‘Nazi Germany’ was trending on U.K. twitter earlier today. Why? Nothing to do with Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine, or even a new series on Netflix. No, this was an outbreak of oikophobia, Roger Scruton’s word to describe the irrational hatred of one’s own country. It was prompted by Union Jacks being hung in Regent Street to celebrate the forthcoming Jubilee weekend. The Spectator‘s Steerpike has more.
The Jubilee weekend looms next month. For some, it’s a chance to toast the monarchy; for others, simply an extra day off work. And for a small minority of Twitter-crazed loons, it’s yet more proof that the UK is goose-stepping down the path of fascism. For the unfurling of Union Jacks on London’s Regent Street, ahead of next month’s celebration, is proof to some of Boris’s more hard-of-thinking critics that a totalitarian regime is in the offing.
After images of the UK’s national flag were posted online this morning, a hardcore band of diehard Remainiacs went into something of a meltdown, furiously tweeting their rage to such an extent that the phrase ‘Nazi Germany’ was the second most ‘trending’ topic on Twitter this morning. The only phrase that topped it was – ironically – ‘#MondayMotivation’. Leading the pack was broadcaster India Willoughby who declared that “When the Queen dies, wouldn’t be surprised if Boris appoints himself Fuhrer and assumes total control. That’s how close I think Britain is to Nazi Germany.”
Close behind her was Professor Paul Bernal at UEA who suggested ”the only things that are missing are the tanks”. And after one pro-flag Twitter user suggested that “all streets should be looking like this, all the time”, infamous ‘Stop Brexit’ activist Steve Bray hit back that “I think Nazi Germany tried it once!!!” Stay classy, guys.
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Another “conspiracy theory” comes true!
Is that about 22-0 now? Since AGW, Brexit, Trump and now COVID.
When I pointed out the success of Sweden’s approach more than a year ago to my MP he loftily declared, as if he was citing incontrovertible fact that Sweden had not done well as evidenced by the apologies offered by their King and Prime Minister.
I knew then that he, like the rest, was an utter ****. I wasn’t totally sure up to that point.
The fact he was a MP should have been your first clue
It was always likely that lockdowns killed more people than they “saved”.
Sweden was misrepresented, lied about, vilified, and we were vilified for using them as an example.
However it should be remembered that Sweden did have some restrictions, vaxxed lots of people, and for a long time barred entry to the unvaxxed. Way better than here, but far from perfect.
Finally, while it’s nice that Sweden “did well”, covid was obviously never a societal threat so any measures beyond giving people accurate information and looking into effective treatments (HCQ, ivermectin, whatever) there was no need to do anything out of the ordinary or treat it differently to a bad flu season. We knew that from the start.
So true. Lockdowns inherently kill more people than they save. And it was self-evident and thus entirely foreseeable from the get-go by anyone with a modicum of intellectual honesty and more than two brain cells to rub together.
How much better again would it have been if safe and effective early treatments had not been not outlawed at the behest of Big Pharma? There must be a reckoning.
“not been outlawed”!
Indeed, very true.
Has the UK really had 24.5% excess deaths over 2020-2022? That is more than twice what I have from ONS data.
I have about 10.5% from January 2020 to today’s figures. That is excess above the average 2010-2019, corrected for population.
Have I got something wrong here?
is it because you’re using a 10 year (2010-2019) previous average as comparison?
This is its most simple form, uncorrected for population. Deaths registered in England and Wales Sheet 1a here gives
2021 586,334
2020 607,922
2019 530,841
2018 541,589
2017 533,253
2016 525,048
2015 529,655
2014 501,424
2013 506,790
2012 499,331
2011 484,367
2010 493,242
Ave 2010-2019 = 514,554
Ave 2015-2019 = 532,077
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales Sheet 1 here gives
2022 471,064 (sum to week 43)
Total deaths 2020-2022 = 607,922 + 586,334 + 471,064 = 1,665,320
(2+43/52)*average 10 year = 1,454,605, excess = 14.5% approx
(2+43/52)*average 5 year = 1,454,605, excess = 10.7% approx
(These will be a few percent smaller when corrected for population and does not adjust for seasons. My chart does include this.)
Either way, it is nowhere near 24.5%
What have I done wtong?
Note: I think I see what Joel Smalley has done!
He has not taken the real % excess – i.e. above normal.
He has taken about 2.5 years excess deaths as a percentage over 1 year!
It’s accumulative excess deaths over the 2020 – 2022 period, not an annualised average.
Yes, as I later suggested.
I have been working with excess weekly deaths. These are currently 17.7% above the 2010-2019 average (population adjusted) when taken over the last three weeks. That’s for England and Wales. So 24.5% was a surprise until I sussed what it meant!
Amen to that! “Stockholm Syndrome” should really be renamed “Melbourne Syndrome”, because #SwedenGotItRight.
Additionally, Belarus, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and the Faeroe Islands didn’t do any worse than their stricter neighbors either in terms of all cause excess deaths. Ditto for the 12 states in the USA that eschewed lockdowns as well, compared to the rest of the country.
And it appears that the Governor of one of the sane states has done quite well in the current election (Ron De Santis). I wonder if that had anything to do with the election results?
Indeed. Ditto for Kristi Noem of South Dakota as well. A fortiori, in fact.
Well at least they got something right, but how is that multiculturalism working out for them? Or is it still against the law there to criticise the sex crime statistics?
I taught in schools for years. In the good old days the winter lurgy (whatever it was) would sweep through the school system and we’d hear that half the staff of school A were off and it was chaos as teachers tried to cope. A week later we’d hear that the lurgy had moved to school B and it was chaos there. This pattern continued through the local schools over a period of a few weeks and then everything settled down to whatever was considered normal. The point being that viruses moving through the population is what they do. People get ill or don’t depending on their own biology and susceptibilty. People are affected differently but for most it is a few days of ill health followed by a return to life. There is no need for lockdowns, masks, social distancing or whatever.
It is to be hoped that lessons will have been learned in the last 3 years but then again…
They didn’t bother with the lessons learned in the last 100 years, so clearly these buffoons will learn nothing from the last 3.
Sweden would have done even better if it had refused to roll-out the gene therapy jabs.
Indeed. Ditto if they had used HCQ and IVM as well (unfortunately it looks like they did not). But their food is fortified with Vitamin D at least, like the other Nordic countries and Canada, but unlike the USA, UK, and most of Europe.
Surely its obvious to anybody, but Americans, that Fauci was the supporter and promoter of the research originally in America, but later farmed out to the Wuhan lab in China. On that basis he has a big part of the responsibility for Covid existing, because it escaped from that lab, yet he continued in post imposing his restrictions not based on real science. Now he is being allowed to retire with probably a big payout and pension – he should be strung up, although as that doesn’t happen these days people should at least be aware of the number of deaths he has caused. Surely he should be forced to accept his responsibility and make a public appology.
And then be convicted and sent to jail.
“Those responsible for implementing them should be held accountable for the deaths they have caused”
While this is true, the economic and social effects of lockdowns will persist for generations. The people responsible for lockdowns should be held to account for this too
Can someone explain the sourcing on this? I can’t seem to spot any even on the full article.