We haven’t had a ‘Sceptic of the Week’ for a while, but today is a good time to revive it following the decision by Rod Humphris, landlord of The Raven in Bath, to throw Keir Starmer out of his pub this lunchtime because the Labour leader has done so little to oppose the lockdown policy. MailOnline has more.
Sir Keir Starmer was thrown out of a pub today after being confronted by a Labour-supporting landlord furious that he supported the lockdown which had closed his business for months.
In astonishing scenes in Bath today, Rod Humphris, the lockdown-sceptic landlord of the Raven, had to be held back by the Opposition Leader’s security guards as he demanded he leave.
The incident was captured on camera by reporters amid a visit to the city to support West of England metro mayoral candidate Dan Norris ahead of the forthcoming elections.
Mr Humphris had clashed with Sir Keir outside the Raven, accusing him of having ‘failed to be the opposition’ by supporting the lockdown and backing plans to make schoolchildren wear masks.
As the politician paused the landlord waved a piece of paper at him, saying: “Do you know what the average age of death with Covid is?
“According to the Office for National statistics it’s 82 years and three months. The average age of death normally? Eighty one years.
“Do you understand we have f***ed our economy because old people are dying?”
As Sir Keir tried to walk away he continued: “No, no I came here to speak to this man not your security.
“You have failed me. I have been a Labour voter my entire life. You have failed to be the opposition.
“You have failed to ask whether lockdown was functioning. Do you understand? Thousands of people have died because you have failed to do your job and ask the real questions.”
Well done Mr Humphris. You speak for millions of lifelong Labour voters. Conservative MPs like Charles Walker, Desmond Swayne, Graham Brady, Iain Duncan Smith and Steve Baker are far more deserving of the title “Leader of the Opposition” than Keir Starmer.
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This was a great show by the landlord but i cannot wait until one of these scumbag tories gets a sorely deserved public licking !
Public kicking would be my preference!
Or maybe you meant that anyway!
I’m- was – a lifelong Tory voter. But I agree 100%!
Sir Keir Starmer is a member of the Trilateral Commission… that well known Rockefeller roach hotel of Malthusians… so just another carefully selected ‘opposing’ politico Lockstep stooge.
A big up to the landlord that kicked this worthless shill out, we need many more of the public to wake-up and see how they’ve been sold out. Though GMTV did a fine presstitute job this morning of trying to discredit his example…
Tony Blair is another neo-liberal globalist troll to-date paid £22m by the Gates Foundation to pimp vaccines and the trap-n-trace passports.
Forget red v blue pill political plays, it’s a waste of your critical thinking skills.
Well deserved.
HERO.
I’ll drink to that! Every landlord in the country should bar every MP that voted for lockdown.
When I’m next in the area, I will be going to The Raven and asking to shake Mr Humphries hand! Fingers crossed Starmer is just the first in a long list of MPs who are taken to task by business owners.
Bravo and spend a lot of money to help the guy. First rate bloke and he held his calm even after being man handled by a gorilla.
I phoned him to say thank you after he appeared on Talk Radio this afternoon.
Sounded a really nice chap, humble and self-effacing.
I sent him a thank you email.
me too
Problem is his business partner is a pro-lockdown cretin. Seems to me Rod needs to find new partnership, and kick the toe rag out same way he did to Starmer.
I am hoping this is only the beginning.
For the last year politicians have been even more living in a bubble than ever before. No constituency surgeries, no opportunity to meet in the lobby of parliament, able to hide behind an email address and pretend all is well with the world.
Well, all isn’t well. Hopefully our MPs are about to experience the depth and breadth of anger felt by many people about their lives being destroyed due to the government policy failure of the century.
all it takes is for every business in every town and village to ban their lockdown loving politicos from their businesses. People Power!
If you watch the footage, Mr Humphris, although he does use some bad language, speaks coherently and reasonably. Sir Keir at first attempts to conciliate, but clearly can’t argue his case because he just falls back on politico-waffle about ‘front line NHS staff’ etc. and goes off in a huff. It will be interesting to see how long politicians attempt to stick with the ‘national crisis’ narrative until they start breaking ranks and blaming the Tories for the lockdown.
Nope – not ‘the Tories’: the whole blood-soaked lot of them in Parliament, with just a few, still rather cowardly, MPs!
Richly deserved. Starmer shames his Party and the notion of democratic opposition.
At least Chamberlain had a case for coming back from Munich with a flimsy piece of paper.
Starmer has nothing, and nothing to recommend him.
Starmer has all the charisma of a soggy cold wet blanket. Frankly I think Corbyn had more about him. Where is the Opposition in this country? Are they are all overpaid stooges of the Establishment? This last year has proven many things, one of which is how utterly useless our politicos are and how invisible they all are when we need them to stand up for us!
Three cheers for the S of the W!
I hope he gets a chance to kick Bozo in the a..e as well.
Yep – though I can think of other places in which I would love to see Bozo kicked!
All and any will do.
Spectic of pro-lockdown, Conservative or Labour, you name it…you need an opposition in a democratic society. When not in power, it is the opposition party’s role to hold th government to account which Labour have completely failed to do. This has allowed our overlords to abuse the system without any satisfactory parliamentary scrutiny whatsoever. The same applies up here in Scotland where I am…the complete lack of a competent opposition has led the SNP down a dark road.
Here’s hoping this stirs a change.
When not in power, it is the opposition party’s role to hold th government to account
The opposition party is never in power
I get what you meant but I’m feeling pedantic this morning
Great stuff, All public figures that have backed lockdowns despite the overwhelming evidence that they don’t work should be treat the same. Why should these hard working men and women serve the very people that have voted to decimate their livelihoods? What a hero!!
This made my day! Pity we aren’t allowed to comment on it in The Telegraph.
Stirring stuff. I got half way to Bath on my pushbike on Sunday. I’m going to make sure I press on and go and have a pint this weekend!
The owners of The Raven are mostly getting pillared on Twitter for doing a classic ‘distancing’ from the landords comments.
Here’s hoping that all these red and blue shitbags get the same treatment wherever they go locally.
I tried to persuade a local restaurant to get organised with other local bars and restaurants and do this when the last lockdown was looming on the horizon. I never got a reply unfortunately.
With this outburst getting some coverage, I’m hoping it will embolden others to follow suit. These MP’s need turning into pariahs and voted out at the earliest opportunity.
I think that you raise a critical point. Most MPs that we have at the moment seem more intent on feathering their own nests and careers than serving the interests of their constituents. The whole system is rotten to the core.
Ropes, not votes
Just thinking of our heroic cafe owner kh of this parish today, I think Mr Humphris spoke for her and many others.
Whatever happened to kh and Biker? I miss their well down to earth stuff ,well bonkers but wonderful from Biker.. indeed .
kh is a regular on the Reddit site. I saw a couple of Biker comments also but not sure how often he/she visits.
Can he not do the security ape for assault?
What a star. And he gave an excellent account himself on the Mark Dolan show on Talksport about an hour ago. Voiced many of the arguments we use here. Perhaps he is a reader.
Anyway I emailed the pub to offer my thanks. It sounds like the pub’s owners have already come out and apologised to Labour, so the landlord may be on a sticky wicket shortly jobwise, he may need all the support he can get.
enquiries@theravenofbath.co.uk
Please keep nominating people like this man for this “prize.” The world needs many more millions just like him. He made a simple point and asked a simple question, which this “leader” of course couldn’t answer, or refused to answer … which is quite the “tell.”
brilliant!
Waving your chart. Class act. Like to see the Special Branch thug prosecuted now.
Where’s Bonnie Tyler, she’s been holding out for a hero?
For anyone who was not already aware that Kier’s wife works in the NHS (for example, me) this explains a lot. His assertion that his wife works for the NHS and therefore “I don’t need to be lectured by you about the pandemic” made me realize that of course he’s going to be biased toward supporting lockdown.
Having a spouse work for for the frontline of health services is second only to having a covid fatality in the family among things that might swing your opinion towards lockdown policy. So no wonder there’s been no resistance to it!
His wife, a lawyer by profession, works occupational health apparently, so not ‘the front line’ and probably not a health role either.
Occupational health? So one of those people that prescribed massages and support groups for stress?
You may mean Occupational Therapist? And they do more than ‘prescribed massages and support groups for stress’.
Is the article wrong then? It states that she’s a nurse. It would be an odd thing to lie about.
Everything in the papers is true?
She wears a nurse’s uniform in the bedroom. That must be it.
I couldn’t imagine Starmer’s wife actually getting her hands dirty!
I’m sure Sir Kier must insist she does in the marital bed
Could we not just lockdown the NHS instead? It makes more sense. They’re the greatest viral vectors anyway, and it’s full of mindless jobsworths who don’t challenge the received doctrine, don’t read vaccine inserts, or indeed the circulars from the MHRA, and are happy to slaughter at least 830+ citizens with an experimental tea al gene therapy. It’s full of broken abuse enablers, who feel that by costing up to the abuser they (a.) won’t get hurt, and (b.) will get some of the reflected power. Withholding treatments, tests, and support. Choosing medication that injures because that’s what the bosses say they must prescribe. Locking people out of surgeries. They’re pathetic and the sooner they’re each and everyone forced to account due how they spent the last year, the better.
Some heroic ones will come out on top and most need to be transferred to prison services.
I read somewhere the other day that 40% of new Covid cases are actually coming from hospitals. If the government is so bothered about reducing cases then as you say, a place place to start would be getting the nhs to sort it’s act out.
Only 40pct?
I would be amazed if it were less than 70.
Agreed.
Like the surgery in Exmouth that makes patients wait outside, with no cover from the elements, before they’re admitted for their consultation. Disgusting way to treat elderly people. Anyone would think it was Ebola ravaging the extremes of Devon, not some mild respiratory virus.
You’re allowed to go to the surgery? Wow.
An alternative view from the NHS ‘frontline’ by a whistle-blower nurse (sound quality poor at start but improves a bit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TkkAijKq0
We’ll my spouse works for the NHS as pharmacist. She is a massive Lockdown Sceptic as are all of her colleagues. Just because people work for the NHS, does not mean that they blindly go along with what they are doing or preach.
I can’t imagine Kier’s wife being front line. She is probably one of the masses of over paid fat cats that drain the NHS dry. However, I may be wrong on that account.
Me too and do my best to undermine the fear narrative and dishonest science telling patients that masks are decoration not functional.
Mostly they are delighted to hear an ally against the idiocy, but some remain fearful.
Well done him!!! He’s spoken for the rest of us!!
Yes, exactly! Good news to kick off the week. I hope this is the start of many more incidents like this.
Agreed, hopefully the first of many
Fantastic stuff. It’s all over the national
Press.
And there ain’t no such thing as bad publicity. Even if it brings criticism, which to be fair is a surer thing than death and taxes, it emboldens people who are like minded to speak out!
“Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.” – Benjamin Franklin
How refreshing it is to see people fight back … it seems that not everyone out there are sheep.
Yes, especially given the flood of calls and messages he received from people showing their appreciation for him speaking their mind as well as his!
Bravo Mr Humphris! I only hope other publicans follow this example.
Reading comments elsewhere defending Starmer saying that it wasn’t Starmer who imposed the national lockdowns it was the Tories … well no Starmer didn’t impose the lockdowns … but neither did he oppose them either … in fact he and the Labour Party voted with the government knowing full well the impact these destructive policies would have on small businesses everywhere – in my books what Starmer did was a political cowardice.
“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.” ― Confucius
I seem to remember that Starmer has spent the last year continually demanding the government lockdown sooner, harder and longer.
Didn’t vote with. That would have at least been a statement of support. Starmer ordered his troops to abstain. Political cowardice. The man is a disgrace, in good company in the House.
Hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions, will watch the video and for many of them it will be the first time they will have encountered dissenting facts and statistics (hard to believe for those of us who have been living amongst this stuff for more than a year but it’s true) so who knows how many converts it will catalyse? Well done Mr Humphris for referencing the ONS and BMJ sources (‘dangerous misinformation’ according to Labour) and even more so for taking that vacuous bag of ruling-class mediocrity to task with such vehemence.
I hope you noted that Starmer lied and called this misinformation, as well as claiming his solicitor wife was on the front line.
Tesco checkout staff are more like any real sort of front line.
Top man. Hope he knows about this site and knows that he has support. Starmer has been a disgrace and as someone deemed ‘left’ in a pre-lockdown world, I wish I’d had the chance to give him a piece of my mind.
yes finally… some violence
we need more brave souls like these
The total irrelevance of politicians and especially Labour was neatly encapsulated by the Labour social media cretins who described the comments made by the landlord as “dangerous misinformation”. If that’s how they define the truth then no wonder their leader is seen as being worse than Bunter as a Prime Minister
That video made my day!! Bet Smarmer was glad of his mask to hide behind! Even wearing it his embarrassment was tangible!
Quoth The Raven …
Oh Yes!!
Being a life long Conservative (I don’t consider the current shower to be Conservative) I never thought I’d be saying BRAVO!! to a life long Labour supporter. But I take my hat off to you Sir well done indeed and BRAVO again!!! Stunning stuff – brilliant!!
Traditional leftists and conservatives have always had more in common than most of them thought.
Yes I think we may be finding that out now.
Keir Starmer deserved his pasting. As leader of the Opposition he has become an irelevance but Boris Johnson should be banned from all public houses for life.
On a more serious point whilst the anti-lockdown arguments are very compelling, they are not easily articulated to the public It requires people to put their brains at least into first gear. The Government propaganda aka Communications team, have done a good job but for a very bad cause.
https://twitter.com/alanvibe/status/1384174168661389318
KS: ‘My statement on being confronted in a pub today’. Don’t open the link. It lands on a gov.uk site ‘Register to Vote’
Liebour have tried to smear the publican by accusing him of ‘spreading disinformation’. Which sadly will be believed by the mask wearing zombies that infest our streets and shops.
https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1384170557990522895
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1384139247389614086
Watch the video – body guards manhandling the pub landlord, trying to prevent him from getting into his own establishment
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1384129919320354825
Starmer’s response: I will not be lectured by you
Yep he’s a true hero all right and stood up to Starmer brilliantly. He should very proud of himself conducted himself very well. We should all take a leaf out of his book.
We will put up a blue plaque in his honour and his pub will become a place of pilgrimage for us sceptics.
Excellent idea
First of many, we hope.
The Labour Party’s response seems to be a prime example of cancel culture. Rather than engage with someone who has legitimate concerns, just say ‘A clip circulating online shows Keir Starmer being confronted by someone spreading dangerous misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic. We will not be amplifying it’. And having a family member working in the NHS doesn’t entitle him to ignore questions about why the NHS was failing to cope. In fact, Starmer should have been asking those questions himself a year ago. I hope to go to the Raven, shake the landlord’s hand and spend some money in his pub. Hopefully it will a lockdown zealot-free zone, which is another plus!
Why was Starmer going into the pub when you’re only allowed to have table service outdoors? He’s evidently not au fait with ‘rules’ that he supports. Perhaps he was desperate for the loo!!
just watched the morning show tv interview, rod humphris is brilliant .never gets flustered,
right away he replied put it in persepctive they just ignored his reply . is what i said to the zombies last spring they never put it in perspective they make it seem like no one has ever actually died before
bravo rod !