- “Reform U.K. commits to excess deaths and vaccine harms inquiry” – Reform U.K. Leader Richard Tice has committed his party to a public inquiry into excess deaths and Covid vaccine harms, saying the jabs could be responsible for thousands more fatalities than expected, the Telegraph reports.
- “How the doctor behind ITV’s new Covid drama is a Tory-hating activist” – The new ITV drama Breathtaking is based on a book by doctor – and vocal Left-wing activist – Rachel Clarke, a 52-year-old palliative care specialist with plenty of practice as an anti-Tory mouthpiece, according to the Mail‘s Andrew Pierce.
- “Council staff join ‘working from the beach’ culture of logging in from exotic locations worldwide” – A freedom of information request to local authorities has revealed employees have successfully applied to work from as far away as Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica and the U.S., according to the Telegraph.
- “Lee Anderson suspended after ‘Islamophobic, racist’ about Sadiq Khan” – Lee Anderson has been suspended by the Conservative party after he refused to apologise for ‘Islamophobic, racist’ comments about London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the Mail reports.
- “Farage woos Anderson after Tory suspended over Khan comments” – Lee Anderson has been offered a place in the Reform party by Nigel Farage after he was stripped of the Conservative whip after claiming that “Islamists” have “got control” of Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, the Telegraph reports.
- “Starmer has brought shame upon Labour” – Keir Starmer put maintaining the facade of unity within his party ahead of the principle that Parliament cannot be seen to be intimidated, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “The cowardice of our elites is emboldening Islamism” – Lindsay Hoyle’s capitulation to extremists marked a dark day for British democracy, says Tom Slater in Spiked.
- “Bodyguards for MPs as extremism threat rises” – Private security is being deployed to protect MPs amid warnings that the Israel-Hamas conflict is a “generational radicalising moment”, the Telegraph reveals.
- “Three female MPs given taxpayer-funded bodyguards over safety fears” – Three female politicians have been given taxpayer-funded bodyguards and cars amid growing concerns about MPs’ safety, the Times reports.
- “Met cuts ties with adviser who previously praised Hamas founder” – A prominent mosque chairman who previously praised the founder of Hamas has been removed as an adviser to the Metropolitan Police, the Telegraph reports.
- “Ministry of Justice hosted speaker who said ‘Jews need to get in the queue behind Muslims’” – The Ministry of Justice hosted a speaker who previously said that “Jews need to get in the queue behind Muslims”, in response to concerns about antisemitism, the Telegraph reports.
- “This nihilistic new era of protest is a danger to British democracy” – The idea that people can demonstrate outside MPs’ homes is so outrageous that it shouldn’t even be up for debate, says Janet Daley in the Telegraph.
- “No action against judge who dealt leniently with paraglider protestors” – Senior MPs have criticised prosecutors for dropping an investigation into judge Tan Ikram who dealt leniently with three women protesters exposed for sporting ‘Hamas paragliders’ pictures on their jackets, reports the Mail.
- “Pro-Palestine protesters shut down Tower Bridge” – Activists waving Palestinian flags and carrying a banner that read ‘Save Gaza, Ceasefire Now’ shut down London’s Tower Bridge, says the Mail.
- “France expels ‘radical’ Tunisian imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi over flag comments” – Immigration reforms have made it easier for the French Government to forcibly remove foreign residents, according to the BBC.
- “The shamelessness of Hope not Hate” – Hope Not Hate has shown no interest in speaking out against antisemitism yet thinks that investigating Paul Marshall’s tweets is a worthy use of its time, says Laurie Wastell in the Spectator.
- “Shoppers face £1bn ‘toaster tax’ under plans for new set of Net Zero rules” – The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has unveiled plans to require larger shops to ‘take back’ used electrical items such as toasters for recycling, even if the items were bought elsewhere, the Telegraph reports.
- “BBC should be proud to be progressive, Director General told staff” – The BBC’s Director General Tim Davie told staff the corporation should be proud to be progressive, the Telegraph reveals.
- “The ‘greedy good’ are destroying Britain’s economy” – Liz Truss is right: wokeonomics is destroying the West, says the Telegraph‘s Matthew Lynn.
- “Church of England yet to set up £100m slavery reparations fund after a year” – The Church of England is yet to set up a promised £100 million slavery reparations fund a year after announcing it was “time to take action to address our shameful past”, the Telegraph reports.
- “Church of England set for ‘urgent’ review into asylum seeker policy” – The Church of England is reviewing its policies towards asylum seekers as a “matter of urgency” after it was accused of presiding over a “conveyor belt” of fake conversions, the Telegraph reports.
- “Germany: Interior Minister Looks to Ban Private Gatherings of ‘Right-Wing Extremists’” – Nancy Faeser’s Government colleagues say her plans are more dangerous to the constitutional order than the “Right-wing extremists” she claims to be fighting, according to the European Conservative.
- “Supreme Court set for arguments in most consequential internet free speech case yet” – The Washington Examiner reports that the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the extent of states’ power to hold social media platforms liable for political censorship.
- “Letting women join front-line Army fighting units a ‘failed exercise in political correctness’” – The decision to allow women to join front-line Army fighting units has been described as a “failed exercise in political correctness” after Government figures revealed that only 10 female recruits started infantry and Royal Armoured Corps basic training last year, the Telegraph reports.
- “Trump imitates Biden navigating his way off a stage. Just an absolute masterpiece in comedic entertainment” – Watch Trump mock his political opponent at a rally in South Carolina.
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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?