I was up at my old Alma Mater, Boston Grammar School, for its 125th Anniversary Old Boys Association dinner on the weekend of March 8th. Warm and sunny. I looked out of my hotel room window and saw Richard Tice and another man striding purposefully into the building. I noticed them because they were wearing suits and nice pink ties, not the standard local attire in Boston which is famously ‘East Europe Central’. And Turkey country these days I discovered. Not the Christmas version, although this is where your Brussel sprouts come from. I went to school with the unofficial ‘Sprout King’ of Kirton Holme (now retired) and he was at the dinner. No sprouts on the menu.
Well, Tice is the local MP, I suppose, so had every right to be there, but on going out for the day I passed the hotel functions room where Reform were about to have a meeting of the great and the good, and from the expressions on their faces it wasn’t terribly celebratory. Later we all found out about Rupert Lowe-gate.
Fast forward to this week and I was present at the other end of the Reform firmament.
I went to the very first local meeting of Reform Brighton Branch. Partly because it was next door to where I live. Partly because I am a member. Partly because I thought I might get an update on exactly what may emerge from the Stygian marsh where the upper echelons were tussling. Not a chance. What I did learn is that while the news focuses on the top people nationally, it’s very different when you start getting dirt in your fingernails scratching around the grass roots.
People more involved in local politics than I ever have been will recognise the scenario. I went equipped with questions and suppositions I thought might at least start a debate, if the meeting turned out to be a bit slow. Not a chance it would be that kind of gathering as it turned out. Bread and butter. Or marge as it’s Reform and away from the Farage end of things.
It was an upstairs room in a pub. Naturally. Laid out for about 30-40 attendees. About 80 turned up. Seats were brought in, tables were sat on, beer was spilt. Ladies were accommodated. A few local princelings swept in from the outer reaches of Bexhill to offer advice.
There was a very convoluted entry process because there are no membership cards and the Branch Secretary can’t get access to membership details from head office. Email addresses and phone numbers had to be matched up with names. Nevertheless, cheerfulness was maintained and the meeting started 20 minutes late.
The very first Treasurer was elected. A 30-second spoken CV, and he seemed like a nice competent chap for a thankless job. Unopposed. Proposer? Seconder? Elected. No vote. Move on. No funds for the new Treasurer either. Raffle to pay for room. No funding coming from the centre. Talk of a garden party when the weather improves as everything has to be raised locally.
Chairman is a tried and tested local government candidate – formerly an independent, one defection from another party already, and a by-election coming up they haven’t got great hopes for. Others hovering to see how party set-up goes. Defections touted as happening almost by default. Seem to be happening elsewhere regularly, but there were no misgivings as to exactly who and why. It may be just me, but I’d be more suspicious that defecting to Reform might be a way to get around the glacial central vetting process.
Brighton is now heavily Uniparty locally, plus assorted others through Green to very red, to whatever colour the Gaza party is. The wilder elements are clustered mainly around the city. The further out you go, the more you find disgruntled families, i.e., Reform people, we were told. This is important because local government here is being totally reorganised into unitary authorities throughout East/West Sussex, and which suburbs are being lumped in with the city vote is going to be important. The locals want five authorities of 300,000 each, Westminster wants three of 500,000 each. No rush – they’ve postponed our local elections anyway until they’ve sorted this all out, much to the chagrin of local Reform.
Reform central is stuck in believing local structures should be organised along constituency boundaries, which just doesn’t work here, certainly not with the reorganisation. It’s taken until now for head office to agree a single Brighton Branch instead of three reflecting the three Parliamentary constituencies.
They still won’t give the new branch access to central membership information for their own members.
There is a very slow and convoluted vetting process for officers and candidates. All available central resources are being redirected to focus on the North, presumably for the local elections.
Some deep grumbling at the meeting about the shenanigans at the top, but the Chairman – sensibly I think – says all our attention should be on getting the local branch up and running and with a local comms setup if necessary as we can’t do anything without elected grassroots candidates, never mind influencing the ones at the top. And abysmal local government around here needs Reform to give it a very noisy kicking. Crying out for it.
And so on. Just over an hour’s meeting (as that’s all the room was paid for) but everybody seemed pleased that something was happening. However, I did detect disturbing hints of control-freakery in the handling of Rupert Lowe reflected in the top not wanting to release access to the party lists to the people who are actually on them, down here at the bottom.
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Compulsory “vaccination” doubleplus ungood.
Don’t expect any sense from the government or the BBC.
Even when they try using logical arguments (e.g. Javid and Hancock of late claiming as much), they make sure that they apply their logic to false premises.
They treat us all like morons who can’t see through it.
The vaccine doesn’t help you, but you should get it cause it helps you. It will keep you and others safe from infection, but let us be clear, it doesn’t keep you from getting infected or passing it on to others. Does that make sense? Good. Get it or I’m making you homeless.
Killing you to keep you safe.
I personally think that with the winter they have in store for us/manufactured, this will allow blame for a surge in deaths to be placed at the feet of the unvaccinated staff in the NHS, plus in wider society at large.
Think this was posted earlier but worth reposting. Credit to whoever
Covid: Dr Clare Craig on why she’s against mandatory jabs for NHS staff
Excellent!
Excellent stuff.
A month later:
“How many fingers am I holding up, Mr Jones?”
“how many do you want it to be sir?”
Hopefully by then the quadruple “vaccinated” will be turning on the triple “vaccinated”, to say nothing of the reprobates known as the merely “double vaccinated”.
Double vaxxed is so last year
‘When it comes to the spring, let us hope that, like the parent counting to three, the Government will find a way to back down on its threat (“One, Two, …Two-and-a-Half…”).’
I hope they don’t backdown. 70,000 new recruits who may join the cause and hopefully accelerate the fall of the dictatorship
“the Government can simply rehire them. “
I doubt that. The ones accepting the sack will not want to return.
The more able workers will leave first, and be snapped up by the private medical corps beloved of the NHS Head Honcho. All those well-trained medical staff available en masse, which should drive costs down. A two-fer for Big Private Medical ‘Care’
A friend of mine is a Nurse. She has natural immunity – which the NHS is ignoring – and will allow herself to be sacked when the time comes. Or maybe just leave earlier if it suits her. When 000s of staff do this the NHS will have a problem.
To continue the Orwellian theme: hate week will soon be upon us.
Climaxing in “the airing of grievances” for Festivus
The Story of Festivus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX55AzGku5Y
But the double-think is only in our learned Doctor Jones’ and his friend Peter’s head. The (rather obvious) single-think explanation is that although vaccination indeed helps a lot, it is still a lesser evil to society during an emergency to have unvaccinated medical staff available than to get rid of them. There, Doctor Jones and Peter, your minds can be at peace again.
You sure about that? Were you writing to your MP pre Covid about the flu jabs? What about natural immunity or vaccine harms (which have to be risked each round of a vaccine), what about mix and match?
You anything at all, anything at all which shows that this policy is anything other than an exercise is threatening behaviour, in coercion, in the willful breadlining of people who up until last week were being lauded as heroes by the same bastards now sacking them?
What ’emergency’??????
Thank you for the comment. If vaccination helps a lot in stopping the vaccinated from catching and spreading Covid, it would seem logical that as vaccination rates increase, infection rates should go down. But this has not happened. The simplest explanation for why it has not happened is that vaccination does not, in fact, help to prevent catching and spreading Covid.
People had to join the Nazi Party to keep their jobs.
Proof of membership is now ‘voluntary’ use of the mask and ‘voluntary’ vaxxination.
This picture needs updating.
Must be Winston Smith
I would rather have unvaccinated Docotrs and nurses, covid vaccinated ones have failed the most basic IQ test as far as I’m concerned.
“touch of Orwellian propaganda”
Just a touch. Lol.
By April there will be a requirement for a fourth jab for all those who have currently complied. So will the rules in April apply to both triple and quadruple jabbed equally or will the triple folk have to have a quick fouth jab to qualify?
The same “combined pressure” as last year, when the flu took a gap year, and something with exactly the same symptoms took its place.
Did Javid say that NHS staff would have to be “double vaccinated” by April 2022, or did he say “fully vaccinated”? If the latter, my guess is that staff will be expected to have had either their 2nd “jab” or a booster dose within 6 months (or so) of the April 1st deadline. Maybe by then they will be rolling out the 2nd booster shot! I can’t see them being happy with people having had their 2 jabs 12 months earlier and no booster since. I suspect that part of the delay about mandating the “vaccines” will be about coercing nhs staff to have the booster, as a sizeable proportion have so far not had this, much greater than the proportion who haven’t had their first 2 shots. NHS staff must dance to the tune of those saying the boosters are absolutely essential to protect us all.
Hospitals in USA and in first world countries are refusing life-saving Ivermectin treatment even with court orders. Big Pharma doing everything they can to jab us no matter what, while alternative COVID cures EXIST! There happens to be heavy censorship who are looking for these treatments. The Research Is Clear: Ivermectin Is a Safe, Effective Treatment for COVID. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
The mental gymnastics of this clown world vaccination dogma is astounding
The April deadline gives NHS staff who won’t submit to tyranny time to plan their future.
I personally know one NHS GP who won’t comply; she and colleagues are actively planning to quit and set up a private healthcare practice.
Those frontline NHS workers like my friend,who have resisted the “call to arms” so far, are terrified for their jobs now. In order to be ” fully vaccinated” ( whatever that means!) by Easter, they would need to take the first prick very soon ( because of the b.s. rule of 6 ( or is it 5 now??) months between injections of the shite). Most staff have rent/ mortgages, families to feed, etc. Principles don’t pay the bills. This is the effect of the evil bullying of our government machine. The bastards are grinding those staff ( remember they were officially “NHS heroes” last summer) who have seen through the propaganda down. I will not, ever, give my arm to the tyrants, but I fully sympathise with those teetering on the brink.
But there are very few people in parliament or the MSM prepared to call out the doublethink. Anyone daring to do so is likely to be libeled as a covid denier, antivaxxer, etc
Do these loons ever see any of the commentaries on these or similar pages? Commentary that clearly points out in no uncertain terms the complete swivel-eyed madness of the thoughts/ideas/doublethink gormless meanderings through their tiny little mind spaces? People have been firmly locked into padded cells over the centuries for far less ‘off-the-wall’ beliefs and thought processes. There really is very little hope for us as a species I fear. Good luck running the planet Meerkats.
And I hear Mark Wankford has decreed that the Welsh will have to show VaxPasses to enter cinemas, theatres, and concerts from next week!!
Message from my son who lives in Merthyr saying…”No more cinema for the boys” (my grandchildren aged 4 & 6). Well done Wankford! Doing your bit for the Welsh people and your country. I guess you’ll be wringing your hands at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, thanking those who gave their lives for your freedoms? You complete DICKHEAD!
And IF “they” are offered the opportunity to be rehired, hopefully “they” tell the government to go F themselves!