Keir Starmer is not a politician by training or inclination. He was drafted into civilian office late in life and immediately lowered into a stately place on the front benches.
In this way, Starmer is part of a long tradition. Political systems in trouble often lose faith in their native class of civilian leaders, and turn instead to a distinguished outsider who seems to stand above the factions.
These people are not ‘political’ – politics has failed. These are figures of unity, and of command. The senile Field Marshal MacMahon; the senile Field Marshal Hindenburg; the policeman Starmer; the police spy Sue Gray – harder, simpler people for a harder, simpler rule.
But there is a reason why most governing classes try to avoid the open rule of its bureaucrats, spies and major generals. Social orders need to maintain a mythology of some kind – that power does not simply flow out the barrel of a gun. Whatever else the next few years may hold, it does not ultimately bode well for Blairite society that it must now have recourse to people like Starmer.
Much has been said about Keir Starmer’s ‘Pabloism’, and of his youthful sojourn in a work camp behind the Iron Curtain. All valid things to raise. What should be remembered, though, is that this general tendency – the collected fissile elements of Marxism Today – has now been in power for over a quarter century and is showing its age. Whatever radical or subversive edge it may have had is many years gone. It is also, in its way, unduly flattering. New Labour was always proudly philistine. The sneering conformism, the monomaniacal obsession with football. This was never a ploy to distract from more chic ideas, as some have said. The two were always one and the same. ‘Pabloism’ in practice from 1997 simply meant the kind of chivvying ITV morning show sensibility that has come to define the era; that eccentricity is suspect, that everyone has to cheer for England, and that Diana Spencer was the People’s Princess.
Forget class, certainly. Forget, even, the Authoritarian Personality, or “all that is solid melts into air”. What we’re faced with in 2024 is a stodgy public moralism that owes much more to Ant & Dec than to Michel Pablo. And more than anything else, it’s a public doctrine that was put in genuine danger from 2016-20, placing it under a psychological state of siege from which it has yet to emerge, and which Starmer’s victory will do nothing to allay.
Starmer the man is the most apt symbol of this new, baroque self-seriousness. This is a person who really does think that a studio audience would laugh at him because his father was a toolmaker. He speaks to an established order that has, in its paranoia, lost whatever capacity for subtlety or irony it may have once possessed. There is instead a deathly earnestness, and a fear for the future. Shadows move on the walls – divisive ones. Look at the front cover of Starmer’s manifesto. He is flinty-eyed; wearisomely resolute. The whole picture is tinted grey. Even Theresa May in her full pomp would have probably baulked at this. Keir Starmer is a dark and brooding man for a dark and brooding age.
Starmer and the class he represents believe that time is running out for them. The Financial Times speaks of Starmerism as a last chance saloon for the Third Way. If Mr. Trump re-enters the Oval Office, and if current political trends in continental Europe persist, then the Starmer ministry will soon be the last government of its kind in the Western world.
It will retain its distinct character, though. New Labour’s overriding belief was a horror of centralised power in London (let it never be said that this project was in any way ‘Metropolitan’), and the idea that there are natural laws, or human rights, that majorities cannot abridge. With Brexit, these ideas took on a new urgency. Britain’s EU exit was, among other things, a reassertion of popular sovereignty and executive powers. And so, in 2024, the quangos, devolution, and the rule of the courts are now treated as the best way to prevent anything like Brexit ever happening again. It’s a simple, despairing idea. No one can be trusted to use power, and so the sceptre of state must now be smashed once and for all lest anyone try to pick it up. Absolutely no one will be responsible for anything under such a system; the only sovereign power will be codes of ethics and values, enforced by the courts.
This is the meaning of Starmerism: a frantic charge for the guns to destroy the unitary parliamentary state before any of its rivals can wrest control of it. In the man itself it will find a suitable commanding officer. Sir Keir has no settled views on economic or foreign affairs. He is essentially apolitical; essentially philistine. His only political belief is that politics should stop existing. Like many politicians drawn from the security forces, he is old and his career is behind him; he wants, essentially, to render this last service to the nation and then retire.
There is nothing mysterious or evasive about Starmerism at all. It has always been very open about its basic programme: to reduce Parliament and Downing Street to constitutional ciphers and end majority rule.
This is the hard point around which the party’s entire manifesto revolves. For all the talk of growth, the economy is here completely suborned to the bigger constitutional battle. The economic idea of Starmerism is that no politician should be permitted to take economic decisions. All “fiscal events” are to be submitted to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) for its approval, which will create an effective veto. Economic advisory bodies are split, merged, and closed all the time, but such is the hostility to any kind of executive power that new institutions like the ‘Industrial Strategy Council’ are to be put on an actual statutory footing.
The Lascalles Principles, previously obscure, have now been invoked at least twice in the last Parliament to prevent a dissolution; they will no doubt now become an accepted constitutional fact, and will stop any future prime minister from calling an election on a controversial economic measure, for fear of giving the markets a fright. Ensuring good fiscal decisions by making bad ones illegal – such is the accumulated financial wizardry of Team Starmer.
Immigration and energy will follow a similar course. Starmer has pledged to “strengthen” the Migration Advisory Council (MAC). Given how loathe Rishi Sunak has been to ignore its recommendations, we can only assume that a beefed-up version of the MAC will have almost complete discretion over Britain’s immigration policy. Great British Energy, like NHS England (created by the Coalition’s health reforms), will simply take over this area of policy. It will be able to ignore direct orders from ministers, just as NHS England ignored Brandon Lewis’s order to stop hiring DEI consultants.
The military is also be put at the disposal of international law, rather than the civilian government. It is yet unclear what shape the ‘Prevention of Military Intervention Act’ will take, but it will almost certainly require the executive to make a ‘lawful case’ for any military action it undertakes. Similarly, the Legacy Act which protects Northern Ireland veterans from prosecution is to be repealed.
Starmerism will massively expand the scope of rights, chipping away at even the theoretical basis for opposition. The planned Race Equality Act will prioritise minorities over white Britons in the awarding of government contracts. The new Government also plans to activate the ‘socio-economic duty’ in the Equality Act, meaning that all public bodies (including government departments) will have a legal obligation to reduce socio-economic inequality. This will open any kind of economically liberal agenda up to legal challenge, or at least to legal resistance from the civil service. That this made it into the manifesto also hints that the ‘Social Rights’ detailed in Gordon Brown’s A New Britain may yet resurface: these would include full access to NHS services – and welfare payments – to newly-arrived migrants.
And Starmerism will finally banish the spectre of Civil Service reform, so long mooted. Instead, the Civil Service will carry out its own reform of the executive – or, as Sue Gray put it, moulding Downing Street “into [Whitehall’s] way of working”.
Starmer will adopt the recommendations of the Institute for Government’s recent Power with Purpose report. These include finally abandoning the conceit that ministers give orders to civil servants, replacing it with a system of formal bartering between Whitehall and the executive.
This will, for one, mean the creation of a Department of the Civil Service: Whitehall will at last acquire a constitutional existence, and will no longer simply be a set of employees that the state happens to have hired. Further, any incoming government will have to agree on a set of “Priorities for Government” with a panel comprised of civil servants, the departmental secretaries, and the Head of the Civil Service. However, the Head of the Department of the Civil Service will be empowered to “ensure that policies and budgets take delivery considerations into account” – in other words, the formal right to torpedo the policies of the elected government on entirely subjective grounds of ‘workability’. (See this article for a much more detailed description of the Institute of Government’s proposals)
Parliament and ministers will be policed by a new overarching Ethics and Integrity Commission with its own independent chair; its brief will, in all likelihood, be to enforce the vague and genuinely risible Nolan Principles. As they have done for the previous three years, these processes will simply be used as a way to wear down, harry and expel political opponents. In the face of constant frivolous investigations, parliamentary privilege will cease to exist in any meaningful form, as will effective cabinet government. Tellingly, the only department that will not have a corresponding select committee to monitor its “standards and ethics” will be the new Department of the Civil Service.
On the Union, Starmer plans to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. That the SNP has since fallen into complete confusion, that the almost total defeat of Scottish nationalism has never required any “reimagining of Britishness” or federal reorganisation, leaves him cold. His Government plans to strengthen the Sewel Convention, meaning that Westminster will be barred from striking down legislation on devolved matters, as Rishi Sunak did in January 2023. Scottish and Welsh nationalism has always relied on the implicit patronage of Westminster, and as this resumes their fortunes will revive.
Elsewise, the plan is for more devolution all around, crowned with (eventually) a chamber of the Nations and Regions to replace the House of Lords. The devolved administrations and metro mayoralties contain what really are some of the most malign figures that 21st Century Britain has to offer. Having no tradition of regional or municipal autonomy, those who volunteer to fill out their ranks are mainly those who wish to torment or rob their fellow creatures: the ultimate big fish in small ponds.
Mark Drakeford thought seriously about banning the sale of tea and coffee to teenagers. The City of Liverpool Mayoralty has collapsed after a series of scandals. Tower Hamlets has, mysteriously, lent £87 million to its sister councils. Thurrock Council is £655 million in the hole to the solar panel impresario Liam Kavanagh. The money intrigues of Nicola Sturgeon and Vaughan Gething are well known. Britain’s rulers are absolutely resolute in their efforts to empower these people further, seeing in this collection of freaks, thieves and informants the most effective way to break up any sense of a unitary body politic in Britain.
At a higher level, the new ministry will establish a Council of the Nations and Regions in which the devolved governments and mayors are to be consulted on all matters of policy. This Council – this Round Table of Insolvents – is the true ‘Starmer Class’, a visible sign of a governing establishment that must move downmarket to maintain itself in power, just as Starmer and Gray have been fetched from the back office to effect a kind of rough restoration of order.
With Starmerism, a certain kind of Westminster world will also come to an end: the world of tabloid mischief, the Red Lion, and backstairs intrigue. Fleet Street, especially its centre-right organs, has long fancied itself as an impish foe of the powerful. This is an important part of British political mythology; the Lobby, as we all know, “holds power to account”.
But it is totally unprepared, I think, for the regime that is about to enter Downing Street. It will likely pick up the thread of the Leveson press regulations. The Nolan Principles will do it for the milieu of the late-night Commons vote and The Strangers’ Bar. Stella Creasey will be the symbol of the world of Westminster under Starmer, not Matt Chorley or Chris ‘Chopper’ Hope. Previous governments suffered the press’s antics. This one will accuse it of disinformation, and it will do so with the full support of people like Alastair Campbell and Adam Boulton.
One canary in the coal mine will be GB News, which will come under relentless attack from an empowered Ofcom. Another is the likely closure of the Sun, which will shortly have to make a big cash settlement for besmirching the good name of Huw Edwards, another plodding enforcer in the Starmer vein. (This will be the culmination of a decades-long effort. Future historians will find it strange that Britain’s governing class could not even suffer the existence of a proletarian rag.)
Starmer’s programme will not formally abolish the powers of parliament. So long as it remains sovereign, everything is ultimately recoverable. What it will do, however, is put even any reforming government in a quasi-revolutionary position. Upon coming to power, a Right-wing government would face an immediate constitutional crisis in which actual authority was contested and civil servants would be unsure who to obey. Its legislative programme would be declared substantially illegal, and salvo after salvo of HR and ethics investigations would be launched in its direction. With a strengthened OBR, the new government would struggle even to pass a budget. Politics is impossible under these conditions. It is already largely impossible now. Anyone who would lead an opposition to Starmer must be willing to assert the unqualified power of the crown-in-parliament. There must be no institution that they would be unwilling to dissolve, no person they’d be unwilling to fire. Keir Starmer would make every political conflict a constitutional one, and, eventually, he must be answered in kind.
Stop Press: In his Telegraph column, Charles Moore homes in one one aspect of Starmer’s constitutional proposals: reform of the House of Lords. It’s far from perfect, he says, but much, much better than what Labour wants to replace it with. Well worth reading.
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I view this as a declaration of war by our own Government.
It is that. 100%.
”Nuremburg II” should be relocated to the US – any state state with the death penalty
A reaffirmation of the initial declaration (March 2020). Hopefully those who run this site and others who were hoping against hope for some closure to this madness will now realise the Big Lie is as firmly embedded in mainstream narrative as it has ever been.
Yep! Time to fight is now. Just had this sent to me folks, They’re sneakily putting this through tomorrow, as well. Send your objection to your MP, for what it’s worth.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2021/07/write-to-your-mp-to-ask-them-to-vote-against-mandatory-vaccines/
Sent to MP Simon Jupp. Please everyone send to your MP.
It was a declaration of war all the way back in March 2020 and we surrendered without a fight, even as world governments almost uniformly did everything they could to kill as many of us as they possibly could.
Create your own social credit details
https://hack-and-trace.me/passport/create/
I have looked at that and it looks quite impressive. It might be useful for many. However, not only do I refuse to comply with this evil I also refuse to pretend to comply.
I view it more like they pretend it’s about health and I pretend to comply.
I haven’t ever seen the real thing, is it similar?
Might come a point in the not-distant future where we have no choice.
Exactly the same here. I have not used my local pub since 2019. My ‘exemption’ stays in my pocket at all times (only there if the police are called). I won’t scan anything and I won’t leave any details. Fake ones included.
It really is a personal choice, but for me even the pretence of compliance destroys me. I can’t do it so I won’t. I no longer get the bus to work, I walk. And I proudly walk around the supermarket maskless with my chest puffed out. It does me the world of good.
I’m with you. Bollocks to the nonsense that wearing a mask is polite. I’m practically deaf and I’ve suffered enough.
Have you tried it out? I haven’t had the opportunity to give it a go yet.
The Q code reader works on my experiments.
I know people that use it. Seems to work fine.
Some of us don’t have smart phones
That’s the best case scenario – you just give fake personal info.
“I appreciate that you are obliged to ask for my details, but you will appreciate that I am under no obligation to comply. Your records, should you bother to look at them, will probably show that your establishment has received visits from Adolf Hitler on numerous occasions. That should tell you all you need to know about this pointless exercise which I do not intend to pretend to play”.
Stop normalising this shit. If you use this for entry anywhere you’re as bad as those that believe it’s okay to show your papers to go about your daily life.
Hilarious. Politicians hey?
‘We’re definitely not doing it, we’re definitely not doing it, we’re definitely not doing it – yes you’re going to need to show proof of vaccination status’
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Rot in Hell every single one of you.
Amen! Still, it could get interesting on Monday….
It could, but it won’t. Our collective spirit has been broken, there are far too few of us who see this for what it is: a CCP style total surveillance, total control State.
from ICL? surely not!
Bastards, aren’t they?
Complete and utter unmitigated bastards!
The new ‘guidance’ says this:
Companies have always been able to stipulate nonsense requirements for entry (subject to not falling foul of the Equalities Act). It will be interesting to see those who intend to continue the nonsense. They won’t get my custom, that’s for sure.
I don’t like the sound of “encouraged and supported by the government”. Anyway, it is clear now they have no intention of giving us freedom, real freedom.
Indeed “encouraged and supported” in the same way as vaccines, no doubt – i.e. bullying and shaming. It seems highly likely that businesses who decline to be “supported” will be ostracised in the same way that they are increasingly trying to do with those of us who do not wat the vaccine.
Equality?
Equality???
Now we know where we stand, for sure. It’s not going to get any better than this, and it will almost certainly get worse. I don’t think even the most enthusiastic apologists for the government can now be in any doubt that the folly and evil are firmly embedded and that we will be tortured with coronamadness measures for decades. We must all do whatever we can to support a movement to fight against it. “Freedom day” is not a victory, it is another in a long line of defeats.
Shove your vaccine passports up your great communist arse.
Correction :”Right Wing Brexiteer Tory arse”
For fuck sake, give it a rest with your ’70s Citizen Smith bollocks.
Blue or red, they are all evil cunts. Totalitarians are evil cunts, whatever political colour they purport to belong to.
It’s exactly the same thing.
Left and right are two wings of the same bird.
You’re a funny guy. You remind me of my grandma. I love my grandma dearly but she’s an old commie who’s somehow convinced herself that the Tories and the BBC are ‘right-wing’.
Probably a leftover from the days when the left were the counter culture and not the establishment
At our freedom group yesterday it was agreed that we need to carry on until these bastards are hanging from lamp posts. It won`t end any time soon but we agree that many are now awake rather than “woke”.
I need a freedom group.
me too
How do we join?
May I suggest that…
Good idea. Maybe someone can make some stickers about it – condemning those (including specific companies) supporting the new apartheid – and praising those making a stand?
We need a database that can be inputted by area so we know where do go, and where to boycott
I thought that maybe a “Freedom friendly” logo could be put in windows and doors of establishments that are…well…Freedom friendly!
Hit them harder. For most establishments, social media rating is everything. One star ratings on tripadvisor or google hurt their busines. Highlight their descriminatory policies.
and a world wide list of businesses we can go -us of the ‘unclean ‘- to with addresses.
how about places where no masks allowed too.
I do not consent to experimental “vaccines”, I do not consent to dangerous, invasive, unpleasant tests that are used to keep this scam going – how much will I be banned from?
This is not “measured”, it is dangerous, discriminatory apartheid against miliions of people, with no end date. They have shown what they think of us, now we must show what we think of them!
We are Fascism Hesitant
You – we – will be banned from everywhere. Pubs and stadia at first, then non-essential retail, than supermarkets to Save Our Christmas.
You do want to Save Our Christmas, citizen?
that really would be a declaration of war.
This trend towards ‘soothing others’ who are ‘anxious’ is another manifestation of the perma-toddler attitude that appears prevalent.
Children learn to sooth themselves if not pandered to by overwrought carers. This situation is the same.
People who are ‘scared’ should be told to get better masks or a hazmat suit. That way they will stand out for the fools they are and learn to self-sooth.
We cannot continue to pander to the perennially petrified. Appeasement never works.
The reason why so many are “anxious” is because this idiot government and their behavioural psychologists made them that way.
The phrase “my freedom does not end where your fear begins” is pertinent.
Hope those of you who celebrated Savij Jabid’s bullshit when he first stepped in to replace Madcock have learned a lesson. This is not going to get better for us unless these people are removed.
It’s not ‘these people’ but the people telling ‘these people’ what to do.
Yes, for clarity, I’m referring to the government and all associated with this criminal fraud when I say ‘these people’.
But how de we remove those people?
It will take decades probably. Do everything we can to sustain a grass roots anti-lockdown movement or coalition of anti-lockdown groups, hope some rich people provide funding, never vote for mainstream parties, try to persuade those around you.
I honestly don’t see the current political system as a means to bring about change. Everything is stacked in favour of the incumbent regime and when there’s a hint of opposition gaining traction, they sabotage and cheat.
I also heard a rumour yesterday that there’s a change happening to the way our constituencies are split up, so that smaller districts are getting lumped into larger neighbouring areas. This would obviously favour the government’s lockdown and consolidate their power.
Well Brexit happened against all odds – all the major political parties were against it. But then Brexit had a broad measure of public support, and had done for a very long time. We’re in a tiny minority.
Ultimately what needs to happen is for people to understand they’ve been had. As long as people believe the lies, whatever we do is going to have limited success.
It did, but look who hijacked the campaign… Pfeffel, Gove, and others who are in high places of government now. And besides, Brexit ultimately isn’t going to count for anything when the global financial system collapses and is replaced by a social credit system (the vaxport is the start of this).
If the fake vaccine does turn out to be our worst fears and starts killing countless people when the winter viruses come back, again Brexit means nothing. It’s my belief they knew this at the time and it’s the only reason they let Brexit win.
My instinct is that the only way to survive this is to gather together into a community of non-vaxxed people. Get off the grid and live independent from the state. It’s as serious as that. Once the social credit system kicks off, we won’t be able to buy food or do anything as we once did unless we get jabbed.
I agree that at this stage, Brexit doesn’t count for much and maybe that won’t change in my lifetime.
I don’t think it will get as bad as being prevented from buying food, though I fully admit that many things have happened that I did not expect so I may well be wrong.
No we’re not. They do this all the time. They try to make our base seem small by using mass propaganda to make agreement with our position seem socially undesirable, so you get Preference Falsification. They did it with Trump, they did it with Brexit and they’re doing it again now.
Every once in a while something comes along to demonstrate to people that our church is actually much, much bigger than the propaganda outlets want us to think (Trump winning in 2016, getting the most votes of a sitting President in 2020, Brexit winning, massive anti-lockdown protests). This is Preference Cascade.
i heard 30 % of us refuse to be poisoned.
This is not freedom – this is tyranny.
So can’t these venues just say uhhh NO?
Yep
But will they? “Encouraged and supported”. And if that doesn’t work, what else might be tried?
More psy-ops. I could be wrong I know but I think these lot are chancers, they say a thing then just see how it flies….Most businesses want customers and I don’t think they’ll want to do stuff they don’t need to, and like everyone else I won’t be going anywhere where I have to prove bugger-all, but I was in a pub beer-garden the other day and didn’t see one person use the QR code. There were a few masks going on and off but the pub weren’t bothered either way.
In theory yes, in practice probably not. It will normally be the case that the conditions of their public liability insurance will require adherence to government guidelines on health & safety matters. Without insurance they can’t risk opening.
I guess any discrimination lawsuit will fail as medical history is not a protected characteristic. Though it would nice if some people who operate a business and objected to this started putting conditions of entry in place that highlighted the hypocrisy.
Insisting on proof of TB or polio vaccine
Refusing entry to any men who are circumcised
Requiring proof that you arent HIV Positive
Or the obvious one…..requiring evidence that you havent had the Covid jab
All ridiculous and appalling ideas of course, but it would highlight that you cant pick your discrimination…….
all that stuff and more will be on our social
controlresponsibility digital ID’s eventuallyGood idea, some businesses are refusing to treat vaccinated, probably only small and local Texas type places but I like the hussle.
Everybody have a felt-tip at all times and if you see a sign with any of the above feel free to add your own?
Medical history is not a protected characteristic per se but disability is and if you’ve been affected by a medical condition for 12 months that has affected your daily life then it is classified as a disability.
I’ve been suffering from mask induced distress and anxiety for almost 12 months now (just the idea of wearing one or the sight of others) so that’s handy that’s it’s a now disability from 24/07/21!
Maybe proof required that you’re not currently suffering from an STD might put a cat among the pigeons.
I’ve been arguing this with my sister in law for a while- she thinks it’s ‘only right’ for pubs, etc. to ask for covid passports but is against any other form of discrimination. Incredibly, she can’t see the hypocrisy of this position and I can’t get through to her that choosing which group of people can or can’t be discriminated against is in itself discrimination. Utterly brainwashed and yet if you met her 18 months ago you would have thought her intelligent and rational.
Presumably any venue demanding covid passports is either doing it for insurance purposes or because they are run by wankers – either way I wont be bothering – but I do feel sorry for the young who are far more likely to want to attend than a boring old 50yr old like me.
posted earlier, problem solved….
https://hack-and-trace.me/passport/create/
Bookmarked
Or they are afraid (probably with justification) that the government will force them out of business one way or another if they don’t comply.
Isn’t that domestic vaccine passports ? Without any Parliamentary debate, no public mandate, no House of Lords scrutiny. Just diktat into a segregated society. You can go to museums around the world where this sort of thing has happened in the countries history and you can see how it ends up. What next ? You can’t take a bus unless you consent to a jab. What horse shit. If I had a rock I would happily smash someone’s skull right now. You can guess who’s skull that would be.
Fuck off Tory government, and Labour too. Up to Tice to absorb all the anti-lockdown parties and form a proper opposition. Let’s have this lot out of office and facing a legal trial for their crimes.
Reform UK put a video on twitter and fb yesterday re face masks etc and the yougov polls. Fb censored it today because it breaks the medical misinformation about c19 rules. Tice only quoted the study on masks from Denmark last year.
We’re in a war (a war that started a while ago) and the enemy are mighty and they are not messing around. Until Big Tech are broken up or forced to behave like simple platforms, properly functioning freedom of speech and information, and therefore democracy, is not possible.
How many 80+ people have a smartphone or any idea how to use it? I cannot see young barmen/women spending time to assist every time an OAP wants to enter and have a drink.
The delays and loss of income surely will rule out this nonsense for anywhere that has a modicum of customer service. I refuse to take my mobile out anyway and have typically found that online stuff just refuses to load when it’s needed e.g. airline tickets.
That’s why, buried deep on the gov.uk website, they signed contracts with some manufacturers to print paper based passports for older people/technophobes to carry. £21m I believe.
Great. Let’s see them and get the fakers working on it.
https://hack-and-trace.me/passport/create/
Someone’s already done it…
How’s that going to work with all the booster shots required? Money for old rope!
Well, this will be fun. I won’t take a Covid vaccine for health, religious and political reasons.
So I will be discriminated against, contravening the Disabilities Act 2010. Throw in harassment from any goon who asks me to prove my status and a hate crime to add to it and the touch paper has been lit.
The Equality Act 2010, not ‘Disabilities Act 2010’, and the Public Sector equality duty on the State to ensure equality.
Thanks.
Oi, Javid, you utter tea towel of a man, how is this ” a step closer to the lives we used to lead”?
I don’t remember needing any sort of “proof”, especially of my medical status, before this complete shitshow got started in March 2020. I agree proof of age was and is required to buy alcohol and a few other restricted products, but your age is your age, and does not depend on your compliance with a dodgy medical procedure.
And since by the Government’s own admission the monkey spunk jab doesn’t prevent you from getting the Wuflu, or passing it on, then what the chuffing hell is the purpose of the Covipass? Other than to know where people are at any given time?
Then there’s GDPR regulation, which govern how data is stored and shared, how does having to prove your medical status to a doorman or bar keeper chime with that?
I thought that this had been ruled out as being too burdensome for businesses. That didn’t last long, did it?
I hope and pray that businesses refuse to do your dirty work for you. If you want the covipass, you stand up and justify it. Put forward your case. You total wanker!
Spot on
Yesterday we witnessed thousands upon thousands of soccer fans cheering on their team ina stadium in close proximity with one another without restrictions and mask-wearing, we witness government elites (including members of sage), royalty and celebs hob-nobbing at Wimbledon without any restrictions and mask-wearing, we see that this government is willing to waver any restictions for travellers who wish to fly into and out of Britain when it suits them – while the rest of us have to prove we have had the vaccine or paid hundreds of pounds for a negative test.
This doesn’t sound like a national emergency to me – this sounds more like a government behaving like a bunch of authoritarian dictators.
What I fail to understand if that the vaccines work and protect you from the virus then why still descriminate against those who have chosen not be vaccinated and if (as seems to be the case) that these vaccines are not working with the new variants (which they don’t) – then why the need for vaccine passports? You can be vaccinated and still get the virus variants and pass them on.
No sorry , this is a tyrannical government that is out to abuse and manipulate the public for its own personal agenda – this disaster of a government has just decided to divide the country between the haves and have nots for reasons of control and domination.
We are now a country divided between those who have been vaccinated those who have not .
This is probably the most rancid decision by any government since the Third Reich decided to come out and openly disciminate against a section of it own society and Hitler took away freedoms and imposed restrictions on Jews in Germany in 1933.
Seems to me that this government has just declared all-out war on its own people.
What next from this government I wonder ? The unvaccinated must sew a yellow star on their coats?
This is a governmnet out of control – this is a government drunk on power – this is a government that is a danger to the people of this country.
I think the football and tennis attendees all had to prove their covid status (vaccinated or recent negative test)
Who give a flying fuck it’s all bollox
It is all bollocks, yes, but I was pointing out that the crowds at the football and tennis were very much restricted
Even the Very Important People?
Try a real one: In Germany (less than 10 in 100.000 people “infected”), medical functionaries demand that unvaccinated people must be forced to wear FFP2 mask in public because “they are a danger to society”.
Ah. Our German friends have a bit of form on this sort of thing.
Those officials are only giving orders.
following orders?
The mind bending part being that a filtered FFP2 or FFP3 mask might (but won’t, given the way they will be worn) protect the wearer from droplets or large aerosols, but doesn’t even make a token pretence of protecting anyone else.
Evidence is accumulating on the lack of effectiveness of the vaccines at reducing infection and transmission.
They have to introduce vaccine passports soon otherwise the public will realise that they’re unnecessary.
Once passports are in use it will take rather a lot of effort to get rid of them, even if there is evidence that they’re providing no useful function.
Flying fast and loose with the law never ends well for government. If these cunts think they are going to bully me into having a non vaccine they have another think coming.
The gov.uk page has been updated. All looking very grim reading this.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-response-summer-2021-roadmap/coronavirus-how-to-stay-safe-and-help-prevent-the-spread
Encouraging and supporting businesses and large events to use the NHS COVID Pass in high risk settings. The Government will work with organisations where people are likely to be in close proximity to others outside their household to encourage the use of this. If sufficient measures are not taken to limit infection, the Government will consider mandating certification in certain venues at a later date.
We encourage organisations in higher risk settings to use the NHS COVID Pass as a condition of entry, in order to reduce the risk of COVID-19. This will especially be the case in large crowded settings where people are likely to be in close proximity to others outside their household. The Government reserves the right to mandate certification in certain venues at a later date if necessary.
To support organisations and individuals in these settings, the NHS COVID Pass will be made available through the NHS App, NHS.UK, or as a letter that can be requested by ringing NHS 119. Visitors will also be able to show text or email confirmation of test results. Organisations should ensure they are in compliance with all legal obligations, including on equalities.
There are some settings where the NHS COVID Pass should not be used as a condition of entry, in order to ensure access for all. This includes essential services and essential retailers which have been able to stay open throughout the pandemic.
Businesses are also encouraged to continue displaying QR codes for customers wishing to check in using the NHS COVID-19 app, or to continue collecting customer contact details to support NHS Test and Trace, however this will no longer be a legal requirement
If you don’t do what we ask, you will be forced to. But it’s up to you.
Thats the policy for everything right now.
Pretty muich, yeah
Do not comply.
Same nonsense as now, (or recently), then- you can’t go into a pub because you might kill some poor, unfortunate slob with your disgusting, diseased breath, but you can wander round a supermarket for hours on end without anyone bothering you and this is fine. How does no-one see the lunacy here?
Well-known closet libertarian, bold, freedom-loving PM Alexander “Boris” Johnson says covid is not over, “hopes” the lifting of restrictions is irreversible and refuses to rule anything out in terms of action regarding future waves/variants
Die you fat cunt
That made me laugh and I couldn’t have put it better myself
I thought it was definitely irreversible? Isn’t that why it’s taken so long to get to this- so we can be sure? Did anyone actually believe him? Does he even know he’s lying?
This …
I have an immune system and I’m not afraid to use it. Do you feel lucky, punk?
The last thing I want is to have it destroyed by the “vaccine”
I am more relaxed about the “Vaccines” being an evil Bill Gates plan to poison us all and sterilise the young after this. Masks are theatre – and a distraction from what is going on which is a wholesale push for the introduction of a digital identity system. The rush to get everyone “jabbed” is simply a way of removing resistance to the Digital ID that has been re-introduced here without discussion in Parliament etc. The whole £34bn for track and trace has been a non-democratic heist of money for the introduction of digital ID’s by the totalitarian wing of the government.
Certification is coming as a part of this and we are going to have to fight very, very hard to resist it. Rip off the masks – refuse to use the Apps and stare down the authoritarians.
And don’t ever get fucking tested
Bill gates has a little gimp called Blair – and Blair is hard on pushing vaccine passports
vaccine passports are the blank cheques for the vaccine pushers
Medical digital ID. For the whole world.
Plus ca change plus c’est la meme chose.
Serfdom remains
Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves ….
… erm, except when there is a flu-like virus going about with a 99+% survival rate in which case we will willing surrender our freedoms at the drop of a hat, remain in our homes, wear masks and inject ourselves with trial vaccinations in return for a little security..
There must be some elderly German gents somewhere kicking themselves for not having thought of just threatening to sneeze on us and breathe in our general direction- we’d have flown the white flag in no time for a bit of security…some people tell me it was different back then , but was it? How do we know how people would have reacted to a sustained psychological war- project fear gone nuclear?
So, as many of us said, Freedom Day was a lie after all.
Ooh look – another “rare” blood clot deathfrom the vaccine …
Woman, 72, who died after getting AstraZeneca vaccine in SA is ‘likely’ to have suffered complications from the jab.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9779369/South-Australian-womans-death-likely-linked-AstraZeneca-Covid-vaccine.html#comments
What a benighted world we now live on.
So much for those who thought Javid was a new face. Just a different bag of the same ole shit. Quelle surprise!
Quite.
Same shit, different shovel.
He’s another cunt just like your beloved lefter wankers
This screams to me of desperation by the government. I’m gradually seeing many people turning from follower to sceptic but never the reverse. When you’re losing a battle the best policy can often be to gamble like they are here. They know there will be a massive backlash. Just don’t give in and stick together!
This is the Email about this I recieved, from the govt, the other day:
“You recently signed the petition “Do not implement Covid-19 Freedom Passes”:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/561818
On Monday 5 July, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid MP gave a statement to the House of Commons on covid-19. The Secretary of State updated MPs on the Government’s plans for social restrictions and guidance from 19 July.
He also announced the outcome of the Government’s review of domestic covid-status certification, also known as ‘covid passports’. The Secretary of State confirmed the Government will not mandate the use of covid-status certification as a condition of entry for visitors to any setting, such as shops or events, at the present time.
Watch the statement here:
https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/eacc6a97-9c80-4d44-b254-cfa537a2b1c5?in=17:02:41&out=17:52:16
Read the transcript here:
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-07-05/debates/803398B1-F845-43BA-A159-22E4CC6B9ECD/Covid-19Update
Read the Government’s report on its covid-status certification review:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/999408/COVID-Status-Certification-Review-Report.pdf
The Government’s review concluded that there would be a public health benefit to covid-status certification, but that the burden of implementing such a system, to businesses and individuals not yet fully vaccinated, would be disproportionate to that benefit at this stage of the pandemic.
However, the Government has stated that individual organisations may make a discretionary choice to require covid-status certification (for example, via the NHS app) to help keep their premises safe, although the review has concluded that “essential services” should not do this.
The review also noted that the Government will keep the option of routine covid-status certification under review, and that certification could provide a means of keeping events going and businesses open if the country is facing a difficult situation in autumn or winter.”
So it’s lasted just 7 days before another u turn then?
It was never a u turn … they just lie, all the time.
“At the present time” is the weasel-worded ‘reassurance’ in that statement. F*ckers!
In short: “Coming soon: vaxports – the medical apartheid (for your own safety, yellow stars on request, t and c apply)
Why? The harder the compulsion to vaccinate, the more suspicious this all seems.
These politicians do so love their milestones, their one step closers, their stepping stones, their lights at the end of the tunnel, their just around the corners, their beginnings of the end, their flattened curves, their one last push, their just get the numbers really really low.
They’ve got some bare face cheek i’ll give the sociopaths that much.
Supermarkets and shops by Christmas and then off to the nearest holiday camp next summer. It’s for our own good after all.
I think the ‘excluded’ need to stop paying their council tax for a start. If we’re not allowed to exist in wider society then why should we help to fund it?
FINO.
Freedom in name only.
Ultimate objective: 100% state surveillance via covid ‘passport’.
OK, so one thing I really cant figure out, is why all of this is happening? We are talking about policies that are being carried in across the globe, by governments of all sorts. We can count on one hand the number of places who are not buying this bullshit, so how is all this happening?
That is highly up for dispute. The co-ordination though of executing the exact same plans, just slightly differently at slightly different times is a massive red flag though.
Some of the results are:
Many have special interests here. The above are facts, what is next remains to be seen.
So who is coordinating this at a supra-national level? It’s insane to think all governments are somehow complicit. Or just useful idiots?
Or is this all actually much WORSE to than we are being told?
Either it’s worse and we’re being lied to so there isn’t anarchy, or it’s all a big scam for some other unknown reason…
That is the biggest surprise to me. It’s one thing to say they all followed each other in panic, quite another for so many different governments around the world to still be pushing the same failed people and economy destroying polices 15 months later.
Perhaps my comment below is a hint – they’re all so scientifically illiterate that they actually believe they’re doing the right thing.
So what do you think is going on?
I’ve got no idea. There’s plenty of theories on here, of course, which would make sense if it were just a few countries gone mad but for most of them?
One thing that has always stumped me was, do you remember at the start of the pandemic when there were videos coming out of China showing people just dropping dead? They were everywhere and people were really scared as this thing was getting closer and closer. Who the hell was creating fake videos?
Follow the money… and the power…The ‘green’ agenda = depopulation. These psychopaths actually believe that they are doing good ( at least for themselves).
Global Groupthink?
The same “governments of all sorts” who are also implementing insane green policies that will also destroy their economies?
Meanwhile, in France they’re taking it one step further. Used to love my climbing trips to Chamonix.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9780733/Covid-France-Three-days-opening-nightclubs-President-Macron-announce-new-rules.html
without any proper notice the Govt. intends to rush through Parliament tomorrow (13th July) approval so by secondary legislation covid vaccines are made compulsory for care home workers. whatever ones views on the safety and efficacy of vaccines are, it is iniquitous that such an important issue for civil liberties and human rights should be rushed through without any proper debate. So please as a matter of urgency tell your MP to vote against this. for more info go the Big Brother Watch website.
I second that. https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2021/07/write-to-your-mp-to-ask-them-to-vote-against-mandatory-vaccines/
They don’t give a fuck, the cunts would vote anything through with debate or none as long as their snouts are in the swill ££££
Written to my M.P. Probably fallen on stony ground, but at least he knows that’s at least one constituent who isn’t buying this crap.
We need to fight this with all the fury we can muster. This is truly a hill to die on.
Slightly off-topic, but we now live in the fully fledged fascist state of France. Macron has announced the full apartheid of vaxed and nonvaxed phased in over the summer. No entry to bars, cafes, restaurants, hospitals(!) , trains, buses etc etc etc without ‘health pass’.
Could well be bringing forward the trip to Florida and trying to make it permanent.
Yep I just commented on it, I’m speechless. Ok so they’ve threatened it here, but it’s actually happening there. Can’t even get on a fucking train without a jab or a test.
I sincerely hope that this is the last desperate throw of the dice. The rate of first vaccinations has slowed from 400k to just over 150k and about 48% are still unvax. France is not vax friendly. So will the streets of Paris explode? Will the 40% or so just shrug their shoulders and ignore the instructions? We can only hope.
Unfortunately they have dug such a hole now I can’t see them ever being able to retreat from it, even saying they wanted to, which I doubt. This is where it was all heading . What’s next ? Supermarkets, doctors?
Usually I would say the French are happier to protest than we are, but on this issue I haven’t heard of anything comparable to the London marches? I hope I’m wrong and they burn the bloody Elysee down.
Not surprising, demonstations are just not reported except in places like FranceSoir.
However you are right there has yet to be anything on the scale of the yellow vest demos.
Perhaps now? He has of course timed this with the French holidays, quite deliberately, so nothing much might happen until its too late.
Also up to now the French have assumed their right to decide has not been under threat. With quite open and heavy discrimination, that assumption is threatened, so it remains to be seen what will happen.
That is an old tradition in France. .Ages ago somebody assured me that unpopular measures were always brought in during the grandes vacances, when it was hardest to organise protests.
Wednesday is July 14th. Macron needs to read up on King Louis XVI
Wow. He has created a pariah class. Let us embrace that status.
Vive la revolution!!
According to the Guardian ”Minutes published by the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) also highlighted the threat of a new vaccine-resistant variant emerging in the UK, which they warned would pose a risk to the whole world.”
So we know what’s going to happen next then. More, different jabs made compulsary.
A further ‘nugget’ from France, by September people who had their first jab in Feb will be ‘offered’ a booster and so on a rolling basis the jabs will continue ad infinitum.
I think their psy ops is beginning to be seen through.
They are scared of the implications of the Nuremburg code. They clearly want to outsource the coercion which is why they are taking this approach.
They would have to introduce an amendment to the equalities Act 2010 to permit medical discrimination.
I don’t believe so.
Just like France, Portugal. Maybe even Ireland soon.
The world is closing in
Ultimately the Covid panic will recede – I expect in 12 months, when hopefully we have been through a relatively undramatic flu season. Fingers crossed – not that hard to think of some other nightmare scenarios but I’m not going to be that guy. Anyway, a few years down the line something similar could come along and I worry what would happen then. I tell myself that I’d be a fool to stay put when the UK has so comprehensively failed this test.
British institutions are not strong enough to protect us from our politicians and neighbours, and certainly most British people themselves don’t have fight in them. I’ve come to despise that certain type of Brit – you know who I mean. Parts of the US excepted, the rest of the English speaking world are the same as here or worse. Canzuk indeed – no thank you.
Despite all the problems they have in the US (and many blogs I frequent have commenters talk about how they want to emigrate, invariably to Eastern Europe), there are at least 80m people like us there – also easy to disappear. Although other countries in Europe have gone fascist at the speed of sound they did had pretty impressive riots in the Netherlands and Denmark. Pre Covid they had the orange vest protests in France. Many of these places are much closer to normal than we are in the UK, despite the ‘vaccine dividend’. Sweden decided that they weren’t going to run roughshod over their constitution to help politicians “fight Covid”. Good for them although who knows if it will hold up against future challenges. Demographics don’t augur well for Sweden long term.
It would be extremely nice for there to be justice dealt out Texas style but it’s unlikely – certainly there is very little political support. I can’t see that changing absent a major economic crisis of Venezuelan proportions.
The best way to stop the vaccines is to somehow associate them with Trump. It was Trump, not Biden, that set up operation Warp Speed so it has to be his fault that there are so many problems with them right? So, we just need to convince CNN, MSNBC, etc., that the deaths from vaccine are his fault.
Time for pitchforks and flaming torches outside Parliament and Downing Street!
Expect checks at the doors in Tesco’s soon…
All predictable and predicted. Hospitality and stadia at first, then non-essential retail, then supermarkets to Save Our Christmas.
You do want to Save Our Christmas, don’t you, citizen? [Digital pen poises over Social Credit Score]
You do have to wonder if this gov’t has any idea what they are talking about. Vaccines are not foolproof, not even close. They never required anyone
to have a full set of injections to get into Wembley or Wimbledon but now they are now asking others to implement a vaccine requirement to access a venue. Honestly, it is a mess. A shambles, just like everything this gov’t touches.
Watch this, it will blow your mind. It exposes who and what is behind this nightmare called a ‘pandemic’. Class action lawsuits bound to follow this. It’s a criminal conspiracy of massive proportions.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-david-martin-dr-reiner-fuellmich-july-9-2021_RlmKScwsMf6ATEG.html
CUNTS!!! Sorry but that’s the only word I have for these contemptible shites.
Time to boycott every pub, restaurant and shop that enforces vaccine passports, social distancing or masks from 19th July.
Starve them of business. Let them whither and die.
Absolutely- never in my life will I wear a face covering or show a piece of paper just to comply with the idea of ‘being kind and making others feel safe’, and believe me it’s going to cause me some grief at family get togethers and the like as most are OK with it, but for me this is the line in the sand.
Just act ‘free’, take your power back.
Emergency powers were LENT, not granted.
How can the Labour Party still be campaigning against voter ID, and at the same time fully ok with Vaxx passports? They will surely discriminate against the poor and immigrants far more than voter ID
Here in Scotland – stand to be corrected – but there is no NHS App. There is the idiotic Trace and Protect, but nothing on a national scale for logging into your NHS details etc. I’m sure it will come, but life will be interesting when we are in England!
Hasn’t Sajid seen that the case numbers in the vaxed are RISING, whereas the numbers in the unvaxed are FALLING!?? So who exactly is in danger here (if anyone except the very few inherently vulnerable)?
He said moving now offered, “the best possible chance of a return to normal life”.
Yes, I agree, but where can we move to?
The Global Lockstep plan continues. In France, they will demand vax passports for bars, restos, commercial centres, trains…
Welcome to the New World Order
This is So evil. Who are these people in reality? a bunch of sell outs, betraying the very public who voted for them. This will not end well & THEY ARE THE CAUSE OF IT. Treacherous. Playing MIND GAMES. They are creating / encouraging to Create a Fascist state whilst putting the Blame & the bourdon of SOCIAL responsibility/Engineering on teh very Businesses that they do NOT give a good God man about…. AND shifting the Lawsuits on to others….. Forked Tongues SNAKES. shame on you lot. I have lived in England for 45 years & I always thought our country was one of the safest places to live but NOT whilst these technocratic sell outs & Pharmaceutical salesmen disguised as Politicians are in charge. The lot of them Tories, Labour , Greens & the Commies on SAGE. We have had ENOUGH.
Feifdom day is upon us! They promise hope for months, and dash it days before their promise.
We do need people to stop voting for this government in future. Do they expect to “go early” in 2023 after another autumn/winter/spring of this garbage?
“Freedom Day” – what a complete nonsense. Will this become a public holiday in years to come? The day when the brave Sir Boris of Johnson finally slaughtered the beastly COVID dragon only to say:
“Beware! Other dragons might be hiding in the undergrowth or waiting to pounce on you from the backseat of your car or lurking with ill intent in parks but be ye not afraid of huge stadiums where balls are involved…the dragons are frightened of balls. And beaches. Especially Cornish beaches. Otherwise, remain on high alert. But of course you are free but in a sort of locked down sort of way. The New Normal demands the New Freedom”….etc etc etc… Like I say, nonsense.
Is that the same Michael Gove who didn’t have to quarantine because he was part of a Control Group?
I don’t have to prove that I have been vaccinated against, for example, measles, mumps, TB and flu. But I may have to prove that I have been inoculated against a virus so serious that you have to take a test to find out whether or not you have it. I haven’t by the way and won’t be doing so.
In any event, my medical history is no business of any jobsworth on a pub door or at the entrance to any other venue.
There have been some pretty inept governments during my lifetime, but none of them have practiced evil on such a scale as this one. They should all be ashamed of themselves for ruining people’s lives on an unprecedented scale.