Just six months ago, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi ruled out the introduction of “discriminatory” vaccine passports in England. “That’s not how we do things,” he said.
It didn’t take long, however, for the Government to tell nightclubs and other large venues that it was their “social responsibility” to check their customers’ Covid status. “Covid status” gave the impression that a negative test or recent recovery from the virus would be enough for entry to be granted as opposed to just full vaccination.
It has taken even less time for ministers to go one step further. With so few nightclubs having decided ‘voluntarily’ to introduce checks, Zahawi has announced that they will be forced to do so from late September. And this time, nothing short of full vaccination will open the door for entry, barring unvaccinated Brits from all such venues.
The Vaccines Minister said that Covid checks would be “discriminatory” if they were just based on vaccination only four days ago. So why the sudden change of mind?
Sky News has more.
Nadhim Zahawi said proof that people are fully vaccinated against coronavirus will be required for them to be allowed into nightclubs and other “crowded venues” from that point.
Until then, Covid passes – which show if you are vaccinated or have tested negative for the virus – will be required, although these are not mandatory for venues to operate.
In the Commons this afternoon, Mr Zahawi said: “By the end of September everyone aged 18 and over will have the chance to receive full vaccination and the additional two weeks for that protection to really take hold.
“So at that point we plan to make full vaccination a condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather.
“Proof of a negative test will no longer be sufficient.”
Mr Zahawi promised that the plans would be subject to parliamentary scrutiny, and that there would be “appropriate” exemptions for people with a medical condition that means they cannot be vaccinated.
“We will always look at the evidence available and do all we can to ensure people can continue to do the things they love,” he added.
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Very proud of Mrs DThom tonight. She gave her golf club ladies a pasting.
Apparently they are all jabbed up fully and believe vaxx passes should be brought in ASAP. Apparently the young could catch it and pass it to the them! What a bunch of morons. Bring on the yellow stars! Typically one of them has a son in the NHS who ‘keeps her informed’
More Nazi eugenics from our Fuhrer and his criminal cabal.
Just one question. What local government jobsworth is going to stand outside a night club for several hours, particularly during winter, to police this nonsense?
So the tyrant state is alive and well and living in England. (cannot comment on Wales, Scotland, N. Ireland – they have their own tyrants). It seems to me that unless there is a massive revolt almost an uprising against this despotism we will be under a constant stream of regulations, restrictions etc for the foreseeable. And Johnson is NOT a libertarian – he is the original dictator in democratic clothing. I don’t see why the young, who get covid less seriously, generally recover better and have suffered over the past 17 months from having to take every one else(the old, the vulnerable, the ones with co morbitities, the NHS, the list is endless) should have to vaccinate just to have a good time. Before you ask, I’m 74, have had a major op 7 months ago and have never been to a rave or nightclub, but don’t see why people who want to should have to have a jab.
The House of Commons Speaker rules out vaccine passports for entry into the Commons as it would be “outrageous”. One rule for them, one rule for us…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/20/boris-johnson-lockdown-end-news-vaccine-passports-cummings-tax/#comments
It would breach their right to come and go as they please without abiding by any of the rules they make for us.
Zahawi = lying, duplicitous conniving b*stard. Should be first in line when Nuremberg 2 takes place.
I don’t know how he does it. I can only assume he’s got something extremely incriminating on certain members of the Establishment. He’s been pushing for this ever since we first heard of COVID. It’s a perfect fit for his world view. He is a global menace of the worst and biggest kind.
Institute for Global Change
Don’t know if this Petition is mentioned below anywhere…https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/575801
… it is to petition to outlaw discrimination against those who cannot have or don’t feel able to have a ‘vaccine.’
Signed. And emailed my MP.
Now over 100,000 signatures.
I signed it this morning at 77k signatures and it’s now up to 140k so hopefully keeps increasing.
I have signed, and I have written to my MP, again. Here is what I wrote to him:
Dear Aldous
I am well aware that writing to you is a complete waste of my time and that, in common with almost all of the voters of Waveney, I am effectively disenfranchised while you sit as my MP, however, I have contributed my signature to the petition ‘Outlaw discrimination against those who do not get a Covid-19 vaccination’ and I humbly and respectfully beg you to consider the ancient rights and liberties of those who pay both your salary and your expenses. I know that you won’t. However, those who believe that amoral careerist parasites like you can be persuaded to do the job you promised to do when you conned the gullible into voting for you, having pinned their hopes on reason and decency, have asked everyone who believes in liberty, autonomy, self-sufficiency and integrity to contact their MP, so I have.
Yours in expectation of nothing more than another foul-smelling shit stain on the now far from pristine carpet that is my experience of life.
I look forward to seeing you tried, convicted, condemned and hanged, drawn and quartered for crimes against… Read more »
Great letter, WG…maybe the hanging, drawing and quartering go a bit too far though… I would prefer to see a long custodial sentence in which he can think about his crimes and how his life strayed from the path of service to his community.
Firstly, I thought that photograph was of Telly Savalas, aka Kojak.
Secondly, I don’t think this will ultimately come about; far to big of a human rights issue.
Thirdly, let’s not miss the huge positive take-away from this article: that the government are only having to threaten this because SO FEW establishments were voluntarily doing checks. Bravo them!
‘Secondly, I don’t think this will ultimately come about; far to big of a human rights issue.‘
I really do not mean to be rude, however, I cannot but ask WHAT FUCKING PLANET ARE YOU ON?
I’m sure one or another of the moderators will delete this. That notwithstanding, I’ll persist. The Human Rights Act is meaningless because it contains so many exemptions and qualifications and because it gives to the ruling caste that which was formerly yours by right of simply being: the natural right of any simple being to do as he pleases (he is neuter here and not masculine and the latter should not be implied) as long as he does no harm to another. Now your rights depend on the opinion of judges and, to date, their record on such matters is not one to inspire confidence that you can rely on your government given rights to be free of interference from those who bribe the governors, and the judges.
We’re moving on at an increasing pace and those who think they are ahead of the game should be aware that ideas and reliance upon notions of judicially determined human rights are redundant.
When those who… Read more »
If you don’t mean to be rude, don’t swear please. It’s possible to disagree politely.
I don’t rely on any judiciary to “give” me my human rights; they exist by virtue of my being a living woman. Those who seek to deny certain privileges to others who won’t obey their rules (not laws) have always existed; it is the way of the world.
I am resisting in all ways possible for me, eg never worn a mask, used hand sanitiser, restricted my travel or stopped seeing family.
If I knew you in person I’d have a wee bet with you that vaccine passports will not happen; there will be another U-turn. Of course, I could be wrong and of course it could happen here in Scotland as the “Dear Leader” seems to have gone completely berserk over all this.
Zagawi is a Liar. what makes ANYONE think that this creature has your interest at heart is beyond me.
Vaxx pass.
Yet we have HIV blood banks.
You could argue so many ways.
Hands up who didn’t see this coming?
As I thought.
BTW, this will creep slowly and slowly towards full on totalitarian control.
They will ready the guillotines for us vaxxed or unvaxxed it won’t matter.
“We will always look at the evidence available and do all we can to ensure people can continue to do the things they love” What if you love life and are convinced that the medical evidence shows these vaccines are a danger to your life and health? And that mr Zahawi is in fact ignoring all the available evidence rather than looking at it and is lying to the public on a breathtaking scale? These people firmly believe they are serving a “noble cause” and imagine themselves real Messiases, but in fact they are committing mass murder.
They want us to riot and burn and smash things. This they understand and can deal with. Yes we have every right to be angry but we have to use that anger in far more creative ways than the bleedin’ obvious. After all, they have all the gear to hurt us and control us with – guns, handcuffs, tear gas, tasers and all the rest if it, They’re expecting us to boil over. That’s why they’re busy building all these prisons. Pretty soon they’ll start labelling us – dissenters and sceptics – as unpatriotic who are not helping to eradicate the deadly plague. Meanwhile, the general populace will be fed stories of these domestic terrorists trying to bring down society and will be encouraged to be patriotic and dob them in. I sincerely hope I’m wrong and quite how far this can go I just don’t know but the point is that we have to create a new type of protest that cannot be ignored and can’t be used by the media to attack us, so, like Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) says in The Italian Job “Hang on a minute, lads, I’ve got a great idea.” …
How can anything be organised when the security services are sifting through all communications? What will we do when suddenly our Internet connection goes down? Then we turn to our mobile phones and see that they have been disabled too?
I think people in the UK still have a chance to fight for their freedom and rights, but the clock is ticking, time is running out. Apart from France, I get the impression that the other countries in Europe have already caved in. Counting how many people are wearing face masks in Waitrose is just not the answer.
Yes, I guess the internet and mobile communications will go down inexplicably at some point so we have to be ready for that – although sort of ironic when they are thinking of introducing 5G at the same time. On the plus side, we human beings have ingenuity, resilience, humour (v important) and courage on our side. I’m not sure if these countries in Europe have ‘fallen’ but word of mouth, smoke signals, shortwave radio, pony express, dead letter drops, coded info etc etc may help us to remain connected. We’ll work it out.
They can all go fuck themselves and when they have done that, they can F.O.A.D.
Freedom Day??? Bloody Freedom Day???
As (according to most Mainstream Media Reports), a riotous crowd of AROUND 50 hooligans gathered outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday, chanting “shame on you” at the innocent occupants therein, burning police riot vans, smashing historical statues, and generally causing riotous mayhem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0N_VzOVkXs
Freedom Day???
Shortly after Public Health Scotland revealed that 5,522 PEOPLE HAVE DIED within twenty-eight days of having an experimental Covid-19 gene therapy jib-jab within the past 6 months in Scotland alone. Info released apparently because of dozens of freedom of information requests being made, asking Public Health Scotland (PHS) to provide the current total number of deaths.
And on the day that Federal Papers are filed in a lawsuit against the US Government after the discovery on their own VAERS system that there have been 45,000 deaths from COVID jib Jabs that have been “covered up“.
Freedom Day???
When the UK Government’s very own “Yellow Card” system is showing horrific numbers of deaths and serious adverse reactions to the various jib-jabs.
When there are so many unknowns about the short- or long-term effects of these potentially deadly trial gene therapies, Jab Minister Nadhim Zahawi announces on “Freedom Day” that…
“Unvaccinated… Read more »
I don’t think it does get their attention because a) it’s not reported b) they wouldn’t want to believe it if it was so they ignore it and c) if they did think about it, they’d prefer to believe the propaganda that says it’s just coincidence.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Do something, staring by writing to your MP. Let them know how hideous this is in a democracy. Challenge them on the lie that was spoken by Zahawi when these passports were previously denied, and if they agree with this new development, then they are lying too.
Tell me again how I suck that egg.
Are you too young to have learnt that repeating the same pointless exercise in the hope of a different result is a sign of insanity?
I have done exactly that to my MP Ian Liddell-Grainger on numerous occasions over the last 15 months or so. I’ve used email, regular Royal Mail, and expensive signed for Special Delivery. Even describing my father’s demise at the outset of all this madness due to NHS policy of kicking the elderly out of their hospital beds to make way for the masses that didn’t arrive.
Guess what.
No response whatsoever.
Unfortunately they are not listening or they pretend they’ve got more important matters to attend to…like sunbathing and entertaining lobbyists. Writing to MPs in this instance is not going to change anything because the numbers are against us: we are too few. Too few for them to be worried about their jobs. We do not have a voice in the mainstream media, no one is pushing back and those that do are sidelined and ridiculed. Massive protest marches are ignored by the media. They will lie about the figures and not report it anyway. We are all collectively beating our heads against a brick wall. The brick wall is not moved by evidence, reason, logic, compassion, truth and so on. It exists solely to stop any alternative viewpoints, however well researched or evidenced, from seeing the light of day. How do you remove a brick wall? First look at the mortar that binds the bricks together. Look for gaps and exploit them, push them apart. After a while, the bricks will become loose and then fall and the wall will crumble. Forgive me my artistic musings but there is a point to this. You have to deal with the mortar,… Read more »
“Do something, staring by writing to your MP”
Better still – an angry letter to The Times.
Your MPs do not care about you. They will not read your e-mails. If you phone to them they will put the receiver down on you.
And your MP does what he/she is told by Boris & chums.
Can someone please explain why, if the vaccines work then the vaccinated need to be kept away from the unvaccinated. Also, can anyone explain why, as it is now proven been vaccinated does not stop you spreading the virus, vaccinated and unvaccinated need to be kept apart. If anything, surely the unvaccinated are less dangerous because if they do catch the virus they are more likely to experience symptoms and know they have to isolate. It is the vaccinated therefore who are more dangerous and likely to be unwittingly spreading the virus around.
I can explain it: none of this makes any sense and nor is it meant to. Actual evidence and reason and logic are the enemies of dogma and propaganda. They have created a new religion and we are the heretics and the mad old testament prophets in the internet wilderness shouting at the rocks who remain unmoved. We all know what you say are perfectly reasonable questions but they will remain unanswered like our emails and letters to MPs. They know we haven’t got the media as our mouthpiece and most Q&As are weak and subservient. It is beyond comprehension…unless you’re Johnson or someone on the inside track and then you’ll be party to exactly what they are planning to do.
I hope the young call their bluff. We won’t see compulsory vaccine passports. This is just more coercion and shows the government are in a panic that the vaccine control group is going to be large enough to highlight the damage the vaccines are doing.
Exactly this. Have been trying to explain this to people but they don’t seem to get it. I will remain in the control group, thanks.
Will be a very interesting winter to see how this plays out when comparing outcomes for vax and unvax
They are shitting themselves about the emergence of ADE in Israel and Cyprus.
“We won’t see compulsory vaccine passports.”
Look here:
“An NHS COVID Pass shows your coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination details or test results. This is your COVID-19 status.
You may be asked to show your pass to travel abroad, or at events and venues in England asking for proof of your COVID-19 status.”
Now you’ve seen it. Try getting out of the country without one – or back in.
The young need leadership and a thorough grounding in the values their leaders hold dear, and they need to be led by leaders who value those values above their own lives.
‘Do as I say’ means nothing unless it is clearly backed up by do as I say if you value what I value and am now going to do what I ask you to do behind me.
Saturday 24th, Hyde Park and Central London. March against the tyranny.
Why not round at Neil Ferguson’s house? Or Susan Michie’s house? Or where is Sunak hiding out? All you’ve got in London are Police waiting for you to turn up.
We are now living in the Coviet Union.
Lying is the default position of a dictatorship
It’s not really a U-turn if it was always the plan.
As this is still an experimental ‘vaccine’ what about the people in the control group? Every clinical trial has to have participants that take the treatment and those who don’t. I am officially in a control group…who is not taking it
Fortunately, I don’t go to large venues etc…
If you’re in the ‘control group’ that means they’ve got you down as another one for Wellingborough prison. That will be your ‘large venue’.
Once again, those in charge give not a fig any more about the details, they never have, apart from using them to manipulate their agenda. Now they have openly declared war on the people of the UK. What you think does not matter to them any more – it’s do as they say, or else. Or fight for your life, and your rights.
It’s difficult to comprehend just how far this country has fallen in the past 18 months.
Johnson is a dictatorial tyrant and at the head of a criminal regime.
Surely it is the duty and responsibility of right thinking people to resist and rectify all the wrongs that are currently taking place. Johnson and co., must be held to account for their crimes.
And today – not wait for another Saturday. By the way, the crowd yesterday in Westminster – there were so many people outnumbering the Police that they could easily have rescued that journalist who was punched and carted off in the van. All they had to do was make a concerted rush.
I remember wildcat raves in the middle of nowhere
Those days will return
And ‘speakeasys’ will probably return when they try to bar us from pubs etc
They forgot to mention when the Party’s symbol will be changing to a Blue Swastika.
What a pity there hasn’t been any reporting on the London Rally yesterday!
“We will always look at the evidence”. No you won’t you lying bastard, all you’ll do is select unrepresentative data that looks as though it will support your lies
Once upon a time an old and fat and brutal king called Boris ruled the land with his young and mean wife/fuckbuddy Princess Nut Nut.
And nobody owned anything or was happy or lived happily ever after.
The old communist thumbscrews. We want you to be happy but in order to be happy you must do exactly as you are told. If you don’t……..
Supposedly Zahawi also said
“I would like to remind everybody that some of life’s most important pleasures and opportunities are lilkely to be dependent on vaccination”