Boris Johnson said today that there is “absolutely nothing to indicate” there will be another lockdown this winter, in spite of mounting pressure from NHS bigwigs and trade union barons. MailOnline has more.
The Prime Minister said a national shutdown is not ‘on the cards’ as he was grilled about rising coronavirus case numbers.
His comments came after Tory MPs and hospitality chiefs urged the PM to resist calls from health bosses to trigger the Government’s COVID-19 ‘Plan B’.
Conservative MPs fear going ahead with the fall back strategy of telling people to work from home and to wear face masks would put the nation on a “slippery slope” towards another lockdown.
They are adamant there should be no return to draconian curbs, claiming that the Government must not be “bullied” by health leaders into imposing new rules.
Meanwhile, hospitality bosses have warned against reimposing restrictions, telling the PM that many pubs, bars and restaurants would “go to the wall”.
The hospitality industry is concerned that even light touch restrictions could hit bookings and put “Christmas at risk”.
The Government has insisted the triggering of ‘Plan B’ is not imminent, with the focus currently on rolling out vaccine booster shots.
But ministers struck an ominous tone this morning as they said the blueprint is “there for a reason”.
Health bosses have called on the Government to introduce ‘Plan B’ measures as they warned the NHS is currently heading for a winter crisis.
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Stop Press: SAGE is backing Boris’s decision not to implement ‘Plan B’. The latest modelling from SPI-M concluded that admission rates “are unlikely to get significantly higher than those currently seen” if vaccine protection does not wane much further than has already been observed. The Telegraph‘s Sarah Knapton has more.
A winter Covid wave is likely to be mild compared to last year even without ‘Plan B’ measures, Government scientists said as they warned that restrictions may not work as well as in previous waves.
The latest modelling, released on Friday, suggests that unless there is a rapid increase in transmission rates, coupled with the repeated waning of protection from Covid jabs, hospital admissions will be nowhere near the highs of January.
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Translation: “There will be one, we’re just doing our best to not tell you about it.
I mean, after all, last time around Boris had no reservations about deploying the nuclear option. And I seem to remember that there was no indication of any vaccine passport plans, until suddenly it happened. Strange that…
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This is all just a pantomime to make it look like Boris is on our side. But he already knows there will be further restrictions and the government is already planning for them. Even if he personally opposes such restrictions he and his government are too weak to stand up to the health lobby, the media and more importantly, Big Pharma and the Great Reset people who are driving the whole pandemic response globally.
There may not be another national lockdown but there will be more restrictions coming. Vaccine passports, a return of masks, social distancing and local lockdowns. As well as massive pressure on everyone to get vaccinated.
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There is already massive pressure to get vaccinated.
I wouldn’t be fooled if things appear quiet for some. For anyone in any sort of position of authority or with a public profile, in other words, anyone except for plebs, the pressure is stifling.
And they have their trump card on the table. Overseas travel privileges for the vaccinated. They know that they just need to keep that on the table and it will slowly but surely drive hold outs to the vaccine centres.
Well I certainly don’t want to see more restrictions than we already have, but I am locked down as it stands. I can’t travel abroad, I am excluded from events that choose to implement covid pass arrangements, I am being threatened with vax passes and more restrictions, TFL insists on masks, and of course my fellow Brits cannot work in care homes without being jabbed. Not to mention all the shit in Scotland, Wales and NI. And finally I am bombarded from the government and “friends” and colleagues with mad, evil vaxx propaganda, and children are being bullied into being vaxxed, and millions are terrified. And the government still have all their emergency powers and are pissing away billions on useless vaccines and pointless testing. So as far as I am concerned, we’re still in lockdown, locked down by the Big Lie.
HaHa me as well Julian…but they can stick any lockdowns up their arse! I have talked to my friends and family and we all agree we will never stop seeing each other again…to the best of our ability!
The power is yours, not theirs. Do what thou wilt.
Sounds fine but I cannot do that, I have family in Uganda and in Canada, I am prevented from visiting them. If we visit our daughter in Cardiff we are not allowed to go to the Opera with her unless we can do the covid pass stuff. I will certainly do what I wilt but I am afraid the powers that be have put insurmountable blocks in my way.
That’s the hill you surrender on, is it?
Unless I am physically restrained there is absolutely no chance I will not be seeing loved ones whenever I so choose.
And, speaking to even normal civilians, I get the impression few are willing to comply with these restrictions going forward.
Yes indeed we (me & close family and our very few sceptic friends) will ignore it all as best we can, but we can’t unclose closed shops, bars cinemas or sports facilities etc.
The slow process of lockdown has already started. My kid’s school today have:
They are just softening us up for what’s to come.
The utter, evil bastards.
Conversation at school gates today, between two masked, double-jabbed mums:
“So, I caught Covid the other week, and I’ve just come out of my ten-day isolation. I only had a few sniffles though. It was just like a cold really.”
“I was the same, just a cold but tested positive. Strange thing was, the lateral flow test was negative. I don’t understand it. And it was only me who got the positive. The rest of the family, we all had colds, but they were all negative. It was only me who caught covid.”
So I chip in. “It is weird isn’t it.” They agreed. I continue: “My neighbour experienced the same thing. She claims she caught covid and had to self-isolate, but the rest of her family were fine. So obviously whatever this virus is, it’s not as contagious as they’re making it out to be.”
They agree. I think I’m getting somewhere. Beginning to chip away at the spell. But they seem nervous, as though we’re straying onto forbidden territory.
Then one of the mums intones: “Thank goodness for the Vaccine.” “Yes, thank goodness for the Vaccine,” agrees the other, and off they shamble to pick up their kids.
So some types of discrimination are ok at your kid’s school . I assume you were unaware of this when you signed them up ?!
This is the problem.
Low level managers imposing their own restrictions.
I heard a choir teacher saying all attendees had to wear a mask, as ‘the school was full of covid’. Why not let people make up their own minds?
Johnson should be carried around in a big bucket he is so spineless.
Trouble is, the so called opposition is even worse.
What Opposition might that be?
Exactly!!
Like that character in Deep Space Nine who sleeps in a bucket. Can they be related?
Ha ha, Except Odo had a spiritual and moral spine, if not a physical one. Odo was an honourable man who refused to help the evil Dominion and his ancestors The Founders.
The Bozzer is more akin to the Ferengi character, whose name escapes me for the moment.
But what does Bill say…
^^^^^^^
THIS!!!
“A winter Covid wave is likely to be mild compared to last year even without ‘Plan B’ measures, Government scientists said as they warned that restrictions may not work as well as in previous waves.”
ROFL. Yeah, they worked so well in previous waves. Christ Almighty you have to be really brainwashed now to fall for this stuff.
I can’t say I find this graph of deaths particularly worrying.
Deaths rates are soooo last year. Don’t you know it’s ‘Cases’ now?
I gave up on these graphs & stats stuff long ago, Anyone that still pedalling this nonsense still isn’t fully awake. I think some people just get a semi looking at these silly meaningless graphics
How much does it take before you get off the fence?
Do I need to go on, come on man FFS wake up!
I don’t know why you are ranting at me. I understand all those points and agree, so there is no fence sitting on my part. All I was doing was pointing out that the government’s own statistics show there isn’t a problem. Counting positive test outcomes from people who show no symptoms as cases is idiocy. Until recently people knew they were ill, but today I was talking to someone about was going to take a test when they got home to see if they were ill and should stop work for 10 days.
I am also sick of hearing people on Talk Radio and GBN talking about “all” the people sick in hosptial with Covid being unvaxed, whereas in reality there is a higher proportion who have been vaxed twice.
And while I am having a rant, let me add that the vax companies lied to us about the effectiveness of our vaccines, and rather that asking for our money back for being sold a deficient product, the government are now giving the manufactuerers yet more money for a booster which they are now openly telling us will lose its effectivenss just as quickly.
But the graphics can be manipulated to look any way you like, just rearrange X & Y axis parameters it can look as flat or voluptuous as ya want!
There comes a point people must realize this isn’t about facts or truth. Keep doing the same thing & expecting a different result & all that!
They’re not interested in debate, so who are you trying to convince with a graph?
I’m not having a go at you personally, but the strategy to fight this needs to change before it’s too late. Covid is clearly a means to an end, the big picture is evidently a carbon zero economy.
Don’t know how many times it needs to be said, they’re just fucking with your head trying to get as many people vaccinated, before the passports are implemented to coerce/force the hardened refuseniks to submit for vaccine or food.
no jab no job is simply eat or die
Plan
AB will be put in place before Christmas.A rather naive headline.
Bill Gates has given Johnson his orders. Lockdown to come.
Boris sounds like bollocks if you say it while coughing in a covidian’s face. Also has same meaning.
I remember years ago some CND supporters took the government on by refusing to pay the proportion of their income tax which equated with the spend on nuclear weapons.
They failed of course, mainly on the basis that, like it or not, they enjoyed the “benefits” that the UK being a nuclear power gave everyone.
So, when us refuseniks have even more of our “freedoms” removed, it makes perfect legal and moral sense for us to follow a similar line.
Our freedoms are being stripped and as such we will no longer have the benefits which the passport holders enjoy – why should we have to contribute equally to a society which has unlawfully eroded those “freedoms”?
I’ll volunteer first, see you in Belmarsh prison.
If we don’t count the reason of pressuring more people to have vaccinations, then it would be possible and desirable to tell us the real reason, ie if cases exceed x or deaths exceed y it will trigger Plan B.
Since they never do, one must conlcude it’s there as a political excuse, not for a particular reason.
Honestly, go into London on a Friday and tell me the country needs more restrictions and lockdowns. The place is about 1/10 of how it used to be. It’s an absolutely insane situation already without more control from these loons who simply do not have the first idea of consequences from their actions. How any business is surviving is surprising given the sheer lack of people in the capital. Hopefully, there are days when it’s not like this, but by Christ it was depressing viewing.
also, I read the idiotic SAGE papers. What is this evidence that these dam maniacs have that masks are so helpful for every bastard disease known to man ? I have had enough. ENOUGH.
The BBC and the medical establishment are trying their best to force the government into imposing another lockdown. The problem is that Johnson has always given in to these people in the past. Will this time be any different? I wouldn’t bet on it – Johnson is a weak man.
They are utterly desperate for it. I had to turn question time off last night, it had more pro vax and mask mandate propaganda than a nazi war information film.
What is the deal with people clamouring for mask mandates and passports.
Apply logic and both become useless.
Unless you wear an ffp3 mask of which I have seen very very few, you are doing nothing to ‘protect’ yourself from the virus.
Secondly, if the wearer has been jabbed and boosted which you can almost bet your bottom dollar on, then why do they need protecting anyway. Equally if I choose not to wear a mask that’s up to me, so who cares.
Same with vaccine passports. They make zero sense. So much evidence now that vaccinated can catch and spread ‘it’ so makes zero difference.
When will the covidians get this into their thick skulls?
‘Apply logic’ you say!? Tut, tut, naughty corner, NOW!!!
It’s odd isn’t it. I think a lot of them know that they’ve been coerced into taking something they didn’t really need or want, and in retrospect know that was potentially a bit reckless of them. So they want the rest of us who saw through this from the start to also have to suffer in order to make it “fair”.
Sniff. Sniff.
Rats?
Watch out for Covid passports.
Am I alone in noticing how revealing the language we use around all this is?
“Health bosses” What the hell is a health boss? Do I have a health boss I didn’t know about?
It sounds exactly like what it is, like a mob boss in charge of a protection (i.e. intimidation and coercion) racket run for profit.
The health bosses are saying there is no need to go in and trash your business and screw up your life… for now.
Their henchmen, the public health officers and security services can back off for a bit.
Call it what it is, communism.
This is actually not so far off the mark as I initially thought: Union bosses trying to threaten the government into curbing civil liberties for the general population, ie, make them damn plebs to what the union bosses want them to do, may be less theoretically organized than communism used to be, but one could certainly count it as an attempt to erect some form of a dictatorship of the organized unionat.
Small/medium-sized businesses snuffed out while the giant corporations owned by oligarchs expand and fuse with government. Deliberate food shortages. Deliberate health-care refusal. Deliberate confusion and fear pumped into the peasants’ minds using extreme cultural Marxism. Using the public to snitch on one-another while Big Brother is watching. Unions supporting authoritarianism and threatening jobs rather than protecting them.
All of the above is a description of historical communism that lead to the murder of millions upon millions of people.
All of the above is copy’n’paste material from the so-called internet debate about US domestic politics and in this case, it’s decidedly part of the problem as it was already utilized to silence discussing the effects of all but force-vaccinating teenagers.
It doesn’t really matter if this stuff keeps getting pumped out by people who really don’t understand whom it helps or if they actually intend to help with implementing the politics they claim to oppose. It’s the effect of it and that’s sufficient.
There’s only one way out of this tyranny.
Hug the unvaccinated, have covid parties, don’t wait, do it now!
Everyone needs to get infected A.S.A.P. preferably all at the same time. When we’ve all got it & flooded the testing centres & hospitals, they’ll have nothing left to control us with.
Let’s all become Amish! GO COVID.
Only kidding
If Berenson is right in deducing that the jabs reduce natural immunity – then those of us who remain unjabbed are very fortunate.
Original antigen sin.It’s a thing.
100% correct.
The real powers that be will have war gamed it though – like everything else.
Maybe a glimmer of hope never underestimate their incompetence.
This lady was paying attention (look at the upload date).
Of course there won’t be a use of Plan B, yet! They have to finish off FLOP26 first.
I’m expecting the coward to capitulate to the pressure in mid-November …. “Alas” bringing in Plan B 6 weeks before Christmas ….. so those who have defied orders and remain un-jabbed can’t access any Christmas entertainment.
Xmas entertainment is rubbish at the best of times!
So there will be “a rapid increase in transmission rates” especially in hospital when the elderly pile in in December – plus waning of protection. And everyone pressured to take the third jab by the “firebreak”.
As in Israel.
And this time they plan to close any loopholes on masking.
From the Gordion of today:
In a joint statement, unions including Usdaw, Unison, Unite, the GMB and Aslef attacked the government’s “laissez-faire approach to managing the pandemic”
In the real world, that would be the government’s laissez-faire approach to managing the population, which is conjectured to put union members at a risk. I didn’t use to think in this way, but these blackmailing clubs threatenting strike action unless the civil liberties of others are drastically curbed urgently need to go as they’re obviously completely add odds with the notion that anybody but their members would deserve any freedom at all. Union leaders trying to dicate the general public how they are to dress (‘mandatory face masks’) and whom they’re allowed to talk to (‘no household mixing’) ought to be prosecuted, their organizations declared illegal and their propery confiscated.
One could go to the point to argue that this is an attempt to overthrow so-called liberal democracy by threats of violence, ie, in essence, the unionist revolution.
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That’s certainly true. But we’re approaching 2022 and if Johnsons wants to become the kind of prime minister he’s said to be planning to become (leveling up & stuff like that), he can’t waste another round of billions of £ to subsidize everything grinding to halt for no particular reason once more.
But apparently he can print money ad infinitum with no negative effect?
That’s a discussion I don’t really want to get into. Printing money ad infinitum is a strategy for swindling one’s creditors as the nominal value of what they receive will quickly diverge from the actual value. It was tried on a large scale once, the so-called Weimar Republic swindling itself out of the domestic war debt of the German empire, and the general effects were sufficiently devastating that so far, nobody even contemplated repeating it.
On its own, money has no value. It’s just useful to the degree people owning things of value are willing to depart from them in exchange for money. As printing money doesn’t increase the amount of things of value which are available, it’s a self-defeating strategy.
NB: This is also true for money based on the value of precious metals, for instance, as nobody can eat gold.
Yes it doesn’t make any sense to me but then I’m not an economist
The only thing that has true value is human labour, or at least it was before Ai.
Haven’t they always
What’s money got to do with it? Johnson and his cronies seem to think it grows on trees (Corbyn eat your heart out), they splash it around like confetti. I’d love to know how much of the stuff is flowing into Pfizer’s pockets from the UK alone.
Hope is just delayed disappointment
I love the confidence in the Prime Minister by the writers on this website – don’t share it, of course. I wonder what his real approval rating is? I only have the opinions of my work colleagues to go on, and they are almost all in the “too reckless, should have locked down harder and faster” camp
Boris holds his nerve – for now.Boris holds off reading the next page of the script – for now.
Maybe the sages’ focus is shifting from how to protect the NHS to how to avoid getting randomly stabbed by a product of their brilliant policy? Violence begets violence, maybe it’s dawning on them.
If further restrictions are needed this winter then what more evidence do we need that the ‘vaccines’ do not work.
‘Boris Holds His Nerve – For Now’
Oh really? Good grief.
I really do weep for the sceptical side when I see headlines like this. It’s as if we’re buying into the whole pantomime. It’s a show, for crying out loud.
The Government has created the health problem by ramming needles into millions of arms. Data from countires heavily vaxxed is clear. Illness and death go up after the jabbing starts. So how to explain away this self inflicted rise in illness and excess death? Calling it the ‘super cold’ and how the flu is staging a big comeback after ‘disappearing’ last year.
If the mRNA so called vaccines are anything as deadly as shown in animal trials over the past eight years or so, then Johnson and co will have to up their story telling. Heaven forbid they do the logical thing and just stop the jabs.
Beaureece holds his nerve? Give me a break.
The great supine proptoplasmic invertebrate jelly does whatever the last person whispering in his ear tells him to do.
Boris holds his nerve LDS 16 May 2021
I came back from 3 months in Greece a short while ago. My house over there is rented. I brought back anything that I want to keep in the future, as I have no doubt that travel will become more difficult without an up to date vaccine passport. I am fully prepared never to see my home over there or my friends and family there for a long time, maybe never. Meanwhile I’ve worked out how to do off grid living at my smallholding here in the UK and will implement that if necessary. I will NEVER use a vaccine passport, mask, or socially distance ever again. I will continue to see friends and family over here as normal. (Though the problem is that so many of them have bought into the narrative.) They can stick their vaccine boosters in their own arms, not mine. I’m done supporting Big Pharma, Big Food and “saving the NHS” which is pretty useless anyway. Study proper medical herbalism as I did 25 years ago. I haven’t seen a GP since. I have never been so angry in my life as to what has been done to our country, our world.
Out of genuine interest, as someone who used to enjoy going to Greek islands before this rubbish started, what made you choose the UK rather than Greece as a page to be stuck in?
This will come to an end once governments have worked out who to pin the blame on. The problem for those hoping to avoid being blamed is that far too many of us are learning what has been done which is why the attempts to shut down the scientific debate are becoming ever more desperate.
Plan F U coming soon…