- “Banks face ‘very large’ fines if they close customers’ accounts over political views” – The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has written to the Financial Conduct Authority to demand they ensure banks are following the law, reports Sky News.
- “Nigel Farage says NatWest in ‘panic mode’ after new data request delayed” – Nigel Farage has claimed NatWest is in “panic mode” after a fresh request for personal data was delayed, says the Express.
- “FCA executive was chairman of Stonewall while charity created diversity guidelines” – A senior executive of the FCA helped draw up guidelines on gender identity for major companies while he was the Chairman of Stonewall, according to the Telegraph.
- “Don’t say ‘black’ market, say ‘illegal’ instead, Finance U.K. says” – U.K. Finance has issued a guide on language which includes banning the term ‘black market’ and replacing it with ‘illegal market’, reports the Mail.
- “Why is the MHRA hiding critical safety data on the Covid vaccines?” – The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is still withholding crucial pregnancy data, say Professors Norman Fenton and Martin Neil.
- “Long Covid report is short on sense” – In all likelihood, the protection offered by COVID-19 vaccines against Long Covid is in people’s minds, says Roger Watson in TCW.
- “Was the Covid response a coup by the intelligence community?” – The Western intelligence community’s role in driving the illiberal response to Covid is now obvious, says author Michael P. Senger.
- “The cheerleader who demanded lifelong quarantine for the unvaccinated now admits nobody under 50 should have been vaccinated” – Dr. Kári Stefánsson, once skeptical of COVID-19 measures, now admits vaccines dangers while defending lockdowns. Thorsteinn Siglaugsson wonders why.
- “Sadiq Khan’s new scrappage scheme for his hated Ulez tax branded ‘a con’” – FairFuel U.K. campaigner Howard Cox has branded Sadiq Khan’s new scrappage scheme for replacing vehicles to avoid his new Ulez charge as “a con”, says the Express.
- “Greenpeace activists are arrested over protest at Rishi Sunak’s home” – Four Greenpeace activists were arrested after demonstrating for seven hours on the roof of Rishi Sunak’s £2 million home in North Yorkshire while he was away on a family holiday, reports the Mail.
- “Solar panels produce five times more CO2 than previously thought” – A new report reveals that 80% of the world’s solar panels are manufactured in China, which uses coal in the process, says the Mail.
- “Robin Harper is right: the Scottish Greens have ‘lost the plot’” – Robin Harper, the first Green Parliamentarian elected in the U.K., has resigned from the Scottish Greens, saying they have “lost the plot”. Stephen Daisley in the Spectator agrees.
- “The eco-cultists’ war against the car is built on fantasy and delusion” – No, people don’t drive because public transport is poor, and cycling is a rich man’s faddish luxury, writes David Frost in the Telegraph.
- “Conservatives give their views on Net Zero, climate change, cars, bans and LTNs in new survey” – Conservative Home crunches the numbers with a new survey, finding an emphatic 83% of Conservative Party members are opposed to the ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030.
- “Public being ‘misinformed on a massive scale’” – A top climate scientist has rubbished claims July was the hottest month ever, according to Climate Depot.
- “The green agenda is fuelled by fear” – Climate alarmists want to terrify us into changing our behaviour, says Laura Dodsworth in Spiked.
- “Why they hate cars” – The green elites have no idea how most people live, writes Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Unsold electric cars may be signalling a death spiral for the auto industry” – Endless government subsidies to encourage EV sales seems unable to allay the concerns of the average citizen, writes Ronald Stein for the Heartland Institute.
- “BBC apologises after presenter calls Dambusters raid ‘infamous’” – According to the Telegraph, viewers have lodged complaints after BBC presenter Sally Nugent referred to the Dambusters raid on Nazi Germany as “infamous” on BBC Breakfast.
- “National Risk Register reveals 89 biggest threats to life in Britain” – The Mail has got hold of the National Risk Register, listing the 89 greatest dangers posed to Britain, ranging from climate change to cyber attacks.
- “SNP by-election candidate wanted trans-sceptic MP booted out of party” – SNP Rutherglen by-election candidate, Katy Loudon, backed a grassroots campaign to have a senior MP kicked out of the party in a row over trans rights, reveals the Mail.
- “It isn’t racist to object to new traveller sites” – Welsh Secretary David T.C Davies is perfectly justified in raising his constituents’ concerns. That is the job of an MP, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Falkland Islands advertises for £43k a year equality guru” – An equalities guru is being sought for the Falklands to oversee a 3,662-strong population, outnumbered by 500,000 sheep, reports the Mail.
- “Why are feminists whitewashing Beanie Babies?” – According to The Beanie Bubble movie, every innovation that made Beanie Babies such a wild success was to some degree either inspired by or stolen from women by their monstrous creator, says Kat Rosenfield in UnHerd.
- “British Rowing bans transgender women from female events” – British Rowing has banned transgender women from competing in female races, while the men’s category will be ‘open’ for anyone to compete in, says the Mail.
- “Everyone should have the right to insult Islam” – No religion, idea, prophet or god should be protected from ridicule, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Lizzo and the problem with ‘fat activism’” – Simultaneously self-adoring and self-pitying, ‘fat activism’ appears to be the latest entry in the Victim Olympics, writes Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Costa’s woke mural leaves me no choice but to boycott them. Who’s with me?” – Judith Woods in the Telegraph calls for a boycott of the woke coffee chain.
- “The liberal metropolitan elite charged with governing us are completely at odds with the majority of the British people” – Speaking on GB News, Toby finds common cause with Allister Heath, Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, suggesting majority opinions are being ignored by an elite minority in the U.K.
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Good morning. It’s me again.
“A new day will dawn and lead us to…”
Feel free to fill in the blanks.
The downtickers won’t have a clue.
Morning HP! Another day, another holler…
Oh I see you’ve got 5 DTs already and you posted 5 hrs ago…so…doing the maths…one an hour, a sort of trickle of DTs…maybe the hosepipe ban affects them..
As for your ‘blank’, may I suggest ‘a great awakening’, it’s either that or ‘the Fox and Hounds’…although a bit early for the pub…
Cheers Aethelred
“coffee and scrambled eggs”. Morning back.
Thanks Mogs.
Bit delayed but MORNING!
I downticked as a sort of protest within a protest
Well you’ve confused me with that one.
I never had you down as a Downticker Joe. Ah well, live and learn.
I think this is one of the deepest downticky threads ever.
Morning HP.
A new day will dawn and lead us to … Same shit different day
“another dusk” would be my suggestion.
NB: Relative to my working hours, it’s 5am now.
JP Reacts to Klaus Schwab’s Plan to Block the Sun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP8B4M0EYAc&list=WL&index=59
JP Reacts
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Lunacy of an order of magnitude so vast it can almost not even be imagined.
“Corporate insolvencies jump in England and Wales after withdrawal of Covid support”
For my little business, it was the pointless scare about Omicron that very nearly did for us. I dread the words ‘work from home’ dripping casually from an officials mouth, as that will be the end of us.
Absolutely. We must not forget that although there was not a lockdown over Omicron (which Sunak claims he personally prevented – I’m not believing that yet), there was certainly a massive campaign of fear, which frightened people away from pubs. “The new variant is spreading fast”, Saint Boris said. Every time I have written to my MP, I have said that their lockdowns have actively deterred people from setting up business, because we never know when the government might snatch it all away on a panicked whim, with no Parliamentary scrutiny, and no exit plan, now that the precedent has been set.
And yes, it’s despicable the way politicians are so CASUAL with words that have massive implications for people less rich and famous than they are. “I’m sorry I destroyed your business; but can we pleeeeeease move on from Barnard Castle?” “We need to squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze the brakes on reopening.” “Can we please move on from Partygate?” Yeah, let’s just move on from the massive hypocrisies. So casually uttered.
If you’re on Telegram I strongly advise you to join Anna de Buisseret’s channel. She’s a UK lawyer specialising in employment law, former Army Officer & is all over the lawfulness of the government diktats. Some very useful stuff on there. Plus if you needed to engage an employment lawyer & you’re in London, she’s your woman. The other option you have for information is PJ Hyland (solicitor for Dr Sam White) as he too specialises in employment law.
Both of these are Truth Warriors & have been standing up & speaking out from the start.
We are involved in events BB. On the day that the first lockdown was announced I had 73 booking cancellations in 8 hours as everyone cleared their diaries and went home. We did get a few bob from Rishi, and through sound management etc, we survived quite well. When Omicron came round there was no official lockdown, yet still 80% of the recovering order-book disappeared for five months, due to people reverting to Zoom and other ways of not meeting in large groups. What reserves we had were swallowed up, all except the coins in the ashtray of my car, with which we have eeked out a meagre living since.
Of course with nothing ‘official’ just the careless advice of people who ought to have known better to ‘work from home’, I don’t believe we have any recourse, even if we had the money to pursue it. As we are, we are hanging on, recovering slowly, paying off the Bounce Back loan (yes we are…), but one more careless statement will do us in. Its not good to have this hanging over us, and I’m certainly not investing further with that risk on our heads. I just wish some of the talking heads in the media would shut their cake holes, rather than hypothesizing and scaring people into more unnecessary safety-ism over a mild upper respiratory infection.
My business was down to its last £1,500 at one point and I was about to liquidate. I had been exempted from support, because I was a limited company director, which struck me as deliberate, given the plan to implement IR35 (got rid of that Liz!)
By pure chance, someone I had worked with in the past had her email hacked and I got a load of dross sent from her account. I sent her a message on her work email to warn her and ended up being offered some work that carried on in dribs and drabs for 18 months. I accepted being paid two thirds of my usual amount and was grateful to have anything at all. It saved my business. I will never forgive the Government for almost destroying my business and my livelihood.
Morning fellow travellers…some good stuff in the Conservative Woman..including this update about vaccine injuries..
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/as-vaccine-toll-rises-twitter-has-banned-me-but-the-fightback-is-under-way/
And it’s worth emphasising that Mark Steyn’s output on GBN that is mentioned via your link is on the ball at present. It’s amazing that GBN’s output on YouTube actually works, as well; perhaps the advertising revenue to YT is worthwhile?
Silly season news … Nick Cohen’s Observer column was suspended because he allegedly had a less-than-contructive professional conversation with a female colleague 17 years ago.
There’s really nothing more to that. IMHO, that would be a good reason to get rid of the lady. Still being vengeful 17 years after a non-event is a sign of someone being a really nasty piece of work. Her present colleagues would probably appreciate that. Even if they don’t dare to speak out.
…a brilliant Russel Brand…….talking about the CDC’s decision to give vax/boosters to children…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEqOUxiPJBc
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-murky-road-to-lockdown-part-two-the-deeply-sinister-way-ahead/
Part 2. Excellent piece from Paula Jardine at TCW.
The conclusion is frankly terrifying.
Last night’s Dan Wootton’s view on GBN: https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/locking-the-british-public-in-their-homes-by-law-should-not-be-viewed-as-a-solution-to-anything-says-dan-wootton/347462
Japan’s mask compliance is still at historic highs–and now its virus cases are at historic highs as well. If that’s “success”, I’d really hate to see what failure looks like.
I always thought that the “something must be done” bureaucrats copied the idea from Japan – it seems to be common practice on crush-loaded public transport over there, e.g. Whether it ever worked is a different issue, but it looked like a copycat job to me.
Michie said that she saw them there first and claimed to be very impressed with the social courtesy of the Japanese who’d protect others from their oral effluent as a matter of course.
This is truly scary what has been voted through in New Zealand regarding abortion.
We can never forget or forgive this level of depravity.
In a couple of states in the US there was legislation proposed to allow abortion after birth!
OMFG what is the source please? I cannot believe what I’m reading! Is this for real?? I’m pro-choice but with strict time limitations, and I do not support the current ones which state you can have an abortion up until 24 weeks, whereby the foetus is considered ‘viable’ after that. But are they really saying that now you can abort a fully-formed baby if you are 8 or 9 months pregnant?? Why isn’t this horror show all over the flipping press? Abortion based on the gender of the foetus?? I’m off to hurl, this is despicable.
I must confess my stomach churned as I read this.
Christ!
I don’t have the original source but this came from a trusted truth warrior.
I know of & treated individuals who were 23 weeks gestation at birth who lived to adulthood. Yes they had huge problems but there are limits to what is moral.
In my book, the post birth treatment of a live & viable new born is infanticide.
God Almighty!
The evil, firkin heathens. How low are we going to go?