I write this entry less than a week before the country ‘goes to the polls’. On July 4th, the British electorate will vote, and it will pick – as it always does – the best option before it. This will mean electing a Labour Government. I say these words, to use one of Boris Johnson’s favourite expressions, “with a heavy heart“. Goodness knows I have not the smallest crumb of affection for the Labour Party (being raised in a Labour-voting household in a Labour stronghold thoroughly inoculated me in that regard). I wish that the people had better options to choose from. But that is not the way democracy works. The voters have to eat what is in front of them on the dinner table, not the Michelin-starred feast they could be having if only they had Michel Roux in the kitchen. And they will, naturally, choose the bland over the actively distasteful – the spam sandwich over the bowl of cold sick.
I have no time, in other words, for – I am choosing my words carefully – the wilfully purblind drivel that is currently being served up by much of the conservative commentariat (David Frost is one of the honourable exceptions), to the effect that voters are mistakenly ushering in a Labour Government without realising the full import of what they are doing, as though what is going to happen on July 4th will be some sort of accident, or the result of petty vindictiveness against the Tory Party which the public will some day end up regretting. The contempt for ordinary voters that is revealed in that sort of hogwash in fact goes to the root of the problem. People don’t vote on the basis of wanting to “punish” the Government or because “they don’t know what they’re voting for”. In aggregate they vote on the basis of a rational choice. And the Tory Party has simply presented the U.K. electorate in 2024 with only one such choice: not to elect it into Government.
Let me explain what I mean by this, because it goes beyond the observation, often made, that there is “no real difference” between the parties in terms of policy. Policy obviously matters. But it is not the main thing in politics – the main thing is the structure of the framework of government.
I have written a lot about Machiavelli (see, for example, here, here and here). This is for a good reason: it is because he had a way of getting to the bottom of things. (I am hardly alone in observing this – there are few thinkers in the history of political thought who have been more productively and widely read and commented on, by people with as little in common as Frederick the Great, Isaiah Berlin, Leo Strauss, Antonio Gramsci, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Louis Althusser.) And one of the things which he got to the bottom of was the basically dualistic nature of politics in modernity. Machiavelli, standing at the dawn of the modern era, saw that there were going to be two modes of governance from here on in to pick from, and more or less everything could be understood in those terms.
These two modes of governance are that of the Republic and the Principality. In the former, government represents the people, and gives effect to their norms and values on the basis that it respects those norms and values – it considers the people to be imbued with the capacity to govern themselves, by and large, and seeks therefore to create the conditions in which they are able to do so. In the latter, government rules the people: it governs them for their own good on the basis that without it they are corrupt, weak, incapable and immoral, and need government to rescue them from that predicament.
There is an awful lot more to be said about that basic dichotomy and its philosophical origins (as I have done in the posts linked to above) but I am keen here to be more direct than I would normally be. The point about the distinction between the Republic and Principality is really that it represents two different justifications for the prevailing governing framework. In a republican mode of governance, government is justified because it represents; in a princely mode, government is justified precisely because it governs: it does things.
These are qualitatively (I am tempted to use the word ‘metaphysically’, but I will restrain myself) distinct. Republican government says to the people: the reason why my government should exist is that I embody and put into effect your norms and values, which are good, because I want the polity to endure in recognisable form across time. Princely government says to the people: the reason why my government should exist is that you need me, and I will competently meet your needs. It follows that the former’s proposition is really about the creation of a relationship between governor and governed which respects the governed as equals, and the latter’s proposition is about the creation of a technocracy which is absolutely and necessarily predicated on knowing better than the people themselves what their interests are and how to realise them.
This makes principalities fundamentally unstable in the medium-to-long term, because as Machiavelli was anxious to make clear, technocracy never works. It is based on a fundamental misconception, the most serious misconception in all of politics, which is that government in general knows better than the people where their real interests lie. The only way to secure stability in perpetuity for Machiavelli was hence through maintaining the conditions of republican government where they existed, or creating those conditions through temporary ruthless princely expedience where they did not.
You can already I am sure sense the direction in which this post is going and it is almost insulting to your intelligence to spell it out. But the problem the current Tory Party is facing is that it has got itself precisely into the position of the bad prince, in that it has been in government for 14 years, and things have over that period become appreciably worse. The prince’s only claim to legitimacy, remember, is that he knows better than the people and meets their needs competently. It obviously and necessarily follows that to govern in the mode of a prince is to make yourself a hostage to fortune – if it it turns out that you can’t meet the needs of the people competently, and competently meeting needs is the only basis for your occupying the position of ruler, then why on earth would the people want you to stick around if they have the choice in the matter?
What people are in other words concluding (let’s face it, what they concluded long ago) is that Tory government hasn’t worked on the basis of what it has purported to offer. It has said to the electorate – squarely in the princely mode – that it will govern them competently and meet their needs, on the basis that they are in fact needy, vulnerable and corrupt. It turns out it hasn’t governed competently or met their needs on these terms (to repeat: this is because no government can), so they are kicking it out and electing another prince, which they reason might do a better job.
It is as simple, then, as that: if you are going to govern as a prince, you have to do it well. Sooner or later you will fail, because technocracy cannot in the long-term work. And when that happens, in the absence of some other option, a different prince – a different technocrat – will take charge instead. And there will be no reticence about the shift in preferences within the public. That shift will be decisive and thoroughgoing, because the people definitionally have no residual loyalty to a princely technocracy that does not represent them. They are willing to suffer such a form of government only if it can always present a plausible image of itself as governing expediently and effectively. The moment that stops, their tolerance ends.
We are seeing the consequences of having ruled badly as a prince playing out for the Tories before our eyes. I hope I will be forgiven for crowing about the accuracy of my prediction, made in a post back in March which covered much of this ground in greater depth and detail, that “the odds of a Labour majority [in the next General Election] are if anything significantly undervalued”. When I wrote those words the bookies were offering odds of 2-17 on a Labour win. Well, the average is at the time of writing 1-41.
I am then a veritable Paul the Octopus. But one doesn’t need to be a mystic cephalopod to understand what will happen after the election. The punchline is that the same thing that has happened to the Tories will happen to Labour in government, because the underlying logic will not change. In the medium-long term, technocracy – princely government – does not work and is unstable. Stable government is republican in nature. The Tories would do well to dwell on that ancient insight as they lick their wounds in opposition (if they’re lucky to even occupy that status on July 5th): my advice would be to forget the focus groups and go back to the Discourses on Livy and start to think very hard about what an actual alternative to Labour would look like. That alternative will not, I hope it now goes without saying, be a different set of policies within the princely mode. It will be a different mode of governing entirely.
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Well, what a surprise. I’m sure everyone expected the twat to do this.
If they are going to give so much power to tinpot nonentities like Drakeford. the might as well give that power to me.
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You have my vote.
I did nit vote for Dungford.
I think it’s wonderful that you did nit.
I don’t even know where to begin with this. He is quite clearly insane.
They have to collapse society in order to Build Back Better. Good grief. They have all said it enough times.
Yes but…..La la ba ba go the singing sheep!
Mark Drakeford counting sheep:
1, 2,
waves 
, 4, 5
No. Dungford counts:
one … two … three … er … a lot…
Yes and the government in London will of course do the just same, but won’t be quite as brazen as the ham fisted Drakeford. Minions like him and Sturgeon are being played for fools and they will be thrown under the bus when the lights start to go out. There will no room on the Ark for this unsavoury duo.
They obviously haven’t learned from history that those who help bring about revolutions are inevitably the first to be disposed of afterwards.
They also haven’t read the Tower of Babel story. When man tries to build empires as if he’s God, God scatters them.
…
No doubt he’d be flattered to see himself looking so ‘important’.
Sadly the other celtic nations are not much better.
I said last week I think that is is VERY odd looking that the celtic nations are semi-locked down with heavy restrictions and vaxx passports and England hasn’t gone that way.
I cannot pin down why that is the case except for the fact that Michael Gove met with the leaders of the devolved govts and shortly afterwards they went vaxx pass and then restrictions.
Power corrupts………? Or, those whom the Gods wish to punish ….?
Sledgehammer – nut. This moron is obviously the nut.
First dibs on the sledgehammer pleeeez
I wish I had the skedgehammer.
Two semi-related questions. Firstly, is there a class-action, crowd-funder lawsuit challenge to the NHS mandate? If not, why not? Secondly, can anyone explain why an injection with zero AAR efficacy, as was reported in both the Lancet and BMJ, can have degrees of efficacy ranging from 95% down reported in dozens of peer-reviewed research docs? Sorry to be off-message but I dont know where else to ask.
I can’t answer the second but I think that there is a class action being brought by PHJ Law – the same outfit that Sam White has been involved with. They sent a letter before action to the MHRA asking for the jabs to be withdrawn by 23 December – and said if this didn’t happen [pigs have not flown past the window] they served notice of their intention to apply to the high Court for an injunction to halt their use in the UK. I’m not sure if it is a class action or if it is crowd funded. I’ll try to track down the pdf I have of it – very well composed.
I think that was about all manner of things, but not about the NHS mandate. But thanks anyhow. I have no idea why no crowd funded legal action is under way. Supposed to be 100,000 staff refusing the bioweapon, but cant see much blowback anywhere. Also depressing is that I asked two important questions of here and only had one response, which I am thankful for. From what I can tell, the comments section on this site seems to have evolved into a point-scoring echo chamber.
Could that possibly be they are quoting “Good Old” Relative Risk Reduction, the well trodden path to a distorted conclusion from studies and trials conducted by ….pharmaceutical companies?
Any of Dr Malcom Kendrick’s 3 books but especially “Doctoring Data” explains in stark detail how this is done, and for how long; I have been “sceptical” about this for many years , but the extent of the corruption he reveals is much much greater, far more deliberately planned, and so scary that these criminal businesses are still trading after, in some cases, multi billion $ fines over a long period.
However for me, the most scary aspect is that an ex head of R&D at GSK, a serial offender in this malpractice (just read about the US Court case in 2012 which revealed their criminal actions relating to anti-depressants, after which they were fined $3+ billions) is now the CSO England – Sir Patrick Vallance. He may not have been involved in this case as he only took up this position in 2012, but it is inconceivable that he is entirely the innocent party given the seniority of his former position. He is also “cc’d” in to the “Fauci emails” revealing his knowledge and involvement ( even if a “spectator”….very doubtful ) of the development of the scam that is SARS COV2 ; how he can stand up in these press briefings and spout is beyond me.the well trodden path to a distorted conclusion from studies and trials conducted by ….pharmaceutical companies?
Oops glitch with the “nonce”..forget last sentence
Drunk on power, micromanaging the lives of ordinary citizens for no good reason and most importantly with a poorer outcome. He can say what he likes about England not ‘protecting its citizens’ but where is the higher rate of infection, hospitalisation and death.? What exactly is he protecting the citizens from? Does anyone remember.?
Why was he even elected? Does anyone remember that?
If the fatuously named ‘Omicron’ common cold is 90% less likely to harm people than the recent bouts of colds and flu, how are ICUs mananging to say they are over-burdened with non injected people – and proving it with data?
They don’t all sing that tune. It’s just that if they don’t they rarely get reported. Here’s an exception:
Consultant tells Sajid Javid about his refusal to be vaccinated | Evening Standard
Worth a prayer for his safety imo.
Great post , surprised it’s been reported in the msm , presumably this consultant anaesthetist is effectively serving his notice .
That was in today’s Telegraph as well !
Drakeford screamed hysterically, “I’m the boss of Wales, it’s mine, don’t you dare touch it !!!!”
…and I’m the father of a convicted rapist and paedophile.”
Crazy!!
Mark Drakeford does what he likes even if it hurts the people he is supposed to serve (and he will pump out propaganda saying he is doing this to protect the people); this is the sign of a true dictator. He is clearly loving every minute of this and does not want it to end.
If the Welsh had wanted to do something about it they would have by now. Obviously they are enjoying Mark’s rule.
I am not vaxxed, nor is my family; and we have taken no notice of the fwll in Cardiff since the beginning. We have got on with our lives as usual.
Ditto
Tritto.
But the Dung succeeded in getting the Tenby Boxing Day swim and the Saundersfoot New Year’s Day swims called off, because covvie spreads so quickly on a winter beach, and raising thousands of pounds for charity is soooo not Welsh, and having fun is soooo unDung.
I’m not sure what he gets more incensed by: people not getting vaccinated, or people having fun! What an utter fuckwit.
The Pope said 2022 will be a blockbuster year. I wonder what will happen mid Jan…?
Labour MP Jack Dromey dies aged 73 – BBC News
As Frankie Howard might say ‘No don’t, no don’t no,no, no don’t. I know what your thinking’
One less.
Elected by 17% of the electorate
83% of the electorate did not vote for him, they just laid back and thought of England
Less than 6% of the population of Wales actually voted for Drakeford.
Ignore him or remove him – that is the answer.
Gulag Wales: pop. 3 million.
Scotistan: pop. 5 million.
NI: pop. under2 million.
England: pop. 55 million.
Some outlier!
Just 55 million?
Plus 15.
Hence Celtic fringe (backwater).
The main action has always been elsewhere!
Hopefully the people of Wales will remember his unnecessary restrictions at the next election.
They will remember and then they will vote Labour again as they have done for the past 80years
The joke goes that you could pin a red rosette on a donkey and the Welsh would vote for it
They do like a good sheep too..
Wales, where men are men and sheep are careful
What do you think they did last time?
Surely that is what they have done and what they now have.
Fat chance!
The Rapists Dad says hospitality is open in Wales
A local pub landlord received a visit from the Local Authority Gestapo two days before New Years Eve
They told the landlord that if he allowed a band to play on New Years Eve he would be fined £10,000 (yes he does have a music and dancing licence)
The goons then told the landlord that although the ‘rule of six’ applied to tables, those seated on the same table must be two metres apart. To follow the rules the table must be at least 23feet in length or 66 feet in length if the six were all sat on the same side
These numskulls said they wanted a written undertaking from the landlord that there would be no handshaking, kissing or hugging at midnight (and they would be checking)
Needless to say the landlord threw in the towel and closed
I’m reminded of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia who executed anyone who wore glasses on the basis that they must be intellectuals. When people ditched their glasses the KR asked them to perform some intricate repair on a bicycle. When the hapless victims couldn’t perform the task because they could not see they shot them
The Rapists Dad has promised £120m to hospitality. Needless to say most of that will go to the various goons and local authorities as a reward for the cleansing of the deplorables
I like to end such an antidote with the word cunts
“What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?”
Solzehnitysin
Drakeford is following MY mantra: “never apologise, always double down”.
Oxymoronic Drakonian measures: ‘I will enforce your safety no matter what the cost in lives!’
The first dictator of Wales. But not the last.
Wasn’t Edward I the first Welsh dictator?
He was certainly a boon for the Welsh medieval building industry.
Was he Welsh?
Maybe Drako will have to build more prisons.
How many times does it have to be said. ‘Twitter ‘is’ over’ for Conservative minded commentators or anyone who Challenges the Covid Great Reset agenda or in the UK the threatening hysterics of the Johnson Cabal – when will people stop complaining about being “banned” by these extreme Marxist Globalists – who even boasted about the part they played in ensuring Biden’s ‘magic’ ‘election victory” and stop funding their suppressive, enslaving exploitative enterprise? What do they expect- “Twitter” is now all about censorship!
These jumped up Tech Giants see themselves as ‘Stakeholders’ in the New Order Stakeholder Capitalism – in other words ‘delegated’ rulers of the World and judges of all permitted “opinion” (ie a repressive lefty monotone).
So just ban Twitter and stop being so surprised that it is a Fascist/Marxist /Globalist operation run by freaks you would not give house room to.
As was said many years ago “Twitter is for Twa *s”
The same goes for Zuckerberg’s “Facebook ” or whatever stupid Globalist name he has now dreamed up for his spite driven human exploitation machine!
(I’m sorry, this was intended for the piece about the latest fascist Twitter ban and I have no idea how it ended up here! I have since copies and passed it in te right place but still welcome and approvals offered on here! We could always ask for a Drakeford ban as a reprisal?)
The week 1 HSA vaccine surveillance report COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report – week 1 2022 (publishing.service.gov.uk) shows that in the 40-49 year-old group the vaccinated are 151% more likely to test positive for the virus than the unvaccinated.
The argument over the NIMS population data that some of you may have been aware is far weaker for these lower age groups where vaccine rates are around 75%.
Assuming a population of 8m 40-49 year-olds 25%, 2m aren’t vaccinated. For the Spiegelhalter/Tim Harford argument to hold true (that the unvaccinated are such a small group that their rate of infection is understated as we don’t know how many there are) then the following sum would need to apply:
2m / 2,147 * 5,394 = 5.02m. So, for there to be parity of likelihood of infection between the vaccinated & unvaccinated in the 40-49 age cohort the population in this age group would have to be 3m larger than it is.
The letters spelling out “Vaccine Fraud” are now larger than life itself!
Absolutely they are.. writ clear and large..
Blimey.. Drakeford’s left me in a right pickle.. he’s almost pushed me into defending Johnson.. I’m between a turd and a polisher..
Thus is because restrictions are an end in themselves to this turd.
We know that this rancid humanoid has a political agenda but….. somebody please grab him by the throat and force him to explain the considered and peer reviewed science that informs his decisions and actions!
Could someone perhaps tell this wanker that he wasn’t elected to protect consenting citizens from consenting to what they desire to consent to on orders of expert civil servants and expert union leaders but that he was supposed to be a head of government and – among other things – responsible for protecting the population from being mindlessly abused by governmental and other functionaries?
Where are Y Meibion Glyndwr when you need them – was a time they were handy with letterbombs against the authoritarian rulers
Drakeford is a gangster. When he speaks of protecting people, he is referring to squeezing them, bullying them, wrecking their businesses and forcing them to obey him. Like gangsters.
He’s a numbskull taking orders from people he was supposed to be giving orders. Someone apparently tugged on his leash and that sent him into a barking fit.
NB: I’ve just read through most of one of Omar Khan’s excellent diatribes and the attitude is contagious. I fear I’m a lot less sophisticated than him, though
The old protection racket again
If you’re Welsh you may be amused by the key headlines in the ONS report on excess deaths for winter 20/21. (see below). It reads “In Wales the EWMI was significantly higher than every winter since 1991 to 1992 except 2017 to 2018″ So, there you have it, the worst winter excess deaths since 2018!!!!!!!!
Excess winter mortality in England and Wales – Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)
1.Main points
I’m starting to think that Quackford and Nipoleon are competing in the next CH4 reality show…”How To Be A Complete Cunt”.
It’ll be a tough challenge – just look at how many other star competitors there are: Macron, Trudeau, Ardern, etc, etc. What criteria would you use to decide who is the biggest cunt among a stellar field of complete, utter cunts?
Ah … I think you’ve forgotten the Director of the EU Commission. She’s the one who thinks the Nuremberg Treaty is unnecessary … you know, the one that tried to stop forced medical experiments on people ever again.
Her boss, Klaus Schwab, clearly wants forced medical experiments on all 7.8 bn of us. Worse, the UK government says openly that it’s a ‘partner’ of the WEF.
True – but there are so many of them it’s going to be a very long list!
The Welsh only re-elected Drakeford last year for another 4/5 years. I just don’t want to see any English taxes bailing out his socialist paradise after he has succeeded in closing down the private sector.
I’m really starting to doubt whether the Welsh are worth it.. Drakeford’s obviously got something to hide..
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Well, he certainly loves screwing the sheep! And, it seems, the sheep seem comfortable with it.
Drakeford looks like someone’s barmy Grandma. There’s is nothing manly or assertive about him. Blair did so much harm to the UK & his policies on devolution allowed useless specimens like Drakeford to exploit anti-English feeling that has simmered for decades.
& Krankie north of the border !
Let him destroy the Welsh economy.
Just don’t come cap in hand to the rest of the UK when Wales needs a bailout.
And any hardworking people in Wales are welcome over the border as refugees.
Drippy Drakeford clearly hasn’t read the piece in the Telegraph pointing out that the increase in cases in Wales since he introduced more restrictions has been 3 times that in England!
Not wishing to give him ideas but if he stopped all the testing, the positive cases would plummet and he could claim victory !
To give you an idea of how poorly Wales looks after it’s citizens:
The pandemic in England in 2020 had a LOWER mortality that 18 of the last 20 normal years in Wales. Source: ONS
There about ‘about 40’ people in ICU with Covid in the whole of Wales- you can bet many of them are in there primarily for something else. It’s incredible that he brought back in his ridiculous restrictions with such low numbers. He’s clearly loving the power.
Come the legal action and trials, these comments and the actions, restrictions and harms made and caused by various advisors and politicians will form a large part of the case against them.
If the whole covid situation has shown anything, it is that public health and politics really do not mix. There is too much politicising in the public health community and not enough public interest in the political community. I don’t know what the solution should or could be, but I do feel we’ve all been badly served by so many people since January 2020 and that there has to be a better way to handle this in future.
A rapist’s father mentally abusing a nation and being a massive cunt to boot.
Don’t give his son ideas , he’s in enough trouble putting his todger in ! never mind his boot
All that happens is that they then demand more money from the English to clear up the economic mess they’ve caused. I get Welsh news where I live (near the border) and it will be shamelessly said on a regular basis, and has been for years, “we are calling for more money from the British government to [insert nonsense]”, like it is just a normal thing for them to expect. These glorified county councils should never have been created.
Yet they bang on about how they want to be independent countries and god bad the English are.
Thank you Bliar.
Spot on !
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” – CS Lewis
He is correct.
England, and Sweden, Florida, SA, Japan&co, are now the outliers.
They stick, mainly, to the evidence when making their decisions.
Wales and the others don’t.
Just like fuel prices, rapid to rise and an eternity to fall again. Yet another politician trying to save his ass. He won’t of course.
Depends who’s pulling his strings. He was probably chosen because he is ineffectual and small-minded – wouldn’t do to have a thinking person in the job. Just a useful idiot.
He’s barking mad.
How’s his son doing?
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Drakeford. Or as I prefer. The noncefather.
Banana Republic.
My first thought was was who is mark drayford? You really have to ask yourself what person in their right mind would not want to get back to normalcy asap. Schools open, businesses open and thriving, no mandates, no lockdowns. Bought, threatened, both? By whom?
Is Wales ‘thriving’? The coal mines are closed, and it’s mostly a bit of hill farming and trying to get tourists on the little steam railways, and scouring the shores for seaweed from which to make laverbread. And a bit of sitting at the spinning wheel in a black hat making lace.
Another good example of the pointlessness of devolved government. We just get an extra layer of madness. As for Drakeford the ‘mumbling sociologist’ history will not be kind
This is not about health or science but fuelling an anti England xenophobia. This image is of him dancing in a Diwali party a few weeks ago. We have a crisis of health in Wales and although Park Runs are going ahead in England the <‘50 allowed to gather in the fresh air has effectively stopped it. We got dragged into devolution by Tony Blair on a 30+% turnout and desperately need to get rid of this one party state
All of those people at their Diwali Disco seemed to enjoy having Mark amongst them – none of them criticised him for having no face mask on. And they themselves clearly don’t believe in the ‘pandemic’ as they too are all without face masks.
They are guilty of carrying on this fraud.
Selling fear strengthens tribal bonds and brings power to the leader. This guy knows what he’s doing.
Perhaps Mr Drakeford should take a look at Florida!
Why should he? He’s only a useful idiot, after all. Hardly an ‘alpha male’ like the Governor of Florida.
Tells me that Tony Blair’s work is truly paying off. His breakup of the UK by devolution has now produced three pro Brussels First Ministers who are determined to follow the Socialist dictatorship of Mainland Europe. Boris is also pro Brussels but knows the Tory Party will be torn apart if he backs down and allows England to be controlled by Germany and France……historically our biggest adversaries.
If the panicdemic has taught us anything at all, it is that devolution was a mistake. If Covid is a national emergency, how on earth have we allowed four different policy responses? We are supposed to be a United Kingdom. If it is legally possible to rescind the powers of the devolved assemblies (including NI) over the handling of health emergencies, the UK Government should not hesitate to do so. The only hope now is that the voters of those areas will see that they are being kept prisoners for no material benefit and take it out on their oppressors at the ballot box.
”The ballot box”? There’s optimism!
The Moronic variant is not to be feared, but welcomed as “Mother Nature’s booster shot”, destined to bring the pandemic bandwagon/vax gravy train to a belated screeching halt.
Hallelujah!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/dr-peter-mccullough-omicron-could-mark-end-halt-vaccine-rollout
They are NOT ”cases”, for crying out loud!
The man’s a KNOB simple really.
Drakeford is a grey totalitarian who will hopefully share a prison cell with his son when the perpetrators of all of this nonsense are finally brought to book.
i tried to go to the link at change.org to sign the petition against twitter and my provider three refused saying i had a block on adult content and i had to confirm to be over 18 – this cannot be a mistake change.org is obviously not an adult site and there must be a decision by three to close down democratic debate, really quite surprised and quite sinister.
Who will pay for the loss of tax and and unempoloyment benefit and other costs the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland governments have caused by these extra ineffective restrictions? Once again of course it will be the English. What a disaster devolution has caused for the English while the devolved parts of the UK can manage their areas badly because they don’t need to pay for the costs they cause, we do. I think part of their incentive to generate these costs is because it will be another burden that England must carry. Its time we told Dakeford and MCKrankie if their actions cause extra costs they must be paid for by their taxpayers.