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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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 !
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!!
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!
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.
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.
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/talkRADIO/status/1384170557990522895
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/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’
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.
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.
Quoth The Raven …
Oh Yes!!
That video made my day!! Bet Smarmer was glad of his mask to hide behind! Even wearing it his embarrassment was tangible!
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
yes finally… some violence 🙂 we need more brave souls like these
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.
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.
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.
Bravo Mr Humphris! I only hope other publicans follow this example.
“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!
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!
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
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.
Where’s Bonnie Tyler, she’s been holding out for a hero?
Waving your chart. Class act. Like to see the Special Branch thug prosecuted now.
brilliant!
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.”
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.
[email protected]
Can he not do the security ape for assault?
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.