Allies of Sajid Javid are keen to point out that he will be much less “nanny state-ish” as Health Secretary than Matt Hancock has been over the past 15 months. But Javid failed his first test by ruling out unlocking the nation on July 5th and he is now accused of being unclear about whether all restrictions will be removed when ‘Freedom Day’ finally arrives.
Conservative MP Steve Baker has told Sky News that Javid has actually “worsened” the prospect of all restrictions being lifted on July 19th by being ambiguous over whether or not guidelines on social distancing and testing will end at this time.
Baker’s comments on the likelihood of Test and Trace continuing to play a large role after July 19th are particularly fitting, given that the Government has just awarded Serco and Mitie new testing contracts – worth up to £687 million collectively – to support this system. These contracts could run for up to 18 months.
The Deputy Chair of the Covid Recovery Group says that maintaining some restrictions after Step Four of the lockdown “roadmap” would risk creating a “hollow and haunted society”. Sky News has more.
Asked by Sky’s Deputy Political Editor Sam Coates whether he welcomed the fact Mr Javid described July 19th as “irreversible”, Mr Baker said the claim did not go far enough.
He said: “I am very pleased he doubled down on it, but I would just observe he has doubled down on the existing Government line to take. In fact, in a sense, he has worsened the position.
“The impression which Matt [Hancock] was happy to create in the Commons was that once we got to Step Four there would not be regulations – freedom from regulations – now that’s difficult to reconcile with what’s now going on with events with Covid certification being trialled, with social distancing and test and trace – what actually is the world going to look like when we get our freedom back?”
Mr Baker said guidance on face masks and the one-metre rule should all be removed next month to ensure businesses do not feel pressured to follow them by default…
“I’m very conscious that even voluntary measures will be interpreted by the Health and Safety Executive and businesses and could effectively be compulsory. So until the Government stops recommending these things, too many businesses will become unviable.”
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Oh quelle surprise!
‘the fact Mr Javid described July 19th as “irreversible”,…’ to me, that sounds like any new rules they bring in on July 19th will be irreversible.
I cannot decide whom Javid most resembles, Humpty Dumpty or Jabba the Hutt.
Recon the England 2-0 win maybe sorry “a game changer” come Saturday I think all rules will go as people will just congregate to watch the match have a few beers ect then oh boy if we get to the final all rules will definitely be off the fans will just go ape!! So hang in there folks we could yet be free!! As there won’t be much point after all the big matches!!!
So what about Texas, Florida, Sweden, South Korea.
There is no need to have instructions or rules on how to be free! Now is a good time to be as free as we were and as was fought for 76 years ago. In the UK that is a freedom that has been developing since 1660. We have never been this restricted in 360 years!
STOP USING LOGIC!
This is about ID cards by the backdoor and further loss of freedoms. Every ‘event’ and the noose gets tighter.
Brexit was an unexpected delay in their plans but they will still get to their goal because we all think they are benevolent.
Stand up for ACTUAL FREEDOM and liberty of the individual and society and that would give everyone the option to live their life their way. Wear a mask or don’t, that’s up to the individual.
No wonder schooling is so bad. We’re not taught we are free people and what that means.
Playing to the script…next actor in
There’s no chance of ending the lockdowns which are the umbrella for the emergency use of the experimental frankenshots. A new ‘more virulent’ strain of covid will be peddled around the middle of July. Supported by BBC propaganda Boris will pave the way for another extention to lockdowns. I.e. “this new deadlier enemy needs a new vaccine and we must all get the shot before Christsmas – so we can build back better!”.
My god this is terrible – have any of you seen this yet?
It is absolutely heartbreaking.
Are you telling me that if this was some other medication that they would not be banning it right now or of it were a widely available medicine like asprin or something that they would not be pulling this off the chemist and supermarket shelves as we speak?
We’re all supposed to be so shocked that Whitty got hassled by some mindless hooligans but that is nothing compared to what this poor soul is going through right now after being coerced into taking an experimental vaccine that is now far from safe.
Johnson, Gove, Hancock and Sage ..they all have blood on their hands as far as I’m concerned. I hope they all rot in hell – I really feel that strongly about all of this now.
Many of you may remember Shawn’s story. Here is the latest update on her story. She is now suffering from seizures. Her condition has only worsened. Her life has been completely destroyed by the vaccine. Not only is it NOT effective – it is FAR from safe.
https://twitter.com/truthbase100/status/1393769033976225792
I noticed Lineker’s hand was shaking holding the microphone tonight…probably just cold or is this another vaccination symptom? Not that he’d ever badmouth Big Pharma.
19th July is not happening. They’ve got befuddled Joe Public on a leash and there’s no way they will let him off it entirely. Baker is a joke, as are the rest of his fellow MP’s.
It’s large scale civil disobedience or perpetual slavery.
I would bet on some small concessions on the 19th to mollify the masses
But I agree with your final sentence. The beginning of a dark chapter in history
How many times can Steve Baker weep as he fails to resign the Whip? He knows he’s been fooled, Johnson knowns he’s fooled him, we know he’s been fooled, and he knows we know he’s been fooled, that’s not an unknown known, it’s a known known.
Baker weak through vanity. He shouldn’t just resign. He should resign and join the Reclaim Party. But that’s not how you get baubles and invites to No 10.
Saj was very clear we are going to build back better and bigging up Pfizer jabs for everyone who has AZ. So not looking too promising so far.
Using Build Back Better is a kind of code or perhaps Talisman, to show you are giving due obeisance to the Globalists. The general public may not know, but we, the political and media elite and the WEF themselves no the phrase originated with the WEF and is part of their Great Reset agenda. The BBC tells us anyone who believes the Great Reset is a reality is a conspiracist.
Whoops! Phonetic spelling curse!!
“Build Back Better” truly is their ‘Masonic handshake’ or the ‘One Eye Covered’ or the Hidden Hand. All hidden in plain sight; their sign of elegance to the globalist agenda. They take everything opportunity to use it and still no one sees it for what it is: a call of arms for The Great Reset.
The time for talking is over. It’s time for walking. Walking to see your friends, families and loved ones. Stand up and see these crooks placed behind bars.
Meanwhile, JP gives us the low-down on stabbing yourself with a knife: very safe and thoroughly tested!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_kwFKAmd8M
The problem is Johnson.
It’s hard to know which are lockdown true believers and which are just going along with it. They are all guilty. Hancock seemed like a fanatic, so does Gove, but they all trot out the same rubbish. But yes, I think Johnson has to go for us to get out of this. But he won’t. I can see no plausible scenario in which the govt admit they got it wrong, and they will probably be re-elected.
The problem is the system. If we had a system where we had Referenda that could be called via petition, this would al have been ended by June last year.
At least Steve Baker recognises that unless and until freedom is restored pdq they’ll be far worse incidents than people accosting congenitally arrogant wimps like Whitty in a park.
Don’t kid yourself.
But when are MPs like Steve Baker going to find the cajones to stand up to the government, even to the point of resigning the whip? Unless they are willing to do this, all this talk is hot air.
Jabbit looks like The Hood in the original Thunderbirds TV series. I keep expecting his eyes to light up.
As I have said before I think the only option, and it’s a high risk one, is for the Tory rebels to threaten to bring the govt down – vote against everything, not just the covid stuff. But the probable outcome is that they would lose their seats and we would have an even less sceptical parliament as there is no serious anti-lockdown party established at national level that would the machinery to gain any seats.
I suppose it’s possible if enough of them resigned the whip that more would follow, but the govt will always be able to count on Labour, SNP and Lib Dem votes for any lockdown measures.
I see no sign amongst Tory or Labour MPs of any mass revolt.
Let’s face it – if they went along with the government in the last vote, they are beyond redemption or even sense.
It’s possible some are shy sceptics, have gone along it with but are changing their minds, feel uncomfortable, think the public mood is changing, and if the declared sceptics break ranks then they might be emboldened to join them. But I admit it’s a faint hope.
Bingo! I was wondering what the horrid little man reminded me of.
The twelfth of never, I guess.
Look at what famous standup-comedian George Carlin said about our immune systems, viruses, and society 20 years ago! https://youtu.be/X29lF43mUlo
That’s great! and he was so right!
hahaha so funny, this is probably why Hancock was replaced….he probably didnt want to keep doing it… else it will be his beheading down the line when this thing is done… people still think there is going to be a peaceful pacific ending to this thing…it will end but it will get uglier first
When is the lightbulb going to click that cases don’t matter when there is no danger of having the virus?
Seriously WTF?
Click with whom? I think the government know this very well.
Having the illness, you mean.
Same shit, different shovel.
All planned init. Steve Baker is naive and about as much use to ‘we the people’ as a soggy paper plate. It’s time for MPs like him to grow up and get real.
Agreed.. I have great difficulty imagining Steve Baker crushing a grape..
He’d cry as he did it, but still fail.
As I said when he was appointed, he has never voted against any of the restrictions, he has voted along with the Government on everything.
People must now rebel, stop doing the tests, stop wearing the mask, screw the track and trace, they cannot imprison us all, these despots need to be overthrown and shown for what they are. Killers.
Agreed wholeheartedly but… If only!
What I find interesting is that Matt Hancock was acting like a ‘dead man walking’ weeks before the images of his affair were released…
Invasion of the Country Snatchers.
And body snatchers. .
My body, your coerced snake oil.
Quite justifiably. It’s misinformation : there is absolutely no pleasure to be gained from him.
Quelle surprise!
Wankers will be tossers.
Meet the new psychopath, same as the old psychopath.
I don’t wish to cause unnecessary alarm to Chris but that sort of behaviour is de rigueur in prison shower blocks
Just saying
Curious to know exactly why Baker is piping up now. Not sure what has changed. There were always weasel words about “freedom day” and we have known for a long time by the govts own admission that track and trace and travel restrictions were continuing. There was always going to be a separate review about large crowds, masks, and WFH guidance. I wonder if Baker knows something we don’t about the specifics of the plan?
“Curious to know exactly why Baker is piping up now.”
Yes – he’s a bit of a slippery character.
Hang on … I mean not that different from the rest, but putting more money on the ‘two ends against the middle’ tactic.
It will be a case soon that the SAS will have a full time job protecting all these globalist lunatics from the general public. Witless had gentle horseplay compared to what i hope is coming to these scum one day.
Yes and all this drama coming during the period we’re talking about restoring freedom. First we get Madcock joining celebrities in gossip rags with his very suspicious affair, then Witless gets accosted and all caught on camera again. The media love portraying the Gollum creature as victim to the public when it’s the other way round.
It certainly is…
Chris Whitty gave the order to give alleged Covid-19 patients lethal doses of Hydroxychloroquine to both kill them and sabotage trials
Murder by Whitty and those that acted upon his orders.
Don’t compare him to Gollum, please. There was a shred of decency hidden deep within Gollum.
And Gollum had a useful purpose – which was to take the Ring of Power with him when he fell into the pit of fire at Mount doom.
Good old Smeagol.
Yes, Sauron might be nearer the mark, or perhaps Saruman for those who betrayed us.
And then there’s Witless Wormtongue, of course.
Here here
What was Witless doing in the park on Sunday evening? Were they spooks protecting him from being filmed in flagrante?
A bit of cottaging maybe.. its what these people do for entertainment.. ask Tony.. he knows..
‘We used to call him Miranda.’ Because he was wet? ‘No, no, he wasn’t called Miranda because he was wet, ducky!’ Clarissa guffaws impatiently. ‘Remember that scene in The Tempest when Miranda sees the sailors? Well then. He got on conspicuously well with all the male junior clerks. Everybody knew it.’ But he’s married now, I say. ‘So are a lot of people.’
Dogging…?
Cottaging?
Engaging in homosexual acts with strangers in a public toilet. 🙂
Remember Mr & Mrs Causcescu
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“the SAS will have a full time job protecting all these globalist lunatics”
What gives you that impression? I see no revolt – quite the reverse. People en masse still support the basic narrative, even when somewhat sceptical about the execution.
Interesting version of the Witless “assault” on hugotalks.com
I don’t agree with what happened to Witless, though I understand the frustration and completely agree with their view of him, but have you seen the Express headline? Calling him a Covid hero! The man lies to our faces and wages psychological war on the people of Britain and this rag is calling him a hero. Things like this make me wonder if there’s any hope of getting anywhere near back to ‘normal’.
My thoughts are that the incident was staged to elicit some public sympathy towards poor Witless who has worked so hard in his endeavours, alongside his accomplices, to save lives.
If so, it was lost on me. No sympathy vote off me for what he’s done and continues to do. The weirdo.