Boris will definitely announce that the lifting of lockdown will be delayed by up to four weeks at the Downing Street press conference on Monday evening. He’s going to spin this as a necessary delay to ensure the end of the lockdown is “irreversible”. Yeah, right. The Times has more.
Boris Johnson will appeal to the nation to be patient tomorrow as he announces that the June 21st easing of lockdown restrictions will be delayed by up to four weeks.
The prime minister will use a press conference in Downing Street tomorrow evening to set out the delay as the government attempts to hit its target of offering all adults at least one dose of a vaccination by the end of next month.
A government source said that Johnson views it as the “final stretch” as he seeks to ensure that as many people as possible are protected before lockdown rules are eased. The prime minister has repeatedly argued that the end of restrictions must be “irreversible”.
In an attempt to mitigate criticism he is expected to lift the 30-person limit on weddings and allow for more seated outdoor sporting and cultural events to take place with large crowds.
The four-week delay was signed off by the quad group of senior ministers – Johnson, Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, and Matt Hancock, the health secretary – after a briefing by Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, and Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser.
Asked for his views, Sunak is said to have joked that they were already known after they were leaked to a newspaper last week. All four men supported the delay.
Some cabinet ministers and Conservative MPs are concerned that the new deadline of July 19th could slip further if cases and hospital admissions continue to rise. The Times has been told that planners in Whitehall initially considered delays of two or five weeks.
Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, told Times Radio he could not provide an “absolute guarantee” that lockdown restrictions would be eased by the new deadline. Asked if there was confidence that restrictions could be lifted by August, Raab said: “I don’t think there are any absolute guarantees.”
Johnson declined to comment when asked if he would guarantee the new timetable for easing the rules.
Worth reading in full – although preferably with a bucket in hand.
Of course Boris can’t guarantee we’ll reopen on July 19th – how could he, when he’s delegated the decision to SAGE? And the boffins are bound to come up with another reason why it’s not “safe” to reopen then. Or, indeed, ever.
The only way we’ll get our freedoms back is if we take them back.
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Bloody hell Toby has come out fighting in this piece.
Good for you Toby.
Only the gullible brainwashed masses would have believed Johnson about 21 June.
This man is a pathological liar and anyone taking any notice of his proclamations needs psychological testing.
I did not watch the Bozo and do not care. I am approaching this in a.similar fashion to the instruction about the spoon that Neo received from the little boy in The Matrix: I paraphrase –
Do not try to stop the lockdown. That’s impossible. Instead, only try and realise the truth.
‘What truth?’
There is no lockdown.
There is no lockdown?
Then you will see that it is not the lockdown that ends, it is yourself who ends it.
so we all say NO, enough is enough! this has never been about the virus, nor the vaccines, this has always been about control, if we fail to stand up we will be decimated by this folly, as of tomorrow i reject all government dictats. or goodbye freedom!
I feel enraged but I fear there are so few of us Red Pilled people…..
The last time an upsurge occurred in PCR positives was just before Christmas. Whitty&Vallance nefariously blamed the surge on a more-infectious, more dangerous ‘new variant’ of the virus. A death-surge began shortly afterwards, exactly tracking the footsteps of the jab rollout. All over the country, extremely elderly and frail people, and seriously unwell and obese people, 5,000 of them residents in care homes alone, began dropping dead. This carnage was caused by the jabs, but blamed on the virus, and Hancock knew in early January exactly what was happening. 25,000 people died in the UK, directly killed by the jabbing, in the 10 weeks from mid December.
To conceal the truth, Hancock ordered a complete hush-up on all official data on the jab-status of the deceased. No information is available at all to this day on how many of the UK dead since the jabbing started had received the jab. Sarah Caul at ONS was supposed to put out an analysis by the end of March, but nothing appeared, and since then she has ignored all questions on the matter.
One of the great crimes of history has been perpetrated under our noses. Hancock knew that the truth – which… Read more »
It’s NOT about money.
It’s about tyrannical control
I think they’ll use that control in a distressing way
It’s not benign, that’s for sure
But forget money. Those who’ve organised this create money. It’s not a motive.
The vaccines can only be used under Emergency Use Authorisation, ergo the emergency must be extended. No emergency equals no lockdown equals no more vaccinations. And no more vaccinations means an unhappy Bill Gates and an unhappy New World Order in pursuit of a Digital ID controlled surveillance state a la CCP.
Everyone must be vaccinated if the Digital ID era is to be ushered in. People without vaccinations cannot have Covid passports so cannot become a Digital ID entity.
Simples. And evil of course…..
If you think they’d go to all this trouble, merely to have greater control, you’re smoking something
No. They’ll use the control for Final Solutions.
Hence lies about variants & lies about need for boosters,
They won’t be vaccines
The vaccine passports will compel holders to attend for 3rd & subsequent jabs
If not this, why all the superfluous verbiage?
The control was begun long ago. Do you imagine the smoking ban with its reliance on the concept of Passive smoking is any different to Covid-19 being spread by Asymptomatic carriers?
Of course it’s not. The concept of affecting others no matter how tenuous was found to be hugely successful with smoking. The ‘science’ of passive smoking was trotted out via compliant media. It was never about stopping people from smoking or saving others from smoke-laden clubs and pubs, it was an exercise in how successful coercion by numerous simultaneous avenues would work.
Make smokers ‘recognise’ the harm they’re doing to others. Whether by accident or design, Covid-19 pitched up and the same tactic was employed only with a few tweaks, wear a mask and don’t get close to anyone – God forbid that, you just might have a conversation with them and realise you both agree Covid-19 is a hoax.
Nothing could be done about conversations online; until such time as they recruited the likes of Zuckerberg and Dorsey to pick off the serious influencers.
Cancel culture had already been established as a control mechanism of the forthright and it, again, was accepted as normal and right amongst the… Read more »
Please share this as widely as you can. In this interview, Dr Mike Yeadon deals in detail with with why every one of the NPIs don’t work & why, and show that this was known to Sir Patrick Vallance.
You’re not ever going to get your freedoms back.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-mike-yeadon-in-harm-039-s-way-the-epic-del-bigtree-interview-hd_J6TCLeDXaL85KEc.html
Who is this Boris you speak of?
He is no friend of mine.
He locked us away for a year and more
And now he’s crossed the line:
He wants our children jabbed.
He doesn’t care if some will die
He follows the Davos agenda
With lie upon lie upon lie.
I do get bored with these La La Land/zippety-dooh-dah postings about ‘Nuremberg 2’ and the like…. (and repetitious shouting of the same old same old curses at perpetrators who we know) and …. yawn ….. who don’t give a toss … yawn ….. just like the Great British Public …. yawn ….
Currently, such dreams are pure fantasy, given where most perceptions are – i.e with a vast majority believing most of the spoon-fed crap.
Then there’s the track record of ‘official’ enquiries – mainly exercises in exculpation.
There’s no virtue in pretending, when we have yet to communicate the basic fallacies underlying all this. I’ll be happy if June 21st sees a noticeable, visible growth in opposition. But, somehow I doubt the prospect.
… and just to underline the last point, my next door neighbour has just informed me that their son is off school – again. And guess why? …..
That’s another thing that evidently hasn’t changed, despite our knowledge that (a) there is practically zero real infection around and (b) that children don’t transmit it.
Don’t try to kid me that things are ‘getting back to normal’ just because fewer are wearing masks outside!
Yes, sadly i concur. Might be a slight uptick in opposition, but the early returns from my personal interactions/conversations are discouraging.
“Of course Boris can’t guarantee we’ll reopen on July 19th – how could he, when he’s delegated the decision to SAGE? And the boffins are bound to come up with another reason why it’s not “safe” to reopen then. Or, indeed, ever.
The only way we’ll get our freedoms back is if we take them back.”
Just worked that out, Toby?
We predicted this month’s ago. I worked it out last summer.
With the G7 leaders all schmoozing and having a good time in Cornwall, no masks or keeping distance when they’re not posing for a photo-ops, still think this is anything to do with CV19?
I gave Toby an in-depth briefing months ago.
I concluded he’s either a lot less bright than I thought or he’s simply unwilling to accept the possibility that this isn’t about a virus.
Obviously, it isn’t.
Same phenomenon with JHB. Just fell off communicating, I assume because she cannot accept the reality.
I find this daily, even with people I’ve been speaking to for months.
I think we’re in low single figure digits the people who realise just how much trouble we’re in, those who don’t harbour hopes it’ll all come right. It won’t.
Sanity, sanity, sanity! There were five other people, beside myself, not wearing masks in our small Waitrose this morning. Up to now I’ve been the sole warrior every time we’ve visited: I’m sure more and more people won’t accept these crappy and pointless restrictions..
This delay scare is just to get the youth vaccinated which by the way do not need. As I have had this covid, and all it was was just a bad cold. I will not be getting vaccinated. I just wish the text messages would stopcoming from my GP surgery to get a jab. And I have never worn a mask or social distanced from the start. Everyone has to live their lives without fear.
Last time I saw it reported there were over 40,000 variants of the Wuhan virus, so the useful idiots of SAGE have plenty to choose from for the next scare.
Perhaps someone could post here on the success India has had in controlling their variant since we stopped calling it the India variant in the UK, funny that their success coincided with the name change called by the ‘nothing to see here, move along’ brigade.
That’s it I have had it enough as a very well controlled asthmatic and of a certain age I have had both jabs I’m no danger to anyone and they are no danger to me so I have downloaded my mask exemption and from next Monday I will not be wearing a mask this unethical use of fear must be stopped!! There is no medical or lodgical reason to carry on with any of the Covid rules!! SAGE is now more Dangerous than Covid ever was!! So I Am Done With The Lot Of Them!!
Do you use a Budesonide inhaler? If so, make sure you’re well stocked up. Budesonide is pretty good at preventing severe Covid infection apparently.
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S2213-2600(21)00160-0/fulltext
Just set the calendar for the Friday before the next ‘decision day’, and look for another silly ‘projection’ from the Public Health & Safety wallahs. Happens every time. And remember how accurate they have been up to now.
This “take our freedom back” nonsense needs to stop. It’s the wrong mindset. We have freedom. Just live your free life. Do what you want. Show them they cannot stop you. What are they going to do?
They are certainly stopping people from getting on planes without a ‘negative Covid test’ – only £99 from those nice people at Collinson at Heathrow.
Sadly I am not surprised! Last summer when we were allowed to go on holiday without tests and isolation, the political elite dangled ‘long covid’ and lack of immunity as a reason to extend the emergency CA legislation last autumn. This year, they fear that the population will not give up their freedoms again and have to sell continued fear as being due to variants and potentially evading their beloved untested vaccinations. Hard to do if variants are not of concern right now AND the public may not be willing to give up their freedoms again.
Come next winter when we hit virus season again they probably FEAR that it will be vaccinated people who are hospitalised due to either their vaccine not being as effective as claimed (remember only circa 1% absolute effectiveness from the original trials) OR that hospitalisations don’t happen as they need them to to continue with their jab everything in sight campaign. They are probably wanting the former so that they then have an argument to support the re-jabbing to capture those escaped variants, I mean samients. If they cannot jab everyone then the digital ID becomes more difficult even if they are staging its… Read more »
When the Coronavirus Act 2020 is due to expire…
. . . or be renewed.
Quite…
Don’t expect to be released from our prison any time soon. If any of you watched the G7 you would have seen them having a wonderful time unmasked and no social distancing and no care given to their carbon footprints. Throw your masks away hug your grannies, live your lives. F**k the government!
I give up. Unless our businesses now stand strong and ignore this cruel and intimidating reset, we are going to have to create our own separate societies and businesses. The black community in Southern States America did this and became extremely wealthy, creating some of the first American millionaires and building some of the best education centres.
I started doing that in January after the announcement of the post-Xmas lockdown. Stupidly I became lax because part of me wanted to believe the ‘roadmap’ was real. Well I’ll be starting on a ‘roadmap’ of my own now, to a parallel/dissident society/economy.
Who knew this was coming…probably everyone on this site. Lockdown or restrictions of some kind is the new normal. This is what they are talking about when they say “new normal”. It goes hand in hand with coming climate policy and zero carbon. Oh and the worldwide digital wallet that was announced in Australia will come to us at some point and you will not be able to get one without the jab (gene therapy). That wallet will be the replacement for cash.
I would say that the virus hasnt been a concern of mine for well over a year. It doesn’t enter my brain. The only thing of concern are the government’s measure. I don’t live in UK but where i am we have to be vaccinated, negatively tested or recovered in order to do anything worth doing. I go to the gym every day and so end up testing everyday. fortunately the tests are free. Yet still there are only 20 cases per 100k per week. It’s total bullshit.
Went out for dinner with friends – they were completely the opposite. They only cared about the virus. It was embarrassing. Handwipes, masks, no touching -total fear. How do people become like this? Made me quite depressed. What hope is there of mass disobedience when it seems anyone who is the corporate world has been brainwashed into a fearing life.
I’m not having their toxic jab nor will I be tested. What is happening is pure Evil and I’m not participating in their dystopian wet dream.
So ‘freedom day’ is, as expected, delayed by a month.
Mark my words. During the next 2 weeks, look out for an announcement of an unexpected shortage of vaccines accompanied by a reluctant delay to ‘freedom day 2’ due to ‘risk’ from those who cannot be jabbed due to the shortage.
When are the sheep going to realise they are being played?
It seems the UK has become the epicentre of insanity. I pray those who have taken the mRNA jab will not add to their toxicity by further top ups because you are shortening your own lives!
It’s possible they won’t have much choice. If Geert VB is correct, virus mutations could effectively render the immune systems of the vaccinated defenceless.
It’s an extreme worst case scenario but there are a couple of, admittedly tiny, worrying signs. Probably nothing but it might be enough to give Johnson nightmares.
Johnson won’t have nightmares, he has no conscience.
Unless you are talking about the consequences to him if he fails to get all the population injected through force, fear and fraud.
I believe he’s controlled opposition.
His YouTube interviews weren’t deleted
Mine were within 12h
I think his warnings are fake but mimic what’s actually going to happen eg deliberate release of another virus.
When the abbatoir door closes behind them?
It never will. They’ll walk through the abbatoir (getting 3rd & subsequent jabs, then off to die at home weeks or months later).
That’s why the NHS is shut. Conditions us not to expect to go to hospital.
We’re so used to excess deaths at home, now.
Would have been a scandal two years ago.
Wellof course we knew the lockdown wouldn’t end on 21st June. Nor will it end in July, because the Outer Mongolian variant will be rife by then, with the added problem of monkeypox in Wales, and UFO landings imminent.
But of course, they are hoping this will eventually end in civil unrest when they will bring in martial law. Job done.
Martial Law…
For your own protection.
Coming to a city near you in 2021…
Johnson and his ilk are no friends of the mass of the population.
Time to delve into how they acquire their power and who funds it. Notionally it is the working man and woman, but there is clearly something else behind all this.
Take them back, Take them back, Take them back.
Otherwise we are in this game forever, and it is a game, one designed to keep Johnson free from Parliament real debate, free from democracy, free from having to actually deliver any economic growth or improvement for the Country. This state allows him to be on perpetual lazy holidays writing his book about Shakespeare, and playing King.
And the Politicians have no issue they get their 80k plus expenses per year, they don’t have to travel to London, they don’t have to deal with the constituents, they just take the cash and sit on their backsides.
I will follow the science but unlike the buffoons who lead us I did not spend my former years studying humanities. law or other arts degrees ,a seeming requisite for political power. To understand science you first need to understand that there is no absolute , to understand medicine you have to understand that every patient is their own unique biological experiment . There lack of seasonal flu this winter has demonstrated that if you isolate society it will not spread infection/- well Boris welcome to the germ theory! However we will all die and the Government cannot stop that but it can prevent us from living. No longer.!For me no masks. no social distancing . Follow the science not the fear!
Boris is in thrall to Mark Carney, and all Western leaders have volunteered to, or been forced to, buy in to this narrative.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/it-wont-be-pleasant-mark-carney-unveils-dystopian-new-world-combat-climate-crisis
Talking to my Sister-in-Law yesterday and she proclaimed that delaying was absolutely the right thing to do because there had been 12 deaths, (no idea what this referred to, her words), and it wasn’t that bad and she could still do pretty much as she liked, no real hardship, etc. I asked what the point of restrictions were, if she could already come and go as she pleased and was told it was a sensible precaution, whatever the hell that meant, and that it wouldn’t really hurt to wait a few weeks. What about businesses that have once again spent a fortune and had the rug pulled from under them? She does feel sorry for them, so that’s alright then. What makes you think it will end in 4 weeks? I asked. What if there’s another variant that runs amok and we have to delay again? How long before we start to reverse what’s already been done and pubs have to close again? Well, Boris has promised that it will be irreversible, so no more lockdowns! Ta da! I pointed out that he did say that last year, and he does have a habit of, you know, fibbing, to which… Read more »
This is my experience too, of the “pro lockdown” lot. Their lives have not significantly changed and they’re able to do as they please with the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask should they forget to order their online delivery and be forced to nip into the supermarket.
My four week prediction: the Sheffield variant will receive a lot more coverage in the press!
Exactly….our insufferable neighbours, both NHS workers apear to be loving this. A brand new electric car each, and a complete house redecoration, all funded by as much overtime as they can stomach, (bizarrely, some of which is “Worked from Home”, despite the bloke being an Ambulance driver). By far the most sickening thing though is the endless “advice” being offered by these people to fellow residents in the street on matters COVID, and the unquestioning gusto with which it is lapped upp bt those who know no better.
Make absolutely no mistake on this: it’s not just the elites that are making hay whilst people’s lives go down the pan, you can find those that are exploiting the misery of others in much more unlikely places.
Loads of NHS people are enjoying this: GPs who don’t have to get up close and personal with some pretty disgusting bodies…GP reception staff who don’t have to interact with members of the public in person…
Bozo is a pathological liar. Nothing he has claimed has proven to be true.
There you have it in one. The cosy world of the public sector worker. I am old now but if I ever met one at a party or if indeed I ever meet one now, I disentangle myself immediately knowing that I have absolutely nothing to talk to them about.