In the Brave New World of 2024 Britain, the Stasi meet the Keystone Cops in a kind of Carry On Kafka, says Toby in his latest Spectator column. But does the comic dimension of the authoritarianism detract from the moral outrage? The Allison Pearson debacle is an obvious example of the absurdism; another is the ‘trial’ of a 17 year-old girl by the Football Association. Here’s an excerpt.
The free speech advocacy group I run has taken on the girl’s case and is helping her appeal the ban, but I sometimes worry that the comical aspect of episodes like this – that the young man on the ‘ladies’ team had a beard! – means people are less morally outraged than they should be. It’s hard to laugh and be angry at the same time. George Orwell said the reason the British Army would never adopt the goose-step was because people in the street would take the mickey out of them, imagining that our keen sense of the absurd would be a bulwark against totalitarianism. But our woke overlords have found a way around this by coming up with a uniquely British version of despotism, simultaneously comic and creepy, as exemplified by the Scottish Government’s employment of the Hate Monster – a cartoon creature that looked like a hairy pepperoni – to promote the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act. The Scottish writer Ewan Morrison referred to this as “cute authoritarianism” – and the fact that our Brave New World is so laughable means people sometimes don’t notice quite how sinister it is.
But Carry On Kafka also has its upsides. For instance, the Free Speech Union has won several big lawsuits because of the sheer incompetence of people on the other side. The diversitycrats who run HR departments are such zealous enforcers of progressive dogma, they often ignore their companies’ policies and procedures, which the employment tribunal takes a dim view of. And they frequently misunderstand the Equality Act, believing it empowers them to persecute anyone who dissents from progressive orthodoxy when, in fact, it protects gender critical feminists among other heretics.
This points to a broader benefit: if we have to live in a British version of North Korea, better it should be run by David Lammy, Bridget Phillipson and Ed Miliband than, say, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket scientists. Not because the assault on our freedoms is leavened by the comic relief of watching Starmer’s buffoons running amok in Whitehall, but because they’re too stupid to work out which levers to pull and buttons to push to implement their oppressive policies in full. To paraphrase Orwell, if you want a picture of Britain’s future, imagine a clown shoe stamping on a human face – for ever.
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I had all 3 jabs, i’m not convinced I’ve done the right thing but felt pressurised into it. (I won’t have fly vax though). The moderna booster burst a blood vessel in my eye and made old injuries hurt like hell. (My eye was fine Tuesday as I went to opticians). No one has told me anything about yellow card. The nurse who jabbed me didn’t even tell me which one I’d had, she was very blase about the whole thing, luckily my OH had the good sense to ask her for a card. No one is giving informed consent and I expect the number of ADRs are much much higher. I reported mine.
My surmise is that the so-called immune response, to the vaccine, is the body’s reaction to the trauma which is the vaccine.
Hi Karen,
Sorry to hear you’ve had a bad reaction and especially sorry to hear you were pressured into getting jabbed. There’s absolutely nothing to be embarrassed, ashamed or guilty about not getting jabbed – many of us here are ‘pure bloods’! If you’re not sure of the arguments against getting jabbed – just ask and you’re sure to be furnished with all the info’ you need to respond to those who pressurise you. It’s your body: only get subsequent booster jabs if/when you’re convinced of their efficacy and safety and have concluded on your own terms that that’s the best course of action for you.
Sorry to hear about your ADR, my understanding is that if you didn’t give ‘informed consent’ you can sue the individual who administered the jab.
To obtain informed consent the nurse should have informed you –
1.The jabs are still under trial, have not been licenced and are being used under emergency authorisation.
2. Any mid or long term side effects are unknown.
3. Short term side effects are becoming known and she should have been able to list them with a percentage of risk.
4. Your personal risks from getting covid taking into account your age and health status.
5. Details of the yellow card system for reporting ADRs
If she didn’t inform you of all the above she has not gained informed consent. You may want to obtain some legal advise.
I haven’t studied the law on this, but isn’t injecting someone with a substance without their consent a crime? (Consent means informed consent, surely.)
Incidentally, those who run hospitals tend to have friendly relations with at least some local solicitors, and perhaps with the whole (insert a collective noun for solicitors here) of them.
I haven’t studied law either but I believe you are right, it would I think be classed as some form of assault.
The first thing we were told on my nursing course was that without consent then anything we did was assault and battery. The consent for simple procedures such as blood pressure can be inferred if the patient offers their arm for the blood pressure cuff.
That’s the view the police take on spiking drinks…
Try finding a lawyer prepared to take the case. It seems like the corruption is spreading.
I agree, an alternative path and probably the easier option would be to report the nurse to the NMC for misconduct, if that were successful then you could sue.
Search The NMC website for the code of professional conduct. You would need the name of the nurse, you can search the register. However, are you certain the person administering the vaccine was a registered nurse or registered healthcare professional and not an unqualified volunteer?
If an unqualified volunteer someone registered is surely ultimately responsible whether a nurse in charge of the vaccine centre or a doctor who accepts payment for the administration of the jab. The pharma companies may not be held accountable (currently) but those administering them most certainly can be.
Mint.
Very interesting and I hope you are ok now. I’m double jabbed ( my wife is on immunosuppressants) and not once has anyone mentioned the yellow card scheme to me safe neither did I have to wait for 15 minutes post jab. In fact when I went for my second jab there was a notice stating that car insurance is Invalid for 15 minutes after the jab. I even had to fill out the jab details myself on the vaccination card!
I’m very sorry to hear that you were pressured into it and about what you suffered afterwards. I’ve heard similar accounts from so many people now that it’s a wonder that this is allowed to continue. If you don’t mind me asking, who was it who pressured you into it? Was it work or friends and relatives?
“All 3”
They’re not stopping at 3.
I’m very sorry to hear about your reaction to the booster. It is just appalling that so many people are being coerced into taking these injections against their better judgement. You are quite right that no one can give their informed consent under these circumstances. Anyway hope you feel better soon!
Here is a link to the UK Government website that details its own laws, rules and guidance in respect of obtaining consent for medical procedures. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/994850/PHE_Greenbook_of_immunisation_chapter_2_consent_18_June21.pdf
And here is a link to the General Medical Council factsheet on consent, together with examples of case law where medical practitioners have been found guilty of failing to obtain consent. https://www.gmc-uk.org/-/media/documents/factsheet—key-legislation-and-case-law-relating-to-decision-making-and-consent-84176182.pdf
Sorry to hear about your eye.
It’s not right that you felt pressured into having the injections. I hope you are feeling all right now.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/consent-to-treatment/
As far as I’m concerned vaccine safety updates are the only legitimate category. Efficacy is moot, because … effective against what ?
Good question.
Tyranny, coercion, guilt-tripping, the opinions of people who haven’t looked into it, state sanctioned apartheid, unemployment, being a second class citizen. They’re quite effective against these things (but only fleetingly)
I didn’t put it down to the Moderna jab but I have been doing physical work this year and had to hold off for a few days with some chest and left arm pain about 3 weeks after I had the second.
One thing I thought of – it doesn’t make any sense that young people would be any more likely to get it than me at 49. I bet the reason is they tend to do more exercise.
I had side effects but they didn’t kick in until about two weeks after each, and were more pronounced after the second (pfizer). The timescale matches the body’s antibody response time. Enough to put me off having any more.
Utterly horrifying. Thanks once again for this vital information. I have catalogued and complied all of your VS reports and consider them to be the most important info to be found here. I am convinced you will find yourself on the right side of history.
English-language media headlines saying that a “tough lockdown” (Sky) or a “strict lockdown” (Reuters) has been announced in the Netherlands appear to be lies.
A lockdown is when you’ve got to stay at home unless you have an essential reason for going out. FFS! Are people’s memories really that short? I’m only saying the obvious. A curfew is a nighttime lockdown. The closure of gyms and hairdressers’ salons doesn’t make a lockdown. A lockdown can’t be voluntary – it’s compulsory.
According to Reuters (in the body text of the above-linked article) “other measures [announced in the Netherlands] include a recommendation that households receive no more than two visitors and that gatherings outside are also limited to a maximum of two people.” That is not a lockdown.
It sounds as though the Dutch authorities are too scared of mass resistance to impose a general lockdown at the current time. They can “recommend” something, but that doesn’t mean people will do it. (In Sweden it might mean that, but this is the Netherlands where there has been a lot of resistance on the street.)
You’re right that no one’s being incarcerated in their homes, but that’s the only good thing.
They are shutting everything but supermarkets and pharmacies. Schools are shutting too. Supposedly until 14 January. Last year they shut everything down on 15 December and didn’t start opening things up until the end of March.
If you gather with more than 2 people outside they can fine you – I can see them doing this in city centres, they did it before. As for how many people you can have at home and leaving the home – to enforce limits regarding people in the home they’d actually have to be able to enter and search your home which is unconstitutional and to confine people to their homes is also unconstitutional. They know they can’t get this through parliament.
Compared to the response to the first wave, where NL’s response was much closer to that of Sweden’s (and we did much better during the first wave than we have since Rutte started taking orders from Berlin/Brussels), this is quite strict. And naturally quite pointless.
What did stand out in this press conference was that the Min. of Health wasn’t blaming the unvaxxed for all of this, never even mentioned them. Understandably, as he had to say about 20 times that people needed to get their booster or they would not be protected against moronic.
That’s very interesting and chimes with the UK. By now I expected the unvaccinated to be scapegoated, vilified and criminalised but this isn’t happening (yet!) Rather, the governmental focus is entirely on boosters. But why? The answer to this question would reveal the true nature of what we’re living through.
It’s utterly insane that people are still taking “vaccines” that do not work and do nothing but harm. Even more unbelievable that our government is pushing them like drug dealers in a ghetto. The whole world has had a collective mental breakdown. I personally know only one other person who is awake and who has any understanding of what is going on. Everyone else I know and meet is completely brainwashed. The latest thread from eugyppius has a summary of the situation in various countries. There does seem to be some pushback in most places but the bad guys are winning by a mile at the moment.
In our local cafe yesterday we got into conversation with three individuals. Two said they had no intention of getting the jabs and the other, coerced by his wife into getting them, was not getting the booster. Of the two refusing the jabs, one had been in the army and went to Iraq where he had to have the anthrax jab, which he said, nearly killed him. His father in law had had the jabs and had since suffered three heart attacks.
Today on my unjabbed son’s Facebook page, one of his friends had posted a really good piece explaining that he respected other people’s right to have the vaccine if that was their choice but expected them to have the same respect for his choice not to have it. He also said that he would not put a certain brand of tyre on his van if he knew he was going to have to replace it in three months time.
There are more of us out there than you realise Chris. Unfortunately many people feel too intimidated to stand up and be counted.
You’re right Margaret, there are millions of us in this country alone. We are bold, informed, militant and unafraid. Thousands of righteous people were out on the streets in London today and there were marches and demos throughout the UK. Government vax stats are a load of crap. We will win this.
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With 1 in 128 people reporting post-gene therapy injuries, and that being just 10% of the total, we would expect to see around 50 MP’s suffering injuries that range from Guillain–Barré syndrome and Bell’s palsy, through to neurological disorders, blindness, heart attacks and death. Does anyone know of any MP that has suffered from any of these injuries? I havent heard of any. Makes you wonder if they are subjected to special treatment like the Nomenklatura class were in Soviet Russia.
They all received a saline jab I would imagine.
This is surely not a serious point. Proportionally very few of the adverse events reported are as serious as those you list. The 1 in 128 ratio relates to all adverse events, major and minor.
“Very few of the adverse events reported are as serious as those you list”. Do you have a reference for this as I would like to know what your definition of serious is, and exactly what proportion of the reports fall into this category?
You are taking the P.
My downtick so you know.
“10% of the total”.
With caveats.
Did you make that up? Even if this figure is accurate, that means around 5 MPs would have serious ‘vax’ injuries. Any record of this?
A yellow card can be filled in by anyone, it can be done online on the MHRA website https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/
The more that are reported the better.
“…the trial data was largely encouraging on both safety and efficacy…”
Do you not want to change this claim, in light of the Pfizer early cumulative results of adverse events released through FOIA?
Yesterday’s letter to MHRA calling for immediate suspension of SARS COV2 injections and a summary of evidence for an injunction application by PJH Law is also worth mentioning in the vaccine safety update.
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Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England: deaths occurring between 2 January and 24 September 2021 – ONS
Age categories used:
10-59
60-69
70-79
80+
Grouping kids with soon-to-be pensioners, fraudulent bastards.
Regarding the first item in the list, the Nature report, the last part of the abstract should be noted. ‘In summary, although we find an increased risk of neurological complications in those who received COVID-19 vaccines, the risk of these complications is greater following a positive SARS-CoV-2 test.’
In other words the tests are picking up genuine covid, and if you get covid, the risk of suffering a neurological complication is higher.
I have not read the main text to determine whether the analysis distinguished between unvaccinated people testing positive and vaccinated people testing positive, though the search term ‘unvaccinated’ yielded no finds.
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko said anyone that willfully vilified and obstructed access to hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19 is guilty of first degree capital murder, genocide, and crimes against humanity. They are trying to jab as many people as possible so that their great reset aka depopulation plan work. I believe in God & Jesus. If I get sick I will take my Ivermectin that I stashed just in case and leave rest to God. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com
Doubtless commendable research but the scientific argument was won over twelve months ago.
This is World War Three and fighting battles already won is getting us nowhere.
Can we start dealing with the real issues such as the incoming Technocratic state?
From Mike Yeadons channel:
“Breaking News
UK Government admit that the vaccines have damaged the natural immune systems of the double jabbed.
The British government has spilled the beans about that fact that once you get double jabbed, you will never again be able to acquire full natural immunity against Covid variants – or possibly any virus.
So let’s watch the ‘real’ pandemic begin now!
In its Week 42 “COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report,” the U.K. Health Security Agency admitted on page 23 that “N antibody levels appear to be lower in people who acquire infection following two doses of vaccination.” It goes on to explain that this antibody drop is basically permanent.
What’s this mean?
We know the vaccines do not stop infection or transmission of the virus (in fact, the report shows elsewhere that vaccinated adults are now being infected at much HIGHER rates than the unvaccinated).
What the British are saying is they are now finding the vaccine interferes with your body’s innate ability after infection to produce antibodies against not just the spike protein but other pieces of the virus. Specifically, vaccinated people don’t seem to be producing antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein, the shell of the virus, which are a crucial part of the response in unvaccinated people.
In the long term, people who take the vaccine will be far more vulnerable to any mutations in the spike protein that might come along, even if they have already been infected and recovered once, or more than once.
The unvaccinated, meanwhile, will procure lasting, if not permanent, immunity to all strains of the alleged virus after being infected with it naturally even just once.
Read it for yourself.. Page 24.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1027511/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-42.pdf “
What about spike protein shed from the “vaccinated”? Or will that not be an issue?
For the vaxxed, more probable than for the untaxed.
The Yellow Card reports above are from last week. This week’s total fatality count is 1,853. That is from summing individually. It is 1,852 using the totals that MHRA have.
591 of these deaths are called ‘Death’, ‘Sudden death’ – all undescribed, unexplained and uninvestigated by MHRA. They are likely to be cerebral venous thromboses.
I have added this weeks EudraVigilance and VAERS totals for comparison. Note that the total fatalities from EudraVigilance come from summing across reactions and will be an overcount, possibly between 2x and 2.5x. However, this is the figure that most people draw of of the database. I have found no other way of getting the acual death count otherwise.
Of course, these figures are short-term adverse reactions and fatalities. Not only are they most certainly under-reported (the website says possiby 10%), they are not followed up.
UK Government report admits there are 23.5 Million people in England who have NOT had a single dose of a Covid-19 Vaccine
Hello all. I work for NHS, did not take any vaccines so far. Since April 2022 they will be compulsory for NHS staff. What am I supposed to do in order to not loose the job because of the refusing taking the jab?
I’m in the same boat as you mate. Either sue for unfair dismissal when the time comes. PJH law is a firm I’m going to look at using. There’s a chance they won’t go through with it, but if they do now is the time to start thinking about a backup plan. Maybe getting some land, working a different job. It’s a really shit situation but it’s what we have to deal with.