The best firework displays make you catch your breath. The first dazzling explosion of colours and bangs force a sharp inhalation, followed by low appreciative ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’, heard in waves throughout a watching crowd.
London’s 2023 New Year’s Eve firework display had the capital gasping for all the wrong reasons. This was the most extreme pyrotechnic propaganda ever seen in the skies above London.
And the world watched too, which is rather embarrassing. We used to do a good firework display. Even the world’s most famous despots from Kim Jong Un to Vladmir Putin must have been slack-jawed at the imposition of woke rectitude blazoned above the city’s great skyline.
Can fireworks spell doom for a country? I’m afraid that once fireworks start spelling at all, the writing is on the wall, or rather the sky.
First, Sadiq Khan gave himself top billing as the the drones formed a gigantic credit and we were informed that the fireworks were presented by his egoship, the Mayor of London. At least this makes apportioning blame for what followed quite simple.
Which was woke bingo, with voiceovers piously intoning the year’s shibboleths: the King’s coronation (that one is okay), the NHS, same-sex marriage, the Windrush arrival and ‘the environment’.
Why can’t fireworks just be pretty? And when did it all change?
Using fireworks to make events special and to convey messages more effectively and memorably is not new. After all, we stick a Guy on a bonfire every November while cooing over rockets and sparklers. Fireworks are used to commemorate Independence Day in the U.S. and spectacular displays have dazzled the subjects of kings and queens in Europe for centuries. But our own feudal lord, I mean, mayor’s heavy-handed application of propagandistic messaging is particularly blunt, and it never used to be like this.
The propaganda has been sneaking in for years. Last year, the fireworks and London Eye were themed blue and yellow in homage to Ukraine. It would be churlish to complain. Although, amid the panoply of propaganda in the skies this year, there was nothing similar for Israel which suffered the worst pogrom since the Second World War and is at war with terrorist organisation Hamas.
The 2021 New Year’s Eve fireworks referenced the Jubilee line, the Euros, women’s football specifically, and a prim voiceover told us that “players take the knee united in their stance against racism”. Be told, London. 2020 was as weird as you’d expect, with Covid, Captain Tom Moore, Zoom meetings (of all things) and Black Lives Matter in the script.
Since 2020, Khan has taken it upon himself to produce a little recap of the year and consequently impose a set of values upon us. You have to go back to before 2020 for the fireworks to be a good old-fashioned normal New Year’s Eve celebration. And therefore, I’m afraid that as much as he wants all the credit, Khan will have to share with Covid. I’ve written extensively about the propaganda and nudging that the Government got drunk on in 2020. Central and local government and government agencies have become addicted to telling us what and how to think. It’s no surprise that they even use fireworks hector us.
In auld lang syne — i.e., pre-2019 — the London Eye would be lit in the colours of the Union flag. You don’t see that anymore. We’re not supposed to be proud of our country.
To commence the 2018 festivities, an announcer cheerily exclaimed “Welcome to London!” By 2019, we were told “London is open!” Inexplicably, this year London is for “everyone”. Well, I write “inexplicably” but in fact we know — if we pause for even a couple of seconds — that the “London is for everyone” slogan is the battle cry of diversity warriors who want to promote the identities of “everyone” except, that is, natives.
These little changes happen slowly. You don’t notice the tiptoe from fun to sermon, until the transformation and ruination is complete. One of the small but telling little changes is the countdown to midnight. If you watch the archived videos of old New Year’s Eve firework displays in London, instead of a voiceover and drone countdown, the crowd used to do it alone.
This might seem like a small, inconsequential detail, but it’s not. When the crowd counted down together they were co-creators. It was fun and spirited. It felt a little bit magical. Recent drone and voiceover countdowns are a metaphor for how much life has changed in just a few years. The technocrats are in charge and everything is choreographed. These days people are not even trusted to count backwards from 10 to one, let alone wake up hungover, but happy, and ready to draft their values in the form of resolutions. Khan writes our values in the sky and does the counting for us.
The wokest fireworks display in the history of the New Year’s Eve celebrations was a depressing start to 2024. Still, we’re lucky to even have fireworks, as they are increasingly criticised as being environmentally unfriendly. If Khan sticks around you should expect more drones, perfectly controlled and reflective of the correct thinking — the model for Khan’s Londoners.
Laura Dodsworth is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller A State of Fear: how the U.K. Government weaponised fear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her new book is Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it. This article first appeared on her Substack page, the Free Mind, which you can subscribe to here.
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I’m confused. I thought the AZ clot shot had been withdrawn from the market? But it’s still in use?
Anyway, I don’t want to sound too judgemental to a bereaved man but let’s just say I’m staggered by the DM article above.
Yes, apparently people really are that naive and able to justify their decisions to themselves.
Yeah, he and his now sadly dead wife, got the jabs “because they wanted to be able to do things”, and even though he openly and plainly acknowledges the jab literally killed his wife, he’s really not that keen on his 8 year old son getting it…
Cognitive dissonance and Stockholm syndrome = off the charts.
Why are we three awake ( if you’ll pardon the pun )
4 – If you could answer that 1 I’ll love you forever. Apparently for me 4am is the new 7:30
I blame the wife!
(I got up half an hour before I went to bed!)
I blame the cat.
I’m confused!, His wife died of it ,he won’t let his son have it, he takes both jabs???
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Sorry, but this world makes no sense to me anymore
Yes he took 3 in total, 1 AZ then 2 Pfizer after her death. But I think that sadly the people who took the jabs fall into 3 categories: They believed the whole propaganda tripe and got jabbed to save them and grandma from a deadly virus, they got threatened with job loss so took it under duress or they got injected primarily so they could still travel hassle-free and participate in society but didn’t really feel they needed it.
I think he falls into the third category, if I remember, just taking the path of least resistance and not giving any in-depth thought to the matter at all, ignoring all red flags that were glaringly obvious. I suppose at least if people don’t get anymore, that’s the main thing. What’s done is done, I guess.
Morning all…
Yes, it’s a weird read. Lisa Shaw died back in May 2021 when the AZ was still available…but the fact that AFTER she died he still went on to have two more is…well I don’t get it..not on any level.
As has been said, it would seem he obviously knows that the jab killed her, but otherwise thinks it’s safe?…..I’ll never understand?!!
The 2 he got after her death were Pfizer, I thought the article said. So unless he was thinking the problem lay specifically with the AZ jab? That’s what I presume anyway. But I think it’s plain to everyone but the most hardened jab junkie Kool-Aid nut that all the death jabs, irrespective of manufacturer, are responsible for record numbers of deaths and injuries. The guy is in complete denial if he can’t accept these facts.
It might be to do with the roll out of personalised medicine – pharma thinks that by gathering all ort data they will be able to see whose genes cannot “tolerate” their products i.e. one man’s meat is another man’s poison. You might have a “defective” gene which means that AZ would kill you but the fact that it did not kill everyone is evidence that the recipient was to blame not the product… Mad I know.
Another factor is that one dose is not the same as another dose, for a variety of reasons. As Peter McCullough wrote:
“I am routinely asked: why are so many people who took the COVID-19 vaccines apparently fine, while others are suffering heart damage, strokes, blood clots and are ending up disabled or dead? It has been suspected for many months that there may be variations in vaccine lots or batches that could partially explain these observations. In other words, not everyone is getting the same dose of mRNA. Under Emergency Use Authorization, the vaccine companies and their subcontractors do not have any inspections of the final, filled and finished vials. This is unprecedented for a widely used product of any type. It is possible that lipid nanoparticles aggregate in suspension, so some batches may contain more mRNA than others. Likewise, since lot size has varied over time, it is possible that contaminants from the manufacturing process may be concentrated in some smaller lots compared to larger ones. Finally, there may be product transport, storage and use factors that denature mRNA, including heating, air injected into vials and multiple needles dipped into the suspension.”
He omits the possibility that the pharma companies may have deliberately varied the batches for research purposes (to assess lethality levels, for example) or to corrupt the data on vaccine harms.
Yes….I’m just going to add that word ‘yet’…..
We still haven’t entered the long-term phase of the trials ..who knows what will happen in the next five to ten years in relation to the Jag?
Which would normally be the time-scale BEFORE a new drug is given to the public…
As this is the new way..literally…as espoused by June Raine of the MHRA, there will be few safety trials before a product is allowed out into the public… and we will all get to watch the trials unfold in real-time…..
Mental!!
”Jag”?
Isn’t that a very classy car that’s beyond my price range? 
There’s also the worrisome fact that now all of these mRNA ‘vaccines’ for other diseases don’t have to undergo biodistribution studies. According to Dr Malone ( I read it on his ‘stack ), now the mRNA platform is in place they can just be churned out en masse, bypassing the many phases of clinical studies regular old traditional vaccines would have to go through before hitting the market. That’s why we can expect more of the same in terms of injuries and deaths going forward. As I recall, many of the ‘vaccines’ that have finished trials are for various cancers and resp diseases, I even saw one for genital herpes!
Since when have we required a vaccine for genital herpes?? See Malone’s substack for the deets..
Yes..I think it was our lovely truculent friend Stewart, bless, who quite rightly pointed out that this whole thing has either been arranged to get the mRNA platform out or has allowed it to be used to push the platform forward as something it really isn’t..i.e safe and effective …rather than the reality, which is that it’s still an experimental gene therapy, with failed studies in the past..and what now looks like a huge failed study in real-time….
I will not be taking one for anything, any time soon….
Mogs, I too am staggered by the Mail article. This Gareth Shaw guy is beyond stupid. In fact I would say he represents a very real danger to his son. After what happened to his wife surely 30 minutes of research would have provided all the evidence he needed to make him realise these injections were dangerous poisons but still he hasn’t managed that.
Obviously, given that his wife worked for the BBC these two must be proper Guardianistas and he is still spouting rubbish – ‘I would never tell anyone not to get the vax.’
This moron should have done the research and promptly teamed up with Dr Aseem Malhorta and started bellowing.
There can be no sympathy for utter fools such as he.
I’ve been feeling sorry for Gareth Eve for almost two years now, since Lisa Shaw was revealed to have died from AZ. Initially I thought that DM article was going to be a hit piece, but it is astounding! Nobody in the initial stages of the jab rollout took it in order to ‘do things’. They all took it because they were blasted with propaganda and essentially brainwashed. The language used by him throughout this article just confirms this.
It’s clear the BBC journalists are more than slightly stupid
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Indeed. Watching Elon Musc eviscerate one of them is about the most entertaining thing I have seen this year. I would pay to watch that as a spectator sport.
Re the article “My son is autistic – I can’t forgive what lockdown did to him” from the Telegraph, thought people might be interested in this response from the brilliant Bob Moran…
I see the @Telegraph
are trying to highlight the harms of lockdowns on children with additional needs.
Here’s part of the statement I read to them at my disciplinary hearing at the end of 2021.
They told me it was irrelevant and then fired me.
https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1646589824776785921
I contacted my local MP, Mr Matt Rodda, regarding the Rasmussen polls that suggest there is a significant level of concern regarding adverse reactions from the COVID ‘vaccines’ among the US public. His reply was as follows: ‘Thanks for sharing this. To be honest I have not had many people contact me with concerns about the covid vaccine, however I shall continue to keep the matter under review.’
I would be grateful if you live in the Reading East constituency and have concerns about the COVID ‘vaccine’ you contact Mr Matt Rodda to let him know your concerns.
His parliamentary e-mail address is mattroddampcasework@parliament.uk
Thanks
Discovering Brownstone has been one of the best things to come out the scamdemic, as far as I am concerned. The Geoffrey Tucker article in the round-up about the Bud-light debacle is well worth reading in full….
“The person who made the miscalculation is Alissa Gordon Heinerscheid, Vice President in charge of marketing for Bud Light. She explained that her intention was to make the beer King of ‘Woke’ beers. She wanted to shift away from the “out of touch” frat party image to one of “inclusivity.” By all accounts, she actually believed this. More likely, she was rationalizing actions that would earn her bragging rights within her social circle.
Digging through her personal biography, we find all the predictable signs of tremendous detachment from regular life: elite boarding school (Groton, $65K a year), Harvard, Wharton School, coveted internship at General Foods, and straight to top VP at the biggest beverage company in the world.
She is a perfect symbol of a problem that afflicts high-end corporate and government culture: a shocking blindness toward the mainstream of American life, including working classes and other people less privileged. They are invisible to this crowd. And her type is pervasive in corporate America with its huge layers of management developed over 20 years of loose credit and push for token representation at the highest levels.”
Nail…head….!!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-indoctrinators-part-4-david-attenborough/
Part four in the four part series by Karen Harradine where she dissects the evil that is Attenborough, purveyor of the “barbaric religion” that is “climate change.”
In the name of inclusivity biological test markers will no longer be measured on a male or female scale but on one scale. Biological sex in healthcare blood tests are no longer relevant…. This is where going woke gets you. Patients will die but no-one will have any hurty feelings….
https://www.theflstandard.com/uf-health-erasing-differences-between-male-and-female-in-lab-test-results-for-inclusivity/
Hand Sanitiser or Vax Injury or both the true cause? The latest excuse to hide the damages is nail gel: Gel nails: Investigation launched into gel polish allergic reactions – BBC News