According to today’s Sunday Times, the Prime Minister will announce this week that he’s scrapping plans to bring in vaccine passports for nightclubs, cinemas and sports grounds at the end of this month.
On Tuesday, the prime minister will announce plans to try to keep Covid under control over the winter. He will say that he has abandoned the proposed compulsory certification scheme, which would have forced venues to check people’s vaccine status.
Johnson tore up the proposals after scientists said vaccinations would be an effective first line of defence against a winter wave of the pandemic. But the move also represents a significant concession to Tory backbench rebels who had complained that enforcing vaccine passports would create a group of second-class citizens.
Companies that already demand proof of vaccination will be able to continue but the new “toolbox” of measures will introduce masks and home-working only if rates soar.
The announcement will also mark the start of the government’s booster programme, with millions set to get a third jab this autumn.
The full details will be decided when the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) reports to ministers tomorrow, but the timetable is expected to mirror that for first injections, with the elderly and vulnerable jabbed first.
The four chief medical officers will also unveil plans to start vaccinations for 12 to 15 year-olds, with parental consent, beginning on September 22nd.
Worth reading in full.
This story should be treated with some caution, given how prone to changing his mind Boris is. But it’s of a piece with a story in the Sun on Sunday, clearly briefed out by Number 10, which says the Prime Minister will announce the end of numerous Covid regulations later this week.
Boris Johnson will this week light the touch paper to start a bonfire of Covid regulations.
Powers held to shut down swathes of the economy and impose limits on gatherings and events will be repealed.
The red tape roll-back is part of a masterplan from the PM, who is desperate to avoid any further lockdowns.
The temporary closing or limiting access to schools and powers to detain infectious people under the Coronavirus Act — called draconian by some Tory MPs — are no longer seen as necessary.
Downing Street views vaccines as the country’s “first line of defence” as we enter autumn and look to winter.
But there are still fears across Whitehall of Covid circulating alongside flu – while the threat of a new variant concerns ministers.
The PM, to unveil the strategy this week, last night said: “Thanks to the efforts of the public, the NHS and our phenomenal vaccination programme, we reached Step 4 in our roadmap and life has a sense of normality.
“These extraordinary times required necessary but intrusive measures.
“But I’m determined to get rid of any powers we no longer need.”
In addition, MailOnline is reporting that the requirement that returning travellers have to get two PCR tests – one just before they board an incoming flight, the second two days after arrival – is due to be scrapped in England in time for the half term holidays if you’ve been double jabbed.
Stop Press: Appearing on Trevor Philips’ Live on Sky News, Sajid Javid more or less confirmed the stories. He said he did not “like the idea” of vaccine passports and hoped to “avoid” introducing them, but didn’t rule it out.
He also said he did not want PCR tests for returning travellers to remain mandatory “for a second longer than is absolutely necessary”.
Stop Press 2: The Health Secretary went further in a subsequent interview with Andrew Marr on the BBC, confirming that vaccine passports will be scrapped. “I’m pleased to say we will not be going ahead,” he said.
Stop Press 3: Nicola Sturgeon is coming under pressure to scrap her own plans for Vaccine passports following the decision of the British Government, according to the Telegraph.
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We’ve been down this road before. This is the carrot, the light at the end of the tunnel, the scrap of the table.
It will come back, indeed the notion hasn’t ever went away since the Blair days.
NEVER GIVE UP THE FIGHT AGAINST TYRANNY. THEY NEVER REST SO NEITHER CAN WE!!!
Did you see why the NIH was compromised when deciding on ivermectin? And they have been hiding it.https://trialsitenews.com/grotesque-conflicts-of-interest-on-nih-ivermectin-non-recommendation/
No it’s not scrapped, it’s been shelved. If you really think this is over I suggest you think again. It’s time to push back harder!
Why would the government want to introduce a passport when they have already nudged many venues to implement their own. Venues have done the governments dirty work for them; very clever. To the thickos of this once great nation Boris and the government will look like democracy hero’s. But we can see straight through the SPB I nudge bollocks.
For example I can’t go and see Elbow at the O2 Academy in Newcastle tomorrow because I haven’t had the magic juice. I can provide an LFT, but out of principle I refuse to. As we know, the super juice does not protect you or stop you passing on the virus. But discriminative businesses like the O2 Academy are doing the passport anyway, its just not now done by the government. So the government can turn around and say, ‘its not us that are implementing these restrictions on your life, that is up to the venue’. Hey presto, a get a jail free card for Boris and his cabal.
Just a quick word to the O2 Academy. My wife and I have been going there for over twenty years to see bands. But no more, if they dropped the restrictions tomorrow… Read more »
Again, sorry don’t trust the bugger.
DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH!!
I wouldn’t trust a word Bojo or anyone from the government says; one of the tactics of psychological mind control is to continuously send contradictory messages – isn’t exactly this what they have been doing from the beginning?
Plus remember that it’s not governments who rule a nation, but those well above their heads…the globalists, the jewish bankers and their many minions. The C19 fraud agenda is global, note how all governments obey the same script.
The globalists have long planned to use vaccines as the first step into the ‘social credit system’ and ‘transhumanism’, both being linked with the ‘smart agenda’ which aims at digitally enslave people. The real ‘vaccine passports’ are already inside of the jabbed in the form of Microsoft’s “ID2020”, a digital nano-biosensor or in other words, a ‘quantum dot’; many people are talking about ‘chips’ or ‘microchips’, but with the advent of nanotechnology these chips evolved into invisible for the naked eye ‘quantum dots’.
Note that the hydrogel inside the vax once inside the body, multiplies and spreads throughout the body, altering people’s DNA.
Now tell me: do you really think they are going to give up ‘vaccine passports’? The paper ones, yes… not the… Read more »
Excellent news. Clearly Boris has been taken aback by the strength of feeling in his own MP’s about this, especially when combined with polling showing a Tory collapse. This collapse was always going to happen, since his previous high polling was almost totally an artefact of the apparent success of the vaccines.
Who would be one of Johnson’s ministers, though? Being sent on air to say one thing only to have to contradict yourself a week later, whilst lying through your teeth pretending that there has been no panic change of direction.
Is it simply that as a nation, we’ve hit the globalist target of 70% ‘vaccinated’ and therefore no further coercion required? Could explain the difference between the USA, Australia and here. The threat of vaxports in nightclubs was needed to bring the 16-25s on board, and as most of them stupidly fell for it, it’s job done?
I don’t believe anything at all this government says. They have lied and reversed consistently.
They’ll delay the passports over winter as cases increase. Then bring them in in the spring as cases naturally fall and claim the passports are working. Meanwhile BoJo’s popularity will go up and people will have largely forgotten the NI hike by spring.
Why does nobody think this is good news?
Would you be happier if Bozo had confirmed that Nazipapiere would be imposed?
I want to feel relief but this has been going on for too long. They’ve lied before. If they lie this time we know the ‘conspiracy’ is real. And so there would be no end to it in our lifetimes.
Its like the boy who cried wolf, I’m afraid. I want to believe it, but this government has lied time and time again throughout the last 18 months. They could change their minds tomorrow, what is to stop them. That is how abusive relationships work, give and then take away, give and then take away.
Could this apply to Scotland as well, please.
If rejecting passports is now reasonable, why didn’t they do it earlier?
These demons will keep up the psychic rape, and bring the passports in by Christmas.
https://txti.es/covid-pass/images
I’m from the small Baltic country of Lithuania. In this article, I’ll describe the details of how the Covid Pass works here in my country and how it affects my family.
But as I’ll explain later, it’s not just my country. Covid Pass restrictions are being imposed throughout Europe.
A new law was passed on August 16 authorizing increased restrictions against people who do not have a valid Opportunity Pass. In the last two weeks, some of the restrictions from this law have already become effective. All other restrictions will come into effect on Monday, September 13.
Some of the restrictions include:
You cannot visit any cafes or restaurants. You cannot enter any non-essential stores. You cannot enter any store or shopping centrer which has a sales area larger than 1500 square meters (= about 16,000 square feet). You cannot receive any beauty services (hair, nails, salons, etc). You cannot use any repair services which last longer than 15 minutes. You cannot enter any indoor spaces, seminars, conferences, or cultural events. You cannot attend any outdoor events which have more than 500 people. You cannot sit and read in libraries. You may only use the library to pick up and… Read more »
That is an astonishing account. Thank you again for link and excerpt.
God help you.
This is an open letter to Australian politicians who have allowed our country to become a place I no longer recognise. But you have lost my consent. In fact, I don’t remember you ever asking.
So let me be clear. You DO NOT have my consent to crush our way of life. To criminalise me for going further than 5 kilometres from my home. To set up police checkpoints on our roads – roads that I paid for, when I used to be allowed to work, when I used to be allowed to leave my home without explaining myself to someone in uniform.
You DO NOT have my consent to keep me from my family. To tell me “we are all in this together” while forcing us to stay apart. To lecture me about the morality of seeing people I love or checking in on a neighbour I pass at the shops. To make me “register” to see a friend. What sort of nightmare are you creating?
Who are you to tell me it is “good” to obey you, and “bad” to defy you? To come onto my screen daily and lecture me on my “behaviour”. To position a police… Read more »
Have you got a link for this? Or shall I just copy and paste it unattributed?
Sure, they’re ‘scrapping’ their plans. Just like they said in Oct/Nov 2020 that they had ‘no plans’ to even consider vaccine passports (but they had already paid two firms to develop them), that the Cabinet Office ‘survey’ in early 2021 was to ‘get peoples opinions’ on the good and bad aspects of vaccine passports and that it ‘would be only rolled out for foreign travel’ and not domestically for anything.
9 Pinocchios out of 10. Actions speak louder than words, boyo. I suspect they’ll use some confected ‘infection’, ‘hospitalisation’ of ‘death (with) COVID’ threshold to bring them back within a few months – probably to force the public to choose between vaccine passports (easily upgradable to a full social credit system) and cancelling Christmas as they did last year.
Will the general public capitulate yet again? My bet (sadly) is on yes. Most are either too stupid/naive or selfish to realise what is going on here.
I posted this under TU earlier, from the Monotti/Yeadon Telegram channel on the Times article that the dictator is scrapping plans for vaxxports FOR THE WINTER.
“I don’t trust anything either Boris Johnson or The Times says. When I see the word “scrapped” I think delayed. The key words in the title are “FOR WINTER.”
There is no point in them implementing this just before the winter lockdown that the Johnson regime will inevitably impose in December.
They are probably scrapped for winter because there will be a lockdown anyway therefore this battle is now delayed for Spring.
This was likely to be the plan all along. If you implement this in Spring when “cases” start coming down you can then lie that numbers are coming down because of the “passports”.
In addition, I could imagine that the easy self-exemption under common law simply can not be ‘fixed’ (unlike in Scotland or like Scotland will find out, TBD). Therefore, the planned digital solution for that self-exemption would possibly if not likely have resulted in millions of self-exempted being able to use them abroad and for travelling with the same status as a vaxxed as well, if they were introduced.
Something… Read more »
Marr Show clip: Just look at the body language and facial ticks of this fucking liar. Christ, I’ve seen dodgy secondhand car salesmen be more convincing; vile bastard.
This is merely a respite. Too much time, money and organisation has been put into this to simply let it skate. At the very least it was used to embarrass Sturgeon, but other coersive methods will be forthcoming. Inundate your MP with data, facts, scientific studies and evidence of what’s happening in the real world regarding vaccination deaths, adverse effects and the hospitilisation of the vaccinated. We must generate cutting factual soundbites that resonate and collapse the narrative. #HOLDTHELINE
Sounds promising. Let’s hope this isn’t another false dawn. Perhaps this week’s YouGuv poll showing the Tories hemorrhaging support has had an impact.
Companies that already demand proof of vaccination will be able to continue
So we, we all know which businesses to avoid then.
As long as they accept continue to accept negative lft results also, which can be generated at a whim, the whole thing continues to be theatre.
If vax passports don’t go ahead then this is a big big step forward.
I have zero trust in the government so seeing is believing, but if nothing else seeing the bed wetters and Karen’s get worked up about it will be worth it!!!
We shouldn’t be doing things for the sake of it. Apart from injecting 12-year-old kids. We need to do that. For the sake of it.
I remember the week last summer when the media and the ‘opposition’ were howling for a mask law. I was so frightened that my face went numb – that effect of anxiety when you’re not breathing properly. Gove went on the Marr Show on the Sunday morning and said he thought masks shouldn’t be legally imposed. Like a fool, or a person accustomed to living in a liberal democracy, I believed him, and went to bed that night calmer and with a greater sense of wellbeing than in some time. Then the very next day the government said it was going to impose a mask law.
I want to believe Javid; I am massively stressed by the threat to my bodily autonomy represented by vaccine passports. But if I again breathe a sigh of relief, and relax a bit, it will be worse for me when they reverse their stance tomorrow, or perhaps next Thursday, or Saturday week.
Do we think people like Gove and Javid have any concept of the distress they cause to someone like me?
I know exactly how you feel – it is very unpleasant.
If you can, take a break from C-19 research for a couple of weeks, get out and about in the countryside and try to lay off the grog.
Sadly yes, and deliberately so. They are being told exactly how to destabilise, demoralise, and distress you, me, and anyone else with any kind of emotional intelligence at all.
These torturers are slaves to their power-granting masters, a hidden priesthood of the darkest elite, who themselves are willing worshippers of another god, who himself is nothing but another front for Satan.
All who participate in the disfigurement of mankind are nakedly psychopathic and cravenly evil. A lake of eternal fire awaits them. Until then, they are confident of their spiteful reign. May the end be soon, and may the judgement rained down upon them be a horror to behold.
They simply don’t give a shit. Obviously, this is no surprise where politicians are concerned, but what has been more surprising is that a large part of the medical profession doesn’t seem to give a shit either.
I sympathise. I felt sick when wrinkly-Welsh-cheap-imitation-of-Stalin Dungford imposed the foul things. But remember – there are exemptions, which cannot be (and in my experience are not) challenged, and the same will apply to vaxports if they are brought in, which God forbid.
Just don’t buckle under the pressure. Be strong. Rabid Jabbid and the rest of the bullying scum don’t care what distress they cause us. But we do care about one another. You are not alone.
I like to think that the whips have been sounding out the MPs and have told the PM that the vote would be lost.
I think it’s more likely that the hospitality sector has applied pressure.
It’s very likely; after all, didn’t the unions apply pressure to the government to bring in masks in shops, school closures, and indeed lockdown itself? Maybe also Saint Boris has been quietly threatened from being banned from his favourite pub; he doesn’t want a showdown like Kier Starmer had.
However, this “concession” does seem too good to be true, and that it’s a highly tactical move; they’ll find a way of making the public plead for passports, like they manipulated the public into pleading for lockdown.
My guess is that people might plead for a ‘vaccine passport’ to go abroad. It’s an easy step from there to flip it back to being a domestic passport. I wouldn’t put anything past the scheming liars that exact their tyranny over us, in their eyes, mere plebs.
Stop referring to him as Boris. He is not your friend. You wouldn’t use “Joe” in an article about Biden.
Who’s Joe? Oh you mean Sleepy, Creepy, 2 Stacks, Child-Sniffer, POTATOUS in Chief, China Joe… Biden.
Stop telling us off. As I’ve said before to… (might have been you), if you could see the way I SAY ‘Boris’ you’d have no doubt that I do not regard him as a friend. The simple reason people don’t call Biden ‘Joe’ is that there are hundreds of thousands, millions, of Joes (eg my son Joe). ‘Boris’ is OK as a means of identification for ‘it’ (OK?) as there are very few Borises in this country. Whereas there are thousands of Johnsons. I hope you can understand now. We’ll call him what we like.
Call him what you like mate
Absolutely.
When I hear ‘Boris’ I think of the repulsive Boris character in Men in Black 3. Not a friendly think at all, at all.
Does anyone have the link that Toby Young mentioned on London Calling that gives an exemption to being double-jabbed please?
In what sense? It was publicised that the NHS covid passport allows for self exemption, but they they were looking to close that ‘loop hole’, although using the app and self exempting is still playing along with the destruction of our way of life. Or are you in a job where it’s still being forced upon you?
21 minutes in to the latest episode Toby mentions signing up to be a member of the control group of an experiment whereby they want people to avoid vaccination. They have given him a card that says for scientific reasons he cannot be vaccinated. Its ok thanks I have found the link under the podcast notes.
Can you push the link to that study?
https://members.controlgroup.coop/register
That’s a rather misleading headline.
Just the Johnson Junta trying to appear ‘nice’ as it seeks an extension to its despotic Coronavirus Act powers.