Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced today that all remaining Covid restrictions in England, including the legal requirement to isolate, will be scrapped this month, saying he expects to end the remaining COVID-19 restrictions a “full month early”, on February 24th. The Telegraph has more.
Speaking in the Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions, [the Prime Minister] said: “It is my intention to return on the first day after the half-term recess to present our strategy for living with Covid.
“Provided the current encouraging trends in the data continue, it is my expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions – including the legal requirement to self-isolate if you test positive – a full month early.”
He intends to confirm the end of Covid isolation rules on February 21st.
Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, said: “We are the freest country in Europe thanks to the strong defences we have built. We’re learning to live with Covid.”
It’s unclear how Mr. Javid can claim the U.K. is the freest country in Europe when Denmark lifted all restrictions last week.
Nonetheless, it’s good news that the Government is moving to lift the remaining pandemic restrictions and laws, which we hope will be comprehensive. For the pandemic fully to come to an end, however, the Government must also remove all pandemic-related guidance, so that the private tyrannies of organisations, employers, businesses and insurance companies are also steered towards an end. The pointless travel restrictions, including those discriminating against the unvaccinated, must also be lifted.
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Two years too late!!
Anyone any ideas about how we can get the ridiculous divisive and illogical requirements for unvaccinated travellers rescinded? This needs doing asap – the regulations are not following ‘the science’ or any logic whatsoever.
also – Lots about Canada on the ‘Lifesite’ news today (10.2), including a video of a policeman…
https://www.lifesitenews.com/video/canadian-police-officer-stands-with-freedom-convoy-urges-fellow-cops-to-disobey-unjust-orders/
Let’s not let our guard down. They won’t give up that easily:
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/08/uk-reforming-human-rights-law-compulsory-vaccines-on-the-horizon/
All over the world governments are relaxing or lifting COVID measures. The last time governments acted in lockstep they imposed these measures. The lockstep should tell us that something sinister is in the works.
Yes, indeed. It’s not about what they say it’s about.
The end of the beginning but by no means the beginning of the end!
So, after threatening to sack a significant portion of the NHS, he calls us the ‘freest country’!! Does he ever listen to himself?? And just what are these “strongest defences”, when it’s blatantly clear that NONE of the NPIs have worked, he’s denied us all therapeutic defences, and that the so-called vaccines have created their own huge health problem. Moreover, I don’t see people still wearing face-nappies when alone in their cars or on the street ‘free’. To be truly free is to not be fearful. We will also be free when we are free of these despots and parasites.
A month early? He could have said a year early. Blindsiding drivel, no one has previously given any date on when restrictions would end, it was based supposedly based on ‘data’. This does not end until real freedom is restored, freedom of movement between countries, which is not happening anywhere, unless of course you are a ‘dip,o at/politician’ in which case you are e empt. Bit like the parties then.
It’s not over until the Coronavirus Act is repealed, the state of emergency ended, government by diktat is over and Parliamentary Democracy is restored and international travel is free of mandatory testing and mask wearing.
The CoronaCircus Act (The Greatest Show In Town) is due for ‘renewal’ in March, isn’t it? As you say, unless that disappears then we’re in for another six months of arbitrary, unscrutinised and undebated diktats at the whim of a self-serving bunch of nowts.
Largely irrelevant whether it is or isn’t, if they wanted it back it would be put through parliament with zero opposition anyway
And there we have it: ”strategy for living with covid…”
In other words, any ”strategy” they want to enforce. So no end to travel restrictions, and annual ”boosters” (as Alberta’s MLA threatens), testing (whoever wants to require it) – in fact, no end to ”covid”. Even if it’s gone, morphed into a common cold, they still must enforce a ”strategy” for living with it. And any political ”strategy” using this diminished virus as an excuse means we’ll never ever see ”normal” again.
Until all mandates, vaxxine passports, tests and travel restrictions are ended we are not free!
It’s good news, perhaps, but I can’t get too excited. I’ll believe it when I see it. Will it mean an end to the lockdowns in care homes that are still damaging residents? An end to masks in ‘clinical settings’, including opticians and dentists? Will Sadiq Khan be put in his box and masks disappear from TFL? Moreover, will our ‘brave’ police be stripped of the power to bypass courts by handing out FPNs?
And even if every single imposition were genuinely to be removed, can we ever trust that such abuse will never be repeated in the future? It will hang over us forever like a sword of Damocles: the damage that does to mental health is appalling.
No mention of revoking the Coronavirus Regulations so the announcement counts for very little.
Let’s not forget the unnecessary mess he has made of our lives. Forgiveness comes at a price; he must go along with his wife and cronies.
We must never forget that abuse and never forget who has gleefully meted it out: not just the government and the opposition that egged them on, but local councils, mayors, police forces, covid marshals, and even those nasty folk who dobbed in their neighbours.
We now know the danger and must be forever on our guard.
to me this covid thing has been a distraction technique in order to change the laws behind the scenes, for example the human rights change proposals, the harms bill which gets bigger, wanting to limit protests and the spy powers bill which was passed. While people were distracted the laws are proposed to be changed or have been changed which would have been far more difficult in normal times.
Yes indeed. It’s been getting ever more authoritarian for 30 or 40 years now and that process has definitely accelerated under cover of the virus scare.
And the vax pass? Oh, that won’t be abolished? Gosh. There’s a surprise.
Kristen Nagle shames CBC workers in the streets of Ottawa. CBC people have no heart. This is a must watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYMDi3HrrDg&ab_channel=MarcelIrnie
Oh look, he combed his hair! This is to project boyish innocence, upper class noblesse oblige, tidy thinking, and a disciplined operative approach?
Nice try, Boris PR. We know the tousled mop-head to be a truer reflection.
To be fair, many of us look tousled before we comb.
https://www.francesoir.fr/videos-les-debriefings/dr-richard-fleming-son-debriefing
Interview with Dr Fleming on origins and gain of function of Sars-Cov-2
I guess every pleb would like the travel “protections” revoked. They serve no obvious purpose apart from money making in seeing if a prospective tourist is infected with something already in the target country.
I suppose they do discourage travel which seems to be a net zero goal.
The passenger locator form however is a more insidious thing whereby all countries collect data on those travelling presumably for some database of the unworthy fuel guzzlers.
How much of any of this will go anytime soon is anyone’s guess
If the emergency is over revoke the EUA for the vaccines.
If the MHRA dares it can licence them for some groups and have the manufacturers take liability.
Then see how quickly they’re withdrawn!
My 75 year old aunt texted me last night to tell me she and my uncle tested positive for Covid. I drove to their house at 12:30 AM and dropped off Ivermectin pills, HCQ, zinc, and Quercetin. She told me today her fever came down and that I may have saved her life. Uncle is feeling great. This is considered a negative outcome by the cabal. They would prefer my family dead. Their evil is no longer a theory and very much a reality. You can get your ivm by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/revoking-vaccination-as-a-condition-of-deployment-across-all-health-and-social-care
This is the consultation document for the NHS vax mandates. It has only @ five questions and takes five minutes to do.
Deadline 16 Feb, so hurry
Don’t believe him.
Next lie?
Boris “EXPECTS” to end restriction not WILL. Don’t trust him.
The End strengthens his position, muddies the waters, gaslights even our side, releases weariness, boosts the economy, buries secrets, allows for celebrations, renders us madmen…
What’s not to like, as far as they are concerned?
Masks on planes?
Imagine the holiday snaps people will have in the future!
Until the UK ( or any nation for that matter) copies Florida and De Santis’ openly anti-restrictive legislation, we cannot say its over.
Will that ever happen?
It will, for political reasons. Rationing and bestowing freedom is an opportunity, after all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INtPTPyH0bE&ab_channel=TheDuran
The Ukraine and Nordstream Two, sanctions. Germany coerced into dropping Nordstream 2 if conflict in Ukraine.
Fears that there will be aggression from US controlled Ukraine to push Germany to sanction the Russian gas pipeline.
Higher energy costs folks
And is the UK going to be able to magic away all the travel restrictions imposed by every other nation? Indeed is it actually going to stop its own entry requirements for unvaxed?
Not holding my breath, even for the later one.
Thanks for reporting this great news, but unfortunately it doesn’t apply to Wales or Scotland or N.I. as far as I’m aware.
So PLEASE will you change the headline to “England” instead of “UK”?