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Employees With Lawful But Unfashionable Views on Issues Like Gender, Abortion and Climate Change are Being Penalised by Woke Companies

by Richard Eldred
18 August 2023 5:00 PM

GB News reports on the risk to employees of voicing unfashionable opinions on hot-button issues, citing case data from the Free Speech Union showing how equity, diversity and inclusion policies are being invoked to penalise them. Here’s an excerpt:

Employees who voice opinions on gender, race, sexuality and religion risk being sacked from their workplace, GB News has been told.

British firms pose a “danger” of “threatening” the freedom of employees, according to an organisation which advocates freedom of speech.

Director of Data and Impact at the Free Speech Union (FSU) Thomas Harris says Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policies – which are often compulsory for employees – could “further erode freedom of expression”.

The FSU reports that one in 20 of its cases are directly related to EDI training which are “accelerating the politicisation of the workplace”.

While organisations such as Coutts and the Church of England’s investment bodies have signed up to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment – which encompasses EDI and Net Zero policies.

The FSU has shared exclusive case studies with GB News, including examples of employees who have faced possible sanctions.

Some members have been told that they will fail their EDI training if they don’t pass a test with a “sufficiently high score”, which could ultimately see employees suffering “hostility” and a potential sanction.

Other EDI training materials, which treat issues such as critical race theory, micro aggressions (negative attitudes toward stigmatised or culturally marginalised groups) or anti-racism, are ideas not to be questioned.

It comes after reports revealed last week that organisation ‘B Lab U.K.’ is lobbying for a change in the law to further embed these practices in British companies.

The ‘Better Business Act’ would see section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 amended to give chiefs a duty to consider “people and the planet”, not just profit. …

Harris told GB News: “The evidence from our casework is clear. The EDI policies being rolled out by companies wishing to demonstrate their woke credentials, routinely operate as oppressive speech codes for both employees and customers alike.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: B Lab U.K.Critical Race TheoryEDIFree speech crisisFree Speech UnionFSU

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D B
D B
3 years ago

I can imagine that my holiday to Denmark will still require me to have taken two or three courses of the therapeutic though.

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Old Maid
Old Maid
3 years ago
Reply to  D B

Reuters reports (yesterday): If the changes are approved, the only rules that will remain are those covering test and isolation on entry to Denmark, which will stay in place for another four weeks.

The implication being that they, too, may be removed after four weeks. But I expect yer jabbed will be the only ones given a clear run.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  D B

“If you are entering from a COVID-19 high-risk country, you must self-isolate after entry, unless you are fully vaccinated or previously infected. You must isolate yourself for 10 days. You may break the isolation after a negative PCR test taken at the earliest on the sixth day after the time of entry.16.1.2022″

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

covid especially for those actually vaccinated (only available to those recovered from SARS2) is never high-risk.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Often, in discussions, I feel that the simplicity of this fundamental point gets missed. Covid lethality is the foundational myth of the whole shit-show.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

100%. And there was a deliberate campaign to make sure if could not be discussed and anyone who did was either dangerous or mad.

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Dale
Dale
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

On the other, vaccines are never no-risk for any age group or health status.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Covid for the perforated most definitely is High Risk.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago

>we can now remove the last coronavirus restrictions in Denmark,”

Could have done it in march 2020

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Innocent bystander
Innocent bystander
3 years ago

They are hoping to get away with these atrocities.

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AndyPandy
AndyPandy
3 years ago

But.. Sturgeon said England was an ‘outlier..’

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  AndyPandy

I thought she said ‘out-and-out liar’.

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Lucan Grey
Lucan Grey
3 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

In her own mind she’s not out and she’s not a liar.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

No, that was herself.

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Prester John
Prester John
3 years ago
Reply to  AndyPandy

She’s slow to remove her own injunctions*, she thinks they are super.
*not to be understood as in ‘interdict’.

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MizakeTheMizan
MizakeTheMizan
3 years ago

I’m not lowering my guard. Not one bit.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  MizakeTheMizan

Same with your mask?

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  MizakeTheMizan

Unlike the DS which seems happy to overlook the remaining travel measures.

The end of some the most obvious restrictions keeps being oversold as the end of all restrictions and it is dangerous.

Until travel in and out of a country is completely unconditional with regards to covid, coronavirus, or anything related, then not all restrictions have been removed.

Even when that happens, there will still be the very hard job of completely debunking many of the flawed and dangerous assumptions that have led to all these measures, such as the idea that we don’t have a “right” to infect each other. Or that the state can remove basic fundamental rights, rights that none of us prior to 2020 even imagined we could ever lose.

You’re absolutely right that we mustn’t lower our guard.

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Dale
Dale
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

As long as virology reigns, and others regarded as disease vectors, there are no truly effective arguments against curbs on freedoms.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  Dale

Well, there is the proportionality argument.

But we have seen how arbitrary that one is and how easily a small risk has been sold as a huge risk to a population with what appears to be a vanishingly small risk tolerance.

So, in effect, yes.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

‘Covid’ is all about ‘control’ – even the ‘fully vaccinated’ are always in danger of ‘the authorities’ pulling a positive test result out of their hat, if they want to tease someone, or just to get some more profits for their hotel-owning mates.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
3 years ago

This is waaay too coordinated. Lockstep once again. I know this may sound paranoid to some, but this all makes me very worried about what they have up their sleeve. Maybe the next step is a more direct approach, simply communicating & subtly rolling out the digital ID and the first stage of the social credit system? After all, they can simply give those horrible, unclean unvaxxed minority (of which, just to be clear, I’m one) a choice – get onboard or lose your right to anything that constitutes a life. They’ve already got the majority onboard, and most of those have already gone full fascist, so why not? It just accelerates the plan.

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

This is waaay too coordinated.

We’re all thinking it, except the very rude phantom down voter 😉

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ElSabio
ElSabio
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

 The very rude phantom down voter…?

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

Schwab the decks, cabin boy!

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Susan
Susan
3 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

This photo could be seen to violate the new admin rules, no?

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Susan

Any idea why the new caption has appeared, about being rude to other posters, etc.? Has something happened? No swear words?

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Don’t know, but when we’re in the middle of a war it doesn’t seem unreasonable to be impolite to the enemy!

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Was wondering the same – maybe rational has complained about all the negative comments? I was one of the many..

Telling someone to use the product of the kidneys does not roll off the tongue.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Susan

You mean it’s an obscenity?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Anti_socialist

With ‘cases still going up’ a clear admission that all lockdown regulations were nonsense from the start and remain so but why not just abandon them tonight 00:01 rather than drag them out a few more days?

Or. Denmarks population is seen as being nearly fully compliant with docile obedient conformity and so restrictions need to be relaxed before lockdown is effortlessly reimposed in furtherance of compulsory electric cars, sequestration of bank accounts, ban on meat consumption or whatever else they feel like introducing.

Last edited 3 years ago by karenovirus
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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

If it’s a ban on meat consumption, may I please have first dibs on all that surplus, and hopefully free Danish bacon?

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

On the ‘News’ in Finland today, one city has been labelled as the most ‘carbon unfriendly’ city of Finland. I hope the residents of that city are thoroughly ashamed of themselves, they are destroying our environment.
Meanwhile China builds 16 more coal-fired power stations, and Bezos charges $2 million for a short hop up into ‘Space’ in his willy-rocket.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

That’s a petty little numbers game played all the time. Local Live Online (Mirror Group News) frequently headline “South Central District revealed as hottest Covid Hotspot in the County !”

There is always going to be a place, doesn’t matter where, that is the hottest hotspot, even if it’s got the only case in the County.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

6th April this year in the UK is when digital ID will start to be rolled out….

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
3 years ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

Source please

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Go to government documents. Thank Oliver Dowden for pushing it through on the
QT

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Aleajactaest
Aleajactaest
3 years ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

not good enough. Cite or shut up

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

Naughty, see new posting guidelines.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Digital identity document validation technology (IDVT) – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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Ostap Melnick
Ostap Melnick
3 years ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

To weed out illegal immigrants:

Policy paper
Identity document validation technology in the right to work and right to rent schemes, and DBS pre-employment checking (accessible version) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-identity-document-validation-technology-idvt/identity-document-validation-technology-in-the-right-to-work-and-right-to-rent-schemes-and-dbs-pre-employment-checking-accessible-version

Not to be confused with https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/927547/GOS_The_Future_of_Citizen_Data_Systems_Report__2_.pdf
which on every page states, ‘This is not a statement of government policy‘

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
3 years ago

Omicron is so different to Delta that some are suggesting it was released from a South African bio-lab.

It is acting as a viral vaccine (even Putin used those words), being more dominant it is replacing Delta and it’s effect is so mild that it is of no consequence.

Maybe there is a benevolent Dr Strangelove out there after all.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

in the context of “viral swarms” omnicrom could have been around all the time, just that because of the S domain dropout on PCR tests, nobody detected it.

see Dan Sirotkins substack for the best explination of viral swarms
https://harvard2thebighouse.substack.com

JC also covers it in this 20 min clip from his stream
https://www.biblaridion.info/blog/sherlock-ohmes/

Last edited 3 years ago by ImpObs
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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Anything is possible, apart from the official narrative.

However, I disagree with JC because he is saying Omicron only became evident because of the success of the vaccination program against Delta.

I don’t think many people on this site agree that the vaccinations work.

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

I also disagree with Dan Sirotkins where he states ……

“However the prospect that the COVID-19 Pandemic actually represents a global version of an oral live-attenuated virus transmitting widely enough to deattenuate back to its original fully-virulent V-1000 form should be more than enough to spur public health authorities into action with basic guidelines around simple mechanical barriers like masks and extra ventilation, which done in piecemeal and often alone seem to have been enough to keep the seasonal flu’s quasispecies swarm from forming at all this past year.”

Basically he is saying that masks work.

I don’t think many people on this site agree that masks work.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

One of the features of the Common Cold is that it is of so little consequence that the human body does not bother to become immune to it which is why some people catch the annual variation more than once.

Last edited 3 years ago by karenovirus
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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

One of the features of the Common Cold is that it is of so little
consequence that the human body does not bother to become immune to it

source?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Well it’s sort of common knowledge, I expect I could find a source if I had the time to go looking through a first year virology textbook.

Not my downtick btw.

Last edited 3 years ago by karenovirus
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Health Seeker
Health Seeker
3 years ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

Wasn’t the suggestion that it came from China via Botswana?

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
3 years ago
Reply to  Health Seeker

One suggestion is that the original virus was released in Wuhan by US spooks as an economic bio-weapon.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago

The burning question for today is: How did we allow them to succeed in demonising coughs and sniffles, but normalise heart inflammation, myocarditis and heart attacks?

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Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

A good point.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

And normalise dying alone in care homes and hospitals?

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Vaxtastic
Vaxtastic
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

By making people feel virtuous when they in fact indulged in their own fears. An old trick. You are doing God’s work when you burn that spinster at the stake; don’t think of it as murder, but as a necessary cleansing to help us all.

Appeal to their vanity. You took a risk for the greater good by getting jabbed, even though you actually succumbed to irrational fear. But focus on those who didn’t take the risk; they don’t care about the common good. They are the enemy.

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Liberty4UK
Liberty4UK
3 years ago
Reply to  Vaxtastic

You make it sound suitably pathetic, which it is…

It irks me that so few people can tell the difference between an assertion and an argument on the ground, yet think they are well educated…

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Liberty4UK

C.S. Lewis had it right – “why don’t they teach logic in these schools?”.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

I fancy there would be a monstrous kickback from the generally left wing elements of the teaching profession and their unions – it would only serve to spotlight their own very evident inadequacies, PC/woke tendencies and it would turn out children who are a hell of a lot smarter than they are – as well as reverse their leitmotif that the purpose of education is to control thought , not develop the ability to think.

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  Vaxtastic

Supposedly 10,000 watched one of these burnings in Maumbury Rings, Dorchester once. The mass entertainment of its day. But now of course we are much more civilised, humane, wise…

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

and demonise the old dying, but normalise the young dying?

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Adamb
Adamb
3 years ago

Hmm:
If you are travelling to Denmark from the UK and have not been fully vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 you will need to:

  • take a COVID-19 test within 24 hours of arrival in Denmark
  • self-isolate for 10 days after arriving in Denmark. You can end self-isolation with a negative PCR-test taken at least 4 days after arrival
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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  Adamb

See Old Maid’s post above:

Reuters reports (yesterday): If the changes are approved, the only rules that will remain are those covering test and isolation on entry to Denmark, which will stay in place for another four weeks.
The implication being that they, too, may be removed after four weeks. But I expect yer jabbed will be the only ones given a clear run.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Adamb

“Fully Vaccinated” vax 1&2 or vax 1&2 + boost?
Or in my case, and other ‘vulnerable’: vax 1&2 & 3rd Primary + boost?

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Ceriain
Ceriain
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

According to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html

Get Vaccinated and Stay Up to Date

Up to date means a person has received all recommended COVID-19 vaccines, including any booster dose(s) when eligible.

Fully vaccinated means a person has received their primary series of COVID-19 vaccines.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  Adamb

SOP throughout most of Europe then .

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago

Does anybody know if the Hawich to Esbjerg ferry is still opperating?

Seems to be the only country I may be able to plan a driving holliday to whilst unjabbed!

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unmaskthetruth
unmaskthetruth
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Norway is welcoming ALL – UK needs to follow their brilliant example

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  unmaskthetruth

Norway – hardly ‘welcoming’. And if you get a ‘positive’ test result, where will you have to quarantine, and who’s paying for that?

“You are required to take a test for COVID-19 before arrival in Norway. You must present a certificate showing a negative test result for SARS-CoV-2. The approved test methods are PCR or a rapid antigen test. … You can end travel quarantine early following a negative PCR test taken no sooner than 3 days after arrival.14.1.2022”

“Adult travellers who DO NOT possess a valid COVID certificate must ALSO take a test no more than 24 hours prior to arriving in Norway. If you arrive by air, the test can be taken during the last 24 hours prior to the scheduled departure time of the first flight”

“those who have symptoms of COVID, or who test positive, must go into isolation immediately. If you are a close contact to a person who has tested positive for COVID, you may be required to quarantine or, alternatively, to test yourself regularly over a period of time in order to avoid quarantining.”

https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/coronavirus-and-travelling-to-norway/

Last edited 3 years ago by Emerald Fox
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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

That stopped years ago… I was on it in 2012… nearest connections by ferry to northern Europe are Hull-Rotterdam, Harwich-Hoek of Holland. Something goes to Amsterdam, too, I think.
There was a Harwich-Oslo ferry (Fred Olson) – stopped years ago.
Newcastle – Kristiansand (southern Norway) – stopped years ago.
There are no ferries to Scandinavia from the UK, only the Bergen – Lerwick (Shetland) – Faroe Islands boat.
Nothing to Gothenburg any more.
Maybe something to Hamburg?

Last edited 3 years ago by Emerald Fox
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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

In the 60s, I used to go to Norway on the Newcastle-Kristiansand route. If you got on the wrong part of the train from London, I seem to remember that you’d end up in Edinburgh.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

45 years ago one early Easter a friend and I were headed London-Spain on motorbikes.
The Stevedores direct bikes into the mouth of the roll-on roll-off ferry last to fill up whatever little space is left between the artic lorries so it’s flipping cold.

Reaching the rather shabby cafeteria I said to my mate.
“Neil, this menu ain’t in French, it’s in Scandinavian”.
We were on the ferry to Bergen in winter, on motorbikes. No thanks.

Happily the pursuer agreed that it was not our fault and managed to disembark us just in time.

(I don’t specifically remember but it must have been from Dover).

Last edited 3 years ago by karenovirus
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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

yes it finished end 2013. Smyril dropped Lerwick for their Hirtshals-Torshavn ( Faroene ) service at least 13 years ago. Harwich Hamburg was axed end 1980s.

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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

DFDS canned the Harwich to Esbjerg ferry run by MS Sirena Seaways. Largely a casualty of very low sulphur emissions requirements covering the whole of the North Sea and championed by climate zealot Connie Hedegaard who was European Commissioner for Climate Action in the EC. So only way to Denmark or Norway is vai Zeebruuge or Rotterdam

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago

‘Denmark Ends All Pandemic Restrictions…’

What, for good?

Last edited 3 years ago by Moderate Radical
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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Perhaps it means that there are no restrictions against future pandemics.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

Ha ha. Very clever, my friend.

Last edited 3 years ago by Moderate Radical
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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Moderate Radical

Nope, just until they want to use Lockdown again to impose the next thing that they fancy.
Every household has to paint their roof special Bill and Melinda White Reflective Gloss to combat global warming; whole family locked in the house until you comply.

Like so many have been saying, Lockdown is not about a virus, it’s about control but it’s not effective to keep it in a constant state.

Last edited 3 years ago by karenovirus
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rayc
rayc
3 years ago

The same “decoupling between infections and intensive care patients” is also happening in Germany, where the official narrative is “there is not enough vaccination”, and which is used to uphold the restrictions. Makes full sense, as usual.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

While the protagonists are still alive it would be instructive to do a thorough examination of the very few countries/states that didn’t go full on corona mad, especially the very few rich world places (Sweden, South Dakota) and equally instructive to look at which rich world countries came out of it first, to see what lessons can be learned – if any (it may just be luck).

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

a lot of luck in whether it gets into the care homes I imagine. except in the UK where we did it on purpose

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

and sweden (but they admitted that was a mistake).

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Plus NYC

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Lucan Grey
Lucan Grey
3 years ago

Finally I have a great excuse to push Legoland Denmark as a holiday destination.

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ElSabio
ElSabio
3 years ago
Reply to  Lucan Grey

Watch your step….

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Lucan Grey

Makes a change from Neverletgoland Britain.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago

Wasn’t that just the Roman ‘Wee for Wictory’?

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dismalswamp
dismalswamp
3 years ago

“If you use swear words or say you think someone should be killed or are very rude to another commenter you will be banned.”

All these leaders that forced misery and suffering on the population, destroyed businesses, split families, forced masking and other stupid mandates, wreaked economic havoc and pushed a dangerous untested ‘vaccine’ should be put on trial. This was treason and tyranny.
If they are found guilty, they should be hanged by the neck until dead.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  dismalswamp

Yes I’ve just noticed that and am not overly keen on it. We’ve done fine thus far. Think it sufficient to make sure no-one posts anything illegal.

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dismalswamp
dismalswamp
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

It wound me up because as a result of these stupid measures people have died. Johnson, Witty and co have blood on their hands. They killed people with their actions and should face justice. A death due to a disease is a natural cause. A death caused by Government actions is manslaughter at the very least.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  dismalswamp

Just wait until every pub is fitted with several ‘Alexa’ listening devices, reporting conversations back back to Your Masters.
The Free Speech Union – where free speech is OK as long as it has been approved.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

you have been fined 5 credits for breaking the public morality code

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Just wait until every pub is fitted with several ‘Alexa’ listening devices, reporting conversations back back to Your Masters.
The Free Speech Union – where free speech is OK as long as it has been approved.

Issue is, I believe, that Internet site owners are responsible for the content, so it can’t go past a certain level. Which is understandable. But I would prefer that level to be by ‘peer pressure’ and not by moderation. Then people can say as they like (within the limit of the law) and if they say something too silly, it will be pointed out to them, and they can drop back a notch, apologise, or just carry on and get ridiculed or eventually thrown out.
It’s a difficult one. Someone will be along to say “if you don’t like it, why not start your own forum?”

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Site owners can be responsible for their content I think, unless they are are classed as mere carriers, not publishers. Personally think that anything above the line is “published” and anything below the line is nothing to do with the site – in law at least, possibly unless it’s illegal. Swearing and being horrible are not illegal, not 100% sure about saying people should be killed – that might depend.

While I disapprove of any restriction, I don’t think that it’s got anything to do with making sure posts here follow their editorial line, because they don’t and never have. I expect they are more worried about how some of it looks to people coming here for the first time. I think the swearing thing is just silly though.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Many many years ago I followed a blogger.com site called “isac*nt.com” (one off fair usage for illustrative purpose only).

The general idea was that a reader would nominate a third party to fit that description, Tony Blair an obvious example, while the following comments consisted of reasons why they deserved that sobriquet.
Some nominees attracted dozens of responses and stayed live for several days.

As internet Hate Crime became a thing it started to tone down until only dead people were being nominated and eventually the site wound down.

I was only once involved in a sweary altercatiom on that site because some damned fool nominated Brian Blessed who as everybody knows is in fact a National Treasure.

Last edited 3 years ago by karenovirus
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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

It’s still going and often has some excellent, witty posts.
Here’s Charlie Mullins, for example:

https://is-a-cunt.com/2022/01/charlie-mullins-3-new-london-mayor/

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Wow thank you Emerald, time to take another look.
I thought most of its visitors were grumpy old gammons just like me !

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

In two years I’ve had perhaps three instances of others being deliberately rude to me. One was Biker, which was of course a privilege.

Another I ignored and never saw again; the third recieved a somewhat frosty public response but we have managed to skirt around each other since.

The majority of us here are big girls and boys who should be able to take such things in our stride.

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Free speech union what a 😂

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ElSabio
ElSabio
3 years ago
Reply to  Jaguarpig

Comment of the day!

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Swearing can be tedious – but it never hurt anyone.

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Liberty4UK
Liberty4UK
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Bit like flies buzzing around one’s head…I do prefer the space to be used up by a word that actually communicates something, and was finding the amount of swearing annoying. But I bore it and didn’t complain!!!

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Shakespeare refined it some years ago I believe..?

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Aleajactaest
Aleajactaest
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

a way around said swearbox algorithm sussed out by a wag over at TCW

type your comment in Notepad or Word (other word processing programs are available) and take a screenshot. Simply paste the screenshot.

Simples.

Last edited 3 years ago by Aleajactaest
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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  dismalswamp

but it’s OK to troll the forums, to the point it becomes impossible to have a normal forum conversation, change screen name weekly, and troll almost every thread without consiquence…

yeah great moderation policy

/s

Last edited 3 years ago by ImpObs
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Beowulf
Beowulf
3 years ago
Reply to  dismalswamp

What qualifies as “very rude”? I called ‘rational’ a dog yesterday…cos he is.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  dismalswamp

You’ll be banned.
I agree with you.
I’ll be banned.
Anybody else want to join the Banned Band?

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James Kreis
James Kreis
3 years ago

We downgraded the threat posed by the coronavirus on 19th March 2020 when it was quietly removed from the HCID list (High Consequence Infectious Diseases) just a few days before the ‘national emergency’ was announced.

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rtaylor
rtaylor
3 years ago
Reply to  James Kreis

Yes, I send this tid-bit to Karen. It creates a glitch in their matrix.

A small win, but after 2 years of this clown show I’ll take whatever I can get.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

Hold your horses Mette

New coronavirus strain found — RT World News

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Ceriain
Ceriain
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

“unexpectedly found”

Hmmm…

NeoCoV

Right, as you were; everyone back under the bed.

Last edited 3 years ago by Ceriain
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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

we’ve had the mild cough variant, then the runny nose variant, then the ‘you dont know you have it without being tested’ variant

what could this one be? excessive air wax variant? dandruff variant? shouting ‘arse’ variant?

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

This one is the mouse variant.
Parturiunt omicrontes, nascitur ridiculus mus.

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dearieme
dearieme
3 years ago

“and with high rates of vaccination” As if that’s any help.

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago

can we have an automated email about when we are allowed to ‘suggest someone should be killed’ again please? There’s something about Jeremy Vine I need to get off my chest

Last edited 3 years ago by steve_z
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Ceriain
Ceriain
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

There’s something about Jeremy Vine I need to get of my chest

LMAO!

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TheBluePill
TheBluePill
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

You’ve won today’s best comment. Brilliant.

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

And Witless

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Jaguarpig

Far be it from me to suggest that the unexpected but not untimely demise of Witless would be an event that I should greet without feelings of unmitigated regret.

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Ceriain
Ceriain
3 years ago

Ross Clark in the Spectator notes that as of February 1st COVID-19 will no longer be classified by the
country as a ‘socially critical disease’ and the legal framework for the restrictions is also being lifted, removing the Government’s power to impose further measures without new legislation.

Presumably, this would mean they can’t force the ‘vaccine’ on people; yes?

No way that is going to happen here!

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

I think the point is that he framework of population control is established, and sales for Big Pharma are assured.

Sorry to be cynical.

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Liberty4UK
Liberty4UK
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Many are now on short term limited commissions in terms of quality of life years, and life years, sadly. Nevertheless one can hope that the human body is stronger and unexpectedly more self-righting than the scheming rotters had thought.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

No muzzles? The Danes have faces?

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JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago

Probably their reward by Klaus, Bill&co for deliberately mistiming their reopening in the autumn (as predicted here back then).

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

The committee interrogating Javid are not wearing masks, PMQ’s they were, all while he waffles about ‘safety’ and why he needs to contemplate the sacking of NHS workers

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

I am not swallowing any of this. Something is afoot and I reckon March.

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LonePatriot
LonePatriot
3 years ago

If science can’t be questioned it’s not science anymore. It’s propaganda. They want to rip on people for taking Ivermectin. I researched and saw the evidence on the internet. Research papers are on the internet for those who wants to see. Top respected world doctors are being under defamation by MSM and vaccine manufacturers. I won’t back down recommeding IVM. You can get yours by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com

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THE REAL NORMAL PODCAST
THE REAL NORMAL PODCAST
3 years ago

Well done Denmark!

I’m especially confused by Italy though. Youth unemployment through the roof but sacking them because they don’t have the V!

Anyway….

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RTSC
RTSC
3 years ago

Denmark uses a vaccine passport … and since the EU has planned for these for years with an implementation date of 2022, Denmark has not/will not end all Covid restrictions. The EU will enforce vaccine passports, linked to freedom of movement.
https://ec.europa.eu/health/system/files/2019-09/2019-2022_roadmap_en_0.pdf

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  RTSC

Exactly. This ‘Vaxx Pass’ is much more serious than many (apparently) realise. This is a control of populations – no jab = we will make your life difficult.
It’s a mafia-style protection racket.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

When will the EMERGENCY USE AUTHORISATIONS be dropped. There is no longer an emergency, anywhere.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  marebobowl

They are not going to be dropped – ever. Getting it now? After another 20 years it will be a world where people know nothing else but face masks ‘to protect others’ and be a ‘responsible citizen’, and that they have to get their 6-monthly jab for permission to travel.
‘Covid’ is the new religion to keep the masses under control.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  marebobowl

When the “new” June Raine approved antivirals get their marketing licence…..you know, the ones that have not been tested but she says they’re OK…..

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barrywinn
barrywinn
3 years ago

I believe our government reclassified this disease to less severe on the 19th March 2020 so we were the first to do so. The draconian measures in place since is another question that needs answering.

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