Speaking in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the Indian coronavirus variant is of “increasing concern” as outbreaks have been detected across the country.
He said that despite increasingly encouraging data in the U.K, the threat of the virus remains “real” and new variants “pose a potential lethal danger”.
The end of lockdown is not the end of the pandemic. The World Health Organisation has said the pandemic has reached its global peak and will last throughout this year. The persistent threat of new variants, should these prove highly transmissible and elude the protection of vaccines, would have the potential to cause greater suffering than we had in January.
He added there is “high likelihood” of a new surge in infections and hospitalisations this autumn when “the weather helps the transmission of respiratory diseases, when pressure on the NHS is at its highest”.
Earlier today, junior minister George Eustice said that local lockdowns and tiers could make a comeback in response to local outbreaks.
What happened to the lifting of restrictions being irreversible? Wasn’t that supposed to be the reason it was happening so cautiously and slowly?
Despite the fast vaccine rollout and the example of states like Florida and Spain that have ended the state of emergency, the noises coming from the U.K. Government increasingly suggest they have no intention of returning the country to a normal footing any time soon. Perhaps a permanent state of emergency, and a posture as saviour, is good for elections?
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Well, we’ll see. I actually voted for the local Labour candidate two weeks ago, by post. However, I can remember a fair bit about the 1992 election, and there is outside chance that the polls are a bit inaccurate, maybe with too many not voting if it looks in the bag – or if they are fed up with the whole affair.
I was about to ask this question but I may as well address it to you, having read your post. Why would anyone vote Labour? I’m a bit aghast that anyone would, especially on this site. I’m just curious what the appeal is and why people would vote Labour over Reform. I was also interested in the character traits of your typical Labour voter, but that’s probably me going too far into the psychology of it all, to be honest. I can’t think of a single thing that I find appealing about Starmer and his party. Latest polls here;
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68079726?embed=true
Oh Mogs, referring to the BBC to ‘verify ‘ your argument 🙄x
Mog is right referring to the BBC: it is the one the Proles go to and trust. Misguided yes but that is the fact of the matter.
Answer: tribalism; habit: It avoids having to think.
Well in that case you will have contributed in a tiny way to what I believe will be much suffering for all of us – for me, for people who comment here, for our once great country and for Western Civilisation, which Labour wish to destroy. Nut zero, medical fascism, suppression of freedom of speech, fiscal irresponsibility, being invaded by more and more foreigners, mentally ill children being mutilated with taxpayer’s money. Nice one.
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Three, sorry, thirded
This is part of my argument for voting Reform. People need to see how bad, evil and sick Labour really are. If we want change the people have to see why we want change. I would put money on Labour being the most hated party in our history within two years.
I doubt they will be hated enough before the next election to lose it
Sadly my views are way out of step with the times
There is that word again —“Change”. It is all over Labour Party Placards and rhetoric. —–But it is about as vague a term that can mean anything you want it to mean as you can get. Do these imbecile politicians take us all for fools? Yes they do . ——-You will probably say that if look at the Reform manifesto I will see what they mean by “change”. I don’t have to because I will be voting Reform anyway as they claim they are the only party willing to ditch NET ZERO, and that is all I am concerned about at this time. ——–CHANGE means NOHING and allows cretinous goons to imply they are saying something important, when they are doing nothing of the sort, they are taking voters for idiots, and if people keep voting for the same political class over and over and expect a different result then that is exactly what they are —-idiots
The only change they’re after is all this Globalist crap on steroids, faster and harder.
When the shit hits the fan for Labour and the sheeple start to kick off because our country is being torn asunder Kneel will be on the tellybox saying something like ‘well we promised you change, stop moaning.’
Or they’ll just blame Brexit!
Inevitably 😀
Don’t forget what you describe had its beginnings in 1945 when the collective wisdom of the electorate returned a Socialist Labour Government bribing them with free stuff, which then nationalised just about everything and established a command economy, which despite some of it being ‘free market’, we still have to our detriment.
The question is often asked, why did the electorate reject Winston Churchill – the answer is he knew the Country was bankrupt and couldn’t afford the welfare Statism being offered by Labour – so the electorate chose the ones offering the biggest bribes – Labour, as it has done every election since, and the electorate will drop its pants for the Party promising to ’fix’ the NHS by throwing the largest amount of magic money tree cash at it… yeah! Bang those pans.
Sad but true
I postal voted for Lee Anderson(reform), the wife too! (no I didn’t vote for the wife, she voted reform too)
What swayed you to labour John?
You voted for a technocratic childhood commie who’ll make you poorer, colder and live less long. When ppl vote so obviously against their own self interest it’s very hard to regard them as adults.
Absolutely agree 100%. It is not possible to have a grown up debate with such people. They have to see Labour in full on left mode. They will hate Labour for the rest of their lives after just 2 years.
Why do you vote for a party that will treble your energy bills, cover the country in turbines, and have millions of migrants swarming all over every single corner of the country? Is this what you want? If so, that is fine then go vote Labour. Don’t get me wrong, the Tories are nearly as bad on these issues but I just wonder why you think you only have 2 choices. Personally I would rather vote for Monster Raving Loonies before I would put a cross in a box that would allow Ed Eco Parasite Miliband anywhere near government.
I also wonder what ex Post Masters who were wrongly convicted when they see that false wan?er Davey doing all these stupid stunts.
A very fair appraisal of where we are pre-election. Nevertheless by installing Kneel and his apprentice terrorists we will simply be giving time, space and money to an outfit that cannot help but be significantly worse than that which we will be gladly rid of. Our only current alternative is Nigel Farage.
I am fairly confident that Nigel Farage has worked that he has just five years to rescue the country out. He is working on the basis that come 2029 neither the Tories nor Kneel’s raiders will be in any way palatable to an electorate virtually begging for a new electoral system. It is a bold gamble. Kneel will be working for the WEF / Davos Deviants so Farage going against him is likely to turn very nasty. Actually from snippets let loose in the NEC speech I believe Farage has realised this.
Effectively the fight for the soul of Britain will be run over the next five years. Kneel will be attempting to destroy the country irrevocably and in God’s corner stands Nigel Farage.
Shit or bust time.
I was thinking the other day why don’t I hear more from Nigel about the UN WEF etc, it’s not like he hasn’t been fighting to free this nation from the totalitarian EU, only to see that the EU was but one Globalist entity. His old pall Godfrey Bloom was well ahead of Nigel on this one as the video I posted above shows.
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Because the BBC etc have inserted in to ppls brains that only tin foil hatter dislike the UN.
You have to pick one front to fight on. Since the WEF ideas are so James Bond it is impossible to convince people even when you point out that they have written it all down including all those who must die.
Because most people won’t know what he’s talking about.
Pretty much my thinking. The Tories are a busted flush, their only redemption is a hung Parliament with Reform. People have never seen a full unleashed Socialist Government. Within two years they will loathe Labour. That’s where we come in.
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The BBC interviewed Tice this morning trying to snare him on Farage and him view on Ukraine, that the war was provoked. He also read out a quote from a Reform member who said about the head of the European Central Bank as a “head bitch” a Globalist and the new normal is the new Swastika. I can’t disagree with any of that. But that is probably too much for BBC Kool Aid drinkers.
Emotional plea. ———-and great comment.—– If the deviants succeed as they are likely to then freedom and prosperity is dead and as Nancy Pelosi pointed out a few years ago. “We are all socialists now” Sadly this is true. But I see the torch of freedom in Reform. Can it shine bright enough though or will the deviants crush it?
Thank you.
A dose of significantly worse is just what the dopes who form the majority of the population need to liven them up.
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Here is the video and full transcript of Nigel Farage’s Birmingham speech – no prompter, no notes.
I have seen the vid and read the transcript. He is simply brilliant. As a politician none of the rest can get anywhere near him.
Magnificent.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/fixing-broken-britain-the-farage-way-a-great-reformists-political-speech/
The level of passion, integrity, track record of achievement, deep historical knowledge and charisma evident in the character of Nigel Farage… barely qualifies him as a politician. Get out of the Westminster quagmire, you deviant racist scum! We’re happy with the way things are. All we need is #solidarity, #TheGreaterGood, #compliance, and most importantly, no party of significance with common sense policies getting in the way of #Change! Oh yes, and all of you nice folk one car-repair away from financial ruin, yes – even you need to play your part to #StopClimateChange. If everybody get’s poorer, then so be it… at least we’re more equal. Vote Labour if you want more #hashtags!
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Saw this on you tube. Tremendous.
If I was permitted to vote then it would definitely be for Reform. Sadly as a tax-paying expat I am NOT permitted to vote and it makes so bloody ANGRY.
Thanks Judy.
5,000 people on a Sunday afternoon. No other party could do that.
Exactly. Something is stirring.
The transcript is a bit rambling but well worth a read. Farage would certainly make a better prime minister than either Sunak or Starmer.
Only slightly Off-T
Although the focus of this article is the USA and Trump v Biden the parallels between our countries is uncanny.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/07/01/electing-the-next-dictator-ugly-truths-you-wont-hear-from-trump-or-biden/
” The government long ago sold us out to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, by the way, has always been the Deep State. America’s shadow government—which is comprised of unelected government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who are actually calling the shots behind the scenes right now and operates beyond the reach of the Constitution with no real accountability to the citizenry—is the real reason why “we the people” have no control over our government.
12. Every U.S. citizen is now guilty until proven innocent.”
A very thorough article focusing on the manifestos of the main parties ( and some independents ) in relation to farming and food security in the UK. *Spoiler* Reform tick all the boxes;
”The first aim of the Government, after the Brexit vote, should have been to make the UK as self-sufficient as possible for food. In 1972, the UK was producing 86 per cent of its own food. Through Government policies to stop food being grown here and increasing immigration, it has been reducing since then. If, for any reason, imports could not reach the UK, what would happen then? I have read that supermarkets only have two days’ worth of food supply in store at any time? How quickly could we run out?
So we have a General Election coming up and I decided to look at the manifestos of the main parties to see what they say about their commitment to farming and food.
Let’s look at the Labour manifesto. Somebody told me that they had not mentioned farming and food security in their manifesto at all. They could be right. I have looked at it and, unless I have missed it, I can find nothing. As food security is one of the most important things for our country and Labour have not even written about it. For me, Labour is definitely not the party to support.
If you don’t like any of the voting options available at this upcoming election, you should still go to “vote”. You can write across your ballot paper “I DO NOT CONSENT”. This is in line with a legal case called Ashby vs White that was decided in 1703 and still applies today. The case covered three key issues: 1) the separation of powers; 2) the use of the Monarchy’s prerogative for the benefit of the people; and 3) election and ballot rights. Putting “I DO NOT CONSENT” aligns precisely with the full judgement of Ashby vs White.”
https://uncut.substack.com/p/three-main-parties-would-destroy
I have been posting articles about food and farming for many, many months and actually stated in one post that this country has not had a food security policy since WWII and I called it out for the criminal neglect that it is – all post WWII governments carry a portion of blame.
Currently the major, major concern is H5N1, or Bird Flu, not because it is particularly dangerous to humans because it isn’t, but because it can be used in a more destructive manner than the non-existent C1984. If the go ahead is given for a second Scamdemic then it will probably kick off in late Autumn. Unfortunately, notwithstanding the best efforts of our Health Security Agency H5N1 is going to ravage domestic poultry flocks and sadly millions of birds will have to be slaughtered. Despite best efforts some dozy bugger lets his chickens into the cattle sheds and before we know it H5N1 has infected the nation’s cattle herds which sadly will have to be culled a la Bliar’s rehearsal of 2001 which accounted for 11 million beasts.
Well what do you know – we have an enormous food crisis and people starving. Obviously imports will be banned and in any case the H5N1 will have comfortably enveloped the globe so there will be nothing to import anyway. Of course such measures will be ‘safe and effective’ 😀
The reason there is no mention of food security in the Labour Party manifesto is because Labour will be ensuring there is no food security
as they will be shutting all the farms and killing the farm animals.
Let’s not forget the Deagel forecasts – UK population down to 25 million by 2025.
An interesting and perceptive article. However, I must take issue with the author’s claim that “they are kicking it out and electing another prince, which they reason might do a better job”
They’re not – they know full well that Starmer and his mob will do a very worse job, but they know that voting for a party which has let down and betrayed them, a party that had – with an 80 seat majority a once in a generation chance to enact real, actual, conservative policies – and blew it.
Being a lifelong Conservative voter is now like living in an abusive relationship “Honestly, I’ll do better – just trust me again”. Well, they’re not getting my vote. I’ve packed my bags and I’m leaving.
VOTE REFORM!
I thought it was pretentious rubbish!
Er, sorry, what a load of rubbish. Leaving aside fringe parties not standing everywhere, Reform are a perfectly credible alternative who could hardly do a worse job than Labour.
Godfrey Bloom has a good take on Starmer….WEF stooge!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZQ4ktFy3Ek
He spoke well. Starmer – thicko that he is did a marvellous job of outing himself as an apprentice WEFfer. I have seen that clip a few times, always good for a chuckle.
For one thing, Machiavelli was the ultimate exponent of Realpolitik – a Nietzschean advocate of der Wille zur Macht before his time. His work was as far from ‘metaphysical’ as it could possibly be, and I don’t recognise the gloss put on him in this article.
For another thing, there is no single entity called ‘the electorate’. It is hopelessly divided. In the coming vote, some will get what they vote for, others will not. Again, the article does not seem to recognise this reality.
Why is your name in blue Steven? Forgive me if I don’t recognise you as a moderator or whatever.
The thought crossed my mind.
The Guardian????
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/17/a-labour-landslide-on-37-of-the-vote-that-makes-the-case-for-pr
The Guardian????
OK, so first past the post is shyte, PR is the next best?
PR would certainly shake up uk politics!
Some people vote for a good candidate rather than a party. For example, I’m probably going to vote for Reform this time, for a candidate I know barely anything about, but if there was a good candidate of another party in my constituency, I’d vote for that candidate instead. But there isn’t! (There is one quite good candidate but her party leader wanted to force health workers to get vaccinated or get sacked, and she never said anything to the contrary, so I’m not voting for her.) However, if the Conservative MP, David Davis, was in my constituency, I’d vote for him instead, or if Rosie Duffield or Andy Burnham were standing in my constituency, I’d vote for that Labour candidate rather than a Reform candidate I know nothing about.
Burnham is a thug. A really nasty piece of work.
He played a controlled opposition during the Lockdowns if you remember. “We must have enough testing kits” etc. They will argue about the small stuff to gave a veneer democratic accountability. Just like the MSM in general.
I like the idea of voting for an individual if you really have confidence in them but the thing is they are so limited by what their evil parties let them do. There is the “change from the inside” argument but that only goes so far. All the people you have named sat on their hands or clapped when the moment came to oppose medical fascism so that’s a no from me.
Can you name me politician that you do have confidence in, tof, and huxley can you name a candidate that you would vote for?
I might have considered voting for Sir Desmond Swayne had I been in his constituency. Andrew Bridgen for sure. I will be voting Heritage or Alliance for Democracy and Freedom.
I would add Neil Hamilton. He is the only one left of Mark Dolan’s guests on GBN worth listening to. He stood up to the Covid fascism in the Welsh Assembly, and refers to ‘climate emergency’ as a hoax.
I didn’t realise that – thanks for the info
So a candidate doesn’t have to be perfect for you to vote for them, they don’t have to be in agreement with you about everything. Same here!
Well of course – I don’t even agree with myself about everything! How can one know what all of a given politician’s views are?
There are a few red lines for me – unequivocal opposition to lockdowns, medical fascism, Nut Zero, people with willies at birth are men, reduce absolute immigration to a tiny number, freedom of speech, low taxation, small government.
Danny Kruger, Christopher Chope. I am sure there are a few more.
“huxley can you name a candidate that you would vote for?”
In this election I will be voting for an Independent who is a friend of mine – Paul Errock. Honest, kind, decent and totally committed to the constituency, Oldham East and Saddleworth.
In 2019 myself, Paul and a lady associate set up an independent party with the aim of taking away Labour’s overall control of Oldham Council. At this year’s local elections we achieved our aim. In five years we took Labour down from 43 councillors to 27. We have the biggest social media platforms in Oldham. In fairness much of the graft has been done by Paul and others but our small team has changed Oldham politics for good.
We are not going to elect our own candidate and we know that but we are hoping to rid the town of the useless Debbie Abrahams. In 2019 we helped reduce her 7,000 majority to 1500, hopefully this year she gets the boot.
In Ashton, Oldham and Rochdale Labour are on the back foot and the muzzies are deserting Labour and in some cases standing their own candidates.
If Labour do achieve massive electoral success on Thursday they need to make the best of it because their nadir will hit in 2029, if they even get that far.
Godfrey Bloom is voting for David Davis on the video I posted on here. He may be a friend but I could never vote for any Uniparty, friend or foe.
Personally I think the polls are way off the mark and it will be either very close or a hung Parliament. Hung has been my position for the last three years and I see no reason to change now. The key is 40%+ who have not decided. They will play safe and vote Tory or be stupid and not vote at all. Many who say Reform will change at the booth. I will not, I want real long term change and a failed Tory and a loathed Labour suits me perfectly.
As to the article, well, what if a terrible Prince is better than an incoming Usurper to the throne who lies? Geppetto, the businessman who ran his own company, made a right Tool did he not?
Basic fact of life is that the Prince stinks, the Usurper stinks but the majority will not revolt and go with the Outliers Army. The one who occupies the throne will always be the safe bet because it is better to go with what you know than chance something worse.
This is where Kiernocchio has completely and utterly misjudged people. He waged everything on not having to say what he intends to do. That makes the Proles nervous so they stick with the whips and servitude they know.
Richard I mostly agree with you but except you keep calling for “change”.——This is a nonsense term. Its better to speak about what it actually is you want rather than use that silly term.
And a bit of honesty about the Blob would be a start. Mr Humphries et al.
When Starmer says he is returning politics to service, what does he mean in terms of the republican/princely arrangement?
It may have been Dr McGrogan who made this observation. The King can say he is a servant. Yet he is a king, and thus not a servant.
Exchanging one prince for another might have been changing the royal house in the past. But today, exchanging a blue prince for a red one is exchanging cousins in the same centrist dynasty.
Is it possible in the state that is more modern in terms of modernity than what existed in Machiavelli’s time to arrange a permanent princely dynasty? If constitutional changes are made to remove power to the judiciary, NGOs and quangos, the blame for failures of princely rule become spread as thinly as pollen over a field. As in the Post Office scandal, there is no discoverable centre of power to introduce to Mme La Guillotine.
The EU shows signs of great resilience as the ‘first non-dynastic empire’. Governments that are elected on the republican ticket, like Meloni’s, are soon brought to the position of being client kings by the bond markets acting as proxies – akin to the knightly retainers of medieval kings – of the European Central Bank, the king’s chancellor.
I do believe the Bond Markets did the number on Truss too.
Yes they did and with ministerial backing.
So nothing in the MSM this morning about a top BBC presenter tweeting that Biden should have Trump murdered.
I don’t follow Twitter …. do tell me more.
Clearly the writer has no issue with what happened to us during the Covid years, when the veil was truly torn away and both Conservative and Labour (who wanted to go harder,faster and longer) were shown in their true colours, authoritarians with zero respect for humanity, and with a blood lust for absolute power over the individual, even down to controlling the bodies of the individual through coerced use of experimental substances.
I will not ever give my vote to such people or parties, I will never offer myself up as a cowardly slave. How can an individual respect themselves who willingly offers up their freedom and liberty in order to perpetuate so corroded and corrupted misanthropic group of people.
The answer is in the Stanley Milgram effect and the obedience to authority.
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Let’s not forget that for much of the last 5 years, they didn’t govern as a Prince: they governed as a Henry VIII or an Ivan the Terrible ….. ie a Tyrant …… and that tendency had been slowly building for quite a long time as the “Nudge/Shove Unit” became more confident.
As Galloway said “two cheeks of the same arse” and as Nigel pointed out the other day, we’re not getting a new Leader with Starmer, we’re getting another Middle Manager.
Reform is making the Republican offering. That’s what I voted for.
Galloway needs reminding how he supported a 0 Covid Lockdown where they can nail you into your house. I would’ve been in Jail because I would’ve put up a fight.
I am voting Reform.
Dullards voting Labour because they always vote Labour?
The Labour Party will win because the voters got tired of Sammy Davis Sunak and they think the beady eyed parasite is the only other choice. Then once they get tired of the beady eyed parasite they will once again vote for whoever the Conservatives stick up there next as leader. ——-When are the people going to realise that these two globalist showers of UN and WEF lackey scumbags are their enemy?
Cheeks of the same backside, or the less crude, two wings of the same ugly bird.
A good article with a useful dichotomy between the Republic and the Principality.
Another, more Anglo-Saxon take on this, is provided by Adam Smith and Edmund Burke. For them the difference between a British and an American system is that in a British system MP’s are meant to be responsible to their electors whereas in the American system they are explicitly meant to be representatives of the people.
The Tory’s long ago abandoned any thought of being responsible or accountable to their electors and are rightly classed as an incompetent principality. In the US, the failure is different, to avoid being representative of the electors, the US and State governments have devolved power to the bureaucracy and their quangos who happily ignore taxpayers and voters.
So, a republic can end up in the same position as the principality, jsut by a different route.
“… as it always does – the best option before it.”
Best? Define best. Least worse, I think.
The appropriate term is, Hobson’s choice.
The question is not for whom I vote but who will be let in by my vote?
The Roman republic lasted less long than the Roman empire. And the Roman empire developed from a republic at home with a princely chief of the army mainly abroad to an absolutist monarchy which regulated the everyday lives of its citizens in great detail, eg, decreeing that sons must always continue the professional occupations of their fathers.
Judging from a TV performance of yesterday I partially watched in passing, giving the people a choice between Sunak and Starmer seems pretty much like them being allowed to choose the colour of a large wheelie bin someone will permanenty put into their living room.