The Government face its largest backbench rebellion since the Conservatives won the 2019 general election, with roughly 70 Tory MPs expected to vote against the Government’s new ‘Plan B’ restrictions intended to stop the spread of the Omicron variant. These new measures include imposing mask mandates on most indoor settings, compulsory vaccination for NHS staff by April 2022, as well as requiring the use of the Covid pass in order to enter certain public venues. Despite this backbench backlash, Labour has pledged to support the Government, which will ensure that ‘Plan B’ passes the House of Commons. BBC News has more.
Around 70 Conservatives are expected to vote against plans to introduce mandatory Covid passes to enter large venues such as nightclubs.
The PM calls them a sensible response to rising Omicron cases – but the plan has sparked civil liberties concerns.
The measure is still likely to pass, as Labour plans to vote for them.
It would mean that from Wednesday, people will have to prove they are fully vaccinated or have a negative lateral flow test to enter large venues.
In a series of votes in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon, MPs will also vote on: a new regulation making it compulsory to wear a face covering in most indoor settings, except for pubs and restaurants. A measure allowing fully-vaccinated people who have been exposed to a positive Covid case to avoid self-isolation if they take daily lateral flow tests, and receive a negative result, as well as making it compulsory for frontline NHS and social care staff to be fully vaccinated from April 2022.
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab told the BBC he hoped the measures would mean “we go into this Christmas in a very different position to last year” and “people can feel reassured” about the their festive plans.
He added that the new Covid passes were not “an unreasonable thing” to ask of people to enter large venues, adding: “I would do it voluntarily.”
The Covid pass measure has proved controversial on the government’s own benches, with one Conservative MP, Marcus Fysh, telling the BBC it was “the thin end of an authoritarian wedge”.
Another Conservative, Andrea Leadsom, said one of her constituents was now “now less afraid of Covid than she is of intrusive and incoherent Government regulations”.
Johnson sought to reassure his colleagues, describing the measures as “balanced and proportionate”, but added there was “no room for complacency”.
The BBC estimates around 70 Conservative MPs are expected to vote against the introduction of Covid passes, which would be the biggest backbench rebellion against the prime minister since he won a Commons majority at the 2019 election.
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Congratulation to the 126.
Watch your back to the others!
One third of Conservative MPs voted against the current nonsense. Hopefully that will dissuade them from more lockdowns. Feeling much better tonight.
Those heroes who voted against the Johnson regime now need to force a no-confidence vote against him.
Get him out and take his stinking, rotten SAGE committee with him.
And if they do, join the tory party to vote
Ninety-eight Conservative MPs rebelled against the government over Covid passes in England. That’s by far the biggest such act of defiance by his own troops since Boris Johnson became PM.
Also, eight Labour MPs rebelled against their own front bench to oppose the plan – Sir Keir Starmer had ordered them to support it.
Also, eight Labour MPs rebelled against their own front bench to oppose the plan
Was Jeremy Corbyn among them? He said earlier in the house that he opposes the passports/mandates.
Corbyn is an Independent, nothing to do with New Labor, and yes, he voted against it.
Labour is disgusting beyond words.
It will be interesting to see how many vote AGAINST vaxpasses but FOR mandatory vaxxing of NHS staff
Baffling how so many MPs are saying with such confidence that the booster offers more protection than the first two jabs. We don’t have any long term data on that so how can they possibly know?
They are repeating lies told to them by “scientists”
Scientists in the loosest terms. I prefer to call them SELLOUTS
This Government and Parliament are liars, we know they are liars, they know we know they are liars, yet still they keep lying…
Just torturing myself by listening to the debate in parliament before tonight’s vote. Shocking level of ignorance around the reasons why 4 million people have chosen not to be stabbed. Not one single MP seems to have bothered to ask the question of any of their constituents. Huw (Adolf) Merriman for Bexhill and Battle in particular is a total fascist. Scary person.
Narrative, narrative, narrative … got to stick to the narrative.
Truth comes second in this particular slagging match …
History may well not remember them, but God will.
And, fwiw, I’m not particularly religious.
But, believe me, I’m praying…
It’s nothing to do with health you moronic bastards.
Not so funny development in Germany: in the coming years supermarkets are planning to replace coins/tokens used to unlock shopping carts by smartphone apps.
Meaning that in the near future you will have to carry the spying device to shop for groceries and also install the supermarket’s shitty trojaned software to use a shopping cart. And – what a coincidence! – shopping carts have been made obligatory since corona – ostensibly because they help limit the number of shoppers on premises. So, no smartphone, no entry to the supermarket. How long will it take until a new idea is brought to fruition that since “everyone” uses smartphone for grocery shopping, the shopping cart unlock function can also be “integrated” with the vaccination check?
As you can see, the ID2020 regulations and totalitarian system are rolled out in quite subtle, but consistent ways.
This is even more brilliant than the intrusive “electronic gates” I predicted earlier – because it avoids the problem of traffic jams at the doorstep, and everyone can be thrown out if they aren’t pushing a shopping cart in front of them (this part is already working well – cashiers have been trained to watch out and are… Read more »
Or ‘vaccination status’ linked to your credit/bank card. Told you it was coming.
The kinder gentler fascism, like Gordon Brown’s “not the Tory boom and bust”.
And who’s developing it? Ex STASI workers, perhaps?
Let’s go Brandon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_ukBKJ8lWc
Biden channels his inner Mugabe.
Is he going to bankrupt his country as well?
A Letter to Send to Venues that Exclude the Unvaccinated
BY DONALD BOUDREAUX DECEMBER 12, 2021
https://brownstone.org/articles/a-letter-to-send-to-venues-that-exclude-the-unvaccinated/
Tory Minister Tobias Elwood said on National Radio this morning “we are a couple of years into this with a couple of years to go”. He then went on to point out that jabs 3-6 etc are necessary.
Talk Radio – Julia Hartley Brewers show today. Go clip the statement and share it around everyone you can.
today’s vote is not about the omnishambles variant. It is the first foot in the door to keep this horror show moving forward for YEARS to come. No one will be stupid enough to keep being vaccinated every 3-6 months without the jackboot on their neck.
I cannot stress this clip enough to everyone. When you see there are years of this ahead. The threat from the politicians makes sense. The world will continue to be wrecked.
Years? I’d predict
I think raised but “coveruppable” excess deaths for the next few years specifically of those near retirement and over.
I think they’ve all bought the other side of pension investments knowing quite a few won’t be using up any of their pension pot and annuity and they’ll connect.
It’s the simplest way to win by putting your finger on the scales of the mortality tables.
Some funny developments in Germany today, showing that the vaxx passes are both largely ignored and impossible to police:
In Hamburg shop owners who are supposed to check vaccination status are now handing out wristbands to customers, so that the check can be skipped in the next shop. (Meaning that it is enough to wear a fucking wristband to cheat, you no longer need to show the QR code.) Apothecaries are now advised NOT to report the fake vaccination passes to the police immediately. Someone noticed that they can be sued for breaching the obligation of privacy in relationship with their customer. And probably (not reported) the police are getting so many tips that they can no longer check them. In Lower Saxony where idiotic laws regarding private meetings “require” people to check vaccination/test status it is now okay if the checking is done “by proxy” by some member of a family who attests the status of other members. In Bavaria the boostered are exempt from testing (despite current boosters being known as almost completely ineffective for omicron), apparently too many pissed off people and too few tests. In other words, the project has become a satire even before they… Read more »
Thanks for this, @rayc. When you say “the next shop”, do you mean the next time a person shops in the same store, or when they enter the next store down the road?
2 is odd. A person can’t have a civil obligation to be an accessory after the fact to a crime.
Are the authorities about to say that the existing rules are being made a mockery of and therefore the enforcement, and probably the rules themselves, should be made stronger?
The wristband rule means “next store down the road”.
As for (2) I don’t quite get your comment – the apothecaries here are supposed to check the papers for validity before converting them into digital vaxx passes. Since presenting a fake paper version is now a crime, they were supposed to report such suspicions to police. But now apparently no more because of civil charges that can be raised against them using a different law (and I suspect many apothecaries don’t really cooperate anyway since unless they are true covidians, they have no personal interest in ratting out the fakers – and can always claim they got duped, too).
These rule tweaks are coming from the same authorities who made up the rules, so I doubt they are going to make them stronger later. Rather, they are noticing that the rules are so dumb that even those who wish to follow them are unable to. By relaxing them they are trying to save face and avoid future backlash from their so far loyal base, and also avoid “law breaking” from occurring en masse, lowering people’s respect for law in general. I bet some of the rules were invented to cater… Read more »
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uwHdNEkjaj8&feature=youtu.be
SAS man Brian Sh*thouse’ succinct take on it and them.
“Demonocracy” is quite a good word.
In Russia there is “deremokratiya” (деремократия). (“Deremo” means poop.)
There is also the excellent Russian word “pizdets” (пиздец). This is exactly what Britain and the West have come to: the pizdets. This is an obscene word that echoes the word for “end”.
The current form of government is also known as Medical Democrature.
Reminds me of this excellent Crass tune from 1979, Demoncrats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnXjgfvxY4A
I’ll neither live nor die for your dreams
I’ll make no subscription to your paradise
Covidians: Remember the names of those who voted for the NHS vaxx mandate, in case you are on an ever longer waiting list, were denied treatment or the thing ‘gets overwhelmed’ again.
It’s obviously very balanced and proportionate to freak out proactively because something could happen in future. Just the sort of level-headed common sense approach this country has always been famous for!
Keep calm and run away screaming!
I posted this further down this thread but I am reposting it as I received a response from my MP which was not ‘boiler-plate’ and stated his views. I do not necessarily agree with him about vaccines, but nonetheless he is against ‘Vaccine Passports’ and a few other things as well.
Here is the original email:
Dear Mr. XXX,
I expect that you will vote against this evil measure today but unfortunately, due to support from the ‘Opposition’ it will pass.
This is the end of this country. The current House of Commons will have BETRAYED all of those who fought in many wars for the freedoms that we have enjoyed up to today.
This will not stop at ‘Large Venues’ and ‘Nightclubs’. It will be extended to ALL premises including one’s own home; not immediately, but not that gradually either.
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with a virus and EVERYTHING to do with CONTROL.
As I said, the people of this country will have been betrayed before the end of the day. I have taken part in at least two ‘Consultations’ both of which were a cynical sham, and I, along with hundreds of… Read more »
A deluded ‘nice guy’ then… perfect manipulation fodder for Chancellor Palpatine.
Your MP is voting the right way, and he has also sent you a reply telling you what he thinks, so good on him. But he doesn’t know what “evidence” means. He seems to think it means “justification”. Some people even think it means “prediction” and write for example about “evidence that X will happen”.
Absolutely agree …
She’s exceptionally dishonest, restrictions lead to further restrictions, they don’t prevent further restrictions.
You cannot comply your way out of coercion.
So we are sliding into irreversible tyranny, it seems.
I know things are really tough right now, but we have to keep our spirits up. I am under pressure at work about mask exemption, and my boss may well be raising other questions soon. It marks me down as sacking fodder if/when new laws are brought in. I can survive losing my job, because nothing I say or do can overturn a societal propaganda against the likes of us. It is a lived experience of discrimination that confirms all our worst fear, though.
But maybe we will somehow survive and thrive, regardless? A part of me fears annihilation from the Covidians, but another part says: ‘As you dwindle into obscurity, the crisis will pass you by’. More insanity and fear may be coming, but I think we are better placed to deal with it than the others. By not playing by their rules we become freed from the worst of it, while they stew in their own juices. In the final chaos, who will be better off?
Yes – I fear that Oceania now has its permanent enemy that can be cited whenever the locals get restless. Certainly we already have our Ministry of Truth (aka BBC).
Complete with its subsidiaries the Guardian and Sky News UK.
Has anyone watched the other Sky News (Australia) recently? If it’s done a few good stories I’ll send them to friends. There’s now far too much information for one person.
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Just hang on in there – within 3 years, the toxic jab effects will be seen everywhere. We simply won’t recognise the country that is left, but we’ll be alive – and we’ll be able to band together.
Appreciated! 😀
Too bad for you that it’s not a toxic jab, more like a placebo. If you want to build a lasting tyranny, toxic jabs are certainly not the proper tool for the job, while sugar pills and whips are.
We’ve got our caravan for another year but I’ll probably never go there again, I’ve no doubt the vax pass will be in pubs, restaurants and shops by then.
Incredible ….
Ah yes, Truss, the ex-libdem who thinks she is Maggie.
Truss – totally out of her depth in world affairs – so make her Foreign Secretary just as well diplomacy is dead.
On thing is clear from watching the appalling standard of ‘debate’ (sic) in the third rate Moronicon Parliament is that he average standard of reading material for MPs is the Daily Express with doses of the hysterical, feminist Guardian .
The shameful ignorance of respected scientific papers and conclusions and sheer utter stupidity of MPs on “Covid Matters” makes it clear that our Parliament is now a total waste of time and money – we might as well submit to Martial Law – we can’t be far off anyway listening to the hysterical drivel and rote learned propaganda from issued ‘fact’ sheets issued by Whitty and prepared ‘notes’ spouted by most MPs.- even some of those who plan to vote against the further Oppression of the population !
No evidence of independent thought whatever.
The pantomime was so shockingly ignorant and Covid ill-informed I had to turn off – but it now appears that rational decision making and personal ‘freedom’ in this country is finished.and the future looks grim.
What communist balderdash, she’s entirely correct about Hong Kong but she conveniently ignores communism in Britain.
No
permit paperscovid passports for the ruling elite butpermit paperscovid passports for everyone else …The only working solution would be for everyone to exclude these pathetic individuals from all social interactions (ban them from online shopping, too, for good measure), with or without covid passports. But for that to happen the majority would have to be opposing this circus. Yet it’s not, and herein lies the main problem, and this is what enables the charlatans.
Meanwhile, another innocent child has been beaten up to death: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/14/mother-girlfriend-convicted-death-16-month-old-girl-died-weeks/, but, hey, lives have been saved thanks to lockdown. Apparently, “working from home” doesn’t work, for example in social care.
Those gagging for lockdown’s don’t care, they really don’t, sick the lot of them
No indeed they don’t !
One MP actually said “I wasn’t affected by the lockdown” so that’s OK then!
God, that repulsive sea of deleted faces on the Stalinist side.
Yep – and Starmer’s lot are just as bad.
Quite so, they are two sides of the same counterfeit coin.
Much worse – brain dead.
People can feel reassured we’ll destroy their lives again, on whim, said Dominic Raab, after being put through a bablelfish translator.
Listening to Labour MPs abusing those opposed to forced vaccinations today I thought I must have stepped into a parallel universe – the dreadful Eagle woman was accusing those sceptical of the vaccinations of “viscious” anti-vax propaganda! ( This is un a country where no criticism of the vax is allowed in any newspaper or any MSM AV outlet censored as they are by Ofcom under the Emergency Regs..
Quite frankly one could be forgiven for thinking that the entire Labour party had been kidnapped by aliens and returned to Earth brainwashed and mentally cleansed of any residual common sense or basic questioning intelligence.
Labour MPs are clearly all terrified for their own lives and have swallowed every last gulp of the MSM psy-op that has been forced on the nation by he media and the Johnson Government for the last 18 months . Not one of them appears to have read a single scientific paper on the nature and effects of the vaccines. As for strokes, cardiac arrest, palsy, clots and myocarditis – might as well be happening on another planet . “Human Rights? Who cares! Nuremberg Code ? Forget it ! Informed consent – what’s that?”
Most Labour… Read more »
A parliament of devils. Democracy is now demonic, and we need to Reset them soon.
A fuse for my barrel, anyone?
Yes, but slight typo there: demonocracy!
Well, demonocracy is now democratic! What use the charade of ‘liberal democracy’ when everyone is evil, a liar, and a deluded fraud?
So much propaganda, fake fact-sheet hand out lies” and official propaganda in the mouths of our craven MPs – quite an occasion!
Not an original thought in the place!
In fact an eye opener – forget Parliament – no good will ever come from it with the low-life morons we now have sitting there.
Agreed, David.
Democracy WAS the final political form after all, but not in the way Fukuyama thought!
What’s to replace it? I favour ‘anarcho-bonapartism’, if only half tongue-in-cheek.
Others will project their own aesthetic preferences, no doubt!
Just shows how divorced from reality they are