Esther McVey MP has written a piece in the Express explaining why she’s agreed to back Jeremy Hunt in the Conservative leadership contest. On the face of it, it’s an unlikely alliance. Not only is McVey a Brexiteer who’s on the right of the party, while Hunt was a Remainer who identifies as a liberal conservative, but McVey has been one of the most vociferous anti-lockdown campaigners of the past two-and-a-half years, whereas Hunt was a lockdown zealot (although he denies that now). However, according to McVey, Hunt has pledged never to reimpose a full lockdown in response to a Covid-style pandemic.
I fully understand that many people will be surprised that I am supporting Jeremy Hunt for the leadership of the Conservative Party and to become Prime Minister.
I am even braced for the inevitable abuse from people saying that I have sold out my principles. Nothing could be further from the truth.
In an article in the Express last week I set out the five priorities that are essential for the Conservative Party and its new leader: 1) Protecting Brexit and ensuring the Northern Ireland Protocol is fixed to protect the integrity of the United Kingdom; 2) cutting taxes whilst living within our means; 3) delivering on the Levelling Up agenda helping to ensure the North is able to maximise its potential; 4) reducing levels of immigration into the UK and sorting out once and for all illegal immigration – especially the dinghies coming over from France; and 5) to ensure we never again have full lockdowns and damaging restrictions in the face of a future covid-style pandemic.
Jeremy Hunt has pledged to accept and deliver on all five of those priorities – so much for anyone who thinks that I am selling out on my principles.
Worth reading in full.
Couple of caveats there, obviously: he’s pledged not to reimpose a full lockdown, meaning he could reimpose mask mandates and vaccine passports, and he’s only ruled out a full lockdown in the face of another Covid-style pandemic, leaving him room to impose a full lockdown in response to an outbreak of another virus. Still, it’s an encouraging sign.
Let’s hope the other candidates make similar pledges as the contest rumbles on. No doubt they’ll be asked the question at the hustings. We’ll keep track of their response.
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Here’s David Thunder, on the same wavelength as me regarding these text emergency drills being extremely suss in their timing. What’s strange is that he lives in Navarra, Spain and they’re doing it there. I wonder if they’re testing this out anywhere else…
”Under ordinary circumstances – for example, if we had level-headed and sensible people running the government – I could probably just go along with such a drill. Indeed, I would probably take them at their word that it was only for the purpose of managing genuine “catastrophes.”
But to hold an emergency drill so soon after a string of extraordinary abuses of emergency powers is quite another story. The timing for this drill could not be worse. It comes just a couple of years after governments all over the world used an “emergency” that was actually an infectious disease for which health services were ill prepared, to justify an all-out attack on citizens’ basic rights, including the right to protest, right to informed consent to medication, right to breathe freely, freedom of movement, and freedom of expression.
The reason I refuse to participate in this drill at this time, is because the authorities that are running it have forfeited their right to be trusted to honestly and competently declare emergencies without stoking up needless panic and fear in the population. I simply no longer trust these people to tell me when I need to run for cover. In fact, I am more afraid of them than I am of any emergency they might declare.”
https://davidthunder.substack.com/p/i-will-be-powering-down-my-phone
Nail on the head!
These alerts are just another nail in the coffin of freedom!
Thanks, Mogs, and a very good morning to you. Yes, I also wondered if this was happening elsewhere. David Thunder is of course absolutely right – why would we go along with a government emergency alarm system since they have forfeited the right to be trusted due to their record over the past 3 years. Personally, I see no reason for such an alarm system. An alarm system is there to induce a response from your compliant public which will inevitably come with panic and fear. What rationale could they possibly have for doing that? I mean what is so alarming as to actually justify such a system? Nothing I can think of. Weather is usually reported and has physical attributes you can’t fail to notice like, er, precipitation, air currents, big snowflakes etc. Nuclear attack? Already too late, just enjoy the flash and get a tan. So it’s something else. Control? A test to see how many compliant people are ‘out there’ with their phones on. Imagine city centres or shopping malls and other gatherings, it will be very weird. I will be somewhere remote without my phone. I will take out the SIM, pop it into a burner phone I keep, and take the battery out.
Interestingly, my brother sent me this:
NATIONWIDE ALARM
Sunday 23rd April from 2-4pm, just in case.
APPLY CRITICAL THINKING
They are doing the alarm thing on Sunday yes.
Well:-
There are 97.23 million mobile connections in the UK,
85.01m active mobile devices and 12.22m connected things.
98% of the adult population have a mobile phone, making 1.37 active connections per head of population.
Imagine all them going off at once all at the same time and you have an ideal opportunity to harm a lot of people without it being obvious by switching up the 5g frequency.
Now they will have to send a massive boosted frequency and 5g wave across the Uk at the exact same time to reach every phone.
Trust me when I say turn them off before 3pm on that day .
That frequency or wave will be extremely high for it to happen at the exact same time and extremely damaging to your brain.
They are not testing the alarm they are testing the magnitude of the frequency and the impact of the wave on us. We are all guinea pigs
It goes without saying that you need to disable your phone from even receiving this signal.
How do you do this?
On most smart phones
Go to settings – notifications – advanced settings- wireless emergency alerts – switch off alerts.
Switch off All phones
Switch off and unplug wireless networks. Ie broadband
Switch off anything that can receive a wireless signal in your home and unplug it. All unnecessary electrical equipment must be switched off.
Get out of the house but trust me stay away from large crowds like pubs, cinemas, restaurants and shops.
What you will witness will not be a natural occurrence . It will be man made.
I have it on sound advice that we must stay away as far away from other people as possible. Go to moors, woodland etc woodland is good as the trees will protect you from the wave.
Probably my over-hyped imagination and deep suspicions of government but this resonates with me with ‘The day of the Triffids’ when vast numbers of the populace were blinded by watching light effects in the sky (yes, I know it was fiction – much like the scamdemic!) This proposed audio emergency alarm smacks of a mechanised way of damaging senses – particularly hearing.
What about animals too and their acute hearing with a cacophony of mobile alerts going off?
All in all, Ellie, there is something distinctly nefarious about this. It is not a normal action. It is unprecedented. Never happened before. Yes they had air raid sirens in WWII but we are not ostensibly at war. They haven’t told us exactly what it is for. And you’re right, the stress to animals, birds and all life will be immeasurable. It is like a Day of the Triffids moment. Anyway, I’ll only find out when I get back!
I’ve warned family about this alert but most see it as a novelty event and aren’t taking any precautions, with a ‘wait and see’ attitude. I sincerely hope I’m wrong but even if there is nothing readily apparent or amiss during / following the upcoming event, I’m certain it’s a precursor for other planned events of worsening impact on life.
I have the horrors that it will eventually descend into a mass ECT like effect.
Or perhaps this 5g alarm will act as a stimulus to those who have been injected and are now carrying the nano chips, graphene or whatever.
Wow. Thanks Aethelred. I never thought of that but it makes perfect sense.
Does anyone know if there are similar emergency-alert-system “tests” being carried out in other countries this weekend/near future?
Apparently all 27 countries in the EU are required to comply with EU regulations/policy voted in/passed in *2018* ( so pre-covid etc ) which say that every country must have a national emergency alerts system ( within 5 years of the directive ) for mobile telephones, because apparently a great many other non-EU countries already had/have them.
France ( whose system went live in June 2022 ) ran a big test of its system on 28 February this year. Spain and the UK ( though now non-EU ) seem to have left it to the last minute to comply, ( though I think I read that the UK one already ran a couple of small scale tests last year? ).
And Germany ran a nationwide test of their system on 8 December 2022.
yes, USA did it yesterday.
Just read this in the Telegraph!!!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/21/florida-emergency-alert-test-accident-early-morning/
Florida residents were jolted awake at 04:45 on Thursday morning by an accidental emergency alert on their phones.
Officials apologised to Floridians for disturbing their sleep, and said the alert was meant to be on TV.
“We know a 4:45 AM wake up call isn’t ideal,” The Florida Division of Emergency Management said, adding that they test emergency alerts on a variety of platforms.
“This alert was supposed to be on TV, and not disturb anyone already sleeping,” the agency added.
“We are taking the appropriate action to ensure this will never happen again and that only true emergencies are sent as alerts in the middle of the night.”
LOL!
Hopefully that cock-up prompted all savvy Floridians to disable future alerts on their phones! Bit of an own goal there methinks…lol
“It comes just a couple of years after governments all over the world used an “emergency” that was actually an infectious disease for which health services were ill prepared…”
Correction, health services were well prepared. To all intents and purposes we were made to suffer a manufactured ‘flu season and nothing more. Even if the “pandemic” had been real perfectly sensible plans existed to deal with any emergency but these were abandoned to allow for commencement of the reset.
I do agree that whatever guise the authority figures are scamming under I no longer trust them. My view is that the correct procedure is to do the exact opposite of anything authorities dictate.
They did the same emergency test to cell phones in the US yesterday. So nice to know we are all in lockstep.
“BuzzFeed Is Quietly Publishing Whole AI-Generated Articles, Not Just Quizzes”
“Dr, I’m having some serious issues with my marriage!”
“Then, I suggest you ask your washing machine for advise!, if that fails, ask your fridge freezer, I’ve noticed they seem to be a bit more sensible!”
Ai writing articles??? Ffs
Thank goodness Buzzfeed are closing down and good riddance!
It’s highly alarming what AI is capable of now. Have a look at this – two tech guys discuss AI and its capabilities in front of a tech audience. I haven’t watched it all yet but it was mentioned by Paul Kingsnorth the novelist in his newsletter ‘The Abbey of Misrule’ as a very chilling revelation about how far AI has already come and yet still no checks on its progress. About 50% of AI tech developers think that there is a 10% chance that AI will aim to wipe out the human race – quite alarming, eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ
Hurray! Look what I found.
This’ll be getting watched over the weekend;
https://odysee.com/@IvorCummins:f/V.For.Vendetta-2005-DvDrip-Eng–aXXo:3
Strewth, whatever would the pious Guido have made of it?
So, here I am on a west coast of Scotland island reading the local newspaper which contains a large article about the centenary of the local WI. The women are all older and pleasant looking and work hard to keep the organisation going and help the local community. Somehow I feel they are not ready for new members like Shanu Varma so it’ll be interesting to see what happens to the WI in the next few years as the various competitions become woke. Their annual general meetings will be quite different too.
And there you have it. The venerable Women’s Institute, long a backbone of middle England and common sense will be destroyed from within on the back of ‘trans rights.’ All perfectly in keeping with Agenda 2030 which requires the destruction of our societies in order to build back better.
A possible reason why The Guardian is publishing articles hostile to China ( ref its lockdowns, despite earlier praise for them ) is that the West is gearing up for war with China, so it has to be “othered”.
Yes….exactly so…they did it with Russia as well.…..
……and why the phone alerts, exactly now,….as well?
Two hundred US troops have just landed in Taiwan to ‘assist in military training’ because of ‘increasing tensions with China’…….(which the 200 foreign troops of a self-confessed enemy of China will do nothing to help, I’m sure!)
also this week….after they offered the US expanded military bases in the region…and having also just finished the largest joint military drills with the USA…China has accused the Philippines of de-stabilising the region…
While The Global South countries (BRICS) look as though they may overtake the G7 countries in terms of GDP in the near future….the EU and the West generally seem to be sticking with self imposed de-industrialisation..while still thinking they can dictate ‘ the rules based order’ to the ‘rest of the world’…?
More countries are trying to ditch the petro-dollar …and even Janet Yellen has recently said that ‘de-coupling’ from China would be disastrous for the US..and also (haha) that sanctions on Russia may be harming the US dollar!
While, in other news relating to Ukraine, the US and allies are now talking about stopping Russian exports entirely..everything..full stop!…..so good luck with that!
So yes, we are certainly living in at one of history’s turning points I think….
At the very least this exercise is in the long chain of messages saying “Be alarmed!”
It has the advantage that you make up your own fears about what threat may be behind it, from nuclear war to alien invasion. None of which you can do anything about, apart from worry when reminded.
Well, just playing Devil’s Advocate here, but perhaps in some parts of the world such an emergency alert could be useful, e.g parts of the U.S that are prone to get hit by hurricanes, Japan where earthquakes are more common, Australia with their Bush fires etc.. And to be fair, unlike hurricanes and storms, earthquakes don’t tend to give you much warning. I just think these things should be looked at on a country by country basis as to what use would this system actually be. More useful in countries prone to natural disaster, less so in places like the UK and mainland Europe where there’s less of a threat. We’ve had it in the NL for years but, apart from the bi-annual test alarm they do, I can just remember a fire or two being warned about on the alert system. In my opinion this text alert is completely redundant for the vast majority of people. Where’s the justification for the UK government doing it? That’s what I’d like to know. Just to copy other countries? Seems an extremely lame explanation. If it doesn’t provide benefit then it’s at best pointless, at worst it’s for something dodgy.
Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Basil_Barnhill
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/when-madmen-lead-the-blind/
A brilliant piece from John Ellwood over at TCW. He quotes from a recent speech by Archbishop Vigano:
“The NWO is fostering ‘a dystopian society, without past and without future, without faith and without ideals, without culture and without art, without fathers and mothers, without family and spirituality, without teachers and spiritual guides, without either respect for the elderly or hopes for our children . . .
‘The recent pandemic farce – conducted with criminal methods that I have not hesitated to denounce since the beginning of 2020 – has been followed by new emergencies, including the Ukrainian crisis, deliberately provoked with the aim of destroying the social and economic fabric of nations, devastating the world population, concentrating control in the hands of an oligarchy that no one has elected and that has perpetrated a real world coup d’état, for which sooner or later it will be called to answer before the world.
‘The theorists of this coup have names and faces, starting with George Soros, Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates . . .
‘It is the kingdom of the Antichrist. This Leviathan must be identified and combated, with an action that involves all free peoples, first of all by rejecting the programmatic points of the Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset with shared initiatives.
‘We need an Anti-Globalist Alliance which returns to citizens the power that has been taken from them, and to nations the sovereignty eroded and ceded to the Davos lobby.’
As the Earl of Gloucester said in King Lear: ‘Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.’ “
https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/20/hunger-profiteers-granny-killers-and-skin-deep-morality/
An excellent article from Colin Todhunter at Off-G. How the Davos Deviants are starving populations worldwide. It commences in uncompromising fashion:
“Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition.”
Despite this opening Todhunter makes clear that Western nations are also at risk with millions in the US facing acute hunger. A grim future is being rolled out.