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Nude Models Are a Safeguarding Risk, Life Drawing Class Is Told

by Richard Eldred
16 February 2025 7:00 PM

After 30 years, a daytime life drawing class at Hampstead Community Centre has been told to either cover up its models or relocate. The Times has the story.

Tony Swann, who runs the daytime class, said he had been told by the trust running Hampstead Community Centre in North London that there were safeguarding concerns.

Hilary Curtis, a 63 year-old life model, said: “The fact they said we could stay if we switched to using clothed models makes it seem very clear to me that it is prudishness.”

Swann added: “The class has been running for 30 years and in that time no children have been outraged, no parents have been outraged.”

He said that an early morning toddler’s group had “cleared out by the time I turn up” and the drawing class ended long before an after-school club at 3.30pm.

“It just seems a morality thing,” he said. “It strikes me as almost like the Taliban coming in saying you can’t run a class. I wasn’t aware that it was a dangerous thing to be doing.”

Curtis said: “Capturing the human form presents a unique challenge. Throughout the history of western art it has been the core discipline for professional artists who want to challenge themselves. It hones observational skills and hand-to-eye co-ordination, while people pursuing it for leisure find it an incredibly rewarding and absorbing activity.”

She said that one of the core stated aims of the trust running the community centre was to “support activity for older people to combat social isolation” and yet “most of the people who attend that class are clearly retired people”. …

Guy Wingate, a trustee of the community centre, confirmed there had been “safeguarding concerns” which for confidentiality and data protection reasons he could not share.

Worth reading in full.

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TSull
TSull
2 years ago

Its high time the people of Wales gave Dripford his marching orders.

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Mr Dee
Mr Dee
2 years ago
Reply to  TSull

In the recent council elections, he was in the north and mid-Wales. Unfortunately, in the urban south, they’d vote in an orang-utan with monkeypox if it wore a red rosette – and there’s much more of them than us mountainfolk.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago
Reply to  Mr Dee

What the hell do the Welsh urbanites see in him? Doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, too wimpy to even watch the match.

You guys need some George North!

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Annie
Annie
2 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

His greatest triumphs came around Christmas 2020. First, pubs were forbidden to serve alcohol. Then the Dung waited until they’d all accepted bookings for Christmas meals, and got the food in – and then closed them, so thousands of tons of food had to be thrown away.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
2 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Purposeful destruction for the sake of destruction, the evil bastard.

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LiamOS
LiamOS
2 years ago
Reply to  Mr Dee

You could stick a red rosette on a burning bag of sh*t and they would vote for it. Being Welsh is to constantly wonder what the hell is wrong with the rest of your countryman.

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czerwonadupa
czerwonadupa
2 years ago
Reply to  TSull

I got the impression he was getting his own back at society for his son being in jail.

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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
2 years ago
Reply to  czerwonadupa

Drakeford is the worst kind of petty tyrant, drunk on power. Google ‘Jonathan Drakeford’ and find out about his admission of a child sexual offence, two counts of rape and one count of assault causing serious bodily harm.

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Fouquieria
Fouquieria
2 years ago

[Mr. Drakeford] warned measures were in reality “on hold” in case of another wave – with two new variants already being monitored by health officials.

Dickford is going to have to have his power-crazed claws prized off the levers of power.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
2 years ago
Reply to  Fouquieria

If he gets ousted he’ll only be replaced by another Covidian.

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

Labour has an endless supply.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Fouquieria

Dungford.

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Banjones
Banjones
2 years ago
Reply to  Fouquieria

Will they be ”cold, dead fingers”?

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grob1234
grob1234
2 years ago

And of course there’s monkeypox, which now means pets may have to be put down….

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61608384

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
2 years ago
Reply to  grob1234

Ramping it up, as expected.

What the doomsters have failed to explain is why, if Moneypox is the threat they are trying to portray it as, it’s not spread widely around the world well before now, given that in some areas it’s been endemic for years.

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lutherkehrt@gmail.com
lutherkehrt@gmail.com
2 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

It appears that certain people with certain proclivities are those most likely to get it. Worth adding that until a few days ago the NHS were saying that the majority of cases need no treatment at all.

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Annie
Annie
2 years ago
Reply to  grob1234

Although the article admits that no pets in Britain are showing signs of. the pox, and none ever has.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
2 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Reality is not something which concerns the doomsters (or the modellers).

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Really?

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Rowan
Rowan
2 years ago
Reply to  Annie

But better safe than sorry!

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twinkytwonk
twinkytwonk
2 years ago
Reply to  grob1234

Just heard on the news that even hamsters have to be put in quarantine for three weeks if someone in the household has monkeypox. Honestly you couldn’t make this shit up

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago
Reply to  twinkytwonk

A Hamster cull is the only solution.

Save the National Hamster Service!

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  grob1234

Yet the poor little blighters won’t have autoimmune blisters as a side effect of the toxic bioweapon covid injection! Link to p2 of Pfizer’s own list of side effects….
https://t.me/AnnadeBuisseretUKLawyer/1822

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RW
RW
2 years ago

It’s important to keep in mind that the Worst Health Organization (aka World Hate Organization) will try a rerun of this within the next 10 years. Especially considering that they’re planning to become responsible for a so-called one hate approach, based on them equally hating humans, animals and the planet.

[The one health approach making them responsible for the holisitic health of humans, animals and the planet in their new pandemic treaty. Anybody even talking about the health of a planet is obviously either a megalomanic crackpot or a devious political schemer.]

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Dave Angel Eco Warrior
Dave Angel Eco Warrior
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

I fear that they won’t ‘try’ but it will happen. The ordinary citizen the world over has demonstrated they will swallow whatever our leaders feed them. The majority will undoubtedly do absolutely everything again.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Dave Angel Eco Warrior

They’ve tried this three times since 2000 and failed twice. Hence, I’m cautiously optimistic.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

I’m duckin not optimistic and so far I ain’t wrong.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago
Reply to  Dave Angel Eco Warrior

There’s nothing like a pissed off Brit to put paid to global domination ambitions.

Covid was credible in the first few weeks.

Monkey Pox credibility lasted all of 5 minutes.

Give or take 4 minutes 59 seconds.

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PW
PW
2 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Brilliant! (From another sceptic Scot)

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  PW

Or is Scot just his Christian name?

He spoke of knowing an area of Scotland well anyway.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

“within 10 years?”

FFS the target date is 2030. Get a grip.

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TSull
TSull
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

More like the World Homicide Organisation.

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Annie
Annie
2 years ago

Covvie took a wrinkled little nonentity and turned it into a big bullying bogey. Of course the horrid creature doesn’t want covvie to end.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I think the messianic delusions of the so-called progressive left are genuine, ie, that they really do believe that they’re the universe’s chosen people on a holy mission to save Absolutely Everyhing[tm] from mortal dangers only they themselves are capable of recognizing early enough.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
2 years ago
Reply to  Annie

You could be talking about Danfuhrer or Masky Mark there.

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sjonesy1999
sjonesy1999
2 years ago

Wretched creature.

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noballjj
noballjj
2 years ago

Wales desperately needs ‘Drakeford level zero’ but he’ll be giving 12 year olds the vote soon to keep his juvenile politics going

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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
2 years ago
Reply to  noballjj

If that be so, perhaps 12 year olds don’t want to be locked up with rags over their faces forever? On the other hand, many are Welsh.

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Virefirer
Virefirer
2 years ago

Now all Wales needs is the electorate to give Nanny Ap Drakefford the boot.

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Annie
Annie
2 years ago
Reply to  Virefirer

Welsh numpties would elect a block of wood if it had the Labour label. Come to think of it, that’s exactly what they have done.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago
Reply to  Annie

🤣

Sturgeon is as bad, but at least has a bit of spunk about her (metaphorically).

Drakeford is just a miserable, wet pillow. No self respecting Welshman would vote for a snivelling teetotaller as Welsh minister.

I reckon the polls were as bent as the 2020 US elections.

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Nessimmersion
Nessimmersion
2 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

I really wish you hadn’t said that first sentence, very challenging as it were.

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Al T
Al T
2 years ago

How can anybody with any semblance of a brain invest any credence in anything these people say about ‘The deadly virus’.

It’s surely now abundantly clear, even to NHS worshippers, that none of those in charge gave a flying F*** about it if it interfered with their own drinking, pish ups or disporting themselves with their mistresses.

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Mr Dee
Mr Dee
2 years ago

Here in my part of north-east Wales, as soon as the mask mandates were lifted everybody stopped wearing one, apart from a few sorry wretches and the Chinese.

Likewise, hardly anybody was wearing one in 2020 when the mandates were in force in England, but not in Wales.

It made me wonder whether the reason mandates lasted longer and were harder in Wales is because the Welsh were less likely to voluntarily adopt them – so they had to be forced.

Unfortunately compliance was 95% when the masks were made ‘mandatory’.

What’s it like now elsewhere in the UK?

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Mr Dee

The number of people wearing one (excluding Chinese) in the Reading pedestrian zone shopping mall has fallen from 15 – 20 (when I started counting them) to solidly below ten. Today was actually first day where I didn’t see anyone with a mask while passing through once.

I like to entertain the thought of waiting until there’s routinely only one mask wearer and then throw him into the canal so that he’s gone as well. 🙂

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Just give them a card with the telephone number for.a mental health helpline.]

Anyone wearing a mask, especially outdoors, has serious mental health issues.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I’d rather hit them with a standard-sized supermarket sunday roast. Preferably unpacked.

NB: That’s about 53 ounces of raw beef which is going to pack a punch. Minus blood smears, it’s not going to leave visible traces, though.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Frozen.

Any traces can be blamed on monkeypox.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

The very idea behind this is to hit someone with something sufficiently soft that all the force of the impact is transferred and of enough mass that there will be an impact. When it’s as hard the skull, it’ll either break it (not desired) or skull and blunt instrument will bounce off each other.
The ‘classic’ weapon for this would be an old-style A4 sized phone book but these have fallen into disuse.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
2 years ago
Reply to  Mr Dee

Still a lot in branches of Waitrose, for some reason

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Backlash
Backlash
2 years ago
Reply to  Mr Dee

Here in the North-East it is mainly old people wearing them still, I think they have been terrorised basically. The other group is young Chinks at the uni in Durham, I would say 90% if not more are nappied up. Some people say this is part of their culture but I definitely did not see a single example of a person in Durham wearing a face mask prior to March 2020 and there were just as many Chinese students then

Last edited 2 years ago by Backlash
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Squire Western
Squire Western
2 years ago

I went to the supermarket yesterday here in Wales. I am in a Welsh nationalist area of Snowdonia. Only one couple were wearing masks, so clearly except for a couple of retards people have wised up. Nevertheless Drakeford and Labour will be re-elected to the Senedd in exactly the same way that Sturgeon and the SNP have a monopoly on power in Scotland. This is not healthy for politics – these Poundland Parliaments need to be abolished.

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Annie
Annie
2 years ago
Reply to  Squire Western

Agreed. It would get rid of a lot of poxy monkeys.

Last edited 2 years ago by Annie
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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago
Reply to  Squire Western

This is Blairs idea of a joke.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Yep, that about sums it up.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
2 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Blair was extremely sceptical about devolution.

He implemented it because it was longstanding Labour party policy and because he believed he’d be unpopular without it.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  Squire Western

My experience too in nationalist Snowdonia. A different story on the North coast tourist trail.

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J4mes
J4mes
2 years ago

Surely there’s only so long the likes of the BBC can continue to report the death of young healthy people with a eulogy and no explanation for how the person died.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Yes.

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PW
PW
2 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Mark Crispin Miller’s website describes many of these unexplained deaths in much detail, complete with links to the local news reports…..

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FFxache
FFxache
2 years ago

It appears that perhaps Mr Drakeford isn’t fully appraised regarding the available Covid data and consequently lacks a fully evidence-based appreciation of the issues.

I should translate from Physician-speak. What it actually means is ‘What a thick as pig sh*t f**g witless arsewipe’.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago
Reply to  FFxache

Did you say “What a thick as pig shit fucking witless arsewipe”?

My hearings a bit dodgy these days.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  FFxache

Your restraint does you credit.

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civilliberties
civilliberties
2 years ago

the way these people carry on is if we are all now dead and this so called virus was the worst ever in history, last time I checked the population numbers have not shrank by millions and millions.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago
Reply to  civilliberties

I read somewhere that birth rates in the UK haven’t been affected at all by covid, and the average life expectancy has risen.

Thousands more illegal immigrants may have influenced that, other than the national census came and went some time ago.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
2 years ago

Two politicians that haunt the public psyche:

Thatcher – hated by the left for improving the country.

Blair – hated by the left for not completely destroying the country.

One politician memorable for nothing – Mark Drakepenis, First Minister of, that part of England which hasn’t the dignity of at one time actually being independent from England.

I love my Welsh Celtic cousins but, really guys?

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Backlash
Backlash
2 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

And now Johnson, hated equally by the left and the right for destroying the country.

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morganlefey
morganlefey
2 years ago

This Drakeford will inevitably, and sooner than we think, be charged with criminal conspiracy in regard to his commission of egregious Crimes Against Humanity. If found guilty, sentencing will be proportionate and in accordance with Nuremberg precedent.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
2 years ago
Reply to  morganlefey

ZZZZzzzzzz…. this sort of thing is said all the time by people who are too afraid to go round and ring Drakeford’s doorbell.
Do you really believe what you’ve written?

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Newman20
Newman20
2 years ago
Reply to  morganlefey

When found guilty he can join his rapist son in chokey!!

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wantok87
wantok87
2 years ago

As with Westminster,Wales is governed by scientifically Ignorant arts graduates who are scared to question Public Heath, a reservoir of medical school failures who suddenly have been given a spotlight from their years of irrelevance. It is time for the harm caused by lockdowns,adverse reactions and mental harm to the young be litigated. Drakeford remains a menace – he was elected because we are a one party state.

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Smudger
Smudger
2 years ago

The sad thing there are hundreds of MPs in England who are just as cuckoo as this man

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marebobowl
marebobowl
2 years ago

An interesting read. https://expose-news.com/2022/05/28/19million-unvaccinated-31milllion-vaccine-refuseniks-england/

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
2 years ago

Drakeford is clearly mentally ill and needs sectioning.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
2 years ago
Reply to  Covid-1984

He’s already sectioned, in the mental asylum called ‘Wales’.

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Martin Frost
Martin Frost
2 years ago

Tell me something. Despite the extra and far longer restrictions operating in Scotland and Wales, have their Covid health outcomes been materially any different to England?

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
2 years ago
Reply to  Martin Frost

They’ve been worse

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Banjones
Banjones
2 years ago

Daffy Duckford.
Do people actually VOTE for these drips?

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Grumman
Grumman
2 years ago

These people need to be careful no one actually assassinates them. This is ridiculous abuse of power. This is the guy they caught lying and saying oh shit did they here that on his supposedly unmiked conversation about rolling the people that it wasn’t actually illegal to go out.

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Newman20
Newman20
2 years ago

Who cares what a Marxist, who evidently gets dressed in the dark, says?

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lutherkehrt@gmail.com
lutherkehrt@gmail.com
2 years ago

So any future jabbing will be confined to the ‘vulnerable’ – there won’t be many of those left in a couple of years time then. Mengele would be envious of this plan.

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