Although Dominic Raab has insisted that Brits will experience a “much better Christmas than last year”, he also mentioned that there are no “hard, fast guarantees” that additional Covid restrictions won’t arrive before Christmas Day. Meanwhile, Government advisers have said that “significant action” needs to be taken to curb the spread of the Omicron variant and save the NHS from “real collapse”. Sky News has more.
Raab told Kay Burley: “I think we will have a much better Christmas than last year because of the vaccination level – both the overall vaccination level and particularly the impact of the booster campaign.
“People will need to be careful and cautious.
“But I do think, again subject to the data – and it’s always under review – that we’re in a better position to enjoy Christmas with loved ones this year.”
Asked if more restrictions would be imposed between now and Christmas Day, Raab said: “I just can’t make hard, fast guarantees.”
Twelve people infected with Omicron have died – Raab said 104 people with the variant are in hospital.
He added he did not anticipate parliament being recalled to vote on new restrictions before Christmas.
The Cabinet Minister said there was a time lag in the data and “we don’t yet know the severity” of the Omicron variant, adding that “it comes through day-by-day”.
He said regardless of modelling by scientific advisers, the government would “test the data in real-time against real cases”.
Professor Ravi Gupta, a member of NERVTAG which advises the Government on the threat posed by new and emerging respiratory viruses, said “significant” action needs to be taken to tackle the growing number of Covid cases.
He said: “It is of serious concern. We have an escalating number of cases that really has reached levels that we haven’t seen before in terms of the rate of increase.
“The action that’s needed really is going to be quite significant.”
Dr. Gupta added: “The sheer numbers that are going to be infected because of the increased transmissibility of this virus is going to potentially overwhelm our health service.
“So that’s a really critical situation that we’re facing.”
Worth reading in full.
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This pr*ck is my local M.P. ( God help me!). I can’t wait to have the opportunity to vote him out, but can guarantee that too many of my co-constituents love the draconian goon ( and his party) too much to see him and them for what they really are. Any suggestions for other options to get rid? ( Asking for a friend!).
TTFO.
Raab comes across as a bit thick.
Why would you suggest it’s worth reading in full? The gist of it is a power hungry poseur wants to maintain his power and control. Nuff said.
Fewer cases than on Friday doesn’t suggest exponential growth of the casedemic.
The BBC won’t comment on it as it doesn’t support the overwhelmed NHS narrative but there were fewer people in hospital today than yesterday.
Hopefully the 100 Tory MP’s who voted against Plan B have made Johnson wary of Doctor Doom and his SAGE (was ever an operation less aptly named) munchkins.
I wonder how these people feel about this turd hijacking their sacred lives and death to sell the idea to the public that Xmas might be cancelled – all because of a devious method of associating a death with a bogus unvalidated test
As if, no one is listening to their lies
this imbecile (Raab) has a platform why ? Didn’t he cock up enough this year ?
good to see cases dropping four days in a row in the U.K. only 18k recorded in the last 24 hours. Marvellous. Drop drop drop is quite different to double double double. I don’t think the 1 million by Christmas is happening. Anyone else ?
BBC R4 News has just said ‘soaring cases’.
WTF?
Soaring how ? One look at their dash board tells the official story. Jezz the BBC. Why didn’t they stick to making Allo Allo ?
Why not let the NHS collapse and put it out of its misery and build it back better? Now there’s a catchy slogan!
Oh. That could work Build Back Better. I wonder if that will catch on as quickly as omicron.
Well… I refuse to listen to their bullshit and will carry on as normal. But that I mean the old normal.
The only ‘critical incident’ that is happening is that the penny is dropping amongst the general public and the politicians are terrified that they will be sent on a mass ‘Benito and Clara go to Milan’ trip
It’s the only language they understand. But we’re still at the “writing a letter to my MP” stage. Oh, and there’s another YouGov poll, in case you want a ‘vote’.
It was a done deal in July
Meanwhile, Lord Frost shows that there are at least some politicians with principles.
https://order-order.com/2021/12/20/watch-lord-frost-explains-resignation-over-covid-restrictions-and-plan-b/
One of the few decent men in Westminster.
Raab refuses to rule out further government domestic abuse.
Over in Australia they are somewhat further down the shit hole than us but Riccardo Bossi has the solution for all countries; just say no.
https://rumble.com/vqxfn2-riccardo-bosi-australia-one-party-leader-interview.html
Come to think of it, depopulation wouldn’t be such a bad thing after all, would it? Here are some people who need to be wiped off the face of the planet:
“My 5 yr old grandson had no symptoms, asymptomatic. He was positive on a lateral flow and PCR test. So yes, everyone should test before xmas day.”
“We are all going to do flow tests before we meet up…its the only way..and wear masks if needed.”
“Some cherish n want to protect their family members ,u do what u want selfish.”
“I’ve blocked my chimney up just in case Santa has covid”
“I am a medical doctor and I have taken all of the lateral flow tests at my surgery home and I will give them to family and friends as Christmas gifts. It’s a gesture of good will from me to them.”
So now we’re not only paying doctors to do sweet FA, we’re paying for their effing presents as well.
I’m still not expecting a pre-Christmas lockdown. I still think it’s most likely that all this noise about it being a possibility is so that the grateful masses will be filled with relief and eternally grateful when the gracious overlords grant them their day or two of relative freedom before a 27/12 lockdown.
I have a theory why Gove is so much in favour of a lockdown. It’s to do with climate change. It would help to have future lockdowns due to climate change easier if we now get used to lockdowns being implemented for slightest reasons (like sniffles). He’s also mesmerised by that vixen Greta (I know, but he IS weird).
It’s much simpler. They just want absolute power that’s why they lie, cheat, sell their own children for position and get off on controlling people. Eventually they’ll enjoy being seen to murder too – ultimate control and fear.
Greta is (almost) female. I don’t think that is Gove’s bag these days.
They effing love it!!! Titting around with people’s minds, bodies and souls…endlessly. These are the traits of torturers, as recognised by Amnesty International in 1975 (where ARE they, btw?) Evil bastards. You don’t have single say in my right to life, as it currently stands.
“Dominic Raab Refuses to Rule Out Imposing Further Restrictions before Christmas Day”
Classic abusive, coercive control behaviour.
Let the NHS collapse. If the people responsible for NHS capacity planning end up killing patients because of their wrong-headed decisions, they will need to take responsibilty for this. Limitless imprisonment of the general population is not a workaround they should be allowed to employ.
A health service is supposed to keep the people safe, not the other way around.
They will not take responsibility, they are bureaucrats. Their entire careers are built on shifting blame, stealing credit and bigging themselves up. They are very good at it.
I can just see the “lessons learned” file being dusted down…..
‘Lateral flow tests are this year’s must-have Christmas item’: Brits are STILL unable to get their hands on Covid test kits – as experts warn they must do a swab HOURS before seeing family
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10328567/Brits-unable-hands-Covid-test-kits.html
“Britons across the country are up in arms over the shortage of lateral flow tests as experts are warning they must do a swab just before seeing friends and family.”
“Stephen Reicher, professor of psychology at the University of St Andrews and a member of government advisory body the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group, told BBC Breakfast: ‘If you want a good Christmas dinner, I would say be very careful about meeting up before Christmas.”
https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/stephen-david-reicher(a0a908db-1bb8-4d5e-ab30-f47643e35169).html
Look at the fucking state of him
What a prick.
This was determined months ago, and the vehicle for delivering it was already decided. The result is more jabs and vaccine passports. Regardless of the real world data of this variant. That simply doesn’t matter.
100%, doesn’t it will succeed though
They seem to be leaking that a lockdown won’t be announced before Christmas.
They’re saying it’s because of “the Data” and they’re also implying it’s because Johnson promised to recall parliament and MPs are f***ed if they’re coming back to London for a vote. (The ludicrousness of the second reason suggests this is a genuine leak from Number 10. Maybe some fun and games are planned with legislative-executive relations over the next fortnight. On the other hand, maybe the kid in the office at Number 10 today is a bit dim.)
From the Times:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-sunak-resists-new-covid-restrictions-before-christmas-0qrmjnj2r
UK ex-minister links his resignation to Covid restrictions
Anti-vaxxers said to book Covid jab appointments & not show up
Entire hospital wards are at risk of shutdown over vaccine mandate row
not sure if this is actually true – just govt propaganda to target the pure
Right so we are shutting down the country for 104 CASES. Not poorly people, at death’s door with a highly infectious disease, just dodgy cases.
And some people still think this is about health. Well I suppose it is – destroying health and the country with it.
I’ve spoken to two Covidians in as many days. They still bleat the same old “I know LOADS of people who have/had COVID! ” and of course they know LOADS MORE that have died…still dying of COVID! Try explaining a bit about the vaccines, because they want to know if you, and the world and his wife have been triple-bloody jabbed, and you physically see the light go out…
If they have been watching BBC News on a twice daily basis [minimum] for almost 2 years and swallowing it all whole without so much as a single questioning thought they are unreachable at this point.
I was in the gym this afternoon. People are exercising with masks on.
Stupidity is off the scale.
Dominic Raab can spin on it!
So I can’t rule out ignoring more restrictions before Christmas.
He’s a Con Dom right? You can be too safe it turns out 😂😂😂
“…Twelve people infected with Omicron have died – Raab said 104 people with the variant are in hospital.”
Very cagey language there.
Twelve people have died with, not from O’micron (it’s an Irish variant). Of the ~1500 people who die each day from all causes.
104 people with O’micron are in hospital. Again, these people could have another illness which has resulted in hospitalisation and O’micron is simply irrelevant.
Careful use of language to throw out “scary” figures but with plausible deniability on the actual truth of the matter if/when he gets caught on.
It’s about the only thing our politicians are any good at
Omicron is not normal? The latest from eugyppius’s substack.
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/omicron-is-not-normal?r=tpyw4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
So if I understand this correctly it could be like an attenuated flu vaccine and remove the need for jabs. If so, no wonder the Government wants to try to stop it spreading.