MPs can work themselves into a lather of indignation when Mr. Brexit is caught overseeing a hypocritical workplace, but where’s the outrage over the lockdowns themselves and the surge in unexplained excess deaths, asks Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
[Boris’s] lack of grip meant his Government descended into a disgraceful shambles that squandered his historic election victory. Those of us who spoke brightly about his potential as prime minister have had to feast on humble pie. But there is not a shred of evidence proving that he knowingly misled MPs. So making him the first Prime Minister in history to be denied a pass to enter Parliament will look to many like a deranged overreaction.The use of legal technicalities to destroy political opponents is, overall, a deplorable trend. The ministerial code, which is now held up as the golden rule book, prohibits (for example) Government announcements being made outside Parliament or telling anyone what is said in Cabinet. So ministers can preside over policy calamities and keep getting promoted – but send a message from the wrong email account, violating Section 2.14 of the code, and you’re out on your ear. It’s a sign of a deeply dysfunctional system.
Parliament is not much better, as the Privileges Committee’s report proves. No one can fault the MPs for the rigour or energy with which they investigate and attack each other – but where was this energy when the lockdown rules were being designed? Where was our forensic democratic apparatus when it was needed the most? Our MPs abandoned their posts, signing emergency Covid powers long after the emergency ended. It was almost as if they were relieved to ditch the responsibility. Parliament is intended to protect against an over-mighty Government. Where, during lockdowns, was that protection?
And where, for that matter, is the 30,000-word report into the unexplained surge in excess deaths, or why the rate of sickness benefit claims has doubled since the lockdowns? Why doesn’t the Health and Social Care Committee ask whether lockdowns actually worked? The official Covid inquiry looks set to avoid this awkward question, so Parliament can step in. But all parties backed lockdowns, so it suits none of them to ask such difficult questions. Far easier to fire bullets into Johnson’s political corpse.
Our MPs summon television executives to give evidence about the Phillip Schofield drama – as if this is in any way their concern – but they do not ask social media firms how and why they censor voices critical of lockdown policy. Nor have they summoned Whitehall officials to explain why the ‘Counter-Disinformation Unit’ was targeting critical academics, as this newspaper recently revealed. The desire to seal each other’s political graves – with expulsion or police investigations – sucks up energy that should be directed at unresolved scandals.
This furious report into Johnson’s behaviour would be fine if it was one of many investigations, or if there was a long committee report into why SAGE forecasts were so wrong, with such fateful consequences. But politics in general seems to be stuck in a cycle of reprisals, with MPs blowing poison darts at each other – or indulging in hissy-fit resignations, forcing constituents into a by-election just because they get bored. Or a better job offer. Or, as with Nadine Dorries, because they did not get a better job offer.
In his defence, Johnson claimed that leaving drinks are a vital work function as they allow a team to cohere. But how many of the 119,000 fined by police under his needless laws were given the chance to make a similar defence? His rules saw a beggar fined £434 for having his cap out at King’s Cross station; au pairs fined for dropping off a birthday card for the children they cared for; police swooping on children’s birthday parties. All such criminalisation, it now seems, was unnecessary. Where’s the anger about that?
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Boris has wasted no time announcing his new job – as a star columnist for the Mail, and he’s started already. However, it appears he failed to get clearance from the relevant Parliamentary watchdog (Acoba) for his new post, according to the Telegraph. Never one for following the rules…
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As far as I’m concerned this is yet more evidence that your government want you harmed/dead/couldn’t give a rodent’s butt about you;
”40 MP’s invited.
The only one that turned up was the one hosting the meeting. @ABridgen
If you ever wanted to know about the disgusting state of British Politics, this is it.
Many people giving evidence in Parliament about how their loved ones had their lives ended way too early through the End of Life drugs Midazolam & Morphine.
Not one invited MP turned up.
They don’t care about you, they don’t care about the deaths of your loved ones.
They Only care about themselves.
They are a cabal, they do not represent those that elected them.”
https://twitter.com/chrislittlewoo8/status/1669430338567786506
‘Where was this energy when the lockdown rules were being designed? Where was our forensic democratic apparatus when it was needed the most? Our MPs abandoned their posts, signing emergency Covid powers long after the emergency ended’.
I’ve made this point before, but why was Fraser ( a man I respect) strangely quiet when covidism hit us? I have no recollection of the Speccy asking these questions then concerning the biggest power grab in history.
It’s oh so easy now, as evidenced by many journos, to fill their column inches with such stuff.
Where were you when the British public needed your voices?
Indeed. Toby Young, Peter Hitchens, Lord Sumption, Simon Dolan, Francis Hoar, Matt Le Tissier, Ian Brown, Van Morrison, David Kurten, Piers Corbyn. I’m sure there were others, but off the top of my head, those are some of the very few public figures who spoke up from the start.
Right Said Fred.
Eric Clapton.
Yes indeed. Hugh Osmond, Luke Johnson (who I believe is on the board of DS). There were some in the US that I am aware of but very few here, and of those few, even fewer were part of any “mainstream”. Probably because they had already been eliminated from their roles for wrongthink of various other kinds.
Neil Oliver
Crikey. Thanks.
Absolutely. As the self-evident (to any independent minded person) truth becomes even more self-evident 3 years on, the timorous eventually start to pipe up in the name of holding truth to power, etc. Yeah, a bit late for that to appease my wrath; although if it helps push the flood gates open for a proper reckoning I can’t allow my frustrations to get in the way of that.
There’ll never be a proper reckoning. The Inquiry is primed to exonerate the guilty men and women.
But hey ….. lessons will be learned.
Except they won’t be.
Where were you when the British public needed your voices?
Hiding. The press were a disgrace and are still shy about mentioning the appalling record of the death jabs. Don’t know how they sleep at night.
The latest study from the Cleveland Clinic. What relevance does being ”up to date” with your death jabs have anyway? President Brandon take note, for your next White House shindig.
”Background The CDC recently defined being “up-to-date” on COVID-19 vaccination as having received at least one dose of a COVID-19 bivalent vaccine. The purpose of this study was to compare the risk of COVID-19 among those “up-to-date” and “not up-to-date” on COVID-19 vaccination.
Conclusions Since the XBB lineages became dominant, adults “not up-to-date” by the CDC definition have a lower risk of COVID-19 than those “up-to-date” on COVID-19 vaccination, bringing into question the value of this risk classification definition.
Summary Among 48 344 working-aged Cleveland Clinic employees, those not “up-to-date” on COVID-19 vaccination had a lower risk of COVID-19 than those “up-to-date”. The current CDC definition provides a meaningless classification of risk of COVID-19 in the adult population.”
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.09.23290893v1.full
And here we have the CDC’s own data supporting the Cleveland Clinic study. The same CDC that made the ”up to date” definition. So this just becomes nonsensical and beyond farcical now doesn’t it?
”COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization turned negative over time, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data presented on June 15.
The effectiveness against hospitalization plummeted to negative 8 percent for people who received one of the old COVID-19 vaccines, according to data from a CDC-run hospital network.
A dose of one of the updated bivalent vaccines moved the protection above zero, to 29 percent, but the protection fell back to negative 8 percent beyond 89 days, the data show.
The protection estimates were for adults without a compromised immune system from Jan. 23 to May 24, when the XBB strain was dominant in the United States. The data came from people hospitalized at one of 25 hospitals across 20 states that are part of the Investigating Respiratory Viruses in the Acutely Ill network. Both cases and controls were hospitalized with COVID-like illness but the cases tested positive for COVID-19 and the controls tested negative for COVID-19.
“We see a pattern of waning against hospitalization,” Dr. Ruth Link-Gelles of the CDC said while presenting the data to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel as they consider updating the composition of the vaccines.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/covid-vaccinated-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized-cdc-data_5335428.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheChiefNerd&src_src=partner&src_cmp=TheChief
Its much too big a question for the majority of people.
In their lifetimes, they have experienced one pandemic. They survived although 150k people didn’t (heard it on the BBC…), but throughout all of it Boris was a liar and Hancock too, and we spent 35bn on Track and Trace (those plastic sticks no-one would give up stuffing up their noses, to find out nothing of importance), Tories giving their friends the contracts. Typical Tories, and if we’d locked down a day earlier like that Mr Starmer said we’d have saved another 50,000 lives. I know because I heard it on the BBC. But overall, we survived and so next time there is a pandemic, we know what to do. Masks, distancing and lockdown pronto.
The very notion that Parliament might not have been acting in the best interests of the citizens, other than them being the bloody useless Tories, (‘F*** the Tories, Tories out, etc). Anyway theres a programme on about Climate Change with David Attenborough. Lovely man. 122 and still trying to stop us from killing the Earth.
All of this, but especially the first sentence.
“In their lifetimes, they have experienced one pandemic.”
Are you referring to the Scamdemic Neil?
There was no pandemic.
However, there is no denying that MP’s getting hot and bothered about the treatment of Bozo certainly points them up as a cowardly and shameful bundle given their abject failure, indeed refusal to do the jobs they are so handsomely paid for during the last three years.
MP’s – a thoroughly avaricious and lazy bunch of cowards.
80% plus of people think there was a pandemic, they were told, and still are told that there was a pandemic, ergo there was a pandemic, Hux.
People who can’t wrap their heads around why its okay not wearing a mask in a restaurant unless they are walking to the toilet are not going to be able to process that the democratically elected representatives of our Government have gone completely rogue and are pursuing policies that will impoverish all, kill many and imprison us in our homes.
It is a massive red pill. Far too much for people to swallow in one go. So big in fact that most people just simply don’t, or don’t want to think about it, or they have realised something is happening, but they can’t believe that something on this scale could come to pass, and it will grind to a halt before weve killed our cows, and shut our airports. However, I am not so confident. There is no White Knight riding to save us.
“ergo there was a pandemic, Hux.”
Nope.
At one time I dare say 80% of people thought the earth was flat. It wasn’t.
80% of people might believe the C1984 so-called ‘vaccines’ are safe and effective, it doesn’t make them so.
Ergo, there was NO pandemic.
Hux, please. There is absolutely no need to turn inwards upon ourselves simply because someone forgot to include scare-quotes around the word ‘pandemic’
Neil is right, except for having chosen phrasing with which you disagree:
these “survivors” have “experienced a pandemic”.
So in their eyes they’re veterans/survivors – it gives their ‘lived experience’ more gravitas.
Let a man make a point! Then pull it apart if you wish.
I had someone cut me off today in conversation because I laughed that it seemed that Putin still felt covid was a threat by hiding away. He said “so only 5 people died, then I suppose” and stalked to the other side of the bar. I tried to reply, “no, but anyone who’s three years in who still feels they need to isolate should get a bl0ody grip on themselves”.
There has to be some way to find common ground between “the numpties” (as we call them) and the “dumbties” as they (may) call us.
If our first response with those who broadly agree with us (except on some minor point) is to crap on them, then we will simply lose allies.
Are you “right” about everything, or (as I am) trying to figure out what the hell is going on?
Just because 80% of people believe there was a pandemic does not make it so. Fact. If that is the case we on here, let’s say the twenty percenters are all raging idiots. Is that what you believe?
Am I right about everything? No, but my scorecard shows that I have been right more often than not.
Am I trying to figure out what is going on? Not really because the end goal is obvious to me. The primary aim is total control of everything and everybody on the planet, or as Iain Davies refers to it “the theft of the commons.” And the control will become all encompassing – probably even down to the minutiae of our ablutions. All the while that the screw is tightening the depopulation agenda will be working away in the background. I suspect that at some point it will be a case of accept an injection or starve. Either way we will be killed.
Vaccines – I was probably the first on DS to state that these had been “brewed to a recipe” – my phrase – and with the aim to maim and kill. Now a matter of fact.
Food and farming – again I was warning early doors that we would be attacked via food. Much of the info on this coming from Colin Todhunter over at Off-G.
CBDC’s – spotted these a long way back but utterly obvious.
Fifteen minute cities – I certainly warned that forcing populations in to cities was on its way and that was many months ago.
The farce of £37 billion on Track and Trace. Too many believed it was wasted. It wasn’t. Much of that money went on the software and hardware of LTN’s and CAZ as I have stated for many months. These are NOT local initiatives and only the dozy would believe so – check out the 40 Cities project.
EV’s – an absolute joke as I have pointed out. Too many making a fuss about how this couldn’t work because we don’t have the infrastructure. There was never any intention to make the system work because private transport was going to be taken from us.
Inflation and a deliberately engineered economic collapse. The purpose of which is to force the population on to UBI. Oh, I see it has gone in to trial phase. And I have been talking about this for months.
Destruction of Britain and British society which is what the wholesale immigration is all about and coincidentally, or not, the Alphabet nonsense and sexualisation of our children. Destruction of traditional British family life.
On immigration – the import of thousands of military aged men is beyond coincidence. This is the import of an army. And what did I report a few days ago? In the United States a “Cop City” is already under construction. Yes a “Cop City.”
Digital ID’s – I knew and have always pointed out their inevitability. When Tony Bliar tells us these are good for us you know what’s coming.
The next “pandemic?” I have stated numerous times that this is scheduled for release in 2024 / 2025. My update on this is that there may be some hesitancy on this as the world gradually wakes up to the dangers of “vaccines.” The Davos Deviants may well decide to run an Internet collapse alongside their next Scamdemic or run them consecutively. We must not forget that their primary target date is 2030.
So, no, I am not trying to figure out what is going on. The end game is perfectly clear to me.
And let’s not forget:
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box. (I am at the point now where even repeating this statement ranks as out and out sarcasm).
Addendum – I am not on my own on here as others share my views. No need to name them.
If you’re not angry, you’re not paying anywhere near enough attention.
Do we need representative democracy? I find it a useless system. Vote for someone and they go their own sweet way, even in the face of a referendum. Committee reports get forgotten. Never a lesson learned. Total waste of money. Nice building though. Could make a good art gallery or something. Perhaps direct democracy a la Switzerland beckons, with MPs on strict two year term limits.
Well, here I go again:
Our salvation is not going to arrive via the ballot box.
The current fake system is bust beyond repair for sure. Unfortunately, if the Davos Deviants get their way there will no longer be any need for any sort of electoral system. I suppose we can wish.
“Our” MPs are extremely exercised about Johnson allegedly lying at the Dispatch Box about cake/parties at No.10.
They didn’t, and don’t, give a 4X that he, Handcock, Gove, Sunak, Whitty, Vallance, VanTam and other stood at the No.10 podium and systematically lied to the British people (the people they’re supposed to represent) for over two years.
And that tells you all you need to know about the 630 pieces of excrement occupying the green benches. (I reckon around 20 redeemed themselves – but unfortunately not starting the process until after the first lockdown).
https://t.me/DrMikeYeadon/1383
I don’t know if this will work.
Tobias traitor Ellwood is giving a talk in Salisbury entitled:
“Towards a New World Order.”
Any wannabee spies available?
Such a kind and thoughtful chap.
(Link works.)
Actually, thinking about Toe-rag Tobias, shouldn’t MP’s be raising questions in the house about this traitorous WEFfer who clearly has his allegiances elsewhere?
Yes, Fraser dear, it’s safe to be brave now.