- “Boris Johnson calls for ‘national debate’ on mandatory vaccination to protect U.K. from Covid” – Prime Minister reluctant to consider compulsory jabs but wants talks on how to boost uptake, saying U.K. cannot keep introducing restrictions indefinitely, reports the Telegraph.
- “Most fans may still avoid Covid checks despite new restrictions” – “Clubs and sport events may be permitted to continue spot-checks rather than monitor every fan for proof of vaccination against Covid or a negative test result,” reports the Times.
- “The Government has broken its side of the bargain ” – There is no rationale for imposing these restrictions. The Government simply wants to be seen to be doing something, argues Andrew Lilico in the Telegraph.
- “Boris Johnson is a menace to liberty” – The Prime Minister is stuck in a cycle of Covid panic and authoritarianism, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Remember: life is finite and freedom is innate” – “Having grown weak on the numbing nectar of endless Government subvention, we have lost our thirst for liberty,” writes Frederick Edwards in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “Judge orders 11 year-old girl to be vaccinated despite father’s objections” – “A New York Judge has ruled that an 11 year-old girl may be vaccinated against Covid despite vocal protests from her dad, siding with the child’s mother amid a lengthy divorce case,” reports RT.
- “Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules” – Man who slipped and broke his back while working from home was commuting, it is decided, reports the Guardian.
- “It’s time to confront the immorality of lockdowns” – The failure of religious and spiritual leaders to address the societal costs of restrictions has been an utter travesty, writes Fergus Butler-Gallie in the Telegraph.
- “Why I prefer to rely on natural immunity” – “It’s not as cold and inhospitable in the land of conspiracy theories as it used to be,” argues Melissa Kite in the Spectator.
- “The PM’s restriction: ignoring the science” – “Besides Ferguson and the usual lockdown fanatics, most scientists have not called for urgent restrictions in response to the variant. Why? Because all early indicators are showing it is nothing to panic about,” writes William Parker in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “500 school staff fired for declining Covid jab” – “Nearly 500 public school employees in Los Angeles were fired after refusing to comply with a Covid vaccine mandate, with the city making terminations permanent after previously suspending a number of workers,” reports RT.
- “Conservative group Chairman resigns live on air” – Charlie Sansom, of South Basildon Conservatives, says he disagrees with tighter rules, reports BBC News.
- “End this dismal cycle of restrictions” – It is unsustainable and dangerous to have our lives brought to a standstill every time something emerges that might trouble the NHS, argues Telegraph View.
- “Courts backlog could take five years to be cleared up” – “The backlog in Scotland’s courts caused by the pandemic could take up to five years to be cleared after lockdown forced all but the most serious of cases to be postponed, it has emerged,” reports the Times.
- “Texas school board member resigns after releasing parents’ information” – Norma Garcia-Lopez resigned as co-chair of the Fort Worth Independent School District’s racial equity committee after she doxxed private information on families who opposed the School District’s mask mandate, reports the Mail.
- “It is stark-raving mad that red list travellers can’t self-isolate at home” – Both Delta and Omicron variants have laughed in the face of quarantine hotels – it is time to pull the plug on these useless prisons, argues Annabel Fenwick Elliott in the Telegraph.
- “Senate majority votes to repeal vaccine mandate” – “A majority in the U.S. Senate voted to repeal President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses with more than a hundred employees, with two Democrats joining Republicans to oppose the policy,” reports RT.
- “Jussie Smollett and the coveting of victimhood” – Everyone wants to be oppressed these days, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “If students can’t handle Rod Liddle’s crude jokes, they aren’t ready for real life” – The young people at Durham are free to disagree with him, or even walk out, but I struggle to see why they found it all so traumatic, writes Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “There’s been a big party in your house Boris Johnson” – Twitter user Pete Evans has captured the Prime Minister’s (likely) reaction to being called out for hosting a Christmas party during last year’s winter lockdown.
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this lady is worth a watch for those who haven’t seen it…..excellent description of the “gene therapy”
https://odysee.com/@Corona-Investigative-Committee:5/Prof-Alexandra-Henrion-Caude-session-79-en:e
Accrington variant?
Weston super mare variant?
Newmarket variant?
Lowestoft variant?
Cheltenham variant?
Etc,etc,etc, same old, same old, ad infinitum.
..but you know what? It seems like people had enough, doesn’t it? Read the section comments, people are boiling: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/covid-news-coronavirus-booster-jab-omicron-cases-deaths-rules/
Is this is a sheer coincidence that around a month ago the world leaders met for a little tête-à-tête in Glasgow, discussed what’s next, and now we have a new round of the plan unveiling?. Just thinking 🤔
Dear Bozzer and Sage, I’m a roofer and my mate’s a brickie; can WE work from home?
Your’s in anticipation, “P×ssed off” from Shropshire.
Just watched uk col ask questions over the xmas party ‘scandal’. Some things do not add up. One being the measures on xmas gatherings happened the day after the tory party on the 19th. It looks like a set up to get a new ‘leader’ into #10.
Who that will be would change nothing of course.
It might make it worse – some of the alternatives are far more hardline Covidians than Johnson is.
It appears that the ‘parties fiasco’ has worked. The outcry about why them and not us, why nightclubs and not pubs, has resulted in a crackdown for all, talk about the idiot majority shooting themselves in the foot.
as if the Boris regime couldn’t get any worse
https://www.rt.com/uk/542758-assange-extradition-appeal-granted/
US wins Assange extradition appeal
Caves to deep state again.
People like Assange, who expose government malfeasance, will probably be seen by regimes as particularly dangerous now – they really won’t want anyone digging into lots of what has happened over the past few years, even more so than previously.
Apparently you are technically exempt if you sing BTW. David Bowie’s “Magic Dance” from Labyrinth is the only song I know all the words to, so this is going to be bad.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59555468
How does the headline relate to the purpose of the article? It doesn’t – it’s just a passing comment made by one of the nurses which they interviewed.
Not hard to see the agenda here is it!
It seems to me that patients ‘Selina’ and ‘Linda’ are most likely suffering the consequences of being jabbed.
Andrew Neil says make it harder for us to get food and medicine. The BBC says basically let us die if we go into hospital. The barbaric Esther Rantzen says unvaxed over 60s shouldn’t seek NHS help. No, it’s not hard to see this part of the agenda. We need to hoard medicines because soon it will be a matter of “forget it” where the healthcare system is concerned. Any access we’re allowed won’t be in our interests – and that’s putting it mildly.
There’s another part of the agenda too. It won’t be long befire they come for children in a big way. Cheapest way to reduce herd size long-term is to take a notch out of which part of the population age pyramid? Not the over 60s.
Don’t be fooled. A discussion on mandatory vaccines is just to ramp up fear. The constant use of psychological pressure by these people is evil.
I’m no longer sure to be honest. Yes, it is to ramp up fear for sure, but that doesn’t mean they won’t try to actually do it!
Once all are jabbed none can compare the relative performance of our harmed immune systems.
Boris stinks like the bog of eternal stench, no wonder he tells everyone to wear masks and hide.
Boris has Nurgle’s hairstyle
Lodger works in a town centre bar and they’ve had a few Christmas parties cancel on them. Restaurant next door cancelled all theirs themselves. You just can’t help some people can you? These are both new business in the last 2 years. Sadly, they are very different venues so one won’t mop up the business from the other.
Restaurants are stuck between a rock and a hard place now – do they risk buying a load of food, with the very real possibility that further government clampdowns will mean they end up having to throw it away with no compensation, or do they carry on and hope for the best.
I’m feeling very intimidated and fearful by Boris’ threats to mandate vaccination. Is there any chance this is actually a hate crime/incident? Can we all contact the police and report this?
They do say on Gov.UK, that ‘Coercion and Bullying is illegal’
Telegraph has it that Tory MPs are “having conversations” on ousting Bojo. About bloody time.
But who would replace him? Probably someone even worse!
wow the Telegraph of all – Boris fanboy gazette. Spectre is unhappy with his inability to conceal the lies -they’ll probably replace him with Mark Carney or something
“Christmas is coming”
School masks: Exempt Wrexham pupils ‘separated from others’ – BBC News
Fire up the transports
I’m looking forward to a “national conversation” on enforced medication where one side of the conversation is 100% censored.
I know several people who have ‘dropped out’ of the perma-boost program – either after the first or second jab. Mainly because they never really needed a vaccination for something so mild anyway but just did it to a) make life easier b) as an act of national solidarity
I think far fewer people are happy to be jabbed 4 times a year for a disease they’ve already recovered from and is mild in any case – than are happy to have the initial 1 or 2 shots
Why should society change for those who feel ‘unsafe’, why don’t they stay in. A woman in the local news said she went to a School outdoor christmas fair, and despite being jabbed she felt ‘unsafe’ because too many were without a mask!!.
They’ve been hypnotised by a very expensive government psychological campaign.
Where does it stop, jabbed, masked, locked down, what do the ‘unsafe’ want to happen next, its a case of be careful what you wish for
The “Metaverse” happens next.
P.S. It won’t be like advertised.
They want to be in the protective embrace of whoever they get their views from – i.e. newsreaders and politicians and other coked-up c***s on the telly, perhaps filtered theough teachers, nurses, medics, and the occasional bank clerk or estate agent – and they want to feel “safe” that they won’t be taken away in army trucks as those 10 “bolshie” families in their street were last night, who weren’t sensible enough to obey with every fibre of their being.
When has life ever been safe? If no one did anything until it was safe, there wouldn’t be anyone at all.
Not looking good for that rogue Turk in no. 10 is it. But nothing is done by accident in the political world, so who will take his place? Javid? Sunak? Truss? Gove? Raab?
Personally I have no confidence whatsoever in Johnson and his cabinet – I want the whole lot gone. They have led this country to a disastrous state of affairs and should never be allowed to hold a position in public office ever again.
I think for the sake of diversity and just for a change, there should be an English conservative man as Prime Minister. There hasn’t been one of those in No. 10 since 1964.
Stop linking to little lillico, he’s a bedwetter whose ego is enormous. For some reason he believes that vaccination leads to better immunity than natural infection.
Yes I know its just theatre but I do like to keep up with the plot
(I don’t always pay attention as I tend to keep one eye on the door since the Lincoln thing)
Anyhoooooow!!!. Angels Shithead was one of Nut Nuts people and they did for Angels as soon as the labour pains started
Today they seem to be going after Doyle
Just like to know who’s zooming who, all donations gratefully received
Angela Stratton’s blub-a-thon and sniff-a-lot-a-thon was rehearsed and staged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21DfJp82WNo
When she got back inside she collapsed laughing at how easy it is to fool the thickies.
She has a new job lined up.
Looking a bit porky round the edges
Too much tucking into the sausage rolls at the parties?
Come on gal, he’ll trade you in if you keep letting yourself go
No man likes to come home to some fat bird who can’t stop crying
Some context.
There is evil in all this, but also altruism. Some believe that the financial system has come to the end of the road and before collapse which would lead to anarchy and deprivation for millions the ‘reset’ allows for a new system to take its place. This would require more of a control economy and control over the population. These people are convinced its all being done for the best of purposes.
Freedom of course is a loser, choice becomes limited. Control is all important.
Having returned from ‘freedom Florida’ to ‘prison state France’; its oppressive.
But I look at the orderly line of people getting their booster jab at the local pharmacie, they are doing it because they don’t want to lose their ‘passport’ rights, but also in the main because they actually believe its their civic duty. They gladly follow the government instructions mainly because they believe they should in the spirit of Fraternity.
How to judge this? Its not ‘black and white’ , its very nuanced.
My overriding feeling is that the use of psychological warfare against its own citizens by most countries is evil , whatever the motivations or perceived outcomes.
If there was true belief… Read more »
IMO it would be perfectly possible to go back to exchange controls as we had before 1979. These days, your debit card would only give you £50 (plus enormous inflation since 1979) spending money on your fortnight in Greece.
Is this happening because the IMF, World Bank and other jumped-up elite bodies believe that they are now dictating terms to national elected governments?
Mervyn King, the last but one Governor of the BoE, supported Brexit (very unusual for central banks). I found his book on the 2008 financial crash and how to change the banking system hard going; I may try reading it again.
You don’t have to go back as far as 1979 to find the IMF dictating to the UK government very openly. And the government did as it was told. I think we escaped imposition of exchange controls after 2008 by the skin of our teeth.
Total individual monetary control is the aim of the CBs with their direct digi-currency. We would all have our very own limits imposed centrally. This is not ‘conspiracy theory’ its actively being developed right now.
It certainly is – but as far as I understand it, it’s nowhere near ready to be rolled out and they haven’t even agreed on a common platform. So why roll out the ‘pandemic’ measure now I wonder. It looks to me like math has caught up them and they are desperate to retain control in a system they can no longer prop up.
Timing is everything. A seamless transition might suit them best, but its incredibly difficult to arrange. So next best is to have a period of upheaval and disruption and then the ‘new deal’ rides to the rescue. Has the advantage of identifying the troublemakers in advance.
Boiling frogs and pulling teeth simultaneously, if that’s not taking the allegories too far.
How refreshing to read – though rarely – a reference to the doing away with exchange controls around the start of the Thatcher era which fact I believe contributed to the later offshoring of much of British industry with all the attendant social disruption and chaos that have followed in its wake. I’ve never studied economics but even at the time I could tell that something momentous had happened.
Control and regulation of the money issue is ultimately behind all of this world disaster.
‘Some believe that the financial system has come to the end of the road and before collapse which would lead to anarchy and deprivation for millions the ‘reset’ allows for a new system to take its place.’
I’m not sure which one I would prefer. I suppose it’s our job as citizens of Earth to force a third way – truth and reconciliation; the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for the appalling covid deception; an honest global debate about how to rebuild the economic system and a global currency perhaps backed by gold.
But knowing humans, I suspect this process ain’t going to be pretty.
Lord Tyrannus now considering compulsory jabs.
Has he never heard of:
History does not repeat itself, except for Covid restrictions, right?
NEIL: What do you mean, revolution?
RICK: Blood runs! Flags wave! Come on, everybody, throw down your tools and knock down the barricade. Come on, run into the Winter Palace. Run into the Winter Palace and stand on tables, waving bits of paper at each other! Yes! Yes!! Hello, are you the Czar?!
‘When you hurt what’s mine, I’ll sure as hell retaliate’ – Massive Attack
It could anyone, any time, any place.
Million-strong rave planned after govt Covid lockdown Christmas party scandal — RT UK News
You are all invited
Mrs Ceausescu will be doing coffee and teas
Million-strong rave planned after govt Covid lockdown Christmas party scandal
Funny how Russia Today promotes the CIA’s biggest website 🙂
Would that the whole country partied all night while the dictator raves in a straight-jacket in a police cell in Belgravia.
“potential” – and who is doing the organising? Downing Street has gates at both ends, a million people wouldn’t fit into Downing Street, and there are lots of policemen to scare them off.
Not happening, nothing to see here.
UK Health Secretary Says “Unethical” Mandatory Vaccination “Will Not Work”
Remember zahawi saying vax passes or asking for vaccine status, was being discriminatory?
Javid says it would be unethical. He also says it would be impractical. Can we guess what this banker-politician scumbag does when something is unethical but practical?
If they can jab me against my will, why can’t I jab them with something sharp against their will? It’s for their own good!
One of the great historical ironies is Alexander Kemal’s Churchill obsession, given that the latter fought so hard to resist un-British tyranny and the former has imposed it on the people more than other leader since Cromwell.
Do you really think he’s in charge or controls anything?
If the company you work for made it mandatory to have a not-vaccine would you comply? I’ve thought about this quite a bit, the Company I work for has been, largely, to the letter on Government advice (they are, however, allowing people to work from the office if they choose since The Fat Dictators latest edict).
I would look up employment Law and take that plus, of course, Human Rights Law and the Nuremburg Code to Court with me and claim constructive dismissal. I do not understand why so many have lost their jobs through doing the right thing and then fail to do the right thing by fighting it. Where are the Human Rights Lawyers like Cherie Blair when there is a real breach of human rights?
No point looking to human rights to protect you.
European Convention on Human Right, SECTION I, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS:
Every human rights NGO is funded by Soros, Gates, Ford, the UN, the EU. They are sitting on their hands, silently. Fucking odious people. Amnesty, HRW, Liberty and scum like that
You didn’t say if you would first resign (and allege it was under pressure – you’d need to prove it) or sit it out and force them to fire you. My primitive understanding (check things out for yourself) is that one must do only the second. Any hint of consensual termination and that’s it, no compensation and no job.
You’ve got to hold the line. Oftentimes you may find it’s really only a game of chicken.
/No advice.
“Prime Minister reluctant to consider compulsory jabs but wants talks on how to boost uptake, saying U.K. cannot keep introducing restrictions indefinitely, reports the Telegraph.”
Classic tactic – invent a fictitious “problem” which you are responsible for creating, then offer to “solve” it by bullying people into something they do not need and don’t otherwise want to do. And there are still deluded people who think the government is “incompetent”. Their performance in manipulating public opinion and behaviour has been masterful – some of the practical execution may have been shoddy but that doesn’t matter because no-one seems to notice or care much.
The “people” here are not homogeneous. He is saying if you want to avoid a smack around the head, help us beat the shit out of the 10%, giving them the chance to convert first of course, but there will be 1-2% who won’t see sense, and if we suffer them to continue to exist even after they’ve been given the opportunity to mend their ways then we will have to smack YOU around your heads again and you don’t want that, do you?
I’m gradually trying to make this personal for people I know – whatever their views on covid, if they are in favour of vaxx coercion I make it clear I’m taking it personally and don’t want much to do with them any more. If you’re in favour of oppression, have the decency to look them in the eyes while you’re oppressing them, don’t get someone else to do your dirty work. It probably won’t make any difference.
Sometimes in the deluge of news reports and the sheer emotional drain caused by increasingly (to me anyway) insane and disproportionate Government policy I feel beaten down by an imposed malevolent stupidity which disempowers and ultimately demoralises. Then someone posts a comment or link and a ray of light pierces the gloom for a moment…
I guess this could qualify as one such and I’m sure the idea must have been floated before but… if Government is seriously considering making the experimental pseudo-vaxx compulsory, despite all the deaths and injuries caused by it, is it not the time to push for PERIODIC AND COMPULSORY DRUG TESTING FOR ALL MPs, SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS / ADVISERS and MEMBERS OF THE UPPER CHAMBER? I assume this report is accurate:
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1467456443737645058
Disclose.tv
JUST IN – Traces of cocaine found near Boris Johnson’s private office and all over sites in the British Parliament.11:30 AM · Dec 5, 2021·Twitter
I don’t think I’m particularly woo-prone but my firm impression is that persons who have heavy reliance on recreational drugs often (how often?) seem to lose self-awareness and become somehow influenced by external forces. Dr Shipman (200-300 deaths or up wasn’t it?) was iirc an opioid addict. Many of… Read more »