“You Can’t Run Society Purely to Stop the Hospitals Being Full” – Cabinet Member Jacob Rees-Mogg Says Lockdowns Must End

Leader of the House of Commons and member of Boris Johnson's Government Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that the Government must stop taking charge of people's lives "purely to prevent them seeing the doctor".

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Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that the Government must stop taking charge of people’s lives “purely to prevent them seeing the doctor”. Speaking to Conservative Home, the Tory MP said:

Ultimately the NHS is there to serve the British people, not the British people there to serve the NHS. And therefore – we may need to spend more money on hospitals – but you can’t run society purely to stop the hospitals being full otherwise you’d never let us get in our cars and drive anywhere or do any of the other things that people want to do.

So there has to be some proportionality within that, that the Government doesn’t have the right to take charge of people’s lives purely to prevent them seeing the doctor.

Actually otherwise we’d never be allowed in our kitchens would we, where a disproportionate number of accidents in the home take place, or our bathrooms, so we’d become very hungry and very smelly on that basis.

This is one of the first signals of discontent among members of the Government about the interminable lockdowns the U.K has experienced since March 2020. Let’s hope more of the genuine liberals and conservatives in the Government will come out against lockdowns and the emerging public health tyranny.

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andyb99
andyb99
5 years ago

The traitor still voted with his master. Full of bullshit..

OKUK
OKUK
5 years ago

If you have an ounce of honour left in you JRM, it’s time to resign.

caipirinha17
caipirinha17
5 years ago

Likely he’s starting to feel it in the pocket. Nonetheless it’s an extra voice for ending lockdown.

Credible Threat
Credible Threat
5 years ago

Then he needs to join the CRG.

Jacob is too much of a Tory stalwart and too trusting of Boris. He needs to remember it is Party first and Leader second.

ellie-em
ellie-em
5 years ago

Looks like Hancock is determined the uninjected will not overpower his accomplice Organization, the NHS!

https://richieallen.co.uk/hancock-we-have-no-duty-of-care-at-all-to-vaccine-refuseniks/

He has suggested – No vax, no treatment. His statement was supported by Angela Leadsom.

No dissent in the chamber, it seems.

They are all in it, together.

Conservative Government – spelt Corrupt, capital C.

Trojan House
Trojan House
5 years ago

This is no longer about “flattening the curve” to protect hospitals from overflowing.

Guirme
Guirme
5 years ago

The “I” is reporting Gove as making similar “this can’t continue” comments. This is beginning to look very interesting. I believe that Gove would only step out of line if he saw personal advantage in so doing which to me suggests that he is spotting weakness in Johnson and a turning of the tide in public opinion; Does Gove see an opportunity to succeed Johnson? This is not about whether you like Gove or Rees-Mogg its about escaping from the miserable existence imposed on us by Johnson and his coterie of mad fools. To me Johnson is reminiscent of Hitler in his bunker at the end of the war hearing only what he wants to here and ignoring reality. I believe we have now entered the lockdown endgame.

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
5 years ago
Reply to  Guirme

Very interesting suggestion

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
5 years ago
Reply to  Guirme

And Gove does have previous for shafting Bozo

Hester
Hester
5 years ago

Iused to have some respect for this man, no longer, having witnessed his complete silence whilst millions have suffered over the past year and a half, having watched him sit by and allow blatant lies, threats and psychological games be played on the population and he as a “devout catholic”, has done nothing, said nothing, voted with the Government on everything I class him in the same boat as Hancock, and Gove and the rest of them. He does not get to play the pleae stop it now card, he has facilitated all this by his silence

stevie
stevie
5 years ago

But he will vote with the government for lockdown to be extended.

Monro
Monro
5 years ago

Mr Rees Mogg, where have you been while the rest of the cabinet and their acolytes have been ‘swanking about in footer bags’?

JohnK
JohnK
5 years ago
Reply to  Monro

Probably somewhere where he doesn’t pay tax, nor having to shell out for the shambles over here.

enlighteneduk
enlighteneduk
5 years ago

The government is absolutely to blame but so are the masses for falling for their lies. 71% approve of the extended lockdown? Ye Gods, how did the human race survive this long? – if they can be manipulated in a matter of weeks, into a trembling morass of compliant, obedient sheep like the lorry full of bleating fat lambs, as it passed my place ten minutes ago, taking them to the slaughterhouse.

leicestersq
leicestersq
5 years ago

You have to wonder. Has he only just started to wake up?

A state mandated lockdown was never necessary. The government could have left it to individuals and businesses to decide their own strategy and mandated nothing. That way those who wanted to stay at home could do so, and the rest of us could have gotten on with our lives.

What I would like to know is did he just come to this conclusion, or has he been ‘allowed’ to express it at last?

baboon
baboon
5 years ago

Go to the Conservative Party website and what do you see?

https://www.conservatives.com/

Build Back Better.

If anyone thinks the Tories are anything other than henchmen for Billie Boy and Klaus at this point, you may need to see a shrink.

Hugh
Hugh
5 years ago
Reply to  baboon

Yes. I understand they were pushing build back better at the G7 summit as an alternative to China’s belt and road. How worried should we be?

Hugh
Hugh
5 years ago

I saw a bunch of people rock climbing today. Maybe they should ban that too, just in case…

Richy_m_99
Richy_m_99
5 years ago

IF they had spent all the billions that have been wasted on track and trace, useless PPE andvface masks and mass testing of millions a week we could have had an NHS service capable of dealing with anything.

Instead, we were told that there was no cure for covid, they closed the hospitals causing a backlog that will cost further billions, and spent further billions on a vaccine that would not have been needed if they had given everyone a packet of zinc acetate supplement, doxycycline and invermectin tablets, which could undoubtedly be supplied in bulk for less than £5 per head.

https://ziverdo-kit.com/product/ziverdo-kit/

stevie
stevie
5 years ago
Reply to  Richy_m_99

Cheaper here:
https://www.rxindia.com/medicines/medicines-by-therapeutic-class/covid-19/ziverdo-kit/

From India BUT it now requires a prescription (didn’t used to)

Liam
Liam
5 years ago

He described that repulsive Lavrenti Beria impersonator O’Brien as doing a great job. Snake.

Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
5 years ago
Reply to  Liam

Correct.

Liam
Liam
5 years ago

I don’t trust that rancid fake as far as I could spit out a live rat.

Liam
Liam
5 years ago
Reply to  Liam

Ooh, a downtick. Yeah the pretend defender of liberty Jacob Mogadon is going to ride to the rescue as soon as he gets out of his coma.

Hawkins_94
Hawkins_94
5 years ago

Is anyone going to do anything about care home workers being forced to get the jab? NHS workers soon to follow and my wife is one such person…I am deeply, deeply troubled by this move

String
String
5 years ago
Reply to  Hawkins_94

I have seen several posts from Dr’s online the last year or so in various places, inc. one posted on this site (somewhere) from a GP who had been in regular contact with Sir Graham Brady. Many have said they will not get the jab because it will not prevent covid transmission, nor is it even designed to prevent covid transmission, per the BMJ: “None of the trials currently under way are designed to detect a reduction in any serious outcome such as hospital admissions, use of intensive care, or deaths. Nor are the vaccines being studied to determine whether they can interrupt transmission of the virus.”
Seems like a pretty important distinction to me!
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037

Hugh
Hugh
5 years ago
Reply to  String

Is that the doctor from Timperley health centre (the name’s bee on here before, so noy giving anything away)?

Either way, it’s a disgraceful decision to coerce care home workers, and potentially health care workers. One thing is certain, they will lose some jolly good, caring staff if they go through with this madness (causing untold suffering to them and those they would have cared for).. These sort of crooks though have shown with adoption agencies that they don’t care what harm they do if something fits their wider agenda.

eastender53
eastender53
5 years ago
Reply to  String

One would have to ask WTF.the trials are ‘designed to detect’ then?

stevie
stevie
5 years ago
Reply to  eastender53

WTF was the consultation for if they intended to make it compulsory anyway?

WeWantEvidence
WeWantEvidence
5 years ago
Reply to  eastender53

The trials were designed to determine if the “vaccines” reduced the severity of the disease, thus if you are more or less likely to die if you get it. The Pfizer one determined a relative reduction in risk of something like 94% but in fact the ABSOLUTE risk reduction was 0.8% for that dataset.

It does appear that the jabs reduce transmission by “up to 50%” but they are FAR from being 100% sterilising vaccines. So not much better than flu shots and FAR more harmful because the “spike” protein that they cause your cells to make is pathogenic and neurotoxic just as the virus’s spike protein is pathogenic and neurotoxic.

The mRNA and Adenovirus-vectored DNA technologies MIGHT be a real breakthrough in disease control, but YEARS of research and testing are needed before they can be called “safe and efficacious”.

JohnK
JohnK
5 years ago
Reply to  WeWantEvidence

And there’s an element of fraud to call the products “vaccines” at all, partly taking advantage of popular misunderstanding, and weaseling round the safety assessment protocols for brand new drugs etc, and taking advantage of the declaration of an “emergency” to make it happen.

leicestersq
leicestersq
5 years ago
Reply to  Hawkins_94

I hope that someone organises something. A court case should be sufficient as the Nuremberg code is utterly clear that what is proposed is illegal. Trouble is the courts are there to protect those in power, not the little man/woman.

Hugh
Hugh
5 years ago
Reply to  leicestersq

“Supreme” courts? thankyou very much, mr blair

monica coyle
monica coyle
5 years ago
Reply to  Hawkins_94

Regarding being forced to take the jab, I heard this yesterday: a friend was in A&E last week. In the bed beside him was an elderly, rather unkempt man, snoring heavily and on painkillers. At about 4.30am two nurses crept over to the snoring man and moments later, my friend heard one of them say, ‘Which one did you give him?’ The other nurse replied. ‘The Pfizer one.’
Note, this was in Hungary, not Britain. But nevertheless, alarming behaviour and totally unethical.

I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
5 years ago

Has he just woke up ?

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Anonymous
Anonymous
5 years ago

Its about time that Jacob Rees Mogg wrote a stiff letter to the Times.

This has gone on long enough.

I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
5 years ago

No sh it Sherlock.

Where have you been hiding for the past 15 months ?

court
court
5 years ago

Where the hell has he been?

Cranmer
Cranmer
5 years ago

I used to have a great deal of respect for Mr Rees-Mogg, and was disappointed by his silence.

Then again, I used to have a lot of respect for Bozo, so I’m probably not a very astute political commentator.

I do think Mr Rees-Mogg’s religious faith might be his saving grace though. It’s always good for an MP to have an alternative master to the devil, even if it’s the Vatican.

peyrole
peyrole
5 years ago
Reply to  Cranmer

Crikey, Johnson got married in a Catholic church for a reason, Rees-Mogg being a left-footer is no ‘saving grace’.
The continuing deference to the ‘toffs’ in the UK is a stark reminder why the country is in its present mess.

MadJock1
MadJock1
5 years ago

“you’d never let us get in our cars and drive anywhere or do any of the other things that people want to do.” I think you will find that this is precisely the intention of this entire shit show from day one. All part of the great green reset as sponsored by the WEF and their good friend MrG.

idiot_masses
idiot_masses
5 years ago

Bullshit. Only saying it because it’s popular. Remember when he was bigging up that fascist Neil O Brien?

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/01/27/conservatives-divided-scourge-of-lockdown-sceptics-neil-obrien-mp-receives-government-backing/

Never forgive, never forget.

Hugh
Hugh
5 years ago
Reply to  idiot_masses

that’s the comment I was thinking of, shocking and distasteful
“_People should be held to account for what they say”. Quite. And there was no second wave, just respiratory deaths fairly close to seasonal norms, increased by the “vaccine” roll out apparently.

Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
5 years ago
Reply to  idiot_masses

I had forgotten that. Thank you for the reminder

dismalswamp
dismalswamp
5 years ago

He’s far too late of course, but late is always better than never.
Suspect he realizes that de Pfeffel is finished and is possibly looking at a leadership challenge in the not too distant future.

BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
5 years ago

I wish I had a quarter for every story I’ve read saying that the hospitals were being “over-run” or soon would be. Has one hospital in the world actually been “over-run?” Were any patients put on the streets anywhere?

In my town, our hospital was a ghost town for most of the pandemic. Hospitals are going under because they didn’t have enough paying patients.

SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
5 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

No they were never overrun in the conventional sense. They got their knickers in a twist though by the ridiculous policies of social distancing, testing, contract tracing, isolation, etc which meant they didn’t have enough staff or space. But don’t fear, they got through it by just closing most of their services for other patients. They probably didn’t really need treatment anyway.

Milo
Milo
5 years ago

yes – all those cancer patients. ABSOLUTE DISGRACE

primesinister
primesinister
5 years ago

so what doesnt change our current predicament bla bla bla

DanClarke
DanClarke
5 years ago

Get the MP’s back to work, Johnson was all over at the G7, covid is less of a threat than this dictatorship Johnson is running. They need to be back, debating at least doing something for their salary, my MP stopped communicating over a year ago, not seen since.

Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
5 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Go round to his house? Where can they be hiding?

JayBee
JayBee
5 years ago

JRM, the useful idiot, who is now very obviously not a part of the inner circle of the Great Resetters and depopulationers.
Poor sod, he likely even had the real gene therapy instead of the saline solution that the Royals, Johnson, Hancock, Gove, Starmer, Blair&co got.

RickH
RickH
5 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Forget the ‘useful’ bit.

Hugh
Hugh
5 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Course he’s not a depopulationer, he’s Catholic (though admittedly that doesn’t explain blair

eastender53
eastender53
5 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

Blair is not a Catholic. He lied (surely not) to get his kids into a better school. If he was a true Catholic the knowledge of what awaits him would have driven him mad by now………hang on a minute!

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
5 years ago
Reply to  eastender53

Wife’s Catholic, not Bliar.

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