With the announcement of ‘Plan B’ restrictions expected imminently, a study conducted by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has unveiled that the measures, which include the imposition of vaccine passports and work from home guidelines, could cost the British economy £4 billion a month. Toby, quoted in the article below, has said that part of “the financial cost would be the constant demand from petty officials to see evidence of our vaccination status”. The Express has the story.
Boris Johnson is expected to announce the introduction of new restrictions against Covid at some point in the next 24 hours. A Government source told the Guardian that “new Covid rules are imminent” after a video emerged of Downing Street staff laughing about a Christmas party held last year.
Reports suggest that Mr Johnson could reintroduce work from home guidelines and introduce Covid vaccine passports.
Three senior Whitehall officials told the Financial Times that the Government has decided it will impose these winter ‘Plan B’ measures.
But new analysis by the IEA has revealed that these measures would have a damning impact on the British economy, at a time when the financial recovery from previous lockdowns is already pulling at taxpayers’ pockets.
The think tank has predicted that the restrictions could add fresh costs of £4 billion every month.
Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at the IEA, said: “Even without a full national lockdown, the additional Covid restrictions apparently being considered in Whitehall could easily knock two percent off GDP – costing the UK economy £4 billion a month – and force the taxpayer to stump up billions more to prevent a new wave of bankruptcies and job losses.”
It is also understood that the costs of new measures would not stop at the economy.
Toby Young, Editor of the Daily Sceptic, said other impacts will be “even worse” than that on the economy.
He told the Express: “It is right to recognise the ruinous economic impact of ‘Plan B’, but even worse than the financial cost would be the constant demand from petty officials to see evidence of our vaccination status.
“Britain is not and never should be a ‘papers’ please’ country.”
Jessop added: “[The economic cost] is on top of all the social costs and harms to people’s wellbeing and liberties, as well as the risk of further disruption to children’s education.
“Some will argue that this would be a fair price to pay to clamp down on Omicron. However, this would require much stronger evidence that the new variant is more deadly, not just more transmissible.
“This is a particularly high bar to clear in the U.K., where most experts agree that the population has now acquired a high degree of immunity due to past infections and from the vaccine booster programme.”
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We are all going to fucking die. Who gives a shit. What is this big deal about our departure? Are you joking? I have no time for those who covet their own lives.
He thinks we are fools and complying
Here the bullshit goes again: Because of (so far) 568 confirmed Omicron infections, people must henceforth
If public indoor venues doesn’t already include pubs, Johnson-the Jelly will doubtlessly find himself under massive pressure to add them to this list ASAP. And we all know how boiling the frog works wrt vaxx passes. For as long as there’s still anything people will be allowed to do without showing a proof of vaccination first, the sages will work very hard to get it outlawed. This includes eating, breathing and sleeping.
Johnson also added
I think the British public can see the vital importance of the medical instruction that we’re giving.
and
I didn’t want us to have a society in a culture where we forced people to get vaccinated.
If someone manages to find a medical instruction in the list above, please let me know.
This is the language of a domestic abuser, blaming his victim for making him do it.
Plan Zero
There is no ‘Omicron’ virus stalking the streets out to get you.
The fat dictator to hold a presser at 6 o’clock.
They, of course, will blame rising cases for what they plan to do.
I wonder how that happened. Next slide, please!
Melbourne Woman Sets Herself On Fire Inside Car With Sign: “NO ONE CARES, MANDATES ARE KILLING US”
Do you have a reliable source for that?
Why not look yourself
I have been looking, on Aussie sites and finding nothing.
The question in my mind is whether she actually set fire to the gasoline. I’m finding nothing about that precise element.
From reddit: “The video from Wyndham News Facebook page shows the aftermath of the fire”
If that’s the aftermath, then I doubt she had 4 cans of gasoline, and in most lesser scenarios the sign itself wouldn’t be intact.
The Wyndham TV website shows nothing about it today. (And yes, I know where that suburb is. RAAF Point Cook is in it.)
Why are you training your sites on the messenger? Make of it what you like.
I’m not “training sights”. I’m trying to find out if that description of the incident is accurate. If it is (and it’s possible) then I want to know more about it.
Why are you squirming backwards?
I ain’t doing anything, I posted a link, moved on 5 secs after I posted it, why are you asking me questions about it, I live 12,000 miles away! I know as much as the article says, no more.
Sights not sites ffs.
Note that I know something about the area. The little air station at Point Cook. Might that indicate, at some point in the past I’ve had some connection? That something to do with Wyndham town might be EXTREMELY interesting to me?
I respectfully suggest you not get paranoid when people want more information.
I respectfully take your own advice, have a paranoia break.
Yep – I don’t see anything either, only from ‘iffy’ websites.
The Stark Reality he’s just saying what we’re all thinking.
“This is a particularly high bar to clear in the U.K., where most experts agree that the population has now acquired a high degree of immunity due to past infections and from the vaccine booster programme.”
Sure they’ve got high degree of immunity from the vaccine booster programme. Though of course, it is negative immunity.
Britain got a high degree of immunity from catching the mild covid cold and is now protected, the state is desperately trying to undo this with the jabs.
It’s not definite yet that “Plan B” will be announced today. The current position is that the prime minister “may” hold a press conference later today. Or he may not. We don’t know. Presumably the prime minister means Boris Johnson, though. (Joke.)
What a way to run a railway. I hope for Dominic Cummings’s sake he wears a ballistic vest. This could quite soon go all “Enver Hoxha”.
£37 billion on Track and Trace. £4 billion per month on Plan B. Filch whatever you can out the back door before the bankruptcy administrator boards the place up, much?
Latest news: Johnson press conference at 6pm.
It’s the Unholy Trinity again – that’s always bad. Johnson backed up by his doomster due Whitty and Vallence.
Anyone know where Billy Hunt lives?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpCxpmegbnE
Don’t forget the stupid money they threw at creating the Nightingale hospitals which never opened.
nothing more than optics – ramping up the fear
“if they have to build those special hospitals it must be really bad”
Dido Harding says thanks for the cash, you mugs! Jolly hockey sticks!
£4 billion a month closer to breaking the UK economy and ‘forced’ to incorporate a new financial system within the ‘covid passport’. By which point we will be living in a communist nation that operates same as China.
Wasn’t “Freedom Day” irreversible?
Until a new variant came along …. which they knew it would.
Only until it was about to happen. As with all cowards, Johnson’s courage is boundless for as long as all threats remain at a safe distance. When freedom day came, it had to be postponed by just another for weeks to jab some more people, otherwise, the risk would be just too great. A month later experts literally predicted the world would end if COVID measures were lifted. Johnson lifted them reluctantly while paying lip services to the powers pulling his strings (or rather, terrifying his puny mind with their horrible fantasy numbers) and the world didn’t.
Unfortunately, this didn’t get us anywhere as all the behind-the-scenes stuff was left in place. Hence, five months later, we just find us again in the same shitty situation: Experts are wielding loads of really scary numbers (Even a mild cold is just too much for the NHS when people are being allowed to decide on their own clothing in public and to meet other people as they see fit !!!) and apparently, all of the COVID bullshit interventions are back on the table.
“freedom day” was just words, a sound bite.
Talk is cheap.
Justice Update: Colleges discriminate against unvaxxed students; how to fight the good fight; suing over federal travel mandateshttps://mailchi.mp/jccf/justiceupdatedecember82021?e=3de70dd1ec
https://lauradodsworth.substack.com/p/masks-were-to-soften-you-up-for-plan
If Laura thinks the endgame is to do with access to entertainment venues…
A note to all the Tory members who were complicit in saddling the country with this catastrophically weak joke of a prime minister who’s now for almost two years been busy fighting a non-existant threat with ineffective measures while ruining the country and millions of lives in the process: Should you ever again be presented with a form to vote on anything, please bin it immediately. The outcome is likely to be much more in your real interest in this case.
In essence, Kim Jong Johnson defeated Jeremy Corbyn by a wide margin then did what Jezza was going to do anyway, the great fat communist fraud.
C’mon – BJ may be a fatso like KJU, but he hasn’t got anything like his government skills.
In what way dos any communist have government skills?
I would like to think no-one who posts here will ever vote Tory again, probably not for any other current mainstream party, unless one of them convincingly demonstrates they have cleaned the stables (not going to happen).
The thing here is that Johnson got elected to Get Brexit Done in order restore the sovereignity of the UK by wrangling it out of the grip of the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. And the same Johnson is now basically selling out all of the UK to the equally unelected bureaucrats of the WHO, despite there are ample precedents of other conservative leaders who have held their own against these and the most dangerous thing which happened to them is that they got a lot of bad press from mainstream- and not-so-mainstream leftwing papers.
In addition to this, he’s already spouting the nonsense about the evil unvaxxed who are forcing the government to restrict the social life of the poor population while – at the same time – stating that it’s presently unknown if the current round of available vaccines is still of any use.
Bill Ayers (formerly of the Weather Underground) was leader of a group which (from the mid-80s on) groomed and successfully ran Barack Obama for the Presidency.
Before the 2008 election, Ayers said in public that … each morning, he wakes up and says to himself, ‘This is the day I destroy capitalism’.
Boris hasn’t the cojones to do what the Weather Underground did. Nor does he have the spine to do what “guilty as hell, free as a bird” Ayers has done since.
All Boris is, is proof of Hanlon’s Razor — Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Kim Jong Johnson has been demonstrating his malice.
I note that the people who gain the most from plan B measures (as little as those gains are) are the vulnerable pensioners, who are in general the ones least affected by the measures (fixed income, vulnerable so very likely to be vaccinated etc).
And least likely to be off to a nightclub.
I’m a gentle, peaceful, placid guy. But if they bring in passports to live in our own country, we simply must organise a million people to march to London and chuck the lot of them in the Thames. I have never joined a march before, but I will be there.
Sadly, a million marched against the Iraq war, and it didn’t change anything. We need to get through either to their consciences (if they still have them) or to their fears. Nothing else will work.
I am still astonished that Boris Johnson got a communist (Michie) to work out ways to bully and terrify the people. It was said he wanted to be world dictator when young, and dictatorial ways seem to have come readily to him. I really do think he wants to be a very powerful, dictatorial PM with as little work as possible, for as long as possible, and that being the very best PM he could be, therefore, doesn’t even cross the radar.
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Peking Piffle? Surely Michie was an obvious choice.
They already have Vaxx Passes in Wales and Scotland. Sturgeon hasn’t been chucked in the Firth of Forth, and Drakeford hasn’t been chucked down a coal mine shaft.
Johnson following Agenda 30. Today was always the date for Plan Bollocks.The Xmas party is just a distraction.
It was obvious with the rhetoric they used regards students getting jabbed in late summer. Suggesting that freedoms would be curtailed if they didn’t. There was an implied threat in it for all of us.They always had passports set for winter.
And that’s going to persuade me to give my body to the State?
No ‘vaccines ‘, or boosters, for me, ever!
Even the commentators on the BBC article are calling this out for bullshit now…. The 40% in the mass formation are waking up and turning.
I sure hope you’re right.
I’ve seen 2 spontaneous public polls this week, vaccine mandate, yes/no = 15/85% with multiple thousands participating, the official narrative is wearing thin.
Why aren’t these thousands standing outside the Houses of Parliament, or round at the homes of their MPs?
This is the kind of message/messenger that may break through to the covidian mob, his message is professional, calm, coherent and uncontroversial, his presentation confident, caring & reasoned. I posted it earlier, it doesn’t look like many took it up, I urge you to watch & share far & wide, please.
Former NSW Police Sergeant Stephen Kelly
All this could end now if we had more courageous morally responsible , honest and independent minded brain-active MPs not benefitting from this nightmare outrage of lies.
They could simply vote down the Covid Act and restore the democracy they so casually threw away in their hysterical panic.
MPs and lying “Journalists” ‘bought out ‘ globally by we know who are responsible for everything that is happening . The ovine stupidity of the sheep makes it even easier than they could ever have imagined.
Everything that is happening has already been gamed by Fauci in his fifty year career and “enhanced” by his teaming up with Gates – “It’s nothing personal – just business”,as Fauci quoted from his favourite film in interview.
You can read all about it in shocking, minute, well-referenced detail in RFK.J’s book “The Real Dr Fauci”.
But only those who already know will go anywhere near it. The ‘Awake’ and the honest un-bribed virologists have correctly predicted every element of this Pharma driven totalitarian ‘Reset’ operation from day one.
It has all been hidden in plain sight for those who open their eyes.
The report that Gove and presumably his secret ‘friend’… Read more »
The threat of what happened to the Leigh-on-Sea MP murdered by a Somali national – on the MI5 watchlist, may have scared those who had a conscious at the time. It’s a prison planet, until enough deaths occur and they can’t be hidden. May take until Jan/Feb at which point CBDC or the passport is in.
The manufacturing base has been depleted and shipped to China. The Green Agenda’s wind turbine projects at £25BN a piece and the mrna attack further bleeds the country’s finances, energy integrity and social fabric apart.
Actions were sped when the US election was taken. We’ll see the further destruction of social order, manufactured by design, into February.
Whitehall do not run the gov’t. Why the people cannot see everything is in lock-step with other western nations with connections to the Rothschilds and the 300 families is beyond me. But anyway, I’ll take my tin foil hat off. Btw,
Number of people in hospital with ‘omicron variant’ – Nil
They will find some poor road accident victims who apparently died of Covid. Their real problem is disguising the number of the vaccinated filling Covid wards as ADE and weakened immune systems take hold. Who can they possibly try to blame?
The most important thing to remember is that everything from Government and Media is a pack of lies – starting with the fake PCR test results.
the fake PCR test results.
Depends what you mean by this. The PCR test results have not been faked. They are fake by the very nature of the PCR test. They are intrinsically-fake. They are evidentially meaningless. They constitute political propaganda- far worse, in fact; they constitute political propaganda masquerading as meaningful evidence- they are a lie which has been assiduously-crafted to appear to be in close proximity to a form of truth. That PCR test results have any meaning other than as political propaganda is an original Big Lie upon which so many other big lies are predicated. As lie is heaped upon lie, we need to keep the original lies clearly in mind.
Well its certain that symptomless POCR positives are just bullshit on a stick, to call them a case is probably the base lie of this panicdemic.
Not convinced the tests that people put themselves through on the ground have anything to do with the figures that are spewed out by the govt.
I thought Gove had been silent for a long time, the viper still spits out his poison
If Gove makes it to PM, he’ll hand the reins to Cummings. Just saying.
Why? where is the evidence? where is the justification
They don’t need “evidence” – just lies, propaganda and emergency powers – we have given them both.
I think we see that “repeated lying without conscience” was the principal element in the “skill-set” required for the post of PM when Johnson applied for the job.
Still you ask for evidence.Still you ask for justification.
The “economy” is being geared into a global medico-fascist surveillance state. The loss to the traditional economy (tourism, hospitality, business travel, socialising) is nothing compared to the “investment” from (and wealth shift to) the pharma companies, their shareholders and various pseudo-science liggers working in the NHS and elsewhere who rely on the £15 per shot of their latest “medication”.
They want to turn people into pot plants.
“They want to turn people into pot plants.” No, potting soil.
Or batteries!
The economy allows just enough freedom to maximise rent-seeking
Pharma? Just look at the stock price of the last 18 months of Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc.. It’s doubled.
Where the world is going, these companies won’t have a place. They have served their purpose and are being rewarded for their service.
Latest from SA: CEO of big hospital group confirms low number of admissions and milder disease, says vast majority of positives can be treated at a primary care level. Wife and I have “colds” but won’t be getting tested. Oh, and we have been masked(theoretically) during each wave, made absolutely no difference. This should be all over from a viral point of view in a few months.
Like every viral cold every year up to 2020 when a group of global oligarchs decided they would use a winter flu to mount a revolution and install global technocratic government.
Ihre papiere, bitte!