Nicola Sturgeon’s plans to introduce vaccine passports at nightclubs and ‘large’ events on October 1st face disruption from the industry body that represents the country’s nightclubs. The group is seeking to launch a legal challenge against the Scottish Government over what it calls a “deeply flawed and incoherent” policy. The Guardian has the story.
The Night Time Industries Association Scotland (NTIA)… has now instructed lawyers to seek a judicial review of the proposals.
The group said the scheme has been drafted without meaningful industry consultation and that the definition of “nightclub” set out by Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish First Minister, is likely to impact thousands of other bars and pubs.
The Scottish Government has faced repeated criticism over the plans from opposition parties concerned with infringement of civil liberties as well as sports and industry leaders who have described them as unworkable and a threat to livelihoods.
Despite some Scottish ministers previously expressing reservations about vaccine passports, including Patrick Harvie, the Co-Leader of the Scottish Greens who last week entered a power-sharing agreement with the Holyrood Government, Sturgeon insists they are “proportionate” as a tool to curb rising Covid infections before the autumn.
On Tuesday, Sturgeon set out the definition of a nightclub drawn up for use with the scheme, this being a venue open between midnight and 5am, serving alcohol, having a designated area for dancing and providing live or recorded music for this purpose.
She said a “pragmatic approach” would be encouraged, “so that businesses can make sensible judgments.”
But the head of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, Liz Cameron, immediately responded that it would extend to many more hotels, pubs and other venues than expected with “thousands” of businesses now caught up in the rules, “with little time left to understand, plan and implement them before the deadline”.
Mike Grieve, chair of NTIA Scotland, said: “Having disregarded input from NTIA Scotland in discussions since the vaccine passport policy was announced, and having forced a rush vote through Scottish parliament, the Scottish Government have now confirmed that this deeply flawed and incoherent policy will come into effect from October 1st, focusing the negative attention on one small subsection of society, and all the economic damage on the sector already most affected by the pandemic.”
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Why is it that all these dictator wannabes always go for alcohol first? They were dead set on closing pubs. Then they placed all sorts of restrictions on alcohol sales. Now the EU is trying to massively raise alcohol prices (I know it’s the EU, but they’re all cut from the same cloth, so just give it a bit of time).
There may be two reasons why this is. For millennia, alcohol has been a kind of social glue. Friends are made over sharing a drink, we celebrate with drinks, and, dare I say it, having a drink with someone generally leads to a more meaningful conversation (at least until the 4th or 5th pint, then it goes downhill, but still). Alcohol is very important to western culture, and I think that this is why they are so opposed to it. It seems to me that they’re trying to destroy every single thing that brings people together. They would really like us all to be isolated in our homes, feeling completely alone and isolated, because people in this state are very easy to manipulate. They cannot get together and talk things out with anyone, they cannot compare notes, they cannot protest. It’s just a continuation of their divide and conquer strategy.
Secondly, it may be a disgust response. Authoritarianism usually goes hand in hand with disgust. Hitler was a hygiene freak. The nazi propaganda against Jews usually revolved around triggering people’s sense of disgust, either by comparing them to cockroaches or by creating disgusting depictions of them. What’s more, Zyklon-B is actually a pesticide used to fumigate buildings. It’s clear that their hatred was fuelled by disgust. And we see the same thing today, especially when they pretend like unvaccinated people are disease ridden pests. I believe that this adversity to alcohol is stemming from the same cause. Once you believe that your political opponent is a disgusting, vile pest that spreads disease and death, there is no limit to how horrible your actions become.
cos she’s a wee free, duckduck it.
At Uni her nickname was seaweed. Even the tide wouldn’t take her out.
Luvvit!
People will go back to making their own beer, wine, spirits and finding their own alternative clubs and pubs. It seems to me these measures will hurt the businesses more. In my childhood, in an English mining city, my family made their own alcoholic drinks and even grew their own tobacco! We had a huge garage as well which had it been now could have been used as a fairly nice night club.
I once wrote a story on inflation and “shrinkflation” and highlighted all of the “workarounds” that families must adapt to deal with this allegedly non-existent inflation.
For example, cutting out paid subscriptions, “cutting the cable TV cord,” dropping the country club membership, letting go the housekeeper, going out to eat less often, even cremation instead of traditional burials. My list of examples went on an on.
People have no choice but to use more and more workarounds in our New Normal world. So what you reference above is another version of a workaround.
If you want to have an alternative means to calculate real inflation – or a metric that reveals the increase in authoritarian mandates – simply tally up all the necessary workarounds.
That disgusting disease ridden pest thing works both ways
Because they were already crusading against social drinking for supposed health reasons before the pandemic provided them with an opportunity to come down really hard on people who do it. Remember the Scottish health functionary from not that long ago: In order to proceed with fighting our good cause, we must make alcoholic drinks more expensive and less accessible (paraphrase).
A lot of Corona policies are really just things the people yearning for them then always wanted to do, cf Susan Michie’s mask mandates for general health reasons.
That is definitely one of the keys to understanding what has been done to us. We have, for example, seen how whenever local authorities are granted powers they will exercise those powers whether needed or not. Witness the unwanted and needless “Low Traffic Neighbourhoods” that have been imposed upon us as a recent example.
When all this kicked off in March 2020 I said it was an authoritarian’s wet dream. Sadly, I have been proven right.
Scotland has a long tradition of presbyterian opposition to people enjoying themselves. It’s declined in recent decades, but this goes to show that for some politicians it’s still there just below the surface.
Great post. I’d add an example to the intentional use of insect pejoratives to smear those who don’t conform. I happen to be a big advocate for the use of gold or silver as insurance policies in times of great economic uncertainty and rampant inflation. To me, this is history’s “real money” and will protect one’s wealth.
People like myself are commonly referred to as “gold bugs.” We are not only “kooks,” we are also repulsive bugs that need to be squashed. This commonly-used term is intentional,I maintain. And quite effective.
The real goal is to besmirch and vilify those who are skeptical of fiat money, which governments must be able to print in infinite quantities to solidify and expand their control. We “bugs” are a threat to the Status Quo that benefits their system and agenda.
The issue isn’t that the despotism will extend to pubs and hotels, it’s that it’s lunacy to begin with, for the claimed purpose.
Is Queen Nicola in denial about Our Vaccines? Does she still imagine that being double-dosed means that you can’t catch or spread the coofs?
These social credit score apps have got nothing to do with health or infection, and everything to do with control and begging the State for permission.
Sadly, the only immunity going round is that our courts have been inoculated against reason, facts and logic.
“Necessary and proportionate” will be the verdict, I’ll confidently predict.
The judiciary is not inoculated against reason or anything else it is bought and paid for.
The judiciary has been co-opted, the “watchdog” press has been co-opted, government and regulators have been co-opted, “science” and health care have been co-opted, education (college and pre-K) have been co-opted, and now even the military. It’s complete vertical and horizontal integration. There’s no institution that will expose the truth or punish malfeasance and corruption any more.
…. So we have that going for us as a global society.
That vertical integration has taken years of planning and manipulation. It did not happen, indeed it could not have happened, virtually overnight in response to an unforeseen outbreak of a respiratory disease. We are in the midst of the biggest scam ever. Its objectives have to be sinister and almost certainly involve both (mind) control and massive global genocide.
The judiciary are corrupt fat cats with wigs on. No justice will come out of the courts.
Class A drug possession in Scotland? Get a ‘recorded police warning’ and off you go. Forget to wear a mask? £60 fine.
I’m curious, is the fine actually enforcible in Scotland? Or any other part of the UK come to that? I had heard not. Could be wrong.
Facts no longer matter so I expect the courts will just throw this out or tie things up in legalise for months on end.
People need to band together and just boycott anywhere this is enforced. There are plenty of rational, double jabbed folk who know this is the thin end of the wedge.
“Rational double jabbed folk”, surely an oxymoron. That being said, I go along with you about the futility of relying on courts and for the need to boycott all premises enforcing Sturgeon’s stupidity.
I hope Sturgeon’s own biometric system confuses her with Jimmy Krankie whenever she enters any establishment (the ones that haven’t specifically barred her).
I’ve said before but there are enough of us to operate outside their measures in an alternative society not governed by fear and stupidity.
Oh, and Fuck Covid!
Yes, 6 – 10 million of us, at least. A country within a country. Unity News Network`s David Clews was interviewing someone re this very issue a week or so back. Build real time connections and trade with like minded people.
Coming (faster than most think): The “reform” to ban cash. Once this has been enacted, it’s game over for freedom.
Here’s a simple graphic of Nicola’s ‘necessary and proportionate’ measure:
Here’s another…
Just In: Part II of Project Veritas’ Bombshell Covid Vaccine Recordings – FDA Employee: Feds Need to Create a ‘Nazi-Germany’ Style Registry of Unvaccinated Americans, “Go Door to Door and Stab Everyone” –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oWWcqGk1m4
It’s a chat with a young FDA employee in a pub and he’s making jokes about the mandates, proposing to use blow darts for example. I’m not sure why PV even bothered to publish this particular video, I guess it’s a bit embarrassing for the employee but that’s about it.
I agree that it undermined the debate. I just hope that anyone with any real authority isn’t thinking about giving the shot disguised as a VitC supplement – or that holding people down and stabbing them is a policy to be re-visited! Although with the degree to which there has been a lack of the appliance of real science and the un-ethical behaviours already exhibited, there and elsewhere, I won’t be holding my breath that sanity will rule!
https://odysee.com/@en:a5/PK_Tot-durch-Impfung_english:a
This is a special conference led by Vivaine Fisher from the Corona Committee.
It goes into proper medical detail on what is in these “vaccines” There are slides which show metallic objects moving in the “vaccines” It suggests to me that the “mad” theories about transhumanism could have merit, as some of these objects are clearly engineered nanobot type objects.
The part on the vaccine contents starts at about 1.19.
There is a good presentation from a German surgeon who is working with a group of international doctors to investigate and publicise this.
Much of the conference is hard to follow because of the translation, which is hurried out, due to the importance and urgency of getting this information out as soon as possible, given the need to protect children from being experimented on with these deadly injections.
Please publicise and share
30 facts you NEED to know: Your Covid Cribsheet You asked for it, so we made it. A collection of all the arguments you’ll ever need.
https://off-guardian.org/2021/09/22/30-facts-you-need-to-know-your-covid-cribsheet/
Soooooo we already seen the story above this talk about the virus becoming less virulent not more virulent. As we all knew here and may have been even quicker under “focussed protection” ideas like Great Barrington.
Communists always go after the booze first as they want people uptight and not mingling. Stasi Sturgeon is no different.
You better believe this is going places, not just night clubs and football matches. The SNP are VERY VERY Pro-EU Marxism (hence the parliament being set up in the same way) and as such they will copy what the EU will do to curry favour and increase their own power in the meantime.