The ONS announced last week that there were 49,428 deaths registered in England in December, which is 1,200 more than in November, and 17.5% more than the five-year average.
Age-standardised mortality rates for leading causes of death other than Covid were close to their five-year averages, suggesting that Covid was the main reason for elevated mortality last month (see below). Although, as noted before, cause-of-death comparisons should be interpreted with caution.
December’s overall age-standardised mortality rate was 9.3% higher than the five-year average. This is a greater disparity than last month and the month before. Though it’s still less than that seen in September. Here’s my updated chart of excess mortality in England since January of 2020:
What’s more, December’s age-standardised mortality rate was 8% lower than the same month a year before. Notice that the bump for the winter of 2021 is slightly lower than that for the winter of 2020.
While it’s certainly good news that mortality is lower, you might have expected a bigger reduction, given the many fewer people had natural immunity last December, and less than 1% of the population had been fully vaccinated.
Indeed, it’s noteworthy that going from under 1% fully vaccinated to more than 68% double vaccinated (including almost all elderly people) is only associated with 8% lower all-cause mortality.
This is consistent with evidence from other European countries, where post-vaccination waves have been as or more deadly than pre-vaccination waves. Such data are hard to reconcile with claims of 90% vaccine effectiveness against death.
With December’s figures out, we now have a full year’s worth of mortality data for 2021. So, how does the second year of the pandemic compare to previous years? It was more deadly than 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. However, it was actually less deadly than 2015 – just six years earlier.
Here’s the ONS’s chart plotting the age-standardised mortality rate each year, going back to 2001:
The overall level of mortality in 2021 was higher than it would have been in the absence of the pandemic (it was above trend, in other words). Yet it was lower than in 2015, 2010 and every year in English history before that. All in all then, 2021 was not a remarkable year for mortality.
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Every other MP whose name is not on this list is a traitor.
Or a member of the government
..but you repeat yourself.
Yep, wrote to my traitorous MP yesterday about this. No doubt he’ll ignore this letter like he did the last one (s). Also going to send him the The Together Declaration, for him to ignore too. https://www.togetherdeclaration.org/mp-letter/
You are of course aware of a certain popular definition of insanity (attributed by some to Einstein)?
True enough but far more important is he who laughs last. A disaffected voter will never vote for the party again. A voter who has been treated as a human being in a cordial manner will, perhaps, vote again simply because he has respect. Do unto others as you would have done to you.
With our anachronistic fptp voting arrangement – coupled with the stranglehold of a two and a quarter party system – most UK voters have long become used to being disaffected and pinching their noses when voting. The only alternative is being disenfranchised.
”Vote”? There’s optimism…..
The Together Declaration is controlled opposition. They have funds from Open Society as do Big Brother Watch
There’s many slip ‘tween vote and list – mainly into the abstentions lobby.
There isn’t – by definition – an abstentions lobby. To abstain, the person entitled to vote (in this case the MP) just doesn’t vote.
Continuing the literal interpretation theme, how can a non-material thing such as a vote be an object that a person can “slip” anywhere near?
Colon. Hyphen. Close round brackets.
But in parliament a vote IS a physical thing, defined by the presence (or non presence) of a person in a particular defined space at a particular time. If the person who has announced they will vote NO deliberately fails to enter the NO lobby they thus physically ‘slip’ (surreptitiously) into the (de-facto) abstentions lobby; which, as PB pedantically points out, is not an actual lobby, but rather the failure to enter either the Aye or Nay divisions.
I quote the Cambridge Dictionary’s relevant example:
That’s not a physical thing – that’s an action. As I understand it, movement is required (past the tellers at the far end) rather than mere presence. Anyway I was trying to take your side. “Abstentions lobby” was a perfectly OK and even amusing usage, not literal but that doesn’t matter. I was trying to reduce to the absurd the insistence on only literal usage.
The act of voting requires a physical action that results in one physically being present (or not) in a defined space. But again, as in PB’s criticism of ‘abstention lobby’ (and I do appreciate your support on this), ‘many a slip twixt ones stated voted intentions and the actual act of voting’ takes us dangerously into Mr Logic territory.
Yeah, I know, but you have to grant a certain artistic licence in the interests of brevity.
I suspect my SNP MP will be in that group…
Instead of a list of those voting against vaccine passports a list needs to be circulated very publicly of those who vote for. They need to stand down and hang their heads in shame and eventually all of them need to be criminally prosecuted.
Have you compiled a list of their names & addresses? How about their bodyguards – are they traitors too? And what are their names & addresses?
All my phone calls and emails this week have been fruitless, then.
Yours and millions of others!
Wonder if it’s worth looking into the backgrounds of the traitors and see where the money leads, in the style of the Sheep Farm? BTW if you haven’t found those fellas yet, pls have a look at their stuff, amazing work.
Yes, they are excellent.
Oh, like Tim Yeo with wind farms? I bet parliament is crawling with them. These big pharma crooks know how to keep people sweet. Probably the best practitioners of winning friends and influencing people today.
Worthy people no doubt and brave enough to challenge the Johnson regime, but not enough at the moment I’m afraid. More needs to be done e.g. no confidence vote against Johnson.
What I would like to see is a list of the people who were at the Downing Street parties.
They probably know as well as we do that someone like Gove or Stabbit jabit would replace him. Now if the likes of Redwood and McVey had a genuine chance, we ‘might be getting somewhere
Changing the politician nominally in charge will do nothing. The unelected technocrats pulling the strings will still be in place and a repalcement will be an even softer target.
Ferguson, who has never been right in any of his predictions, has to go, permanently and absolutely out of any position of influence. As an example to the others.
The Mad Modellers also should be required to produce ‘most likely’ predictions, not their beloved ‘worst case’. The worst case ‘we are all going to die’ isn’t very helpful whilst being 100% accurate in the long run.
39 out of the 45 are men, I notice. Wat means ? Well I know what it means: the future is female, and not in a good way
Only 70 out of 261 Conservative MPs are women, and you may not have a full list of those who will rebel yet. Some may not want to be known too much before the vote, so the statistics aren’t that indicative as yet.
Sorry 70 out of 331, (the 261 being the men), so women to be proportionate should be just short of a fifth of the total, so 8, or at most 9, whereas there are 6. Not sure that 2 short could be called statistically significant, especially given the general greater reluctance of those given ministerial responsibility to vote against the government, and the fact that it isn’t a final figure
Ah, and then there is the fact that there are actually 9. Siobhan is a female name, as is Dehenna., and Jackie is also a female; perhaps these 3 confused? If anything they are slightly disproportionately over-represented.
Whoops, only just had coffee, they are just over a fifth of the total. Statistically 10 would be proportionate, and there are nine, which is within the + or – of statistical insignificance
‘Ministerial Responsibility’ – that is career and personal gain against public duty, principle and the protection of our basic Human Rights and freedoms guaranteed under Common Law- an insight into the ‘character’ of most of those we send to Parliament to Govern us and a reminder for any future elections ( if there are any!).
Absolutely. I was assuming an equality of potential for corruption by high office!!
Looking around the world and at those who are now ‘in charge’ of so many of our Institutions I share your concern.
Pandora ought to have obeyed and never to have opened the box.
Maths suggests there should be 12 women out of 60. There are 9. (I worked on 50, not 60, forgetfully and since there were 50 last time, and I need more coffee!). Statistically this is of little to no significance, and it is rather improper to suggest that it is.
Turning this into a battle of the sexes is a wasteful distraction from the real problem. Is that your intention?
I am wondering what proportion of Conservative MPs with a science degree are on that list?
I think it is somewhere between around 66 and 100%.
Shame the rest don’t “follow the science” then!
There are some Jedi like mind tricks going on right now.
I am cautiously optimistic that the tide is turning.
My Mum went to the market yesterday and talked to the fish seller there who has believed the government propaganda all the way. He told her that he was not getting the booster, another seller on the market had been very ill after it and “thought she was dying”. He now thinks the government is trying to kill people.
And that was before she told him that the booster had almost killed her too!
So the truth is slowly getting through to people.
Our market traders, especially the fruit and veg boys, have been brilliant. Not only have they sold lovely produce at a great price, throughout this woeful shit show, they’ve been really friendly and we’ve always had a good laugh with them. We haven’t talked about covid much, apart from a few shares eyerolls but their attitude and ability to just get on as normal says everything!
After nearly two years and the crying out of warning by so many of the world’s leading scientists, doctors and virologists – now banned, threatened and persecuted by dark forces – those not sold out to Big Pharma and Gavi or serving a censored, bought-out media – isn’t it about time?
However, isn’t it now already too late for millions approaching their 4th jab ? Each jab increases the spike protein production, which Mc Cullough says lasts for 15 months – doing its work.
The media are still solidly behind the Great Reset conspiracy, as is government and opposition, all the public sector, most large businesses. It will only be stopped via mass non-compliance or more.The ballot box cannot stop this.
“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious”
Yawn, seen it.
Conservative MPs threaten to revolt, a few do, most don’t, Labour abstains or supports, the measures go through.
There is about as much tension in this story as there is in the plot of Police Academy IV
What we now know is that the names on this list are all that is left the real Conservative Party and the grouping of decent Tory MPs.who deserve to be called “Conservative” Any “Tory” MP whose name is not on this list ought to be deselected by their local Associations and cashiered for betrayal of the voters and the country for their naked self-interest and self advancement- there is no defence.
It is a total disgrace to Parliament that there are only 60 names on this list not 250. This rotten, corrupted, sleaze covered ,fake Tory party needs to split to rid itself of the taint of these craven MPs not fit to represent citizens whose lives and basic Human Rights they seek to at best to compromise and whose livelihoods they seek to destroy in order to serve the ‘satanic’ ambitions of an aspiring Globalist Oligarchic Tyranny- without precedent in human history -now fully exposed by brave commentators like RFK Junior in his devastating book “The Real Dr Fauci”.
Tory MPs have no excuse for not knowing what is going on
The level of contempt I feel for the nationally embarrassing ‘Labour’ Party and its “Leader”( sic) has no words. I knew it was rotten – but now it is simply putrid and ‘stinks to heaven’ .
( US vaccine deaths now officially at 20,000 – (VAERS stats) most likely because of underreporting five or ten times than figure -including many children – EU is over 20,000 , UK at least 7,000 admitted on the (massaged) Yellow Card – but underreporting and failure to identify the vaccines as cause means most likely many, many more- myocarditis reported at levels never seen by doctors- especially the young.
The body continues to produce pathogenic Covid spike protein for 15 months after each injection, according to highly respected Dr Peter McCullough )
The EudraVigilance figure was almost 30,000 on the 6th November:
The Real Fauci is seriously frightening, the power of these creatures is mind-blowing. It reads like a bad novel with Bond villains galore but it is actually all true. It’s seriously hard to convince anyone because what they are doing is so audacious and immense.
Have you seen Ronald Bernard’s youtube videos? He was a top level financial operative in the Dutch finance system, very good at what he did. To the extent that he was invited behind the curtain. He declined and his tale is chilling. He knows not to name names if he wants to avoid sleeping with the fishes.
Part 1 of a 5 part series
Politically, it is clear that only mass resignations from within the Conservative Party can put a stop to this insanity. In particular high-level resignations need to happen.
Do I expect it happen? No. But the alternative could be catastrophic for civil society.
We wait in anticipation…..don’t hold your breath!
Well the proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof, not in the fine words of the chef or the tempting list of ingredients. Let’s see how may of them are bought off, intimidated etc by the time the vote comes.
That said. it’s nice to see a greater degree of surliness and anger on the “Conservative” benches at last.
Politically, though, the nightmare scenario at the moment is the awful prospect of the execrable, contemptible covid panicker Gove as PM.
I can think of one other horror scenario – Jeremy Ccccchunt
A colleague at work was gutted their mates don’t want to go to an away match with them this weekend. They want no part of the discrimination. The same colleague is also trying to pressure their child to ‘get jabbed’. The same colleague is also a Union representative. Another colleague has a season ticket, but is willing to give it up as they also want no part of the discrimination. Some people are wide awake, others are still fast asleep unfortunately.
That makes sense. A union representative, ergo a leftie. The left are much more on board with this tyranny than the right are.
Union rep? He must be used to this sort of game and sees nothing wrong with it.
I have written to my MP (Greg Smith) to thank him for his stand. I also asked him to sign the ‘Together Declaration’; he said he thought he already had but did it again.
I also had written to him about the cynical sham of consultation earlier in the year and said that the Government would press ahead with this evil scheme. Courteously, he replied at greater length saying that ‘Just in case’ does not cut it for restrictions. He is still rather (too much in my view) pro-vaccine however.
I did plead with him to resign the whip and join one of the new parties; no response to that, neither yes nor no. I also asked him to join the demo on 18 December in London.
He’s my MP too and I have had similar exchanges with him. He has told me categorically he is voting against this week.
Here’s what my MP said to me in June. He’s Labour btw. I’ve just written to him again reminding him what he said back then and setting out 10 questions he must ask (which I stole from Julia Hartley Brewer when Javid didn’t turn up for an interview this week). It sickens me how fickle the opposition and I yearn for a Margaret Thatcher figure to emerge and take control of these f-wits!
“We are nearly at that tipping point, where restrictions cannot be justified by the public health risk. The country have done so well at coming forward to be vaccinated that the government needs to be clear on a different communication strategy going forward; we have broken the link – by vaccine – between cases and deaths, so absolute cases becomes less of a useful measure of public risk than before. We are in interesting times and I do have sympathy with your position”
Some small signs of hope
p.s. But I shall of course vote as Starmer tells me.
My MP (Labour) replied to me, saying he is against vaccine passports, but thinks vaccines and masks are a A Good Thing And The Way Out Of This Thing. He has also recently been awarded a place on the Labour front bench, so I can’t see him going against his Dear Leader.
Cowards the lot who did nothing for months and will no nothing now. I’d rather embrace Palpatine. These are fake rebels trying to claim moral high ground in the eyes of history just as everything starts turning, without ‘firing a shot’ and no risks taken.
Anyone who votes for this should spend the rest of their life in fear.
Labour probably won’t oppose the government on Plan B, and since the plan is only for the England that they hate so rabidly, the SNP won’t either. That’s a truly shameful position for so-called “oppositional” parties, but it’s only what we’ve seen time and again since last March.
Sixty is a lot, though, to come out in public like this. In particular, it’s more than the 55 needed to force a confidence vote among Tory MPs.
This is quite aside from the fact that the night is still young as regards tomorrow’s newspapers.
It’s easy to imagine Boris Johnson losing the Tory leadership the same way Iain Duncan Smith did – with ample MPs supporting him in public, but when the votes are actually counted, whaddayaknow, he’s out on his arse.
Any word on what the feeling is among Tory constituency chairmen? They probably think he’s a bit of a pinko, right? I mean that’s what they usually think of their party’s leader.
The undertaker has another video out:
https://brandnewtube.com/v/MSa7hx
According to R4 news the scare brigade are warning of ‘1,000s of deaths’ from Omicron. Tell me, have the MSM in any country yet reported any deaths from this severe cold and if there are some are any in ‘healthy’ people, i.e. metabolically healthy?
I am puzzled that we are now all forecast to get it, whereas in May 2020 Whitty said in that well-known clip ‘ … most [or possibly ‘some’] people will never get it’, thus admitting the reality observed on the Diamond Princess.
Even after all this time, the Diamond Princess is still the one and only piece of uncorrupted, authoritative data we’ve been allowed to see. And its message couldn’t be clearer: Covid? So what?
Yes it is and we are the only ones mentioning it – the media remain stumm on the subject.
Amnesia is more prevelant than covid, so it seems.
Not as common as stuffedwalletitis.
It’s a bizarre situation, where voting Conservative is the only effective way of signalling your opposition to the Conservative government. If you vote Labour, you’d be signalling your support of the government’s policies.
It’s quite genius when you think about it.
But that would depend which constituency you are in – I’m in a Tory one (safe seat) and the MP is always fully on board with the government when it comes to Covidbollox.
So fuckin what it will pass, token resistance, counts for fuck all why are we going around in circles.
Makes no difference as labour have said they’ll support it.
Fair play to them for standing up for their constituents. But the so called opposition will, bizarrely, support the government so it really counts for nowt.
Why is it always about 60 ????
“Pissing in the wind”, the title of a new xmas song to be released jointly by the uk governments
Covid: Omicron study suggests major wave in January – BBC News
So, let’s just double check….
Its winter, so the flu, etc spreads rapidly. Congratulations for working that one out.
Oh, the virus does in fact spread easily amongst the vaccinated. So, what is the point of passports, etc. Don’t tell wales, austria, etc.
Yes indeed, “the experts behind the study said there was still uncertainty around the modelling.” In other words, we don’t actually know (as evidenced throughout the last 18 months), but best frighten the life out of everyone to keep the gravy train of funding going.
Show me the way to go home…..
Show Me The Way To Go Home _ And Evening With Richard Dreyfuss – YouTube
That BBC article seems to contradict the recent Reuters article which said that Omicron is spreading mostly in the jabbed.
Now I really am confused.
I slightly suspect that one is intended as ‘news’, or as close as the Trusted News Intiative gets to this nowadays, and the other is blatant propaganda.
I’ve written to my MP to urge him to join the lobby against these measures. Additionally I asked him to kindly let me know why he decided to back them, if he does so, in order that I can print it out and deliver it to every local household when I am campaigning for Reform.
your be in the clink by then but nice idea
PFIZER… is this is what they wanted hidden for 55 years..
Go to page 30 of this 38 page PDF.. read the last 8 pages..
APPENDIX 1. LIST OF ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
That’s shocking. ‘They’ know it is seriously bad stuff…
And more importantly the truth if being hidden for 75 not 55 years!
That is a fairly generic list of just about everything that could happen. On 22 October 2020, the FDA (US drug regulatory agency) had an online conference regarding expected adverse reactions from the ‘vaccine’ candidates.
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Transverse myelitis
Encephalitis/myelitis/encephalomyelitis/meningoencephalitis/meningitis/encepholapathy
Convulsions/seizures
Stroke
Narcolepsy and cataplexy
Anaphylaxis
Acute myocardial infarction
Myocarditis/pericarditis
Autoimmune disease
Deaths
Pregnancy and birth outcomes
Other acute demyelinating diseases
Non-anaphylactic allergic reactions
Thrombocytopenia
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Venous thromboembolism
Arthritis and arthralgia/joint pain
Kawasaki disease
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children
Vaccine enhanced disease (VER = ADE)
I am pleased to note that death is only an expected adverse reaction and not something to worry about.
The ongoing COVID-19 nonsense here in the United States exists solely and exclusively because our governments have failed to use the correct treatment. They used so-called “vaccines” when Japan has just proven, in less than ONE MONTH, that Ivermectin can wipe out the disease. IVM was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 2015. One of the 3 most important drugs in human history: Aspirin, Penicillin, and Ivermectin. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Get Robert F Kennedy’s book, The Real Fauci (2.99 on Amazon), and by 10% of the way through you will know why America refused to treat anyone. You’ll find why Ivermectin was demonised (Fauci was promoting a replacement that kills people). You’ll find out the truth about Derisiver (it kills people and did when it was used for Ebola). You’ll find out how 150,000 Americans died from the “vaccines” and how it was covered up (they do the same as the NHS: call anyone who dies within 14 days of a jab “unvaccinated”). I’m only a third through the book and the whole thing already links up all the things I’d worked out. Gates, Fauci, Soros.
Lee Rowley better get his name added…
Well at least 4 out of 8 of the County’s MP’s in my area will vote against.
That’s if they actually vote. A lot say they will and then abstain or cave in.
Seems to me the Tory party has two choices: hang on and die, get rid of Johnson and die. Such is the mood across all platforms I genuinely doubt they will see power again. The time is right for Reform to step up.
Doesn’t that actually depend on our having a general election? Does the C’virus Act allow for the suspension of elections?
Wrote to thank Anthony Mangnall, my MP, after a brilliant interview on TalkRADIO with Julia Hartley Brewer. Hes changed his tune, as he supported the Coronavirus Bill. Ive emailed him at least once a month me over the last 20 months, sending him video links opposing the narrative, by eminent scientists and medics. Maybe at last he listened, certainly seemed so in the interview. He really impressed me with his strong stand.
Christmas is coming, is that star in the sky getting brighter?
https://www.thrivetribehub.com/videos/view/2/nuremberg-case-filed-for-the-uk?fbclid=IwAR2f7S4OhYtsYRUmuLP9oCvw-ImyTl9CpK9jl4rfkg3x6URefCMf1XWKOCE
Direct link to the deposition
https://hannahroselaw.co.uk/icc-complaint-uk/
Unlike Biden in USA who stole an election, Johnson had an 80 seat majority with a strong supportive base encouraging him to carry out Brexit properly, create a framework for business to thrive and to stop immigration.
He did none of these things. Instead he married an extreme Soros funded socialist, tore the country apart to feather his own nest and put the final nail in the coffin of mistrust for the Establishment.
We now must make the most of his failures and take back control of our own country. We must use this opportunity to ignore this corrupt cabal. Support businesses and encourage them to stay open. We must carry on our lives, communicate with friends, advertise the scam that is Covid, stop vaccination, and prosecute those who have facilitated this terrible two year war on ordinary people.
I have been in constant contact via email, with my MP. I am thrilled to see his name on this list. He did correspond to say that this was his intention. Write to your MP today, please.
I have been writing to my MP for 2 years and when she deigns to reply its a round robin letter from Conservative HQ. She is a Rs crawling politician who puts her career first so she will vote for what she is told to do.
My MP Ms Davison has made the correct stand and i have emailed thanking her. I have offered to canvas for her if she switches to Reform by next election but have told her that i will never vote .Tory (or Labour) again.
Richard Holden MP for NW Durham is a f**king disgrace and will tell him so when he drops by one of the local pub events again, if it is still in business.
Letter sent to Jeremy Wright, my MP
But Vaccine Passports are nothing to do with health. They are the Trojan horse to introduce Digital IDs to be followed by CBDC. Come on, Toby, call it out for what it is – we are headed for a Bio-surveillance State. It’s no secret anymore, surely you can see it?
I keep doing that and he (Ian Liddell-Grainger) keeps ignoring me, and anyone else around here who writes to him on the subject. He isn’t on the list of 60. But we will continue to waste the effort.
Just watched our East Devon MP Simon Jupp interviewed on SW BBC. He is against vaxx mandates
Until he votes in secret.
I live in Scotland and have an MP who is SNP. I have no idea how she’d vote – quite possibly the SNP will abstain. I can only apologise…
To my surprise, my MP is on the list in spite of doing rather well out of the lockdown etc.