Boris Johnson is struggling to contain a Tory revolt today amid fury at “non-sensical” new Covid restrictions and his handling of the No. 10 Christmas party debacle. MailOnline has more.
The PM dramatically triggered ‘Plan B’ measures to control the rampant Omicron strain at a press conference last night, with fears that infections are now doubling every few days and the NHS could be crippled.
Millions of office staff will be urged to work from home from Monday, while masks will be required in theatres and cinemas, and Covid passports are being introduced for nightclubs and large venues.
But Mr Johnson stressed that office Christmas parties should go ahead, sparking derision from critics. Desperate businesses have complained that the differing restrictions for venues “don’t make any sense”.
Dozens of Conservative MPs are now threatening to rebel against the measures when a Commons vote is held next week – leaving the PM facing having to rely on Labour support to get them through.
Ringleaders have told MailOnline that it will be the biggest mutiny yet, with at least 60 expected to defy the government whip.
Backbencher Marcus Fysh said today that the latest curbs are an ‘utter disgrace’, while former chief whip Mark Harper has questioned whether the government has the moral authority to impose the limits given the row over rules being flouted in Downing Street.
There was a further setback when the NHS Covid pass website crashed for several hours last night.
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The government made a rod for its own back by telling Brits who tested positive for the Kung Flu to go home, take a pain killer, and wait until they couldn’t breathe before going to hospital.
This advice was stupid, arguably criminal, and predictably ended up filling hospital beds and ICU departments with patients with advanced syptoms,many of whom died or suffered long-haul COVID. It also gave us a worse outcomes record than many third world countries!
Early intervention is key to keeping this virus and its VOC’s at bay. So why,aren’t GP surgeries and hopsital outpatient departments dispensing prophylactic/early treatment medications such as ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, essential supplements like zinc and vitamins D and C?
The nation dutifully conformed to the government’s “wait for the vaccines” plea – only to find them more of a sticking plaster than a pandemic beater. It’s well past time to try some of those cheap and cheerful home remedies which have workd so well in places like India, Mexico and Peru.
Or is Boris’s main priority not public health, but to ensure buddie Bill Gates and his big pharma chums can go on making a killing – literally as well as metaphorically?
Only 60? Write to your mp folks do it now.
Not enough tory dissenters yet to cause the government any worry and the opposition will not vote against any covid actions etc until much nearer to a general election. So we are in effect left with a dictatorship by a group of maybe only 4-6 cabinet members who can operate without any parliamentary scrutiny.
Tory, Labour, LibDem, Plaid, SNP, they are just houses in the same school. They play house matches against each other but they instantly unite against us, the British people should we have a different point of view.
A number of licenced Tory MPs will be ‘allowed’ by the Whips’ Office to ‘rebel’, to reassure the blue rinse (male and female) Tory voters that the Tories are really on their side and Olde England is safe after all. But Tory HQ knows that Labour HQ will not rock the boat or let the old arrangement go by the board.
Every MP in Westminster is your enemy and will vote to send you and your children to a concentration camp without a thought.
I have sent a letter to my M.P. A small action perhaps but if all dissenters did it it might have some effect.
I did that too, a couple of days ago. Only had an auto reply so far
Sadly mines’ a spineless Labour creep. The idea of a checkpoint, surveillance society where the state controls our every move likely gets him very excited.
Presumably, folk at office parties won’t have to wear masks (unless it’s a masquerade ball of course, not!), but church congregations do. Right! Says it all really.
If the NHS pass website crashed yesterday, just think what it will do when hundreds of thousands of football fans all try to get into grounds at 3.00 next Saturday
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Only 60 Conservative MPs have any sense of proportion; any decency and any respect for our Civil Rights.
No Labour MPs do.
It’s why we need Reform UK.
We need a non politically motivated but politically savvy, economically and business savvy and/or military backgrounded bunch of non politicians – who don’t need the money – who take no prisoners – who will eviscerate the Civil Service, burn the quangos ( remember when the “Cull of Quangos” was last promised?) the left wing Unions and 99% of the “Teaching Profession” and the BBC….more than ever.
Trouble is , not where are they to be found , more like what do you do with the ‘000’s of snout snorkelling trough hugging apparatchiks who won’t have anything to do ( Be put on plastic clear up “Drag Lines”, with the man in the shades as “Boss”).
What a vision.
With Labour even more rabid about bringing in more restrictions, it won’t make a difference to the outcome. Now is the time for us to take back control of our lives, our country. First we have to win back the minds of the brainwashed masses…
‘Oh yes they will, oh no they won’t’ — will the panto go ahead?
Need 300 hundred plus Spartans to defeat #BloodyBlair’s salivating ‘elf and safety crowd plus the bitter Tory remoan contingent…. oh well…. I guess all us poor saps can do is ignore these daft diktats…
He’s well on his way to being replaced, for acting dumb, by a true covidian who is going to “sort it out”. Maybe it’s simply the planned exit strategy for Bojo the Clown.
While the MSM condemns the use of ivermectin, the most populated state in India just declared they are officially COVID free after promoting widespread use of the safe, proven medicine. In addition to this, Ivermectin attaches to covid spikes and prevents them from binding to ACE2. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Sod me, we might even get a hundred “rebels” if they have a vote on mandatory “vaccjnation”.
Boris has nothing to worry about. The “opposition” will support him. What a mad bloody world!
Labour, the so-called opposition is complicit in all of this
Toby gasps in horror at 60 MPs not realising that this is all just a temporary hiccup, it’ll soon be over, it’s nothing to worry about.
The key point being that Bozo’s majority is 80 – and hence if 60 Cons rebel, he only gets this through with opposition support. Pretty uncomfortable for Bozo and the cabinet; it would also of course strongly encourage further rebellion and, with luck, heaps of letters to the 1922 team!
DUP would, also, I hope, vote against this, which makes the numbers even tighter for the tories
Over 60 MPs voted in March 2021 not to renew the police state laws.
Mostly the Tory right and Labour left, also LD and Grn.
This rebellion should be larger than March’s to be of any value.
Certainly much stronger opinions against Bozo’s plans are being urged this time: could be the start of a switch.
A few years ago I entered correspondence with Chris Heaton Harris my MP over the Conservative Government’s promotion of LGBT rights. I told him that kids were better with mum and dad, not homosexual parents. He replied ‘I find your views outdated and offensive’. He requested me not to contact him again.
I’ll never vote Conservative again for this reason.
I believe as you are one of his constituents that he has no right to request that you refrain from contacting him. He would only have that right if you were abusive and threatening toward him, his staff or family.
He was offended.. oh dear.. where have I heard that before..
Poor snowflake…
Probably upset his husband as well as him.
You should have reminded the idiot that the human race would have become extinct if homosexual marriages were the norm.
May I recommend Robin Aitken’s “The Noble Liar”, a polemical ripping apart of all that is wrong about the liberal/left/PC/Woke nexus in the UK.
In case this erudite exposes appears a recent phenomenon, may I also recommend Paul Johnson’s “Wake up Britain”……prescient and highly relevant to today imho.
Well it’s basically time that those who are offended by LGBT, the rabid influx of black TV presenters, morons harping on about climate change and lockdown zealots to actually do something to let them know instead of keeping quiet about it.
Otherwise they win….they choose what everybody’s opinion must be.
Bunch of tossers the lot of them.
It is time for the ‘powerful’ 1922 Committee to revolt. Yawn, heard that one before. All words but no action.
Just remind me pls what they sacked Theresa May for….?
If you want a good laugh and wondered if the British fighting spirit is still strong, just listen to the question Alex Belfield put to his audience last night. The question? Should Boris be sacked? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c83s5y5ksPs
That cheered me up no end. A great mass of people have seen through the scam. Now the schools need to be dehypnotised.
Sturgeon’s obviously had her orders for the Christmas campaign and is passing them on to the useful idiots. Email in from school emphasizing and normalizing more frequent testing and reporting your family to government databases. Shameful scaremongering.
The Scottish Nazi Party.
Yeah, here it comes, just up on the bbc, omicron linked to Christmas parties.
The lockdown left and champagne socialists across the house will make sure it passes.
Since Labour plan to vote with the government this rebellion will not work. May I suggest an alternative plan? Tory MP’s should, instead, write a letter to Boris asking him to withdraw the Bill, and informing him that, should he be unwilling to do so, they will send in a letter of no-confidence to the chief whip. Sixty such letters are more than would be needed to trigger a leadership contest. Boris, already famed for his U turns, would swiftly back down.
that’s the way to do it chaps!
I think because the PM knows that the party will never elect a lockdown sceptic MP, and the lockdown sceptic MPs know that too. I think the best they can hope for is to leave the party and form an anti-lockdown bloc and hope people gradually join them
No revolt can succeed because
1. Insufficient numbers of people are dying from vaccines.
2. The ‘opposition’ to covidianism in parliament chickened out for too long, destroying its credibility
3. This website and mask exemptions act as a safety valve to prevent anger boiling over into action
4. The Resistance is by nature an individualistic one. We have next to no impact on public opinion, poor organisation, and no leadership
5. People have ACCEPTED the ‘new normal’. Our points will never land.
I know this sounds grim, but I believe it is true. Any thoughts?
I am not sure people have accepted the ‘new normal’ because it has not come to fruition yet. I am talking about the CCP social credit system on steroids.
Only about 5% supported the US war on independence at the start.
Who knows what the future may bring? I guess what I mean is that no matter how cogent and devastating our evidence and arguments, compliers are like ‘whatever…’.
I don’t think they will listen until they agree to sign their house over to the govt in return for a few weeks food, thanks to hyperinflation. Even then, they’ll be given some bumpf about supply chains and climate change, or it all being a necessary sacrifice to beat covid and save lives, and they’ll probably choose to believe that too instead of accepting they’ve been duped.
Correction:
“1. Insufficient reported numbers of people are dying from vaccines.”
Well that’s not going to change is it?
I wonder what the next “large numbers of heart problems due to stress” will be?
…in inverse proportion to the “number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test” being treated as deaths FROM CV19….with little or no meaningful pushback from our truly wonderful and world class MPs…….not
I was more worried by….
There was a further setback when the NHS Covid pass website crashed for several hours last night.
we all know we can’t trust MPs and we also now know not to expect support from Joe Normie😤
Sounds like it was glitching just before or at the time of Bozo’s announcement, and no one was getting their updates or whatevever.
This happened a few months ago. They will not revolt. As such they may as well be gov plants to fool gullible libertarians that there is an opposition valiantly holding the dictatorship to account. The time to form a political movement was summer 2021. It will have no impact now. And those who failed to act are cowards.
didn’t they “revolt” last time as well?
It will be 6, not 60.