If, through your own actions you were primarily responsible for the virtual bankruptcy of the U.K., how delighted would you be if most people blamed someone else? That’s the position we’re in. The Government may indeed be a ‘kakistocracy’ – government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens – but they’re a crafty lot with a particular knack for deflecting blame.
According to a recent YouGov poll, three times more Britons blame the war in Ukraine rather than other factors for the cost of living crisis.
You don’t have to look very far in the media to find stories that lay the blame for the cost-of-living crisis on the rise in energy prices and that, in turn, on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But is this true?
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th 2022. It came as a surprise and largely caught the world off-guard.
The ‘energy price cap’, a policy stolen from the Labour Party by the Tories after they’d soundly derided it, was first established in January 2019. It wasn’t needed. It represented another encroachment of the supposedly ‘free market’ Tories into a free market. If people were too uninterested to shop around for lower gas and electricity prices, what business was it of the Government? It wasn’t as if lower priced deals were hidden from view – they were widely advertised and switching was easy.
The decision as to the level of the ‘energy price cap’ that would prevail from April 1st 2022 was announced on February 3rd 2022, three weeks prior to the invasion. Consequently, the 54% increase in the energy price cap that came into effect on April 1st 2022, increasing the average household energy bill to £1,971 per year from £1,277, was not directly influenced by the invasion at all.
It wasn’t until the October 1st when the ‘energy price guarantee’ became effective that any direct consequences of the Ukrainian invasion filtered through to residential energy prices. The increase, effective from October 1st, amounted to 6.5%. That’s right, with the headline inflation rate currently at over 10%, the consequences of the invasion has actually been to slightly moderate inflation.
In the absence of the £400 rebate, payable to all households, the average increase would have been 27%, but once the £400 is taken into account the increase reduces to 6.5%.
Of course, there were some secondary consequences affecting the cost of living from the invasion of Ukraine. Commercial gas prices went up and some commodities increased in price, which have contributed to inflationary pressures. But of course the principal driver of inflation has been the orgy of money printing that Rishi Sunak oversaw as Chancellor during the disastrous Covid overreaction.
Gas prices have now fallen back to a position around 25% higher than when the invasion occurred.
Petrol prices are about 10% higher now than they were at the time of the invasion.
Clearly, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has helped to push up some prices but the impact on the cost of living has, in aggregate, been below the headline rate of inflation.
Let’s just look at what happened to the U.K. inflation rate around the time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
I’ve lifted the chart from the Spectator. It perfectly illustrates that from mid-2021, when the Covid restrictions were finally lifted, inflation had already taken off as people rushed out to spend all the cash the Government had printed paying people to sit at home not working. There wasn’t a flicker in the trajectory of the upwards rise in inflation. Russia wasn’t to blame, Brexit wasn’t to blame, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s budget wasn’t to blame; the primary responsibility lies with Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.
In the same way that we can’t lay the blame for our 10%-plus inflation rate at the door of Putin, neither can we blame the WHO, the IMF, the World Bank or even the EU. No, we have to look closer to home – our very own ‘kakistocratic’ Government and the vast majority of our own population who went along with it and whose only complaint was that there weren’t more and harsher restrictions sooner and longer.
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“I am from the government and I am here to help”
Ronnie Reagan. The nine most terrifying words in the English language. How prescient he was!
Ed Dowd dropping some unpleasant data-shaped truth bombs, this time focusing on excess deaths in kids in the UK;
”According to yearly excess death data, available at phinancetechnologies.com, the years 2020 and 2021 had negative excess mortality rates, at -9% and -7%, respectively. This means that the death rate among children in that age group was less than anticipated for those years.
These rates dramatically shifted to 16% more deaths than anticipated in 2022 and a projected 22% more deaths than anticipated in 2023. Dowd blamed this rise in mortality on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout for this age group, which commenced in September 2021 for 12 to 15-year-olds and April 2022 for 5 to 11-year-olds.”
https://vigilantnews.com/post/excess-mortality-just-got-even-worse-ed-dowd-drops-alarming-new-data
Smoking, meet gun.
Too true, True!
The definition of cancer:
Cancer is a disease in which some of the body’s cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of the body.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/what-is-cancer#:~:text=DNA%20repair%20genes%20are%20involved,the%20cells%20to%20become%20cancerous.
Would it be fair to conclude that mRNA vaccines are a form of cancer?
It would be interesting to see some other research into this phenomenon and see what the extra death rate is according to vaccine status. The conclusions that could be drawn from the article suggests, as you do, that these vaccines could have an adverse effect on life expectancy of those who had the jab.
Yes and no. It depends on un-scientific factors, with politicians and monetarists et al being the servants, or sailors. Part of the problem is that some of the practitioners pretend to be apolitical, but in reality they can’t be with certain types of work. Taking account of the financial interests of them may be a good place to start from.
The reference to HIV was interesting – I remember reading years and years ago about some theories that HIV was a ‘by’ product of some vaxx testing in Africa. Now I wonder if it was not a first stab at depopulation, that the same culprits have now tried to improve on and try again. HIV seems to have originated in Africa, as SARS seems to have originated in China, both with enormous populations. These days I discount nothing.
As for only half of the vaxxees suffering from long-term spike / IgG4 class switch, this could be down to individual differences, it could also be as simple as some people got a hot dose, some a placebo, or a lot of people got degraded, expired sludge. It is disgraceful that 3 years out they still don’t know why only some people suffer these problems and cannot determine between 3 options what is causing the problem.
“It should have been tested before mandating” – it should have been tested before being given on a voluntary basis to anyone in the general population. Next time they come up with a ‘vaxx to save the world’, we must insist that those producing it and those wishing to stab people (politicians and public health officials), take it first and let us await the outcome for 3 years.
Good spot. HIV did arise from stabs originally in Africa. As with the mRNA they reverse transcripted a genetic change – probably by accident via the stabs (their underlying premises of what caused AIDs was and is ridiculous). An accident? Maybe not. HIV Potions have garnered $150 billion since the 1980s, funding for the same is often greater than that for cancer….for a disease they created.
I told friends and family from the start that they’d run the risk of becoming spike producing zombies, if they got the gene-therapy.
Simple logic and risk/benefit analysis.
Wow, just lovely! The “gift” that keeps on giving. And by “gift”, I mean CURSE.
How will the purveyors of these vile concoctions ever live this down?
They continue to lie, nothing to see here, move on, etc.
Seems an appropriate place to post this article on spike detox protocols
https://rightsfreedoms.wordpress.com/2021/12/21/detoxification-protocol-against-graphene-oxide-and-body-magnetism/
…if I thought any of them would listen!!
Posted this BTL today, from Dr Peter McCullough…
https://vigilantnews.com/post/first-ever-spike-detox-protocol-appears-in-medical-journal-heres-how-you-can-get-better
Nattokinase, Bromelain, and Curcumin indeed. Don’t forget NAC. Niacin, and Vitamin C as well.
Those are included in the article I posted the link to.
We’re all on the same page here! Want to help others to heal. Once they come over to this side, they don’t go back to the dark side. We need to welcome them with love, care & kindness.
His protocol is included in the article.
And what if those that are producing the spike protein donate their blood for transfusions?
I am due an operation on Monday and for that there are usually 2 units of blood on standby. I have specifically stated that I will not allow any blood to be given to me.
I seem to recall that Prof Bhakdi warned that the spike protein would continually replicate ad infinitum not long after they were first launched.
I certainly remember him warning that “if you have the initial two jabs, for goodness sake don’t have a third.”
HE knew.
My ex’s sister is still recovering from a stroke/blood clots that have hospitalised her for months at the age of 50 – previously fit and healthy. Apparently she didn’t want to take any, but her children talker her into it. She only had two in the end. Persuading him that there was a connection to the vax is tricky, but he did at least listen.