The campaign group Big Brother Watch has launched a legal challenge against mandatory Covid passes in Wales, calling for the “authoritarian, invasive and unevidenced” scheme to be scrapped. The group’s website has more.
The non-profit group’s legal challenge comes as the Welsh government is extending domestic requirements for Covid passes for people to access cinemas and theatres, as well as nightclubs, concerts, and larger events. Big Brother Watch joined local businesses in criticising the expansion, calling it “safety theatre that does nothing for public health but unfairly burdens businesses and excludes citizens”.
Big Brother Watch’s pre-action letter, sent to the Welsh government today, maintains that no evidence has been provided that the mandatory use of Covid passes will benefit the public health and that the “disproportionate” scheme breaches the right to privacy, protected by the Human Rights Act.
In particular, Big Brother Watch draws attention to advice from SAGE and the Welsh Technical Advisory Cell issued before the introduction of mandatory Covid passes to Wales, which outlined risks of the scheme causing ethical issues and unintended harms such as vaccine distrust and warned that there may be no net benefit to a scheme. Furthermore, the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in Westminster analysed Covid certification in detail and concluded that there is “no justification for them in the science and none in logic”.
However, First Minister Mark Drakeford pushed ahead with the scheme following a snap vote in October, which was narrowly won despite unanimous rejection by opposition parties.
Big Brother Watch is leading the campaign against mandatory Covid passes across the UK, and is backed by thousands of members of the public who have collectively raised over £170,000 via Crowdfunder to support the campaign. 83 MPs and 11 rights groups have signed Big Brother Watch’s pledge against mandatory Covid passes to date.
Silkie Carlo, Big Brother Watch’s Director, says: “Covid passes are internal health passports that are authoritarian, invasive and unevidenced.
“Covid IDs don’t tell you that a person doesn’t have Covid or can’t spread Covid, but do make society less free and less accessible for people.
“Within weeks, this mandatory health ID scheme has already been significantly expanded in absence of an evidence base. This is safety theatre that does nothing for public health but unfairly burdens businesses and excludes citizens.
“There are far more proportionate, effective and inclusive measures to keep people safe and get the country back to normal than excluding healthy people without the right health papers from society. But we can never get back to anything like normal with health ID checks that will inevitably continue to expand.
“We urge the Welsh government to scrap these divisive and discriminatory Covid passes. If they don’t, we will seek to make our case in court.”
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Excellent stuff.
Multiply the opposition by refusing to comply, reject their digital ID scheme.
Direct democracy – local action – national impact.
A standard of genuinely inalienable rights would be a solution but that won’t happen without some rather vigorous fisty cuffs.
It’s about time! Good luck.
Hello Toby
Have a look at this footage from this Nov 2019 WHO conference on the rapidly increasing vaccine hesitancy amongst the public and Doctors.
You would be amazed at what the WHO experts admit – basically all the critcisms that anti-vaxxers make regarding vaccine safety are valid .
They discussed how best to counter the hesitancy, seems like staging a faux pandemic and then imposing mandatory vaccine passports so people have no choice won the day.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wOXtTS4djENX/
Thank you for posting that link. I’ve just watched the entire thing and the admissions from senior doctors at the WHO are terrifying.
Great news. Big demo outside of Cardiff Bay’s Whorehouse this afternoon.
Mean while in France. From December 15th, the health pass will cease to be valid for over 65s who who are eligible for the booster shot but have not had it.
From December this will be expanded to include all over 50s, provided the necessary six months have elapsed. Exact date not known.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20211109/worried-macron-to-speak-to-france-on-covid-latest-and-the-economy/
https://www.thelocal.fr/20211109/what-does-macrons-announcement-change-for-covid-vaccine-boosters/
At the time of writing I can only find this and the NYT in English. The latter is behind a pay wall, so no links to that.
RT have covered this
French aged 65+ now need BOOSTERS to keep Covid pass — RT World News
It has been voted on and passed by the Welsh Parliament. It is therefore not for the courts to dismiss on evidence alone. The only legal challenge that I can think of that stands a chance is to challenge it on human rights grounds or discrimination grounds.
I can’t help noticing that all the socialist jurisdictions, Wales, Scotland in UK, Victoria, NT in Australia, NZ, Canada, blue states in the US, all seem to be much keener on trampling on people’s rights than other places. History really is just a merry-go-round.
Socialism = Authoritarianism, always.
Italy, Saudi, Singapore, France?
“Horse” talks about “trampling” and a “merry-go-round”? Hmm…
On Scotland: the nationalist government likes to be stricter rather than laxer in order to play to the ideas that “English people come up here and spread the lergy” and “the English government doesn’t care about its colony”. Sadly I am not joking. The sheeple north of the border are full of “points” such as “what about people who board trains in London and breathe all over them maskless before they cross into Scotland?” Logically an answer might be to close the border, to begin applying Scottish law on the relevant platform at King’s Cross Station in London, or to have one policy across the whole of Britain – spot which one is sanest – but logic has little to do with it. As for the 10 days of quarantine in a hotel in Scotland for unspiked people who return from abroad, that’s mainly to do with corruption pure and simple.
PS Socialism requires redistribution of wealth away from exploiters, not into their pockets. The SNP is politically in the same category as Viktor Orban and Marine Le Pen.
I don’t disagree, but Scotland hasn’t sacked care workers for not taking the vaccine. Granted that could change in a moment
And yet Dripford isn’t yet imposing the jab on care home workers or NHS staff.
I think all we are talking about here is a distinction between ideologically driven malice and profit driven wickedness.
I don’t think Dungford lusts for riches. What would that dried-up husk of a dead turtle do with riches?
But power – that’s quite another thing. Remember 1984?
‘How does one man assert his power over another?’
‘By making him suffer.’
Dungford daily enjoys the intoxicating spectacle of three million people whom he is making to suffer, with the added exquisite delight of persecuting a minority. What luxury, what self-indulgence, what enjoyment, could possibly compare with that?
The push back seems to be gaining momentum.
Top NIH Scientist Opposes Vaccine Mandate, Will Host Live Ethics Debate Next Month
Great news and hopefully successful. How this sort of tripe manages to get into law is beyond belief.
Rumblings about the passport in Scotland being extended to pubs, and restaurants I think I heard reported. It was on the BBC Scotland news at six this evening. BBC Scotland only available in Scotland I believe.
Funny thing was I had just been telling my wife 10 minutes before that they would introduce them in pubs, as the report I had read on dailysceptic.org which mentioned clubs in Edinburgh getting around the current rules by putting chairs on the dance floor. Dailysceptic.org report was also referenced later on zerohedge.com.
The dumb government up here would not want to miss a trick!
All the BBC channels are available via Freesat. I occasionally watch the odd BBC Scotland one, in southern England.
Good for them, about time!
All the legislation seems to rely on interpretation of the term ‘proportionate’.
Given the amount of empirical evidence that now exists I find it utterly staggering that our ‘independent’ judiciary can interpret effective discrimination/medical experimentation on the population as even REMOTELY proportionate to the ‘risk’.
What in God’s name would the Govt have to do for their actions to be deemed ‘disproportionate’?
Given the fact that every legal action has been summarily thrown out on its ear for the supposed reason that we are in the throes of an apocalyptic pandemic so normal restraints dont apply, what makes Big Brother Watch think the judicial response will be any different this time? If BBW cannot answer this question, then their course of action is not only professionally negligent, but a complete waste of donors money.
Evidence vaccines don’t work & therefore passports are illogical, the facts can’t be ignored & if nothing else, it forces government to justify its actions.
You can’t win if you don’t try.
These cases are not “forcing government to justify its actions” for the courts are simply rubber stamping acts of regime tyranny. Donors are being given false hope of success where none exists. The money wasted on lawyers would be better spent on educating the public with flyers, newsletters etc because this regime will only react to public pressure, not argument.
Let the donors decide whether or not opposing vile tyranny is a waste of money.
Couldn’t agree with you more!
Its the legal equivalent of the Charge of the Light Brigade – a complete waste of scarce resources that will leave donors feeling utterly demoralised.
Get real. Donors are being given false hope – and the lawyers know it. The money wasted on lawyers would be better spent on educating the public with flyers, newsletters etc because this regime [and its judicial puppets) will only react to public pressure, not argument.
I do both. It’s my money and my choice. You sit and carp. That’s your choice.
No, disagree completely, even if they don’t win, the discovery process should expose the flawed logic of the Welsh Governments’ strategy. There are two Courts in play here, one of which is the Court of Public Opinion.
We dont need hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on lawyers to expose the regimes flawed logic. Its manifest in plain sight for all to see. What we do need is to organise opposition, hold meetings, print flyers etc to galvanise public opinion and generate critical mass – that is where this money should have been spent.
Has anyone challenged HMG on virus isolation. I understand this has won court cases against the tyranny in certain countries, but fact checkers say this is because they do not have the required labs to isolate. Anyone know?
Also it makes me really angry that the IFR of covid is low and in line with the common flu, which disappeared last year but was replaced by convid with the same IFR, so there is no justification for any of this destruction on any grounds on that basis, this is clearly disproportionate in the extreme. But this absolutely fundamental point does not get anywhere near the level of airtime it should. Its simple – the notion that there is a virus out there that justifies this level of action is provably false and is admitted to in writing by the UK government who have declared this to be the case since 19th March 2020. So where is the legal challenge to HMG on this basis. Is this country really so fucking deplete in sincere people that we dont have anyone in the legal professions to just do their job?
High consequence infectious diseases (HCID) – Status of COVID-19
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#status-of-covid-19
If the regime is to be subjected to a legal challenge, it should focus on one single issue – the bogus PCR process. Johnson has even admitted on tv that it is 97% wrong. Bring this central pillar of the deception down and the whole house of cards falls.
Big Brother Watch sounds utterly spooked up. A copy of their waste-of-time letter is here.
“There is no, or no sufficient, evidence base for the decision to introduce the passes, particularly given this was not a recommendation by SAGE (…)“.
That will be laughed out of court.
In the next bit they don’t even get the name of the 1984 Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 right.
But wait… “The Claimant reserves the right to amend its grounds of challenge if
necessary.”
Dear oh dear…
They might as well say “Our next letter will be really good.”
At least they are trying, you can’t fault them for that.
Dear oh dear, let’s all sit here and so fuck all. Great.
Fuck off.
Silkie Carlo – possibly the coolest name ever
I will support any legal challenges, although I am doubtful any will succeed. However, the more difficult it is every step of the way, the more hope I have that such measures may be delayed, disrupted, reduced or hopefully fall by the wayside.
It’s a campaign of attrition I’m afraid.
‘Australian state places severe restrictions on un-jabbed to block access to most public venues
Double-jabbed Queenslanders will be ‘rewarded’ with access to hospitality and entertainment venues while the unvaccinated will be barred.’
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/australian-state-places-severe-restrictions-on-un-jabbed-to-block-access-to-vast-majority-of-public-venues/
How many politicians, including Australian ones, will parade wearing poppies tomorrow to remember the sacrifices of those who fell in war to preserve our freedoms , whilst at the same time taking our freedoms away.? This is ‘weapons grade’ hypocrisy.
This is why (for the second year running) I will NOT be attending the ‘Remembrance Day’ service at our local War Memorial.
The hypocrisy of those Government organisations and their representatives defies belief. These are the people who have either been complicit in the evisceration of our freedoms or have actively facilitated it.
I have a lot of sympathy with those members of the clergy who are compelled, or feel compelled, to conduct these services but none whatever for our bishops and senior clergy who have said NOTHING.
I am NOT wearing a red poppy this year; I shall find (somewhere) a white rose in memory of those students in Nazi Germany who attempted to resist the Nazis and paid for it with their lives.
Your point about ‘weapons-grade’ hypocrisy is a good one; but if anything it is far too lenient; nuclear grade hypocrisy only starts to describe it.
I thought the Scottish solution was very enterprising, by placing chairs on the night club dance floor and so claiming it’s no longer a nightclub
Well done. Why not also do this in Scotland if you want a real chance at success overall
While I wish Silkie Carlo all the luck in the world, I fear this will come to naught. The courts are bought and paid for just like the MSM. Just look at the excuses some judges have came out with to justify their decisions. In the Simon Dolan case, the judge basically said ‘he saw it on the BBC, so it must be true’.
As I have been saying over the last twenty months, only civil disobedience will end this tyranny.
The problem is, as with all the legal challenges in this arena, the judiciary will have been nobbled, and or is complicit and will throw it out.
I’m not aware of any legal successes to date and this in an area so clearly frothing with lies corruption and full-fat BULLSHIT! What hope of an unbiased hearing.
At any other point in history and in a normal world, this would be immediately upheld. Somehow I don’t rate their chances now though. The whole system is as corrupt as an East German court hearing of a captured Western Journalist reporting on their political machinations back in the days before the wall came down. Jackanory!
Unfortunately as the court decisions so far have proven beyond doubt, the powers that have been given to our lords and masters confers on them the right most commonly displayed by dogs who answer the question “why do you lick your bollocks?”
with “because I can”.
There are no arguments in favour of all their strictures and mandates that are capable of empirical or scientific support – but they will persist with the strictures and mandates anyway.
There is a special place reserved for them in Hell for their amoral actions.
Drop ‘Old Scrawny’ an e-mail?
https://www.markdrakeford.com/en/get-in-touch/
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