There is some confusion today on recent reports that the Government is planning a potential October ‘firebreak’ lockdown. A senior Government scientist told the i that an “extended peak” of Covid ‘cases’ and hospitalisations could push ministers to impose another lockdown next month, but BBC News today quotes from both the Department for Education (DfE) and the Prime Minister’s spokesman who have denied this report.
“It is not true that the Government is planning a lockdown or ‘firebreak’ around the October half term,” [the DfE] said in a tweet.
The Prime Minister’s spokesman also denied the report. He said plans had been kept for a range of scenarios – “but these kind of measures would only be reintroduced as a last resort to prevent unsustainable pressure on our NHS”.
“I think we’ve been clear throughout that we will take action, and indeed we have done when necessary to protect our NHS,” he said.
But the spokesman pointed out that when rules were brought in the past, the U.K. did not yet have the protection from vaccines.
Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has, however, been a little less clear in his denial of reports. He is reported in Sky News as saying that we can “continue on this sort of one-way road” towards reopening “if we do [the booster vaccine roll-out] well” (emphasis added).
Speaking to Kay Burley on Sky News, Mr. Zahawi did not confirm or deny whether he would endorse an October ‘firebreak’ if hospitalisations for Covid remain high. …
He added: “So the booster programme that we have had interim advice from the JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] on is my absolute priority.
“That will protect the most vulnerable to serious infection – that will absolutely help us to transition the virus from pandemic to endemic status.
“The important thing is that we get that right, because I think if we do that well, we can continue on this sort of one-way road towards sustaining the opening of the economy and, by next year hopefully, transitioning the virus from pandemic to endemic and dealing with it on an annual basis.”
Later during his Tuesday morning broadcast media round, Mr. Zahawi added that he had seen no plans for an October ‘firebreak’ lockdown if cases rise this autumn.
It is worth noting that, on the basis of the impending introduction of vaccine passports despite Zahawi’s previous claims to the contrary, an October lockdown could be on the cards even if the Vaccines Minister had ruled one out.
The BBC News and Sky News reports are both worth reading in full.
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It doesn’t matter what the politicians are saying – they are lying. They just cannot help it.
“Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has, however, been a little less clear in his denial of reports.”
Well there’s a thing!
It’s all word play. They aren’t planning anything. Doesn’t mean they will do it without planning
The glorious NHS, weaponised once again to run peoples lives.
If you’re overweight you’re a burden on the NHS.
If you smoke you’re a burden on the NHS.
If you vape you’re a burden on the NHS.
If you drink alcohol you’re a burden on the NHS.
If you eat sugar or salt you’re a burden on the NHS.
If you don’t get vaccinated you’re a burden on the NHS.
If you do get vaccinated you’re a burden on the NHS.
If you dare catch covid you’re a burden on the NHS.
If you catch an STD you’re a burden on the NHS.
If you’re not ‘elf and safety’ compliant and get injured at work you’re a burden on the NHS.
If you play Rugby you’re a burden on the NHS.
But if you jog daily you’re a burden on the NHS.
If you eat meat you’re a burden on the NHS (and a climate change ‘denier’ to boot).
If your kid gets hurt you’re a burden on the NHS (and a potential child abuser).
If you are a Heroine or Coke addict, however, you need to be ‘facilitated’ because, of course, that’s beyond your control.
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So, the government ‘denies’ the plan. So what? They’ve lied about everything else and that snivelling, slimy snake, Zahawi is the biggest liar of all. It will probably happen, despite denials, you cannot believe a word this government says.
Next they’ll be telling us that it would be “un-British” to introduce a firebreak…
There will be an attempt to lock us down. They just changed the rhetoric again, as the socialists always do. The cruelty forced upon a gullible public by behavioural psychologists is a very ling standing socialist ploy, They are known for their bullying and vindictive treatment of citizens.
However, this time I would hope that folk are not so trusting or easily led down a path of destruction. The NHS has not, at any point in the last 18 months, been overrun. The staff have been furloughed and therefore cut by half and still the ambulances are neatly parked, A&E is empty, the corridors are eerily quiet until a burst of dance and song for tiktok follows the video maker like a medieval pilgrimage. One look at the local funeral parlour should tell any sensible person that funerals were down until they started using medazolam in the care homes during last autumn and then jabbing the next wave of elderly residents in January this year. We need to wake up, keep our old at home and start living our lives again. We do not need any government body or globalist to tell us what to do.
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I very rarely use Wikipedia as a trustworthy source of information, but here it is acting benignly as a thesaurus yet with alarming accuracy of this government’s political communication…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscation
The sheep dog *confuses* the sheep in order to take control. Confusion is the key. Use it against them. My ‘business cards’ arrived today. The bad news (for the globalists, their lackeys and collaborators) is that there’s a *real* hunger out there for an alternative narrative. The ‘hits’ on my website today have been huge… simply after handing out a few cards to willing (mask-free) pissed off employees and members of the public. Old school meets hi-tech. The truth will always succeed over the lies. FIGHT. BACK. BETTER. https://www.LCAHub.org/
“prevent unsustainable pressure on our NHS”.
That could be claimed of any winter due to respiratory diseases, i.e. flu.
We were clearly promised no further lockdowns by Johnson. “Irreversible” was the word he used, repeatedly. I shall not obey any further restrictions and advise others to do likewise. Those attempting to enforce any putative restrictions should be regarded as enemies of the people and dealt with accordingly.
He’s a lying bastard.
At a wedding this weekend, which also meant travel and stops at motorway refreshment areas, plus a hotel, not one request for mask wearing anywhere. Very rare sightings of muzzles too. The media appear to be trying keep the momentum going for masks but not many people seem to be listening.
Given it’s been established that you can’t believe a word Nadhim Zahawi says, it’s pointless interviewing him
How can the citizenry dissolve this Parliament? Is it possible? Can it be done? I’ve had enough of these deranged maniacs.
‘The citizenry’ are perfectly happy with the status quo. After all, they voted for it!
Yes, that’s the sad fact. Too many are happy with the current state of affairs – free money, no work, no responsibilities. But boy will there be a payback!
What confusion? Oh you mean this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58474536 headline from the BBC that states “Government denies lockdown plans”?
Then the article goes onto say this and other plans are on the table “in case the NHS is overrun”.
Its the same narrative from last year being rerun. Same propaganda, same fearmongering with a hint of fake logic.
Whilst Boris distracts the public with a tax hike.
I wonder if this year people will notice?
Sadly most i know are happy to continue living as drones, wearing masks, dousing their hands in chemicals and closing down businesses by the day.
Still at least there is beer…for now…
On the basis of all the lies so far, if they’re denying it, it’s a dead cert to happen.
I won’t be complying.
Confusion? That is just what psyops are encouraging in their victims. Meanwhile, the perpetrators are quite clear what their plan is and just need to get the timing right.
Just think. If your mind tends to a certain direction after hearing these stories, was that the intention of releasing the stories?
Exactly the same as last sept. And what happened after Boris announced in Oct that there would be no national lockdown…November Lockdown.
It is inevitable. What isnt is the compliance, if people realised the simple truth that compliance is the slow death of our country.
This is known in the trade as ‘rolling the pitch’.
I have no intention of abiding by any lockdown restrictions ever again. There is no benign explanation for what is happening. Time to fight.
So I use a Bloomberg terminal for my work and get instant access to global news. My oh my you should see what the propaganda machine is spewing out today. “Johnson right to hike taxes”, “pfizer shot effective against more than just delta”, “getting a covid vaccine can still save your life”, “Israel’s strategy of Covid coexistence is working”, “Israel’s covid surge shows the world what’s coming next”.
We’re back in the game.
It’s not even attempting to be news it’s just SO BLATENT… The “blatantness” is the most worrying thing to me, at least in the past they tried to be a bit sneaky and look like they were attempting to be impartial.
I wonder why they feel they don’t even have to try…
Because at this point the majority will believe anything that comes out of the propaganda machine.
I’m genuinely interested in this: how many of you are intending to never vote for Labour or Tory again because of what they have done? Maybe you think one has been okay, neither, somebody else was okay.
I’ll never vote for any of those parties currently in Parliament because they are all complicit in the lies and destruction of Society and the Economy.
At the moment I’d certainly not vote for any of the main parties – and won’t do at least until there has been a wholesale change in the leadership, and possibly longer if any new leadership is just more of the same.
Never voted Tory, not voted Labour since Blair appeared. They all go and f@ck themselves.
Reform & Reclaim need our backing and support. If we don’t get involved at a local level nothing will change. Time to step up.
Yes we have the power to overthrow these pieces of human excrement. We vote ourselves into power. Next election, we had better move mountains to make that a reality.
Hard to forgive any of the egregious swine. They’re all culpable !!
Seeing them swing from the gallows would be the only thing to placate me.
I see no point in ever voting for anyone ever again. Government is the problem. I had foolishly let myself forget my teenage credo as I worked and built a family and bought a house. Now I remember.
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
I had an anarchist poster on my wall which said “No matter who you vote for the government always gets in”. 🙂
I’ve always voted, and have never had much time for those who claim political wisdom with non-insights like ‘they’re all the same’ etc. etc.
But that political laziness and non-engagement has now created its own ultimate outcome in what we are faced with – a dozy, gullible public and a political class bereft of quality who are different faces of the same establishment, with no redeeming features.
For the first time, in the Labour leadership election and in the local election I could find no-one I could support, and went against my basic principle of always using a democratic vote. In the latter, I spoiled by ballot paper for the first time ever, since no party told the truth about Covid and the curtailment of liberty.
Nothing has made me regret that decision and I will certainly not be voting for a Starmer-led Labour Party (although I have clung onto membership in order to retain a vote. I may not do so for much longer).
Will this ridiculous Government ever stop trying to treat us like 14 year olds who they think still believe in Father Christmas? They are lying again. They wouldn’t know truth if it kicked them in the balls, smashed them in the nose and made them watch “This is what Truth looks like” videos for 6 months.
FOIA Release: Fauci Funded Construction Of ‘Chimeric Coronaviruses’ In Wuhanhttps://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/massive-foia-release-proves-fauci-funded-wuhan-research-construct-sars-related
Dr Christian Vélot: Lecturer in Molecular genetic at Paris-Sud university: “it is possible the unvaxxed are protecting the rest of the community by stopping a new variant from appearing.”
https://twitter.com/Arwenstar/status/1434951148465762309
I see that the eccentric early 90`s “stadium dance” band The KLF are making a comeback this autumn – Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Mu Mu…
If you follow the reference and the symbolism The KLF were warning us about these parasites!
Please shut up about an October ‘Firebreak’, it only encourages Johnson the Morlock.
Personally, I have plans for that month and if I am thwarted I will be suing Johnson and co.
Lockdown: The cruelty is the point – The Conservative Woman
.. So, Laura perrins hit the nail on the head back in February. Not just the cruelty, but the whole polemic/shitshow/scamdemic/fraudulent scenario – however you want to look at it. Confusion rules !! It’s all about the pain. The vagueness. Oh, fuck, what will they do next.? what do they mean ?? Are we allowed to do that.? Can I come out of the cupboard, now sweetie? Oh gosh, what’s silly old Boris down now? Shouldn’t those slightly mad types at ‘sage’ [who’re holding the poor government to ransom], just let us all out now, hmm !? Simply part of the illusion and the blatant manipulation of emotions. It’s engineered to maim, hurt and cause mayhem. The shit being played out in Oz, is a great example !! All fun and games, until someone loses an Eye !!
You gotta love journalists’ bare-faced hypocrisy on so much these days – many in the Telegraph who were avid lockdown and spend huge amounts of money we don’t have on COVID response, green issues, HS2, etc, etc are now changin their tune and pretending they were against X or Y bad policy all along, now that slowly but surely, public sentiment is turning against them.
The latest is (IMHO) Associate Editor and one-time wannabe Boris’ spokesperson (no bad loser syndrome there then) Camilla Tominey, who now has a go at Boris & Co in every article she submits, it appears.
I recall the Camilla from 2015 onwards and especially last year that was cheering for their draconian lockdown policies and where the swathes of criticism from readers was regularly deleted from the BLT Comments areas, ending up with them being absent for the most part.
It appears she’s seen which way the wind is blowing and has ‘converted’, Damascus-like, to our side of the fence. Does anyone else not believe a word she and her ilk say? What she previously said and, more importantly, HOW she said it, can’t be unsaid.
‘Does anyone else not believe a word she and her ilk say? What she previously said and, more importantly, HOW she said it, can’t be unsaid.’
Indeed – I’m somehow reminded of the scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in which Tuco (after having tortured Blondie almost to death by dragging him over a desert before realising he has the location of the treasure) tells a recuperating Blondie that he was responsible for saving him, ‘You’re just lucky I was there when it … happened’!
We won’t mention the blanket anti-Trump sentiment expressed in multiple Telegraph articles, no reader comments allowed. They cheered on Biden as a return to normal. Now they act surprised and disappointed at how much of a mess he’s made of the US and foreign policy.
Thing is – Biden being a senile idiot doesn’t make the Fart a sensible alternative. False logic.
“It is not true that the Government is planning a lockdown or ‘firebreak’ around the October half term,”
So its definitely on then.
Now the Mu variant is out to get you! Get back into your homes, seal the doors and windows! I’m not joking, this one is ‘vaccine resistant’!
Almost as if predicted.