Tim Martin, the founder and current Chairman of the pub chain Wetherspoons, has referred to the Government’s ‘Plan B’ measures as “lockdown by stealth”. The company has also responded to recently introduced work from home guidelines by warning investors that “the introduction of radical changes… make predictions for sales and profits hazardous”, and that the firm will likely be operating at a loss for the foreseeable future. The Guardian has the story.
In an update to the stock market, JD Wetherspoon told investors that “uncertainty, and the introduction of radical changes of direction by the Government, make predictions for sales and profits hazardous”.
It had been hoping to rebound from the impact of the pandemic this year but told investors that the Government’s ‘Plan B’ for tackling Omicron, including guidance to work from home where possible, meant it was likely to be “loss-making or marginally profitable” for the first half of its financial year.
Martin has been one of the most high-profile Brexiters in British business, a role that had previously seen him endorse Boris Johnson. But he has since become an outspoken critic of the prime minister over Covid measures affecting the hospitality industry, which he claims is not a significant source of outbreaks of the disease.
“The typical British pub, contrary to received opinion in academia, is usually a bastion of social distancing,” he said on Monday.
“However, the repeated warnings and calls for restrictions, mainly from SAGE members and academics, combined with arbitrary changes of direction from the Government, invariably at short notice, affect customer sentiment and trade.
“In effect, the country appears to be heading towards a lockdown by stealth.”
He cited comments made by Dr. Angelique Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, who has said the Omicron variant does not warrant the “extreme action” taken by the U.K. Government.
Martin added: “For reasons best known to themselves, perhaps in order to encourage more vaccinations, the U.K. Government and its advisers are creating an entirely different and more frightening impression of the variant, which appears to be at odds with the South African experience.
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Have Johnson and Javid read Angelique Coetzee’s analysis of the omicron variant? No, thought not. They only listen to Sage and inept, biased, lying toerags like Ferguson ()why does the BBC still get him on, despite his appalling record?) Vallance and Whitty. They don’t want the truth – they prefer lies. They say that lies are of the Devil – what does that make Johnson and Javid?
The latest Wetherspoon News mag is choc full of Covid terrorism and pro experimental gene therapy injections propaganda. Shilling for evil.
The Covid jabbed have been injected with genetic code that was designed in a computer that hijacks the machinery of the cells to instruct them to produce a toxic synthetic protein found nowhere else on Earth. Jab recipients are being immunised against absolutely nothing whatsoever they are simply turning theeir cells into a factory of this toxic synthetic Frankenstein protein. Why would you want all your staff to be injected with that shit. Its deranged science which is and will continue to have horrific health consequences. Theyre collapsing on pitch live on television and still these people act like its all good.
Maybe Tim could write a piece discussing the latest broadcast from Robert Malone – and reflect on how these points, if you go along with their narrative about “the virus” – which although there are gaping holes in “the science” proving there is a novel virus – but ignoring that and giving them the benefit of the doubt which is a huge mistake every time without fail on any issue – has a low mortality rate aka a high survival rate from natural immunity, hence why the risk benefit analysis is clear in favour of not being jabbed because the short term effects are off the charts and the long term effects are set to be far worse. In the face of a low mortality rate (not defacto proven to exist) virus which can easily be treated with nobel prize winning long approved safe and effective drugs and can be easily prevented with something as basic as vitamin D as well as other things which are all well documented – why are we even having this conversation. How can supposedly intelligent learned people be missing these elephants in the room. Im guessing too much time spent in two plus two… Read more »
APRIL 2020 proof that Covid is a nothing burger nthe grand scheme of things :
BREAKING NEWS ! Prof Dr John Ioannidis Stanford University On Real Data On Coronavirus Pandemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btvDL6kIDsA
Global perspective of COVID-19 epidemiology for a full-cycle pandemic
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eci.13423
Global infection fatality rate is 0.15-0.20% (0.03-0.04% in those <70 years)
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#status-of-covid-19
Status of COVID-19
As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK. There are many diseases which can cause serious illness which are not classified as HCIDs.
The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the… Read more »
John P.A. IoannidisProfessor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research), of Epidemiology and Population Health and by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science
https://profiles.stanford.edu/john-ioannidis
This is wrong. It’s choc full of the usual marketing material and also contains two reproduced editorials, one from David Hannan originally published in the Telegraph and one from a Guardian guy whose name I didn’t bother to remember. Neither of both is really worth a read, as Hannan basically just elaborate on his usual pet grievances and the other is … well … whoever thinks reading this tripe is worthwhile will have read the original.
Of course Kim Jong Johnson has imposed lockdown by stealth, he did that last November when lockdown was supposedly lifted and he’s been itching to impose another one since July, he only announced ‘freedom day’ because he knew any further delays would be unpopular.
Ivermectin not only cures Covid/Flu like symptoms but recently researchers found that Ivermectin inhibits Esophageal Cancer! Search “Ivermectin induces apoptosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma via mitochondrial pathway” on googl. This is great news. No wonder they say wonder drug. Buy Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
What justifies lockdowns? What justifies “vaccines”? What justifies discrimination against lethal injection refusers? Answer: CASE NUMBERS.
CASE NUMBERS that are produced by a PCR Test not designed for diagnostic use and not capable of doing the job it’s purportedly being used for.
For anyone who seriously still believes in CASE NUMBERS, just watch this documentary:
HARM – Part One: The PCR Test Deception
Scientific professionals talking scientific facts about scientific fraud, and YouTube calls it “Medical Misinformation.”
Without the PCR Test there would be no “pandemic.” That’s why the PCR test is at the centre of Reiner Fuellmich’s case for Crimes Against Humanity and that’s why they banned it. That’s the old, old “news” that so many – after all this time – still haven’t heard.
“Martin added: “For reasons best known to themselves, perhaps in order to encourage more vaccinations, the U.K. Government and its advisers are creating an entirely different and more frightening impression of the variant, which appears to be at odds with the South African experience.”
Well they’ve got to cover up the ADE somehow..
Off topic, but as it looks like “Health Passports” are coming in and let’s say I crack and decide to kiss Johnson’s arse and get “vaccinated”. Will I ever get a “passport” as the time lag between 1st, 2nd and 3rd stabs will mean the 4th and 5th will be required to get a “passport”. So there’s no point in getting “vaccinated” as I’ll never catch up.
Precisely. And has also occurred to me, if the early doses were to make people “advocates” for the vaxx [certainly the people who I know who got jabbed early couldn’t try hard enough to persuade me] are the later doses, that you might be being “offered” at this stage in the rollout going to be more deadly?
It is a joke for us to talk about ‘the impact on hospitality’. For me this is using their terminology. There is no way back to anything and absolutely nothing to be gained from the great reset. The whole fucking point of our time is to create something new and business people have a part to play in that. This is dead wood that has been standing for forty years. There is an alternative path to the technocratic nightmare.
Sorry in advance that I don’t have a link for this but I am not an FT subscriber. However there is an article in today’s online edition by Helen Thomas entitled ‘It’s time for hospitality to embrace a Covid pass’
It’s the end of the slippery slope from large events to boozers. Don’t say that you haven’t been warned!
The human body will always remain the final arbiter there is no retreat from this.
To be fair there are people who wear masks outside but they tend to look rather inferior or inadequate when I take to take in their puissance. Lota of old people do but most of them couldn’t imagine that government could ever be malevolent.For anyone who is worried about venturing outside maskless I can say that I was never challenged in the last two years and if I got any feeling at all it was that people liked it. In a pub who cares. You breathe down each other’s throats all the time, you might have a fight or a snog and fuck the consequences.
Show some backbone. Grow a pair. Fight back. Stop grovelling.
FFS.
Gosh, the OZ PM calling the jabbed, like sheep, that must hurt
Cnn makes the news
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/11/us/john-griffin-charged-arrested-minors-unlawful-sexual-activity/index.html
This isn’t the end of the struggle by any means. It is easy to feel wounded by everything you see these days but the truth is very different. I guarantee you that within 6 weeks the injection narrative will have started to fall apart. Don’t get fixated on short term things. By pure dint of numbers there is no way that they can stay positive about the mrna for much longer. For us and the quality of life in general we need to consider our future when the narrative collapses.
As predicted:
‘Javid warns of change to ‘fully vaccinated’ status in New Year’
https://mol.im/a/10305373
Plus up to £10,000 fines for forging ‘vaccine passports’
Welcome to the NWO!
And we thought Handoncock was bad!
Can they bill £10,000 a time to France for forging Asylum seekers?
They are getting bold now, announcing fines and passports with impunity, we’ve been betrayed by our Parliament. Can’t believe businesses are giving up without a fight.
The Hospitality Industry should ban every MP and every known Government adviser from their premises.
If you have a big house with room to spare then why not start a speakeasy? Just get the lads and lasses around and talking freely and you will see a very different reality.
This may already be happening
We have all become more gradually conformist and in tune with the general gist of things. This is a call for us to do otherwise. The whole point of the British Isles is that they are windswept and fucked up and out of the way hence the extraordinary history of these islands. People in other countries look over here to the best of us,. We have a strong force on our side which is growing by the day.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17021347/rod-liddle-backlash-ringleader-corbyn-fan/
JEZZA FAN Ringleader of university backlash against Rod Liddle is Corbyn fan & aspiring MP
A STUDENT ringleader of the university backlash against Sun columnist Rod Liddle is a Jeremy Corbyn fan who wants to be a Labour MP.
Sean Hannigan, 22, has previously said “families like mine have suffered” under austerity.
Sean Hannigan stood unsuccessfully for Labour in local elections in May, winning just 577 votes
Students walked out before Liddle spoke about tolerance earlier this month
His family home is a £600,000 country house near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Several students at Durham University walked out before Liddle spoke about tolerance earlier this month.
Hannigan, president of the Junior Common Room at South College, later addressed the crowd.
He stood unsuccessfully for Labour in local elections in May, winning just 577 votes.
He has written online: “The Labour Party, particularly since Corbyn, has provided people like me with an alternative — and an end to austerity.
austerity! How many trillions is it now?
It isn’t difficult at all to defy this bollocks even as an individual. This is soul time. You make a decision because later on it will matter a great deal.
Well said. A nice spin on, “It’s Show Time!” This time the stakes are higher. Much higher.
Just watching the headlines from the local North East news program which obviously lead with the jabs for everyone before Xmas headline and was showing highlights of local people thoughts who were out shopping. The people who were interviewed (obviously ITV are never gonna give airtime to people who are against restrictions) are thinking this vaccine is the way out of the pandemic. They’re so indoctrinated towards it they seriously think that the unvaccinated (I’m actually double jabbed, no more though) are responsible for the spread of omicron. Two young lasses were ‘excited’ to get their booster jab… I had to turn it over before the telly went through the window. Pisses me right off.
This is the revenge of the remainers. Plan B is the manner by which Vaccine passports/digital ID are to be put onto the statute in the UK tomorrow evening so that we can be fully re-intigrated into Europe digitally. End Common Law and replace it with Napoleonic Law. We don’t need to be members of the EU if our entire population can be controlled in alignment with all 500m EU citizens on exactly the same basis. Every part of the plan has been carefully orchestrated: the “leaks” of party goings on to the press(many of whom were there anyway), the persistent undermining of Boris Johnson every time this somewhat populist politician appears to be gaining credibility, the Owen Patterson situation, the amazing emergence of Omicron and re-emergence of quarantine hotels just when it looked like it was all over for the lockdown state – all set up for the PM to have no choice but to throw the plan B dead cat on the table. The re-emergence of Michael Gove arguing for it and the demand for boosters in order to get the ID all point to the real agenda being about this. Watch Omicron evaporate as a problem in… Read more »
Good spot. It turns out that the English vaxpässen which nobody was even considering are somehow, mysteriously, compatible with the Brussels system.
Must be some sort of parallel evolution.
Haha, good analogy.
Nothing to do with partnering with the “Good Health Pass Scheme” started in January by ID2020, then\?
It’s actually the revenge of the Brexiteers : got away with one con job, and now see the world as an oyster bed for cons 🙂
Kim Jong Johnson is the abuser, not the victim so stop portraying the great fat communist fraud as not responsible for his own actions.
It doesn’t really matter if Johnson acts like an imbecile following orders of a bunch of mad scientists hell-bent to cause as much destruction and misery as they can or if he really wants to do this with all of his heart and soul. If he’s solely or mainly held responsible, the actual culprits will keep going and wait for the next opportunity.
Ferguson has been professionelly mispredicting development of communicable diseases for decades. He must not get away with this to repeat it in future again (example).
Johnson is a culprit, as is everyone who shares the ideas behind lockdown.
Only by promoting good ideas, can the ideology of lockdown be defeated.
I have not said it is only Kim Jong Johnson to blame.
Well, Tim Martin, if you get into bed with the Bozzer, what do you expect?
There is no bringing it back. No return to people getting pissed after a week in the office.Nonetheless the energy persists. As Englishmen we enjoy taking the piss. We are here now this is the showdown. Doesn’t matter if you are an unemployed dock worker or a man of the shires this really is crux time.
“The typical British pub, contrary to received opinion in academia, is usually a bastion of social distancing,” he said on Monday.
Not the pubs I go it isn’t.
Everything that has occurred from 2020 onwards can be seen as a parting of the ways. A few years ago I heard an aboriginal prphecy abourt how a crisis would start with a run on toilet paper and the ultimate outcome would be a parting of the ways. There would be one section that would ascend to a higher planet and another section of boring people who would go and live on a boring and predictable planet. With retrospect I can see that this divergence was immanent all along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8mkcJ2p4tg
In Oz the jabbed are thought of as Sheep by their political classes.
How about offering a discount to those wearing badges or something saying ‘I will not comply’?