The Covid lockdowns turned Boris Johnson into Oliver Cromwell, making him only the second British leader to have cancelled Christmas, Conservative leadership candidate James Cleverly has said.
In a Q&A with the Spectator, the four leadership hopefuls – Cleverly, Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat – were asked: “What’s the least conservative policy of the past 14 years?” Cleverly said:
I suppose all of us have got to recognise that our response to Covid was inherently interventionist… the social restrictions that we introduced, I think all of us now look back and say that was far, far, far too much. It was the Conservative party and we cancelled Christmas. I mean Boris Johnson and Oliver Cromwell, the two national leaders who in our history cancelled Christmas and you wouldn’t have expected the Venn diagram of Oliver Cromwell and Boris Johnson to have had much of a crossover.
Somewhat encouragingly, Tom Tugendhat simply replied “Vaccine passports. That’s why I voted against it.” Give that man a badge.
Read the full Q&A here, where the candidates also give their take on the ECHR and immigration.
In a nutshell: Jenrick thinks we have to leave and doesn’t accept it can be reformed or that ‘derogation’ or partial opt-out is possible; Tugendhat supports derogation and says that’s what other countries do; Badenoch is open to leaving but thinks since other countries in the ECHR deport more asylum seekers than us it must be possible; and Cleverly just limply implies that border control is an impossible problem, noting the U.S. fails at it too.
My main thought was: if ‘derogation’ is possible, why didn’t the Tories do it at some point over the past 14 years? But then, you could ask that about a whole heap of things.
Stop Press: The Government overstated the danger of Covid to the public at the start of the pandemic, Professor Chris Whitty admitted to the Covid Inquiry today. He said:
I was worried at the beginning. I still worry, actually in retrospect, about whether we got the level of concern right.
Were we either over pitching it so that people were incredibly afraid of something where in fact, their actuarial risk was low, or we were not pitching it enough and therefore people didn’t realise the risk they were walking into.
I think that balance is really hard, and arguably, some people would say we, if anything we overdid it, rather than under the beginning.
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Too little too late to save these people in my eyes. But useful in that it puts into the mainstream the idea that the whole thing was bollocks.
Small mercy, indeed.
Overdid it? You’ve got to be joking. Closed down – probably irretrievably – the entire economy of the UK (and others) and visited untold harms to all parts of the population and changed the psychology of what constitutes ‘normal life’ – and you’re admitting they might of OVERDONE IT?
Overdone? Under-stated. Overdone is when you leave the Sunday roast in the oven for a bit too long.
Using that analogy I think conflagration is a better word for the CoVid scam response.
May we look forward in due course to admissions that Net Zero was ‘overdone’.
“Lockdowns Turned Boris Johnson into Oliver Cromwell…”
Power corrupts, but power attracts the corruptible.
Has any of those who support membership of the ECHR explained why the UK must be within the ECHR convention? What exactly is the benefit to each citizen or the citizenry as a whole? Is it a case of what they want not what we want? Was there a referendum on it I missed?
Most Countries in the World are not part of the convention and they manage all right – as did this Country for centuries.
Does being a member stop the Metropolitan Stasi from harassing and arresting people for praying silently or shouting at a police dog – for example – or being placed under house confinement for months on end and forbidden from associating with family and friends.
Still no mention of, inter milles alia:
1) Where all the usual Flus disappeared off the charts to for 2 years that Coof was [rampant];
2) The ‘4-Ships’ data from Jan to Apr 2020; and
3) Prof John Ioannidis who identified in Apr 2020 that the Coof had the same the ‘normal flu’ IFR of c.0.6% and the same demographic profile.
Tickling comments re Lockdowns and ID Passports is still so, so far away from addressing the underlying issues and cause of the Scam.
The Diamond Princess was a perfect example of what happens when you expose a mixed population to a virus in a closed environment. The data was right there staring back. So…….
I remember the Naked Scientist on GBN trying to explain that away, a total word salad. He seems to get off the hook regarding celeb Doctors pushing the Lockdowns & Jabs. But it least he is a pleasant looking chap.
Indeed.
Diamond Princess plus Charles de Gaulle, USS Roosevelt and Costa Atlantic. The perfect petri dishes. Data was shredded and burned, as is the wont of HoP in this day and age.
1) This is, and has been, easily explained. Viruses are competitive. A new virus entering into circulation will displace existing viruses. It is unusual to be infected by two respiratory viruses at the same time. In order to reproduce, the virus has to invade cells lining the naso-pharynx. Cells already occupied can’t be used by a different virus, plus the immune response is already activated making an infection by another virus very difficult.
It may also be that some cases of ‘flu were under-reported or misdiagnosed because of the obsession with CoVid.
‘I still worry, actually in retrospect, about whether we got the level of concern right.’
If you still really don’t know the answer to that question then you should resign as Chief Medical Officer.
If you do know the answer but don’t want to tell the inquiry, you should definitely resign forthwith.
Isn’t it the truth that you were dragged into changing your original views on a common cold coronavirus by a ridiculous piece of grandstanding by Jeremy Farrar, who knew remarkably little about coronaviruses, at a silly and superficial obviously ‘fund raising’ Davos press conference in January 2020?
Isn’t it the truth that you had the same If not better capability than the rest of us to take on board the comments of a globally acknowledged coronavirus expert located in China at the time of the Covid outbreak when he stated 06 Feb. 2020 that it was quite simply a severe cold?
I am completely at a loss as to why you have not yet resigned, particularly in view of your recent comments to the vacuous inquiry.
“I am completely at a loss as to why you have not yet resigned”
They got away with it. Name someone who has faced any discomfort or adverse consequences stemming from their advocacy of lockdowns, “vaccines” etc? Knighthoods, promotions, more money, more power.
Perhaps they were rewarded by the PayMasters for achieving what they were instructed to do.
“Over did it”….Democide by Pathways NG163 End Of Life “Care”……By dehydrating and dosing up on Morphine & Medazolam until they’re DEAD. Yes I’d say that is over doing it….a bit!
Boris Johnson Turned Britain Communist
Funnily enough we don’t remember you raising any objections this obscene and preposterous blanket assault on our fundamental liberties at the time Cleverly, you dishonest gaslighting c**t.
“actuarial”? Did he actuarially say that?!
So why didn’t any of them resign over the Tyranny?
Either they didn’t recognise it was aTyranny, or they didn’t care ….. and they are therefore unfit to become Leader.
“Somewhat encouragingly, Tom Tugendhat simply replied “Vaccine passports. That’s why I voted against it.” Give that man a badge.”
The only badge I’d give this bloke is a yellow cowardice badge over his heart ready for the firing squad to aim at. All these people were responsible the deaths and hardship of millions of our fellow citizens. They destroyed people’s lives. livelihoods, education and the economy they shouldn’t be allowed within 100 miles of the Houses of Parliament or indeed any other political sphere. Gaol maybe but not politics.
Daily masktard count: Two so far. That’s two people whose sanity the entirely witless Sir Chris has irretrievably damaged.
With reference to another article: The whole of The Pandemic® was an exercise in Prevention is better than cure! to the utmost of everyone’s ability. Turns we cannot afford to save the NHS in this way or rather, that saving the NHS by driving everything else into a brickwall didn’t yield the social benefits NHS prevention gurus had hoped: While a health service without patients isn’t at risk of being overwhelmed by them, it’s sort-of pointless as there’s nobody left who could need one.