Boris Johnson has admitted he “can’t rule out” plunging the U.K. into a Covid lockdown again in the future, despite only just releasing the nation from two years of crippling on-off restrictions. MailOnline has the story.
The Prime Minister previously promised the route back to normality was “irreversible”, seemingly consigning draconian stay-at-home orders to history. But the PM has now said it would be “irresponsible” for the Government not to keep a blanket shutdown in its virus-fighting playbook. He added: “I’m not going to take any options off the table.”
In an interview with GB News set to be aired tomorrow, Mr. Johnson added: “I want to avoid any such thing ever happening again.”
However, he insisted any decision on bringing back curbs must get the balance right between prioritising public health and saving lives. …
Speaking to Tory MPs Esther McVey and Philip Davies on GB News, Mr Johnson said: “I can’t rule out something. I can’t say we wouldn’t be forced to do non-pharmaceutical interventions again of the kind we did. I think it would be irresponsible of any leader in any democracy to say that they are going to rule out something that can save lives.”
He added: “I believe the things we did saved lives. I’ve got to be absolutely frank with you, there could be a new variant more deadly, there could be a variant that affects children, that we really need to contain, I’m not going to take any options off the table. But I don’t think it will happen. We’re now in the phase where the virus is losing its potency overall and we’ve got a massively vaccinated U.K. population.”
But the PM admitted the endless cycle of on-off restrictions introduced over the last 24 months had caused the nation’s obesity rates to soar. Ministers this week brought in rules that force restaurants, cafes and takeaways with more than 250 employees to include calorie counts on their menu. Mr. Johnson denied the measures equated to a “nanny state”, arguing they were necessary to tackle Britain’s growing obesity problem.
He’s learned nothing at all, it seems. Even after it’s been exposed that his own staff who wrote the rules made no effort to keep them.
It was always one of the big problems with the original 2020 lockdowns, besides of course their intrinsic harms – that they set a devastating precedent for public health policy that overturned all prior science and guidance on how to respond to infectious disease. We sceptics now have our work cut out to eliminate the presumption that lockdowns are acceptable – not least because the current crop of political leaders and public health officials have their reputations tied to the lockdown policy, which they enthusiastically embraced.
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He can try, but I, along with millions of others, will just ignore this totalitarian bullshit.
Calories on menus – what a joke! That’s not going to stop people from getting fat, and/or unhealthy! You could eat chicken and salad or you could have a pudding – calorie counting is an outdated method of losing weight – it’s more about what you eat and portion size. Anyway, who goes out for a meal to count calories – how to spoil a nice evening out. It also looks like BJ has been eating up his pudding again…
Couldn’t give even a bit of one for anything ball head boris has to say the mans a cnut .
sorry but the sooner the better this is known to every body , nothing to see no novel killer virus was downgraded to be nothing to see before locked down. Just pricks getting pricked and heads getting fucked why are we still even chatting, peace see ya on the otherside brothers and sisters xxxx
BoJo needs to stop listening to his globalist mates (controllers?) and realise that his responsibility is the British people, not the UN, WHO, WEF or any other organisations seeking to rule over us. If he can’t do that then we need his immediate resignation.
Have We NOT Stomached enough of this Man & the rest of his Masters?
As a legacy for Boris, I hope he is proud of the dystopia he created, with hundreds of elderly, and not so elderly, people still shopping and wandering round full masked, at least in my South Coast town.
This government is possibly the worst and most evil in our history. Period.
What kind of a person in charge of a country says such obvious stupid things? This man knows the damages done to the people and businesses in this country. The lives lost due to his lockdowns and the loss of livelihood for so very many. What exactly does being a democracy have to do with it when he took a dictatorial stance for the past two years. Why is the emergency powers act still in place completely obliterating democracy. Oh no sir, you are a liar if you refuse to admit the damages you caused to this country when you locked it down. Many will not forget and many will insist you do the right thing in the future and it will not ever be lockdowns, ever again you …what do you call someone who cannot admit he/she made a massive mistake?
What a coincidence, he is spewing the same scripted bs as our beloved German “health” minister.
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And WTF does that have to do with lockdowns in the UK?!
Perhaps try talking to a few people in the East of Ukraine for a more balanced view of what is going on with Ukraine and UK government backed militias torturing, murdering and indiscriminately shooting and shelling civilians and staging it as Russian troops. We all feel for people like Tanya and her artsy friends who long for western values in their homeland but pretending there hasn’t been a problem for decades if not centuries between a torn country with just as many people not wanting what her and her friends want is is getting incredibly tedious. The BBC have got your point-of-view well covered so leave it for the simpletons who listen to your podcast and give us a break!
It is so clear what is happening now. This is nothing to do with ‘keeping us safe, saving lives’ etc. They have enough evidence to know that lockdowns did not save lives – they only have to look at what happened in Sweden and other places where lockdowns were not imposed. Why are they not looking at these? Because this is the cold calculated destruction and control of the fabric of our society. Creating fear, mistrust, compliance, economic hardship and so on. If only more of us – not you lot on here – in the UK understood this, we could rise up, take back control, put these corrupt individuals on trial and jail them. That seems like a pipe dream but it’s one I continue to hope for. Already there are many small groups that have started all over the UK to address this eventuality. They may be coming for us and our children but make no mistake: we are also coming for them!
The Fat Oaf would ignore any future lockdown he imposed on the rest of us – just like he did last time. Because he’s “special” …. so the rules don’t apply to him.
The worst thing is that the masses would still willingly comply. The number of people still wearing masks in town is mind blowing. Boris is a World Economic Forum puppet. He won’t be satisfied until we are all under the totalitarian One World Government of his Masters.
Yes, I have noticed that in some places in the country, people are wearing their facial haberdashery with almost religious zeal. In Oxford, people wear them walking along the street, chatting gaily to their friends with inaudible muffled words. Soon, I can imagine, they will embroider them and adapt them, maybe into a hood or a helmet and it’ll then really become a religion and perhaps the first thing you do in the morning after getting up. They look at the unmasked me as I happily expose my nostrils and mouth to God’s slightly less clean and more polluted air with narrowed eyes of suspicion or curiousity…although I can’t tell without their facial expression!
Alexander de Pfeifol Johnson is invincibly ignorant, he is covering his political backside by insisting lockdowning did not smash up NHS cancer care, damage children desperately badly, and trigger deep mental health illness. Homer Simpson with a wig on, that’s our PM’s intellectual and moral state. Lockdowning means death and damage on a vast scale let alone the economic wreckage we suffer now. The incompetent Boris is a cover for a far more dangerous politician whose paramount priority is…himself. The big problem for democrats on health now is to stop political leaders denying the carnage their crude policies caused, they cannot afford the truth to be acknowledged
Doris is misreading the situation and just ass covering He couldn’t lockdown the country again even if his green goddess insisted on it.
Once in a lifetime stupidity of acceptance, will never ever be adhered to again,.not even by the sheep.
“I think it would be irresponsible of any leader in any democracy to say that they are going to rule out something that can save lives.”! Yet lockdowns did not ‘save’ a single life, but took many. Any responsible leader would look at that outcome and consign NPIs to the dustbin of history, by law. Therefore Boris, like so many others across the world, is *NOT* a responsible leader. It also seems like he and others are going to outsource future pandemic management to the WHO, which will be a total disaster, as no alternatives will be allowed in order to determine which work and which don’t. We will be in a medical dictatorship where only BigPharma and their bought, corrupt politicians and hanger-ons will benefit.
Any functioning democracy would have kicked out a leader who has imposed rules that have murdered thousands whilst flagrantly flouting the same rules.
Exactly. The gloves are off now and the curtain at the back of the stage has fallen to reveal the bare brick of the theatre wall.
Despite every single study, research paper on health, the economy, mental illness, this guy thinks it is okay to lockdown again. He must be…what? Well you know. How about stopping the ineffective non sterilising experimental biologicals driving this virus to mutate. Stop immediately. Offer antivirals, early successful covid treatments with repurposed drugs. Did the FDA just decide the Jabs are unsustainable? Does anyone know 90% of those in hospital with covid and dying were double and triple jabbed. That is why the UKHSA stopped counting. No more tests etc. why are they hiding the complete and utter failure of these experimental biologicals? So they can throw you in lockdown again and eliminate this lovely country. Why would they do that?
As good as the Daily Sceptic has been at preaching to the converted it has achieved the sum total of FA when it comes to influencing the course of the ‘pandemic response’ or even the public perception. That fat sweating mound of blubber Johnson knows the likes of you will just gripe but do nothing and have no influence which just empowers him to carry on doing whatever Carrie or the cabal want.
This is a corporatocratic takeover of .gov with the latter vying and scrambling for a place at the NWO table when the US and EU financial systems collapse. Any semblance of democracy has to be eliminated in this system as it would otherwise cascade a removal of existing power structures…so…the illusion of a deadly virus has to be maintained for the good of the collective to keep order. Energy & emissions (CO2) workflow, money (CBDC) and behaviour (social credit) will all be AI controlled by a technocratic system that is slowly being shoehorned in. It’s all there right in front of you. Talk of whether Boris et al partied while the country was under lockdown or vaccine effectiveness misses the bigger picture…
40 mins of your time well spent: https://www.bitchute.com/video/EWJIb1qP6xMb/
Well worth watching for broad analysis of current and future developments.
“Never believe anything until it has been officially denied” Otto von Bismarck
But it didn’t, and it never will. Reminds me of what a primary school teacher said to me in the past: “If is the largest word in the dictionary”.
To say this makes my blood boil is not an exaggeration. Is the man a cretin? Is he just evil? In what world does he think repeating all these enormous errors is a good idea? Is his intention really to destabilise any vestige of good mental health that the British population has? We have just finished the consultative period for an enquiry into the handling of the pandemic. There is a wealth of research showing how harmful lockdowns are and how many lives they have destroyed and the best Johnson can come up with is that we might need to repeat them ‘in order to save lives’?
We have a failed vaccine that if that was it’s worst characteristic would be something to be ashamed of but, no, it’s useless but also dangerous yet he would really introduce vaxx passports again – a complete failure – in order to coerce more to get the dangerous and useless shots.
Is this honestly the best he can do. No doubt he doesn’t rule out No. 10 having more lockdown parties either.
But never mind, we know that he’s not really in charge anyway. Orders in future will be coming directly from the… Read more »
It’s a given that he will do it since contracts for an NHS Pass have just been handed out to a firm, April 5th, (forgot the name but it’s listed on the Government’s website) going up to 2024…..in harmony with the EU’s pass.
Mass non compliance is the only way to break this agenda as long as enough jump on board when the puppet triggers the next one.
….this refusal not to resort to lockdowns in the next flu season could be to force more people to get the jab because to date the numbers are well below their targets.
Western Governments are puppets to the Globalists. The Globalists are the big banking fraternity and huge corporations like Pfizer. These people make policy in order to make money from the taxpayer. Johnson and his cabinet are hugely invested in these corporations. They have lobbied for them in the past.
Until voters realise what’s happening and start protecting the future of their children nothing will change. I think May elections will be rigged. I think probably the French elections will be rigged as were the Canadian elections. No country under Globalist control ever produces a Government that works for its citizens
Lockdowns killed more people than they saved. This is the fundamental truth that Johnson and the establishment will never accept. All those ‘experts” urging a sackcloth and ashes approach to ward off the devil still have the upper hand.. Our political parties should be reclassified according to their support for future restrictions. Gulag soon; Gulag now and Gulag forever.
And they don’t know the figures yet. It will take ages to assess the consequence of what they did. A job for historians in the future.
Sadly, I fear that people will comply with this nonsense. The number of “medicated” people who are suffering, quite badly, with the milder Omicron variation of Covid is worrying. They truly believe it would have “been so much worse” had they been un-medicated. The year of infections and illnesses will leave them primed to believe, by the autumn, that Covid actually is a disease to be concerned about. Hats off to the planners of the scam. 2020 – Covid plus no treatment available = not so bad for most. 2021 – Hooray the saviour medication arrives. 2022 – Covid plus lots of “treatment” administered = miserable colds and flu for all the poor sods.
I’m surprised anybody’s surprised. “Build Back Better Johnson is clearly another brainwashed WEF puppet committed to delivering the Great Reset – a traitorous task which can only be achieved if lockdowns and the other weapons of biolmedical tyranny remain in his arsenal.
Why else would the leader of a party founded on the defence of individual freedom have thrown his not inconsiderable weight behind two new Bills designed to throttle free speech and turn government critics into domestic terrorists?
Johnson has also led the push for the imminent international pandemic treaty which gives the corrupt pharma-captured WHO the power to dictate our detailed response to future viral epidemics – including mandatory jabs for all.
Our mendacious PM is as slippery as the stuff he is spreading on toast in the video featured in the link below, and must be given the heave-ho – fast..
https://twitter.com/BorisSaying/status/1472975090442719233?s=20&t=Q-TRhHXR2l-bFxPKS_-CIw
Some can remember his behaviour when he was Mayor of London; say no more.
This was never a “Public Health Emergency“ which permitted control of individual liberty to Save Live and Save the NHS. It has been a plaything of wannabe media scientists and hapless politicians who’s last brush with science was in school.
Johnson is an absolute buffoon. He is just parroting what his wife is telling him to say
Still, he has access to free electricity at No10. That must count for something?
Does Boris Johnson’s motivation get a reboot in the early hours each day, so that he behaves as if he has learnt nothing, and ploughs on regardless?
Pretty much par for the course for many keyboard warriors who like to do a bit of virtue signalling and tell everyone they have ‘signed’ yet another (pointless) on-line petition about… well, something or other. They like to think it is ‘important’ and that they have ‘done something’.
Suggest they go and ring Susan Michie’s doorbell and they recoil in horror because they “don’t believe in violence” and then they’ll say “You first!” because they actually do like the idea of violence but would prefer somebody else to stand up for them.
What is the point EF of your silly on the loop posts exhorting people ring doorbells, confront, etc?