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The Australian Perspective: Britain Is in Worse Shape Than You Thought

by Sallust
2 March 2025 3:00 PM

The Telegraph has a column by Simon Heffer, currently in Australia, about how from an Australia perspective it’s clear Britain is in worse shape than we think. Australia, with so many people who are British or of British origin, is uniquely placed to look on with dismay as the seemingly endless spiral of self-inflicted decay motors on, accelerated by the current government. It makes for a sobering read:

It is clear from their view of our country, despite the affection almost all feel for it, that we now cut a poor figure in the world. Many Britons know this too: but living there we have, perhaps, become inured to all that is going wrong, and to the chronic incompetence and poor judgement that are diminishing us in the eyes of our international peers. Having spent a month looking at Britain from 11,000 miles away, I have become acutely aware not just of how bad things are, but how utterly unacceptable this mess is.

Our Australian cousins who watch our political life see a Britain with a feeble and uncharismatic Prime Minister whose judgement about people and policies is appalling, and whose life is distinguished by a parade of hypocrisy. They all know about his £20,000 spectacles bill picked up by Lord Alli, his free tickets to Arsenal and the provision of free clothes for his wife. They see him as hapless and leading a divided government. They see, too, an administration staffed by ministers with an uncertain relationship with the truth.

There is a Chancellor of the Exchequer who lied about her career, used to make questionable expenses claims and has, incidentally, torpedoed the economy through her ineptitude, potentially putting thousands out of work, threatening agriculture and driving wealth creators abroad. There is also a Business Secretary who has repeatedly claimed to be a solicitor but isn’t; and even the hitherto untouchable Angela Rayner is now accused of fabricating parts of her own CV.

Australia has made huge efforts to control immigration. Its people note that we have a Home Secretary who pledged to “stop the boats” but hasn’t, and who also presides over a crime wave of stabbings, shoplifters, phone-snatchers and Rolex rippers. Britain is renowned for not knowing how many inhabitants it has. Last week’s eruptions by Donald Trump have reminded the world of how little influence America’s supposedly key ally now has in vital international affairs, and that it has a Foreign Secretary who in 2018 called Mr Trump (among other things) a neo-Nazi. The UK welfare bill is much remarked upon, while our failure to spend more defending ourselves appears to come as a direct consequence of that profligacy.

The NHS is no longer the envy of the world: the Health Secretary adds tens of thousands of people to the NHS payroll while delivering a worse service. The Education Secretary seems driven by class hatred, and is overloading the state schools system following her vendetta against private schools. The Energy Secretary is denying poor people cheaper fuel by insisting on renewables they can’t afford, constructing a fantasy of an electrically-powered Britain that can’t generate enough electricity (that is familiar to Australians, for the same is happening here). 

That last comment is a reminder that not everything is perfect about Australia, but it has a long way to go before reaching where Britain has taken itself.

Heffer asked a Labour MP last summer what would happen after the inevitable Labour election victory:

“Five years of managed decline,” he answered. He said they had no money for anything else. But it is increasingly obvious to the world, as it must be to us, that this isn’t managed decline; it’s unmanaged decline. Our appearance as a failing, flailing, once-great nation is the fruit of stupidity, incompetence, ideological prejudice and atrocious judgement.

Heffer finishes up by noting “the serial derelictions that have reduced us to an object of pity among our friends around the world”.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: AustraliaBritainDeclineHypocrisyMass immigrationNHS

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago

yes, but there’s a possibility they might go up again so better be cautious and lockdown hard – stay safe….

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

I don’t know why those suffering from Covid Nervosa don’t just top themselves, get it all done with , leaving the rest of us in peace. I used to be empathetic about this form of hypochondria, but the cost of the whole country becoming a lunatic asylum is too high.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Speaking as something of a hypochondriac myself, I agree

Though the true evil has come from those who have manipulated them into it

Perhaps longer lives and better healthcare, more material well being and accessing information through a screen rather than first hand have led to an increase in susceptibility to this kind of disorder

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Actually, Julian, I have every sympathy for anyone suffering from hypochondria, as with other forms of anxiety. But, of course, the main way to deal with anxiety is to recognise it and break through it. Currently, the opposite is being applied – with people being encouraged to reinforce their anxiety by hiding away.

Yes. It is induced.But satire is one way the rest of us can deal with what is imposed on us. It doesn’t hide the underlying seriousness of the cluster of mental problems manufactured by the already insane.

What is happening is actually state terrorism – the primary aim of which isn’t to kill people, but to induce ‘terror’. From that perspective, SPI-B is a terrorist group in my book, who have caused more damage than any recognised cell.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Love the term Covid Nervosa much better than my ‘coviditis’
Sorry rick will be using this term myself – I know alot of them

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

I just watched a video of some young people in America wearing masks and when questioned as to why they all said they liked wearing them and their friends wear them too! There is no hope for the human race when confronted by such stupidity!

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Woden
Woden
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Fear of life…Fear of death.. in that case what is the point of their sad bloody ‘lives’

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

And lockdown all surrounding areas, at least up to the coast.

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robnicholson
robnicholson
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Heck, why not the whole country!

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

You mean the bullshit turned out to be bullshit

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

FFS – not again…

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robwallser
robwallser
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

yeah who’d have thought i twigged something was up when all my friends and parents and work colleagues and neighbours and the man in the corner shop were all still alive by Christmas i began to wonder if some bad people had made some mild bug sound like the end of days

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Catee
Catee
3 years ago

Oh my, 42 patients, how will the hospital cope? Maybe if they started using ivermectin there would be even less of them.

Last edited 3 years ago by Catee
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robwallser
robwallser
3 years ago
Reply to  Catee

Save the NHS and er thats it really perhaps it should read save The NHS from ever doing any work again

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  robwallser

And more time for dancing.

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Inkwell9
Inkwell9
3 years ago
Reply to  Catee

you know PHE banned ivermectin because it was too effective at stopping serious illness with covid?

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Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago

“STOP a Bolton lockdown”

What does that even mean? It’s worded like an advert: “The Da Vinci Code, a New York Times Best Seller”, or a command to do the opposite: “join the effort to STOP a Bolton lockdown”. Who comes up with this crap? Is a “Bolton” lockdown unique somehow? Is it a different flavour!?

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

It’s done by an advertising company, employed before this all began.

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robwallser
robwallser
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

yes well apparently its grim up North so now its all begining to make sense

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Hugh
Hugh
3 years ago
Reply to  robwallser

You mean “it’s grim ewp Narth, ewp for the cewp, bodies piling up in the streets in Bolton innit, ay-i-oh, they’re gonna Bolt-on a lockdown for sure, and we won’t be getting out of it as fast as Usain Bolt”.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

ewp. Is that West Yorkshire? Not North Yorkshire or rural Cumbrian. Innit, not northern. Must be an import. Also surely “the” should be “t” ? Not so?
Please update me on Bolton speak.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Well the vaccine development seemed to start in China before the west house-arrested the healthy to prevent herd immunity.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

Misspelling, perhaps? Or maybe someone “misspoke” and it should be a Bolt-on Lockdown?

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

“It’s worded like an advert: “The Da Vinci Code ….”

Actually – have you noticed, analysing television output across the board, the incredible excess of horror, sci-fi and fantasy in the film listings?

A priming for susceptibility to real world manipulation?

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

A Bolton lockdown uses real bolts

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Inkwell9
Inkwell9
3 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

Bolton is not locking down, the Delta virus mutation has moved on to Blackburn. The numbers in Bolton are down to single figures, anyway, they are still using faulty PCR and Lat testing to prove cases, which mean nothing by way of actual covid infected people.

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Friedrich Stapß
Friedrich Stapß
3 years ago

Surprise surfuckingprise.

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
3 years ago

2020: Just wait 2 weeks
2021: Just wait another 2 weeks

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George J Dance
George J Dance
3 years ago

I love the messaging on that signboard. It’s the same public health messaging as for the past 15 months, but now the theme isn’t “Stay safe” or “Save lives” or “Don’t Kill Granny,” it’s “Stop a lockdown.”

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robwallser
robwallser
3 years ago
Reply to  George J Dance

By its nature though, in this context, the word “Lockdown” would now appear to be a bad thing is that a development or some kind of admission

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  robwallser

Lockdown is communal punishment for not washing hands

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robnicholson
robnicholson
3 years ago
Reply to  George J Dance

About the only sensible things on there are “Stop lockdown” and “If you have symptoms, get tested”. The wash hands, 2m and face coverings are all rather dubious in their effectiveness

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nottingham69
nottingham69
3 years ago

Stop using their stupid names please.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  nottingham69

At least they’ve referred to the PM as such and not used the B-word.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Bastard?

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leicestersq
leicestersq
3 years ago

Only 1 death today ‘within 28 days of a positive test’.

Well worth worsening the living experience of millions of people for far longer to pretend that you could bring this number down even further.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  leicestersq

Halfasadlideath a day:
That’s what the Vaxxinated say.

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robwallser
robwallser
3 years ago
Reply to  leicestersq

yes but if we can only save one …. shit. i cant do it anymore, your right its over the games up although a man did cough in Guernsey

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago
Reply to  robwallser

Oh nooooooooo! 😱

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

I like this one.
‘Here’s a sobering thought: Treating people who are NOT sick as though they are, by forcing them to ACT or BELIEVE that they are sick (vaccines, social distancing, mask-wearing, quarantine, isolation) is a condition called Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Is this a form of abuse?’
The Behavioural Insights Team are having the time of their life

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Yes – they’re locking up the wrong people.

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robwallser
robwallser
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Save the NHS !!!! im sorry i cant think of anything else to say its just got kind of stuck there .One thing how do you actually save the NHS .A nation of frightened lemmings has been created from nothing ,literally nothing with compliance and full consent to degrade our normal way of living .Shameful facist overtones

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

It is gross abuse and it will continue for as long as we put up with it.

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bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
3 years ago

Very Sunny today. I saw a man in the park putting on sunscreen. I assume for my benefit ?

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

Yep – scary stuff that solar radiation: if he reflects less UV and saves just one life …….

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robwallser
robwallser
3 years ago
Reply to  iane

cant we just lock the sun down its proved to be very popular in dealing with airborne virus’s so far .The virus will try to knock on your door but like salesmen/Mormons etc if you pretend to not be in it will eventually go awy or something

Last edited 3 years ago by robwallser
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robwallser
robwallser
3 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

i hope he was wearing a mask and was at least two meters away from you whilts washing his hands its the only way were going to keep this pissy virus going now we realised no one actually caught it .though to be fair many many people tested positive the poor mites

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
3 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

LOL. Classic !

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ellie-em
ellie-em
3 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

I try to do my bit for the community.

I make sure I put on my most comfortable shoes when I walk the dog to make sure others don’t suffer from sore feet and the dreaded corns.

I’m very considerate….at times.

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Inkwell9
Inkwell9
3 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

Not sunscreen, it is anti vitamin D cream! This means he will be catching covid soon so he can boast to his mates he has had it. Not!

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Attaboy
Attaboy
3 years ago

I think what we are seeing is a porcentage of the population who benefit from the pandemic via online business and internet platforms who are reluctant to go back to the old normal. So scariants and variants are just a push to stay on course as long as possible.

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robwallser
robwallser
3 years ago
Reply to  Attaboy

out of interest how long do you think they have

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unmaskthetruth
unmaskthetruth
3 years ago
Reply to  robwallser

the game is up already, even real sheeple I talk to have started to (finally) question the apocalypse narrative. Go Britons, free your faces then your souls.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  robwallser

Ten years at most, though many will go much more quickly.

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Carrie Symonds
Carrie Symonds
3 years ago

Can you die of anything else except covid?

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  Carrie Symonds

Only with special permission, after twenty LFT tests, twenty PCR tests and a year’s prior quarantine. And your coffin must be deep-cleaned and you must be slathered in germicidal gunk before you are put in it.
You will not be allowed a church funeral because the clergy are too frightened to go into the church with anybody else, living or dead.

Last edited 3 years ago by Annie
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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Carrie Symonds

Yes, though of course that won’t be on the death certificate.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
3 years ago
Reply to  Carrie Symonds

It’s the only death, within 28 days of a positive test or a coroners best guess, which is worth reporting apparently.

1253 confirmed kills on Yellow Card but for the ‘greater good’ lets ignore them. Same for the 150K AZ guinea pigs with their new found neurological disorders.

Can’t wait for tomorrows insanity and gaslighting extravaganza. Stay tuned !!!!

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Inkwell9
Inkwell9
3 years ago
Reply to  Carrie Symonds

Yes, but they’ll call it with, by, or for covid anyway.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

So how many covvicorpses has Bolton managed to score?

Interesting that the nagging notice is about preventing lockdowns, not preventing covvie. Which is the worse scourge, eh?

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Spikedee1
Spikedee1
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

This had absolutely nothing to do with the Indian variant or saving the nhs. It was simply about getting the population of Bolton frightened enough to get the jab. And it worked beautifully. Off they all rushed to jab this experimental gene therapy into their bodies. The only problem will be if they start dropping dead this will not end well.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
3 years ago

Stop a Bolton Lockdown? DO AS YOU ARE TOLD.

Then we’ll lockdown again anyway because masks, superstitions and hocus pocus won’t stop the natural spread of an airborne virus.

They locals should paint over each and every one of those signs.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

It’s really very little to do with a virus. Much more to do with pointless lockdowns, humiliating masks mandates, utterly futile hand washing and health passports. All of which are about control and are a means of coercing people into undergoing injection with criminally dangerous gene altering experimental biological agents. Non-compliance is the only viable option.

Last edited 3 years ago by Rowan
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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
3 years ago

Today’s Telegraph in Scotland is bellyaching about not enough children and teachers taking a zillion lateral flow tests every week. Apparently, gasp, there are some people who have never taken even one test! Means have to be devised to encourage greater uptake of tests. We all know where that will lead.

I could suggest bribing the Buckfast boys with a few bottles of their favourite tipple to make a contribution on behalf of their community, if they want to get the numbers up, but I fear any official brave enough to offer a cotton bud a) might not be able to understand their banter and b) would end up needing medical assistance.

Last edited 3 years ago by TheTartanEagle
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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

I haven’t had a test and don’t intend having one.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago

This bombardment of absurdities and contradictions is Kim Jong Johnson’s way of putting off decisions till the very last possible millisecond.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Moist Von Lipwig

I fear that people who haven’t clocked this trail of obvious lying manipulation are never going to.

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SueJM
SueJM
3 years ago

Successfully controlling it without lockdowns by using vaccinations…??!!! Since when did the science change from the vaccs not stopping folk contracting and spreading the ‘V’ to suddenly being able to replace lockdowns!? And folk are believing this. Absolutely criminal manipulation and devisiveness. Stop it now, MSM! Where’s your integrity, your professionalism, your humanity? Do you realise you are complicit in murder?!

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juliakurzeja
juliakurzeja
3 years ago

Anybody died yet?

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chaos
chaos
3 years ago

Government seems keen to get more ‘cases’ i.e. false postives… I recieved this email from my local council… full of sketchy science.. test is PCR…

We are running a programme of extra COVID-19 testing from today. We’re asking everyone over the age of 12 who lives, works or studies in these postcode areas to take an extra test between Monday 7 June and Sunday 20 June:

XXX

XXX

XXX

XXX

It’s vital that people come forward for the test. There is a rising number of the COVID-19 variant first identified in India, known as the ‘Delta’ variant, in xxxxx. Overall Covid numbers are also rising with nearly 100 cases per 100,000 people, hospital admissions have increased, and the new variant is more easily spread from person to person. Testing will help us find and isolate as many cases as possible, and therefore suppress transmission of the variant and keep our communities safe.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  chaos

It’s scientific illiteracy with dangerous consequences. Children playing with matches.

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Inkwell9
Inkwell9
3 years ago
Reply to  chaos

A total pack of false figures, and lies from the council. they are barking but have no bute, ignore such crap. Wasting more taxpayers’ money on worthless literature.

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Glynthepin
Glynthepin
3 years ago

Health Secretary Matt Hancock last week admitted the link between infections and hospital admissions, which vaccines should separate, has so far been “broken but not completely severed”.
Same applies to flu for goodness sake. Also like flu it is seasonal as we saw last year when hospital admission fell – despite no vaccines.
Why nothing on this website from the likes of Dr Cory on Ivermectin? The withholding of this effective, cheap drug is criminal.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago

They’ll never admit they got it wrong or that they are working to an Agenda.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago

https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data

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