In what may be a sign of things to come, arch-lockdown fanatic Michael Gove has begun to pivot, contradicting Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi by refusing to rule out the end of free lateral flow tests and saying the pressure on the NHS is “abating”. “We are moving to a situation where it is possible to say that we can live with Covid,” the Housing Secretary said. Sky News has the story.
But when asked by Kay Burley on Monday for how long the [lateral flow] devices will remain free for all, Mr Gove said: “It is the case that in this country lateral flows are free – unlike in many other jurisdictions – they are a vital tool in making sure that we can curb the spread of the infection and also that people who need to isolate do so.
“But, as you pointed out right at the beginning of our conversation, we are moving to a situation – we are not there yet – but we are moving to a situation where it is possible to say that we can live with Covid and that the pressure on the NHS and on vital public services is abating.
“But, it is absolutely vital to recognise that we are not there yet. And as the health secretary has reminded us there will be some difficult weeks ahead and that is why we all need to continue to test, continue – if we are positive – to isolate, and continue broadly to support the NHS as it goes through a challenging period but one in which the frontline professionals are doing an amazing job.”
Pressed once more on whether the Government is considering phasing out lateral flow tests but not for the coming weeks, Mr Gove replied: “As the Prime Minister and others have said, we will do whatever it takes.”
Sounds like he may be preparing the ground for the wind-down – and it is being reported that Boris is indeed drawing up plans for “living with Covid”. Let’s hope so. Mass testing has long outlived any usefulness it might have had.
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““It is the case that in this country lateral flows are free – unlike in many other jurisdictions – they are a vital tool in making sure that we can curb the spread of the infection and also that people who need to isolate do so.”
vital tool? to delay some people getting a runny nose?
just don’t go meet your gran if you are ill
They just want to make more and more money out of us and out of this massive scam they have constructed for their friends. to benefit from . Millions have been made. We have never seen such overt dishonesty in High Places – they at least used to try and cover it up!
With permanent “Emergency Powers” and only “One Party” represented in Parliament, thanks to Globalist Kneeler Starmer and his sheep, they can now behave on a whim just as they choose.
I see gove I see Mr Burns
I’m not sure who’s who
His mouth in the photo remidns me of something – I cannot think what. Any suggestions?
A badly fitting skin-suit falling off the reptile inside?
A goby. Big, slimy fish gulping against the wall of a fish tank.
Looks like a rather slack ladies’ body part to me which makes him a bit of a c***.
as Viz would have him, “bit of a Wizard’s Sleeve”
Or a welly top.
A Carp fish
Well David – look up lug worms and pictures. Cruel yes – but sadly sums this craven, venial creature up. Never felt such loathsome feelings towards others before as I feel towards these Government sinister clowns. Does not feel good to experience such hate, but cannot deny it.
You should try having the Welsh Dung, or the Scottish Turdgeon, as well.
A bit unkind to Lub Worms, what?
A bull’s arsehole.
I would suggest a size 10 steel, toe-capped boot planted into it with some considerable force. He is a piece of shit who can do press ups under snakes; by far the worst of an evil bunch
I always see this guy. Even if he did start life in the Labour Party.
Oh come on. Mr Burns is far more trustworthy than Gove.
Like the Jab, Gove’s face is enough to make anyone’s heart bleed
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The only tool I can see is Gove.
Not according to the BBC who report ‘there are no plans’ to end free LFT’s
Keep the plebs guessing!
Thye never were “free”,
“Taxpayer subsidised”
But accuracy of the MSM narrative has never been a priority.
Is that the same sort of “free”, as in generously-provided “free vaccines” at Pfizer prices and the administration of the same?
“Believe nothing, trust nobody”. Never before has my axiom held so good, as when applied to this joker. Beside him, Cassius was just a rank amateur.
They have to keep Gove hidden now – such is his popularity
Silver bullets, stakes, crossroads burials, crypts, Whitby and sunlight spring to mind.
I hope I am wrong but I reckon they will end the free LFTs, but retain them as a requirement for entry to certain venues as an alternative to vaccination.
So they can continue rolling out vaccine passports while claiming that vaccination isn’t mandatory.
So in other words as an unvaccinated person you will need to pay through the nose and undergo an unpleasant swab up your nose to get into the football ground / cinema / theatre etc.
Very likely. This is what they’ve done in France, I think.
Nope, from 15 January, the health pass becomes the vaccine pass. No vaccine , no entry. Tests and prior natural immunity are no longer sufficient.
I think you are correct. Buying LFTs will be their version of the greek fine.
“As an alternative to vaccination”
I hope you are not suggesting that the ‘vaccines’ being pushed in the UK do anything to stop the spread of ‘the virus’.
But if you are, you are not alone if the people phoning in to a Radio Wales hatchet job show on Novax Djokovic are typical of the British Public.
I suppose I shouldn’t be to condescending though as most politicians and far to many doctors have the same incorrect assumptions about how vaccine work with the immune system to create protection against a pathogen. What is more shocking is that the government advice that we should all be reading is very clear on the importance of having and maintaining a strong and effective immune system in order for the (any) vaccines to work. Couple this with the many controversies over what constitutes the key parts of that immune system and what part each plays and there is a distinct impression that the people we have entrusted the manufacture of the mRNA vaccines to are a bunch of white coated chimpanzees who have just found that they can remove the pin from a hand-grenade.
“I hope you are not suggesting that the ‘vaccines’ being pushed in the UK do anything to stop the spread of ‘the virus’.”
Of course not – I’m just suggesting that the authorities may offer an LFT test as an option for those who want to do something which requires a vaccine passport but are unwilling or unable to be vaccinated.
Ironically, an on the day negative LFT test is a far better measure of whether someone has COVID-19 than if they had a vaccination several months ago which we know does little or nothing to prevent infection or transmission.
Surely we all know by now that these tests cannot detect infection. Why not an on-the-moment temperature check?
Acts of repeated self humiliation are actually more in keeping with the purposes of the social credit score apps.
Exactly; the key objective, which many European governments have achieved in lockstep with each other was always the ‘Covid Passport’ as the fore runner to a CCP style social credit app. I really can’t see the UK Government dropping that now they have it, as approved by our spineless MPs, as part of ‘plan B’.
come on now the income tax was repealed when the Napoleonic war ended.
Here in Finland LF tests are for sale at around £3/test in the shops. There’s the UK Government’s answer – make a list of ‘approved providers’ (such as Honest Faisal of Halifax) of LFTs, and make sure people have to buy them to get into places, or to see their doctor, etc.
Driving test? You need to show a ‘negative’ result from an LFT.
But only required for those without sufficient social credit.
Then I wont be going to any of these places that insist of a two tier system.
And we all know that a quick temperature check would do just as well, be more accurate and cost nothing.
Of all the nasty little men and closet Globalist Marxist/Fascists who we have discovered with surprise hate this country its people and its freedoms and who have emerged as if from under stones during this plotted, despicable fraud on the British public, Gove is probably the nastiest. His political turncoat plans for us all are pure evil. Please do not publish his picture – it causes offence – only that of “Mr Midazolam” Hancock causes more.
Possibly the most nausiating visage in UK politics. With Drakeford as very distant second.
Whitty? OK, not officially a politician but acting like one for the past two years.
Once they remove testing then covid cases will disappear, but they’ll claim it was due to removing testing.
Thus they can keep up the pretence that vaccination reduces covid cases, and thus maintain a requirement for vaccination to occur.
They’re removing the data that would show that their policies have failed.
Exactly this.
They are not so clever as they imagine – most on here are several steps ahead of them and their devious lies.
Do you mean they’ll claim the cases disappeared because of the vaccines (rather than stopping testing)? We know that’s not true of course, and of course they know that we know, but they’ll still claim it anyway.
They’re not free
“…they are a vital tool in making sure that we can curb the spread of the infection.”
As the current map of cases demonstrates!
Who wants to bet that they will figure out the best way to “live with covid” is to mandate “vaccination” with a treatment that doesn’t work?
“Live with Covid”( BS)
But do we have to share the same planet as Gove?
Tracked and enforced by social credit score apps which measure compliance, not immunity.
They are just testing the water, see who shouts loudest and for how long
The same Gove who was pushing for Plan C?
How many times does a politician have to be catastrophically wrong before they are disqualified from public office?
Many years ago I quite liked Gove
He’s gone bloody mental now. Should be in a secure unit where he can’t cause any harm
He is in a secure unit…… Parliament
Me too – I thought he would make an excellent PM. Saying that he isn’t the only one that has turned out to be useless, Mogg is another one!
‘Living with covid’ will require a clean out of staff. From Whitty et al down.
Whitty (presumably paid more than the PM) left us without a pandemic response plan (we had one which I assume he was happy with – as CMO he didn’t ask for it to be re-written – but he decided it needed to be thrown out when a pandemic came along)
Someone needs prosecuting for gross negligence – the people that a) wrote and signed off the pandemic response plan or b) the people that threw it away
Whitty is in both camps
Extremely good point!
Everyone in Ecohealth alliance needs life long jailing.
There’s already ‘genocide’ charges registered in the International Criminal Court in the Hague, citing Botchit Johnson, Handcockup, Whitless, Fauci, Gates, etc.
“We are moving to a situation it’s possible to say that we can live” – been there done that bought the T shirt buddy, circa May 2020. Maybe I should be in government, couldn’t be much worse.
Although my dislike for weasel words, and actual political weasels, might make this awkward.
So
‘We have no plans to withdraw free LFT’s’ (BBC)
and
‘We cannot rule out ending free LFT’s’ (DS)
And the prick gets stuck in the lift on the way to delivering the message
‘You plonker’ as Del Boy might say
The vaxpässen, of course, are not up for discussion.
Everything has led to them, and the scaffolding can now be dismantled.
But the social credit score apps are never, ever going away.
Spot on, see my reply to your previous post. This was always the key objective.
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Aussie Gestapo going over the top again
Also reports that Djocovic has been re arrested
should have just stuck to this all along
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/213717/dh_131040.pdf
“…in extreme circumstances enable a local authority to impose requirements for medical examination, or for isolation or quarantine”
“Quarantine – Separation of those who are thought to have been exposed to a communicable infection, but are well, from others who have not been exposed in order to prevent further spread.”
nothing about lockdown funnily enough
“There is very limited evidence that restrictions on mass gatherings will have any significant effect on influenza virus transmission”
“In line with the scientific evidence, the Government will not stockpile facemasks for general use in the community. “
Never trust a slithy tove.
Gove is a poisonous, rubber faced little prick.
I do think you are being a bit too kind in your description of him.
Unless you are a serial tester, an easy method, practised since the beginning of time to detect whether or not you are unwell, can be carried out at home from the comfort of your own bed, it requires only one question; do you want to get out of bed or not? If not then you may be suffering from something, it could be Omicronk, a cold, flu or a hangover, please stay in bed until you feel better. Caveat:- For expert advice, call your doctor.
Gove, a master abater.
Can anyone explain the apparent divergence of UK policy from that of mainland Europe, the US and Australia/NZ? Finding it difficult to account for; It feels like we’re backtracking where others march on.
Johnson would have been out on his ear if he kept pushing?
Maybe, as others have commented, the stage has already been set for social credit apps?
There is no divergence. There are just different speeds at various times. Slowly slowly catchee monkee is the current UK policy. The passes have been introduced, Johnson has said they will have to include boosters soon. All that remains is to extend their use for all social venues ,transport, public offices and visiting hospitals/care homes and they will be just like the vaccine passes in France. Give it 6 months. Now they are ‘in’ they are never going ‘out’.
I am no less cynical than you; However, how will they possibly be able to justify making them necessary in further settings when introducing them in large venues with crowds was so tricky. And still maintain the pretence that they are about public health? Can’t see that working politically…
How have they justified bringing them in during omicron?
That is what I fear.
Me too. Amalgamated with the recently launched ‘healthy living’ app and the plans for digital currency. Not had your Covid jabs? Buying unhealthy food, buying tobacco, buying alcohol? Using too much petrol or electricity gas and water? You are not being a ‘good citizen’ Access to your bank account is denied!! It’s never been about a virus, it’s been about control from day one!
a by control they mean coercing as much of the wealth you create as possible from you.
I read something similar asking the same question on another site. If we had a government we trusted and believed in I’d be thinking we were playing a blinder politically, however we have Bozo and his cabinet so ……. its anybody’s guess.
Brilliant talk from Anna De Buisseret. The walls are closing in on the guilty. We have the law on our side and good people are exercising it. These people WILL face justice including the treasonous pieces of filth in Westminster.
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I’d even help build the gallows.
They aren’t free – they are paid for by taking tax money from our pockets and diverting it from vital services to fund hysterical panic (at best).
Nothing the government pays for is free. They are spending our money, not theirs.
Top banner headline on Slynews…
Well blow me down, who knew? Only us, nearly 2 years ago.
It’s all being wound back now, faster than a speeding bullet.
It’s like corona viruses are also called colds…
The next thing we will be required to believe is that all of this was only just discovered and the powers that be reacted with the science as it changed… blergh.
They have been shitting in our hands and asking us to clap for 2 years!
Does end of free lateral flow testing surmount to a tax on the unvaccinated? Given its currently the only way we can access the vaccine passport system
since the jabbed have TWICE the chance of testing positive shouldn’t they be required to LF test if the unjabbed are?
Still a prize prick!
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Germany made the unvaxxed only pay for their tests in the autumn.
That lasted about 3 weeks, then they were made available for free again. Cases dropped massively (unwelcome for the authorities), the unvaxxed stayed at home and just didn’t bother, the official line was the unvaxxed now went to the supermarket untested and more often infected unbeknownst to themselves etc. blah, blah.
“Pressure on Health Service is “Abating”, Says Michael Gove”
Only a surprise for half-witted zealots like you, Gove.
covid policy and the topology of terror
Fuck off Gove you treacherous conniving bastard. You are well in with Great Reset.. I pray you and your ilk rot in Hell forever.
Gove was the first thing I saw on DS today.
My first thought was to immediately type the above but my natural politeness prevented me from doing so.
I do apologise for any offence that the comment may have caused, but I could resist no longer.
More polite than I would be.
…
That nails it.
“they are a vital tool in making sure that we can curb the spread of the infection and also that people who need to isolate do so”
Utter bollocks. I worked on LFT development and know that the ability to correctly read a faint result depends not only on the user’s colour vision but also on what result they actually want. It’s the reason Clearblue developed electronic readers for their pregnancy LFTs.
Add to that people who want to be off work for nothing and those who desperately don’t want to be off work e.g. because they can’t afford the pay cut and who provide results accordingly, and you have a system which is as utterly pointless as it is expensive.
Incredible ….
A whole shop dedicated to Cov ert ID, who woulda thought it
Pulled into a petrol station today and when I went into pay their was two NHS nurses in front of me obviously from the local nearby hospital (you see them quite a lot where I live) … anyway, I noticed they were both wearing one of those purple ribbons which are a symbol of defiance against Jabbits ‘no jab no job rule‘ – which was good to see …
NHS100K
Lawyer Anna De Buisseret Speaks On Nuremberg 2 & Common Law
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Anybody seen this? And if so, had the stamina to wade through it ? https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0122/cbill_2019-20210122_en_1.htm
Unfortunately yes.
The most frightening part of it ( in my view) is the following clause;
Modifications of the Mental Health Act 1983Applications for compulsory admission to hospital for assessment or treatment3 (1) An application by an approved mental health professional under section 2
5or 3 made during a period for which this paragraph has effect may be
founded on a recommendation by a single registered medical practitioner (a
“single recommendation”), if the professional considers that compliance
with the requirement under that section for the recommendations of two
practitioners is impractical or would involve undesirable delay.
Basically anyone can get sectioned at the whim of any ONE medical practitioner summoned in the middle of the night to the local cop shop. And if you have ever had the unfortunate experience of a loved one caught up in the Mental Health Act you know its unlikely they reappear as the same person.
Like that film ‘I Care a Lot’
Mr Gove, loving the power https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/599841
Ideally the headline would say “taxpayer subsidised” rather than “free”.
They’re not free and never have been, our money is robbed and given to a Chinese pharmaceutical company.
Agreed. I think it was Tony Blair who introduced that grossly unnatural gesture, on the presumption that it indicated sincerity and conviction. I am not aware of anyone using it prior to that but many politicians have adopted it since. It really winds me up when I see such a meaningless and self-conscious gesture being deployed. My first reaction is to be highly suspicious of anyone who has adopted it. Interestingly, the only woman I have seen using the gesture is Nicola Sturgeon. Make of that what you will!
Most of us on here know its only the fake tests keeping this plandemic going. Start charging for the tests and see how quickly it collapses.
The LFTs are not free in Finland – £3/ a spin. However, the ‘cases’ continue to be made up in their thousands, daily. It’s funny how I have never met even one of these ‘cases’.
This is why I don’t watch ‘The News’ on TV here, it is blatant State Propaganda.
Cunning……. as per usual they will play it by ear, nothing like not having a coherent plan when you’re at war with a mischievous ruddy virus, you never know what it’s going to do next. I imagine all parts of the UK will have a different defense strategy up their sleeve to create maximum confusion. These viruses can’t be trusted, no respect of authority, it’s gorilla tactics, camouflaged trousers etc. Just a pity about all the collateral damage. The public must understand that we’re going to defeat this virus even if it means total destruction of the entire UK .
Gove still has the most punchable face in Westminster. Given the competition, that’s quite an achievement.
Would be good to hear from people who he went to school with…
Perhaps the Alpha Male Assembly will go for him, once they’ve finished karate-chopping their pizza boxes!
Sunak for me. Every time I see that cunt smirking I am reminded of what he did to me and the other 3m self employed in April 2020. That irritating lisp would be the least of his ailments were I left alone in a room with the utter twat.
Blair does that too !
Zoe posts the largest daily drop in new symptomatics today
R=0.93
look like the curve will drop as quickly as it went up
It’s like it’s spring and people are getting more Vitamin D…
doesn’t feel like spring here!
everywheres bit quiet. I expect everyone feels skint from Xmas and has just seen their electricity bill
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Globalist party!
London was dead last week.
‘Let unelected bureacrats run your lives.’
Er … wasn’t that the reason for leaving the EU?
From the frying pan into the fire.
Here We Go Again/Just Say No! Katy-Jo Murfin song
Je suis Novak
Well, je suis no-vax!
If anyone has evidence, they should file a crime report.
Maybe copy it to Reiner Fuellmich too, or to whoever is coordinating legal matters for him in the UK. The police might be quite surprised to hear that the ‘lawyer in charge’ is the one who took on the crooks in Deutsche Bank and VW.
Covid Circular 100,028/22
Not one person in the UK has collapsed from a ‘vaccine’ induced blood clot, stroke or heart attack
Central planning can reveal these people are just having ‘medical episodes’
Please move on there is nothing to see here
(Note to editors: ‘medical episode’ is not the latest installment of Casualty)
Albert Bourla, the capo di tutti i capi of the Pfizer cartel seems to have a date for his new protection racket of March (Omericon cold operation). Interesting timing? Ties elegantly in with BJs route out timeline. Anyone else see the play?
‘capo di tutti i capi ‘
Is my favourite ice cream
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59935551 Gove stuck in lift.
I always thought the lifts at the BBC were wired for sound, as well as CCTV, so didn’t he do his interview from there?
Whenever we feel like criticising British political leaders for their handling of covid-19, its important to keep this in mind: Which country’s leadership has done markedly better, at least on maintaining a sense of calm, balance, and proportionality?
The answer is, apart from the Governors of a few US states, is: Not many.
Covid-19 hysteria, panic-mongering, and ridiculous Government over-reach is pretty much a worldwide problem. Look at France, or Austria, or Australia.
That doesn’t let Boris Johnson and his cast of idiots off the hook. Real political leadership requires a certain amount of courage, an iron-clad belief in core principles (ie. personal freedom and respect for basic human rights), and and the strength of character to see a battle through. Despite carping from the press and the slings and arrows of snap popular opinion polls.
We’ll be paying the price for this world-wide failure of political leadership for many years to come. (How long before you get to sit in a commercial airplane without a face mask? Any guesses?)
Personally I think ending free lateral flow tests would be a step in the right direction. But its going to be a long time indeed before we get back to anything resembling normal.
Saying ‘we’re moving to a situation where it’s possible to say we can live with COVID’ is like saying ‘we’re moving to a situation where it’s possible to say we can live with the sea’, or birds, or gravity. Does Gove have any idea how utterly deranged he sounds?
“In what may be a sign of things to come….”
Tomorrow will be interesting now that an email has emerged inviting 100 people to a party at No. 10 Boris and Nut Nut attended, whilst they told the rest of us we could only see one other person outdoors.
Cummings blog exposed the party that took place on the 20th May, 5 days after the ‘garden’ working event photograph. Cummings blog was published 3 days ago. Strange that it’s only now hit the headlines.
But a cracking statement in it that made me spit my tea out:
“The Guardian has worked with lawyers explicitly using the courts to disincentivise fast action — take a bow Jolyon-the-kimono-fox-killer, famously ‘the biggest cun* at the bar’ who brought a JR complaining about the speed of the vaccine taskforce.”
LOL
The MSM are reporting Pfeffel de Fat Fuk is preparing to declare a ‘living with covid’ plan.
Likely a pretence of a half-way house on restrictions while they continue to take away vital NHS services that keeps people alive, such as regular cervical cancer screening, blood tests, etc.
It amazes me that there are still many people who comment here that believe this criminal government are operating on incompetence.
There aren’t many I can assure you and their numbers are dwindling!
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
If the LFT tests lose their ‘free’ status, that’s the point where mandatory testing and isolation must be dropped.
Unless one can issue a bill for them to compensate us financially!
A bit rude, but your pic of Gove does really does endorse my term for him:- Fish Face.
I also suspect he also has a Fish Brain behind the face !!!
This Man needs an “Appropriate” Uniform.
‘Mass testing’ had no ‘usefulness’. Especially using this not-fit-for-purpose PCR test (wonderful though the science is) when the inventor said himself it should NOT be used for ‘mass testing’ because it couldn’t show infection.
Michael Gove
Is a curious cove
Who danced alone
With an “icecream cone”
To atone