On Monday, the Prime Minister’s spokesman said (and not for the first time): “[It] still remains that there is nothing in the data currently to suggest step four [of the lockdown roadmap] can’t go ahead at the earliest date.” Unfortunately, reports today are far more pessimistic about a June 21st unlock. This is largely due to a “fairly grim” briefing given to ministers by the Government’s two most senior scientific advisers on Monday. The Times has the story.
Britain’s roadmap for easing lockdown could be delayed by a fortnight with cabinet ministers increasingly pessimistic after a “downbeat” briefing from Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance.
The delay would enable all over-50s to be fully vaccinated and leave sufficient time for jabs to take effect before restrictions are lifted.
Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer for England, and Vallance, the Chief Scientific Adviser, yesterday gave a briefing to ministers on the latest data that was described as “fairly grim”.
They emphasised concerns about the rate of transmission of new strains of coronavirus, such as the Indian variant, and that vaccinations did not provide 100% protection. Millions of Britons remain unvaccinated.
One cabinet source said they expected a delay of “between two weeks and a month” but suggested that the political fallout was likely to be limited as long as the full reopening took place before the start of the school summer holidays late next month. Another said that a delay made more sense than a partial lifting of lockdown restrictions to avoid any “confusion” in messaging…
Johnson is expected to make a formal announcement on Monday, when the Government’s social distancing review will be published…
Another cabinet source described the mood in Whitehall as “downbeat”. “We always said it was June 21st at the earliest. We may need another few weeks to let the effects of vaccination take hold. Doing a partial reopening would create confusion. People have planned on the basis of a full reopening. It’s important that the messaging is consistent.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: James Melville is unimpressed by the suggestion of an extension to lockdown. “Hospitalisations are still low. One death [on Monday]. We have a vaccine. After June 21st, we can’t do this anymore. We are done.”
Stop Press 2: Matt Hancock has told four million people in Greater Manchester and Lancashire to “minimise travel”, get tested and only meet outdoors in a further sign that the unlocking will be delayed. MailOnline has more.
Stop Press 3: Rishi Sunak is willing to accept a delay of up to four weeks to the final stage of England’s reopening roadmap, according to the Guardian.
Sunak, the Chancellor, has in the past been regarded as more keen to lift lockdown constraints than some cabinet colleagues. But a Whitehall source said he was not fixated on the June 21st date and was more concerned that when restrictions are lifted, the move can be permanent. “The Treasury’s main thing is that freedoms are irreversible and businesses have clarity,” the source said.
Worth reading in full.
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If the majority of the population was able to think for itself it would ignore all of these ridiculous restrictions on our freedom from 21 June whatever our totalitarian regime decrees.
Unfortunately, most of them have been brainwashed into believing the government and scientific narrative about this virus.
The number of people I’ve known with this ‘pandemic’ disease I could count on the fingers of one hand. I’ve come across more who have been decidedly unwell after being injected with the untested gene therapy.
Full Fact are shills for the BMGF & paid for by them. I took apart their criticisms of an essay by Dr Mike Yeadon, which were embarrassing. Full of straw men, false analogies, statements of things he hadn’t said and not one substantive point addressed. There are dozens of peer reviewed journal articles showing lockdown doesn’t slow epidemic spreading. Transmission without symptoms is extraordinarily rare, as even Fauci & WHO said early on. Given that symptomatic people are unwell, they’re not out & about in the community. So transmission there was very rare. No wonder general lockdown was without effect, anywhere. Transmission mostly occurred in institutions like hospitals & care homes become there are symptomatic people plus susceptible people.
They’ve lied about masks, which do nothing to respiratory virus transmission. Again, WHO says the same. So who’s lying? It’s not Yeadon.
Variants is another strength for Yeadon, as he’s immunologically trained. He points out that the extent of mutation in every variant is minuscule, like 0,3%, so they are all at least 99.7% identical. Your immune system sees them all, easily, if you’re Immune to any of them. This is true theoretically and has also been demonstrated practically by study… Read more »
Many trust him for these reasons, he’s competent, experienced, looks & sounds honest, all his major points are one by one being proved correct & he has absolutely nothing to gain from speaking out.
Up to you though. If you prefer to believe the comfortable lies, nothing can be done for you,
He’s now predicting vaccine passports which are utterly illogical. If you’re vaccinated you are protected & don’t need to know what the immune status of anyone else is.
So why’s Govt & Blair wanting them? Tyrannical control via digital ID is the reason.
Ian Brown was right far earlier than Yeadon, even predicting “gonna chip us all”. Yesterday, Israel announced it was trialing Chipping children. Look it up.
So who’s lying? It’s not Yeadon (or Ian Brown).
Forgot to mention that there are multiple safe & effective treatments. See AAPS / Dr Peter McCullough.
Why never any explanation or demand for information on what the government have done/are doing to ensure the NHS is not overwhelmed. It is after all, all about that isn’t it??!!!!
Can’t possibly be about resetting the entire world economy or setting up a technocractic ruling class over a communism……
Reminder:-
1. Asymptomatic spread is rare enough that you wouldn’t factor it in (same with masks and social distancing)
2. Tedros said test test test THE SYMPTOMATIC
3 fatality rate 0.15% for Covid, yellow fever 30-60%. Get things in perspective
4. Deaths are institutionally acquired mainly
5. The vessel Diamond Princess demonstrated the pre existing immunity, the age group most effected and the importance of the comorbidity.
This bizarre response to Covid cannot be justified unless you plan to ruin the economy and people’s lives.
Step up everyone, go to work. Business leaders, lead please.
“Fairly grim briefing”. Is there any other kind? Can you honestly ever envisage a briefing whereby they all stand with broad smiles saying “Good news! It’s now under control and normal lives can be resumed immediately.” Its not gonna happen. Despite the fact that it has effectively disappeared, they have to keep coming up with new invented excuses to keep it going. Now it’s to give time for over 50s to get both jabs. And if they do? The next excuse will come out at another “fairly grim briefing” and on we go.
Seems to me Matt Hancock is the Prime minister in all but name. Johnson is mentally as well as physically absent, the Chancellor is just a boy who holds the key to the piggy bank and just opens it whenever Hancock tells him.
Folks we are not getting out of this mess with this bunch, there will always be another variant, another rise in cases/infections/ the R rate. Always another reason to keep us under the thumb, and ehilst they do this, they don’t have to do anything else. They do not have to look at the standards of Education, they don’t have to look at reform of the NHS well I mean actually do anything, they talk lots don’t they but they never actually do anything. How many more ICU beds are there now than was since the start of the Pandemic? Whats happened to improve trade realtions with other countries? What have they done about Hong Kong, rebalancing the economy, the Police, violent crime? Nothing thats what. The Covid theatrics have given them the excuse to sit on their hands and just play with surveillance and Green politics. Non of which benefit the people.
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Where to? Serious question…
Sweden, Texas, Florida. Claim asylum lets face it they have broken so many basic human rights laws
Just ignore these people. Get on with our lives. The gaslighting and disdain of the public has gone on far too long.
I think “freedoms are ” indeed “irreversible” : we ain’t getting them back!
I’ve said this before. This us about rock star medics and “hero’s” who saved the country and us (Hancock & Gove) protecting their reputations and jobs.
They don’t live ordinary lives in the way the rest of us do. They really have no idea of life at the sharp end.
None of the damage will be understood or repaired until they get out of our lives and the rest of the brainwashed lockdowners wake up and.
Sorry but in my opinion it will take years. Unless Boris stands up and gets a grip and sacks the lot if ’em.
I wont be holding my breath.
What I find the most disturbing is the REPEATED occurrence of the’ you will be freed – oh no you won’t’ scenario. And the more feeble the rationale – the more disturbing it becomes…. I’m sure I read somewhere that one of those really nasty Nazi war criminals described just this sort of erratic and irrational decision making as an excellent tool for the repression of populations.And yes the only response should be mass civil ignoring of all the silly rules. Alas compliance is now so heavily associated with ‘good caring social’ behaviour – that non-compliance is often seen as stupid and selfish.
Again – answers on a postcard…..
Don’t just ignore the silly rules, ignore all societal rules. Go as far as you dare…
lol
3 weeks to flatten the curve..
Alas I lost a friend who had begun to see the light again to the covid lie.. she had started to read about the great reset.. and Bill Gates and GAVI.. she tried to understand the statistics.. she disobeyed the rules, hugged her grandkids again.. for sereval months she seemed to be getting it.. she no longer wore a mask in my home…
And choo choo. She’s kinda onboard again with the lie. She’s on the internet now looking for ivermectin. In the belief it will save her should she get the worst illness in the world aka the Chinese sniffles. Her brain can accept that the vaccines might be unwise, but ivermectin.. that is something she feels she should now stock up on.
What is it that allows people to see truth? And some not? The LSD I took as a teen? A brain more inclined to question and think? Why can I.. why can some of us see lies? But most of us cannot?
‘ “The Treasury’s main thing is that freedoms are irreversible and businesses have clarity,” the source said.’
It most probably should read “lockdowns are irreversible and the consequences do not matter”.
As long as people accept the false pretence that masks and lockdowns help they will continue to be used. That’s the problem with the “well if we just wait a bit longer it’ll all blow over” club, the whole things needs to be completely revoked as an option.
Correct. There’s now plenty of evidence from around the world that lockdowns, and especially masks, are irrelevant. The imposition of these measures is political. We have it because western governments are too embarrassed to admit they got it wrong. We are punished so they save face.
Nope. It’s to usher in the great reset. They know what they are doing.
Digital Chinese style social credit and ID
‘Green’ changes e.g. electric cars for some and no foreign travelor cars for most
Cashless society
Vaccines.. to be weaponised now or at a latter date…
Can someone start a petition on the Downing Street website for all politicians, sage members and journalists to forgo their salaries while any form of restrictions remain in place anywhere in the country (with the exception of those working for talk radio who seem to be the only journalists in the country capable of anything other than parreting what the government and scientific advisors say)
… then another fortnight …. and another fortnight after that … and another …. then back to full lockdown in the autumn due to yet another hyped-up scariant. You can pretty much write the script already.
It’s important that the messaging is consistent??!! Really??!! F**ks sake! I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!
So Hancock has decided to send Greater Manchester and Lancashire back into lockdown stage 2 in some sort of personal crusade? Luckily he has no power to do so and I hope the good people of Manchester and Lancashire tell him where to stick it. If we chase varients we will not be out of this. If we do not open on the 21st of June we will never reopen until the people simply start to disobey these cretins.
We were never going to “open” on the 21st June in any meaningful way. The covid industry is huge now and will not be dismantled overnight.
Indeed. The extortion of revenue is absolutely massive, rendering previous efforts mere chicken feed.
It will be wonderful to despatch the members of SAGE SPY B and the gloom.peddling media scientific pundits back to their prepandemic anonymity . We need to take Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stance and ignore this shower who lead us – Freedom day badges?
Shocked. Shocked I tell ya. And there was I absolutely trusting that we’d get our ‘Freedom Day’ .
Venal amoral fuckers the lot of them.
Hancockwomble must be fired, he is totalitarian scum.
Kim Jong Johnson is also totalitarian scum.
His libertarian instincts are a figment of Toby Young’s imagination.
His best mate and bum chum, fuck them all.
Deepest gratitude to the perpetrators of today’s beautiful hack, which to judge by the G’s reporting was a real zinger. I await the leaks with interest..
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/08/massive-internet-outage-hits-websites-including-amazon-govuk-and-guardian-fastly
Sounds like Mr Schwab’s Cyber Pandemic warm up.
Marching through London on a Saturday when all these bastards are not even there is commendable but risks being pointless. Why not tomorrow stop Johnson getting a free walk to PMQ’s? Peaceful always but peaceful and direct action is the only thing that is likely to cut through.
I have always felt that the “powers that be” love protests on Friday and weekends, as it plays their game. It looks to the world that protest is enabled, while they are never there to see it and unless something kicks off it’s easy to ignore. The Met are not daft. It’s how the game is controlled. A massive peaceful protest on a Wednesday afternoon has much much more cut through.
Or go to a constituency office of an Mp and protest on a Friday (if they even have constituency days now). Go to your local town hall with as many people as possible to protest when your council leaders are parroting about your safety. This is the only way this message will get through now that enough is enough. 2 more weeks will be 4 more weeks and it’s never ever ending.
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Absolutely correct. Chase them at 3am on their doorstep if need be.
21 June doesn’t mean much and never did/could. The narrative is intact, and as long as that’s the case, we are losing. The covid industry (testing, track & trace, jabs, covid safety crap, covid advertising, masks) is worth billions globally now and it’s fanciful to think it will simply disappear. Think military industrial complex.
It’s funny….I was just reading that the word quarantine came into existence in the late 1300s when they first tried this crap. They even instituted health passports at the time. How ironic that we’re stuck in the mentality of the middle ages.
But they ONLY quarantined those coming IN.
Leaving was no problem. It is now. Why?
I wish that somebody would lockdown Vacuous and Witless.
With a fucking big axe to the pack of the neck.
Make sure that the axe is blunt.
Well….. there’s you. You could be that ‘somebody’.
Very true.
I have an exempt from bull shit lanyard
Me too. Never worn a mask and never will. Hell will freeze over first.
lifting restrictions delayed by 2 weeks, by between 2 weeks – 1 month, by between 1 – 3 months, by between 3 – 6 months, by between……
Wrong. The Times doesn’t have the story. The Times is parroting a government press release, and that’s what it is now. It’s not journalism any more. How would freedom stop people (foolishly) getting second jabs? The brain and the moral instincts of the reporter either do not exist or are not engaged.
A journalist thinks: “Why is this bastard lying to me?”
Not, how do I make my sources love me more.
Stop buying the Times.
Isn’t this the pattern, though? Using ‘leaks’ to soften the blow of a broken promise?
Laura Dodsworth has a whole chapter regarding this in her book, State Of Fear. It’s called Seeding, easy to spot if you half a brain. Unfortunately most of our fellow countrymen and women don’t. They swallow it wholesale!!
It’s the oldest way of flying a kite.
2nd oldest.
Anyone know how I can emigrate to Florida?
Get sponsored for a work visa by an employer, probably you need to have very specific skills/knowledge
Have a lot of money to invest (a few million I think) and start a business that will employ Americans
Not sure if marrying a US citizen might help or not
I’ve always thought that Megan Markle out of the gritty real life drama, “Suits”, had a sweet personality….is she taken? (Havent watched the news for a bit).
I’m doing the first two as I’m already married!
From the USA… Please, friends, resist this. Ignore the rules, gather, march, whatever. It kills me that your government is doing this to you.
You are all welcome here in South Carolina, where there are now no “pandemic restrictions” of any kind. We’ve dined out, indoors, since May of 2020 (when our Governor regained his senses.)
Come to SC, USA, and I’ll buy you a pint or two in a lovely, crowded pub!
I’m planning to come. Staying legally is the problem. I might even claim asylum!
I find it absolutely incredible that after 18 months of the covid hokey cokey the public are still falling for this guff. If people allow this extension to happen then frankly there is no hope for Britain – shame, because after the Brexit vote and breaking away from the soviet-esque EU I had hoped we could probably become a beacon of light for freedom everywhere – instead we have transformed into a fear-based totalitarian state run by crazed mussed hair lunatic and a group of behavioural scientists whose cruel methods of control make life under Stalinism look humane by comparison.
LONDON
Sat, 26 June, 1:00pm
The Next Big One!
Freedom from Vax Passport Enslavement
Central London
https://t.me/londonrallies
Yup. Just been checking train tickets.
This will only happen, if you allow it to happen. It’s time for people of character and courage to stand up to this tyranny. I’m certainly not allowing these crminals to run my life. Who the hell do these people think they are? The sheer arrogance and audacity of these low lifes!