Notorious pandemic leader Dan Andrews has announced his resignation as Premier of the Australian state of Victoria in a shock announcement.
Andrews, who imposed on his state the longest Covid lockdown in the world, said the decision was related to the challenges of the job.
When it’s time, it’s time. It’s not an easy job as Premier of our state. It requires a 100% from you and your family. That of course is time limited and now is the time to step away. The only way that I know how to do this job is to have it consume me. Every waking moment is about work and that takes a toll.
He said he’d made up his mind over the last couple of days and that he’d determined to “go when they’re asking you to stay”.
The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, who was said to be a “little shocked” by the decision, said Andrews’s leadership was “tested by some of the toughest times” during the pandemic, but credited him for “never shirking the hard decisions” and doing everything in his power to keep Victorians safe.
Towards the end of last year, Australia’s top actuarial body said the “incredibly high” excess deaths in 2022 – 17% above the pre-pandemic average in the first eight months of the year – which were observed across the country including in Victoria, should be urgently investigated by the Government. Australian mortality has been well above average since autumn 2021.
Andrews’s reign was marked by extraordinary brutality meted out by police to ordinary workers and citizens protesting the extreme lockdown conditions he imposed on the state for months on end.
In November 2021, Andrews introduced a mandatory vaccination law affecting one million Australians, requiring those working in jobs on the state’s authorised worker list, such as professional athletes, mining workers and journalists, to be double vaccinated or quit.
Victoria’s strict vaccine regime made global headlines in early 2022 when it resulted in world tennis number one Novak Djokovic being ignominiously ejected from the country over his vaccination status the day before the Australian Open was set to begin.
Andrews at the time had been uncompromising, saying said the media circus could have been avoided if Djokovic had just got vaccinated against COVID-19.
“It’s very simple, just get vaccinated. And then everyone’s time wouldn’t have to be wasted with this,” he said.
However, despite the highly polarising effect these measures had on his state, Andrews comfortably won the 2022 state election in what later become known as a ‘Danslide’.
It has been suggested that Andrews quit once he became eligible for a tribute statue in his honour. Victorian Premiers are entitled to be memorialised in bronze near Melbourne’s Parliament House once they pass 3,000 days in office – a milestone Andrews reached on February 20th.
Ahead of the 2022 election, Sky News commentator Peta Credlin predicted: “Sometime early next year he ends up winning his little statue out the front of the Premier’s office and then he’ll p*** off and leave it to the woman, Jacinta Allan, which will enable them to effectively rebrand themselves.”
Andrews has been rewarded handsomely for his reign of terror. In recent months he secured a 3.5% pay rise, lifting his salary to $481,190 (£255,031) – up more than $16,000 (£8,480) from 2022. For comparison, the U.K. Prime Minister receives around £160,000.
Andrews will also benefit from a historic pension scheme for MPs elected before 2004, which could see him awarded millions upon retirement.
The tyrant is finally gone. But it’s always disappointing when they go out on a high rather than in disgrace for grievously violating their citizens’ rights. It is, sadly, further confirmation that the struggle to prevent authoritarian politicians imposing brutal restrictions on free societies – and getting away with it, being fêted even – is an uphill one that is far from over.
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Footballers should boycott Qatar, vaccinated or not, because they use slaves to build the infrastructure used for the world cup.
It’s like a distilled example of everything that is wrong with the world.
No doubt there will be plenty who don’t boycott, and they’ll rock up and dutifully take the knee at kickoff, blissfully unaware of the irony.
The slave camps around Doha provide more than just stadium workers.
“Footballers should boycott Qatar”
But – you know it ain’t going to happen. Cash trumps ethics.
It would be so sad to be banned from Freedom Loving, Football Loving Qatar. I’d love to see the overrated Steling take the knee for all the oppressed people of Qatar,
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F1 should also stop holding it’s event in the country too.
Can Lewis Hamilton not highlight the plight of the slaves in Qatar or do Indian Lives not Matter?
Yup, blithely ‘take the knee’ in opposition to all forms of discrimination. In a 21st Century slave state where gay people nominally face the death penalty, stoning and flogging are still on the statute book and female emancipation is barely out of the dark ages.
Where, on average 12 migrant workers have died every week since 2010 building the infrastructure for the World Cup.
Should never have been awarded the tournament.
“Fly the Flag!”
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Well, as an Arsenal supporter (for my many sins), I’ve never been a big fan of Granit Xhaka, but he’s just stratospherically shot up in my estimations. Well done, son!
Ha ha, wheels coming off the wagon. Hopefully lots of footballers and fans will boycott. Stupid place to have a World Cup anyway.
Oh come off it. Makes perfect sense to play professional football in 50 degree heat ..
Quite so: great place for collateral impacts of the ‘vaccines’ to become apparent!
Indeed, in a country with not much of a footballing history or culture.
Do you not know? It is about following the money, not the game.
And it always has been, but there will surely/hopefully come a point when the fans who make the sport sustainable refuse to consume a product that has been bent out of all recognition from the state that made it appealing to start with. IMO football matches and tournaments need passionate fans in the stadium to generate atmosphere.
This is one World Cup I won’t be watching – in all conscience, I can’t ignore the treatment of those workers who built the stadiums.
Jean Claude Van Tam is funny.
“urging players to take up the vaccine and told them to ignore the myths around it”
Myths LMFAO
Hope there’s a player boycott.
He is one of the scummiest scumbags of all.
He presents this cuddly teddy bear persona and then spouts the most outrageous propaganda bollocks
He’s an ugly ducker. A veritable sinner.
Whose ‘myths’ – governments? No, probably not
Don’t blow it, the bastard screamed at the public, as if it wasn’t the government’s choice to lock down.
Corpses can play football?
Al Beeb still showing the genuflection to St Floyd of BLM on the footy show…..now some of the sheep are clapping them, but mostly they’re being booed.
Footy players know which side their bread is buttered and it ain’t on the death or serious injury side.
Every week, they insist on insulting the public with this.
Boycott the whole bloody thing.
Not a rhetorical question…does anybody know of any professional players who’ve died, or lost a season to injury from Covid?
The closest they have had in the Premier League is Karl Darlow at Newcastle, hospitalised for breathing difficulties, and Kai Havertz at Chelsea.
Meanwhile.
https://talksport.com/football/945746/bayern-munich-kingsley-coman-age-heart-surgery/
Thanks, that’s as I suspected. I’ve only seen players and/or athletes in general, who’ve been out of matches/competitions, cause of Covid. I’m still not aware of any who have missed a season, or died as a result ( a few veterans aside )
I am aware of no athlete in America who has died of COVID in the past 19 months. This includes athletes from junior high through the professional ranks. So there are millions of athletes in this “study” with zero deaths so far. Only a tiny handful of athletes have been hospitalized.
But we can’t say this. Certainly, the press can’t report this factual data.
Allegedly this young man died four days after taking the shot.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/soccer-news/tributes-pour-after-former-waterford-24787825
The newspapers reported it as a short illness and gave no details. He fell ill on Friday, two hours after his jab, died on Monday.
And my daughter`s super fit judo coach was in hospital recently with an awful bout of “covid” and was absolutely nothing do to at all with taking a second shot of experimental gene therapy !!
And the 27-year old, fully-vaccinated, superfit Australian Olympic swimmer Madi Wilson has been hospitalized with “covid” in Naples where she was competing in the International Swimming League. Ultra-fit Aussie Olympic gold medallist is hospitalised with Covid despite being FULLY vaccinated | Daily Mail Online
This must a major talking point in every club, surely.
So far the mortality “risk” to athletes from COVID is 0.0000 percent. This should be worth a blurb in all these stories about (the few) athletes who refuse to get vaccinated. Why do they need to get vaccinated when they face no mortality risk?
Exactly what I was thinking. In the case of those who’ve caught a nasty case of the ro, being taken into hospital for observation/treatment, is not the same as receiving an injury that could put you out for a season, or life.
No allegedly about it. Poor Roy Butler did indeed die 4 days after getting the V.
By the time this rolls around, if they are still mandating this, then they’ve won and the entire world will under miltary-medical dictatorship.
Fine. Let’s have the unvaccinated World Cup instead.
Completely off topic, apologies.
Alex Cooney, the author of the letter that inspired Cops For Covid Truth, speaks out.
I have no interest in football at all but that trophy looks a bit like a skull
Who would ever listen to van tam
ask the over 1600 dead, in England alone, if a myth killed them. Ask the hundreds who are blind or deaf if it was a myth.
“Urging them to ignore the myths.” What myths would they be? The fact that fit and healthy young people have developed Myocarditis. I’ve also noticed that a lot of amateur sports players have collapsed and died recently. More reports than ever before. It won’t say if they have been vaccinated, but you can bet your house that they have.
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I lived and worked in Qatar for three years. All the stories of slave labour are 100% true. The construction workers have their passports seized, are made to pay for ‘training courses’ out of their meagre wages, and operate a ‘one out, one in’ hot bed dormitory system. Hundreds have died. The whole award stank from the beginning and hasn’t got any better.
That country is a ticking time bomb, millions of migrant “workers” and a few hundred thousand wealthy locals.
I so hope they do this as the wheels will then start coming off big style and more and more people will see this for the absurd nonsense that it is.
Presumably any elite sportsman (or woman) with brains thinks very carefully about how to maintain their body correctly to achieve peak performance. Training regimes, diet, sleep etc are all intelligently managed, as their livelihood depends on it.
Allowing themselves to be injected with a novel substance with unknown consequences, potentially including disability and death, probably belongs in the category of career-limiting stupid decision-making.
They know they can lose their career from taking an unapproved cold medicine, so have experience of being very careful in health related issues.
Unlike carers they all have enough dough to sue for breach of human rights and lost earnings. No reason is needed to reject a vaccine.
No problem. Quite possible to ignore the myths and still avoid the vaccine.
Looks like a case all vaticinations are acceptable. No matter where they are made. Chinese, Russian, USA, India,Europe etc. It is often said that some are much more effective than others.That is why some countries do not allow visitors from certain countries because of the vaccine used.
Yet another for the something is not sitting right pile of facts.
So he recovered, good for him. What about all the people who got bad reactions to the vaccine and have not recovered. Funny how they never get a spot on the BBC.
I’ve just recovered from a bad bout of Covid19 and I’m not urging people to get the jab. Funnily enough my views don’t count though.
Some people will have a worse time with covid illness than others, I didn’t find my bout last year great fun, though I’ve had much worse viral illness in the past. It doesn’t mean everyone must take this vaccine. If I was that player I wouldn’t want the bbc to use me to coerce others into vaccination!
I hope these spoiled dollies finally grow a pair and resist the bullying.
If they can kick balls they can kick a..e.
“Deputy Chief Medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam has been forthright in urging players to take up the vaccine and told them to ignore the myths around it”
“Myths” like these ones published by HM Government?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting
Yes. I don’t know if there is a World Cup of women teams at the same time but there is currently investigation of why women’s menstrual cycles and flow are being affected by these vaccines.
I can see no reason if you are a young male or female athlete why you would wish to have one of these vaccines.
I think the only MP to stand up in parliament and ask for no-fault compensation for COVID vaccine injuries has been Christopher Chope MP
https://www.chrischope.com/news/chris-chope-strong-and-significant-covid-19-vaccine-damage-bill-2nd-reading-debate
The comments from some other MPs during the debate weren’t that constructive. (Maybe they have pharma shares.)
Correct me if I am wrong but I think where things are up to with these covid vaccines is:
Given the above why would you as young, healthy athlete risk having one of these injections. And why would you as a club or national team insist they do as if they are injured their lawyers won’t hesitate to act for them.
Can anyone tell me if I am missing something here because for the life of me I do not understand why Van Tam is pushing these people to take a vaccine they clearly do not need.
“Can anyone tell me if I am missing something here because for the life of me I do not understand why Van Tam is pushing these people to take a vaccine they clearly do not need.”
It’s politics, power, ambition, vanity, greed, arrrogance, evil. Nothing would convince me that Van Tam, Whitty and Vallance don’t know that this is all nonsense. They are all highly qualified, but highly dishonest. Or they have gone stark raving bonkers.
“Full vaccination”?!!! When will people wake up and realise you will NEVER be “fully vaccinated”! This is the point! To drive people into a deeper, darker, tighter black hole of control and coercion, to push more and more unwanted and unneeded medication on us, making billions and billions for them, and all their cronies, but creating a depleted and devitalised population. By next year they’ll be press-ganging the 5th (or more) booster shot onto people, together with your slave slab, green-to-go permission “passport” if they get away with it now! Anyone missing their boosters, slides straight down the snake to the bottom, as you’re now classed as unvaccinated as the rest of us! And there are people who STILL DON’T GET IT!
That’s why I’ve never had a supermarket loyalty card, it just stops the freedom, you feel committed….
This will never, ever happen. I have a friend who is an ex pro footballer and works at one of the Premier League clubs. At his club around 40-50 percent of the players are unvaxed, including many of the biggest names.
Exactly that ,it was a phoney bribe heavy affair from its conception and means nothing to real football fans .The memmory of Argentina 78 or Spain 82 could not be eclipsed by this corporate birthday party for rich princes
Pleased to know footballers refusing but I am boycotting premium league footy for now. Went to watch my local team Marine FC in FA cup qualifier. Terraces. Reminded me of the good old days without the bovver
One of the most poignant moments of last season, all those people watching Marine v Spurs from their gardens.
Well, they are professional athletes with short careers, they don’t want die from micro- blood clots when they travel to European and International away games.
I’d have thought the deep state would leave them alone, like Pfizer, FDA and Moderna employees.
Coercion !? What coercion! It’s a conspiracy right !!?
“ignore the MYTHS”! Shouldn’t Van Tam be advising footballers to do their OWN research! What he refers to as vaccine “myths” are backed by solid evidence, & can have life affecting impacts on people of all ages.
Covid is a disease which kills the elderly and / or those with underlying conditions, in particular cardio-vascular weakness. Professional footballers are young and in ridiculously good cardio-vascular condition. So it would make no sense whatsoever for a pro footballer to take the vaccine.
Well at least some footballers are gifted with common sense. The Qatar World Cup is going to be one of the biggest non events ever. They also didn’t win it fairly in the first place in my honest opinion.
What a load of you know what. How many more athletes do we need to lose from the poisonous vaccines before a stop to this entire death by vaccination madness stops. Today, another friend has a blood clot. Another lung damage, another heart abnormalities. Ten other friends now have Covid post double jabs. I declined. Why won’t more people wake up and say NO.