Boris Johnson has “all but confirmed” that the June 21st “Freedom Day” will be delayed, saying that “we are seeing some worrying stuff in the data”. The PM is particularly concerned about an increase in hospitalisations – only too late have NHS hospitals been told to change the way they collect data on patients who test positive for Covid by differentiating between those who are actually sick with Covid symptoms and those who test positive but are actually ill with something else. The fact that there is unlikely to be much of a backlash to the extension of lockdown from the public appears also to have bolstered the Government’s decision to delay. The MailOnline has more.
The PM delivered a downbeat assessment of the dangers posed by the Indian “Delta” variant amid growing expectations he will announce a four-week delay to the unlocking roadmap at a press conference on Monday…
In a round of broadcast interviews at the G7 summit in Cornwall, Mr Johnson insisted no final decision will be taken until Monday.
“We are seeing some worrying stuff in the data, clearly. We are seeing the Delta variant causing an increase in cases, we are seeing an increase in hospitalisations,” he told Channel 5 News.
“The whole point of having an irreversible roadmap is to do it cautiously and that’s what we are going to do. I know people are impatient to hear more but you will be hearing the full picture on Monday.”
Ministers believe the backlash from Tory MPs and the public should be limited as long as the timetable does not slip beyond the school holidays.
A poll today suggested that just a third of Britons want the total lifting of restrictions to go ahead as originally laid out.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: A poll for Opinium published last night showed that a majority of Britons are now in favour of postponing the June 21st lifting of restrictions. Over half (54%) think the date should be postponed (up from 43% two weeks ago), with just 37% thinking it should go ahead as planned or even be moved forward (down from 44% two weeks ago). The majority of those in favour of postponing are among the older age groups with almost two thirds (65%) of over-65s in favour of postponing and only 28% in favour of going ahead as planned or earlier. Young people are more evenly split as 45% of 18-34 year olds think it should be postponed and 46% think it should go ahead as planned or earlier.
More specifically, people are most in favour of not removing the restrictions on:
- Wearing masks (62% vs 31%)
- Keeping nightclubs closed (60% vs 28%)
- Limiting large outdoor events (60% vs 31%)
- Having a maximum of 30 people can gather outdoors (57% vs 31%)
- Having a rule of six and table service in hospitality venues (50% vs 42%)
- Having up to 30 people at weddings (48% vs 41%)
- Having up to six people in people’s homes (47% vs 43%)
It’s official. We’ve become a nation of chin wobblers.
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So medical strategy is determined by public opinion?
As Iago said in Aladdin “I think I’m gonna have a heart attack and die from not surprise!”. We knew this would happen, although that doesn’t make it any less frustrating. Seeing the pictures from the G7 hasn’t strengthened their cause though, with all the lack of masks & social distancing. Some animals are more equal than others, eh?
It comes as no surprise to me that a certain element of individuals in this country acquiesce so willingly to Government brainwashing and lies. You only have to look at some of the morons the BBC chooses to interview in any of its vox pops. Most of them have the intelligence of an amoeba – apologies to amoebas!!
I don’t think public opinion is correctly established by these polls I don’t know anyone who has been polled and those who are in fear of COVID-19 have been put in that state by the government fear propaganda. I can’t see why anyone believes it despite data to the contrary and insufficient data widely enough publicised to give the correct situation.
With a usual daily death rate of between 1200 and 1600 even on the lowest of those figures and the highest number of COVID-19 deaths this week of 17, that means COVID-19 accounts for less than 1.5% of all daily deaths, and we still don’t know whether those declared have died of Covid-19 or with Covid-19 where something else was the main cause of death. In my opinion, this is not sufficient reason to continue crippling our economy and restricting our freedoms. In my opinion, more people are dying or will die as a result of the lockdown restrictions which have been shown by data in Sweden, America and elsewhere not to work.
People who want to be restricted can restrict themselves and let the rest of us get on with our lives in what was once… Read more »
“and no alternative party yet, to give us the opportunity to kick them out, but I, and I hope many others will never vote Tory again.”
Perhaps voting will be suspended for many years ‘to keep us all safe from Covid’.
I love this Boris guy!
like a dose of the pox!
Nature abhors a vacuum so when he gets hitched to Carrie there’ll be a vacancy for a new mistress.
Big Blubber.
Dead in a ditch?
I’m 68 and I just want my life back, sans vaccine too! Ditto my wife.
I recall when in September, Ian Brown released Little Seed, Big Tree, he was roundly panned, mostly for being a conspiracy theorist but also because it’s not a good track musically.
It’s turned out that he was astonishingly prescient.
Seriously, it’s taken me a few months longer to appreciate this is definitely about totalitarian control (vaccine passports are not a safety measure, variants are a deception in that they don’t nor will they “escape immunity”, young people & kids are getting vaccinated, the EU starts digital green certificates next month, etc).
Those sniggering at chipping people? Israel proposed it last week for the children. Separately, several hundred students in one of the Scandinavian countries are trialing them in place of contactless bank cards.
Here are the lyrics.
We don’t need no stinking badges
Just a little seed, makes a big tree
Standing on its own, thriving all alone
Just a little seed, makes a big tree
Grows so high, gonna touch the sky
Just a little seed, makes a big tree
Spreads roots deep, branches far and wide
Masonic lockdown in your hometown
Masonic lockdown, can you hear me now?
From the top down, soul shot down
State shakedown,… Read more »
Seriously people. Sign up to the YouGov app and diligently complete the daily survey which is always about Covid. It is dominated by bedwetters and the questions are often loaded but if enough people bothered to participate we could balance things out a bit.
Good idea.
My nephew who signed up for YouGov discovered pretty quickly that when they figured out that his answers did not conform to the result they wanted, they stopped sending him the interesting surveys. I have heard other people say the same.
Sadly a nation of bedwetters.
We are a nation of weak, soft, mummy mardys, snowflakes, scared of their own shadow tosspots.
Can someone help me with some quick questions?
Has the PCR cycle count been increased again to catch more Indian ?
Has anyone been confirmed as having Covid twice and worse a second time ?
Do the modelled senairos still use the same input data now as in March 2020 or have they been changed to alter the reality?
Is it correct that the Indian variant was all over Europe but the U.K. has managed to seed it through poor international controls ?
And can anyone please also share again that leaked email that said this was all planned ?
Here it is and going to plan:-
Whitehall leak April 2021
“A Whitehall source directly linked to the Covid Response has said that the UK Government has already structured a detailed plan designed to neutralise each stage of the Lockdown easing, including the compliance of Media outlets, to help with spreading the fear message.
The Whitehall source has said that he has been “increasingly concerned” with how the Government are behaving, and that their “relationship with the truth” is now not even on nodding terms.
The latest plan will involve a series of crisis around drug supply, mutant strains, and third waves, specifically choreographed to condition the public for further lockdowns and vaccine passports.
The plan that is designed to take us to September the 27th 2021, is to be released in stages over the summer months, and according to the Whitehall source, “is already well underway”.
On March 8th the first milestone of the Roadmap was implimented, with schoolchildren finally returning to class.
The following day, Chris Whitty gave a pre-written speech to the Commons, that said schools reopening would cause another surge in the virus, and ended it with “Let me be clear, many, many more will die… Read more »
Thank you. Obviously some of that certainly has happened and some has not happened, certainly as written.
There are far fewer cases where an individual has reportedly caught the virus twice than the incidence of severely immunocompromised people. Essentially, reinfection accompanied by clinical symptoms isn’t a thing. Unsurprisingly. The very few claims to this as more easily explained by them not having Covid19 on at least one of the occasions.
PCR is not now & never has been a technique suitable for diagnosis of respiratory virus infection. There have been three high court judgements to that effect in Europe. Of course, our lying media haven’t bothered to tell us this, because they’re part of the scam.
It was initially lowered but was raised again. Obviously wanting to rev up the positives to deliver another blow to our freedoms.
60% of the over sixties should consider wearing incontinence pants when retiring at night.
I am over sixty and my wife is working towards it, we are both overweight and I have chest problems. Neither of us is vaccinated and we have no intention of being so willingly. We have not practised social distancing, hug and shake hands with people and do not use sanitiser. We have never considered ourselves to be ‘at risk’ of death from what is very far from being a ‘deadly disease‘. If we die because of Covid it will be because we were fighting the forces of tyranny and not because of any microbe.
We do need a great reset and the gutless ball-less sheeple are those who need to be culled.
If you tell a lie often enough then people believe it.
A lot of people at any rate. I think they will find it hard to con many (if any: now that fon seems to have done a runner) of us here.
This “data” is concocted, – all of it.
It is time to stop discussing the bullshit and lies served up as coronavirus “fact”
This compliant and absurd propaganda signals the contempt a totalitarian dictatorship has for those they abuse.
For God’s sake these people are multiple war criminals, they do not deserve respect.
NHS Stats latest to 10th June Deaths with Covid broken down by age
4th JUNE 2 deaths – 60-79 age group
6th June 1 death – 0-19 age group
8th June 1 death – 20-39 age group
9th June 4 deaths 2 in the 60 -79 age group 2 in the 80 plus group
10th June 1 death in the 80 plus age group
Jeez that Delta/Indian variant its a real scarer
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My God! that’s that’s devastating!
Meanwhile “all cause” deaths are still below average, but they never mention that
So what’s the point of lockdowns, “vaccines” and masks? This time last year there were no vaccines no masks and the hospitalisations and deaths were the same as they are today. So what’s been achieved, nothing apart from herding the sheeple.
Deaths were actually higher in June 2020 than they are currently by a huge margin. But your point remains valid.
Were they dying of covid, or the elderly who needed critical hospital care, being sent back home and losing that care, because of covid.
Opinion polls that are commissioned by government for government are nothing more than propaganda
Chin wobbling, bed wetters, afraid of our own shadows. Whatever happened to the British Bulldog spirit?
It died a long time ago. People have become too affluent to care.
Great headline in Babylon Bee
People Who Ruined World’s Economies Gather To Discuss How To Fix World’s Economies
Or, “People who ruined worlds economies gather to discuss how to depopulate various countries”.
who are these people they sample? where are they? strikes me its just the very old and clearly selfish who have their own homes, are retired and just want to settle into their dotage and stuff everyone else as longs as they are ok.
I am in my sixties, own my own home, retired and in essence perfectly ok but I hate every single bit of lockdown and its associated restrictions with every fibre of my body.
Me too Dave. Unfortunately i would guess a lot of that demographic watch BBC TV and don’t look on net.
Almost none of them do, we’re it.
Ditto.
I’m retirement age and have a house, but am nowhere near ready to settle into my dotage and wait to die. I am as rebellious as any other anti-lockdowner. I’ve seen many my own age just acquiesce, take the poisons, etc; they can’t understand why I would fight it. So much easier, innit, to sit back, follow the rules, anything for a quiet life. These folk don’t understand the deeper picture. And they don’t understand that the jabs they’ve had are not proper vaccines. They don’t understand any of it….at all.
Oh….and I never watch tv either.
Ditching live TV was the best thing we’ve done!
Wrong on all accounts, surveys and samples are selective, small and unrepresentative of the population. You would not have the freedoms (debatable) you have today if it was not for the sacrifices of the old (would you have preferred to live in a Nazi-type country). Most elderly people have slogged all their lives to get what they have today (poor wages and high interest), compared to the general high salaries and low interest of today.
From the start of this, I have been against the lockdowns and restrictions imposed on the people of so-called free democracy, so I say not in my name.
We are living in a ‘Nazi-type country’. We’ve been living under soft martial law for nearly fifteen months and it has been slowly but steadily hardened up since the beginning.
Most elderly people have not done anything like ‘slogged all their lives’; a very large number of them occupied soft public sector sinecures and retired on index linked final salary pensions. They are the sheep who voted time and time again for corrupt politicians who have, over decades, eroded our rights and liberties to the point that they are now all but eradicated and so they are the reason we are in the mess we are.
If you must write such brainless, cliché ridden rubbish please restrict yourself to the red topped tabloids.
I would point out that a large proportion of the brave academics, scientists, that are speaking out are over-60s retired, and it has to be said that it’s easier to speak out when you do own your home and your career isn’t at stake.
Yes, it is.
It’s still much easier to take the money & keep your head down, as all my former friends in industry & academia have shown me.
Yes Mike, but you have integrity. Honour, once pawned is never redeemable.
The Globalists enjoying a luxury holiday in the Cornish sunshine, at our expense. Hardly a mask in sight, except for the serfs, sorry, waiters. Social distancing? What Social distancing? Plenty of pics of arms riund Comrades. All having a smashing time whilst the masses obey without question and want further lockdowns. 🤬
Yes, but that’s only in a country where the latest variant is running riot, and easing of restrictions has to be delayed. And it’s not as if there are any vulnerable peoploe at that meeting, e.g. 70 odd year old men, or a 95 year old woman, is it? Honestly, I don’t know what you are going on about…
Their jamboree in Cornwall is costing the taxpayer £70m.
I’m seriously thinking of not paying my taxes.
I wish someone could find a way of linking that picture with this, one of the latest advice messages from NHS (England I presume though it arrogantly doesn’t say so). Young people so far away from each other that they would to have spent the whole time shouting at each other. And none (had they been real) subject to quarantine.
And here it is,….
Just a few more weeks……
The country’s had it, hasn’t it? Brain washed, brain dead and glued to their TV sets, happy with the weekly shop at Tesco’s. Unfortunately, that is not living.
It was pointed out to me yesterday that has it not been for 2008, this grand deception couldn’t be happening.
Everyone has got used the idea of monetary financing. Free money, printed by the central banks, is absolutely required in order to fund lockdown.
I’m now left wondering if 2008 wasn’t deliberate.
What exactly was the point of the vaccination drive if indeed it doesn’t mean freedom at all? Pretty much all the vulnerable people in the country have had at least one shot, possibly both. So why are we still effectively locked down? As we are all realising, it’s not about protecting us, it’s about control. The media endlessly spews out its meaningless fear porn and people lap it up, running around outside with their masks on and then we have images of the G7 cocktail party with no one in a mask, all grinning away like its normal because, for them, it is. Life carries on just as always. For us though, it’s more oppression and nonsense because so many have been hoodwinked and so many just don’t ask questions, show no interest in plain evidence right in front of their mask-covered noses! It’s insane.
It was nothing to do with our health! It was always about Control and now the monsters will vaccinate the children and digital ID s for all will be in the pipeline. We’ll done all you suckers who took the bait, your slavery and that of your children is ensured!
Over half of UK population is fully vaccinated. Those in power should let the vaccinated people have as much freedom before COVID started and let the social distancing and masks apply to those
And all the unvaccinated should be rounded up and exterminated? Is that what you’d like to see Vampiretroll?
No. Not at all. I am just saying having unvaccinated temporarily wear the masks and social distance until a good majority is vaccinated is all and when this occurrs, restrictions get totally dropped. It would just make more sense as opposed to forcing vaccinated people to follow all these restrictions as well. Especially when they said the Vaccines would end all this.
Dangerous precedent warning!
Even though we know those vaccinated can still get the disease and pass it on?
But you are happy to assume ‘the unvaccinated’ are a danger and want to have them ‘isolated’ and ‘branded’. And you blame them for imposing restrictions on those who have been injected.
What about those millions who have had the disease and are naturally immune? Study after study show long lasting immunity. Are you planning to let them go out without restrictions too?
The ‘vaccine’ isn’t a vaccine, doesn’t stop infection or transmission and is unlikely to save your life if you do catch the virus. Further more, Big Blubber insists that those who have had both doses must continue to wear masks and distance themselves socially.
More fool anyone who has taken the vaccine. Politicians have told countless lies about the pandemic and when restrictions will end so what made you think they were telling the truth about vaccines ending this? Also, given the countless lies they and senior medical advisors have told what makes you think they are telling the truth when they say vaccines are safe?
That’s silly. I’m unvaccinated because I’m not at risk. If I acquire any respiratory symptoms, noting there are at least 40 viruses that can induce similar mild symptoms which is what most people get, ill stay at home for a few days.
Get lost and take your Nazi ideas and shove them!
Why? Neither social distancing nor masks work. Science.
And nor, apparently, do the “vaccines”.
Go away. Find a group that’s not as smart. Do you get paid by the post or by the hour?
Oh. Forgot to ask. How would you easily differentiate? Yellow Star anyone?
All those vaccinated should be sent for a physiological check up. If you are woolly headed enough to have a completely new gene therapy that has not completed the proper safety trails which has some horrendous short term side effects and unknown long term effects all to give you questionable protection against a virus you have at least a 99% chance of making a full recovery from then you are clearly mentally deficient in some way and need locking up for your own protection.
Why does anyone agree to a modification of their DNA, which is quite literally the essence of their being?
Gee thanks you sucker!
And we some worrying stuff in this government!
I’ve seen several videos where the police drag protesters away and the crowd just films it in their mobile phones instead of piling in to stop the arrest.
How about protests outside the homes of ‘covid marshalls’, they are truly the face of evil. Name them and shame them.
Make more shit up……
Gawd help us one and all.
They clearly didn’t look at the you gov poll it gave it too them with both barrel’s open up I know I was one of participants and I gave them hell!!
So the young want to go ahead with the opening and the over 65s want to stay in. In which case, the young should be able to go out and get on with life and the 65s can stay in. What’s the problem? The one size fits all policy of the COVID circus has been the big failure from day 1. And they’re still doing it. Insanity.