- “Leaked NHS report shows waiting list hitting 9.2 million” – Before the pandemic hit, NHS England waiting lists were at a record high of 4.4 million. Three lockdowns later, they’ve risen to six million, and modelling for the NHS shows them rising to over nine million, writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator.
- “When Britons need GoFundMe to pay for surgery, it’s clear the NHS backlog is a political time bomb” – Waiting lists may be the pandemic’s hidden cost, but the problem has been brewing for years – and the Government has until 2024 to fix it, writes Natasha Loder in the Telegraph.
- “Are we doomed to be the sick man of Europe, Mr Javid?” – The Health Secretary needs to be much tougher with the NHS – this is literally a matter of life or death, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Masks worn for Olympic ice hockey game” – Players wear face masks for an ice hockey match at the Winter Olympics after confusion over COVID-19 tests, reports BBC News.
- “The White House Now Says It Never Really Wanted Lockdowns” – We have now reached the point in the media and political narrative where the party of lockdowns realises lockdowns are increasingly unpopular and so now claims it never supported lockdowns at all, writes Ryan McMaken at the Mises Institute.
- “A Health Public Policy Nightmare” – Vaccine spike protein and mRNA persist for two months in the body and production of spike protein is higher than in severely ill COVID-19 patients, according to a new study summarised by Dr. Robert Malone on his Substack page.
- “Why Sturgeon can’t apologise for Covid mistakes” – The Scottish nationalist project is built on the precarious assumption that its leaders are never wrong about anything, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Half-term travel: UK families avoid Spain over jab rules” – A rule barring unvaccinated over-12s means U.K. travellers are opting for Mexico and Turkey instead, reports BBC News.
- “Long Lockdown is destroying Britain” – Widespread reluctance to leave the Covid cocoon is toxic when combined with our ‘me, me, me’ culture, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weight to Wuhan theory” – Hungarian scientists claim that samples of Antarctic soil sent to a Shanghai firm in 2019 became contaminated with an unknown variant that bridges the gap between bat viruses and SARS-CoV-2 – a find that appears to show the Chinese were aware of SARS-CoV-2 earlier than the end of December, reports the Telegraph.
- “Statistics show huge disparity in ‘official’ fatalities due to Covid” – Professor Robert Dingwall, a former U.K. Government Covid adviser, said ministers should scrap daily Covid statistics from the end of the month, reports the Mail.
- “Jabbing young kids for Covid won’t ‘make much difference’ expert says” – Jabbing healthy children between five and 11 years of age “won’t make much difference” in the U.K., an expert has said, as the Government’s vaccine advisory body gets set to reveal its position soon, reports the Mail.
- “The Doctor Will See You Now – Wait, Not You” – Doctors are increasingly refusing to treat the unvaccinated and forgetting their duty of care, writes L.S. Dugdale in the Wall Street Journal.
- “How to Live With Covid” – The emergency is over; it’s time to pivot to preparedness, writes Jonathan Rauch on Persuasion.
- “Hawke-eye rules freedom ‘out’” – The expulsion of Novak Djokovic – who has won nine of the last 14 Australian Opens – was unscientific and an abuse of state power, writes Ramesh Thakur in Spectator Australia.
- “The Biden Administration says I’m a terrorist threat.” – The White House has begun an extraordinary assault on free speech in America by casting “misleading narratives” as terrorism, writes Alex Berenson on his Substack page.
- “At long, long last, Covid is yesterday’s news” – A new variant may turn up, but policymakers’ first instinct will be to tough it out and depend on immunity to deal with it, writes Andrew Lilico, optimistically, in the Telegraph.
- “Quebec Liberal MP Robillard also breaks ranks, questions Trudeau Government’s handling of pandemic, sides with Lightbound” – Another MP sticks his neck out, but has already suffered repercussions, reports the Hill Times.
- “Can Macron really lecture Putin about democracy?” – It doesn’t appear to have yet dawned on Macron and many other western leaders that the days of dispensing lessons in democracy to despots are over – in the French Republic, the land of liberty, equality and fraternity, millions of people are still unable to eat in a restaurant, go to the cinema or play for their sports team, all because they believe in bodily autonomy, writes Gavin Mortimer in the Spectator.
- “NHS England deletes misleading Covid stats video” – Earlier this month, NHS England tweeted out a video to its half million followers to promote the Covid vaccine among children that it has now deleted because it was full of inaccurate statistics, such as that 1% of infected children are hospitalised(!), writes Robert Hughes in UnHerd.
- “Why it’s time to end mandatory self-isolation” – Mass testing and forced isolation have come at enormous cost, write Professor Carl Heneghan and Professor Tom Jefferson in Spiked.
- “Sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg on 50 years of misguided climate panic” – It is irresponsible to scare young people when even the UN Climate Panel finds that if we do nothing to mitigate climate change, by the end of the century it will mean average incomes increase by 438% instead of 450%, writes Bjorn Lomborg in CityAM.
- “Energy ‘surge pricing’ to be offered to millions of households” – Three of Britain’s biggest suppliers back plans to charge more at peak times, reports the Telegraph.
- “Smart meters are a symbol of the elite drive to nudge Britain into submission” – Combined with the lunacy of Net Zero, surge pricing will merely punish people for consuming energy, writes Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Adele is right to take a pop at gender neutral awards” – Ditching separate gongs for men and women isn’t a sign of progress, writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “We’re going to arrest anyone who brings gas” – Watch how Canadians responded when faced with the threat of arrest during the ongoing Freedom Convoy truckers protest in Ottawa.
"we're going to arrest anyone who brings gas"…..
— J.C (@Fiddlers__Green) February 9, 2022
Uh huh….. Hold my beer.
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Apologies if this has already been posted but hey – why talk among yourselves when you can make your opinions known to those who purportedly control the agenda?
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/revoking-vaccination-as-a-condition-of-deployment-across-all-health-and-social-care
Open consultation
Revoking vaccination as a condition of deployment across all health and social care
From: Department of Health and Social Care
Published 9 February 2022
Applies to England
Summary
We are seeking your views on revoking provisions which require COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of deployment in health and social care settings.
This consultation closes at 11:45pm on 16 February 2022
Same rules there about profanity and abuse?
Note that two of the questions require NO to them.
‘How to live with covid’ – thanks, but I’ll manage. I survived being Catholic and left handed. Both of which have been far more lethal historically speaking than the dreaded C.
And now for something completely different.
In the words of an unknown sage, sometime or another: No man can be counted as defeated while he retains his capacity for laughter.
Thanks you – I needed that right now.
Yep – should have just been “Thank you”, but that’s the way it goes. So double thanks then!
I’m doubly grateful!
Build Back Broke: How Biden’s Great Reset Will FORCE You into Compliance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms6A2JzJDdE
BlazeTV Glenn Beck
Let’s keep getting the message out
Thursday 10th February 5pm
Silent lighted walk behind one simple sign
“No More Lockdown & Covid Rules Are Barking”
Bring torches, candles and other lights
meet outside Town Hall, between Rose Inn & Costa
Wokingham RG40 1AP
Stand in the Park Sundays 10am make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS
Telegram Group
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell
“Modelling for the NHS shows them (waiting lists) rising to over nine million…”
Erm, modelling? Haven’t we had enough of that already? Either it is used to scare the wits out of the feeble minded, or to provide an excuse for TPTB when things turn out differently. “Hey, waiting lists are only at 8 million, when the predictions said 9 million. So aren’t we wonderful to have cut a million off the lists? We told you to listen to us and everything would work out fine. Here’s the proof.”
The more apocalyptic the prediction, the more money showers on the Hell Service.
We’ve failed, reward us with more of your money
“We’re going to arrest anyone who brings gas”
I knew I should have bought shares in jerrycans.
But fascists are incorrigible. What’s the betting that Trudeau will tell the police that empty cans are to be interpreted as terrorist weapons, and anyone seen carrying one must be arrested on sight?
Shortly before his regime collapsed, Ceausescu had all the typewriters in Romania inspected and registered so that the regime could tell who had been typing anti-Ceausescu messages.
Quem deus vult perdere prius delirat.
Wonder why they are empty? These are not the normal sized jerry cans we see here. However, they are almost flapping aroundin the wind.
It’s just a decoy to bamboozle and piss off the police. They can’t apprehend everyone carrying a jerry can.
Videos today showing police seizing fuel once more from the truckers, despite yesterday a judge ruling it’s unlawful and they had to return them to the individuals. They did that but most of them were watered down. What gets me is if any civilian was caught red-handed stealing somebody else’s property that’d be a criminal offence, but the police are allowed to break their own laws and become criminals themselves by doing just that…all whilst arresting the public for delivering supplies to the truckers. Is it possible to be more hypocritical or disproportionate?? It’s turned into a lawless city it would seem.
It warms my heart to see so many people carrying empty gas cans in order to make these seizures and arrests more difficult to enforce.
Half-term travel: UK families avoid Spain over jab rules BBCSaw these on a link for expats. The only reply was something like Spaniards suffered enough without having hordes of unvaccinated Brits bringing another wave of infections?
Are these expats really that brain washed?
If the vaccination(s) are that good then Spain should open it’s border to all because something like 90%n of the population is vaxxed, including children.
Those who travel to anywhere in Europe would still need to have a negative certificate so how can so called unvaxxed spread Covid?
The responderforgot that all those living in Europe and are unvaxxed can still get into the country.
If you tavel by car in Europe you do not need any certification, vaxxed or not.
They also forget that vaxxed can spread this around too.
I am done with my minor rant about idiot expats.
Again and again we see it. The “unvaccinated” must be avoided, persecuted and oppressed – because the “vaccines” don’t work!
They will suffer without “hordes” of “unvaccinated Brits” spending their money on their hard – earned two weeks in Majorca and Costa Del Sol.
Dr Malone’s sub-stack article is very worrying, yet unsurprising.
The irony, The first minister of Wales has tested positive https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-60332828
“jUsT iMaGiNe hOw mUcH wOrSe iT wOuLd hAvE aFfEcTeD hIm iF hE WaSn’T jAbBeD AnD bOOsTeReD AnD mAsKeD uP 24/7”
Hmm, strange how so many ‘leaders’ have tested ‘positive’ recently. No tears from me on their behalf – I don’t give a fig – but what are they up to now?
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/why-rogan-not-apologize?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
“Joe … your audience understands you. Your audience knows you,” Glenn said. “But you can’t apologize to the people you offend … because they’re not sincere. You may be, but they’re not,” he added.
“It’s not going to stop. They have you fixed in their targets and there’s only one goal … to wipe you out. And here’s why. Because if they can take you out, they’ll take everyone of us out. You are the biggest target. You’re the apex predator. And if they can take you out, then that sends the message to Spotify and Google and Apple and everybody else. You’d better not have anybody right of Joe Rogan.”
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/whitlock-joe-rogan-n-word-reparations-and-how-the-left-controls-public-discourse
“This is all covered in the fine print of the reparations deal Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton cut with the Democratic Party. Anything that destroys truth and denigrates and kills black people is exclusively owned by black people and white liberals with an approved exemption card.”
Are electric cars the new ‘diesel scandal’ waiting to happen?- Bjorn Lomborg
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2022/02/08/are-electric-cars-the-new-diesel-scandal-waiting-to-happen-bjorn-lomborg/
by Paul Homewood
Let’s keep getting the message out with our friendly resistance.
Thursday 10th February 5pm
Silent lighted walk behind one simple sign
“No More Lockdown & Covid Rules Are Barking”
Bring torches, candles and other lights
meet outside Town Hall, between Rose Inn & Costa
Wokingham RG40 1AP
Stand in the Park Sundays 10am make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS
Telegram Group
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell
Inspiring as well as amusing to see so many people carrying empty gas cans to confound enforcement of the “no carrying fuel to the truckers” edict.
By putting pressure on the mandate-advocates, the truckers are giving hope to freedom lovers around the globe. Stay strong, truckers!
The video of the citizens carrying empty gas cans reminds me of the scene from “V for Vendetta” where thousands of people are wearing Guy Fawkes masks, or the scene from Spartacus where everyone stands up and says “I am Spartacus”.
I support them wholeheartedly.