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by Will Jones
10 September 2023 12:29 AM

  • “Dominic Cummings set to create new party to take power in 2028” – Boris Johnson ‘s former Chief Adviser wants to launch the party – which he is temporarily referring to as The Startup Party – by Christmas, according to the Mail.
  • “Variants and scariants – the Covid joke is on us” – Far from bringing down the final curtain, it seems that the Covid comedy show is going to run and run, says Dr. Roger Watson in TCW.
  • “The misinformation of Marianna Spring” – With some delicious irony, the BBC’s ‘disinformation correspondent’ has been accused of lying on her CV, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
  • “Britain’s most outspoken headmaster resigns: ‘Hunky head’ who taught pupils how to fire guns says he has been ‘harassed and bullied’ for being anti-lockdown and against children having Covid jabs or wearing masks in school” – Headteacher Mike Fairclough, who blasted the impact of Covid restrictions on young children, has resigned from post, saying the local authority had run investigations into his conduct after complaints, the Mail reports.
  • “Canada’s Freedom Convoy truckers go on trial” – Tamara Lich and Chris Barber face up to 10 years in prison for “exercising their Charter right of peaceful protest to oppose the years-long COVID-19 vaccine mandates”, says Leila Mechoui in UnHerd.
  • “Reply to erroneous claims by RealClimate.org on our research into the Sun’s role in climate change” – The CERES team counters the ‘rebuttal’ of its recent off-narrative climate papers on WUWT.
  • “Labour abandons congestion charge in Cambridge after public backlash” – Controversial plans for a £5-a-day congestion charge in Cambridge have been scrapped by its Labour council because of concerns about the cost-of-living crisis, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Wind farms ‘gaming system to inflate millions earned when asked to halt production’” – Wind farm owners appear to be ‘gaming the system’ to inflate the tens of millions of pounds that they are paid not to produce electricity, a study has found, according to the Telegraph.
  • “A failure of safeguarding” – The Government should act on transitioning in schools, writes MP Miriam Cates in the Critic.
  • “The Tories must be willing to take the trans fight to the courts” – Rishi Sunak has a real opportunity to display resilience and create trouble for his opponents, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
  • “War On Free Speech Means Social Media Users Must Be Free To Moderate Their Content” – Michael Shellenberger in Public looks at a recent First Amendment censorship decision and makes a suggestion.
  • “Caribbean nations to formally demand slavery reparations from Royal family” – National reparations commissions in the Caribbean want to bypass the British Government and pursue financial payments directly from British institutions with historical links to slavery, such as the Royal Family, Lloyds of London and the Church of England, according to the Telegraph.
  • “We’re not interested in white, abled-bodied stories, woke literary agents tell aspiring authors” – An investigation by the Telegraph has found examples of literary agencies making clear their preference for authors deemed ‘under-represented’ or ‘marginalised’, such as ethnic minorities, LGBT people and the disabled.
  • “American colleges embrace California’s DEI model” – The Golden State’s ideological litmus tests are spreading across the country, warns John Sailer in UnHerd.
  • “You Should Be Very Worried About the Digital Services Act” – David Thunder on Brownstone raises the alarm about the EU’s Digital Services Act, which permits the European Commission to “apply significant pressures upon digital platforms to curb ‘hate speech’, ‘disinformation’ and threats to ‘civic discourse'”.
  • “Democrat who called to ‘dismantle’ the police praises officers following carjacking” – Shivanthi Sathanandan, a Democratic party leader who pledged to “dismantle” the Minneapolis police following the death of George Floyd, has called for a crackdown on crime after she was violently carjacked in front of her children, the Telegraph reports.

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Roy Everett
Roy Everett
1 year ago

Cambridge: ““But the Labour group on the council voted to withdraw support for the proposals and said it was worried about the impact on low income families. ” Isn’t it more likely that Labour are more worried about the impact on low voter support . Which is as it should be in a democracy.

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  Roy Everett

Downvoted for speaking the truth.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Roy Everett

I don’t go along with this line of thinking. There is plenty of corruption in local politics and given that the LibLabCon follows the same policies anyway the outcome of an election will hardly change things.

Or perhaps I now cannot take any story at face value.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago
  • ““A failure of safeguarding” – The Government should act on transitioning in schools, writes MP Miriam Cates in the Critic.”

Cult Transgender seem somehow to have destroyed the concept of safeguarding; their pervy fetishes now carry more weight than the well-being of children.

Grotesque

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DHJ
DHJ
1 year ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

“families are being torn apart”

All going to plan from a Communist perspective so why would the government (civil service) rock the boat?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

What this American doctor is saying here ( 1min 30sec ) is spot on and applies to all countries and across the board. ”Public health is Marxism” Ethics well and truly out of the window, no matter the context. We saw proof of this during the whole Covid debacle ( still ongoing obv ), for instance, did any country not ban Ivermectin and HCQ and persecute doctors who went ahead and prescribed these highly safe drugs for patients? Second example is the whole gender transitioning fiasco, which is ruining kids and vulnerable people’s lives. Doctors, once highly respected by all and viewed as the healers in societies worldwide, who cared about their patients and wanted the best outcome possible for them have now become the polar opposite and some grotesque caricature of what a healer should be. Yes there are still good ones out there but it’s become a lottery in finding a decent one.

https://twitter.com/TWCCanadaHealth/status/1700562021664919993

Last edited 1 year ago by Mogwai
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zebedee
zebedee
1 year ago

Why does the country want a failed lockdown fanatic, Cummings, to start a new party?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  zebedee

In Clown World all is possible.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  zebedee

The UK doesn’t do new parties.

The system is completely rigged to make it basically impossible. (The US is the same or worse).

Even when a new party emerges with massive public support, as happened with UKIP, it’s a stillbirth. With almost 15% of the vote they got 1 MP.

That means they needed to get 3.3 million votes to get an MP.
In comparison, the Conservative Party needed just 34,000 votes for each MP.

That’s a ratio of 100 to 1. Basically, if you voted for UKIP in 2015 your vote was worth 100 times less that that of someone who voted for the Conservative Party.

That’s British democracy for you.

Last edited 1 year ago by stewart
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

True, though UKIP pushed the Tories into doing Brexit. A genuine small-c conservative political party might threaten to steal enough votes from the Tories that they adopt a few more actually conservative policies.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Now, now tof:

Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Indeed it will not but I believe the ballot box can still be part of the picture.
Salvation will arrive when people realise politicians and states do not bring salvation. Recent events have perhaps given us an opportunity to wake people up to that truth. We shall certainly try.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  zebedee

And a liar. Eye-test Mr Cummings?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

At least doctors in Japan are cottoning on and finally speaking up. Anybody in the medical profession not sounding the alarm by now is complicit and guilty of injuring/murdering their patients via iatrogenesis. Neither willful ignorance or cowardice are a legitimate defense.

”Authorities in Izumiotsu City in Osaka, Japan have stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccines.
A local report emphasizes the reason for not recommending the jab is based on doctors’ warnings about the drug’s connection to higher infection rates and harmful side effects.
The report cites Dr. Seiji Kojima of the Nagoya University Department of Pediatrics, who has authored hundreds of peer-reviewed publications in his field.
Dr. Kojima is sounding the alarm over the fact that increased vaccination rates correspond to an increase in COVID infections.

“The more newly infected people are vaccinated, the more likely they are to catch the coronavirus,” Kojima explains in a presentation.
The doctor believes the vaccines are not only not effective at preventing transmission, but that “vaccination actually increases the number of infections,” the local report notes.
The report cited other medical experts who confirm that “the vaccine itself causes damage to the body” whereby the immune system begins attacking and destroying an individual’s own healthy cells.”

https://americanfaith.com/local-japanese-authorities-stop-recommending-covid-19-vaccines-citing-higher-infection-rates-among-the-vaccinated-and-immune-system-disorders-video/

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Chris P
Chris P
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Even injection promoter Dr Offit is recommending the injections this Autumn to the over 75s only. Although, when he says ‘Boosting otherwise healthy young people is low-risk, low-reward strategy’, what he should say is that it is high-risk, no-reward strategy and no-one, including the over 75s, should go near them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12496327/americans-covid-booster-fda-vaccine.html

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Chris P

“no-one, including the over 75s, should go near them.”

Too right.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

“Dominic Cummings set to create new party to take power in 2028” – Boris Johnson ‘s former Chief Adviser wants to launch the party – which he is temporarily referring to as The Startup Party – by Christmas, according to the Mail.

We do not need this arrogant prat vying for government power. We might as well have Ferguson.

Remember: https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2249/pdf/

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

5min of Neil Oliver talking absolute sense. Looks like he’s ruffled a few feathers, going by the spineless trolls in the comments section. It’s these such lobotomized bottom-feeders, the ‘go along to get along’ tribe who love their serfdom, who will be the downfall of what was formally known as our ‘free and democratic society’.
”The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly”.

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1700563476035297415

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I watched this last night and the full vid is a powerful and stirring rant. Quite right too.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

Good morning fellow walking miracles…no masks no jabs..heck how are we still alive!!? LOL!

From our favourite Florida Surgeon General…..

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12500103/Florida-Surgeon-General-Joseph-Ladapo-covid-vaccine.html

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo warns Americans NOT to take latest COVID booster and claims there are ‘red flags’ over its safety

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/failure-of-popular-payment-system-exposes-vulnerability-of-cashless-society/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa

“A new report in the Federalist pointed out the problem for small businesses this week when the popular payment system, Square, failed.
Millions of business had to halt doing business with their customers, unless those customers were carrying cash.
An estimated 64 million small businesses use Square to facilitate credit card transactions, pull sales reports, review profit percentages, and manage inventory. A disruption that began midday on Thursday, however, left those customers without the ability to run their businesses effectively unless clients paid cash.”
Without the ability to process credit cards, many businesses have reported turning away customers who don’t have cash—or taking an enormous risk and writing down credit card information to process later, not knowing if the card will go through. Despite Square’s customers losing thousands of dollars per hour, their customer service line was shut down and goes directly to a voice message that says the service line is unavailable,” the report said.”

”Cash is king. Don’t let them convince you otherwise unless you want to be trapped with no way to pay for what you need, no way to access your funds, and no one answering the ‘customer service’ line.”

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

Pretty sure payments to GP’s have been posted, so I hope this isn’t a repeat…but it lays out the payments to Doctors in the UK…..

uk.news.yahoo.com

GPs given more cash for COVID jabs to combat new ‘Pirola’ strainWith NHS England’s autumn vaccination drive being brought forward, GP practices are being offered more money to speed up the process.GP practices are being offered extra money for each COVID-19 jab they administer as NHS England brings forward its autumn booster programme.
A vaccination drive for over-65s and vulnerable groups was set for October, bit will now start on 11 September, in a bid to tackle the new BA.2.86 variant, nicknamed Pirola.

In addition to the £7.54 they could already claim for each vaccination, practices will now be offered an additional £5 for each jab given to patients.
Vaccines for care homes residents, or those who are otherwise housebound, already carry a payment of £10, but practices will now receive an additional £10 for each one given between 11 September and 22 October.
Meanwhile a one-off completion payment of £200 will be given for each fully vaccinated care home, a letter sent yesterday to NHS staff says.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  ebygum

Yes, this is a repeat Mrs Gums.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Fek! Thought it might be..I’m on the lovely Norfolk coast at the moment, having bit of a break…..so can’t keep up!!! LOL!!

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

If you want to sell something, you advertise, you extol all its virtues and if seen as positive and viable by the public the sales will follow!
If a product or service fails to sell after large advertising campaigns then it shows the public cannot see any viability or confidence in its worth, sales fail, and the product gets removed.
If you then have to incentivise the product/company with bribes and subsidies to get it to sell, then you have already lost!
Evs , wind turbines, solar panels, heatpumps are all incentiveised by governments, ergo, give up on them, they are not wanted and no amount of public money thrown at them is going to change that fact!
To my mind, products should sell on their own merit and nothing else.

https://www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/electric-cars-incentives-grants-switch

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-ve-been-constantly-sick-why-we-can-t-kick-the-yo-yo-flu-20230907-p5e2v0.html

”Australia is grappling with the “yo-yo flu”, where cold symptoms continually return, as a sharp rise in respiratory infections has been driven by an early flu season, continuing cases of COVID-19 and the circulation of nasty viruses.
Sydney pharmacist Sylvia Thai said she and her family had been sick intermittently for the past several months, and believed it was a byproduct of low natural immunity.”
(…and yes the article advises them to get their flu jab!!)

Here’s a thought ..maybe it’s because you keep getting jabbed and have completely kiboshed your own natural immunity?

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

LOL! I’m a fan of Titania (Andrew Doyle)….but really, people who have been taking the Micky for a long time have their work cut out for them now because ‘reality’ is even more stupid!!

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/august-september-2023/hole-lotta-love-for-non-binaries/

“Three years ago, I wrote a column for this esteemed magazine in which I urged the public to modify certain phrases. I noted that the term “boy” should be replaced with “ungirl”, “vagina” with “front hole”, and “semen” with “hate syrup”.”

Should cheer your morning up!!

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ekathulium
ekathulium
1 year ago

A father, Scott Smith of Loudoun, Virginia, was arrested in 2021 for protesting the violation of his daughter – at her school – by a trannie. The school tried to cover it up – out of concern for the rapist!
Meanwhile, Shane Murnan (aged 52) has been appointed head of John Glenn elementary school, Western Heights, Oklahoma.
Among Murnan´s “qualifications” are: he´s a Drag Queen (and reads story hour in the library), is an ex-Miss Gay Oklahoma and (twenty years ago) was charged with child pornography.
No wonder Americans are increasingly opting for home-schooling.

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