In the latest episode of London Calling, I bet James Delingpole £50 there won’t be a national lockdown in England before Christmas, nor will there be a lockdown of the unvaccinated. In addition, we discuss driven shooting, David’s Law, the new series of Succession and our old friend Michael Gove.
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The backbench MPs who threatened to oust Kim Jong-Johnson can be credited for there not being a lockdown.
Kim Jong-Johnson was positively itching to impose lockdown.
If you read only one essay today, let it be this one by Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute. There aren’t many adults left in the room … but Tucker is one of them.
This explains how we got to where we are, but, more importantly, asks how do we get out of this mess. We are in uncharted territory when the unelected bureaucrats and crony oligarchs really pull all the strings.
https://brownstone.org/articles/now-is-the-time-for-mass-resignations-from-within-the-ruling-class/?fbclid=IwAR3jZfgY07Qgj_2eggq-fG4GZG9q2rfsyyi6nKQTpI9lGYM2KYcREUh3-V8
It had not previously dawned on me that both Arden an Trudeau are snivelling away from their own people at the same time using the same excuses.
The author does not explain why the coming impasse between the lockdown technocracy and the rest will lead to their mass resignations except for some vague idea that it would be doing the right thing, as if.
Truckers are not typical of ‘the people’ if only because they need to be strong and tough, unfashionable though that is supposed to be these days. They each own a valuable business, make lifetime altering decisions every day, multi tasking constantly and thoughroughly admirable.
They might be truly independent in ways most of us can hardly dream about but not typical. It would be nice to think of them as an anti technocracy vanguard but I’m not holding my breath for the rest of us to follow.
What is of more interest in this essay is that the New Elite, as some of them brazenly describe themselves, have exposed themselves and their methods for such paltry gains. Flogged some PPI, cozied up to China (to what end? China doesn’t need them), given themselves some sparkly media exposure by a media basking in its perceived self importance and, in the UK, recieved a few gongs from Her Maj.
With the acknowledged fundamental transfer of power from where we thought it was, the ballot box, to where it really is, as illustrated so brilliantly in the world of Yes Minister/Prime Minister several decades ago they turn out to be a bunch of low achievers who haven’t even gathered much in the way of heritable futunes or power.
https://youtu.be/zG7XZ2JXZqY
If you haven’t seen it, and have an hour to spare I’d highly recommend this video with Dr Jay Bhattacharya (of Great Barrington Declaration fame) by Peter Robinson for the Hoover Institute.
One of the highlights for me is that they confirm that focussed protection for the elderly could have seen us provide food delivery, alternative accommodation and nursing care to vulnerable groups for a tiny fraction of the costs associated with lockdowns of the healthy not at risk population. First class care to those in need.
Children would have remained in education, businesses would have thrived, and the national debt would have not become cripplingly bad for our future prosperity. “Omnicron” would have happened many months ago, and the only shortage would be of the Greek alphabet letters to name the newest, and weakest strains.
Governments around the world have magnified the harms caused that the actual threat we faced bears no relationship whatsoever to the harms we now see everywhere. It’s like a bar brawl escalated into an all out war.
PS haven’t listened to the podcast – I’ve heard that podcasts are really dangerous vessels of information – Prince and Princess GingerNutMeg of California said so.
‘Freedom Convoy’ eyewitness on Canada’s SHOCKING anti-protest tactics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvM_865Ju0A
Ezra Levant, Founder of Rebel News, witnessed firsthand the immense support ‘Freedom Convoy’ truckers received from Canadians throughout the nation and specifically in Ottawa. But the anti-protest tactics used by both Canadian police forces and government officials (like Castro super-fan President Justin Trudeau) are just like the tactics used in Venezuela today, Levant says. Truckers with all kinds of backgrounds are tired of their overbearing government mandating rules that just don’t make sense. Levant explains how their stand against that government has formed a new coalition of Canadians — onetime Trudeau voters included — who are tired of the ‘bully state.’ GLEN BECK
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Delingpole is such a tube. I feel sorry for Toby having to co-host with him. Toby, I suggest you find another podcast you can contribute to without having to do constant battle with a fringe nutcase.
I hope Toby and James were practicing for the shooting at dawn of the main criminals involved in the scamdemic!