- “MPs urge Boris Johnson to look at ‘data not dates’ and speed the end of Covid lockdown, as Britain records just one Covid death” – Political pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister to speed up the exit from lockdown, the Daily Mail reports, as Covid deaths dropped about as low they could get
- “Healthy children simply do not need a Covid jab” – “Covid poses an incredibly low risk to children,” says Molly Kingsley in the Telegraph. “We must be extra cautious in giving them the vaccine”
- “Calls for UK law securing right to care home visits for essential carers” – More than 225,000 have signed a petition calling on the Government to guarantee the rights of essential carers to visit care homes, according to the Guardian
- “Vaccinated but won’t go out? The rise of Covid anxiety syndrome” – Rosa Silverman investigates why some cling fearfully to the isolation of lockdown for the Telegraph
- “Other countries are restarting travel, so should we” – MailOnline reports on the Backlash from the travel sector to the PM’s remarks about the “influx of disease” which may result from relaxing border restrictions
- “The absurd cost of testing for holidaymakers is yet another insult to our freedom” – In the Telegraph, Annabel Fenwick Elliott details the astronomical cost faced by anyone who takes a foreign holiday after May 17th
- “Every reason to doubt the vaccine makers’ reassurances” – “The evidence is mounting,” writes Neville Hodgkinson in the Conservative Woman, that “the vaccine itself is creating or worsening the very illness against which it is supposed to be protective”
- “Lockdowns, vaccines and the trolley problem” – Michael McManus looks at the ethics of lockdowns and the vaccines rollout in the Conservative Woman: “Most decision-makers have taken the simplistic, utilitarian line that what is good for the majority is the best policy”
- “Covid restrictions did not work” – A barnstorming speech by Christine Padgham at a May Day gathering in Scotland. Read the transcript here
- “£320 Million On Adverts Till 2022” – A Hugo Talks video on a valuable Government contract for Covid ads which is set to run to March 31st, 2022
- “Naomi Wolf on the Delingpod” – Author and feminist Naomi Wolf and James Delingpole become the latest unlikely Covid bedfellows in a love-in about masks, lockdowns and jab fanaticism
- “Why lockdowns are immoral… explained using Brio” – The Rev. Phil Sacre has found a new way to illustrate why lockdowns are wrong
- “European countries cautiously ease coronavirus restrictions” – Euronews reports on how lockdown restrictions are being loosened across the continent
- “EU states ‘must monitor sewage systems’ for Covid” – The European Commission on Sunday called on EU member states to regularly monitor sewage systems for fresh outbreaks of the coronavirus, Deutsche Welle reports
- “Serious domestic assaults rise 23% during pandemic” – Ireland has seen a sharp increase in domestic violence over the last 12 months, the Irish Times reports, while other crimes have dropped sharply
- “Denmark drops Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine due to concerns over jab’s side effects” – Euronews reports that Denmark’s health authority has dropped the Johnson & Johnson jab from its rollout, stating that the benefits “do not outweigh the risk of causing the possible adverse effect”
- “Germany’s Oktoberfest cancelled again in 2021 due to coronavirus” – The Munich beer festival is axed once again as the pandemic is not yet under sufficient control to allow people to gather in tents, apparently. Deutsche Welle claims that the Bavarian Premier made the decision with “a heavy heart”
- “Cuomo blames Trump for nursing home death scandal, warns New Yorkers they will kill their grandmothers if they don’t get vaccinated” – Speaking at a press conference, Governor Cuomo said and that his administration is urging the “youthful and doubtful” to get vaccinated, warning them that they might wind up killing granny, the Post Millennial reports
- “Lockdowns are No Substitute for Focused Protection” – Writing for AIER, Paul E. Alexander explains why focused protection would have worked much better than lockdowns “which have not only been a distraction but actually enhanced the unequal impacts of severe outcomes of the virus”
- “Powerful teachers union influenced CDC on school re-openings, emails show” – The American Federation of Teachers lobbied the Centres for Disease Control to tighten up its guidance on the reopening of schools and even suggested the wording, according to the New York Post
- “Backlash after China Weibo post mocks India Covid crisis” – A social media post from an account linked to the CCP juxtaposed a rocket launching in China with a cremation of Covid victims in India, according to the BBC. It has been deleted
- “Queensland’s new approach to Covid outbreaks to avoid border shutdowns” – In order to avoid closed border, Queensland has passed a new directive requiring anyone who has been to a “declared COVID-19 exposure” site to go immediately into 14 days of quarantine at Government-arranged accommodation, according to the Brisbane Times
- “One in two people globally lost income due to the pandemic – Gallup” – A new Gallup poll of 300,000 people over 117 countries found that half of them saw their income drop, and one in three lost their job or business altogether, according to Reuters. Low income countries were particularly hard hit
- “Gov. Ron DeSantis announces he’s suspending all local COVID-19 emergency orders in Florida” – Watch the Florida Governor and next President of the United States explain why he’s suspending Covid emergency powers: “I think that’s the evidence-based thing to do”
- “The future of democracy is in our hands” – Irish political philosophy lecturer David Thunder warns that another bad flu season will trigger another bout of lockdowns unless we say enough is enough
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Stonewall needs stripping of its charitable status: it’s a business promoting sexual deviance.
A much better idea would be to force it to act as what it de facto is: An organisation for aggressively promoting certain religious views keen on using its organizational powers to punish heretics, ie, people who openly disagree with the belief system promoted by Stonewall. They’d probably like burning them at the stake, too, they just haven’t yet become powerful enough to actually do that. That they can get away with openly enoucarging violence and with some pretty serious non-governmental (or semi-governmental) persecution of people whose sole crime is truthfully stating biological facts is already bad enough.
Does anyone have any non-woke banks they can recommend? We have to start showing these corporations that going work really does mean going broke.
“Al Rayan is seeing a surge in popularity amongst non-Muslim customers looking for an alternative to conventional British commercial banks.”
Not a recommendation on my part per se but I thought it was interesting.
Odd, their website is rather rainbowy.
Current accounts only available if you have £500K plus, otherwise same issue as other online/small banks and credit unions, you need a current account elsewhere to withdraw cash.
The whole effing system is set up to increase reliance on digital currency!
Ah, forget that one then! Yep, we are screwed in this country.
The Nationwide possibly? Isn’t it the only mutual left so someone told me a couple of days ago .. I haven’t checked it out though.
LOL…..they are all in the same boat…check out the logo!
https://www.facebook.com/NationwideBuildingSociety/photos/a.264327133659252/3032989430126328/?type=3
Although we can’t march together this year, we’re planning lots of other things to celebrate Pride this summer as well as educating and supporting our colleagues… we’ll keep you posted!
I can’t find one that hasn’t signed up to the ESG crap…..
I appreciate we’ve all got to bank somewhere?……we’re doomed!!
No they are NOT the only mutual left, every building society is a mutual and there are still 43 of them in the UK. Join and you become a member with voting rights and the ability to control their behaviour, unlike banks.
https://www.advratings.com/uk/building-societies
RBS wasn’t mentioned in the article as having links with Stonewall, although they may do so. I’m with them and haven’t been sent anything that mentions their support of transgender issues, although I don’t know what their branches are like.
The woke banks would refuse to do business with the non woke one. ———-This Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) which all major corporations are signing up to is spreading like a speeding bullet and none of them want to be left behind by being pariahs in the market place. The Bud Light, Unilever, Nike etc and all the rest that sign up to this seem prepared to take a temporary hit in their till receipts because they think in the long term it will benefit them to be part of the woke capitalism. Eventually all of the non wokes will either sign up or vanish into thin air.
Seems the whole bloody lot of them are captured and determined to label the normal majority as ‘credit risks’.
I don’t know much about them but are credit unions an option?
https://www.findyourcreditunion.co.uk/about-credit-unions/
I think there are small banks eg Hodge Bank (Catholic founder?) where you can get savings accounts and mortgages but the issue with smaller banks and credit unions is they don’t do current accounts.
Thanks – have been scouting around myself and yes, seems you need a current account with credit unions to actually get cash out. That said, one of the ones I contacted said they were too small for ESG & Stonewall so that’s a plus.
How about the Bank of Pakistan?
They have branches in London Birmingham and Manchester.
https://hblbankuk.com/personal/
We need an FSU Bank or barebones payments service. Charitable status perhaps, profits go to promotion of and litigation for free speech.
Perhaps it sounds fanciful, but you can farm out the nuts and bolts bits of money transfers, operate without branches and without cash (I know, I know). No need even to offer loans or mortgages just a debit card, maybe a credit card. That’s all I want from a bank.
I suspect there’d be millions willing to do without DEI, pedophilia flags and wokerywankery.
We don’t want any of this crap.
Signed
The Good People of Gloucestershire.
Indeed, the rot set in some time ago, while we all stood and watched.
https://gab.com/airstrip1news/posts/110656146640654495
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12259729/Under-fire-Bank-England-says-people-gender-identity-pregnant.html
The Bank of England has used gender neutral terminology that suggests people of any gender identity are able to become pregnant.
The UK’s central bank, which is currently under fire for repeatedly hiking interest rates, is also offering to pay for its staff to undergo gender reassignment surgeries under its private healthcare policy.
In an application to be included in LGBT rights charity Stonewall’s top 100 employer’s list, the bank outlined its parental leave policy in noting it applies to any ‘birthing parent’, according to The Times.
The government-owned bank’s submission explains the gender neutral term refers to the ‘parent who is/was pregnant with the child but includes persons of any and all gender identities’.
The submission to Stonewall also emphasises the Bank’s commitment to gender-neutral toilets as it outlines its plans to upgrade its current facilities
Repeat after me : “Building societies are not banks”
Building societies don’t have shares, they cannot be bought and controlled. Members have a right to turn up and vote people out and change policy. It is time members stood up and did so.
Banks are a different matter, they can be bought and sold. My advice is to get out of banks, they are ALL corrupted and under the control of the cabal.
“ It is time members stood up and did so” – I wouldn’t want to bet real money on them doing so.
Banks and Building Societies control a commodity, money. Thus they should be under the same regulations as gas, electricity and water suppliers, unable to cut off the supply to a customer without justification.
As for those establishments that push personal pronouns and similar, just use online and machine banking. The staff numbers will then be reduced and they can wear their idiotic badges down at the job centre.