- “Michael Gove to be Editor of the Spectator following takeover” – Michael Gove has been appointed Editor of the Spectator following the purchase of the magazine by Sir Paul Marshall, reports Press Gazette.
- “Michael Gove is the new Editor of the Spectator” – In the Spectator, Fraser Nelson bids farewell to his role as editor after 15 years as Michael Gove takes over the position.
- “IDF chief tells his forces to prepare for ground invasion of Lebanon” – Israel’s army chief has told his forces to prepare for a ground invasion of Lebanon as the Middle East spirals towards a seemingly inevitable wider war, reports the Mail.
- “Is this the end for Hezbollah?” – The recent outbreak of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is a war that could prove terminal for Hezbollah, writes Michael Karam in the Spectator.
- “The BBC’s shameful moral cowardice over Hamas” – The Beeb is showing a film about Hamas’s pogrom but the film won’t feature the word ‘terrorist’. This is insane, says Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Reeves prepares to rewrite debt rules to unlock up to £50 billion in spending” – The Chancellor is understood to be considering changing how debt is calculated to take into account investment spending, reports the Telegraph.
- “Starmer wants to give investigators power to spy on personal bank information” – Starmer has just announced a law giving investigators access to personal bank accounts, writes Michael Curzon in the European Conservative.
- “I had to take freebies for my son, says Starmer” – Keir Starmer has defended taking free accommodation by claiming it was important for his teenage son to have somewhere peaceful to revise for his GCSEs, reports LBC.
- “Keir Starmer Covid broadcast urging work from home came from donor’s flat” – Keir Starmer was accused of “hoodwinking” the public after telling Britain to work from home during Covid from the comfort of Lord Alli’s luxury penthouse, says the Mail.
- “The ‘freebies’ scandal exposes the entitlement of the woke” – Labour bigwigs are so convinced of their own virtue that they really think they can do no wrong, writes Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Transphobic ‘hate speech’ will not be illegal in Ireland after U-turn” – Ireland will not introduce hate speech laws following criticism from Government lawmakers, opponents and billionaire Elon Musk, according to Reuters.
- “Top barristers revolt over ‘dangerous’ diversity plans” – The Bar Standards Board could penalise those who fail to promote equal opportunities in the profession, reports the Telegraph.
- “The intolerant age” – Hannah Barnes in the New Statesman writes about the creeping intolerance in the commanding heights of Britain‘s cultural institutions.
- “Regulators under fire” – On Substack, Joshua Rozenberg KC takes aim at the Bar Standards Board’s “illiberal” diversity mandate, as two top barristers label it social engineering wrapped in red tape.
- “The ‘lammy’” – In the New Conservative, Peter Harrison suggests a new word for the Oxford English Dictionary: lammy, n. /ˈlæmi/ A politician who attempts to appear important and clever through grandiose statements but ultimately makes a fool of himself due to the erroneous nature of his remarks.
- “HS2: billions wasted on an outdated dream” – By 2023, HS2 had drained £27 billion from taxpayers for a grand project built on a scandalously shaky business case, writes Dia Chakravarty in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s winter fuel raid has now become sadistic” – It’s time for Sir Keir and Ms. Reeves to finally consider that they might actually be wrong about cutting winter fuel payments, says Ben Wilkinson in the Telegraph.
- “Climate scientists call on Labour to pause £1 billion plans for carbon capture” – Leading climate scientists are urging the Government to pause plans for a billion pound investment in “green technologies” that are unproven and would make it harder for the U.K. to reach its Net Zero targets, reports the Guardian.
- “Ed Miliband sends armed police to guard gas terminals” – Ed Miliband has directed the nuclear police to boost staffing to safeguard key energy projects from rising protests by environmental groups like Just Stop Oil and Greenpeace, according to the Mail.
- “‘West Antarctic ice sheet may disappear by 2300’” – From the “we’ve heard it all before” department and the Dartmouth College Division of Modelled Unverifiable Predictions, comes another ho-hum scare story, says Anthony Watts in WUWT?
- “The NHS and prevention” – Wes Streeting is repeating the mantra of all Health Secretaries, write Prof. Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson on the TTE Substack.
- “Our crumbling NHS would make assisted dying a disaster for Britain” – The U.K.’s broken welfare state will turn personal tragedy into a Canada-style national catastrophe, warns Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Letby hospital baby delivery ‘like something out of horror film’” – The Thirlwall Inquiry has heard that the operating theatre where some babies were delivered at Lucy Letby’s hospital was like “something out of a horror film”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Journal pressured to retract study on COVID-19 vaccine harms” – A manufacturer has launched proceedings against researchers who published a study that reported adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination, writes Maryanne Demasi on her Substack.
- “After lockdown, the pandemic of ‘just can’t be bothered’” – In a world reshaped by the pandemic, we’ve traded vibrant social lives for lazy conveniences, says Liz Hodgkinson in TCW.
- “The UN admits it: global government is what it wants to meet all ‘challenges’” – The UN’s newly endorsed Pact for the Future promises sweeping reforms and global governance under the guise of progress, warns Javier Villamor in Brussels Signal.
- “Big Tech deboosted millions of posts during EU elections” – Newly released documents have confirmed that Big Tech platforms ‘deboosted’ millions of posts throughout the period of the European Elections this year, reports Brussels Signal.
- “Male rapists cannot formally be recorded as female, Scottish police say in ‘major U-turn’” – Police Scotland chiefs have been accused of “gaslighting” after U-turning on their policy in dealing with male rapists who self-ID as women, says the Scottish Sun.
- “University fired professor who spoke out against trans surgery for children” – The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that University of Louisville officials can be sued for their roles in firing a psychiatrist who criticised transgender drugs and surgeries for minors, reports the College Fix.
- “Trans activists set off explosion in attempt to sabotage conference critical of gender ideology ” – A private school in Lyon, France, had its electricity sabotaged as trans activists attempted to have a conference critical of gender ideology cancelled, says Reduxx.
- “‘I’m Britain’s ‘welfare Queen’ – here is what I spend the cash on’” – A jobless mother-of-eight has boasted about the “luxuries” she has bought with taxpayers’ cash – claiming that being on benefits has never held her back, reports the Mail.
- “Misjudging the debate?” – Polling suggests that voters viewed the September 10th Trump–Harris contest differently from the commentariat, notes Jeffrey H. Anderson in City Journal.
- “Elon Musk denies having an affair with ‘beautiful’ Giorgia Meloni” – Elon Musk denied any romance between him and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after he called her “beautiful” at an awards ceremony in New York, reports Politico.
- “Free Gear Kier tries to justify having his nose in the trough and fails” – Sir Keir Starmer is hauled over the coals by Sky News’s Beth Rigby for his apparent addiction to freebies, calling him “continuity Johnson”.
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In a real emergency, unions would have been suspended, and media managed to AVOID fear and panic.
The gov probably used the unions’ stance as a fait accompli to justify whatever they wanted to do.
It’s unlikely that one of them came into the Cobra room with tattooed arms and a northern accent and said “Righ’, yer soothern Tory poofs, it’s gunna be like THIS, naa, like. We want a toootal lockdoon ba t’marra, like, ootherwise we’re ganning on strike” – however much such scenarios may have featured in poor Ben Irvine’s dreams ever since mater told him not to play with rough kids because they’re unhygienic.
The unions took a stance BASED on gov propaganda. They were duped like most of us by lies of 70-100 million global death prophecies!
Didn’t take much duping.
They’d already been told what to do, and promised vaxxes no …../1..
Just look at the pitiful, fear driven comatose state of the Starmer Labour party and weep – perhaps they were the “proto-vax ” mass experiment’?
Lockdown is communist and Keir Starmer is essentially Jeremy Corbyn with better grooming and dress sense.
They’re two peas in a pod, are they not?
The same creeping accumulation of power and control, for its own sake. In this case the two sides meet on common ground, a pretend confrontation, with phoney concerns and arbitrary justifications, but the unspoken carveup creeps onwards.
…in a real emergency there would be no home deliveries of take-aways, trivial retail, and groceries, no supermarkets would be open so that everyone could work from home. I past a deliveryoo-cyclist guy the other morning after he had delivered a croissant and coffee to a house about 50 meters from several designer coffee shops and a little waitose, in leafy wealthy west london, and I said “if you could work from home like them they would have to come to your house to pick up the coffee” – “too right mate, bloody toffs!”
Now, there are only two classes in London these days, the lap-top class and their servants.
Oh Maggie, why can’t we have you back?
Or Churchill or Cromwell.
Ernie Bevin would be better than any of them.
Good point.
I thought Cromwell was the original lockdowner. Puritanism and all that.
Good point.
The Chuckle brothers would do a better job than any of those cited and one of them is dead.
She died of Covid, true?😉
British labor unions drove the policy? All over the world? Wow! And if “their demands and threats hadn’t been made Britain would have remained free?“
Yes – it’s embarrassing to hear about the thoughts of this guy the “philosopher”, even if I’m sure he doesn’t realise there’s anything he should be embarrassed about. I mean seriously what score would we give this dickhead out of 5 for basic logic?
If his ludicrous ideas ever encountered a person standing at a bus stop, who’d have more wisdom in their little finger than he’s got in his whole body, what score would they give him?
Here‘s his website. He writes
You’re not on the front line of anything, Ben, and you don’t know what “front line” means.
Not the brightest and best make it in academe.
Just become a Common Purpose graduate.
He may be well-intentioned, but the ‘philosopher’ and ‘front lines’ brags would sit better on someone from the other side of the Pond, given their meaninglessness.
Not embarrassing, factual, except that unions were more receptive to the Marxist ideology behind lockdown than anyone else.
Unions are never innovators but they do reflect the dominant ideology of the left.
Exactly and I have made similar points elsewhere on DS on precisely this topic.
The guy has certainly managed to blow his own trumpet. Shame he’s completely out of tune.
This claim is nowhere in the text. If you want to argue against it, argue against it. Ob balance, British labour union influencing the policy of the British government, especially considering that they were certainly trying to, is a much more likely theory than all this conspiracy fallout of the past US election.
The Unions may well have lobbied government into lockdown, though why anyone pays them any attention these days is anybody’s guess.
Thousands of individual teachers from Heads to Classroom Assistants kept many schools open throughout Lockdown Proper, Lockdown Lite, the Tiers bollocks and into 2021 so clearly they did not support the lobbying of the Unions. While they continued to get paid whether they worked or not some staff fiercely lobbied their superiors to get more than the share of shifts allotted to them (typically just one or two days per week).
This was to provide education for the children of Key Workers (who otherwise would have been unable to do their key work) and children deemed ‘at risk’ because of the nature of Lockdown. (proof in itself that this had always been long thought out).
The real culprits here are Social Services who at one stage only managed to get 10% of ‘at risk’ children out of ‘risk’ and into the classroom.
USDAW, who represent a minority of shopworkers, might indeed have lobbied for mask mandates in shops but it was shopworkers themselves that were the most hostile and abandoned masks as soon as they were able to.
I disagree, the unions probably did push for these things, but so do they for many other actions which they don’t get, plus if these actions had been specific to the UK the unions could be blamed, but, these actions were repeated by other Governments in the western supposedly democratic world, and the Government is the body that sets laws etc, not the unions. In conclusion there is no other body responsible for the past 2 years, not even the virus, the damage and cruelty inflicted has been done to us by politicians and their advisors led by Boris Johnson. Never forget that.
In the absence of any Opposition from the Starmer stooge MPs, the Unions could have been a vital centre of resistance – instead they pushed for Lockdowns and totally enforced compliance…. and still do!
They cannot escape their heavy responsibility.The fault – as ever- is with the apathy of the membership and the devious, personal and fringe political motivation of those who climb the greasy Union Pole to the top and who in no way represent the views of the majority of members – too many deranged Marxist Feminist PC Globalists in High Places!
Not many Union members want to see the UK turned into a Technocratic, Stalinist, Lockdown Police State – modelled on the PRC…. only their psychotic leaders have this dark ambition.
I firmly believe the teaching unions leaderships have been bought but to suggest that they coordinated worldwide lockdowns simply belongs in the box labelled conspiracy theory.
Too daft for words.
It seems many on the Daily Telegraph forums share my view that Zahawi has caved again to the demands of the extreme left wing teaching trades unions.
There is also quite a groundswell of demand to reinstate Bob Moran.
But we must stop reading the ‘Telegraph’ – $3.4 million from Gates to advocate his “World Health Agenda “( ie mass injection with an experimental mRNA Gene Therapy that causes fatal myocarditis in young men ) !
I don’t read a great deal of the DT’s increasingly left-wing propaganda. But I DO subscribe and comment a great deal. Unfortunately, comment pages like these are now the public sphere …. and you need to be in their, arguing your case.
FWIW I disagree – but wish the above were true.
Policy, in all “civilised” countries is driven solely by The Real Powers That Be. Their goal is the New World Order ie control, via the deliberate hysteria generated by covid, leading to the desired and ultimate goal of its bastard child, Digital ID. – for all.
Only then will the “medical emergency” be declared, by them, to be over.
England is a bit of an outlier at the moment, that is all.
Our Great Leaders will soon soon conform.
This graphic by Iain Davis neatly shows who is deciding, driving and implementing policy here and elsewhere (through the Global Public-Private Partnership). Essential reading.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-uk-new-normal-dictatorship
Good graphic. The only addition I would make is to reference the Rothschilds where the banks are concerned at the very top of this fraud.
Yes – hiding behind Black Rock and Vanguard.
HIs book ‘Pseudo Pandemic” is also an essential read!
Academic philosopher opines that it was the trade unions that made the Tory government (against no opposition in Parliament) lock us all down. Has it been a slow month for colloquia at “work”?
So it wasn’t Big Pharma after all. Phew. It was the principle of proletarians being able to organise collectively. “Worth reading”, lol. I wonder whether hatred wells up in the “honorary fellow” (great job, that sounds) whenever he sees working class people on public transport or drives past a Lidl?
In other news, ducks can swim.
Pure red communism, ticking all its boxes to push its agenda whilst getting paid by our government. Teachers who wont teach, nurses who wont nurse, doctors who wont heal, civil servant who won’t serve, all richly rewarded, pensioned, and given full holidays.
Root and branch reform needed.
it would have been a sensible disease response if it wasn’t for those meddling unions…
Yeah right, not like the global response was in ‘lockstep’ driven by the WHO/WEF/BIS et al
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Kafka-esque response.
Isn’t it strange the the inventor of Zero COVID, the strategy, namely, the Chinese president never appears in these lists of shady powers seeking to … ?
So there was no conspiracy à la the Great Reset. No cabal directing traffic. There was no mega-corporate entity combining Big Pharma, Big Tech, Media and the Captured Regulatory Bodies. There was no 10,000 year secret government. No, no, no, all of that that would be conspiracy thinking. Which is bad, uneducated, kind of low-status. That’s not what we do here at Daily Sceptic, where it’s cockup 1 conspiracy 0 all the way. But now, wait, what’s this? There was an evil all-powerful group who were co-ordinating the entire thing and responsible for the pickle we find ourselves in? Ah yes, girls and boys: it was the unions. The labour unions of the British Isles. Turns out they were responsible for the ‘whole coronapanic debacle’. Well, now we know.
They were nor responsible – but they did nothing to resist it and in fact cheered it on! Where was the outcry at the Globalist Capitalist Corporatist Banker bid for a hegemonic Global coup?
Mussolini defined Fascism as the combination of Corporatism and he State – do today’s Pseudo Left even understand the real nature and manifest evil of Globalised Corporate Capitalism and its Fascist love child? Or are they still too busy calling old fashioned traditionalists and Conservatives “Fascists” and debating how many genders there are and who can use which toilets?
Could you please at least go as far as looking up corporatism in Wikipedia before believing the term must mean would you want it to mean, namely something about mulitnational corporations. It doesn’t.
Quoting from there:
Corporatism is a collectivist[1]political ideology which advocates the organization of society by corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, on the basis of their common interests.[2][3] The term is derived from the Latin corpus, or “human body“. The hypothesis that society will reach a peak of harmonious functioning when each of its divisions efficiently performs its designated function, such as a body’s organs individually contributing its general health and functionality, lies at the center of corporatist theory.
In essence, this is how civil society was organized in Europe in the middle ages.
Go away!
I know the contemporary meaning of Corporation as extended from “Corporate” and “Corporatist” without any lectures from you- thanks.
We are past the middle-ages by the way – although some “Corporatists” seek their return!
No, you post Marxist drivel
Fascism is a form of socialism, Mussolini’s economic policy was identical to the Labour party’s theory of guild socialism.
Your post pretends exact opposites are the same thing.
The Governments big mistake was at the start of this when they tried to cover their arse’s with ” we’re following the science ” and being flanked by useless idiots at press briefings. This led to the lazy MSM putting the views of special interest groups out as fact and giving people like the unions a soap box.
The hard left’s hatred of the tories should not be under estimated and they will do anything to damage them.
You just have to look ant Sturgeon and Drakefords antics to confirm this.
This is a great read to understand the Great Reset and the “philosophy” and demons behind it
Klaus Schwab and his great fascist reset
https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/10/05/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset/
Mistake? It all worked perfectly according to plan! Where was the mistake?
How about, the govt decided to make teachers believe that contact with their students would kill them, or maim their family and friends. The headteachers held up their hands and said there was nothing they could do until the govt told them what to do. So they went to the trade unions instead.
Also – one could take the view from the article that if people band together and demand the same thing (ie organise), they might just be able to influence the govts direction….
Then they injected them all with something that genuniely does kill and maim them. To keep them safe of course, its always about keeping people safe.
To be told”It’s to keep you safe” should now sends chills down the spine- “the grave’s a safe and private place, but none I think do there embrace ( with thanks to Andrew Marvell and “His Coy Mistress”.
I don’t believe this. The unions were bought by state cash just as they were in Australia where union-hired thugs beat up their own members during demonstrations.
Employers and trade associations have over time gone even more fascist though.
One strong point in favour of restrictions being driven by unions is of course Wales.
Mark Drakeford is owned by the unions, politically. They’re the most important ‘stakeholders ’ of Welsh Labour. And restrictions in Wales …well, just look at the news. Pointless, petty, bureaucratic restrictions that haven’t kept infection rates down, but have induced panic, destroyed small businesses, and created misery.
The unions’ creature in Wales has done his work well.
So turning Wales back into being a medieval backwater then….oh wait!
Limited Hangout – look it up, you’re going to be seeing it daily as they circle the wagons to protect themselves.
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/3065176
One error that needs correction, the GMB does not represent either nurses (RCN or Unison) or doctors (BMA + others). The RCN certainly has a no strike policy.
What about the influence on the unions by the Peoples Republic of China or other communist states?
So what you’re saying is unions have power over a Tory government?
That I’m afraid isn’t credible. The unions had no control over the treasury, that was entirely down to Sunak @ #11.
No furlough, no stay’s at homezees, This is just another deflection Tories looking for scapegoats, it was bozos lockdown he owns it & middle class liberals enjoyed it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442202/Boris-Johnson-says-ban-burka-classrooms-schools-right-make-pupils-faces.html
Great find.
I confess I didn’t do the ‘long read’ but the gust of this argument is simply a none-starter.
If it was only the unions barking orders and demanding restrictions/jabs, I’d give pose for thought.
This has been a highly coordinated campaign across the board. The scale of this crime is biblical.
*pause
If you did the long read you would better understand his argument …… not that that means I am convinced by it.
Nothing can excuse the unions’ exploitation of Tory inclinations. It was simple, short-sighted and self-defeating opportunist political tactics – coupled with the genuine fear mythology developed by government.
But it was the government that drove this – unions just jumped on the band waggon.
The Unions had the opportunity to cover themselves in glory by understanding the science and ensuring as many people as possible stayed at work e.g. teachers, and worked with the government to keep as many small, unionised business open.
But they didn’t, the temptation to throw their particular spanner in the works of British ‘industry’ was just too strong.
Strangely, instead of working in defiance of the government, as is usually the case, they worked hand in glove to ensure the country shut down almost entirely.
The blame can’t possibly be laid at their feet entirely, but they were/are willing and enthusiastic participants desperate not to be labelled as antivaxxers.
The fear most people have of that term is astonishing.
I repeat, the union leaderships have been bought. They are grotesque failures and wholly complicit in the destruction and coming depopulation of this country.
I disagree.
Tories have never listened to Unions.
It was the media that set the narrative from day one.
A media paid for by a Global Elite who also “own” science, Big Pharma and politicians to further their agenda.
This has been a fake PCR test/ Media scamdemic from day one- devised principally to force the mass injection of the Global population with a Gene Therapy experiment.
Seems to have gone very well so far .
Not a gene therapy experiment exactly. They know exactly what’s in the injections, the unknown, probably, is how long before the mass deaths and injuries kick in.
Yes it is indeed just that …an mRNA Gene Therapy Experiment – no less!
The results will be all around us with ADE and progressive Immune Deficiency (certainly ‘acquired’ and certainly a ‘syndrome’).
Regardless of whether or not the unions played a significant role in the disastrous policy decisions of the past couple of years, it’s good to see that the blame game has begun – I suspect that in a few years time it will become difficult, if not impossible, to find anyone who thought that ‘lockdowns’ were a good idea.
Not a ‘disaster’… if you are sitting in Davos.
As an aside, the idea of a “deep clean” of a building to exterminate a respiratory virus is as ridiculous and insane an idea as any of the others that have been floating around for the last two years.
Indeed. They can’t even keep the ducting systems clean that carry the air to breathe. What chance the rest of the building?
It’s clearly correct that the unions played a huge and disgraceful role in pushing the panic, and Irvine has collected a lot of hugely important evidence that, if properly minded, would reinforce the lesson that this country learned in the mid-C20th, but too many have forgotten since – trade unions are mobs exploited as power vehicles by sociopaths, that should should never be allowed any political power or influence whatsoever. The teachers’ unions in particular have been especially contemptible and fascistic in their approach.
But in the end the responsibility still rests with the government and with Johnson. Not in the childlike sense that the lefties in denial seek to apply it (“Johnson/Trump Bad. Johnson/Trump Fascists. Johnson/Trump cause everything Bad!”)
Rather in the sense that they were in office and they had full responsibility for the actions they took, and a duty to govern.
“People often say that Boris has failed to stand up to the unions because he is weak. I don’t know.”
Clearly he was weak, and they were weak. They never even tested their strength.
In the end, the radical evil and lunacy of lockdowns was something no PM or government should ever have accepted responsibility for and Johnson should have gone down fighting if necessary.
“You might argue that Boris was right to cave in to all the pressure at the start because it was better for him to stay in power and try to turn things round than be unseated by a Covid zealot such as Hunt. ”
Everyone thinks they are indispensable, but nobody really is.
“However, a caveat: I am always telling people not to assume that all the Covid madness had a single cause, so I should take my own advice. ”
Absolutely. The unions, like so many other leftist organisations, were part of, as well as exploiting, the general covid mass hysteria that swept the world.
This is far too big an event to be the sole responsibility of any one group. Huge things like this only happen when multiple power centres and interest groups push in the same direction. That’s how adults understand that the world works.
I mostly agree with that, but the nagging doubt I have with the theory that Johnson was merely weak is that it doesn’t explain the Tories’ repetitive use of the Build Back Better slogan. Why and how do the unelected members of the WEF wield so much power over our elected politicians?
Influence rather than power, mostly, I suspect.
It’s a fashionable collection of hugely powerful and wealthy people and organisations. How could it not influence the power-hungry?
As for the slogan, just a snappy slogan and a way to smarm up to the aforementioned hugely wealthy and powerful people and organisations, I think.
Does it really need to be more than that? (Though that’s bad enough in itself, when you consider the consequences of the undue influence these types wield, and the causes they push).
Well either way the Tories are alienating a lot of their core supporters with everything they have been doing since 2020. They must know by now that using this particular slogan is helping to increase that alienation, yet they keep on using it.
I believe “alienating their core support” in order to pander to soft leftists has been core Tory strategy for decades. And the senior figures in the Party are largely unabashed Blairites.
That’s why we have had repeated Tory election wins and governments, but not a sniff of conservative governance.
They can do this because they face no challenge from the right – there is no significant actually conservative party to which conservatives can decamp, and fptp means it is very hard for such a party to arise. so the initial consequence of abandoning the “Conservative” Party would be Labour governments.
It’s a problem, but the only solution is to grasp the nettle.
That all makes sense until the point where people on the left also start to wake up to the activities of the WEF and the Gates Foundation etc., at which point the Tories will start to lose support from the left as well as the right.
“Fact Checking The Fact Checkers – You Will Own Nothing”
http://participator.online/articles/2021/12/fact_checking_the_fact_checkers_you_will_own_nothing_20211202.php
Of course there will be a section of people on the left who want to accept the new totalitarian world order because they already have nothing so they feel they have nothing to lose. However the powers that be are going to wreck the economy which will affect everybody (I suspect severely), prices will go up, people will be unable to afford to heat their homes, food will become expensive.
Have a read of Iain Davis’ excellent essay on the pseudo pandemic. It’s on the UK Column website.
Extremely interesting but highly speculative. There might be some truth to the theory of union influence but the essential task of joining the dots requires a lot more work from Dr Irvine.
Really Will?
So the likes of Fauci Collins and Farrar and the massive campaign against the formulators of the Great Barrington Declaration were as nothing compared to a few strikers in the UK who, for context, the Tory Government has deliberately ignored for the last decade along with trades unions in general.
I fear that Toby has been influencing you too much.
[NB son and daughter-in-law both teaching throughout the last 2 years panic].
All the unions are, just like the professions, conspiracies against the public. Whenever Westminster/Whitehall identify a body capable of channeling dissent, they plant operatives in them to disrupt or take them over and control them with Common Purpose moles. Thus the people are controlled from the centre.
The unions were just part of a much bigger picture, that includes the media + academia + SAGE etc + Starmer’s Labour Party, who were pushing for lockdowns and jabs and masks. Everywhere we look in the media and academia there are financial entanglements involving big pharma, the Gates Foundation etc. As Dr Malone pointed out in the Joe Rogan interview, a prominent board member at Thomson Reuters is also on the board at Pfizer. It is not by accident that the Tories have been using the Build Back Better slogan repetitively, quite exactly whether they are somehow directly paid to do so remains a mystery, but a real investigative journalist would want to find out.
What a wonderful picture of plump Turkeys voting for Christmas!
“Stupid” will be the Nemesis of us all!
Yep – and you wouldn’t want to meet any of those thugs on a dark night.
This is an interesting but incorrect thesis. The unions do not have that kind of political clout at a national level. No offence to the general secretary of USDAW but as far as Boris Johnson is concerned, what Bill Gates says goes and what Paddy Lillis says is probably irrelevant.
This is not to say that the Government aren’t indifferent to the threat of a strike by teachers or shopworkers. But it is fanciful to suggest that such threats inform policy above all other factors. Does the author really believe that if such strikes hadn’t been brewing, lockdowns wouldn’t have happened?
In fact, the Government has had the trade unions (and the Left generally) in its pocket since the beginning of the crisis.
Johnson’s ostensible favouring of herd immunity and light-touch containment drove the Left to take up arms in support of lockdowns (really lockouts) and all the other repressive, anti-human prescriptions of the biosecurity world order – and now, of course, vaccination is seen as a comradely public duty.
The trade unions and the Left haven’t really budged from that position in almost two years. They have been cheerleaders for the biggest ruling class attack on the people in modern times, a state of affairs that would be incredible if those organisations were genuinely actuated by a commitment to advancing the interests of the masses rather than being merely the reddish end of the establishment spectrum.
I think the unions effectively blackmailing Johnson is highly plausible. If they had called a General Strike of the public and retail sectors whilst we supposedly had a dangerous pandemic the Mainstream Media would have been hyperbolic about the “evil Tories.”
Perhaps the 3 weeks to flatten the curve was the original intention, until Johnson got Covid and Raab (Deputy) decided to extend it. We will never know.
There is no one cause for the destructive policies we’ve had forced on us: but a great many Opportunists who saw a chance to advance their objectives …… include the Globalists/WEF; Communists of China and their lapdogs; bought and paid for useful idiots in the UK.
Johnson was not the PM to stand up to any of them. Churchill and Thatcher might have.
My response to this is , France. Its teacher unions have worked hard to keep schools open , albeit with masks etc, so that the parents could continue to work.
A more unionised country you cannot find.
The manic behaviour comes from the top, Macron, not unions. Although I admit that the yellow vests certainly worried him the year before.
Suffice to say that there have been many opportunists, individual and organisation.
Lockdown is communist so, of course, unions want the maximum restrictions in response to Covid.
Same reason the Trotskyite “opposition” are enjoying this so much – same as the bastards crippling Wales, Ireland and Scotland.
The timing of Blair’s highest honour award is no coincidence. It shows they’re no longer trying to hide the flavour of their politics anymore while the world conforms to a global communist future.
They’re openly laughing at us – they’re laughing and waving two fingers on each hand.
A very long-winded way of explaining how a lot of voters love lockdown, so a lot of lockdown is what we’ve got.
Judging from the union-biased letter we got from our HT on Jan 3rd last year the day before schools closed again, I would say education unions definitely lobbied hard and closed schools against Gov guidance at the time. Most of the teachers at our school were keen to keep teaching and did not take well to online teaching, but it was the HT that kept quoting union stances to parents, despite them not having the first clue about public health or pandemic management. Nevertheless, the point remains, we elected a Government to GOVERN. I didn’t elect education unions to decide when my children have the right to their education.
Do me a favour.
The Tories couldn’t give a flying //// what the unions wanted.
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko said anyone that willfully vilified and obstructed access to hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19 is guilty of first degree capital murder, genocide, and crimes against humanity. They are trying to jab as many people as possible so that their great reset aka depopulation plan work. I believe in God & Jesus. If I get sick I will take my Ivermectin that I stashed just in case and leave rest to God. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com
This again, no the unions didn’t drive this. Boris and his regime drove this, the unions simply fomented support in the rest of the public sector. Useful idiots.
Exactly…..why people keep focusing on other groups/people to explain away this medical dictatorship is to be divorced from what has been right in our faces since March 2020 when Johnson fired the starting gun….not a knee jerk response but the result of months of planning and behind the scenes meetings with members of the global cabal.
All unions have the same philosophy, to attract more members by offering to get them less work for more money. The people to blame are the economic fuckwits who believe that crap
The question that is not addressed here is why the unions, particularly the public sector unions, behaved in this way.
The former Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, said at the Labour Party Conference, ‘Don’t let a good crisis go to waste’. That would appear to be the key.
Over the last 20 years public sector unions (and the rail unions still behave like public sector unions) have become more centralised and divorced from their mainstream members. Their
leaders are from the Corbyn-supporting Hard Left, whilst their members are moderate social democrats. The public sector has, in effect, had a pay freeze since 2008. The UCU was already engaged in industrial action before March 2020 over pay and pensions. Other unions, such as the civil service union PCS (bizarrely not mentioned) would have been had it not for the antipathy towards industrial action of their alienated members. Many public sector trade unions were vehemently opposed to Brexit. They were certainly furious that the country, particularly the industrial working class, had chosen Boris Johnson over Corbyn, who had become a quasi-religious figure to the middle class left.
This union pressure was real but it did not come from the working class, private sector unions, it came from the public sector unions with their Hard Left, Corbynite leadership and its purpose was to humiliate and bring down the government, as well as to punish the working class for its rejection of Corbyn. The naive Labour front bench, though no longer Corbynite, was made up of the middle class soft left and went along with it.
Then there was identity politics, which has completely captured the public sector unions. Until the BLM riots in summer 2020, Keir Starmer was calling for an exit strategy from lockdown. After BLM, and his cringeworthy ‘taking the knee’ in his office was photographed, his stance totally changed. Why? Because figures were showing that a disproportionate number of black people, particularly health, care and transport workers, were dying of the virus. This was presented as being a political issue, based in ‘institutional racism’, rather than a socio-medical one. Again, the public sector unions were not letting a good crisis go to waste.
Don’t forget that, at the same time, the Corbynite Left was engaged in internecine war in the Labour Party, which it would destroy rather than see run by ‘moderates’ and those who favour supporting the British working class over an obsession with race and Palestine. Keir Starmer was kicking out anti semites and Corbynites and had to be brought to heel. The Left did this by threatening the withdrawal of union funding.
So, I would argue that the public sector unions did, indeed, use the threat of the virus to gain power over a government and a Labour Party leadership that they despised and wanted to overthrow, as well as to punish the working class for voting Tory.Their purposes for doing so were entirely political.
And here I was thinking that Labour were controlled by unions. But wait, we have a Labour government in all but name. Who’d have thought a Tory government would be more authoritarian, high spending and high taxing than the opposition. Vote Conservative, get Labour.
There is too much speculation in this long winded essay. If there is any truth in it, Ben Irvine has, however unintentionally, provided a simple path by which Mr. Megarich could have accomplished his stated agenda of mass vaccination, population reduction, and global digital ID, namely by bribing only 2 or 3 union heads in every state or province of every G7 country. The combined cost of all these bribes would have been less than 10% of the income he has since made from the so called vaccines. Such a 10 fold return on investment would make it, as Megarich himself said, his best investment.
Further, with the media pumping out lies and promoting fear, it should have been an easy matter to convince these union heads that they were acting in the best interests of their members.
We need another Thatcher if we want a Prime Minister to stand up to left-wing unions intent on bringing down a Government.
We’ve got a Heath. No spine; no balls; no common-sense; no use.
Union members who went along with the hysteria of their leaders were just typical run of the mill useful idiots. To blame unions for the crime of lockdown is wide off the mark. It was a globally agreed strategy amongst idiot governments and their puppet masters: lockstep, so they could ‘build, back, better’ and usher in an era of biometric information passes for all that would lead to unprecedented control of citizens everywhere.
Nah this is bunkum. You need to read PSEUDOPANDEMIC by Iain Davis to know where the REAL power is.
If it was only the trade unions who generated and lobbied for restrictions the pandemic would have been over a long time ago. They were knocking on an open door. I do not have all of the answers as to why this madness happened and still pervades our society but more thinking is needed to fully identify its reasons ( there are a number of theories I know) and how to avoid it happening again.
I am prepared to believe that a version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact applies to the Covid Lockdowns:
British Communists in the Unions and the Communitarian Globalists ….. both pushing a destructive policy to bring about their objectives.
In the UK, the unions attempting the destruction of the CON Party and a PM they hate; and Globalist Communitarians attempting to force the pace of The Great Reset.
This doesn’t exonerate Johnson for his disgraceful, disgusting, cowardly destruction of millions of British lives.
And the facts remain that Fauci was channelling funding to Wuhan for GoF research. That’s where the virus came from. And Patents have been awarded for almost two decades for SARs-type viruses. And the EU has been planning for Vaccine Passports for a very long time, with the implementation date scheduled to be 2022.
Union leaders are only interested in their fat salaries and gold-plated pensions and are more than useless at representing their membership.
I thought this article an excellent piece, exposing the political pressures behind the scenes.
Unfortunately governments around the world unleashed events which they seem to have no idea how to control – as though one can simply “pause” inter-connected economies and businesses and then expect them to all restart at a later date. Also unleashed has been the inner authoritarianism of many of those in power around the world – perhaps it has been always there but has not had a chance for such free expression as recently: not enough obeying and getting the “vaccine” so increase the pressure with policy X, Y or Z, etc.. Perhaps government leaders naively think it will “all come right” in a few years: sadly, I think they will find out otherwise.
The WEF have bought and control both sides. Labour has not been an opposition party for a long while. The Unions no longer represent their members.