An ‘unplanned’ anti-lockdown protest in Scotland’s largest city has taken place today that appears to be one of the country’s largest demonstrations since the pandemic began. MailOnline has more.
Thousands of protesters gathered at Glasgow Green at 1pm on Saturday as public anger boiled over at First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s latest Covid curbs.
The activists began the unplanned procession by marching through Argyle Street, one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares, during what the campaign group called a “Freedom Rally”.
Some of them were pictured carrying placards saying “Do you trust your government with your life?” and “vaccine passports means your body will be owned by the state forever”.
The protest is believed to have been organised by Scotland Against Lockdown, a group that runs campaigns against mandatory facemasks.
The campaigners are also opposed to the Scottish and U.K. Governments’ Coronavirus Act 2020, social distancing and mandatory vaccines, according to its social media pages.
Official data showed Covid cases in Wales and Scotland are increasing faster than in England despite the nations’ harsher restrictions.
Confirmed infections are rising more than twice as quickly in Scotland as they are in England, jumping from 6,976 to 14,006 in the former nation in the week up to January 2nd – an increase of more than 100%.
For comparison, cases increased 44% in England to 129,014 during the same period. They increased by more than 52% in Wales to 9,718.
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I despair for my homeland. SNP driving it to poverty.
Sympathies. Former Aberdeen Uni grad here.
How many Scots oppose covidianism and where are they located, Red?
Current Aberdeen resident here.
Haven’t complied since this shit storm started. Covidians everywhere.
What does “haven’t complied” mean? You are subject to the same rules as regards travelling abroad / returning to the UK as everyone else. And that means having to pay for PCR tests and do quarantine.
People can refuse the vaccines and masks – but they are still effectively prisoners in their own country, and they are still forced to see others in face masks, You can’t get away from it.
Oh – and you can’t get to see a doctor either.
Fellow former Uni of Aberdeen graduate (both degrees). My parents live in Midlothian just South of Edinburgh. They are no longer complying. Both in their 80s and not having the booster or their ‘flu vacs either. I have visited them throughout from Chesterfield. My son, who was born in Aberdeen, 16 now, hasn’t had the vac and doesn’t wear a mask. His mother, unfortunately, with whom he lives, is completely hypnotised by it all.
Support your son, he needs it.
I wish I knew.
Far, far too few. The very few unmuzzled to be seen out and about are of the knuckle-dragging ned variety. While I celebrate their resistance, in practice I suspect that they’re the same sort of low grade sociopaths abusing the disabled bays outside. There’s very little principled and informed dissent to be seen.
Ouch! Myself and two people dear to me are the only ones I know who refuse to wear a mask here in Scotland. I don’t see us as knuckle-dragging but maybe would some power give us….
I am pleased the Scots are standing up
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“COVID cases” are not medically diagnosed cases, they are positive test results, which, in the absence of symptoms unique to so-called Covid, are meaningless.
The number of ‘cases’ per 100,000 population is meaningless if the number of tests per 100,000 population changes during the same period, which it always does when the government decides to release another fear storm to get more people to fall for the experimental gene therapy.
What we need to see is how the number of positive cases per 100,000 tests changes over time. Even this is subject to fraudulent manipulation with the PCR test where they can dial up or down the number of positive results by changing the number of replication cycles. Even Tony Fraudci has admitted this.
But Sturgeon gives the impression that she loves those cases – she doesn’t give 2 hoots whether there are symptoms attached or not. All she wants are the cases because if she has them then they justify the continuation of the control.
And money in her and her friends’ pockets. They’ll be taking a slice of every special and emergency payment.
The tests produce the Big Scary Numbers which are not coming from actual deaths. If cases = deaths, we’d be tripping over corpses everywhere.
What’s comical is the way the DM is presenting the story and how it contrasts with most of their coverage of anti-coronabullshit demos. This is their current front page link for this story:
You’ll never take our freedom! Thousands of defiant protesters stage largest anti-lockdown rally in recent months as they march through Glasgow against Nicola Sturgeon’s draconian Covid restrictions
For a demo in London it would have been all about “far right” and “antivax” thugs, and nothing about freedom or “defiance”, or “draconian”.
Don’t get me wrong, I share the DM’s contempt for the SNP. The DM are just so transparent…
Having read the article from top to bottom, I was left bewildered. It was fair. It simply reported on the facts related to the event. And you’re right, the contrast with the Mail’s usual reporting on English Freedom marches was striking. No epithets or fallacious opinions inserted into this article. Astonishing.
Coronavirus knows no nationalism. There are people there from both sides of the independence divide.
I hope it’s a clarion call for Scotland to unite and fight tyranny no matter where it comes from.
For all his sins, Boris has been the least tyrannical of almost all European leaders of late, so the Scottish nationalists can blame no one but Sturgeon for continued restrictions.
Wow, well done Scotland;
”They may take away our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!”
Maybe i am being ridiculously over-optimistic but I do start to get the feeling that the health tyrants are beginning to be pushed onto the back foot. The Iron curtain looked impregnable but eventually just fell away…………we live in hope, so I say again;
WELL DONE SCOTLAND
Long way to go. Sturgeon is a slippery bitch and is playing even more of a political game than Boris over covid.
Like those in Scotland, people in England badly need to get off their butts and offer some push-back.
Look at the NHS and the idiocy and falsehoods about staff shortages, and all blamed on a common cold they’ve decided to call Omicron.
How long until the NHS does what United Airlines did in the US. United Airlines fired many of their US staff because they refused to be injected with the poisonous mRNA gene serums.
The airline then discovered that it was short of staff – they probably resurrected Einstein to work that out for them. To solve this problem – I kid you not – United Airlines imported unvaccinated foreign staff to make up the short-fall.
That’s all very funny. And it’s also a clear sign that United Airlines management were not really worried about their staff being unvaccinated. They simply punished their unvaccinated American staff because the “vaccines” are actually all about introducing Vax Passports.
The authorities don’t want people “vaccinated” per se, they want people biometrically registered on “Vaccine Passports”. And if they successfully get these introduced, society as we and our ancestors know/knew it is gone forever.
British citizens should be very wary that the government, under the guise of making up staff shortages in the NHS, is putting combat trained troops on British streets.
When people accept combat ready troops in roles like this, it’s only a hop-and-a-jump until these same troops will be used to do police work. Then it’s just another hop-and-a-jump until the UK is policed like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.
These staff shortages in the NHS are all geared towards getting the British public accustomed to seeing uniformed and combat ready troops in institutions and on the streets.
“That’s all very funny. And it’s also a clear sign that United Airlines management were not really worried about their staff being unvaccinated. They simply punished their unvaccinated American staff because the “vaccines” are actually all about introducing Vax Passports.”
Similar to the situation in France and the UK. Non vaxxed are being punished not so much because we refuse the jab but because we are disobediant.
That is correct. And it lets us make a prediction, which is that nothing that is now open to the “vaccinated” and to the section of the “unvaccinated” who are classed as “immune having recovered from an infection”, but which is closed to the rest of the “unvaccinated”, will all of a sudden become open to everyone who is “unvaccinated”.
It’s more a case of “Here is how things have changed. Here are your new orders. If you don’t obey, you’ll be sacked, banned, etc.” The next move is unlikely to be “April Fool! We were pulling your leg! Even if you disobeyed us, hey, that’s no problem. You can stay in your job and we’ve lifted the bans too.”
“If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow” <- Reflect on that, anyone reading this who is considering submitting to “vaccination” against their better judgement.
NO MEANS NO
It would have been possible to drive those soldiers into the hospital using vehicles from the army’s “white fleet” and without caps and combat boots.
Other shortages may soon arise – not of hospital staff and schoolteachers, but of fuel and food.
Note to anyone planning on holding up a placard at a demo. Make sure it is spelled right. These things matter.
???
“you should be the only person to decide how well you can breath”
‘breathe’ is correct spelling
‘breath’ is what you exhale
breath is a noun.
breathe is a verb.
Spelt. Only Americans and chavs write spelled.
Indeed. I missed that.
Spelt is a type of wheat.
Spelled is the past participal of spell
Muppet.
Blinis.
Actually, both spellings are correct in the UK:
https://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/spelled_spelt.htm
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/spelt
That’s enough trolling now, @artfelix !
Quiet rite.
I applaud that two times.
I applauded it, but now I’m typing……
I know some pedants who would love that cartoon!
Spelling and Covid Na2is. I just love you all.
“no time to loose”
Is grammar more important than morality?
Morality is downstream from correctness.
Protests are a symptom of malaise, but only internal collapse will destroy the system. Time is the gov’s enemy, but our friend. Eventually the handful of satanists holding the reigns will crack, be unmasked, change sides, flee, top themselves, or be evicerated by the public.
In the interests of spelling pedantry as evidenced in earlier posts I venture to note that the word you wanted was ‘reins’, not ‘reigns’.
You’re write!
Of coarse…
They are also reigning via use of the reins.
Another trainer natzi here ‘reins’ as in horses.
Not ‘reigns’ as unfortunately Old Jug Ears will soon do.
Did the 52% jump in Wales include the positive results from ‘orange juices’ that wanted a longer New Year holiday from school?
Was chatting to a young man recently studying in Edinburgh about the restrictions Sturgeon was introducing. He said that all his cohort of similar aged friends were sick to the back teeth of them and had no intention of following them. I took my hat off to him and took some hope from what he said.
I think the younger gens, are increasingly catching on this is not about health Milo. Those fantastic rebellious non mask and LFT conforming school teens in the NW.
And Zuby and Jon [cbelow] chow down on Covid BS, and tis clear for them and hopefully many more of the 30 to 40 year olds this charade is done. They both are known influencers… so pushback momentum is building.
Rogan’s podcast was the exocet that ignited the death blow to the globalists narrative that we really needed…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFlKDMdd2PM
Good for the younger generations. The baby boomers, who grew up seeing how oppressive societies such as the ussr and east Germany operated, have behaved in a disgraceful cowardly manner meekly rolling over and accepting all restrictions without question then happily sacrificing their children and grandchildren on the alter and mandatory jabs.
That would be ‘some’ baby boomers.
Boomers make up the majority of our SITP group so absolutely it is only some. And it’s not the boomers who are allowing their children to be vaccinated and be made to wear masks in schools.
I’m sick of being made the scape-goat for covid-compliance just because of my age. None of my family, of all ages, have ever complied with any of this.
My blood test showed naturally-acquired antibody immunity after covid recovery but when my husband and son tried to get tested two days later, the pharmacist said the government had banned the tests, going so far as to threaten the pharmacy with closure.
That, to us, was an enormous red flag because it was insane. Had this not been a scam, a ‘roll-out’ of antibody testing would have provided a clear picture of the situation – no need for endless, costly useless PCR tests, no need to lock the country down either. But of course it wouldn’t have produced the ‘fear factor’, or a least, not to the extent they needed it to justify using the whole country as a gigantic laboritory for their experimental ‘vaccine’.
I had my antibody test almost 18 months ago (and that was eight months after I had covid and STILL had a full antibody count, showing my immunity to be thorough and durable) and all events and mandates since then have only underlined our belief that we’re being taken for a ride.
The most gullible age-group as far as I’ve seen is the 25 – 40 demographic, masking up even in the street with their unfortunate children. The very elderly too, of course, but I don’t see the boomers particularly hysterical. Just because we’ve entered our 70s doesn’t mean we’ve lost all sense of reason.
brilliant post Lorrinet – thank you – I can only hope that my own NI is as strong and thorough as yours is!!
Our ‘youth’ acted independently of Rogan I suspect.
The phenomena of Mass Formation Psychosis is independent of media and technology, it’s intuitive.
The opposite of Mass Formation Psychosis is also intuitive and our youth cotton on pretty quickly.
Our kids wont be victims to this crap, they will be our saviours. They are rebellious, as we were when we were young. When governments tell them to wear masks, take clotshots and socially distance, they will eventually revel in doing the opposite.
Red,
Over at the Conservatie treehouse Sundance has a great piece on this Mass Formation Psychosis. He also gives great coverage to Our Neil Oliver, God bless him.
Sundance gives good exposure to all the political absurdities of the Global Warming/Chinese flu planneddemics.
Zuby was on GB News before christmas – he was brilliant. I loved him!
I know from my posts about GB News on here I am going to come over as a bit obsessed with them, but they really are carving out a much needed swathe of sanity at the moment.
Now, if only they would begin to dig a bit deeper (eh Nigel Farage???) about what is underlying all of this – then we might be getting somewhere…
So how can they avoid the restrictions when they want to fly from Edinburgh airport? This goes far deeper than just refusing to wear a face mask, or refusing to get a ‘Covid vaccine’.
How can they make the pubs that have closed due to the restrictions suddenly ‘be open’?
Let’s say they wanted to go to that cinema in Swansea that was forced to closed due to ‘Covid rules’ – how can they ‘not follow’ the fact that it is closed?
‘Covid’ has affected us all – but not all negatively – those who have made tidy profits out of it are smiling and happy.
cannot speak in detail about all the things my young friend plans to do, but his intention, and that of his friends, is to live their lives as far as they are possibly able to without complying with the needless restrictions. The detail of how they do that is up to them. The point is they see through it and won’t go along with it any more. Try to see that as a plus if it is replicated in other young people.
So they say, but I see previous little evidence of revolt. The unmuzzled faces that I do see are scowling beetle-browed neds and dirka-dirka-ing New Scotch, not university students making a principled and informed stand.
‘The activists began the unplanned procession by marching through Argyle Street..’
‘The protest is believed to have been organised by Scotland Against Lockdown…’
In the space of three paragraphs these morons lose track of their own words. One can only marvel at the absurdity.
For what it’s worth, the event was definitely planned.
LOL. Very good point.
When they throw one of these up in Princess Street Gardens… then we’ll know the end is nigh….
No need. They’re are plenty of lamp posts
So there are Scots with backbones after all?
have met quite a lot of groups from Scotland who came specially by coach for the monthly large London marches when they did not have one of their own.
Scotland voted against independence. The majority have backbones……..
I went to Scotland for work a few months ago, I was actually quite encouraged by how colleagues asked about the lesser restrictions in England as if they were informed East Germans looking over the Wall at a better West with a hopeful curiosity as to better days and ways. By no means was there any sense on my part that they accepted the diktats of the SNP coalition as Holy Writ.
Scotland is a “former nation.”
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The demons in the NHS must be exposed and exorcised. They are complicit in the perpetuation of covidianism. That’s the only way of saving the NHS.
It is just too much to ask that the MSM say ‘Thousands of ordinary people took to the streets’. Instead they have to be ‘Activists’ or ‘Anti-vaxxers’.
Well, why should they go against what their masters desire? The psychologists at SAGE must be having a good old laugh about this. And they are managing to ‘stay safe’ from the ‘anti-vaxxers’.
You are doing the same by labelling protesters as ‘ordinary’.
Remember that the Merriam-Webster definition of “anti-vaxxer” is now:
“a person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer
I’ve started measuring the situation as follows – Three correlations to watch for:
They won’t be able to hide these causations much longer. Then the tsunami of legal cases can begin.
They just look like ordinary people trying to stop **** being forced on them, what do activists look like.
What do activiists look like? Well, that depends entirely on whether the media writing about them approves of their cause!
If they are anti-Covidians then they are crazed conspiracy-theorists who don’t care how many grannies die as a result of their selfish actions.
If they are wanting the government to insulate every house then they are admirable prople promoting a noble cause….
Spot on.
What do activists look like?
Vomit
Got my NHS exemption form for the “not mandatory” vaccine… They allow you one (arguably 2) lines at the top of an A4 sheet to explain why, despite it not being mandatory, you have decided you don’t want it. I spent hours this afternoon researching what GP’s have been told and how the whole sham works, basically it’s the work of a complete evil genius, if they want to screw society even more and withdraw lateral flow use, then no GP seems to have grounds for exempting people even if they wanted to. They also all get £44 for each assessment, which is essentially £44 per rejection.
it’s really amazing how twisted this is, my body – their choice.
enjoy – https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1043861/Greenbook-chapter-14a-24Dec21.pdf
£44 for the rejection, then £30 per jab.
A lady on TCW reported that her exemption was rejected despite her having an acknowledged and severe allergy to the Frankengoo components. She was told that she could be admitted and experimented on as an in-patient under monitoring. That’s how deep the determination is to inflict these non-vaccinating “vaccines”.
Admission as inpatient [what a waste of money eh?] for vaxx is in line with the guidance I commented on above. Dear God, based on this I think you would simply be better keeping your head under the radar and NOT asking for an exemption; even though you might very well be entitled to one you sure as hell won’t get it and will just have identified your self as unvaxxed and a candidate to be harassed.
Could you imagine in other circumstances, if you were sitting in GP surgery and he was going to prescribe you something, and you were to say “perhaps not, I think I am allergic to X or Y ingredient”? He’d be scrapping that prescription quicker than you could say “safe and effective”!!! worried about his indemnity insurance premiums.
The practice of medicine died in March 2020. I’m not honestly sure how to describe what they have replaced it with.
It’s astonishing isn’t it ? Every door slammed shut to avoid something that is not mandatory.
Have done a rapid scroll down through the document you attach.
First thing which hit me was this (p31):
“There is no convincing evidence of any safety concerns from vaccinating individuals with a past history of COVID-19 infection, or with detectable COVID-19 antibody.”
Surely, from all of the information we have seen on this site [DS] we know this to be a lie. The research indicates that if you have had and recovered from covid then to be vaccinated against it makes you more likely to suffer from an adverse event.
Secondly – page 33 – where they deal with people with allergies, the tenor of the advice seems to be “vaccinate as a rule” with VERY few exceptions. This strikes me as highly dangerous. How does someone know that they are allergic to PEG if they have never been vaccinated with it before?
Lastly, unless I missed it, I do not see any mention of people with natural immunity not needing a vaccination. Odd that isn’t it?
It’s so very very dark.
“More than £6 billion of public money has been spent on mass testing using (lateral flow test) devices.”
…And that doesn’t include all the £500 payments and other costs.
So this is why so many can’t get the operations they need – because retards have been putting sticks up their noses, again and again. And they call the resistance antisocial!
Err, why is it appropriate for all of those? Hospitals and care homes, where it will inform treatment (or ward placement) is probably reaasonable. But why is any testing at all needed in schools, and why should having ‘symptoms’ justify a test? If you feel crap, stay at home until you don’t as with any other cold.
Incidentally, anyone know how to see full Times articles? I can only see the first bit and 12ft.io doesn’t seem to work with the Times.
“But why is any testing at all needed in schools, and why should having ‘symptoms’ justify a test? “
Because there is money to be made from flogging these tests. ‘Positive’ test results keep the ‘Covid’ scam going for ever and ever and ever, and making shedloads of money out of that too.
I think by now everybody knows the answers to why ‘tests are needed’. The elusive answer is what to do about ending the fraud.
Great post.
The German Madman of Health declared today that it was “naive” to think that omicron would be the end of the pandemic – and warned the public about upcoming unspecified deadly variants. Of course, he failed to tell us why it was so “naive” in light of every prior pandemic spontaneously ending within 2-3 years without any modern interventions. I guess it has something to do with his original declaration that we were not going to emerge from this pandemic before the end of his 4 year term.
(A day before he proclaimed that we need to introduce mandatory vaccination quickly before the ongoing spread of omicron makes it “appear” unnecessary.)
Perhaps he’s relying on vaccine escape from the leaky vaccines artificially prolonging the situation? It’s unfortunately not out of the question that this could happen, although looking less likely now.
I’m starting to believe that he is just a thoroughly deluded individual in need of psychiatric care. But he is purportedly the “most popular” politician in Germany… which say a lot about what has become of society here.
Another footballer goes down…
Why do the signs say ‘Fighting for our Freedoms?’
It makes it sound as though we have been granted separate chunks of Freedom.
The word is FREEDOM (not pluralised).
I wish I knew about this
First stirrings of civil disobedience in Scotland and long overdue. If only England had not introduced Plan B. A complete return to normality would have left the Scottish and Welsh Governments even more exposed in their zero Covid fantasy world. Perhaps the explanation for the rise in cases is that they failed to relax restrictions soon enough!
And rises occurring DESPITE draconian restrictions. Is anyone in the SNP looking or listening.
Good on these Scots rallying against Janette Krankie’s ridiculous restrictions.
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