Half of Brits believe there will be further lockdowns and some officials are urging the Government to implement ‘Plan B’ winter measures now. But such talk is, according to the Business Secretary, “completely unhelpful”. Not only that – he says he would “rule out” the idea the country is facing another lockdown. Sky News has the story.
NHS Confederation Chief Executive Matthew Taylor has urged the Government to bring back certain measures, including mandatory face coverings in public places, telling Sky News: “The overwhelming evidence is that we do need to act.” …
But asked by Kay Burley on Sky News whether the U.K. could be facing another lockdown, [Kwasi] Kwarteng said: “I would rule that out.”
Speaking on Wednesday morning, the Business Secretary added: “I think the conversation about restrictions on travel, restrictions on more lockdowns is completely unhelpful.”
Asked whether more travel restrictions could be brought back in, he told Burley: “No, I don’t think so.”
Challenged on the fact that the Government said similar last year before further measures were introduced, the business secretary said: “This time last year we didn’t have the vaccine.”
“We don’t want to go back into lockdown and further restrictions,” Mr. Kwarteng later clarified.
Perhaps this last remark – that the Government doesn’t want to bring in another lockdown – is closer to the point.
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Just copy and paste this link around so people know what it is they are injecting into themselves and their children. And no I don’t believe our government or their families have taken this!
https://rumble.com/vnzy9f-shocking-dr.-carrie-madej-releases-first-look-at-pfizer-vial-contents.html
“Business Secretary Rules Out Another Lockdown”
No he didn’t…
It’s not rocket science you know.
Not that we can find anything that this lot say to be remotely believable anyway of course.
No doubt these “libertarians” will “reluctantly” reintroduce lockdown measures and blame us refuseniks for the calamitous situation! When will this b.s. end? When Schwarb has his way? When the depopulation exercise is complete? When The Greens are in charge? Give me strength!!
God the BBC HYS on all this is depressing.
Literally every single person wanting more masks! What’s the fetish?
If anyone wants to wear a mask, let them just don’t expect the rest of us to follow through.
It’s been ruled out which means you can bet your entire life savings, your house and several bodyparts on there being a lockdown.
One day after Colin Powell, Gordon Ramsay’s double jabbed cat dies of covid
Gordon Ramsay and family suffer tragic loss – details | HELLO! (hellomagazine.com)
Why do these officials and alleged ‘brits’ who want lockdowns get more say than the majority who want none of it?
You need to ask?
Britain’s worst newspaper but anyway
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mirror-signal-wait-months-for-services-07jfmjbnq
Mounting backlogs in essential services risk eroding public trust in the state’s ability to perform the most basic functions, ministers have been warned.
From driving tests to registering title deeds, Britons are facing months-long waits to access essential state services.
Simple updates to the Land Registry to reflect a change in a home’s ownership or mortgage are routinely taking at least three weeks and often more than ten, according to the official website.
The warning came as the Institute for Government, a Whitehall think tank, and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy published a performance tracker identifying huge backlogs across public services including schools, elective care, criminal court cases, and referrals to children’s social care.
Time to slim the extortion funded sector down.
Just like the old USSR. I don’t mean a bit like it, I mean JUST like it. Same reason.
I agree with most of that, but ‘Britain’s worst newspaper’? I have to say that the GroanAid surely takes the prize! (Albeit the Times is now a disgrace!)
And the Sunday Times. I stopped buying the Sunday Times when Dominic Lawson compared lockdown opponents to Harold Shipman.
I stopped buying the Times when their cartoonist tried to blame the fires in Australia on climate change because, according to his implication, climate change causes arson and the lack of backburns.
Directly from the BBC. They KNOW it’ll be a different message and they can barely hide their smugness:
“We have just had it confirmed that the Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, will be hosting a press conference this afternoon.
It comes after seven days of daily Covid cases pushing over 40,000 and the number of patients in hospital rising by 10% in a week.
The NHS Confederation is calling for some measures to be reintroduced if England is to avoid “stumbling into a winter crisis”.
But Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says the government’s approach is working.
We will see what his cabinet colleague has to say later…”
The rolling vaxx program in the UK is the PROBLEM.
It creates a self-fulfilling cycle of variant leak-outs. Great for all the medics dialed in for BIG Pharma and GloboCap narrative kickbacks.
Not so good for the poor, weak, elderly and malnourished that these variants will cull ad-infinitum as the never-ending boosters go in. Rinse-n-variant release repeat. FFS.
The unvaxxd will of course take the hit for this, as the rhetoric about the unclean/dirty folk will be increased. There has to be the non-compliant “others” to blame….
It’s a horribly smart strategy that’s been unleashed on us by the WEF and our elite overlords… and not one single sell-out presstitute within the MSM will highlight the link of rising cases to the vaxx program.
Guaranteed – UK green-pass vaxx passports coming in Dec.
[Let it not be said you weren’t warned]
The MSM propaganda on cases is being hyped as I type…
‘The NHS Confederation’? Is this a rebranding?
Want to see the future, just watch what’s happening in Italy!
First western country to use lockdown = Italy!
First EU country to implement Draconian green pass = Italy
First EU country to start to impose no vax no job = Italy
Soon we’ll all be Italians, just like lockup.
The Australians are all Chinese, so maybe all being Italian is a step up?
The land down under, where everything’s upside down, the police are prepared to kill you to keep you safe! Was there any evidence china was ever that bad?
Not that i’m a fan of the CCP!
United Non Compliance.
To lockdowns, masks, vaxx passports and any other plan B elements.
They want the vax passports instead of lockdown. Leaks suggest it will go live on Dec 17th.
Exactly!
yet “Delta Plus” as the health fascists term it, totally ignores the jabs.
only recovery prevents re-infection.
So, lockdown by the end of the month then.
Only for the sheep, Jo. I’ll still be gadding about, as I’m sure most if not all of us here will.
Oh same here, but it doesn’t half limit your options when everywhere is closed.
I know of least 1 pub and 1 cafe that are adamant they will stay open through any future lockdown where I live. If they are going to lose their business, they intend to go out on their feet, rather than while being on their knees.
The landlord is also considering reverse discrimination in that vaxxed people won’t be served. Citing health concerns.
That’s true. Just need to know where to go though 😉
🙂
Plan B (vax passports) was always plan A! Masks are the psychological element to keep the pandemic narrative alive in public spaces. Covid19 has become a psy-op of the technocratic state, they aren’t even bothering to pretend we live in a democracy any more, MP’s can’t even be bothered to leave home to vote now.
The minister who the Treasury called a LIAR
Saw a snip of today’s paper-review on GB News last night – every front page: bold letters promoting the ‘booster’ jabs. The Sun have gone so far as to create an expensive graphic of a needle launching like a rocket. Yesterday: nothing. Today: wall-to-wall. How can that happen when we supposedly have a free independent news industry?
Apparently by the end of this week, the advertising agency operating on behalf of the government are going to launch their campaign to really push the ‘boosters’ and this is separate to the so-called independent newspapers.
We all know what this means. Fear, panic, urgency. Save Christmas. Save granny. etc.
And here’s the business secretary reeling out more weasel words. Of course they’re prepping us for another lockdown.
“I would rule that out.” – would, but haven’t.
“No, I don’t think so.” – not a convincing answer
“We don’t want to go back into lockdown and further restrictions,” – but we can and we will.
Note the addition of ‘further restrictions’. What could that be? There’s only one more restriction they haven’t introduced yet, and that’s the Social Credit system. The end of cash.
They’re giddy with excitement about this.
Bill Gates was here a couple of days ago and suddenly the news is full of panic about COVID-19 and new lockdowns and the need for more vaccination.
But I expect it’s
> just a coincidence.
2 jabs bad, 3 jabs good.
“4 jabs better”
random pharma shareholder/exec
Thankfully I don’t read newspapers or watch telly.
““This time last year we didn’t have the vaccine.”
… and lower mortality despite either.
Just to clarify: Are they ruling out another lockdown just like how they ruled out lockdowns last year as being the nuclear option, or like how they ruled out vaccine passports?
“Perhaps this last remark – that the Government doesn’t want to bring in another lockdown – is closer to the point.”
I’m not buying that. They had it well within their power to declare victory a long time ago.
Wasn’t it Useless Eustace who said the same last time, a couple of days before the Clown and his ‘heavy heart’ smacked us down.
This is now standard operating procedure: out comes some NHS talking head to say we need to lock down; out comes some sock puppet minister to say we won’t …
Further lock ups were pretty much guaranteed the moment that awful woman said ‘the ayes have it’ yesterday while cackling like a nasty little goblin. You need only look at the dates, 6mths from 21 Oct is just after Easter weekend and peak of the uk flu season is Jan-March. Add on the massive artificial hike in gas electricity fuel and food prices, which means there will be a lot of elderly and vulnerable people trying to struggle through winter / flu season without heating or food. Clearly they just didn’t bump off enough of them during 2020/21.
Slightly off topic. How about your top 10 most hated Covidians:
0. Fauci
He is the architect of it all.
How did I miss him? Thank you!!
Fauci, Vallance and Simon Danzuk
eco-health backers and engineers of the ‘rona.
Not sure if this one is really far out there but isn’t there a “grey pope” (order of the jesuits and leader of the “knights of Malta) who really is in charge of everything including Gates, the Pope, the Rothschilds, Biden etc?
Is he in the cabal, a 33rd degree Freemason and / or a satanist? If so then yes. By the way, I heard the Swiss guards who protect the pope resigned because they didn’t want the vaccine. Oh and the Vatican is closed and the pope has been arrested. The alternative media stories are really much more interesting and – who knows? – very possibly true!
I think one Swiss guard actually did and the rest gave in when the rest were threatened. He was interviewed.
No.
Devi Sridhar….
Jeanette krankie ahem Sturgeon…
2 excellent candidates!
You took the words out of my keyboard.
I have the Great British Public on the list.
Moi aussi.
Maybe slightly outside the top 10, but that stupid smug fuck of an arrogant, 2-faced “doctor” …. “Dr.” Hillary on GMB. 2 minutes alone in a room … just 2 minutes …
Doesn’t usually feature in the UK as he’s more a scourge on Germany: Christian Drosten who – with a business parter of his who sells these kinds of tests – invented the Sars-CoV2 PCR test.
Where is the Daily Sceptics outrage article above the line about our elected representatives not being minded to vote on extending the coronavirus restriction laws for another 6 months, thereby extending them by default?
Just tumbleweed here. Just like in the MSM.
If our leaders have told us this then we must take them at their word
They didn’t get elected to parliament to tell us lies.
They are men and women of honour
Oh how I do love good news
So……yesterday the government spat in the face of democracy and extended its ‘emergency powers’ to regulate our lives the nth degree…….without even a proper vote (and there is absolutely no furore in the media).
There is NO emergency – and the government ‘doesn’t want’ to regulate…….so why is it keeping ‘emergency powers’?
Ask too why the monsters of SAGE and people like this NHS zombie are spouting off about the ‘incredible dangers that face us’……..after all, we’ve been jabbed.
Three things become apparent:
> this really is about control and not a public health issue…….the SAGE/NHS people are reading from the government’s script
> we’re on the road to undemocratic nowhere, with no means to hold our government to account
> the jabs don’t work – they only succeed in making the jabbed more vulnerable to this relatively harmless virus – and the NHS is indeed going to be overwhelmed this winter…..with jabbed people.
Without any doubt whatsoever, Plan ‘B’ is going to be implemented within a fortnight, in order to cover-up the fact that the jabs are far more dangerous than the disease. Wales and Scotland were just outliers – if they’ve done it……England and N.I. will… Read more »
NOT the government, the “opposition” also decided no opposition was required.
Latvia has gone back into Lockdown, ‘just for a month’* let’s see if the EU follows.
*RT
It’s time that government started warning that characters calling for lockdowns perhaps ought to be looking for other jobs and that we need people in those positions who will look forward not back.
These characters won’t wind their necks in until their income and power is threatened.
You can always tell when a politician is lying, just watch their body language and talk. Another lockdown is on its way, as predicted 4 months ago when the so-called restrictions were lifted.
Update :
Covid warning as ‘Delta plus’ rips through UK – Boris on alert and ‘won’t hesitate to act’ (msn.com)
Isn’t Marburg Virus going to be used at some point in the future to enforce lockdown?
Indeed, predicted on the basis of increased cases after the schools went back, not that any children are keeling over in the classroom.
“Government doesn’t want to bring in another lockdown”.
I like that emphasis on the word ‘want’.
Government invariably does what it says it doesn’t want to do and doesn’t do what it says it wants to do – ‘diddums’ – it’s blame, not sympathy, that’s justifiable
Neville Chamberlain didn’t ‘want’ to go to war with Germany.
All of this has just brought back that awful anxious feeling and nauseous knot in my stomach that we are going back to dreadful restrictions on our lives. I really don’t think I can cope this time and am in despair. The government, NHS and MSM between them are mentally abusing me and I don’t think I can take it anymore.
Garfy
You are not alone. You have friends here. Together will hold the line. And don’t forget that laughter is the best medicine, so never fail to laugh at their countless idiocies (for that is what they are).
Please know that you are not alone, not at all. Different people have different levels of being able to cope, and different ways of coping. While there are some that say keeping off this ‘bad news’ site might make you feel better, my view is that it’s comforting to know that there are others who feel the same. We are always here for you, every single one of us.
Thank you both.
I feel exactly the same. Out of 1800 in the “middle England” village I live in I think there are (except children) probably only 10 unjabbed. It’s a lonely experience and people who I would perceive to be relatively intelligent are just dismissive of anything that challenges the agenda. Luckily my partner feels the same as I do and I have a number of friends who are holding the line. I feel like I’m waiting for all the others to have an epiphany but don’t know how that will arrive…….unexplained/ unexpected death of a loved one?
You’re most definitely not alone. You’ve come this far, stand firm and don’t give up now.
Due to the fact that I regularly work from 3pm – 11pm and don’t really have any friends in England, just some pub acquaintances, I spent the first lockdown and the time which started with the 10pm curfew and ended with the end of the 3rd lockdown in almost complete social isolation (minus a hasty, masked 30 minutes daily shopping trip).
That wasn’t exactly fun. But humans can cope with worse things and you can do that, too. Giving up means the abusers win. Otherwise, they will have to pay sooner or later.
Off topic, but I’m generally surfing the net and saw an article titled “Those people who don’t need the vaccine”. I didn’t bother to read it, just thought anybody with a functioning brain are exempt.