The writer is in Australia.
As regular readers will well know I have despised what Governments around the democratic world did to us for two-plus years during the Covid pandemic (not including the Governments of Sweden or Florida or a handful of other U.S. states but including all others). It was despotic, thuggish and overwhelmingly flew in the face of the data – data we had at the time, to be clear. Also culpable were the preponderance of the doctorly caste and the vast majority of journalists who exhibited zero scepticism and became barely better than PR, fearmongering agents for the Government, not too unlike Pravda in that regard. And not just the ABC either but big swathes of Sky TV journalists and those writing for the Australian too (all but a Steve Waterson here and an Adam Creighton there). As I’ve said before, it was an honour and a privilege to have been associated as a regular writer with the Spectator Australia because we came out against the lockdowns from virtually day one and never wavered – these policies were wrong on the data; wrong in principle for any society with a passing commitment to freedom and civil liberties; wrong in terms of sensible decision-making in conditions of great uncertainty because in those times you don’t jump to the ‘perceived least risk for just this one threat, a sort of precautionary principle on steroids’ approach, instead you just continue with the laid-down plans you have (the way Sweden did, which as I write has the OECD’s lowest cumulative excess deaths from the start of the pandemic – yes, Australia has a lot more excess deaths, meaning dead people because of what we did, and ours are running at about 15% above expectations, the journalists and governments have just stopped talking about it because they caused it) and wait for more data.
I could go on and on because to be honest I am still seething mad at what the political class did to us. And they did it to us without taking a pay cut. Without suffering anything like what those who were young suffered, what those who were poor suffered, and what those who were outside ‘the laptop class’ suffered. Their claims that ‘we’re all in this together’ were patent lies and anyone with a half-functioning brain could see as much. But it became plain that there was unlikely to be any consequences, any retribution, for all of this cancelling of critics, outrageous slurs about being ‘granny killers’, turning people into snitches of their neighbours and friends, weaponising of the police into thugs, and a lot more. Alas, any inquiry or royal commission would be, at best, three parts whitewash to one part mild and hesitant ‘with the benefit of hindsight we might have done a few peripheral things better’ type outcome. Sure, 10 years from now this would widely be seen in the terms the Speccie Australia stated from virtually day one, the worst public policy fiasco in two or three centuries. But we lockdown sceptics weren’t likely to get much else.
And then a week or two ago Matt Hancock proved that cynicism to be wrong. If readers don’t know, Hancock was the Health Minister in Britain through virtually the entirety of Covid. A while back he approached the U.K. journalist Isabel Oakeshott to ghost-write his memoirs or book on the Covid years. To do this Hancock gave her all of his encrypted WhatsApp texts to everyone that mattered during the entire pandemic years. Oakeshott wrote the book and then, even though she’d promised not to, she gave the entirety of these WhatsApp texts to the U.K. Telegraph. My take is that the Telegraph is covering itself in glory publishing these texts. And the various journalists criticising Oakeshott for ‘betraying’ Hancock (and for doing her job, really) are the very same ones who didn’t do theirs. For two-plus years. Sure, it’s generally a good rule not to break promises. That has social utility. But it’s not an absolute good nor the only important value in life. There are lots of others. And releasing these texts massively outweighed the promise-keeping virtue here. As Oakeshott said, otherwise there was going to be a whitewash. It was in the public interest for people to see these texts and know that their political class was comprised of charlatans and heartless zealots fired by self-interest, making things up on the fly and continually mouthing ‘this is the Science’ when they knew it simply was guesses, seat-of-pants guesses at that, and cover to look good politically.
You have to read some of these released text messages to believe them. Children made to mask-up when they knew there was no scientific evidence, none, for doing so but the politics were good. Top bureaucrats laughing at people who would have to go from business class flights into pokey little hotel rooms for weeks on end. The explicit targeting of sceptics and dissenters, including some of the best epidemiologists in the world, to discredit them and have them silenced because that was undercutting the pollies’ messaging – no mention of truth, notice. When they were told various idiotic rules had no utility they carried on with them because to do otherwise might make them look bad. Seriously, go and read these WhatsApp revelations because we citizens can never again trust these (what’s the word I’m looking for? Two syllables. Might start with an ‘f’).
It will be extra tough reading for those whose small businesses were destroyed. Or those with children whose lives were ruined. (And yes we knew from day one that the chances of a healthy person under 30 dying from Covid was less than one one-thousandth that of someone over 75. It was essentially zero. They knew it too.) Or those who resisted useless mandates. Well, it’ll be cold comfort reading these texts but do it. Because all of us labelled ‘conspiracy theorists’ were right on almost everything. And the whole ‘fact-checking’ industry is nothing more than partisan opinion claims, often worse and verging on a propaganda operation, on behalf of out-of-control government. Laugh at the mere mention of ‘fact checkers’.
Project Fear succeeded because we citizens let it. Never again can it happen. We should shame every MP who played this game and perpetuated this disgusting thuggery and illiberal anti-science that have destroyed people.
Again, Australia right now has sky-high excess deaths. If the goal of lockdowns was to save more lives than it cost then it has failed miserably on its own terms. The incredible stupidity of Hancock in being so arrogant that it never occurred to him not to give away otherwise encrypted texts (which made the writers more forthcoming than otherwise) has done us all a huge favour. And every single Australian knows in his or her heart that our own politicians were no different than Britain’s – no less self-serving, focused on PR and fearmongering, clueless on the data, afraid to stand up to the worst elements of the modelling class, etc. Read ‘em and weep readers.
James Allan is the Garrick Professor of Law at Queensland University. This article first appeared in Spectator Australia.
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We wouldn’t lose sight of the fact that something of this magnitude isn’t perpetrated by politicians alone.
Bug social upheavals happen thanks to a coalition of interests.
In this case, politicians, media, big pharma, big tech, bureaucrats and a powerful clique within the scientific community colluded to create this nightmare. Their interests were aligned and almost certainly coordinated at some level.
Yes, let’s do all we can to demonise and if possible hold the politicians to account. But let’s not forget it was much more than them.
There was a wide field of commercial opportunism, tolerated by a somewhat supine general public, unfortunately. We haven’t seen the last of that yet.
Your point is well made when you refer to the UK citizens as supine. The general public is becoming increasingly apathetic in terms of not taking an interest in elections, lacking self discipline and being prepared for the state to do their thinking for them.
Meanwhile the ‘progressive’ classes undermine our moral principles of patriotism and caring for each other and sow seeds of mistrust and disorder through creating cultural clashes like the trans business and this undermines decent society.
Permitting minorities to shout the loudest and get political traction when their ideology is flawed should not be tolerated but when most politicians are in it for the financial rewards and popularity, the public are getting the representation they deserve.
Milton Friedman said over 40 years ago on his brilliant TV show, Free to Choose (which you can find on Youtube) that the bigger government gets, the more Big Business runs it. Government is the biggest it’s ever been and Larry Fink is consequently pretty much the most powerful man in the world.
UK government is smallest it has ever been (last sell-off to the so-called private sector was Royal Mail) and that’s why big business controls ever more of our lifes. I don’t know anything about Friedman’s economic writing (I do know that all economic science ultimatively goes back to the works of Karl Marx who invented the subject and hence, that all economists are Marxists to varying degrees) but this remark shows an almost complete ignorance of the history of European culture: Governments were much bigger in the past, even in the fairly recent past (neoliberalism didn’t really take off as political ideology until the 1980s), yet, they weren’t run by big business (except maybe in the USA). I also know that that’s just Friedmann coming out almost as card-carrying Marxist: The state is bad beause it’s nothing but an oppression machinery controlled by the capitalists aka big business. Marx already wrote that in the 19th century and self-declared Marxis have proclaiming it ever since.
The statement is also not online historically illiterate and not-so-covertly Marxist, but also in direct contradiction to fairly recent events: As the state controlled all of the economy in the so-called communist block, it was obviously much bigger than any ‘western’ state could ever become. As per Friedmann, it must have been controlled by big businnes then. Which didn’t exist, because the state ran all but the smallest businesses.
And recent events: China. Still a proto-communist state with an overbearing and every powerful bureaucracy. But certainly not controlled by big business.
OTOH, never let a snappy politcal theory be ruined by contradicting facts. After all, it’s just about – dammit! – rich people who don’t want to pay taxes. And they really don’t want that.
It not just about what the state directly owns, manages and operates, but the extent to which laws, regulations and regulatory bodies and frameworks intrude on ever more aspects of our daily private and public lives. There’s a government linked committee looking into football FFS!
That’s an entirely different topic, although I already suspected DomH75 might be confusing this, too. The state is sovereign (in practice, this mean he’s the most powerful violent actor and the only one whose violence is legitimate — at least, that’s the nice theory, but I digress) and hence, there are no limits to the power it can exercise over its subjects except those which it’s willing to impose on itself. The question which limits should apply to exercise of state power over state subjects is entirely different from the question whether or not striking railway workers[*] holding commuters hostage in order to blackmail government is really such a great idea that it justified selling off rail services to the highest bidder.
[*] This applies only partially to Britain. In Germany, the railways used to be run and managed by civil service officials (Beamte) who weren’t employed and hence, didn’t have a right to strike: They had sworn that they’ll serve the state and in return for that, the state took responsibilty for them being able to live in decent circumstances until their death.
That’s an entirely different topic, although I already suspected DomH75 might be confusing this, too.
Commie troll! :p 😀
Name-calling in lieu arguments just expresses one’s inability to come up with arguments.
“The state is sovereign (in practice, this mean he’s the most powerful violent actor and the only one whose violence is legitimate — at least, that’s the nice theory, but I digress) and hence, there are no limits to the power it can exercise over its subjects except those which it’s willing to impose on itself.”
The other limit is the extent to which the people tolerate the state’s exercise of power.
Revolutions usually fail unless the armed forces are either insignificant or remain neutral or join the revolution. Eg, the 1848 uprising in Berlin succeeded because the Friedrich Wilhelm IV, much to the chagrin of his generals and of the crown prince, chose to let the revolutionaries keep control of the city instead of ordering the army to conquer it. This is even more true for the generally disarmed populations of western Europe.
In theory, an overwhelming mass of seriously enraged people who are willing to die for their cause can overcome anything. In practice, that’s extremely unlikely to happen.
Indeed, but there are stages before revolution that can make a difference. Best not to let things get that far.
The interesting question here is How is this supposed to work in practice?
During the days of happy pandemicing, it was argued that the right to life would trump all other human rights and that – because Sars-CoV2 was a novel and very deadly virus – the mere physical presence of people in any location who could and would breathe and talk unhampered would illegally endanger other people’s right to life as this would help deadly Sars-CoV2 infections to spread. And hence, all other rights people believed to have could be abolished at will.
This is obviously bogus because the right to life is protected wrt actions of people and people are not capable of controlling movements of viruses (and other pathogens) which might infect their bodies. As they cannot control this, they cannot be held responsible for it, either. However, Corona’s witnesses claimed that this could be controlled by their measures and hence, everybody who didn’t obey their diktats was culpably responsible for spreading very deadly viruses and our political castes just went along with that.
The unfortunate conclusion is that what saved us (for now at least) was that these measures so obviously didn’t work that the argumentation collapsed. That was good luck. I see no way out of this dilemma except that so-disposed people must – under any circumstances – be kept away from any position of power. And that’s something our political systems cannot guarantee because we only really get to know them for what they are once it’s too late for this. And we’re even supposed to act based on the assumption that nobdoy will be this kind of person until proven otherwise.
Mass civil disobedience such as refusing to wear masks and breaking lockdown rules.
That started to happen towards the end and what seemed to me to be the case was that the government started to back pedal just ahead of people simply refusing to comply en masse.
But for a long time it didn’t happen because too many people either believed the propaganda or didn’t have the courage to stick their necks out.
Very clever move to control people by scaring them and telling them you will save them and that they are being virtuous people by complying and keeping others safe
You really do live in a weird, tiny little ideological world. I don’t even know where to begin with such utter garbage.
UK government is smallest it has ever been (last sell-off to the so-called private sector was Royal Mail) and that’s why big business controls ever more of our lifes.
In terms of employees, the British State is vast and all-encompassing. There are a million employees in the NHS alone. More and more state jobs are created every day in local and national government and in associated NGOs. State and business collaborations are the state. Everyday, more and more state influence is felt in our homes.
I don’t know anything about Friedman’s economic writing
So, with respect, why you passing judgement about something you know nothing about?
I do know that all economic science ultimatively goes back to the works of Karl Marx who invented the subject and hence, that all economists are Marxists to varying degrees.
Adam Smith (1723-1790) says ‘HELLO!’ As for all economists being Marxists, you got things backwards, so I say ‘skcollob’ to that! Marx (1818-1883) wasn’t a scientist: he was a fraud. There were economists before him. He was a particularly vile fraud who drew on Rousseau of the Reign of Terror and gave us monsters like Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, Kim Il Sung, Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-Shek, Pol Pot and Hugo Chavez.
but this remark shows an almost complete ignorance of the history of European culture: Governments were much bigger in the past, even in the fairly recent past
Right. So show me a state in the 1800s that had a health service with a million employees, its own broadcasting company and had a large local government infrastructure under its thumb using the national party structure. You’re just making this up, RW! The UK population was about 28 million in the early 1800s. You’re saying we had an enormous state sector back then? Really?
I also know that that’s just Friedmann (sic) coming out almost as card-carrying Marxist: The state is bad beause it’s nothing but an oppression machinery controlled by the capitalists aka big business.
Now you’re dipping into deep delusion. Marx was a revolutionary death cultist who knew nothing about economics. His claims about ‘scientific socialism’ are as convincing as Scientologists claiming their personality tests are scientific. The only way people could be free under Marxism was by being dead. Are you a Marxist, RW? You sound like it. And it’s Milton Friedman with one ‘n’ on the Friedman. He was very well known and a leading figure in the Chicago School. He was an old-fashioned liberal. I’m fascinated that one line of quotation gives you proof that Milton Friedman had a membership card saying he was a Marxist? Can you buy those on eBay? At least try reading up on the guy before making a fool of yourself.
The statement is also not online (sic) historically illiterate and not-so-covertly Marxist,
Oh gawd! You’re sounding like young Dave Lister in the Timeslides episode of Red Dwarf calling everything ‘crypto-fascist’!
as the state controlled all of the economy in the so-called communist block (sic), it was obviously much bigger than any ‘western’ state could ever become.
Given Milton Friedman was discussing Western government at the time, that means he wasn’t taking about Soviet communism. Again, you haven’t watched the programme to which I refer, so you really have no business taking me or Friedman to task when I’ve at least bothered to watch the programme and read the book, which you haven’t. Your entire rant is ostensibly ‘I don’t like that one sentence from someone I’ve never heard of and know nothing about.’ It makes you look like a clown.
And recent events: China. Still a proto-communist state with an overbearing and every powerful bureaucracy. But certainly not controlled by big business.
China is a fanatical communist state that is openly playing the free market of the West and the developing world (I don’t say ‘capitalism’, because it’s a Marxist term) against itself, playing a long game, mostly by bribing greedy rogue politicians and rogue businessmen who don’t care that China has been wanting to establish one world government for over a millennium. The legend of The Emperor and the Assassin is about that very subject. China wants a global Maoist state and if we don’t smack back hard soon, they’re going to be ruling us shortly.
Recommendations:
Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman (the famous communist)
Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal, edited by Ayn Rand (the well known Marxist)
Free to Choose, by Milton and Rose Friedman (Marx’s lover) book and TV show
The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich Hayek (the drinking buddy of Pol Pot)
A general statement like The bigger government gets, the more big business runs it is proven false if a single counter example can be found. I provided a couple of them, hence, the statement was proven false.
Karl Marx the founder of Economics and UK government smallest its even been?? You’re having a laugh – squared 😂
I remember when Cameron was elected on the promise of a smaller state, yet another promise these fake tories never implemented. Now we have a government swollen beyond belief and paid for by OUR taxes.
Don’t forget the banking cabal….
And most of the population that who complied, even encouraged.
Excellent article. And those of us who could SEE, from the start…we’ll never be the same again, will we?
Absolutely. It’s difficult to describe how I feel, but I’m not the person I was in 2019. From dawn till dusk, the sheer disgust I feel towards the evil state, my contempt for the media I work in, the loathing of the NHS, which has now completely collapsed and is pretending to be semi-functional, the way I look a the police like some dog mess that got on my shoe… I never talk about ‘the pandemic’, because there wasn’t one by any rational measure; I talk about ‘the lockdowns’. I had to sit there honestly trying to work out what would happen if they tried to fine me or lock me up for not having the jabs! Who would look after my parents? My Mum now has a heart condition, which she didn’t have before the jabs.
I won’t vote next time, because there’s no one to vote for. I believe in voting, but this is a rigged game and the only way to effect change is for everyone to refuse to turn out.
Or spoil the paper. Pity it won’t happen – at the last local elections the people voted for the usual parties and presumably will do so again.
I will vote for Heritage if I can, or Freedom Alliance or possibly Reclaim, or would consider an independent or an outspokenly rebellious Tory like Swayne. Otherwise spoilt ballot paper.
Having been involved in elections in 2019, 2022 and again, reluctantly this year I have to say I am firmly of the belief that elections both national and local are rigged.
We are being told for example that Kneel Starmer and his bunch of pirates will walk the next election. Presumably this will come to pass but it will have nothing to do with actual votes cast.
I totally agree about the NHS and police. My mother worked in the NHS when she was sending me to a decent school and later university. Thats where I got summer jobs as a student. My grandmother was a housekeeper for a GP in the 50s. In our house the medical profession were regarded with awe. And the police were looked upon with respect. Not now. As for the murdering politicians…
Rather than not vote, last time I defaced my ballot paper, which gave me great satisfaction. Spoilt ballot papers still have to be counted, whereas turnout is just measured in percentages. If the returning officer has got thousands of ballot papers covered in invective, it will be hard to brush under the carpet.
I will only actually vote now if there is a suitable independent candidate, but even if I don’t vote I will have a jolly few minutes in the booth venting my feelings.
Think I’ll just put “none of the above”. Or go for an Independent candidate if there is one.
So beforehand you didn’t see exactly the same thing with the climate change scam?
Do you yet?
I was always a total sceptic about the climate scam. I was told in 1986 at primary school that by 2000, winter in Devon and Cornwall would be like a warm day on the equator. The weather is as godawful as ever here. Nothing’s really changed.
I accepted there were scams going on in governments and NGOs, but they hadn’t become all pervasive and hadn’t become outright dangerous quite yet. it was just corrupt governments and corrupt big business. 2016, when Donald Trump was elected and Brexit happened was the wake-up call for many of us. The elitists went berserk. The eco-lunacy went into overdrive when President Trump withdrew from the nonsensical climate agreements, violence against conservatives and libertarians became acceptable, and I wish I could have been surprised about COVID-19. I hoped what I could see happening wasn’t but it did: an open obliteration of our constitution (which of course most Britons don’t know anything about) and obviously convenient timing to get Donald Trump removed from office.
We were all too tolerant of the corruption in the background of public life. Now we’re alert to it, but much of the public still aren’t.
Seething Mad? That doesn’t even begin to express the anger I feel for the government, central, devolved and local of the time, the Westminster bubble, the remainder of the establishment, the police, the teachers and their unions, the MSM, SAGE and the ‘nudge’ unit, the NHS which shut up shop, the CMOs recommending bio toxic injections for children, the five figure sum my small business lost because they shut us down at the stroke of a pen, the death of my 89 year old mother who flirted with the paramedic that took her off to hospital and who died (of midazolam and morphine induced respiratory depression) 5 weeks later because I couldn’t visit her in hospital to make her eat or put in her hearing aid, my sister having to attend the funeral by FaceTime because she couldn’t cross the Atlantic. No. The government and these lying charlatans that call themselves politicians and government ministers have radicalised me from being a largely centre right, law abiding citizen into authority rejecting and vengeful rebel who will not comply and will never ever forget.
I am in complete agreement. I would relish a bit of vengeance.
Yes, I’ll take my vengeance where I can get it. It may take a while, but I’m in no hurry.
They all need to feel real and perpetual fear. Many of them now have permanent close protection because of the fear of assassination.
This pleases me greatly.
#metoo and I hope they develop multiple debilitating psychoses, and maybe even feel suicidal. However as ever it’s the taxpayer who foots the bill.
Great stuff, Professor Allan. Thank you
The WhatsApp messages offered us a bonus in Britain by adding a bit of lustre to our current PM, who we all thought was a bit of a something beginning with W (Suit yourself. Obviously I meant Wykehamist). And of converting some of the mildest, most tolerant, of sceptics to membership of the Nuremberg trials supporters club…..
The problem is that ‘every single Australian knows in his or her heart that our own politicians were no different than Britain’s – no less self-serving, focused on PR and fearmongering, clueless on the data, afraid to stand up to the worst elements of the modelling class’ but most Australians, and most Britons, are accomplices……
“The WhatsApp messages offered us a bonus in Britain by adding a bit of lustre to our current PM”
Do you mean they make Sunak look good/less bad?
Depends on the eye of the beholder.
Sunak has claimed to be anti lockdown at a certain stage and the WhatsApps back that up.
I’ve not seen much detail from the messages as I don’t read the Telegraph, don’t subscribe, don’t have the time and honestly don’t much care as most of it is stuff we pretty much knew. Sunak is meant to have been one of those who pushed back on the last attempt at lockdowns, Christmas 2021 – and I can believe that and would excuse him from not going public at the time because his side won. But before that, he was publicly silent. I accept that not every minister can agree completely agree with every decision and constant public dissent is probably not that useful or realistic, but what was done in the name of covid was so egregious from the start that public condemnation followed fairly soon after by resignation on principle and fighting from the back benches is the only defensible course of action – there comes a point where fighting from the inside isn’t credible.
Yes
The massive impediment, of course, was (still is) that just about every Tom, Dick and Harry believed still believe) that the cabinet, by and large, was doing a good job.
And that cannot entirely be blamed on propaganda.
Few populations understand more about the common cold than this one.
The fundamental point about Sunak is that he allowed £500 billion to be looted.
Indeed. One of the worst offenders, IMO. But they are all guilty. As is more or less every MP. I think all of them voted for the initial legislation, some like Swayne started speaking out quite early on, but for a long time there was a only a tiny handful pushing back. That handful deserve some credit, the rest should be sent away from power forever.
Bang on tof.
I have a horrible suspicion that the Bill Gates-funded DT is publishing Handcock’s WattsApp messages to “prove” that egotistical, narcissistic, scientifically-illiterate politicians should not have control of future pandemic controls ….. instead it should be handed to the unelected, unaccountable and oh-so-wise “scientists” of the WHO ….. who most definitely aren’t in the pockets of Big Pharma.
The correct response to the WattsApp messages is that no Government should be given dictatorial powers and be allowed to ride roughshod over our Civil Liberties by a supine Parliament, Media and Judiciary. But that’s not going to be the conclusion reached.
Be careful what you wish for …..
What needs to happen is a ban on private organisations funding intergovernmental bodies such as the WHO and UN, removal of anyone working for these bodies who has connections with big business, a recognition that countries like China are tolerated by the likes of the UN, but are considered evil and pariahs, rather run by CCP bribes.
The US needs to end the law brought in during the 1980s that allows investment banks to bloc vote ‘on behalf of’ investors. We now know that the liked of BlackRock are using those bloc votes to push fascist ESG ideology and not trying to get the best return for investors. Ending that law will effectively defang the giant investment banks.
I wrote the exact same thing below a previous article on the subject.
I don’t see these leaks doing damage to anything other than the Conservative Party (and Hancock obviously). Why would the DT of all papers be taking crippling shots at the Conservative Party? Because they’ve suddenly decided to do some proper journalism? Out of a sense of public duty? They’ve suddenly remembered that journalists are supposed to hold power to account, not act as their henchmen? I sincerely doubt that.
Something doesn’t smell right.
Who knows, but isn’t it plausible that they are trying to push the Conservative Party to actually be conservative? I don’t necessarily mean Telegraph senior management, but at least some of the journalists.
Agreed. The WhatsApp releases will also provide a useful smokescreen as the evils of the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty are rolled out although I suspect some other “newsworthy” story will appear shortly to stave off the public’s boredom.
I still cannot make my mind up about Ms Oakshott but perhaps that’s a result of three years baked in scepticism.
She is in a relationship with Tice, who believes in Net Zero & pushes all of that fictitious agenda. This is controlled release of information as a damage limitation exercise & a distraction for an even more nefarious agenda.
Thanks BB. I am aware that Ms Oakshott is sharing Olympian endeavours with Tice and I have already posted on this thread that the WhatsApp releases are a smokescreen for a coming evil.
Tice as far as I am concerned is a complete washout and therfore so too his party.
We are constantly arriving at Waitandsee.
All controlled release of information to ensure that the Narrative & Plan is adhered to.
I am also seething mad with most of my fellow citizens for falling for this and cheerleading the politicians etc, in the face of many counterarguments which they generally ignored/abused us for. Not as guilty as politicians, partly victims, but complicit nonetheless. They are the people we need to convince more than anyone.
Yes. They’re so ****ing gullible. I was putting up with someone banging on about the importance of masks yesterday. Given I depend on that person for work, I can’t educate the person in the futility of all the societal control without risking my job.
With impunity as well or so it seems.
I had a doctor’s visit last week. I asked the doctor if she would not mind taking her mask off because after an accident I have about 70% hearing loss, and over the years i have learnt to lip read.
Anyway she said no as she wearing it to protect me. She obviously believes that poo she is shoveling. Me I am losing patients having to deal with saps like that.
It shows how many doctors simply don’t know the science outside of their narrow field. Lockdowns resulted in me learning more about medicine than I ever anticipated I would in a lifetime. It’s scary that many of us lockdown sceptics probably know more about virology than many so-called doctors.
My GP did remove hers but was blissfully ignorant of the January Cochrane review on the uselessness of masks & other physical measures. Her excuse was that she was too busy to keep up to date….
Link for you to send to your useless GP to keep her up to date with the most recent clinical evidence
https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-such-hand-washing-or-wearing-masks-stop-or-slow-down-spread-respiratory-viruses
Give her a Cochrane Review on masks.
I was shocked today that a mask wearing colleague had not heard of it.
Doctors are sheeple too, sadly.
I’ll never forgive. I’m angry to the extent that I’m now only in the UK because my passport and my elderly parents keep me here. Plus the world in general has gone nuts, not just the UK. But I hate this country now. I love what Roger Scruton called ‘The Land’ and I have great loyalty to it. But our unwritten constitution, which is supposed to protect our liberty, has proven to be a sham and it left the door wide open for a relatively small number of sociopaths and psychopaths to imprison the the better part of 70 million people. I will never forgive them.
My Catholic background says I’m not supposed to hate people, but I can’t help it. It’s ruined what are almost certainly the last years of my Dad’s life and my Mum now has scarring on the heart which is almost certainly a consequence of having a third Pfizer jab, which made her very ill. So I suspect I’ll lose both my parents earlier than I should have and we’ve lost friends of the family to the vaccines too.
I live here, but I’ll never play the system’s game or cooperate with the state more than absolutely necessary again.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the system was always that rotten to the core, but this time the mask slipped and they let us see it. Sadly too many people just didn’t cotton on.
I agree with you Dom. I did 20 years in the UK military and would not do the same again or recommend any one joining.
I hate the Establishment and I am disgusted with the pathetic sheeple who question nothing and do as they’re told by f’wits like Johnson and Handcock.
They are the same people who are now complaining about their poor health; depression and anxiety; inflation/cost of living ….. and they brought it on themselves.
Our constitution isn’t a sham. It’s been usurped & captured by evil, enemy actors & they’ve got away with it so far because of the abject ignorance of the public about our constitution & rights.
It’s not unwritten either. There is law written down which upholds the constitution, being completely ignored by the legislators when it doesn’t suit their purposes.
Anna de Buisseret covers it.
The history of our U.K. Rule of Law and Constitution.
I do hope that you find it informative, useful, empowering and instructive.
I outline the laws from the Old Testament, the Charter of Liberties 1100, the Magna Carta 1297, the Confirmation of Carters, the Petition of Right 1627, the Bill of Rights 1688 through to the current day.
I also discuss the international and European laws as well as the criminal laws that govern us.
I set out the circa 35 laws that are being breached – including grave breaches of the Law of Armed Conflict.
I hope you enjoy it 🙂
Thank you
Anna de Buisseret
U.K. Lawyer
https://rumble.com/v1qzwme-anna-de-buisseret.-the-awakening-conference-2.-partition-the-king-lord-lieu.html
It’s generally referred to as ‘unwritten’ because there’s no single document the way there is in the USA and many other countries. I was simply using the commonly-used term. I feel the most vaunted aspect of it – that it’s flexible – has been shown to be a sham, because, as you say, it’s vulnerable to bad actors.Appreciate the link; I’m a Rumble user already so I’ll take a look!
Anna has been doing her best to educate the UK population & other lawyers on UK human rights law & the Law of Warfare (she’s an army veteran) so that we can defend ourselves. She’s putting together information on the laws of war.
Whilst it’s shocking enough that our MPs haven’t got a clue about human rights law, many solicitors don’t either, it’s that many currently serving military high ranking officers haven’t read the Laws of War! These are the ones in decision making positions! The Nuremburg Judgements haven’t been read by the vast majority of lawyers & medics are blissfully ignorant of the judgements. You can watch a presentation by Anna on the Doctors’ Trial on rumble here: https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess along with many other brilliant presentations by such as Dr James Thorp, Dr David Martin, Senator Malcolm Roberts, Katherine Watt, Pascal Najadi, Matt Le Tissier to name but a few. Todd Callender is a regular attendee as is Anna.
Once I have a link to any relevant information she puts into the public domain, I’ll post it
Funny, I got banned from posting comments on the Daily Telegraph for posting information from the Daily Sceptic and the Conservative Woman.
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I was expecting that the most elaborate cover-up would already be long under way in the UK. I base this on personal experience of how UK civil servants handle government, police and NHS errors in the distant past: denial, lying, assertion of legal rights that they do not have, obfuscation, scapegoats, super-injunctions…
However, I wasn’t expecting the reaction I now see in my friends: in a word: Osterism. They just want to “draw a line” under the fiasco and get back to the happy-clappy lives they had before The Lockdown. If they are representative of the general public there will be no Nuremberg 2, no demands for a Royal Commission. The politicians will exploit this lack of seething madness and there will be no such investigation.
My instinct is that the friends who are currently flaunt their Osterism (masquerading as virtuous forgive-and-forget) do so because, three years ago, they were the very ones who enthusiastically joined the massed ranks of (Karens and Kevins) drafted into the Mask Police and Snitchline , who lost no opportunity to point out the arrows, who showed us their masked faces and their “I’ve had my vaccinations” FB filters, and who campaigned for sanctions against the unvaccinated and against sceptics.
The big threat to a genuine investigation is not a central government authoritarian cover-up tyranny but public indifference, nurtured by a collusive media.
One final thought: is Matt Hancock being offered as a scapegoat to divert seething madness away from a larger consortium of even more evil conspirators?
Admitting one’s culpability & failures is what is aiding & abetting the political shills to keep shafting us.
Most definitely a diversion.
To your last question, conspirators or the next part of the plan?
Without doubt the answer is Yes.
“I Am Still Seething Mad at What the Political Class Did to Us”
The author will be madder still when the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty is announced and Tedros is everyone’s boss.
the greatest lie told during covid – by el gato malo (substack.com)
This is an excellent post and a helpful way to slightly alter the narrative from be very scared of pandemics to no longer fearing them.
This guy is unreadable.
One of the big reasons governments did this is because they were goaded into it by the mainstream media. 95% of media questions to Johnson, Hancock, Witty and Vallance were along the lines of “Why haven’t you closed the schools, OK, you’ve closed the schools, why didn’t you do it sooner, why haven’t you locked down harder, why are people allowed to go shopping, when will you follow New Zealand’s example, why why why” but no-one asked “Why are you not watching Sweden?”
Now why would the media do that?
Thank you for your commentary Mr Allan. A perfect summary and all the more powerful for your controlled anger. Those of us who knew it was a scamdemic from Day 1 will always be better than those who gave in to or benefitted from the hysteria as we will always have the satisfaction of knowing that we still have our integrity and honesty.
Yes, the unprecedented attack on civil liberties was outrageous and must never happen again
Yes, some of us could and everyone should have been able to call out the slow motion train wreck
Yes, the politicians should be held accountable, with horrendous Hancock at the head of a long line
Yes, there are larger issues at stake than an NDA, so thank you Isabel Oakeshott for taking the heat
Yes, social media must never again be allowed to sit in judgement over us
Yes, our response to covid has seriously undermined our trust in science and scientists, as well as politicians, with pseudo-unanimity on climate change next in the spotlight
And Yes, personally I will never forget, and next time will not comply (@boomer bloke)
But to paraphrase @stewart, I have seen the enemy, and it is us. We allowed ourselves to be frightened witless, to reflect this back to self-serving and spineless politicians (I am talking to you, Boris) and then allowed ourselves to be led to the gallows. We need to grow up and think for ourselves. It will otherwise all just happen again, Dr James Allan’s exemplary controlled rage notwithstanding.
I’m still seething mad at the academic and legal class in Australia and around the world for failing us…
It was bewildering in Australia throughout 2020 and beyond, wondering how on earth our freedom could be taken from us on the back of ’emergency laws’ which emerged from nowhere.
There were no check and balances, and we were abandoned by ‘our elected representatives’.
I wrote to you at the time James Allan, voicing my concerns – but no response from you.
Consider for example this email:
Date: Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 10:37 AM
Subject: Coronavirus vaccination and the Biosecurity Act 2015
Dear Professor Allan, re the current coronavirus situation, lockdown etc.
It’s particularly concerning that vaccine products are being promoted at ‘warp speed’, with little consideration as to whether this is the right approach for this virus which appears to not be a threat to most people, particularly young people and children.
Re the discussion in the media yesterday with Prime Minister Scott Morrison first saying coronavirus vaccination was likely to be mandated for the Australian population, and then he subsequently backed down on this announcement.
I suggest Scott Morrison is misleading the Australian public when he says: “There are no mechanisms for compulsory…I mean, we can’t hold someone down and make them take it.”
There are in fact mechanisms for coercion…
It’s my understanding that if a human biosecurity emergency is declared, Australians will be under the power of the Director of Human Biosecurity, who is also the Chief Medical Officer, via the Biosecurity Act 2015.
My reading of the Biosecurity Act 2015 indicates people who refuse vaccination are at risk of five years imprisonment and/or a $63,000 fine. That is, if an individual fails to comply with a human biosecurity control order, e.g. vaccination, the penalty could be imprisonment for five years or 300 penalty units or both – see endnote below.*
This may be subject to appeal, but the fact remains the Biosecurity Act 2015 enables drastic action to be taken against people in Australia.
How did the Biosecurity Act 2015 get through the Parliament without consultation with the people?
Who was behind initiating this legislation?
I wrote to Prime Minister Scott Morrison in March this year requesting clarification re the Biosecurity Act 2015, but as far as I’m aware I have not received a response.
It’s a very serious matter that the general public is unaware of the implications of the Biosecurity Act 2015, and that Scott Morrison is inferring that people won’t be coerced into coronavirus vaccination.
Professor Allan, I’d be very grateful for your thoughts on this matter.
Kind regards
Elizabeth Hart
Independent citizen investigating the over-use of vaccine products and conflicts of interest in vaccination policy
*See the Biosecurity Act 2015, Part 3, Division 2, Subdivision C, 74 When individual is required to comply with a biosecurity measure (1) (e) section 92 (vaccination or treatment) and (2) and Note 1: A person who fails to comply with a biosecurity measure that the person is required to comply with may commit an offence (see section 107), and Division 4, Subdivision C 107 Offence for failing to comply with a human biosecurity control order…Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years or 300 penalty units, or both. A ‘penalty unit’ is $210 under Commonwealth law, multiplied by 300 equals $63,000, see the Crimes Act 1914, Part 1A – General, 4AA Penalty units.
James Allan, I followed up with this email to you…no response to this one either…
The universities, and of course the media, in Australia were absolutely worse than useless in dealing with this biggest assault on freedom in history – why?!
Date: Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 2:42 PM
Subject: Coronavirus and draconian legislation
Professor Allan, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews is currently trying to implement draconian pandemic detention laws which are an affront in our liberal democracy.
This matter was revealed by Robert Gottliebsen behind the paywall of The Australian recently, it’s startling that many Australians may not know what is going on because other mainstream media is not providing analysis, particularly the taxpayer-funded ABC and SBS.
I presume you are aware of the current situation? A precedent is the Australian Biosecurity Act 2015, which appears to have slipped through the Parliament without the general public being aware of the over-reach of this act, e.g. mandating vaccination at risk of five years imprisonment and/or a huge fine.
I raised the Biosecurity Act with you previously Professor Allan, in my email dated 20 August 2020, see below.
It’s extremely disappointing that you did not respond. People such as myself are finding it difficult to know where to turn in trying to deal with what I suspect is a corrupt political system which is refusing to be accountable to the people.
Academia is more than letting us down too, with universities often benefitting from draconian policies, e.g. universities involved in vaccine research.
Professor Allan, I ask you again to consider my email of 20 August, and the threat to ‘informed consent’ before a vaccine intervention. This is an extremely important matter with fast-tracked coronavirus vaccine products looming, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison has already intimated these are likely to be as mandatory as can be…
Sincerely
Elizabeth Hart
Independent citizen investigating the over-use of vaccine products and conflicts of interest in vaccination policy
Read books on the Middle Ages and its clear, that many so-called untouchable leaders have had a God complex. All have failed to subdue the masses and this cretinous bunch will follow suit. Have no fear, retribution is at hand.
Oh, and don’t forget the medical class…the medical ‘profession’ that abandoned its legal and ethical obligation to obtain voluntary informed consent before a medical intervention, i.e. the Covid jabs.
According to current Australian Government vaccination statistics, 65.1 million Covid jabs have been administered in Australia. Along with reportedly most of the adult population, around two million children have been Covid jabbed…against a disease it was known from the beginning wasn’t a serious threat to most people.
I suggest authentic voluntary informed consent has not been obtained before any of these jab interventions.
How many millions of people have been jabbed under Covid jab mandates? These jab mandates were widespread around the Australia, and the legal basis for these mandated medical interventions is still not clear.
Why did the medical profession abandon ethics and go along with these jab mandates across the population?! It’s incredible…
And another interesting facet of this debacle is that the Morrison Government told health practitioners they had specific medical indemnity cover for administering the Covid jabs…but now it turns they don’t have this specific Covid indemnity after all…
I discuss this in my recent presentation on Voluntary Informed Consent and Covid Jab Mandates on the popular social media forum Club Grubbery, which is hosted by Graham Hood (Hoody), a former Qantas pilot, and John Larter, a paramedic, people who are unable to work in their professions because of the Covid jab mandates.
My presentation and our discussion can be accessed via this link – it runs for about 58 minutes, starting from around 3:50: https://rumble.com/v2c20qk-club-grubbery-doctors-with-voices-07-03-2023-elizabeth-hart-breaks-down-the.html
PowerPoint slides for this Club Grubbery presentation are accessible via this link: https://vaccinationispolitical.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/club-grubbery-informed-consent-and-covid-jab-mandates.pdf
In Australia, it’s forums initiated by the people themselves where we try to discuss these matters, and try to avoid censorship.
The mainstream/corporate media here is seriously conflicted and biased, e.g. the Murdoch media, aka News Corp Australia, which is a corporate partner with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, which is involved with vaccine research, including Covid-19 vaccine research with the Doherty Institute, a conflict of interest which is not disclosed on articles supporting the Covid narrative.
The taxpayer-funded ABC and SBS are also traitorous propaganda machines, which have failed utterly to provide the Australian people with critical analysis of the massive international Covid scandal.
This is so huge! The deliberate misleading of the public about the threat of Covid, and the theft of personal autonomy and bodily integrity with the imposition of Covid jab mandates.
Biggest crime in history.
Excellent piece proving how untrustworthy the political class and their lapdogs the MSM are. I can now understand why the British government shrunk our military for fear they would eventually turn on the government, and with good cause.
I clearly remember that people had been terrorized by main stream media and all the social media blogs. It was terrified people who demanded governments do something, anything to save them. The polls taken 8n 2020 all indicated 80 to 85% of people were happy with government’s actions on lockdowns etc. I remember BJ on television urging people to calm down that the virus was not that serious. A week later he was locking down people and had commited 500 million pounds for propaganda to support these policies. Politicians were doing what politicians always do is pandering for popularity. Some entity was pushing the narrative with main stream media and on social media. The staged people dieing in the streets of Wuhan were produced by someone. This does not exonerate politicians and their crass decisions. Just a few in the world showed leadership to resist. Publ8c opinion is still being manipulated by powerful organ8zations.
So am I, not least because of friends and relatives who called me a fool and worse for trying to tell them all this, in one case a dear ‘friend’ refused to ever speak to me again. I’m still waiting for some sort of admission from any of them that I was right, and God forbid, an apology. Lockdown was appalling in so many ways and it will never go away, its legacy in large and small ways will be with us for a very long time. Yet still idiots I’m sure would let it all happen again.
At least there are two of us here in Australia who share this anger, but your article fails to mention the even more dystopian government reactions that happened down under – including let’s not forget the police firing rubber bullets at their own citizens lawfully protesting against lockdowns. Think about that and how you would have viewed this in the UK…. No media appetite for an enquiry here sadly