We’re publishing an original piece today by Dr. David McGrogan, a Professor at Northumbria Law School. He points out that the gap between what senior politicians say and what they do could not be greater, but for some reason the public still clings to the belief that Covid restrictions flatten the curve. You can subscribe to Professor McGrogan’s Substack newsletter here.
‘Secret Santa gate’ is satisfying inasmuch as it produces some schadenfreude at Boris Johnson’s expense. And the sense of public outrage about his latest scandal is tangible. But I wouldn’t expect it to change much as regards lockdown and other restrictions. Remember Matt Hancock breaching the drinking curfew in the House of Commons bar? Remember when the Mayor of San Francisco was filmed contravening mask restrictions in the city – on two separate occasions? Remember when a gang of diplomats and MEPs were caught having an orgy during the winter lockdown in Brussels last year? Remember the dozens of other incidents we could all reel off in which lockdown-supporting politicians indicated the rules simply didn’t apply to them? Remember bloody Barnard Castle? Did any of these events stop further rounds of Covid restrictions arising?
The truth of the matter is that, for all the flouting of their own restrictions by the ruling classes, the general public seem incapable of doing the mental arithmetic. They never seem to make the inductive leap: Boris Johnson and his cronies have all of the data, have all the latest updates from their team of crack scientists and medics, and they clearly do not think that Covid is much of a personal risk. It is starkly, uncompromisingly revealed by their actions. They aren’t worried about having Christmas parties. They aren’t worried about ‘super-spreader events’. They aren’t worried about killing their grandmothers.
The natural question that should follow is: so why should we worry? And yet nobody is prepared to ask this question: not the general public, nor the media, nor parliamentarians, nor pundits. The truth of the matter is that while people enjoy being outraged about Tory sleaze, they simply aren’t very concerned about the wider implications. They will grumble and grouse, but they will continue to wear their masks, continue to cancel Christmas parties, loyally display their vaccine passports when the requirement inevitably comes, and work from home when told. We are kidding ourselves if we think that this latest distraction is anything other than theatre – and a way, perhaps, for the media to kick Boris while he’s down.
Almost a year ago, I wrote a piece on Lockdown Sceptics, as it then was, about the problem of ‘moral truth’. I made the case then that people are not swayed by fact-based argument; they instead look for a prevailing moral norm, and then try to comply with it. The moral norm is: lockdowns, mask-wearing and other restrictions ‘work’, they save lives, and therefore we should do those things. As time goes on, I become more convinced that this is the root of the problem, and you only need to consider Secret Santa-gate to see that it is so. Boris is being raked over the coals not because his actions reveal that most of the Covid restrictions are purely for show. He is being pilloried for going against the moral truth about ‘stopping the spread’. That is why we are stuck, irrespective of whatever scandals our politicians become involved in. And we will continue to be stuck, until the moral norm eventually (fingers crossed) shifts.
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When was the last pandemic? Did I miss something?
Exactly and I certainly don’t remember the ‘pandemics’ of 1968-69 or 1977-79…in fact I don’t think anyone remembers these ‘pandemics’ because they weren’t pandemics. Russian flu? Give me a break! All that besides, if another ‘oandemic’ comes, I’m not locking down or doing any of the other nonsensical, anti-freedom stuff. I’ve had enough!
Great tweet by Jonathan Engler (look at his other tweets that go with it as well)
https://twitter.com/jengleruk/status/1612837343513432069
Have a look at the article and archived comments that Jonathan Engler includes in that thread.
Despite this incident of fluid on the lungs happening 6 hours after experimental vaccination booster and her having high troponin levels, it’s nothing to do with the jab, it’s because of cold water swimming.
What is it about the Gates funded Telegraph that would make them want to publish such complete nonsense and remove comments?
“Labour pays black and minority staff 9% less than white people”
Rice and Peas costs less than Steak and Kidney Pie. D’Uh..!
“White Narrators Stop Minorities Viewing Nature Docs: Government-Funded Study”
Thats misleading. The minorities stop themselves, it’s their choice. And they choose to be put off watching.
Given the current state of what pass for nature documentaries, minorities choosing not to view them is a good thing. Now we just have to stop everybody else viewing them.
I hate Attenborough’s voice…have done for many years…I can’t bear anything he’s on…does that make me a minority?? LOL!
“Excess deaths in 2022 among worst in 50 years” This is what the BBC say on their latest report:
“No evidence of vaccine effect
The rise in cardiac problems has been pointed to by some online as evidence that Covid vaccines are driving the rise in deaths, but this conclusion is not supported by the data.
One type of Covid vaccine has been linked to a small rise in cases of heart inflammation and scarring (pericarditis and myocarditis). But this particular vaccine side-effect was mainly seen in boys and young men, while the excess deaths are highest in older men – aged 50 or more.
And these cases are too rare – and mostly not fatal – to account for the excess in deaths.”
Blanket denial and lying. We know that vast numbers of people have been affected, sometimes fatally, by the vaccines. What is interesting though is that this report is written jointly by Robert Cuffe and Rachel Schraer. Robert Cuffe is Head of Statistics and Rachel Schraer is part of the BBC Disinformation team. Neither of them are qualified healthcare specialists…. Statistics and disinformation together though. What could possibly be wrong with that?
It’s like the Babylon Bee post ebygum shared yesterday isn’t it? Just the fact they’re not even willing to consider the jabs, let alone look into the vast amount of data demonstrating the fact these things are causing excess mortality, disability and illness left, right and centre. The actuaries and insurance analysts show perfectly well what is going on though, as Josh Stirling demonstrates here in this video;
“The fact that it’s upwardly sloping to the right and the regression line makes this simple to understand. But [what] you could see, even without the regression line, is basically that the parts of our country which have had more doses of the vaccine are now having higher increased mortality in 2022 relative to their levels in 2021,” explained Stirling.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/12/top-insurance-analyst-high-vax-regions-show-a-15-higher-mortality-rate-in-2022-than-in-2021/
It’s like saying that the Titanic (most probably the Olympic though) just sunk and there was no iceberg (also a distinct possibility there wasn’t). So, it’s not so strange how myths…excess deaths, no jab deaths to speak of…become facts over time until the truth, which always comes out, comes out.
Sometimes I wonder if it will have to get to the stage where these people ( as in the BBC people you mention above ) must personally experience a sudden and unexpected death of a previously healthy person, or illness come from nowhere for themselves or somebody close to them, to make the penny finally drop and they start to doubt the narrative that they’ve dutifully adhered to and believed thus far. I think until something negative happens to them personally, which results in a sort of ‘wake up call’, then it’s too easy for so many to totally disassociate themselves from anything which challenges their acolyte-like conviction that they made the right call by masking up, supporting lockdowns and getting multi-jabbed, because why wouldn’t the government and co have their best interests and welfare at heart? Unfortunately many people in life must learn the hard way and until then they are 100% conformist.
We sceptics on here, certainly by now, just think ”Why the hell can’t more people be like me and wake up? Why can’t they see what is happening all around?” It’s frustrating but it also reflects the huge complexities that exist in human nature. I think it’s been rather a rude awakening as to exposing people’s true colours, including those around us that we thought we truly knew. But you only have to look back at famous experiments on conformity and obedience to see what a push over most people are. Milgram and Asch are the famous two but there are many. Watch this short vid and you’ll see just how easy it was to get the vast majority of people to mask up and obey unquestioningly. It wasn’t so much that they were scared of getting ill or thinking the things worked, it was much more about conforming to orders and following the crowd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrTk6DsEJ2Q&ab_channel=TEDxTalks
Quite right, Mogs. When will they awake? There was a programme wherein the participants were asked to turn a knob and they saw that it actually inflicted pain on another wired up participant. They could have stopped but they didn’t. They didn’t question what they were told to do even though they saw that it was causing pain to someone. I wish I could remember the actual programme but this is akin to what you are saying – sorry I haven’t had time to look at the video yet.
*cough* Hypernormalisation *cough*
Never forget it was the Cameron-Clegg regime that established the nudge unit. One wonders why they felt it would be needed.
or was it just another requirement from the WEF and, once established, was itching to try out its evil practices.
Another pandemic is coming – and the only answer Westminster has is lockdown
Lilico in The Telegraph.
Is this based on any real evidence? Has Billy dropped the word or is this because Billy has held another table-top exercise – ‘Catastrophic Contagion?’
Pandemics eh? We haven’t had one for 500 years and now they are like number nine buses.
Too true, HP. Keep mentioning a pandemic, over and over again, until the public actually do think another one is coming and the tyrants of Westminster take a wrecking ball to the already unsteady economic life of the nation and smash it to pieces for good. Goodbye small businesses, goodbye independent traders and one-man bands….hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again as Simon and Garfunkel once sang…the sound of silence being the sound of zero economic activity, the sound of once busy cities, pubs, restaurants, cafes, the sound of roads and motorways, the sound of Sunak’s imagination…et al.
We must never forget what happened the last time and we must never let that happen again.
I can’t say I’m not worried Aethelred because I am. I just hope I keep it together.
There’s a small quivering rabbit inside of me somewhere too, HP, but there’s also a tiger sitting beside him telling him not to worry.
Of course we don’t know each other’s individual circumstances so maybe it’s easier for some than others. I hope we all hold the line but together we are much stronger.
Thank you.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/09/narration-by-white-men-could-stop-minorities-from-watching-nature-docs-govt-funded-study/
British taxpayers cannot afford to have their money wasted on garbage such as this. The country is on its arse – deliberately I know – and those pricks in government think this is a sensible use of OUR money?
Bastards.
We live in a predominantly white society. It’s just how it is. This over-the-top approach to diversity and equality wishes to skew that fact by making white people redundant in their own country. Believe me this is the colonialisation of the UK. It makes no sense whatsoever, demographically or culturally. I can only imagine they want to replace most of the white presenters, white talk show hosts, white reporters and replace them with Syrians, Ethiopians, Albanians etc. This is racist. And also I very much doubt that ‘minorities’ are put off, it’s just very few who would be and most likely the most radical BLM types, or whatever the UK version is, pushing this nonsensical garbage on us.
Thanks Aethelred
And while I remember it, have you seen the number of ads that have predominantly black people or mixed marriages in them? There is one on Youtube from Barclays with black financial advisor advising mixed race couple. It’s so blatantly skewed as if this is the norm. I have nothing, absolutely nothing at all against black, brown, yellow or purple people, I just don’t like the truth being thwarted and twisted like this. As I say, we are becoming strangers in our own land. Our Land.
The Government have updated their response to the petition for them to remove indemnity from the manufacturers of covid-19 vaccines. After a lot of delusional text about how wonderful they are, there is this:-
‘In August 2021, amendments to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 were made to support the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. Although the legislation provides partial immunity from civil liability for vaccines supplied under emergency authorisation, it preserves individuals’ right to sue the producers of the vaccine under Part 1 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987. This provides an important level of protection if the safety of the product is not such as people are generally entitled to expect, taking all circumstances into account, and if that defect causes personal injury.’
and this ‘A successful claim to VDPS (Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme) does not stop an individual from bringing litigation against the vaccine manufacturer for damages as the VDPS is not a compensation scheme.’
I’m not a lawyer, but does this suggest a route for the vaccine injured and bereaved to sue vaccine producers even if the tax payer is on the hook for the cost?
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/619190
“…but does this suggest a route for the vaccine injured and bereaved to sue vaccine producers even if the tax payer is on the hook for the cost?”
Not obviously because the claimant would have to fund the upfront costs but if a legal team was prepared to work on a sort of ‘no win, no fee’ basis and a crowd funding exercise could raise enough to get it off the ground it might have a chance.
The biggest problem would be the corrupt judiciary.
Dr John Campbell explaining how the mass injections meet the Bradford Hill criteria for causality with regard to excess deaths in the UK and Australia without mentioning the injections themselves: –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3_bqcvDxvI
https://www.upday.com/uk/tory-mp-andrew-bridgen-loses-whip-after-comparing-covid-vaccine-rollout-to-holocaust?utm_source=upday&utm_medium=referral
Some Tories are crapping their pants.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-dr-strangelove-world-of-todays-medicine/
Excellent article from Guy Hatchard over at TCW on the bio-weapons going for the children.
Evil.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/lawsuit-trusted-news-initiative-antitrust-first-amendment-censoring-covid-content/
Breaking: Landmark Lawsuit Slaps Legacy Media With Antitrust, First Amendment Claims for Censoring COVID-Related Content
a live interview this evening on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief litigation counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), announced that he and several other plaintiffs filed a groundbreaking novel lawsuitmaking antitrust and constitutional claims against legacy media outlets.
The lawsuit targets the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a self-described “industry partnership” launched in March 2020 by several of the world’s largest news organizations, including the BBC, The Associated Press (AP), Reuters and The Washington Post — all of which are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
Filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas-Amarillo Division, the lawsuit alleges these outlets partnered with several Big Tech firms to “collectively censor online news,” including stories about COVID-19 and the 2020 U.S. presidential election that were not aligned with official narratives regarding those issues.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include CHD, Kennedy, Creative Destruction Media, Trial Site News, Ty and Charlene Bollinger (founders of The Truth About Cancer and The Truth About Vaccines), independent journalist Ben Swann, Erin Elizabeth Finn (publisher of Health Nut News), Jim Hoft (founder of The Gateway Pundit), Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ben Tapper, a chiropractor.
Lets hope this is not the first…..??
Fascinating what he said about the BBC e-mails. Explains a lot of what has been happening in the media since 2020.