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Theresa May Says She is “Woke and Proud”

by Will Jones
15 September 2023 5:30 PM

Theresa May has said she is “woke and proud” as she called for a “sensitive approach” to issues surrounding gender. The Telegraph has more.

‌The former Prime Minister compared being asked whether she was a woke woman to having been asked in the past whether she was a feminist, adding: “Well, I wore a T-shirt which said ‘this is what a feminist looks like’.”

‌Mrs May’s remarks came in an interview with Ruth Davidson, the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives, for Times Radio ahead of the publication of her first book since leaving Downing Street.

‌Ms. Davidson asked the ex-Prime Minister about a line from the book, entitled The Abuse of Power, in which she discusses the term ‘woke’.

‌“When you were writing about wokeness, you said: ‘The Oxford English Dictionary definition of woke is well-informed, up to date and chiefly alert to racial discrimination and injustice. And on that basis, who would not want to be woke?’”

‌Ms. Davidson added: “It invites the question, Theresa, are you possibly a woke woman?”

‌Mrs May responded: “In the terms of that definition of somebody who recognises that discrimination takes place. Sadly, that term has come to be used… as part of this absolutism and polarisation of politics.”

‌When pressed on whether she was “woke and proud”, she said, laughing, “I am, yeah!”

That’s a former Conservative Prime Minister, folks.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Conservative PartyTheresa MayTransWar on WokeWokeWoke Gobbledegook

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago

What sources were there in addition to ICL. We’re there a lot of others.

has anyone studied their history, methodology and financing.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

The Bill Gates Foundation heavily funded Ferguson. No coincidence there. It seems to be a no go area where any authorities are concerned as to how, why, who these pseudo-scientists are funded. Probably because there is so much money swimming around for those willing to do and say what they are told. Ferguson has been doing it for years, certainly at least 30.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

Why do they keep mentioning “pandemics”?

The word “failure” implies that the perpetrators were intending to improve public health, and believed in what they were doing. I’ve seen very little evidence of that. The most charitable explanation is of very early panic once they were told the virus came from a lab, followed by doubling down to cover up the leak and the needless panic. Then there are other explanations that have even less to do with “public health”.

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Castorp
Castorp
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Democide. No other explanation is remotely plausible.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago

Incidentally, since they mention the foot and mouth outbreak, it’s instructive to remember that, like COVID, that epidemic started from lab leak from a government animal research laboratory in Pirbright.

Tot it up, and there seem to be more disease outbreaks from the units set up to study them safely than there are from nature.

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Roy Everett
Roy Everett
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Global List of Lab leaks.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
1 year ago
Reply to  Roy Everett

I think they’ve missed a quite recent one from some sort of lab in China I believe.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago

Whitty testified to the Inquiry that overestimates of numbers are “useful for planning purposes.” It sounds so sensible to budget for all contingencies, doesn’t it, until you look at the real damage it does.

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Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

An overestimate would be useful if it had an approximate probably attached to it e.g. the model said there is a 5% chance of 500,000 deaths without lockdown. That way governments could have contingency plans for a worst case scenario and look for indications e.g. rapidly increasing number of deaths that the worst case may be happening before putting the plans into action. The problem with the ICL models is either that they only gave one figure for expected deaths, or decisions were based on the worst case even if it was stated by the modelers that it had a very low probability of happening.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

According to the report cited, the modellers had at least some caveats, which were ignored by governments in forming policy, and made into firm predictions for the benefit of the public.

That isn’t to say that Ferguson et al didn’t want it that way, as he’s never apologised for the foot and mouth disaster or anything else he got wrong… just collected the gongs.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago

The book can be downloaded free as a pdf from the linked website.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/hpai-virus/#gsc.tab=0

And this is how food industries are being decimated – more nonsense “viruses.”

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

“Prior to the Covid outbreak, “most countries did have a plan to deal with pandemics”, Hanke told the Epoch Times, “but after the Imperial College of London’s ‘numbers’ were published, those plans were, in a panic, thrown out the window.”

I do not believe this. The bottom line is that national governments acted on instructions received from the Davos Deviants. The DD’s knew exactly what disasters the Lockdowns would create and the results we have seen fitted their sick, warped plans.

Governments did not ‘panic,’ they did as they were told. To suggest panic is to continue to support, even push the cock-up theory and we know that is BS.

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James.M
James.M
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Someone should tell Toby Young.

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Vhilts
Vhilts
1 year ago

There is certainly a common factor with all these overestimates and ensuing disasters- one bloke called Ferguson. How on earth is he still being believed. He is a mathematician and nothing else. Well maybe an astrologist. Most lunatics who interfere with government and lives to this extent are usually ‘dealt with’ . He is more suited to the national lottery show like mystic Meg.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
1 year ago
Reply to  Vhilts

Actually he’s a physicist. His crap, totally wrong forecasts from the past are precisely the reason why he was listened to by those morons in government

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Bill Hickling
Bill Hickling
1 year ago

How can it be that Ferguson has never been brought to book for his fantastical modelling that fanned the flames of Covid hysteria and informed governmental policy?

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Bill Hickling

Perhaps he was telling people what they wanted to hear. Between Ferguson, SAGE and the government, the WHO and who knows who else, I could never quite work out whose hand was up whose backside – just that most or all of them were lying about almost everything.

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prod_squadron
prod_squadron
1 year ago

I recall one of the modellers from (possibly) Warwick saying that they were specifically asked to model only worst case scenarios, not anything more realistic. Might have been the second lockdown.

I also recall Vallance airily telling the select committee that models are only “scenarios not predictions” so I don’t believe he was ever in a panic and he was in charge.

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Godfree Roberts
Godfree Roberts
1 year ago

China’s lockdowns, which affected only 7% of the citizenry, were highly localized and very comprehensive.
To say Chinese lockdowns ‘worked,’ however, is misleading. Dynamic Covid Zero (the WHO Pandemic Manual repackaged) did work, and retained the support of 82% of Chinese.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/french-riots-an-ideal-excuse-for-another-lockdown/

We on here are not alone in suspecting the French riots will lead to martial law and lockdowns.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
1 year ago

I loathe Ferguson but I have to say I’ve rarely eaten so well as when the mad git made his mad cow prediction. I was buying great cuts for next to nothing, it was like paradise! If only he had made a similar prediction on red wine and beer!
On a serious note, I genuinely think he should be prosecuted. He has a track record of turning up with insane predictions and he has never even been close to the Universe let alone the ball park.
His latest sojourn into his fantasies was funded by Bill Gates to the tune of £22 million. Is that not cause enough for Plod to stop dancing and get investigating what he was actually asked to deliver by Good Old Uncle Bill?

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
1 year ago

I firmly believe that any modelling should have to prove it can model a known similar event to within +/- 5%. The factors are all known, the outcome is known. If modelling is any use then it has to be able to predict, with reasonable accuracy, past events, current events and possible future events. It really should be the acid test before Government even begins to accept it.
In the case of Ferguson this should have been obvious. His track record is appalling. I remember all those pyres of sheep all around the country. All the cattle destroyed. All the Butchers Shops ruined. Ferguson got his money and walked free to wreak even more destruction.
I accept anyone can get things wrong but his modelling is known to not work and has been known not to work for 30 years. Why was he allowed anywhere near any form of power other than cleaning toilets? Who appointed him to destroy all those lives in all those cases of his predictions? Why is it not being asked “Who the hell appointed Ferguson?”.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

The problem with that is that models are tuned (arbitrarily) to make them “predict” past events. That’s how the climate models work: always right about the past (including when the datasaet is modified), and always wrong about the future, because they were not modelling reality but adjusted to fit.

As John von Neumann said: “With four parameters I can fit an elephant. With five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”

Climate and epidemiological models have dozens of parameters, each infinitely variable to taste.

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AllMouthAndTrousers
AllMouthAndTrousers
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

No climate model can accurately predict the past climate, they have over a dozen different models which can “predict” periods of the climate within the parameters laid down. Which is like saying I can hit the bullseye on the dartboard every time if you give me 20 goes at it.

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