Recent reports have shown that Government officials and advisers are preparing to implement a two-week ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown, which would be introduced shortly after Christmas. Under the proposed guidelines, the ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown will ban indoor mixing, forcing hospitality venues to seat customers in outdoor spaces only. The Independent has more.
Officials are drawing up plans for a two-week ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown after Christmas, reports have suggested, including a ban on indoor mixing.
The Times reported that draft regulations were being prepared which would ban meeting others indoors except for work purposes, and that pubs and restaurants would be limited to outdoor service only.
Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported that Boris Johnson was presented with a number of options on Friday under a so-called ‘Plan C’, ranging from “mild guidance to nudge people, right through to lockdown”.
The newspaper quoted allies of the Prime Minister who claimed Johnson still wanted to go down the guidance route, but that he also had to be realistic about the threat of Omicron.
Leaked minutes from the SAGE, seen by the BBC, reportedly said scientists had told ministers that tougher measures need to be brought in “very soon”.
The BBC reported that the advisers had recommended moving to restrictions seen in step one and two of the easing of lockdown restrictions in the spring. These included a ban on indoor mixing and indoor hospitality. They also reportedly warned against delaying further interventions until 2022.
The U.K. reported more than 90,000 new Covid cases in another record daily total on Friday.
A Government Spokesperson said: “The Government will continue to look closely at all the emerging data and we’ll keep our measures under review as we learn more about this variant.”
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It is all by the by now. In 2019 a decision was made to allow direct rule by the banks and corporations and here we are. The governing party is utterly irrelevant. Every word they spew would be uttered by their opposition but couched a bit differently. There is no escaping fundamental power relations and how they have changed. This is the first tep to dismantling them. I would say at current reckoning it will take about three decades to develop a true spiritual resistance. All the while everything that makes life bearable will be crumbling at an accelerating rate. All you can do is keep spirits up in yourself and the people around you. It never came with a promise of ease or happiness or fulfilment but there was a promise that you would feel alive if you chose to do so.
Good article. The tories have lacked leadership with a pair of bollocks since Margaret Thatcher. Greedy, self-serving, spineless bastards – the lot of them. (* there are one or two honourable exceptions).
They are not “embarassed to be conervatives” they have not been conservatives for decades. The shock to their members is they have not been Conservatives, although there has never been a coherent philosophy about that or what it means.
They have been, as you say, keen to avoid a “scene”. They friends and associates and many (mpost?) of the Parliamentary party were on the side of woke, high tax, net zero and all the rest of the damaging mess.
The Conservative Party will not change. It is in too deep on all this stuff and its elected representatives will not tolerate change any more than they would allow a proper Brexit. As the GE approaches they will huff and puff and pretend all this was nothing to do with them. The ECHR, UK Courts, EU, UN, HoL and any number of other points of resistance will be given as excuses but it won’t wash. Even their own members don’t accept it.
As Peter Hitchens memorably pointed out on Question Time when talking about gay marriage, Cameron hates his own supporters.
Fascinating article for anyone who cares about the tories or the current political system or thinks that our system is anything but a show to keep the masses mesmerised and subdued.
If you are awake in the world, it all looks like the pantomime that it is.
The basic error in this piece is the presumption that Sunak, Hunt and globalist gang that usurped Truss actually care about being unpopular.
They don’t.
They’re banking on being less unpopular than Labour, but if Starmer gets in, he’ll just do more of the same.
Every day, in every way, the revolution gets nearer its globalist goal.
It’s up to us to expose, resist, disrupt.
Naive articles like this miss the message.
They don’t care about being unpopular with their members, the working class or other conservative and sane citizens.
They do very much care about being unpopular among the circle of likeminded managerial elite people they and their wifes, husbands and children move withinor aspire to do so.
They care about being popular with their fellow globalist swamp creatures, not the people.
It is a very simple game – keep the charade going on long enough so that you can get awat with all the spoils. This is a fundamentally flawed point of view because on a meta level the world that they luxuriate in depends completely on the thriving, at least on the surface, of a layer below.Just wise up we were all taken in at some point. That;s irrelevant because we are facing a serious attack on our spiritual home.
What the Tories have failed to realize is that the most important legacy of the Blair era is that New Labour is still running the country with an increasingly iron grip on everyday life regardless of who sits in Downing St 10 by virtue of all these quangos and charities stuffed with New Labour types which all act is if they had a mandate for enforcing general policies because they have the power to do so. The charade of the Hallet ‘inquiry’ would be a striking example of this.
We have to do something. If we allow this to continue then we aren’t even men enough to be guardians and we deserve everything we get. Serious people in this country need to acknowledge a sense of urgency.
Look at it in six months time given the defaults on mortgages and the homelessness engendrred by passed on rent costs. The whole situaton is a corrupt deck of cards. There will be no hiding from it when it collapses. We have only one option which is to fight as a nation that takes in and takes on allcomers. Obviosly if they give any indication of betryaal then we slice em up.
The Conservatives, or more certainly the executive realise that they are now nothing but play actors taking orders from elsewhere. As a consequence the likes of Fishy and Chunt couldn’t give a F. about the people of this country and so do not care one way or another about election results and as I keep repeating
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
The executive is now nothing more than a cabal of treasonous actors who are feathering their nests before taking flight.
Scum.
Fighting Marxist cultural warriors takes courage.
After 13 years of putting up with the blatantly biased, left-wing, BBC, the cowards in the Not-a-Conservative-Party still haven’t even got the courage to decriminalise a failure to pay the BBC’s Propaganda Tax.
Well over half of so-called Conservative MPs are carpet-bagger LibDems or Blairites, including the Prime Minister-with-no-mandate and the Chancellor.
I’ve never paid it. OTOH, I am genuinely uninterested in having my time wasted by TV producers and presenters.
Unpopulism? The correct expression is ‘intentional suicide’. This takes you to the burning question: Why?
Kemi Badenoch, by contrast, …… has been happy to stay in the Government through overturning Brexit, Lockdowns, Covid Jabs, Excess Deaths, Drag Queens, Rubber Dinghies, Net Zero, Ever higher Taxes, Woke Policing, Mutilating Teenagers on the altar of trans …..
“Thirteen years in which almost every public and private institution in the country has capitulated…”
Including the Tories.
Not thirteen years, right back to the final years of Thatcher, because the ‘Conservative Party’ was among the first to capitulate – hence the need to defenestrate the Iron Lady – and the emergence of that superannuated Sixth Former Cameron.
Time for a new party?
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/a-reply-to-dominic-cummings?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email