A reader has forwarded an email sent by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas via the platform of March for Change in which she reiterates the need for an immediate public inquiry into the Government’s handling of Covid. As with most people calling for a Covid inquiry, she accused Boris Johnson of lifting the coronavirus restrictions “too soon”. That restrictions suppress infections is simply taken for granted.
The odd thing about this email is that it appears to have been written a week ago since it makes no reference to the fact that the number of daily cases yesterday was 40% lower than it was on July 18th, the day before ‘Freedom Day’. By going ahead with ‘Freedom Day’, Caroline Lucas claims, the Prime Minister has “chosen to bury his head in the sand and simply hope for the best”. As a result of this criminal recklessness, “the third wave of Covid [is] sweep[ing] across the country”, she says, and”cases are soaring”.
In fact, official figures show that cases are falling or levelling off in every region of England, including Caroline Lucas’s Brighton constituency. As Will Jones has pointed out, “the myth of the exit wave persists” – and the fact that this myth is so impervious to facts makes it look like a pro-Lockdown conspiracy theory.
The same goes for Lucas’s claim that hospitals are filling up (see orange line in graph below).
Professor Adam Finn of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation says the fall in reported Covid cases “means less viral transmission and eventually fewer hospitalisations and deaths than we feared and expected a week ago”. The biggest problem faced by the NHS is the huge backlog of patients who haven’t received treatment because of successive lockdowns. Not to mention those whose illnesses haven’t even been diagnosed. Isn’t Caroline Lucas concerned that sending out emails like this, including false claims about the case rate, will discourage even more sick people to seek much-needed hospital treatment?
Next time Lucas accuses a lockdown sceptic of trafficking in ‘misinformation’, they should point to this dangerously misleading email.
Stop Press: U.K.’s Covid cases have dropped for the sixth day in a row, according to MailOnline.
Stop Press 2: The Director of March For Change has tweeted an apology to Caroline Lucas for sending out an out-of-date, earlier draft of an email in her name. This is almost certainly a result of our eagle-eyed reader bringing this matter to our attention, the above article and those other Daily Sceptic readers who emailed Caroline Lucas’s office to point out the mistake.
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If Greens could understand facts and reality, they wouldn’t be Greens.
Well mostly they’re melons.
But that’s true of reds too.
It applies to ALL parties – whether intentionally or stupidly .
Which is the problem.
No sectarian points in this one.
It’s why I spoiled my ballot paper at the local elections – something I’ve never done, and have always rejected.
I’ve been spoiling my ballot paper for years, except in 2015.
The Greens don’t seem to understand that each year more people die of the cold than of heat.
Irrelevant. Don’t parade alternative obsessions.
What an absolute gem of a line.
Tip o’ the hat
Caroline Lucas probably understands facts and reality – but she would be out of a job if she owned up to knowing them so its in her financial interest to keep the Green lie going..
Green Faith members don’t need to look at Data.
More hysterical hyperbole from an expert in it. She always reminds me of that good old music hall ditty “The Hole in the Elephant’s Bottom”.
The hole in the bottom of the elephant in the room?
BTW:
What a filthy rag
The hag
Is using as a gag.
True – but be glad of small mercies. She is one of a few about whom I have no objection to permanent gagging; full-face would be better though!
Why would she care about the data? She’d only care about it if questioned, and who will question her, or anyone pushing the standard narrative? In this respect she’s like all the rest of them – they will just talk shit as long as they can get away with it. It’s all theatre.
And you can see which way the enquiry will go, if they ever have one
She thinks that you can trap a lot of heat with CO2 at just 0.04% of the atmosphere. Compare that with what she wears to keep warm relative to her body shows she believes in one law of physics for the atmosphere and another for herself.
Have a look at this clip of an exasperated Australian Admiral trying to explain to Senator Pauline Hanson about submarine propulsion systems.
https://youtu.be/UYF08jJi9Hg
She makes Lucas look bright.
To: caroline.lucas.mp@parliament.uk
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk
No, they are not soaring. They are currently falling fast. This may or may not continue, but your claim that “cases are soaring” is clearly false. I would be grateful if you would issue a statement correcting this claim.
Regards
Could everyone please email her.
Email duly sent.
There are a lot of things that annoy me, especially the smugness of Lucas, but paramount is the complete failure of lockdown zealots like her (supposedly brimful of “democracy” as well) to answer the simple questions:-
1) What conditions would make you abandon the pursuit of the cretinous decisions now wrecking every aspect of life in Britain, including polluting the place with millions of plastic masks?
2) When do you think these would be achieved, and how?
3) How can endless delays and further lockdowns benefit (sic) the country?
4) What do you think the long-term repercussions are likely to be (societal, education, health, financial, environmental etc.), how do you propose we should remedy them and when do you think that will be so? How long will they endure?
There’s never a considered or straight answer, but always some flim-flam like “When we’ve beaten Covid”, “when everyone’s safe” and the rest of the pie-in-the-sky nonsense.
I’ve got no time for Lucas but I’m afraid “lockdown zealots like her” also includes the Cabinet their appointed advisers, SAGE et al.
Precisely. There are few political heroes in this – right across the board.
And especially not left across the board (sorry!)
No doubt about that. I should perhaps have omitted “like her” and instead said “all lockdown zealots”. The obnoxious aspect of Lucas is that her campaign, exemplified in the email, seeks to nail “The Government”, but fails absolutely to consider the overall damage, to question the crap from SAGE, or even to understand data provided by public bodies.
Smug, ‘I’m All Right, Jack’ cretins like the ridiculously over-exposed Lucas have no understanding whatsoever of the concept of Cost/Benefit Analysis. Self-satisfied, low-empathy morons all.
Reminiscent of the pompous Zero-Covid authoritarian Ms Devi Sridhar (no ‘Professor’ she).
The answer is- (drum roll please)- MORE TAXES!! Ta-da!
Never trust a green which is not a cabbage!
[Maybe a poor joke, but I had to make it :-)]
Well, my Mum always told me to finish off all the greens.
Another one for the drop of York
Lucas is a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work who has enjoyed a goodiving from lying and talking nonsense.
Surely this woman is a global laughing stock several times over for many prior stupidities and her staggering life-style hypocrisy?
And yet the sheep keep voting for her.
Have you been to Brighton?
In a parliament that is almost entirely composed of mindless mask wearing zombies, this woman stands out as being particularly stupid, smug and arrogant. That is an amazing achievement.
Ah the greens. I never did understand how any greens could be big pharma apologists. Then again they just love big business.
Dontcha just love it when overpaid socialists virtue signal about how we’re all in it together? When was the last time that Lucas woke up wondering if today was the day the bank was going to call in the receivers, whether any customers would go bankrupt before paying their bills, whether she could meet payrolls, if her pension was safe, if her house might get repossessed? She and her ilk or in NOTHING together with us because they have absolutely no idea how we live. She must laugh her head of about all this in private.
The Green Party is sinister, it uses the same terminology as The World Economic forum around Building Back Better. Just as global warming will be yet another justification to lock us down. This MP does not understand what ordinary folk want because she is part of the agenda. The ‘Greens’ are a front for the same people who led us into this chaos
And this woman is an MP! It shows just how busted our political system is.
She’s what you get with unqualified universal suffrage.
I have a visceral loathing for parasites like Lucas.
After making that statement anything Caroline Lucas says about impending environmental doom can not be taken seriously. Besides, as she thinks people should continue wearing masks so more and more of the bloody otiose things polute our oceans, why the should we take her seriously about anything to do with the environment?
What an ugly bitch Lucas is – there’s a really nasty personality behind those eyes.
More loony nonsense from the Greens!!