- “Everything you need to know about our post-lockdown rules” – The Daily Mail on the rules that are expected to be put in place on July 19th
- “‘Stronger’ Covid restrictions could be needed in autumn and winter” – Freshly published SAGE papers show that ministers were urged to keep restrictions, such as face masks, in place, according to the Telegraph, rather than allow for a “Big Bang” in lifting restrictions
- “Boris says self isolation for double-jabbed must stay for now” – Boris Johnson said that while he intends to lift the requirement to self-isolate for those who’ve received both jabs, it will not happen on July 19th, according to the MailOnline
- “Could cautious firms keep masks and distancing permanently?” – MailOnline warns that many cautious businesses could force their staff to wear face masks and observe social distancing after “Freedom Day”, for fear of outbreaks and compensation claims
- “Britain should not give out third doses until other nations are jabbed” – Oxford University’s Sir Andrew Pollard says Britain “hasn’t got the evidence” another shot will be needed to bolster immunity, MailOnline reports, pointing out that there were still relatively few cases among the vaccinated.
- “Train bosses say social distancing not always possible” – Transport for Wales has said that as passenger demand increases, social distancing “will not always be possible” during busy times, the BBC reports
- “Manchester University sparks backlash with plan to keep lectures online” – More than 3,000 students have signed a petition against Manchester University which has said it wants to keep lectures online in perpetuity with no reduction in tuition fees, the Guardian reports
- “Businesswoman bans holidaymakers who have had Covid vaccine” – Businesswoman Sharon Girardi has banned people who have had the Covid jab from her holiday cottages, MailOnline reports, claiming they are a health risk to other customers and are causing pet deaths
- “How long does Covid immunity really last?” – According to the Telegraph, new research suggests that the vaccines may provide immunity for at least two years
- “Victims of serious crime forced to wait 18 months for justice” – The Telegraph sets out how social distancing rules and the lockdowns have led to long delays in the justice process
- “Headteacher slams parents for holidaying with isolating kids amid class closures” – The headteacher of East Crompton St James’s CE Primary School in Oldham has written to parents urging them to follow the rules and to report law breakers to the police, according to the Manchester Evening News
- “It’s time for NHS contact tracing to ping off” – “Little wonder people are ignoring Test and Trace,” says Libby Purves in the Times, “when its punitive rules confine the healthy and cripple businesses”
- “How bad will the third wave be?” – “The vaccines have forced the virus to switch its focus onto the young, who are much better equipped to resist it,” says Professor Phillip Thomas in the Spectator. “Although the pandemic is not over, the sting in its tail has been drawn”
- “Sturgeon has no credibility on Covid” – “As Scotland is named coronavirus capital of Europe, the First Minister must take responsibility for her failings,” writes Stephen Daisley in the Scottish Mail
- “Are we heading for another Covid U-turn? There are reasons to be apprehensive” – The Telegraph’s Paul Nuki examines the data that could be used to justify a U-turn on the July 19th unlocking
- “The terrifying truth is that millions do not want lockdown ever to end” – “We’re entering the early stages of a new culture war pitting freedom-lovers against proponents of Zero Covid,” says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph
- “Sadiq Khan must resist to pandering hysterical mask enthusiasts” – Maintaining compulsory face covering on the tube would “set a tone that is far from conducive to the restoration of optimism and confidence”, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph
- “What were you thinking Boris,” – Writing for MailOnline, Dan Wootton attacks the decision to award the George Cross to the NHS as a “major folly”
- “My shamefully silent Church” – As football terraces sing out, UnHerd’s Giles Fraser laments that in church “the voice of praise has mostly fallen silent. Cowed by a desire to be overly compliant with every jot and tittle of Government instruction”
- “Lockdown lessons from America” – Alan D. Miller, co-founder of Open For All, reminds us in Spiked that U.S. States that imposed harsh restrictions fared no better than those that didn’t
- “Exit Hancock, pursued by catastrophe” – Daniel Miller expects no “fundamental shift in strategy” from Hancock’s replacement, he says in the Conservative Woman, merely “a shift in tactics”
- “Covid vaccines: not merely dangerous, but rubbish” – “If society has to be permanently restructured, people who are not at risk vaccinated, and booster jabs given every few months for it to work against a virus with an IFR of 0.15%, then the vaccine can’t be much use,” writes Harry Dougherty in the Conservative Woman
- “Professor Neil Ferguson replies to email – ‘Thanks. Filed under ‘Vaccination (nutters)’” – At the Unity News Network, David Clews reports on some correspondence he and one of his readers have had with Neil Ferguson
- “Thanks for nothing!” – “I refuse now to clap or thank, as I refused to in 2020, any aspect of the NHS,” writes Roger Watson, responding to “Thank You Day” in the Unity News Network
- “Healthy 13 year-old dies in sleep after getting jab” – Hugo Talks tells the story of 13 year-old Michigan boy, Jacob Clynick, who died in his sleep a few days after receiving his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine
- “Why We Must Halt the Global Roll-Out Now” – Cardiologist Peter McCullough joins Dan Astin Gregory to talk about his ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the safety profile of the vaccines. On Odysee now after it was deleted by YouTube
- “Spain restricts nightlife as virus surges among the young” – Some Spanish regions are reinstating curbs on nightlife only weeks after dropping them, Euronews reports
- “Luxembourg’s PM taken to hospital after testing positive for COVID-19” – Euronews reports that Xavier Bettel has been taken to hospital “as a precaution” a week after testing positive for coronavirus, and is undergoing further tests
- “Germany worried about COVID-19 vaccination ‘no shows’” – Mario Czaja, head of the Berlin Red Cross, has expressed her disquiet that 5%-10% of people were skipping their vaccines appointments, Reuters reports, saying that it is having a “massive effect on Berlin’s vaccination coverage”
- “New Canada-U.S. border rules for fully-vaccinated land travellers now in effect” – Canadian citizens and permanent residents who are fully vaccinated are permitted to cross the land border from the U.S., the Post Millennial reports, with no further requirements for testing or quarantines
- “How College Covid Vaccine Mandates Put Students In Danger” – With 520 of America’s 5,300 colleges and universities requiring students to be fully vaccinated before they return to class, the Federalist argues that the excessively narrow definition for medical exemptions puts many students at unnecessary risk
- “Why Did Donald Trump Take a Covid Route So Damaging to Trump?” – “Trump initially began his journey as a person who wanted to keep the virus out of the U.S., like a bad import,” writes Jeffrey Tucker in Real Clear Markets, and that, he says, is where the former President started to go wrong in his response to Covid
- “Lockdown hardship hits Dhaka’s rickshaw pullers again” – The closure of offices and Government buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh has lead to a heavy drop in income for the city’s rickshaw pullers, the Dhaka Tribune reports
- “Covid cases force Japanese officials to reconsider fans at Olympics” – As Delta Covid cases continue to grow in Japan, the Financial Times reports that the Japanese Government is coming under pressure to reverse course on allowing spectators at the forthcoming Olympic Games
- “Don’t sing in church, not even for a livestream says New South Wales” – New guidance issued in New South Wales says churches should not have any singing, even for a livestream from an otherwise empty building, according to Eternity News, in order to protect anyone providing technical assistance
- “Asking vaccinated New Yorker’s why they’re wearing masks outside” – Fleccas Talks goes out and about in the streets of New York to try to find out why some vaccinated New Yorker’s are continuing to wear masks
- “Tech Censorship, The Value of Conversation, and Covid Treatments” – Bret Weinstein joins Megyn on the Megyn Kelly Show to talk about the ramifications of tech censorship and the obligation to truth as well as Covid vaccines and treatments
- “If we spend the rest of our lives living in fear of a disease that is under control – I give up!” – Neil Oliver greeted yesterday’s announcements with weary scepticism, and says “it’s only a matter of time” before we are back in some form of lockdown
- “The Prime Minister confirmed today that Covid ‘contingency measures’ exist for the autumn/winter” – Covid Recovery Group Chair Mark Harper MP pointed out in Parliament yesterday that emergency powers will remain in place after July 19th, in case they’re needed
The Prime Minister confirmed today that Covid “contingency measures” exist for the autumn/winter
— Mark Harper (@Mark_J_Harper) July 5, 2021
Even if it’s ‘just’ guidance, for many businesses their insurance policies will give guidance the effect of legal restrictions
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Very few people ‘work for the government’. But around 6 million are employed by the government. There is a far from subtle difference.
‘The government’ includes everyone who works for an organisation with a .gov.uk website or e-mail address – many work for the government.
I had a run in with the leader of our unitary authority council over this. He blamed ‘the government’ for something – maybe the number of potholes in the roads, I’m not sure. I pointed out he is part of the government. If he has to spend more on repairing potholes (or whatever the issue was) he has to raise more in local government tax or reduce spending on stuff that is optional to balance the books.
I also wish I’d pointed out that the frequency of potholes developing has not really changed. What’s changed is the willingness to repair them in good time.
How much does his authority waste on DEI? How much is wasted on global warming bullshit? How much on propaganda to gloss over their failure? And how many are paid out of taxpayers money to be full time union employees?
1) Way too much.
2) Far too much.
3) Even more too much.
4) Far too many.
In fact – if you add in all the fake charities and fake businesses also used by ‘the government’ it is about 8.0 to 8.5 million people ‘working’ for the government, aka they are all tax consumers. Out of those, maybe 2.5m are doing something vaguely productive – like teachers and medic, but we all know that both education and medical services need to be de-nationalised then we could see who was actually productive and the rest could find something else to do.
Terrible as she has no doubt been for our economy, decades of policies by Tories and Labour have surely contributed – mass immigration of low quality human capital (economically speaking), an overgrown welfare state, high government spending, high taxes, over-regulation, high energy prices, “covid” lockdowns, tolerance and encouragement of wokeness leading to inefficient hiring, DEI and CSR timewasting, laziness, a less motivated workforce and inappropriate education, encouraging useless degrees over apprenticeships.
“Tories”
Tories disappeared with Thatcher. Sadly.
The gang currently calling themselves “Tories” have been more left wing than a Corbyn Wet Dream. And the Socialists think the answer to problems caused by the “Tories” is more Socialism. You couldn’t make it up.
Indeed. Fake Conservatives.
TINOs
True but the idiot Sushi – running scared of The Messiah of Farage Limited – dashed to defeat in the polls just as things were actually making a tiny improvement due to nothing his government had actually done. And then along came Rachel from Accounts and her endless droning on about how bad things were and so things got worse. And then we had her budget which finished everything off. Inflation has to rise this month as all her additional charges on doing business come into effect as well as a third hike in the cost of energy when last April it went down.
What went round, comes round…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpKz54bxXu
…Chancellor Dennis Healey booed at the 1976 Labour Party Conference for advocating spending cuts.
Three months later, enter the IMF whom Healey could then conveniently blame for being forced to bring in the spending cuts he’d known were inevitable all along.
All theatre – Stand by for the next Act, although I somehow doubt this time round Theeves and Sir Two-Tier have nous to know what their globalist overseers’ script dictates next.
The intention is to sell off this country bit by bit via the major players – IMF, BIS, and of course Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street etc.
The aim… “You will own nothing and like it.”
Trump and Brexit will be blamed.
Always the plan. The globalists need to satisfy two main objectives in order to usher in a new economic and societal model – 1) destroy society – destroy the family, dilute nationalism, damage supply chains, and engage in the age old tactic of divide and conquer 2) collapse the economy – basically, spend, spend, spend.
None of this is incompetence, quite the opposite.
Exactly. As I have been commenting.
I have been commenting on here for the best part of five years and virtually from the off I have declared that the government of the day, Tories included, intended to destroy the country economically. Sadly this is rapidly coming true.
It is with sadness that I read about Morrisons closing their cafes. The one two minutes’ walk down the road from where I used to live in Bramley (Leeds Swinnow Road) until August last year was always busy and although almost certainly operating as a loss leader, it was a hub for many. Many of whom were poor families and depended, in a sense, on the free meals for kids.
Reeves was “my” MP, Leeds West. May she hang her head in shame. Ha, pigs might fly.
“her head in shame” is superfluous.
True.
You beat me to it!
It is the people who own the Labour party and, as a result, got the obscene pay rises that really grate for me. The public whine continuously that our railways are so expensive to use without questioning that we pay our train drivers twice as much as continental Europe does. No other rail network comes close to the pay rate of the UK and then they have the gall to blame privatisation. And who were amongst the first for Labour’s largesse, yes the already overpaid train drivers.
I am more than ever convinced that Rachel from complaints handed out the largesse to cement in a solid 20% Labour vote, recognising that their voter basis is nearly nonexistent. With that 20% in the bag – and it is – their strategy is to dice for another 10% which, with 3 or 4 parties in play will see them returned, if successful. We need to get rid of at least half the Whitehall bureaucrats and automate the trains and tube. Technologically, it wouldn’t be difficult and would save a fortune. But Labour won’t do it.
In Brighton, bus drivers are paid around £36,000 pa, roughly half as much as train drivers although driving a bus is far more arduous.
A bus driver 1) has to stop and start every minute or two, 2) has to deal with the public, 3) takes money and gives change, 4) has to steer the bus and avoid other cars. In common with a train driver they both start and stop the vehicle at stations. But what does a train driver do that a bus driver doesn’t?
In summary, train drivers get double the pay for far less work. They’re VERY overpaid.
I Don’t know where you live but it’s been a long time since bus drivers took money and gave change in London. I always assumed that train drivers were paid so well because they have responsibility for hundreds of passengers
Not just any incompetence, Labour class war incompetence.
Student Union level incompetence.
“… the thriving economy she inherited from the Tories means…”
Thriving compared to what? Thriving like a drowning man coming up the last time for air!
The economy was anything but thriving prior to the Marxist-Socialist Government the idiot population inflicted on itself – Rachel from accounts is just delivering the coup de grâce.
It’s the 1970s re-run. Only those not paying attention – the majority – dudit see it coming… bin-men’s strikes, greedy public sector workers getting overpaid and striking anyway, the rich fleeing, businesses shutting down. All we need is power cuts… being arranged it seems.
This distinction between Labour and Tory is part of the psy op. They are all what are called neocons when it comes to geopolitics and in the economic sphere they are neoliberals. Neoconservatism represents a distinct philosophy and neoliberalism has its own distinct nasty mechanisms. These strains of thought are as far away from the interests of the general population as it is possible to be. It is very naive to think that these parties are what they say they are on the tin. Just ignore anyone who even thinks in these terms.
There is no point worrying about money. If you aren’t a very big player or a very clever person then you are going to be screwed. Heaven’s sake it has been happening in slow motion for decades.In the end they cut your head off. If there is no way to affect that world from your perspective then why even bother mentioning it.
You can put it into precious metals.But I would recommend keeping about £3000 in cash for the period of the collapse. During that period cash will be king and banking won’t be working. Obviously at some point cash will cease to have meaning but you need to keep a bit active. That is why the banks don’t like you taking it out.
Entirely predictable. Reeves repeated 14 years of Tory Austerity. Spending cuts plus tex increases.
Austerity always produces the opposite effect of that the idiots who use it expect. It drives the economy deeper into recession which also increases borrowing because 1) tax revenue is less because people are making less money and 2) higher state benefits payment to all the people laid off and 3) less money circulating in the economy because of spending cuts – which also reduces tax revenues..
It is well and long known – except to the Germans and the G20 whom the Germans persuaded to adopt Austerity in 2010.
Cameron and Osborne and every PM and Chancellor since have repeated the same lunacy.
The end result is that instead of reducing the deficit by Austerity it increases every year so that the national debt increased from £900 Bn under Gordon Brown’s Labour government to over £2.7 trillion under the Tories – achieved in just 14 years.
We don’t deserve morons for politicians and for running the country but that is what we have.
The EU economy 17 years ago was worth 90% of the US economy. Now it is worth only 65%. All because of Austerity.
Morons, morons, morons.
All predictable and all known. So how is it our western politicians are so dumb?
Norway has been sensible. Better move there. They have no national debt and a 2 trillion fund saved up from their oil revenues saved up as a contingency to plan for when the oil runs out.
Erm – our politicians didn’t think of that one – they just kept spending money the country does not have.
We are back to the position we were in just after WWII but with no industry to rebuild the economy.
Basically screwed.
Last to leave the country please turn the lights out.
Oh, no need to bother. Ed Minibrain is making sure we can’t afford to turn them on.
Q. What is the difference between this set of comments and the equivalent on the Telegraph, Mail or Express websites?
A. There isn’t one.
– which is a bit of a sad comment on the readership attracted to the Daily Sceptic.
Have we all seen that clip of Reeves and her little red Budget case walking along from Dowing Street to a black car?—-It is straight out of the “Ministry of Silly Walks”. Take a look at a world growth graph somewhere and you will find that for the last 20 years silly countries like us that all indulge in this phony planet saving eco socialism that removes affordable energy DESTROY GROWTH. Many countries in Africa are growing faster than us and it as all down to this debt ridden huge government full of omnipotent busy bodies that cannot spend our money fast enough, and usually on total crap like carbon capture and breakfasts for children at school.
Small but important point. No public sector employer or employee ‘pays’ any tax or national insurance at all. All those deductions are an accounting fiction. It is (our) money going round in circles. All of it is incident on the real taxpayer in wealth creating private business. That is no public sector employee makes any net contribution to the national treasury. They are all overhead.
It was immediately obvious that Rachel-from-Accounts had created a Stagflation Budget. It was so obvious that it had to be deliberate.
They are deliberately crashing the economy. I suspect the “saviour” will be the IMF and it will come with an instruction that we must rejoin the EU and surrender Sterling in favour of the Euro.
It’s deliberate destruction ….. like everything else they’re doing.
And wars are always very expensive. How much money is promised to Ukraine under Starmer’s 100-year contract? £3 billion a year …
“Rachel Reeves’s disastrous mishandling of the thriving economy she inherited from the Tories”. What is Will Jones smoking?