Rishi Sunak has given an interview to the Spectator in which he claims to have been the only lockdown sceptic in the Cabinet – a not-so-subtle dig at Liz Truss, who has vowed never to lock down again. The Telegraph has more.
Rishi Sunak has said it was wrong to “empower scientists” to such a degree during the pandemic, as he revealed how he spoke out in government about the costs of lockdown.
In an interview with the Spectator magazine, the former Chancellor said he was banned from discussing the “trade-offs” of plunging the country into restrictions, such as missed doctor appointments and mounting NHS backlogs.
He claimed he became “very emotional” at times about the damage closing schools would cause to children, but said his objections were met with a “big silence” from colleagues.
Recalling discussions at the heart of the Government during the early days of the pandemic, Mr. Sunak said: “Those meetings were literally me around that table, just fighting. It was incredibly uncomfortable every single time.”
He said he believed that one of the major mistakes of the pandemic was to allow the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) to have so much sway over policy.
“We shouldn’t have empowered the scientists in the way we did,” he said. “And you have to acknowledge trade-offs from the beginning. If we’d done all of that, we could be in a very different place. We’d probably have made different decisions on things like schools, for example.”
He said that in one meeting he attempted to raise his misgivings about closing down schools, adding: “I was very emotional about it. I was like: ‘Forget about the economy. Surely we can all agree that kids not being in school is a major nightmare,’ or something like that.
“There was a big silence afterwards. It was the first time someone had said it. I was so furious.”
The self-described “underdog” in the race to become the next prime minister explained how the minutes from SAGE meetings were edited so that dissenting voices were not included in the final draft.
“The SAGE people didn’t realise for a very long time that there was a Treasury person on all their calls. A lovely lady. She was great because it meant that she was sitting there, listening to their discussions,” he said.
He said the Treasury official was able to brief him on what was said in the meetings but omitted from the minutes, including disagreements with a conclusion or why people were not sure about it.
Mr. Sunak recalled the moment when Prof Neil Ferguson and his team at Imperial College London presented their Report 9, which claimed Covid casualties could reach 500,000 if no action was taken but would be reduced to 20,000 with a lockdown.
But he said any discussions about the cost of imposing such draconian measures on society were suppressed.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Fraser Nelson, writing in the Telegraph, says the great lockdown scandal is about to unravel, praising Rishi Sunak for his candour.
The disclosures should start a great unravelling of the lockdown myth, its pseudo-scientific sheen stripped away and the shocking political malfeasance left to stand exposed. Were SAGE minutes manipulated, with dissent airbrushed out? If Sage “scenarios” were cooked up on fundamentally wrong assumptions we need to know, because that will mean lockdowns were imposed or extended upon a false premise. A premise that could have been exposed as false, had there been basic transparency or proper scrutiny.
Worth reading in full.
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Vaccine fatigue?
FOAD
Bring down tax, bring down government spending.
And it turns out that the top rate of income tax (for people earning over one hundred and fifty thousand pounds) was not going to be abolished under the “mini budget”, merely reduced from 45% to 40%, basically fiddling while Rome burns. And by the way, I simply don’t believe that I will become better off by people being punished for success and hard work. You know, someone on quite low wages could scrape over fifty thousand pounds (thus earning a forty per cent tax rate) by working very long hours, or breaking into professional martial arts and taking a few beatings along the way. Imagine it. You are taking a lot of punches to earn your one thousand pounds a week, you do well and increase to two thousand pounds a week, but someone says, “by the way, I’m taking 40% of anything you make over £50,271 a year, even though it’s you taking the punches, risking your health, not me”. How is that right? A 50% tax rate might sound tempting to some, but I don’t buy it. When will they make tax freedom day a bank holiday? Never, because they know they’re wrong.
And no, I’m not rich.
“Bring down tax, bring down government spending.”
And bring down the government.
There are 650 useless, lazy, treasonous grifters siphoning our money while this country collapses around them, to their utter shame.
We need a new system but these people must have no part in it.
Hong Kong: Communists killing the golden goose. How surprising.
Sparrows mark II. (Or 3 or 4 or 5…).
Just maybe they will go the way of the Soviet Union. How many predicted their collapse in 1980? Don’t rule it out.
I just worry about who they might lash out at when they realise they can’t offer their people prosperity any ore.
The truth that our leaders seem to forget, and co-incidentally the core message of the film ‘Bugs Life’ is, ‘There’s a lot more of us, than there are of them.’.
We seem to have forgotten that too.
Brainwashed by the MSM into weak submission.
Who is to blame for the same thing happening in New Zealand and Australia?
Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo: about to be cancelled by the white boys at Twitter.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11294521/Are-people-suffering-Covid-19-vaccine-fatigue.html
‘will an extra jab save the NHS or are too many people suffering vaccine fatigue?’
-or are too many of the recipients who were previously jabbed and would have ‘offered their arm’ again – willingly or otherwise – either no longer with us RIP, or scared witless…or just don’t give a dram about the corrupt NHS anymore?
The comments made show that the majority of readers have decided enough is enough & have seen through the manipulations.
Thank goodness.
I’m wondering whatever will the poor, destitute GP’s do now there’s less demand for the devil’s serum. They’ll be suffering a tremendous loss of income.
I suppose they could set up some gofundme pages or similar, to support their lack of finances. Smirk.
Or, they could actually get back to doing their real job in primary care instead of chasing kerching.
Well all that jabbing has not saved the NHS which is now clearly in a death spiral.
Agreed….It’s not ‘vaccine fatigue’….it’s the giant con, it’s the mandates, it’s the lies, it’s the deaths and injuries……
As of 28 September 2022, the MHRA has received 464,071 reports of 1,517,640 injuries following injection with a COVID-19 ‘vaccine’, including 2,272 deaths within 7 days of injection, with an unknown number having died outside this arbitrary time limit.
‘Vaccine fatigue’ is used to vilify those who are choosing to assert their bodily autonomy & reject the toxin. Just another in a long line of carefully constructed narratives used to try to herd the sheep.
Isn’t that “vaccine hesitancy”? A hated term which infers somebody is dithering and undecided as to what to do, they’re just looking for some direction because they are so helpless and pathetic. “Vaccine fatigue” is just somebody who’s had 1 or more jabs and finally realised that they don’t need any more because they’ve been lead up the garden path.
I should have edited my comment to say that ‘vaccine fatigue’ is used to vilify already injected who are belatedly asserting their bodily autonomy.
Thanks for highlighting my lack of clarity!
Either term is just vilification of those who disagree with the agenda.
If people are experiencing vaccine fatigue, there won’t be any need for the new Darlington RNA vaccine innovation centre, will there? Shucks.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-injects-funding-boost-for-cutting-edge-vaccine-site-in-darlington
Edit: change link.
Unreliable Wind & Solar Leave Power-Starved Europeans Vulnerable During Big Freeze
https://stopthesethings.com/2022/10/09/unreliable-wind-solar-leave-power-starved-europeans-vulnerable-during-big-freeze/
The northern hemisphere turns on bitter winters – getting wind turbines and solar panels to turn on in the midst of one, is another matter. A cohort of Americans left powerless during the winter storm that struck in February 2021, has already had a taste of their wind and solar ‘powered’ future, and didn’t take kindly to it.
Power-starved Germans, now even more desperate for coal-fired power, are giving their obsession with ‘green’ energy a good hard rethink. And, as Peta Credlin points out below, it’s time we all did.
by stopthesethings
Yellow Boards in the Home Counties.
Some of us are common as muck.
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An interesting medico-legal point is made by the author of the C&C News that as it is a qualified & certified medic who has done the research into safety, published the details & based State policy on the research, this now is the best medical practice which all medics have to adhere to. He explains it better than I do!
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/c-and-c-news-saturday-october-8-2022?utm_source=email
Thanks BB. The ‘Mass Torts’ lawsuit served to Peter Daszak also feels very significant in that it will result in the truth about the origins of SARS-COV2 and the subsequent cover up being revealed.
It’s these seemingly insignificant actions that often have the greatest repercussions.
The Mass Torts is going after the source not pharma, so will be much harder for a judge to throw it out.
Interesting… Didn’t know that the US DoD had designated the covid toxin as weapons….
If that doesn’t change your opinion of what’s in them, then there really is no hope.
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/the-reason-it-is-not-allowed-to-analyze/comments#comment-9600452
Article looking at link between aluminium in vaccines exposure in first two years of a child’s life & the risk of asthma.
Lots of comparisons with covid toxic injection papers re discovery of propblems, then discounting any safety signals…
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-10-06-cdc-aluminum-vaccines-causes-childhood-asthma-autism.html#
My stepdaughter (now 32) got Eczema and Asthma within days of her first shot of the triple vaccine way back.
It appears that the covid sceptics are looking more closely at other vaccines with a similar level of sceptical scrutiny. The verdict isn’t looking good for pharma…
Yay!!!
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/10/traditional-vaccines-now-in-question-dr-harvey-risch-loses-all-trust-in-the-cdc-and-the-fda-videos/ref/8/
I hope the Dr Harvey Risch video appears above the line.
Good. It’s entirely predictable and what any rational person should be thinking. I’ll have a lookie later.
A NASA presentation from 2001 titled Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare (circa 2025)
More hard evidence that this has long been in the planning. The evil cabal want military war on top of the psychological, bio, resource & techno wars which they have been imposing on the world population.
https://archive.org/details/FutureStrategicIssuesFutureWarfareCirca2025/page/n3/mode/2up
Dr Simon’s take on PayPal & censorship. Interestingly, they’ve backtracked. Question is for how long? Typical playbook of controlling bullies, push hard, recant, then rinse & repeat until capitulation. Best thing is not to engage in the first place.
https://drsimon.substack.com/p/the-cancel-culture-noose-is-tightening
For anyone who is interested in the nitty gritty details of the VAERS data & how it is manipulated to make the bioweapon injections look better than they are, Albert’s Welcome the Eagle 88 videos are well worth a watch. He’s doing all this pro bono. A real Truth Warrior
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fl2xkVeBAMMk/
An historical perspective of US military interventions from the 1970s onwards which is relevant to the current war in Ukraine.
https://www.tikkun.org/ukraine-is-the-latest-neocon-disaster/
Professor Paul Hunter tells the Mail that “vaccine fatigue happens in every jab campaign, but this time around it looks more pronounced”.
That’s because they aren’t vaccines, Mr Professor.
I sure hope the sheeple are becoming more “people” and less “sheep”.
Something to bookmark.
“This book is a product of my own struggle to understand how the idealistic institutions our country built to safeguard both public health and democracy, suddenly turned against our citizens and values.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s best-selling book, The Real Anthony Fauci, has been turned into a spellbinding documentary film—and it’s being released entirely free to the public on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 https://www.therealanthonyfaucimovie
The latest installment of We Lie To You News from JP, which ironically is more truthful than the BBC. Packed full with stories including the parallels with Iran and the West, Russell Brand and President Brandon identifying a dead congresswoman as alive, and much more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ar3yhMxdo0
As usual, Brill! I can only agree with a lot of the comments…how come JP tells more truths in a ‘comedy’ sketch, than the actual news does??
He’s doing his job as a satirist unlike others who appear on TV sitting next to a perspex screen for two years.
“Electric cars won’t be cheaper to run than petrol motors until 2026”
Or ever, probably. None of the eco-loons seems to understand that the more lithium you need, the more you mine, the price goes up, and it then becomes harder to find (and it isn’t easy to find and extract it..), and then the price goes up again. And the car batteries are hard to recycle and produces only a fraction of the original material for re-use. Like heat pumps, lithium batteries for transportation are a dead-end technology. In five years, you wont be able to give them away.
The latest from Geert Vanden Bossche
Dear friends
It is now FIVE PAST TWELVE!
Because of IMMUNE REFOCUSING, SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants are now turning vaccine-mediated immune dysregulation in vaccinees into FULL-FLEDGED VACCINE ESCAPE.
Here is the link to my LAST VIDEO MESSAGE explaining how immune refocusing is now accelerating vaccine escape of the obviously never-ending sequence of Omicron variants…: https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/videos-and-interviews/it-is-5-past-12
It is now more than time to get prepared for an unprecedented historical low in ‘modern’ civilization.
I’ve been warning for this ever since I heard about the C-19 MASS vaccination program. However, I initially underestimated the versatility of the immune system as I did not fully understand how the vaccinee’s immune response could keep the virus under control despite the lack of neutralizing antibodies and the enhanced susceptibility of vaccinees to re-infection. Eventually I started seeing through the complex immune disturbances caused by the C-19 mass vaccination program and all the pieces of the puzzle have now fallen together.
NATURE (and not technocracy) always has the last word. It will restore the vitally important balance a natural pandemic would already have achieved two years ago. It’s just that in highly vaccinated countries the process of restoring that natural equilibrium between the virus and the host immune system will now take a much higher toll. The more booster doses (especially if using so-called ‘Omicron-adapted’ boosters), the faster the virus will manage to fully escape the last shred of protection conferred by the C-19 vaccines.
In other words, highly vaccinated countries will pay a huge price to Nature for establishing HERD IMMUNIY. Only herd immunity can terminate this pandemic and only immunity acquired upon NATURAL infection .(i.e., trained innate cell-based immunity, possibly complemented with adaptive antibody-based immunity) can contribute to building herd immunity…..
To protect vaccinees from antibody-dependent enhancement of severe disease, we will need to concentrate on chemoprophylaxis using drugs with proven safe and effective antiviral activity. To protect our children from viral immune escape and maintain at least some potential to build herd immunity, we must ensure their unconditional protection against C-19 vaccination.
Geert
If you’re on Telegram, this guy’s channel is well worth joining. He’s hilarious!
Wonderfully funny short videos extracting the urine from the narrative.
https://t.me/DrDrMcHonkHonk
Hmm….
[Forwarded from Dr. Lynn Fynn’s Science Enlightenment Channel & Stuff]
“Surprisingly, only spike protein but no nucleocapsid protein could be detected within the foci of inflammation in both the brain and the heart, particularly in the endothelial cells of small blood vessels. Since no nucleocapsid protein could be detected, the presence of spike protein must be ascribed to vaccination rather than to viral infection.“
Is it surprising? This is how you prove that this is vaccine-derived so they cannot attribute this to infection or virus.
They will undoubtedly stop differentiating the Ab type as to bury this devastating finding.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/10/1651
Electric cars won’t be cheaper to run?
That ain’t the half of it!
‘The problem is electric vehicle batteries contain dangerously reactive chemicals When shorted by floodwater the large electric current causes batteries rapidly corrode and disintegrate, a process which can occur in a matter of minutes.
The fires which occur when the floodwaters subside from the corroded batteries are difficult to extinguish, and can burn hot enough to melt steel and concrete.
If that wasn’t enough, smoke from electric battery fires is toxic. Lithium contamination and poisoning can cause serious short and long term health problems.’
Watts Up With That
Errrr……has the precautionary principle been implemented regarding the introduction of electric vehicles?
Could we perhaps have a look at the cost benefit analysis that has obviously been conducted, mandated, as it is, by the EU precautionary principle guidance notes adopted wholesale by the Blair Government.
Oh! The Blair government! What could possibly go wrong!