The Prime Minister will have to put the delay to the lifting of lockdown restrictions to a vote in the House of Commons before the end of June – a vote which he will likely win (thanks to support from Labour), but not without a swell of opposition from his own MPs. Tory backbenchers, including Sir Charles Walker, are particularly irked by the idea that “Freedom Day” could be pushed back not just by four weeks but into the month of August, and that the roadmap could later be “reversed”. The MailOnline has the story.
Mr Johnson is set to offer an olive branch to some industries that will be worst-hit by the delay, including lifting the cap on the number of guests who can attend weddings. He is also expected to permit more outdoor seated spaces at sporting events.
The concessions come as Tory MPs join hospitality and other business leaders in venting their fury at the postponement, warning it will cost firms millions of pounds.
Vice Chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbench MPs Sir Charles Walker said that “existing isn’t living” as he raised concerns that the Government’s roadmap could be reversed.
“Eventually, if you say you are going to live with Covid, ultimately at times you are going to have to tough it out. Existing isn’t living,” the MP told BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme.
“So I just have an overwhelming sense of pessimism now. If you can’t lift restrictions at the height of summer, and we are in the height of summer, then you almost certainly are looking at these restrictions persisting and tightening into the autumn and winter.
“I don’t think the July 19th date will be met. If it is, it will be met for weeks before we enter further lockdowns.”
New analysis by Public Health England (PHE) has revealed that 29% of Covid deaths from the B.1.617.2 Indian strain had received two injections. And, in a further blow, the PHE report suggests the Delta variant has a 64% increased risk of household transmission compared to the Kent (Alpha) variant.
However, some hardline anti-lockdown Tories are furious about any delay at all, as they wanted the lifting of lockdown to be faster than it has been…
Former minister Steve Baker channelled classic war film The Great Escape in a message to Covid Recovery Group MPs last night, according to Politico, saying: “It is the sworn duty of all officers to try to escape.
“If they cannot escape, then it is their sworn duty to cause the enemy to use an inordinate number of troops to guard them, and their sworn duty to harass the enemy to the best of their ability.”
And theatre impresario Sir Howard Panter warned the industry will suffer “significant damage” if the final lifting of coronavirus lockdown restrictions in England is put on hold.
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“If you can’t lift restrictions at the height of summer, and we are in the height of summer, then you almost certainly are looking at these restrictions persisting and tightening into the autumn and winter.”
Was that a controlled opposition setting the nation’s expectations?
Let’s face it, most of us knew that, even the normies. They’ll even vote for it like the turkeys they are.
That decision was made last year.
Johnson and Co are hell bent on destroying British society and the British economy. We know from their antics – and this sadly includes the Queen – that they take no notice of the restrictions they impose on others.
Which is treason and for which they should be hung.
I wouldn’t call it treason, but I would call it taking the p***.
And more to the point, if it’s all right for them, it’s all right for the rest of us.
Come, come, this is no time for soft measures: hung drawn and quartered would be more appropriate.
Forget treason, the crimes against humanity are far worse and will only get more serious the longer this is allowed to continue.
“.. and this sadly includes the Queen”
Not even surprisingly – let alone ‘sadly’. Establishment bears shit in the woods. Quelle surprise!
From the Spectator:
“It is not the Battle of Marston Moor, but it strikes me that we are now in something of a constitutional crisis following the Speaker’s dramatic outburst this afternoon. In response to points of order about the fact Boris Johnson is announcing lockdown changes in a press conference rather than to parliament, Hoyle said that he had been told no decisions had been taken only to find out that there was an embargoed document setting out what changes were coming. A visibly furious Hoyle declared from the chair that: ‘This House is being misled’.
Considering that misleading the House is a resigning matter, this is a remarkably serious accusation for the Speaker to level against Downing Street. It is not hard to follow it through to its logical conclusion; and I cannot think of a previous example of a Speaker accusing No. 10 of misleading the House. It is another sign of how bad relations between the Speaker and the Prime Minister have become.
Hoyle threatened to find ‘other avenues’ of holding the government to account if No. 10 continued to ride roughshod over the Commons. It remains to be seen what tools Hoyle has at his disposal given the government’s majority. But it seems certain that government ministers will have a tougher time from the chair from now on.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-lockdown-delay-has-triggered-a-constitutional-crisis
Seems like the Commons has finally developed some bllx.
About time. The cabinet have been ignoring Parliament for too long, behaving like we’re in a dictatorship.
“Seems like the Commons has finally developed some bllx.
About time. The cabinet have been ignoring Parliament for too long, behaving like we’re in a dictatorship.” Sadly not really. It’s good that Hoyle said what he did, but the sad truth is that every vote on lockdown restrictions has seen a huge majority for the government. Parliament has been given some opportunities to push back but most MPs are happy enough with the direction of travel.
Well you can avoid a dictatorship by simply having the vote. If everyone suddenly voted one way then it would be a de facto dictatorship again. I think it actually helps to know which spineless MPs are still voting for the restrictions.
They have had some votes, the results of which are of course public. More or less the set of 30-50 MPs have voted against or abstained, mainly Tories. I don’t know if there is a vote today or not. There should be, though it would make no difference to the outcome. Possibly if the PM thought he was in danger of losing such a vote they might try to suspend or bypass Parliament – at that point it would get interesting.
Are the govt trying to sideline MPs and Parliament, and is it wrong to do so? Yes.
Do the vast majority of MPs support lockdowns when they get the vote? Yes.
Are the vast majority of state-ist MPs of all stripes quite happy for Johnson’s Inner Cabinet to effectively govern by decree, and so bypass the need for these frit MPs to have their inevitable toe-the-party-line anti-freedom vote officially recorded in Hansard for posterity? Yes.
What Parliamentary members actually want, and what the increasingly anachronistic Hoyle thinks they want appear to be two different things.
We are living in a Dictatorship, one created by Par-liar-ment itself.
If Labour doesn’t split from the WEF crooks in No10 now they never will. I fully expect them to keep the chirade going.
It will certainly be a Rubicon, beyond which there is absolutely no retreat and no excuses.
“It is another sign of how bad relations between the Speaker and the Prime Minister have become.”
More that it’s a sign of what a liar is this disgusting fat Toad who occupies the role of PM.
If Parliament didn’t want to be ignored, it shouldn’t have voted to give the government unprecedented powers.
Stupid ninnies.
If only there was a recent historical precedent that showed why an enabling act (“Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Nation”) was a bad idea…
They’re always going on about how they can’t afford to repair the Houses of Parliament so perhaps now is the time for a Reichstag Fire, they can use it both as an insurance job and a way to usher in dictatorship. It’s a win win, I bet Goebbels is roasting on his spit wishing he’d thought of it.
I have been worried about that for a long time. HS2 – unlimited budget. Covid scam – trillions. Repair and maintain Parliament – not a priority for the cabal
Paper Tiger.
These back benchers, Tories or otherwise need to do bit more than blowing hard in Par-liar-ment, they need to get off their well orf arses and be counted.
Well, recently most openly sceptic MPs have voted against the govt or abstained, and have been consistently putting across the sceptic message (albeit they all seem pretty pro-vaccine). Short of resigning the party, what else can they do? Would resigning the party help? Maybe. It would send a message, but unless it’s the catalyst for more desertions from shy sceptics, it won’t make much difference. They can plot behind the scenes to replace the PM, but who with? And why would most Tory MPs support such a move given the popularity of lockdown and relative electoral success at the last elections.
https://www.hartgroup.org/psychological-impact/
There are many like TalkRadio host Julia Hartley Brewer, who believed that the best way out of this is to go along with the narrative and have the vaccine to obtain freedom. When they, and other like minded members of the public, realise that they have been duped into taking this unlicensed experimental jab and used to make eye-watering profit and controlled, the numbers of protesters and anti-lockdowners will reach significant numbers that cannot be ignored. Well, that’s my hope.
I have just checked today’s numbers, tbh, did not expect them to release them until after the speech, because they are coming down!!
do you have a link for the numbers?
Probably this: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
Isn’t that just casedemic shite?
Yes, I am sure it is. I presume those were the numbers to which Silke David referred, being released.
A localised multi-pronged midsummer mass uprising, starting well before dawn on June 21st at hundreds of gathering points nationwide, is one way to move forward.
Ideally the identity of these places would be spread by local w.o.m, organised by autonomous groups, and certainly not announced via mainstream social media.
If possible the gathering places should be well away from roads and so more difficult to access and control by police and authorities, be they rural (on hills, in fields/moorlands/woods/forests, on remote beaches etc) or urban (back streets, open parks, exercise areas etc). Likewise these places should have many potential exits.
It doesn’t matter whether 5 or 500 dedicated rights reclaimers show up, what does matter is the open defiant effort to assemble, identify fellow travellers, and throw down the gauntlet. These ad-hoc gatherings could turn into a collective march or multi route march (again to prevent corralling and control), or just disperse once the sun is in the sky.
Re-establishing of inalienable freedoms must start with small independent actions of intent and opposition – at some point these actions must and will coalesce.
The promised returning and subsequent denying of our inalienable freedoms on such a symbolic day as June 21st by the government was a deliberate act of provocation and open state oppression, it cannot pass without a controlled but determined reaction
No, polite, passive non-compliance at first, and then if the state pushes back, the gloves come off.
An uprising be civil in every sense of the word. A statement of intent is not an act of violence but an act of passive but determined defiance in reclaiming that which has been stolen. We must not let our values become a collateral victim of state coercion and oppression or they have won.
It’s politics, and a point has to be seen to be made.
Individual non-compliance is indistinguishable from petty criminality. Where our oppressors have the capacity (and with widespread CCTv and AI, as well as their “shop thy neighbour” campaigns, they often will), they will treat it as such.
I don’t understand this comment. There is a huge difference between, for example, gathering in a group (it’s called freedom of peaceful assembly and as such protected under the UN Charter and ECHR both of which the UK is a signatory to) and an offence such as shoplifting, violence or vandalism. Likewise freedom of speech cannot be construed as threatening or abusive behaviour no matter how far IQs might have dropped in the interim.
That we should have reached a point where UK subjects casually buy into a narrative whereby everyday civil liberties (protected under the law only 15 months ago) are indistinguishable from petty criminality is not one I recognise – no matter how convenient this would be for the Regime’s well paid behavioural insights teams.
I think what you didn’t understand was the word, “individual”.
“Individual non-compliance” would suggest you, on your own, not wearing a mask, not “sanitising” your hands, or not shutting yourself in your house when you’ve a bit of a sniffle. Such acts do not readily communicate conscientious protest but merely appear, in the context of the new, draconian, laws, criminal.
Chain ourselves to the railings? Do anything. Act.
word of mouth good idea i think there are many out there who would join this but dont know how to go about it. i ve been trying in the u s for getting near a year but havent managed yet
The Cabinet Office is the spider in the web. This evil and absolute shit-show has got to end.
I listened to Eric Clapton’s interview on Oracle Films. I sympathise with his medical issues and the anxiety he alluded to. He irked me when he said he’s a musician so knows nothing about all this science and deep politics stuff. I’m a nobody and have spent the last 14 months learning about all of this stuff, as well as striving to live a decent life in spite of the nonsense. My point being that if I have risen to the challenge surely it’s reasonable to expect others to do so too. Like thousands of folks I’ve got health issues. Like thousands of folks I’m a tad weary. Like thousands of folks I care about how we live.
Yes it’s got to end and to do so we need the Eric Clapton’s of this world to stand up with us. I’ll be standing up again in London on 26th for sure.
I don’t think you need to know much if anything, about science or deep politics to see the scam for what it is. My mother in law didn’t get past primary school and she has said from the start that it’s madness.
It would certainly be an unintended consequence of this crisis if the public was now better informed and politically engaged. That would be a serious own goal for the political class..
“Eric Clapton’s interview on Oracle Films”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OHmMKrVbNk
For the next ten years UK Parliament debates will mean nothing. We are converging towards a EU style technocratic system where debates are merely for show. We will also be converging towards an EU style, no growth, stagnant economy, zero progress, zero innovation style economy.
Last year I half jokingly said that the the only reason why the PM supported Brexit was so that he’d get a seat at the G7 table for the covid agenda. I’m convinced that this was years in the making.
I’m afraid despite the propaganda, Brexit has not turned out well for the general population.
The UK has been far more restrictive of civil liberties than most if not all EU countries and has a similar death record to the worst hit EU countries. So more pain for no gain. In the EU nobody has been prohibited from travel abroad and life is now approximating normality far more than in the UK, with fewer people vaccinated (which is supposed to be the liberating factor).
Those who thought that Brexit would bring freedom will be disappointed so far if they go by the facts (rather than the propaganda).
“The UK has been far more restrictive of civil liberties than most if not all EU countries ” It is variable. Germany, Spain, Belgium, France, Italy all had pretty strong lockdowns, often much more harshly enforced than ours, outdoor masks, no exemptions. Some of the nordic and eastern countries were a bit better. I don’t think membership or otherwise of the EU has much to do with it. Travel was severely restricted in Italy, don’t know about the other countries.
Also, the point of Brexit was not that things would be any different under the Tories (most of us knew it would be the same old globalist sh*te) but it was assumed the machinery of democracy would remain in place sufficiently long enough for a sensible populist government to be elected. That did not seem naive in 2019 but it does now!
Travel is worse. But daily life is far more pleasant in the UK than in EUrope. Certainly for rebels.
Johnson will sign away not just parliament’s but even his own sovereignty to the WHO in November.
It’s all just, expensive, theater now.
“the Delta variant has a 64% increased risk of household transmission compared to the Kent (Alpha) variant.”
Total fiction, by a well-known ‘dodgy data’ source.
Apologies if my maths is dodgy (I have the skill of an imperial college modeller) but the secondary attack rate of Covid is estimated around 20% ( think it’s less actually ) so if it’s 64% more transmissible does that not mean it’s actually increased the infection risk to 33%. Wouldn’t that be essentially meaningless in a vaccinated population and one with community immunity ?
In short bullshit baffles brains ?
To be honest, I can’t even be arsed to work it out. It’s just made up.
But yes – it’s all cake-and-eat-it bollocks in terms of vaccines for anyone with a brain.
64% more than fuck-all is still fuck-all.
This!
64% – not 63 or 65 or even 63.5. No definitely 64% which means this statistic is total back of a fag packet complete and utter bollox.
Never appease bullies. And that’s all the majority have done over the past 18 months. So, where has it got us? More of the same tyranny, in fact it’s getting worse. Time to breakout from lockdown. Enough.
Attendance on the 26th is now mandatory (for me).
They way they act with this vaccine is no different to a corner drug dealer. Hook everyone in and pump them full of a booster every year for the rest of their fucking lives. Counts. All of them
Andrew Lloyd Weber, over to you.
We eagerly await your civil disobedience.
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
And Toby, if you are reading this – any thoughts?
I expect he’s as frustrated and angry as the rest of us. We may have differing views on some of the dynamics of this madness, but I doubt TY has any easy answer, any more than the rest of us.
Looks like Johnson is going to be his Prince Charming by having talks with Lloyd Webber to enable Cinderella to go ahead as one of a few pilot events planned over the next 4 weeks.
Would that be tests, checking vaccination status and all that paraphernalia to enable Johnson’s own pantomime to continue??
It’s another drama production set up, directed and choreographed by the psyops team.
…and Lloyd Webber has a starring role in Covid – the musical.
I see the coward dictator Johnson is not even going to make the delay statement. That job has been given to psycho Hancock, at 8.30 pm. The Speaker is not happy…
If 50-60 Tory MP’s, followed by 10-20 Labour MP’s, broke away from their parties and formed a ‘Freedom’ alliance within the House of Commons, deliberately resisting every Government bill and acting as an unofficial opposition, things might – I stress ‘might’ – change, as the Tories would lose their majority, and we saw back in 2019 how a minority government can really struggle to manage parliamentary business.
Sadly, I don’t see that scenario playing out. These Tory rebels will make a lot of noise, but will stay safely in the fold.
It’s an interesting scenario. I doubt you could tempt enough of them to do so, but I like to think I would try it if I were them. It would have to work by blackmailing the PM into lfiting lockdowns in return for the Tory rebels to come back into the fold. He might just call an election though.
BJ answers to a higher authority than parliament (or the electorate).
Johnson et al showed clearly by their actions during G7 that they’re not the least bit bothered about Covid. So why are they forcing these painful rules on us?
All those useful idiots happy with lockdown will regret it. Those working from home whilst their houses increase in value don’t realise that they’ll be paying the cost of all the government’s borrowing and spending. Those happily watching daytime TV on 80% wages will get a shock when their jobs go and are forced into working in minimum-wage jobs.
Those working from home don’t realise that their jobs can be done by people working from home elsewhere in the world for much less.
As others have noted, watch out over the coming week or two of a mysterious new vaccine evading variant. Despite the fact hospitalisations and deaths will be negligible with the Indian variant, the narrative will focus on this new variant (sweepstake on its name?) that has the ‘potential’ to inflict casualties.
All to keep the restrictions going even longer.
Nepal variant. It’s already out there. Plus China have some iffy things going on despite their fetish for masks.
I am going to coin it the ADElaide variant.
The vaccine-caused vascular deaths will be atrributed to an invented Covid variant.
They must be knowing that this is coming snd are trying to frame it that way.
That’s by far the most plausible explanation for his statement today.
Howard Panter? Who he???
I guess Boris and his pro-lockdown chums know their careers, politcal or otherwise, are over so are stringing this out as long as they can to get as much bribe money as possible from their puppet masters.
Why would his career be over?
Would you employ him?
rage schmage… Boris say lockdown… UK locks down… that is that.
The weasel words used in this article are so typical of the cabal ruling over us. When ever someone opposes the government, they’re labelled ‘hardliners’ and even more extreme.
Have you ever seen or heard the press/media describe covidians as ‘hardliners’?
Truth is, we are in no friggin position to have a ‘hardline’ stance, it is the government forces that are the absolute hardliners. You see this all the time now; previously it was Brexiteers who were hardliners. Can you imagine teachers treating a victim of bullying in such contemptuous way?
Actually, these days… yes I can.
There is simply no justification for this extension. We are in summer. Infection rates are low. In wales there were 0 ‘Covid’ deaths recorded for a substantial chunk of June to date. We all know the definition of a Covid caused death are utterly inaccurate. We also know the NHS definition of a Covid hospital admission is misleading and these figures are then bandied about as literal truths.
The Tory minority of dissenters are welcome but sadly inconsequential. None of the main political parties has anything materially different to say. The betrayal of our democracy at the altar of the so-called medical emergency and the destruction of our day-to-day lives continues without any just cause. I am sick at heart.
The theoretical legal basis for overturning the restrictions would be that the SoS for Health’s justification for maintaining the regulations is void as unreasonable on Wednesbury grounds, so any Covid regulations are invalid. Try finding a judge minded to agree with that proposition, regardless of the evidence.
“Eventually, if you say you are going to live with Covid, ultimately at times you are going to have to tough it out. Existing isn’t living,” the MP told BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme.
“So I just have an overwhelming sense of pessimism now. If you can’t lift restrictions at the height of summer, and we are in the height of summer, then you almost certainly are looking at these restrictions persisting and tightening into the autumn and winter.
“I don’t think the July 19th date will be met. If it is, it will be met for weeks before we enter further lockdowns.”
No sh*t and welcome to the club.
Exsctly what us sceptics and self-thinkers worried about and stated since the whole farce began.
As did Giesecke&Tegnell.
Let’s face it: something else entirely is behind all this.
Yes Chas , all very nice sounds bites but what about your glaring blind spot ?
you and Baker blather on but singularly refuse to address the fundamentals of the covid scam ie faked misrepresented data don’t you ?
May be you didn’t expect to see old ladies being manhandled into a hooli-van but you can’t let the secret out can you ?
by the way nice purple tie ….. bwaah ha ha ha.
All the fake opposition promoting the vax as the way out , Hitchens , the judge , Hartley Brewer , not looking so good now .
And a big fat Zero of them have resigned the Whip, or did I just imagine that? No, there are now at least 70 Independent Conservative MPs, joined by a few disgusted and embarrassed Ministers. Well, maybe tomorrow then.
Equally, if they are not going to resign the Whip now, when? The 13th of Never.
Every MP in that cesspit is as useful as a fart in a colander. I shit the lot of them.
Lockdown protesters march on Downing Street 14 . 6. 21
Look carefully you’ll see the back for our heads at about 0:23 secs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkIbXISw6A8
Monday 14th June 2021 UK’s official Covid 19 figures –
7,742 positive PCR tests –
3 (THREE) deaths from any cause within 28 days of a positive PCR test
UK population 68 million
– for that we destroy the economy for another 4 weeks
The COVID 19 and CLIMATE CHANGE rules DON’T apply to the G7 leaders, the EU leaders, or the Royal Family as we all saw in Cornwall. Just the plebs like us.
Do you really think these people care about YOU?
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, the lawyer who brought down Volksawagen and Deutsche Bank, is preparing Nuremburg trials as we speak.
Anti Lockdown Newspaper: https://thelightpaper.co.uk/
Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics
‘New analysis by Public Health England (PHE) has revealed that 29% of Covid deaths from the B.1.617.2 Indian strain had received two injections.’
And the total number of deaths today was 4(?) of whom how many were already at Death’s door? And the number of those who had had both vaccinations AND the 20 day wait was???
Sorry Steve Baker, you duty is even simpler: lodge your no confidence letter with Brady now.
We know that in a normal year around 1500 people (mainly elderly) die every single day. It is therefore completely unsurprising that at least this number of deaths will occur and that now nearly all of them will have been doubly vaccinated against covid. Unless there is incontrovertible evidence that the small number of current “covid deaths” are occurring due to Covid alone and not simply down to old age or comorbidities then the 29% figure is totally irrelevant and meaningless.