The Government is drawing up plans to repeal emergency coronavirus laws including the legal requirement to self-isolate when testing positive for COVID-19. However, before you get too excited, this would be replaced by official guidance which encourages people to behave in certain ways. This means while the legal penalty may be gone, the tyranny of the risk-averse insurance companies, trade unions and public officials may well remain. Also, to further dampen the excitement, it won’t happen for weeks or even months, even though the virus is clearly no longer causing a public health crisis. And in the meantime the mask mandate is set to stay beyond January 26th. The Telegraph has the story.
The Telegraph understands Boris Johnson wants to permanently repeal emergency coronavirus laws which have governed how the public can live for almost two years.
Instead, official guidance would remain in place which encourages people to behave in certain ways, but would not result in fines or legal punishment if ignored.
The plans will be worked up over the coming weeks, with an announcement being penned in as early as the spring – although no final decisions have been taken.
It would also mean there would be no legal requirement to isolate after contact with someone who has Covid or to wear face masks in certain settings.
A senior Government source told the Telegraph: “Lots of legal requirements were put in place during the pandemic. As we come into a stage where things are more manageable and those legal restrictions may no longer be necessary, we will look to remove them promptly from the statute book. The Prime Minister is obviously determined to get back to normal as soon as we can.”
The move comes as hope grows that this winter’s Covid surge triggered by the emergence of the Omicron variant is easing, with daily case numbers continuing to fall. …
Downing Street is looking at three different drives to ease pandemic restrictions, some short-term and some long-term.
The so-called Plan B restrictions are expected to be largely lifted on January 26th, the review date that the Prime Minister set when he imposed them last month.
That means that the legal requirement for Covid passports – proof of full vaccination or a negative test – to be shown before entering large crowd venues is set to be dropped.
So too is guidance that urges people to work from home. However, a requirement to wear face masks on public transport, in shops and in other settings is likely to stay beyond January 26th.
A second drive is easing restrictions on travel. The need to take a lateral flow test on the second day after arriving into the U.K. is expected to drop.
A third drive is longer-term changes, with Government ministers believing the U.K. will move out of the pandemic and into a phase where Covid continues circulating but less frequently.
The Prime Minister and his Cabinet has made clear that an approach of “learning to live with Covid” must be adopted, given scientists say the virus will never disappear completely.
Supporters of the move compare it to the approach for other viruses – such as flu – in which people are encouraged to behave a certain way but not legally compelled to do so.
Depressingly, however glacial and disappointing the Government’s plans are, they will almost certainly be better than Labour’s.
Labour announced its alternative roadmap for Britain to “learn to live well with Covid” on Sunday, as the party accused the Government of having “an empty slogan with no plan”.
Launching a 10-point plan, Wes Streeting, the Shadow Health Secretary, said Labour would build up “sovereign capability” to manufacture test kits in Britain and publish economic, wellbeing and equality impact assessments for different policies to tackle the virus.
“We’re not out of the woods with COVID-19,” he said. “The virus will change and adapt and we need to learn to live well with it.
“For the Government, living with Covid is just an empty slogan with no plan. For some of the fanatics on the Conservative back benches, living with Covid means letting the virus rip. Both positions are highly irresponsible.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, has called on Nicola Sturgeon to scrap most coronavirus restrictions, with the exception of face coverings, as data show that Scotland is “past the peak of Omicron”. The Telegraph has more.
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This obsession with ”face coverings” is the most sinister thing of all. It’s like a foot in the door, just in case they want to push it open again any time they wish. If only more people would ditch the disgusting things, instead of parading around looking like ignorant prats.
And so the floggings are to continue until morale improves, I suppose.
If you think its all over, you havent been paying attention!
Javid and Wes Streeting should take a look at the Test & Treat kits produced and provided in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. They’ve all but eliminated covid. By doing so, they could actually learn something, not just what the correct treatment protocol should be, but also that as politicians, they DON’T know everything.
Also, why the keeping of masks in Scotland. Isn’t it clear to these politicos yet that masks are wholly ineffective, and even harmful to health. There is not a single scientific study that can demonstrate any useful level of mask effectiveness.
Yes….and the continued guidance/ mandates for masks has everything to do with control, not letting people forget about ‘viruses’. That’s what was happening post July….people starting to live ‘normally’. The mask is one of the lynching of the covid con.
Linchpin
The pressure must be kept up for the removal of mask mandates. People who are opposed to them but wear them for a quiet life must have the courage to stop. The wearing of masks while driving, and their requirement in schools and non-medical workplaces, should be made illegal.
Perhaps someone should start a rumour that the wearing of them has been made illegal. How does something like that gain traction?
MSM is trying to make fun of people wanting to protect themselves with cheap and proven drugs. Ivermectin has been FDA approved for human use since 1996. It also beats Pfizer’s new wonder drug hands down, and costs next to nothing. Ivermectin doesn’t make tons of money. So they know the Covid shot is on its final gasp, so they take it add something different to it, rebrand under another name and charge 20 times what they would for ivermectin. I cannot wrap my head around this nonsense. When I explain this to my relatives they label me as crazy and ask me if I know better than science. I don’t make up these information out of my ass. All this information is true and proven. For some people it is near impossible for them to wake up. They are comfortable in their clown world life. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com
The only plan Labour has is Try to live off the virus as good as we can.
The age of pathogens is well and truly upon us. You don’t even need the resources of a state actor with cheap technology available nowadays. The west has unfortunately decided that the only way to keep up with China is to be similarly oppressive to its people. At the same time western countries are falling apart. If you can see the conundrum then that’s something. There is no way out of this for us as populations.
Whatever happens, we must keep the mask mandates. They are so effective. The French government cares about the people so much that they are obliged to wear them in the open air. That’s why they have so many fewer infections and deaths than England.
That’s right, isn’t it?
FFS!
Pharma has won a massive victory in that you will not be allowed to travel to most countries unless you are injected with their products and have a vax passport to prove it.
“Plan to use the immigrants at Dover to staff Care Homes to replace sacked workers ”
‘Rule change’ sanctioned by Patel to allow those here one year to apply for the jobs – sanctioned by the Government’s’ Migration Advisory Committee” ( who is on this I wonder?) Those here illegally and falsely branded “Asylum Seekers” do not need to follow existing immigration rules! ( TCW report)
What a scam! How cynical can you get? We always knew the on-going landings at Dover were deliberate and fully sanctioned by the Government.
Those on here who spend time discussing how the Dover boats can be stopped completely miss the point they are being brought in deliberately to replace British workers – this is the proof! ( Not a word from the Starmer’s Globalist ‘Friends of China’ Labour Party of course!)
Nurses next?
We see just how deep the Evil now goes ! There is not a scrap of morality left among our rulers.
Supressing pay and increasing rents, the establishment welfare state is stealthy but once you see it it’s unmissable.
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I wonder how the masked woman on the right of the photograph plans to get her drink down her gullet. It as if she puts on running shoes to go to sleep in.
Do we even care if she spills it down her polyester frock from Primark ?
So long as there are different rules (such as on entering or returning to the country) for the spiked and the unspiked, it is not “over”.
“Plan B” is a bit of a joky term. I couldn’t find whether or not the rule requiring 10 days’ isolation for “vaccine” resisters who enter or return to the country counts as part of Plan B or not. As far as I am aware, no government figure has suggested that this rule might be lifted.
Agreed. This rule is an absolute abomination, and never gets discussed.
METROPOLITAN POLICE FINALLY LAUNCH MAJOR INVESTIGATION
Metropolitan Police Crime Reference Number 6029679/21
The UK’s biggest criminal investigation is now live. Hammersmith CID and The Metropolitan Police have accepted and are reviewing 1000’s of pages of evidence and have agreed there is enough to proceed. All UK police forces have been made aware of this investigation.
The case was lodged on 20th December 2021 by a group including Dr Sam White, lawyer Philip Hyland (PJH Law), Lawyer Lois Bayliss (Broad Yorkshire Law) and retired policeman Mark Sexton. Requests for assistance have been made to international lawyer Robert F Kennedy Jnr (nephew of J F Kennedy), Dr Reiner Fuellmich (German lawyer who exposed the Volkswagen Audi emissions scandal), Dr. Michael Yeadon (Former Pfizer Vice President), plus countless other doctors, professors, virologists, NHS whistleblowers,biologists, data experts and lawyers nationally and internationally
A separate filing has also been made to The International Criminal Court in The Hague. File number: OTP-CR-473/21.
29 November 1963 – Warren Commission to launch major investigation.
27 November 2002 – 9/11 Commission to launch major investigation.
May I recommend Oliver Stone’s recent 4 part , very thought provoking, reprise of the assassination of circumstances of JFK (Sky or ‘tube)
We live in hope!
“All UK police forces have been made aware of this investigation.”
I might make a phone call to my local police force to see what they make of it. Can imagine the response I will get. They would prob be clueless, and, worse, might do me for wasting police time….
I wanted to contact the Met to find out for myself, but 101 redirects locally (Avon & Somerset for me). The agent on the phone didn’t know and gave me an email address.
Others have contacted the Met and have had different responses. But, if just one agent confirms it is on the system, that indicates that negative responses are denials. Some agents say they have been deluged with enquiries.
We are in a situation that is so huge that there will be good cops and bad cops. We rely on the integrity of the good cops to stand firm.
There is an information page on which you can request updates using the Crime Reference Number 6029679/21 and date:
https://www.met.police.uk/contact/af/contact-us/us/contact-us/request-an-update-on-a-crime-report-i-have-a-crime-number/
Thanks for link Mike
One step forward … wait for three back …we are still being played by the Globalists.
(On cue… New virus strain found in France!)
This is finished when worldwide all Corona legislation has been removed, test centres and vax centres are closed, no special forms to fill in or tests to take for travel, etc.
Yes, tests for people who still want to purchase one and probably injections every year along with flu will be available.
I will be happier if Britain is on the forefront of ending this circus, but sadly other countries, like my native Germany, is in a mass hypnosis with their Health Minister who lives in a delusion and should be sectioned!
Is this https://freewestmedia.com/2022/01/14/life-insurer-refuses-to-cover-vaccine-death/ a one-off or the tip of the iceberg?
Perhaps this is why there has been suppression of autopsies and inquests, and an almost complete denial of any link between deaths and the jabs.
It could be that the size of the insurance payout forced the hand of the insurers?
Masks are useless to us proles, but they are a very good barometer for TPTB. If large amounts of people are seen divesting themselves of face coverings, it might be seen as a tide turning in public opinion, which I would think is something the government doesn’t want – they want us to be uncertain all the time. For some that uncertainty relates to safety, for other to ‘being seen as different’ and for yet more the fear they might ‘get into trouble’. It is going to take something really major to wake people up, and my guess is that would be the realisation that vaccines are killing and injuring many, many people. Surely this will come to the fore at some point? I hope so very much.
Peoples attitude to mask never ceases to amaze me. Yesterday we were at a local restaurant and there was a birthday party at quite a big table. Twenty people, maybe, including children. They were already there when we arrived and left about 1.5 hours later. Half of them got up and donned masks for the walk to the car. Why? Did they think they can only catch The Plague when walking about? I doubt we’ll ever be entirely free of these things, I believe some people delight in them like some sort of visible virtue signalling and will be loathe to give them up.
Covid really is a mental disorder
That now appears to have been the intention all along – a permanently classified as “sick” society is so easy to sell the” never ending jab cure”.
I was invited to a committee meeting in local village hall, they asked we test, wear masks, socially distance and insisted on the windows being open despite it being -3C outside. I graciously declined.
The next evening I went out for dinner with many of the same people. None even contemplated a test, wore a mask or were in the slightest bit fussed about how close we sat at the table. Madness
It’s amazing what a few illegal parties can cause isn’t it? Suddenly the Government are planning to drop all restrictions yet only last week they’ll have been cooking up plans to extend them yet again.
A vague intention. No promise. The torture of harmful masks remain meantime. Still less freedom than last summer. Believe it when it’s done. Don’t be fooled otherwise.
Pretty pathetic and sluggish attempt to move with the times. Get a grip, Boris.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-reiner-fuellmich-50-lawyers-vaccines-designed-kill-depopulate-the-planet/5767034
Interesting.
Yes and probably true as well.
They are still continuing, via the BBC/MSM to push the gene therapies on kids – as well as adults. Sadly Hitler youth is alive and well.
This is intentional and malicious infliction of harm – as well as child abuse/neglect. It is criminal.
Anyone and everyone involved will, if there’s any justice, face a Nuremburg 2.
Hell awaits them in any event.
The want to get at as many kids as they can now, in case they are forced to stop!
Yes, BBC news feed today in my area obsessed, obsessed I tell you, with getting jabs into pregnant woman, because being positive with covid causes birth complications – and yet can they say that being triple jabbed won’t cause birth defects in the babies? wouldn’t expect so.
Government domestic abuse may end, apparently.
With regard to, or rather concerning, those disgusting face-nappies, it is my duty and my joy never to wear one at any time or in any place.
And I urge everyone to do the same.
Face-nappies are so steeped in sin that their only place is Hell or a museum of the disgusting and disreputable.
Amen to all that.
I refer to face nappies as Nosegays now. During the Black Death plagues they believed smelling nice things protected you from the plague and had various items that smelt nice (the reason why brides have a bouquet of flowers) and they were generally referred to as Nosegays. Of course these nosegays were useless, just like face nappies.
Brides have always had flowers!
The origins of a bride having flowers comes from smelling something nice warding off bad things, like the plague.
Unfortunately the Australia/Djokovic situation is being repeated and reinforced by every country around the world. The UK might look like a slightly better prison state than most, but try escaping. The border restrictions are getting tighter as covid/omicron gets weaker. Its increasingly 3 jabs that is the normal requirement for entry.
My guess is that the focus is on this for the moment, with vax pass required everywhere for border crossing. Once that is universal there will be a renewed effort internally. Can you ever imagine some states now giving up their bio-tech ID systems now they are almost 100% enforceable?
The depressing thing is the support from the majority of populations irrespective of the dangers of the virus, they just want this situation to exist. The majority appear to be frightened of freedom, they want to be controlled. As many have said they are happy to be part of a new religious cult.
Stopping travel neatly overlaps the Nut Nuts ludicrous ‘Carbon Zero ‘ Fascism with the Covid Health Fascism – I suspect we will see much more of this.
The object is to stop the ‘plebs’ from travelling of course. Only the seriously rich and those working for the Corporate Master Race will be allowed to leave their home countries without facing ‘tests’, huge bills and massively disruptive inconvenience and also risking arbitrary, prison-conditions detention..
That is clearly seen with the EU carbon limits. Private Jets and luxury yachts are specifically excluded, leaving the rich elite complete freedom from the taxes and restrictions imposed on the plebs.
Without a doubt climate change crap will slide seamlessly alongside C1984.
It won’t be long before the oppression of motorists begins. Well it’s on it’s way in Manchester with the crippling and nonsensical CAZ – Clean Air Zones.
Of course, the vaxpässen system will remain in place, and business will be free to require it, or muzzles, as a contractual term.
They’re going nowhere in the Celtic Fringe, and development will continue prior to the re-mandating of Vaxpäss 2 in England.
Yes these moves are just part of the ‘outsourcing’ of covid control using insurance/financial levers to pressure businesses/organisations to impose their own restrictions. Just like the BIS/CBs are doing with ‘climate control’.
Scaling up, it’ll all be about “convenience”.
May be scraped, then maybe not or reintroduced at a later date..
I’m still waiting for free beer at the pub, as a sign says free beer tomorrow.
Doesn’t sound like they’re going to drop the main driver of this madness – testing.
Muzzles – no freedom.
May be, could be, might be. A neverending list of promises that we are told they could introduce but only if we behave ourselves and abide by the rules. Does anyone think we can trust anything that comes out of their mouths after all we have endured these past 2 years? I dont.
No – nothing but propaganda and lies and rigged statistics and graphs for two long years.
Ivor Cummins – a serious statistician – has been demolishing all their bent graphs for two years now.