A Treasury source has claimed that tax rises across the board are needed to plug the “£50 billion fiscal hole left by Liz Truss’s disastrous tenure”, reports Madeline Grant in the Telegraph. Hmm, so the country’s fiscal problems were all created in Truss’s brief few weeks in charge? The source continued: “After borrowing hundreds of billions of pounds through COVID-19, spending cuts alone won’t be enough.” That sounds more like it. Grant writes:
The prospect of tax hikes alarms most of us and terrifies the poorest households. But it’s scarcely surprising. If anything, I’m more surprised by the surprise. It’s reminiscent of that episode of Fawlty Towers when Basil argues with an unruly guest who’s been complaining about the view from her room. “May I ask you what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window?” he snaps. “Sydney Opera House perhaps, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?” May I ask what people expected to see after shuttering the entire economy for the thick end of two years, printing money to pay millions of people to stay at home?
During lockdown, the electorate was led to believe that we could borrow endlessly without consequence; that money-printing was nothing to worry about and someone else would foot the bill if necessary. The whole period didn’t just cross a Rubicon in what the state believed it could get away with, it irrevocably transformed how people viewed the state. There remains an odd amnesia about the whole period; a reluctance to deal with the lockdown hangover. It’s as if nobody wants to hear that their lengthy furlough now has to be paid for, or that you can’t repeatedly switch a sophisticated 21st-century society on and off like a computer without disastrous, unpredictable consequences.
And the fantasyland it seems continues, as a new poll finds large parts of the public clamouring for new restrictions this winter. As many as 42% back the return of social distancing, while 20% want to reimpose the Rule of Six immediately and over 60% want mask mandates back on public transport.
In fact, if the polls are to be believed, many of us would do it all over again. A YouGov survey this week shows the same lingering authoritarianism; and perhaps, some of that same naivety about trade-offs. When asked about the potential return of Covid measures, 42% of respondents supported the return of social distancing, while one in five wanted to reimpose the Rule of Six immediately. Over 60% wanted mask-mandates on public transport. Taking the tube to work, I see no more than one or two masked faces per week – so why don’t more of the public just wear them if it means that much to them? Perhaps it’s because the real attraction isn’t so much about reducing transmission, but controlling other people’s lives.
I can’t help noticing that many of those now railing against spending cuts are precisely the same people who shouted down anyone who warned of the economic consequences of lockdown or questioned the severity of the measures at the time. Similarly, many MPs and pundits, having vociferously opposed “irresponsible” uncosted tax cuts, now condemn planned spending cuts with equal vigour. There’s absolutely “no fat” left to trim in the public sector, they lament. Many are already pivoting from denouncing Trussonomics to reframing government spending, à la Gordon Brown, as necessary “investment” that will somehow boost growth – even if it is simply being poured into dysfunctional public services.
I know it’s a YouGov poll, so pinch of salt time, but even so the results are astounding: 75% want the return of mandatory isolation for the sick and 65% of mandatory testing for the symptomatic; 49% want masks enforced in all indoor spaces versus just 43% against. The vaccine programme remains popular as well, with 71% saying they’d be likely to take a booster if offered one this winter, including 63% of 25-49 year-olds (who aren’t being offered one). However, perhaps an indication of how skewed the poll is is that while 89% of over-65s say they are likely to get an autumn booster, the actual booster rate in the age group is flattening out at around 70%. That’s a big difference.
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The evidence that the establishment is horribly corrupt and self serving is overwhelming.
The main obstacle to meaningful change is a public that fears the disorder and uncertainty that would come from change much more than it fears the abuse and predatory behaviour of the establishment.
What we are really up against is a public that doesn’t want to know.
The really frightening thing, is if this approach is taken, this thoroughly corrupt, unscrupulous company, is only one small (easily made undetectable) manufactured accident away from manufacturing another $70 billion. And we are just supposed to simply trust they wouldn’t do that.
Isn’t there disorder and uncertainty now because of the behaviour of the Establishment?
An odd thing to lie about if he’s just trying to impress his date. Hopefully the Republican controlled part of the Senate can use this to investigate. Get him and his boss in and ask them about it under oath. But I won’t be holding my breath.
Also for what it’s worth the MSM pretending this doesn’t exist tells me everything I need to know about it’s authenticity.
Senator Rubio has sent a letter to Dr Bourla.
https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=49178C21-9535-41E1-B484-DA62705568DA
That’s a great post.
Lets add to the above the fact the Daily Mail wrote on it then scrubbed it from their articles.
So that’s how deep they control things. It only took an hour or so for them to shut down the DM.
Now shouldn’t we be able to find out who made the call?
Im sensing some panic now. I think they thought they could just keep up the Psyop and push on through to phase 2. Davos indicates to me they are nervous. The game plan needed these injections to at least not hurt people too much.
Also the silence around the end of pushing jabs on healthy Brits under 50 is amazing.
Still I think my normy friends are just embarrassed to say anything now. No one likes to be this badly duped. Most people don’t want to ponder the consequences of the scale of this operation of deception. It’s hard to be red pilled.
In what way is Mr Walker unfortunate? He told the truth; I’m sure the Fact Checkers will be very impressed with him
I don’t watch any legacy media or go to any of their sites, but in the last couple of days I’ve taken one for the team and spent a while browsing the Mail and Express web sites. If that’s where people get their news they would have absolutely no idea of what is going on. No mention of dropping jabs for under 50s and certainly no mention that a Phizer Director has suggested that they are cooking up variants in their labs. The stranglehold on the media is absolute.
Did you read the comments at the Mail? I go to the DM all the time, not for the articles, which are filled with mistakes and just regurgitation of Reuter feeds and gossip tidbits put out by PR agents of “reality stars”, but for the comments. It probably has one of the most open comment sites in MSM (I’m sure they do still censor, but perhaps less than others).
The comments on vaxx-related articles are pretty clear – there is great scepticism, cynicism, distrust and anger. None of them are taking any more jabs, a lot know about the PV video. There may be one or two genuine hold-outs, but by and large the only positive comments are by people who are quite obviously paid to post their piss-poor comments.
The change from when the vaxx first came out is pretty vast – in March 2021 people were literally boasting about how ill the vaxx had made them, in some cases even putting them in hospital – that just proved how well it was working. It was like a Monty Python skit. The tide has definitely changed.
I didn’t get as far as the comments – not sure I have the strength to go back in there! I think you are right though from what I have seen elsewhere. People are waking up one at a time but it is not reflected in the media output.
The comments on YT are also gold and a great reflection of public opinion. For instance, the comments under the latest John Campbell vid I shared say it all really. It seems his followers have all been red-pilled along with him. I remember at the start when him and his fan club were all massive Covidians and clot shot zealots. Amazing really. I think it takes a critical mass of people learning the hard way for meaningful change to actually take place.
I agree but you do have to be careful about treating comments as a bellwether. Yes they show the way the wind is blowing, but I suspect there tends to be more of a binary switch to the prevailing comments than is a true reflection of opinion. I suspect once a certain volume of opinion is reached, much of the opposing view get crowded out and switch away. This works both ways. I always thought there was more opposition to lockdown and the vaccines during the pandemic proper than the comments appeared to show. But now things have switched around, I suspect the reverse is true.
Agreed, there was universal online commenting opposition in the runup to the 2011 attack on Libya for example. Made no difference, and the public polls suggested 80% of the public supported the attack. You could argue the polls were faked but anecdotally the people I knew who read the print media were in favour.
Sometimes satire isn’t so obvious. You’ve maybe seen this short piece that’s gone viral now. I read it as 100% satire anyways but some people aren’t so sure, reading the comments section. Actually the responses in the comments is the best part. An excerpt;
“As the world struggles to come to terms with the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, one question that continues to surface is why the unvaccinated didn’t do more to warn us about the potential dangers of being injected.
While well intending citizens lined up, did the right thing, and received their COVID19 vaccinations — now seeming to do more harm than good — their unvaccinated friends stood by and let them do it. Some of them said too little. Some said nothing at all.
Even though they knew what we didn’t.
Our blood is now on their hands.”
https://iqfy.com/unvaccinated-silence/
I’m calling this kind of thing a “deep spoof.”
It’s got the whiff of Babylon Bee humour all over it, lol.
There are some very funny articles on that website.
Does this article contain misinformation? I very much suspect that Mr Walker is now an ex-Pfizer executive
It doesn’t really matter if the video is a set-up. More and more people have been getting the uncomfortable feeling that something isn’t right for some time now. They know the excess mortality numbers are real, and don’t buy the continued claim that the authorities have no idea what is causing it – although they absolutely beyond any shadow of a doubt know that it is not the vaxx, also known by the scientific term “ABV”.
Drip drip admissions of myocarditis, heart attacks and now strokes due to the vaxx, after denying for so long – after all the lies most people simply won’t believe the authorities/Pfizer anymore. The fact that so few people are willing to take the poison anymore, even though it is still recommended, says they don’t trust what they’re being told.
I reckon we are going to start seeing Pfizer get the treatment that the unvaxxed got last year. Good, they really should be excluded from society, along with their fellow big pharma poison peddlers and the enabling regulators.
I expect Mr Walker is firmly under lock and key in some Governmental Institution.
This was the final straw.
The
Final
Straw
If these psychopathic degenerates think we’re going to sit idly by as they try and rape humanity they are deluded.
The butterfly is flapping its wings.
Entropy is increasing.
HUMANITY IS NOW IN OPEN WAR WITH YOU, YOU FILTHY SCUM OF THE EARTH.
Katherine Watt’s take on it all;
”In my view, the truth is that DOD and Pharma are jointly “in the business” of engineering and manipulating public fear of viruses for the purpose of developing population control weapons falsely labeled as preventatives, treatments and management tools: bioweapon [vaxx] passports and CBDCs tied to bioweapon [vaxx] submission.
Don’t fall for the fear campaign psy-op and informational weapons being circulated by Project Veritas (probably as unwilling, unwitting participants who just want to get scoops) and spun up by other people whose words have the effect of directing public anger away from DOD/HHS/US Gov/WHO and toward expendable Big Pharma.
Pharma must be prosecuted, for sure.
But Pharma could not have pulled off its part of the crime without the US Gov/DOD/HHS/WHO/BIS orchestration.”
Links to some other good substacks covering this topic.
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/a-little-more-on-the-laser-pointerlimited
How are we seeing this footage if the iPad it was recorded on was “destroyed”???
The icloud….
What is horrifying to me is that mentally fragile, narcissistic charlatans like him can rise to the position he occupies (or did until this little one act play ended) in this day and age. It’s no surprise that this is what Pfizer are contemplating. But what is funny is that the “victim’s” response looks like he is straight out of a badly scripted drama that he saw on Netflix, for example. The hubris, the angst, the drama. The clutching of pearls. The pathetically weak and ineffectual demonstration of physical aggression. The declaration that he was only doing what ‘normal’ men do on a date. The playing of the race card. It was all so hilariously hammy and clunky that it can only be true. Nice one Project Veritas.
My view remains the same as when I first saw the video yesterday:
Walker is a comparatively junior scientist with only a limited view of what is going on in the company, but who was seeking to impress with his ‘inside knowledge’ after having been plied with a few drinks.
Take that sort of witness at what they are worth.
Yep Walker’s a fool, and I have doubts as to how much he really knows. But he may well have useful insights into what is going on within the company; nevertheless, we have to be careful not to put too much reliance on everything he says.
Sceptics always seek corroboration.
Agreed. We can’t call ourselves sceptics if we accept stuff at face value just because it suits OUR narrative.
Director of Research and Development – Strategic Operations, mRNA Scientific Planner… Doesn’t sound too “junior” to me!
How’s he supposed to conduct R&D if he has a limited view of what is going on in the company? Someone in his position must be absolutely up to speed on the latest developments – and have detailed knowledge of them, otherwise his job is pointless.
In my experience most people in R&D actually have quite a limited view of wider company affairs, rather they are concentrated on their own areas of expertise, often to the point of not understanding how those areas actually fit into a wider picture.
So far there has been no suggestion of any legal action. Until there is any legal action taken against Project Veritas one can make the assumption that what he said is the truth.
People love to make up great job titles for themselves, and pretend to be something greater than they are. Seen it a thousand times.
Walker does not appear to have the maturity our nous required to fill a senior position. That’s not to say he doesn’t work there or doesn’t know anything of course.
Maybe you’re right. But if this is true it lends credence to the authenticity of the video, at least. If you wanted to fake an interview ostensibly exposing a pharma exec, wouldn’t you pick a more educated-sounding bloke and dress him in a suit and tie and look all business-like?
The script is truly bizarre for a faked interview.
To steal a comment from Rumble:
When I’m on a date I always lie about gain of function too. Thats how you get another date.
Obvious diversity hires – black? tick gay? tick midget? tick -are perfectly capable of listening and repeating.
It is certainly real. I am surprised that so many doubt it. It is like they believe that the people running the show couldn’t possibly be that crass and stupid and lacking in discretion. They really can be and it isn’t rocket science to see why they have become so emboldened. It is bad enough to admit to yourself that there is a cabal of evil geniuses in charge but it is even more squalid to admit that you are ruled by the likes of this character, There is a term in Vedic philosohpy called Vibhatsya or self-disgust that is believed to lie at the root of depression. Vibuhatysa is one of the nine rasas or emotional mellows.
It still doesn’t really matter if the video is genuine or not. The description of so-called GOF research is accurate: It’s about trying to make viruses more dangerous to human via gene-editing using the pretext that this enables creating vaccines against these more dangerous viruses should a similar mutation appear naturally. At best, this is hair-brained as natural viruses reproduce quickly and in vast number and hence, they’ll always outcompete humans wrt testing viable mutations. At worst, this nothing but thinly camouflaged experimental bioweapon construction based on the (faint) hope that humans can devise something that’s both viable and effective (ie, more dangerous) which couldn’t occur naturally for some reason.
We just pass remarks back and forth that we know that we all agree with on this page. Of course this gives a certain sense of assurance and we have enough clever clogs and warriors to keep our islands alive I am convinced of that. The bulk or rump of the population has no idea about any of this I mean none at all. So given that the dam is breaking we have to calibrate the release to bring about the most beneficial result. I don’t really care if my next door neighbours are sad sacks of shit I believe that circumstances will arise in the next few months which will make all superfluos talk come to an end.
When I saw the first video, I thought no way has he got, what seems to be described as, a high profile job. Then I pulled myself together when I remembered watching, with disbelief, the behaviour of a recent prime minister – Boris Johnson. Proof indeed that some are promoted to roles way above their competence and social skills.
If you could make money on the way up and way down and introduce this or that to maximise profits – this is child’s play. I don’t even know why there is ajny lack of understanding given the business model. The question is, if you are that easily duped, do you deserve to be a victim of the genocide? You want to pay close attention to that because that is their MO. They talked about it in the 1980s, about a disease and then a vaccine would be essentially be an IQ test. They calculated wrong though because a lot od high IQ people have a very strong moral sense.But I am fairly certain about the calibration about the vaccine and its uptake.
Funny and horrifying at the same time. But really this is exactly the sort of thing that the Times muppets should be investigating and reporting. A reminder: this story has echoes of the behaviour by Pfizer reported in the Independent in 2014 by Oliver Wright (see links), who now works for the Times muppets. These people can censor all they like, but some of us still have hard copies of the newspapers etc. documenting the corruption in big pharma over many years.
Big Pharma lobbyists exploit patients and doctors | The Independent | The Independent
Revealed: Big Pharma’s hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses ‘wealth to influence government’ | The Independent | The Independent
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P.S. I hope Toby has done his darndest to make the Times muppets regret their slur against people in this comments section!
Pfizer were manipulating viruses? Well who’d of thought?
When the WHO declared the pandemic it meant pharmaceuticals could give their vaccines to the public without the years of testing. Bill Gates is a big donor for the WHO. The WEF book about the Great Reset was published just 3 months after the pandemic was declared and on page 33 is this: “…just to provide a broad and oversimplified example, the containment of the coronavirus pandemic will necessitate a global surveillance network capable of identifying new outbreaks as soon as they arise…”
I’m not convinced. You can’t actually watch the video of the “doctor” attacking the reporter via the link in the article. Maybe they have it and took it down but all you get when you click on the link is the headline and a bunch of other videos about US stories that also look dodge. In the interview itself, the guy looks off hushed on something and I guess he’s on what he thinks is a date.
“it depends on whether we come to our senses.”
Well so far…. fat chance.
I spotted this in New Scientist from November 2019 – just before “the pandemic”.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432582-900-why-the-medicine-you-take-could-actually-be-bad-for-your-health/
This was the cover article in the paper version of the magazine that week.
The article is very revealing about the medicines approval process….especially this sentence:
“Since 2006, the EMA has been able to grant a ‘conditional marketing authorisation’ to new drugs that treat serious or rare disorders or respond to a public health emergency, but may not meet the standard level of evidence that they work.”
The article is headed “Why the Medicine You Take Could Actually be Bad for Your Health”. The cover of the magazine has a graphic that lists potential reasons for that, including “potentially deadly side effects”.
Like myocarditis, I guess.
The video of the sting taken down by YouTube for violating their rules. Will not say which rule though.
Maybe it is the hidden rule that says they, YouTube, must remain deep inside the rear end of Big Pharma – and destroy anything that could hurt their profits.
Truth makes no difference in a World where the liars are in complete control.
When the Catholic Church excommunicated (cancelled) Galileo and brought him before the Church Court, it wasn’t because he was spreading ‘misinformation’, in fact the Church from its own scholars knew he was right. It was because he threatened the Church’s authority, without which they would lose power and control.
The truth was no protection because the Church controlled all. Galileo lost his reputation, his job, was rejected by friends even members of his own family. When worse was threatened, gaol, torture, he was forced to recant.
Those who would control us, tell us lies to get our compliance so they can have power over us. They will do anything to prevent the truth undermining their authority and stopping that control.