This is the seventh chapter (and start of part two) of a novel being published in serial form in the Daily Sceptic. It’s a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the UK in the near future. Read part one (the first six chapters) here.
At the school skate park watching Poppy practise, the smooth chromatic curves of the metallic bowl shimmer in the last of the afternoon sun.
“She’s very good, isn’t she?” Dr Phillip Cristoph-Renn, the mild-mannered Headmaster, nodded, approvingly.
“Yes, isn’t she just. And Verity, too.” Verity, Poppy’s best friend, like Poppy, perhaps because of Poppy, was also a devout rollerblader. Inseparable at the school since toddlerhood, they were now in their final year.
Ella watched mesmerised as the two girls glided around the park, bound together in a mimetic dance, the calm swooooooshing of roller blades timed to their graceful movements; up the ramp, down the ramp, up the ramp, down the ramp, pausing for a split second at each end on top of the deck, wheels hooked over the edges of the flat-ridged surface, spinning themselves around: seamlessly, perfectly, instinctively.
“Is she looking forward to the competition next weekend?” asked Dr Cristoph-Renn.
“Are you joking? We’ve heard almost nothing else for the last fortnight! She can’t wait. She pretty much sleeps in her rollerblades.”
“Well, it’s obviously paying off,” he continued. “I’m reliably told,” his mouth narrowing into a tight circle and enunciating his words in the very precise way he did, “they have a very good chance of getting through to the finals.”
“Yes, Poppy was telling me that too. Apparently the Darcy are favourites but we’re a close second.”
“Yes, well, good,” he said, “We shall see. Ah, Mrs Elentine, how nice to see you here,” he finished, ambling over to another parent and slightly bowing Ella a courteous goodbye.
Ella waved back. She had grown increasingly fond of good old Cristoph-Renn over the years, and after a short-lived spell in which she’d mistaken his placid demeanour and ruminative nature for timidity, or perhaps simply inertia, had come to learn that his mild mannerisms sheltered balls of unbreakable steal.
“Wow, Mama, did you see that one,” interjected Ted, his biggest sister’s physical prowess a constant source of awe. “When can I do that?” “Not quite yet darling,” Ella replied.
“Poppy!! Can you wrap up, please? We need to get back.”
It was nearing 4pm. Tomorrow she had the Zeeta Appeal hearing. She had a ton papers to read later that, true to form, Zeeta had dumped on them last minute. Plus, they had to collect Libby from art club on the way home – that would add another 20 minutes onto the bike ride home.
“Poppy, come here!! It’s time to go!”
Poppy skated to the furthest corner of the park, pretending not to hear. A twinge of irritation rose in her, but before she had time to act on it –
“Hiya!” came Shirles, beaming as she barrelled over to Ella.
“Afternoon!” replied Ella, smiling back, genuinely pleased to see her. “How’s it going with the Adamses?” The Adamses were Shirles’s new family; three boys, all at the school.
“Oh, you know, hard work! Boys, eh. Amazing this skate park, isn’t it? Can you believe we were all so cynical when he announced it?”
“I know. And it’s amazing. Probably the best thing in the school now.”
Fiercely independent, and proud of it, St Benedict’s had attracted national attention seven or eight years back when it had announced the skate park plan. As with all unorthodox ideas, ridicule outweighed praise. But Dr Cristoph-Renn had stuck to his guns, claiming it would be beneficial for the kids and trailblazing for the school. And, some half decade later with St Benedict’s now the pathfinder for the under-18s rollerblading national competition and the school’s two year wait-list largely pinned on the success of the initiative, he’d been proved right.
“I mean, it’s bloody obvious, isn’t it,” Shirles was saying, eyes fixated on Poppy, lost in a sport she loved. “Of course if you let kids do what they love, they’ll be happy. All this maths and science and exams and algebra, I mean, I’m sure they need all of that one day but just let them be kids, that’s what I say.”
“Eliot! Eliot!! Come back here! Sorry Ella, gotta run, these boys will be the death of me.”
Watching Shirles rushing off to capture her squally charge, Ella had to admit she’d thought the skate park an ‘out there’ an idea, too, when they’d first announced it. It had seemed wacky and radical and how on earth was it to be paid for and surely a school’s job ought to be to focus on English and Maths and exams, she’d remembered saying to Theo.
Come to think of the skatepark; what was Poppy still doing over there?
“Oi!!! Seriously. I’m going to get cross. It’s getting late and Ted’s getting hungry. Be reasonable. Come on!”
Poppy, glided obligingly towards them, “Let me stay longer Mum, I’m begging you. Can’t I just go home with Verity?” she asked. “We want to practise our top deck trick for the weekend. We’ll cycle home together.” “Please Mrs M, please,” Verity sailed over, “My Mam wouldn’t mind and we’ll go the route by the Complex, there’s no cars there.”
Ella froze, caught.
Nearly 13, they were going to have to start encouraging Poppy to find her own way home, at least some days. And, it was an undeniable irony that the area around the Complex was safe – stultifyingly, sanitisedly, stupefyingly safe. Provided, that was, that one was prepared to close one’s mind to the evils being orchestrated behind its gated doors.
But Poppy was barely just 12, Verity 11, it was close to five miles and, because they wouldn’t let Poppy have a BIM, Ella’s fault, of course, they’d have no way of contacting them. Not for the first time, she missed her phone. What irony, she thought.
Poppy, bang on cue, bleated, “You see Mum. It would be sooooo much easier if you’d let me have a BIM. Then you’d know I’d be fine.”
“Oh not this again Poppy. It’s a flat NO, you know that.”
“But why Mum?! It’s so unfair.”
Ted tugged at her leg.
“Mum, I’m hungry. Can I have some bread with the crusts off?”
“Come on Poppy, please come with us. It’s getting late.”
“Mum, just let me and Vez go back together.”
The tugging from Ted became a positive yank – he had some strength about him now – threatening to pull her bike leggings down. “Ted, hey little man, what you doing? We’re about to go, I promise.”
Letting the big guys go solo would have the advantage she could whizz back on the road. She’d risk her life on potholes, sure, but she’d shave 10 minutes off the journey that way, plus the extra 15 minutes escorting Verity back. 25 mins. That would be helpful with case prep.
Twenty-five minutes? For your child’s life? Seriously Ella.
She looked again at the sky. The light was fading quickly.
“No, darling, it’s a no. I’m sorry. What if something happens? We’d have no way of knowing.”
“Which is EXACTLY why I need a BIM!”
“Oh Mrs M, please”, piped up Verity. “My Mum let’s me go alone….”
Ella, firmer and a touch irate now.
“I’m sorry guys. It’s just no. Come on please, I’ve a ton of work still to do. We have to get back.” Poppy look stung. She glared as she and Verity bladed over towards their bikes.
“You don’t understand how important this is to me, Mum. We have a chance of winning the whole competition. It’s a really big deal and you’re nagging me to go home just cos you’ve got WORK to do!! It’s NOT FAIR.” She made a point of stomping one rollerbladed foot into the ground as she passed Ella.
“I’m sick of it Mum, your stuff ALWAYS beats our stuff!”.
And then, the kicker:
“Dad would have let us stay!!!”
Look out for chapter eight next week.
Molly Kingsley is a founder of children’s rights campaign group UsForThem.
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No mate, no one has to just accept anything! Neither pharmacists nor politicians have the right to determine how millions of people live their lives. You can advise all you like, but that’s it.
People need to start remembering they work for us, we pay their wages. Anyone who wishes to follow their advice should feel free to heed it, but none of them have the right, morally or legally, to force this on us. It is truly time for a political reawakening in the west.
I saw a headline in a Dutch daily earlier today saying that citizens would have to change their lives from now on because of corona. It was behind a paywall so I only saw the headline, but it’s rather coincidental it’s implying the same thing as this person in Australia. It’s almost as if its scripted…
If you’d like to read articles on Trouw, Volkskrant, Parool and NRC websites, even when they are behind a paywall, here is the trick: wait for the article to load completely. Then reload the page with F5, next hit Escape several times before page completely reloads. Et voila: the complete article becomes visible. Sometimes you have to repeat this for it to work, it needs timing. (Unforunately it doesn’t work for Telegraaf website.)
Try this proxy for the DT.
https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
Then once there you can browse around as normal.
Come and fucking make me.
I used to be a polite, respectful person.
But after 2 years of this bollox – “Come and fucking make me” has pretty much become my mindset now.
These c*nts need to re-learn that they don’t own other people’s bodies.
F*** off you drug dealer.
I agree with the head of the WHO.
https://twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1473679943045468161?s=20
Boosters also kill adults. Long past tim for the politicians and their advisors to be sent to jail. Many of them though, may well need something more final than a prison cell.
for once I agree with the fact checkers. he started saying “kildren” then corrected himself.
Of course he probably made that mistake because he was actually thinking that they do kill children.
Fancy that, somebody pushing a policy stance which will provide another cash cow for his industry. I am surprised some of these thick journalists can actually read and write, let alone considering issues such as conflicts of interest when choosing who to interview.
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut…
It’s beginning to look a lot like genocide.
Excellent, that should have been Christmas no.1
Do they know it’s Genocide at all.
That’s a very fair assessment and genocide brought to you by your own government.
Has this individual done a proper risk benefit analysis of a twice yearly vaccine?
Eg, a few months ago the JCVI decided that the risks of the vaccine were greater than the benefits for those <18 (obviously this was overruled by non-experts in vaccines). This was based on having two doses. I’d presume that if they knew that a 16 year old would have 10+ doses by the time they left college the risk:benefit analysis would be firmly on the side of risk.
This is doubly true now that the risk of covid appears to be diminishing rapidly, as is the effectiveness of the vaccines.
I also wonder where this expert got their understanding of the effectiveness of mask wearing — ‘science’ says that they don’t offer any substantial protection.
The people pushing these policies are not incompetents they are high level criminals. criminals
Besides your comments on this, I have not seen one single reference made to what should be an obvious point.
Continued administration of any medical product carries risks, what are these risks, are they cumulative, etc. This should apply doubly to a completely new technology that is being applied, triply when the illness being tackled seems to be becoming less of a threat by the day.
It’s just not, and we won’t.
I really can’t stand any more of these idiotic people. With apologies for the language – this guy is a fucking moron. Just put the the cunt up against a wall and shoot him.
Can’t fault any of that. Precise and well thought out.
US Marine style – shout, show, shove, shoot.
With each new jab, less people take it than the one before.
This guy isn’t going to get his wish. The more they push, the more people will wake up and the fewer will take the next jab.
How does he account for the fact that the vast majority of the existence of mankind, we didn’t have vaccines and yet we didn’t become extinct?
I would hope that’s the case but what if they keep rolling out new ‘variants’?
Further proof of criminality.
‘But now we have the vaccines, and we have to take them, to guarantee health…’ is his dislogic.
It’s a shell game, with transparent shells, and punters still losing every time!
One should hope.
…then again, I don’t do hope.
What legitimate authority does this SS Dentist have over Australians or anyone else?
Isn’t what he is saying really that he want to make ‘loadsa money’ year on year out of a coerced and terrorized population, as medical capitalists dictate obedience and reap billions?
Time to form independent medical bodies to safeguard the real health interests of ordinary people, and ignore diktats from tools of Satan.
How are the Australian death camps doing?
How about every Australian has to give up a kidney as well?
What exactly was it that first attracted you to the multi billion dollar vaccine industry, Mr Twomey?
What a fucking tool! Not a shred of science…simply do as you’re told. This guy has zero authority and should shut his trap.
Australia is lost.
A Mad Max future is still a future of sorts!
In retrospect, Mad Max was optimistic.
Disgraceful hysterical extremist with a fetish
Trent Twomey, the National President of the Pharmacy Guild in Australia
There’s the clue, right there in the first line.
‘Stick this in your arm every 6 months, and I get to buy a beach-front mansion in Noosa’.
Over TWO winters……Australia’s C-19 mortality is 2,173…..they won’t reveal the profile of those who have been taken.
VIC…….1,476
NSW…..648
ACT……15
TAS……13
WA……9
QLD……7
SA……..4
NT…….1
Quite clearly, there is broad NATURAL IMMUNITY in the whole country.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper, more efficient and more lawful if instead of jabbing the whole country, they tested everyone for immunity?
Or just abolished the entire shaet show and then shot the shites.
No masks, tests or vaccines needed. The figures above amount to little more than a mild cold. Twomey is part of the Gates criminal conspiracy to depopulate and control the few that will survive the 5G sensitive nanotech “poison death shots”.
Nothing can beat the immunity created by the Wonder vaccines!!!!
This should be the case in every country – the UK included. It’s vital and valuable data but it doesn’t fit with the tunnel-vision vaccine agenda.
Not really a suprise. These people are deranged
Never had one, will never have one. Model that Cobber.
The Premier of NSW and the PM have rejected mandates for masks and vaccines.Try again, numbnuts.
Go Fuck yourself Trent.
President of Australian Pharmacy Guild says that people MUST accept a drug that Big Pharma make huge profits from……..well, he’s not stupid is he? But he also thinks that we are.
The full vaccinated will never be fully vaccinated…..
……..yet nobody knows what continued jabbing will do to peoples’ immune systems.
Its like those books we read as kids with mad scientists (trying) to rule the world
Just like the flu, if anyone wants periodic jabs be my guest. This fight is about mandates and digital passports
I’d actually encourage the former.
The sooner we will be rid of the most fanatic ones, like him.
My sister-in-law is a senior pharmacist in the UK, good at what she does but is incapable of independent thought or reasoning, and I absolutely would not take any kind of health advice from her at face value.
She is currently ill with ‘covid’ after three jabs, but dots have most certainly not been joined, no sir.
Sorry to hear that. Like millions, she is probably brainwashed to never flinch at the prospect of dozens of vaccines still to come – with neither one ever ‘working’.
God help us all.
Alas, for her they are working.
She obviously would have been twice as poorly without them.
Doh!
Alternatively, you can accept you have to sniff the hair of an agitated honey badger.
Maybe we could agree to accept it on the understanding the pfizer publish all details to do with the vaccine trails and also that the vaccine manufactures agree to take full financial liability for any adverse reactions. If they do not trust their products enough to do this then why should we put them in our bodies.
I think Pfizer trust them to do what they are meant to do. They just don’t want the public knowing what that is.
Meanwhile, just to prove there are sane people in Australia, the resignation letter of a Queensland doctor, forced to resign by political fascists after 41 years for reasons of bureaucratic madness:
https://cmnnews.org/story/letter-from-a-doctor-to-a-health-minister-T7iSvHSp3c1aADxdwCvoD
That’s a beaut of a letter.
A brilliant letter!
Good! We always said and knew that all of this stuff was going to be forever, so the more openly this is made clear, the better, as it will wake more people up.
The problem people have understanding what is going on, is their continuing naive belief that national governments control the agenda. They don’t, haven’t for some time.
Its an alliance of big finance, transnational corporations, tech and bio-tech under the umbrella of organisations such as the BIS.
The control is not classical command structure, its far more nebulous. There are no ‘heads’ to cut off. Its much more an alignment of interests. But make no mistake these lose affiliations control the world.
They have seen an opportunity even dire need to reinvent the capitalist financial models after 2008. They have endured a couple of resent setbacks; Brexit and Trump. They decided that the general dumbing down and messaging of the western nations had proceeded to such an extent that a suitable ‘enemy’ could instill enough fear to bring about the necessary social changes that ensured a runway to installation of the totalitarian state necessary to manage the ‘reset’.
The timing of omicron ensures that ’28dayPCR’ rule will bring increased reported deaths, however mild the variant might be. This will get them over the final hurdle of mandated vaccinations and the ‘passport’ which is the bio-ID required for control as it expands to cover all aspects of what will pass for ‘life’.
I share people’s desire for optimism, that omicron will prove the turning point. If it was really about health and it had just been bungled from the start our optimism is well founded.
However in the words of my current favourite Scot ‘ Its not about what they say its about’ and for many the final confirmation of that is shortly to happen.
All those above saying Australia has gone mad, do you really think the same thing won’t be rolled out everywhere else? How else are they going to justify their passports and why do you think they’re currently going nuts over boosters here?
But thankfully the propaganda juggernaut is appearing to derail elsewhere.
I posted this on the daily update page a bit earlier about Portugal:
“Despite being vaccine leaders and over 83% of their over-65s boosted, it appears Portugal is reimplementing harsh restrictions:
https://www.portugalresident.com/omicron-wave-portugal-plunged-into-morass-of-new-measures/
The positive note is how balanced, if not sceptical, the article is.
Only a few weeks ago it probably would have been censored and labelled conspiracy-theory material.
We’re starting to see some progress people!”
And as you may already be aware, over here we’ve got the likes of bedwetter-in-chief Owen Jones suddenly realising that perhaps lockdowns & restrictions are not such a good idea.
Owen Jones; I remember his name. Must have read some of his articles years ago.
Apparently Bruce McScrotum of the Australian Used Car Dealers Association said that it’s quite clear that every Australian citizen has to come to terms with having to purchase a used car every six months .. there are no other options
Just think it was about this time last year that the pig dictator was vomiting out the lie, a vaccine is available and once the vulnerable are vaccinated we can return to normal. Happy anniversary bedwetters, book your 4th jab when you have your 3rd.
Or maybe Trent Twomey will need to accept being carted off to a dung heap by a pitchfork-wielding mob. He’s playing a high stakes game with his crazy ass announcements for sure.
Trent, Could I see the long-term data on having multiple boosters over a prolonged period of time of this so-called “vaccine” please? Oh, there isn’t any is there? As a fit and healthy adult in his 30s – who has recovered from COVID-19 – with two dependents, I think I will not take part in that experiment thank you. Last time I checked, I lived in a liberal democracy not a totalitarian state (although we have been heading that way and time will tell if I am mistaken) so I do not have to “just need to accept” your nonsense.
Meanwhile in Denmark:
“”There’s something antigenic in Denmark: boosters show negative vaccine efficacy for cases”
vaccines, including boosters are showing strong negative efficacy vs omicron
this is consistent with omicron being as OAS enabled escape variant
omicron continues to show evidence of mildness relative to past variant
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/theres-something-antigenic-in-denmark
What he needs is a swift kick in the Bollocks !!!…
Wow, Trent must be going for the biggest brown envelope of all from his NWO & Big Pharma overlords.
Just reverse the Shute formula and nuke Australia.
…it’s the kindest thing you could do for the incarcerated, there.
Just. Say. No!
I used to fancy an extended holiday in Australia and NZ. You couldn’t pay me to go there now.
When such jabs provide less and less benefit (and the immune response has declined with each dose), the costs will be noticed and debated. There will also be more and more evidence on T and B cell instead of antibodies as the key to Covid response.
Might such booster still be “required” for those over 60? Sure, not that it will be enforced. In the end they can’t keep Covid fear going forever and as it slips away, people simply won’t comply.
Ivermectin help reduce the severity of vaccine adverse reactions. If someone is suffering from a post vaccine syndrome, FLCCC clinicians and a growing network of colleagues have reported significant clinical responses to ivermectin. Because Ivermectin has 5 different mechanisms of action against coronaviruses, the medication is also effective with the different variants of the virus. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Trent, the Covid Gravy Train is closer to the end of the line than you can imagine.
I’m so so glad I’m not Australian. I thought I was living in a madhouse.
It would appear that descendants of the Nazi hierarchy moved to Australia as well as South America!!