to not be injected with the toxic bioweapon. Seven months of house arrest!!!
https://www.thedailyexaminer.co.nz/new-zealand-citizens-under-house-arrest-for-pfizer-non-compliance-ross-ardern-suddenly-resigns/
This generation’s Thalidomide.
Any other suggestions for yet to be written investigative journalism?