It is being reported across the media – so it’s clearly been briefed out by Downing Street – that the long-awaited June 21st reopening is to be delayed by at least four weeks because the Prime Minister has been convinced by his scientific advisers that the recent rise in the Delta variant makes reopening too risky. The Telegraph has the story.
June 21st will no longer herald a full return to normality after Boris Johnson resigned himself to a delay of up to four weeks in lifting the remaining Covid restrictions.
The Prime Minister will tell the country on Monday that the latest data on the spread of the Indian or Delta virus variant means it is too risky to go ahead as planned. A four-week delay would mean pushing the date back to July 19th.
It had been hoped that weddings at least would be given a special dispensation after 50,000 couples – many of whom will have cancelled or delayed earlier celebrations – booked ceremonies for the four weeks following what had been billed as “freedom day”.
But senior government sources said that while Mr Johnson might increase the current 30-person limit at weddings, restrictions on numbers would have to remain after officials from Matt Hancock’s health department warned that they could become “super-spreader” events.
The British Medical Association became the latest body to call for a delay after data released on Friday showed the ‘R’ rate at its highest since January – between 1.2 and 1.4 – with daily cases reaching 8,125, the highest number since February.
Figures published by Public Health England showed that 42,323 cases of the Indian variant have been confirmed in the UK – an increase of 240% from last week. PHE estimates that the strain is 60% more transmissible than the Kent or alpha variant, with cases doubling every four and a half days in some parts of England.
The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) is understood to have warned the Government that a third wave of Covid cases could exceed the first wave peak if the June 21st reopening were to go ahead as planned.
Worth reading in full.
Florida has been open since September 2020. Texas reopened in March. But this delay means the U.K. won’t be open until at least July 19th. I’d like to say the Prime Minister will suffer the consequences at the polls for continuing to keep the electorate under extreme restrictions, ignoring the plain evidence from the U.S. that reopening is safe, as well as the overwhelming evidence that lockdowns don’t reduce transmission. But we all know most of our fellow citizens will buy the fear they’re sold and lap up the lockdown, and likely reward the Conservatives at the next election for keeping them “safe”.
The Covid tyranny continues. 😡
Stop Press: The Sun is reporting that there will be a two-week “break clause” on July 5th and if infections are falling and hospitalisations are low, restrictions could be eased. Yeah, right.
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Stop mass testing healthy schoolchildren and the scariant will disappear.
Why am I not at all surprised? We sort of knew this would happen because there’s just too many unknown mutant ninja variants out there, vectoring in on Starbase UK, ready to strike us all down. We are under serious attack from an invisible enemy, whose prowess at stealth tactics defies all explanation and logic by appearing to not appear at all. Such is supremacy of this Scarlet Pimpernel-like enemy who, despite our seeking it here and seeking it there, simply remains elusive. So, we, the massive herd-like population must sacrifice our freedoms once more (oh hang on, we haven’t got them back yet) so that we can fight to get them back again. Confused? So am I. Yes, it might sound daft (and it most probably is) but we have to fight for what we already had (or thought we had) and be grateful that someone lets us gather together in our gardens in the cold and rain in groups of no more than 6 and belonging to no more than two households or is it 3 as long as we wear masks, keep 5 metres apart, have the vaccination and live in hermetically sealed hazmat suits. It’s like… Read more »
Then in July some infandous scientist will claim that the Vanuatu version is in Britain and is 65% more infectious than the Delta version and ‘freedom’ day had better be delayed until the middle of August – and so on and so on. Anyone that believes that this nonsense is going to end is delusional.
Let’s just invite those brainwashed to stay at home and/or keep wearing their stupid little surgeon masks and let the rest of us get on with leading our lives risks and all.
https://thelightpaper.co.uk/
Slightly off topic, but it looks like Mrs Boris has a second job- not sure I’d trust her judgement mind…
Why do we need the government to tell us when we can have our freedoms back? Just do it!
Yeh yeh yeh (again).
But brave words don’t alter the reality of not being able to live normally in many ways.
Most of us who post here have been ignoring it all as far as possible in our personal lives and probably to an extent professionally. But what if you face the sack unless you comply? What if you run a business, big or small, that could be fined or closed down if you don’t comply? If you run, or help run, a business, big or small, you are not all-powerful. You have to consider the good of the firm, the staff and their views. If you’re on a board of directors, the others will have their own views. Everyone needs to do as much as they can, but it’s not simple.
True- I would happily go on protests, refuse to wear a mask, (actually, I wrap a scarf around my face- I draw the line at wearing one of those bloody silly face nappies), but the truth is that my wife had just gone into partnership in a new business when this started and she depends on local people and has to work with the council – if I start being too overt you can be sure one of the local Stasi will report me and it could have repercussions for the business, partners, staff, families, etc. It’s not about the money- they aren’t making a fortune and I have my own business, but I do have to consider her and her partners. Trust me- they all know exactly how I feel!
Given the flack that the LFT is now getting, wouldn’t it be ironic if those suffering symptoms were socially mixing thereby spreading the Delta variant, on the basis of a false negative home LFT test?
Seriously if you’ve not yet realised this is a global conspiracy to attain totalitarian control of all humans, and still think this is about a virus, there’s little hope for you.
Mike,
I watched your Del Bigtree interview – very fluent and convincing – until you got to the endgame of a global killing. Then it strayed too far into the realms of the cinema. This will allow you to be tagged as a ‘nutty professor’.
You asked for alternative credible explanations of why they are doing this. Here is one.
Pandemic overblown, initially by panic and hysteria, subsequently doubling down on failed strategies – agreed Effective solutions downplayed in favour of the vaccine as the sole solution – agreed (and probably criminal) Nations in lockstep – agreed, but because they had jointly done the pre-planning exercises (see Paul Schreyer’s well-researched history of pandemic planning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3WUv5SV5Hg Now to the darker part:
Vaccines for all – initially coerced, subsequently mandated – despite the fact that they are not safe or effective – why? And why the change of heart – remember the vaccine queen Kate Bingham back in October: “People keep talking about time to vaccinate the whole population, but that is misguided,” she said to the FT, adding that vaccinating healthy people, who are much less likely to have severe outcomes from COVID-19, “could cause them some freak harm”.
This is to enable global id… Read more »
I agree that global mass killings is unlikely to be the intention.
As for the rest, none of what the world’s leaders and other powerful institutions have done is that surprising.
We know politicians love power and hate scrutiny, we know they lie, we know they line their mates’ pockets and vice-versa, we know they make mistakes and cover them up, we know they like interfering in as much as possible especially if it makes them look heroic, we know they love attention, we know they like to leave their mark for posterity.
Covid has given them the perfect opportunity to do all of that. What has been a bit surprising is the extent to which billions have fallen for the Big Lie.
But actually Hitler predicted this in Mein Kampf: “In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but… Read more »
Surely the size of a wedding reception is impossible to regulate as one can always just put up a marquee in the garden?
The sheeple will self-regulate
Another day in the life of covid.
A cocktail party at the G7 meet-up. Life goes on as normal, for the few…
No masks? No distancing? The pandemic must be over. Hooray!
Die bastards die
If the delay reports are true, I cant wait to see Andrew Lloyd Webber being carted off in handcuffs, oh the joy!
Lol. You’ll be waiting a long time. But he may have to squirm like the worm that he is.
Nice to see Will Jones taking a firmer line.
What is the government thinking by delaying the re-opening of society. In my area there’s been no deaths in the last month yet the rate of infections have increased from 17 per 100,000 to 39 per 100,000. In the past when infections increased a month later deaths also increased so the evidence shows the link as been broken and there’s no need to delay freedom. The only reason to delay is to vaccinate more people which as we all know lowers your immunity temporarily. This means infections will increase which the government will use to justify continuing the lockdown forever.
What are they thinking? Who knows, but whatever it is has nothing to do with public health. My guess is that the aim, conscious or not, is to keep the flame of the covid emergency burning forever, by turns lowering the heat when the frogs notice they are being boiled, by turns increasing it. It’s the gift that keeps on giving, if you like easy power.
What are they thinking? I believe just about all of us know that by now, and it’s nothing to do with a virus.
It never was!
Burn down parliament it’s not needed.
Or look at it another way : it is needed, but we haven’t got it.
I could deal with the monotonous chant of ‘Build Back Better’ if it referred to the need to rebuild a real democracy, whee the suspension of parliament was impossible, and the inhabitants were significant rather than ciphers.
This has been waiting in the wings for a long time whilst the populace has been lulled to sleep by soaps about the lovely Royals that Germany lent us, and the ‘Mother of Parliaments’ crap etc.
People are now being controlled and it doesn’t help that the backbone of democracy, the SMEs and judiciary are also now too scared to stand up for our future. I am going to carry on as I always have. Seeing my friends and family, driving wherever I want to drive and creating a separate society to keep me sane.
My freedom to fly has ling gone. I have accepted that. My freedom to walk to the pub or local restaurant effectively went last year. However, we have a vibrant group who meet every week for drinks, a meal, debate and hugs. We just adjust to being in each other’s homes or gardens. We skype or FT our family. Never ever use Chyna Zoom.
This IS the new normal whilst we see the globalists (including the politicians) fly wherever they want, holiday as many times in the year as they want, not taking any injection you can be sure, and eating in private restaurants and clubs. does this new normal remind you of anything……
So, what will the ‘brave’ Andrew Lloyd Jabber do now???!!!
Piss his pants and get behind his settee
Expected. Welcome to your new life serf.
I think the only way out of this is for every person who is sick of this, who has been reading the data, and who see’s that there are minimal deaths with Covid, but the effects on lives from Government policy is damaging to their lives and to the lives of others. Each person must make a stand, and say to themselves, we have complied, we have put up with these games for 16 months, now its our turn. On June the 21st if everyone refuses to wear a mask, refuses to follow the 2 metre distance nonsense, refuses to test their kids, refuses to do the app thing to try and enter a pub. Then the Lockdown will come to an end, it is only with the complicity of the British Public that this has been allowed to go on for so long. If we stop, they will stop, they cannot imprison us all, and they might try and fine us but they cannot force us to pay. By simply not doing as we are told from June the 21st will send a bigger message and be more effective than any protest. It just requires courage and all of… Read more »
“Each person must make a stand”
Sorry to be impatient – but yeh, yeh, yeh – and how is that to be achieved when a good proportion of the population has a compliant mind-set?
There are plenty of individuals here who have spent eighteen months unpacking the truth and putting it on display for others to see (forget the counterproductive shouting).
With the results that you see.
Sorry to be a wet blanket, and no, I’m not giving up – but I am past delusion.
Well Rick, I am doing it anyway, I can see no other way, my preferred solution of Revolution, and Nuremberg style trial where thes people are held to account and risk the loss of their freedom, I would actually prefer in this case that hanging came back for the penalty but its a pipe dream, that is never going to happen, Johnson like Blair will make millions, will swan around the world lecturing us all on how to live and pretending he is the rebirth of Churchill. Hancock will have made a ton out of this, he will along with Valance and Whitty get a peerage. Its a shame but they will not suffer for what they have done. However I and I would implore everyone else to take back control, and humiliate these monsters by sticking 2 fingers up at them and getting on with a normal life,
I am down but I am not defeated by these fuckers
And it doesn’t require a majority, just a significant minority. 20% would be enough to bring it down.
Why does he bother, only idiots are listening now.
In the meantime the BBC spreads lies, with a commentator saying their are now four vaccines approved when in reality its only emergency approval to find the downfall associated with their use.
“ only idiots are listening now”
Another comfort blanket to suck! – a simplistic hiding from reality.
The best you can hope is that this egregious smack in the face will wake up sufficient of the populace – who are not idiots, but have been brainwashed.
Come on Rick pull yourself round, get up dust off and stick it to them
There is a significant middle who might tip – that is why the government have opened pubs etc. Our government cannot do whatever if feels like, at any moment. They lie because they get away with it, and impose silly and evil rules likewise, and close things, but they cannot simply be madly tyrannical in the way that, say, the North Korean regime is. Even the CCP has to combine being dictatorial with manipulating public opinion and being sensitive to it.
I could have told you so! People need to start to ramp up the kick back. They are going to drag this out until September and claim the flu season as another mutant.
Surprise, surprise see you guys OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT 21st JUNE – BE THERE!!!!!
We have ramped up testing so much that we have found more cases. This has occurred despite being in lockdown yet the nutters believe the solution is… …lockdown!
The sperm donor has no balls.
Gutless ignorant bastards
hahaha so predictable… you have to laugh at this situation. How foolish has humanity become to get itself into this shit pit.
How many days/hours/minutes before the MSM start blaming this u-turn on the unvaccinated? That’s a rhetorical question, btw.
MSM Central Newsroom:
The unvaccinated. Those bastards. We need a name for them! Come on – think, think. Vaxidiots! No, that sounds like it’s the vaccinated who are the idiots. Jabophobes? Maybe. “Silent Killers” – yes, that’s good. But we’d need to get a politician to put it in a speech so we can then publicise it. By the by, do you see how we are getting everyone to use the phrase “Boost it like Biden” – working like a dream. Anyway, back to those f*ckers. I know! Jabby Dodgers!!!
[Won’t make any sense to our American friends.]
“Jabby Dodgers” – that’s sweet! (No pun intended)
“I am a Jabby Dodger.”
That would make a great badge.
Bloody love it.
I’m liking it A LOT! I want me a badge!
If they do then where are all the non masking unvaccinated deaths….
They’re so terrified of the Summer. They were last year too. I just can’t imagine why
The sheep are lapping this shit up. My supposedly highly intelligent work colleagues have been bleating on for the past week how it’s obvious “freedom day” should be delayed and wondering why the government “just don’t do what’s needed”.
This despite all of them proudly announcing how they’ve bent over and taken their medicine. Fucking retards the lot of them.
Perhaps its the ‘jab’ which kills off the brain cells first before eventually killing them off altogether.
I am seeing zombified people everywhere – I am convinced the jab kills brain cells
As I said in another post earlier today this was 100% predictable. Personally I do not see any possibility of this shit ending any time soon – but end it eventually will. For now I intend to go about my business as best I can in what ever manner I wish. Gradually the fools that have accepted all the lies will slowly realise they have been screwed – but it will take a long time. It will be water on stone. I hate to say this, but the only thing likely to speed up the process, short of massive civil unrest which I doubt will happen, is if large number of vaccinated people (especially children) start dying.
I’ve personally only heard of one fairly definite “covid vaccine” death so far, and 2 further possible ones, but I’m losing count of the number of “vaccinated” people who have been unwell since their injections with things like nasty “bugs” and migraines that go on for days, and serious worsening of pre-existing conditions. But remarkably almost none of these people link their deteriorating health to the “vaccine”, maybe because the symptoms didn’t occur straight after being injected. But either I’m seeing a pattern here, or this “wave” of health problems is just purely coincidental.
Haven’t heard of any Covid deaths…but plenty of serious adverse reactions e.g. intense sinus pain for weeks, very serious headaches, catching Covid and so on.
I’ve seen the exact same thing. Quite alarming in itself. Sadly this won’t be enough to change attitudes – at least not quickly. As more people become more sick it may start to have an effect – especially if the scientific community are allowed to do their jobs (and are brave enough to do so). Essentially if the evidence of harm becomes more noticeable and widely discussed it will contribute to the water on stone effect – but only deaths will have a rapid influence. And I really hate to say that.
https://www.medscape.com/sites/public/covid-19/vaccine-insights/how-concerned-are-you-about-vaccine-related-adverse-events
Sadly, the injection recipients have been conditioned to accept that any ill effects to their health and well being means that the injection is working. Then there are the numbnuts who proclaim post injection illness would have been far worse if they had not been injected!
Please stop the world, I want to get off…
Yes. Deaths from the vaccine are proportionally rare (although that initial surge that synchronizes with their introduction is a thing of concern in its own right).
But, even that metric raises concerns in relation to what one might expect.
But the range and quantity of other ‘adverse events’ are very much a matter of concern. I was actually surprised at what I was hearing.
It does seem that a lot of the symptoms could be linked to clotting – this is the common thread.
I think that will happen – the dying – but it won’t be soon and the people likely to be doing the dying will be elderly and the jabs will cleverly kill them of things that elderly people die of so no one will question the deaths.
To be fair to Boris, he did say he wanted this to be the last lockdown. What he failed to mention was that we were never going to get out of it. I hope a few more people are starting to wake up and smell the roses. If’d been one of those sheep who got vaccinated, I’d be f***ing pissed off that I’d been duped, thinking I would have my freedom back by now. As it is, I’ve been cynical since day one and have been proven right in my predictions time after time. The key is to invert everything the government says, and then you’ll be pretty close to the truth.
We have Forever Homes…we can have Forever Lockdowns.
Spot on. Any official announcements have to be wholly inverted and interpretated in their revised form FIRST. Thereafter after some research conclusions can be drawn about the real message.
As helenf states the real meaning will be the exact opposite of that originally stated.
Invert the original statement and you are over three-quarters way to the true intent.
Mass public mask burning ….
Not got one to burn. Can I set fire to my MP instead lol
HATE SPEECH !!!!
Sounds good. We need some celebrity sceptics to get their heads above the parapets.
Never had one yet!
Burn a bit of kitchen roll it will also piss off the climate wankers double result.