Bridget Phillipson has been accused of allowing the Education Blob to run riot with her Schools Bill, slipping in all the horrors that the Tories rejected time and again. This is certainly true in regard to parental duty. If adopted, the proposals would shift the British education system onto the illiberal German foundation that allowed the Nazis to monopolise children’s minds, and which MPs rejected decisively for that reason in 1944.
The charge against the Secretary of State
Bridget Phillipson is fast becoming the story. This is not good for any Secretary of State, but especially not for one who had been heralded for some time as the future Queen of Education. Within weeks of rushing her ‘landmark’ Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill into Parliament, her ability to do the job is in the spotlight.
The rug under Phillipson’s feet was given a massive jerk by Katharine Birbalsingh who, having gained the reputation of ‘Britain’s strictest headteacher’, published her letter to the Minister in full after the two met on February 3rd. Ongoing media criticism caused the Department for Education (DfE) to publish the official Government minutes of the meeting eight days later. Its efforts however have failed to stem the flow from her critics. Writing in the Standard, Toby Young of this patch and the co-founder of West London Free School, aptly described Phillipson’s plan for education as “Nobody is allowed to win“.
A week later Will Hazell and Richard Vaughan amplified her failings with a story headlined ‘How “naïve” Bridget Phillipson’s education U-turns left her battling for her job‘. They cited an unnamed “Government insider” as accusing Phillipson “of presiding over dysfunction”.
Describing the education system as a long-established battleground between the ‘traditionalists’ and the ‘progressives’, the authors assert that some traditionalists are now accusing Phillipson of “bowing to a resurgent ‘Blob'”. Pointing to the similarities between the current Bill and the failed Conservative Schools Bill (birthed and laid to rest in 2022), they emphasise the significance of this:
The parallels between the two bills have led to claims that the DfE is quietly but persistently pursuing its own agenda to impose new controls over academies. One Government source told the i paper: “Ministers can say they want to do X or Y and officials can often say it may be too difficult or unworkable and then just suggest a plan they have straight from the drawer.”
Whilst acknowledging that “it is difficult to verify such claims”, they reported comments from an ex-employee of the department that “some parts of Phillipson’s bill… were repeatedly proposed by officials in the department under the Tories, but always rejected”. This would appear very plausible, given that the two bills are so similar, with the current incarnation apparently having been fed on steroids compared with its predecessor.
In loco parentis or in loco civitatis?
In my previous article I owned up to being a long-time home educator at heart. As such, I have been following the political debate around the under-valued but vital civil liberty which has guaranteed family-based learning as a legal choice in Britain for over eight decades. Its roots go back further than that though, as recently explained by Rhys Laverty in the Spectator, in an article titled ‘The problem with Labour’s home-school crackdown‘. Spelling it out, Laverty explains that “in the UK it has always been very simple: centuries of English common law mean that if a parent wishes to keep their child at home to be educated it is none of the Government’s business”.
At this juncture it’s necessary to turn our attention to the bill’s ‘small print’, namely the accompanying ECHR Memo. This lengthy document explains how the department reconciles the bill’s provisions with human rights legislation. Two sections of the bill seek to introduce extensive proposals in regard to “Children not in school” registers and bring “independent educational institutions” under close Government oversight.
In order to justify “any interference with Article 8 and 14 rights” in some of these proposals, the authors of the Memorandum cite a European Court judgment, Konrad v Germany (2006) app. 35504/03. This case was lost by the Konrad parents, who had argued that EHCR Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 guaranteed their right to ensure an education for their children in conformity with their own religious convictions. The court found this not to be the case, based on grounds that both German Basic Law (Constitution) and the Baden-Württemberg School Act – the state in which the family lived – both made school attendance compulsory for the majority of children (with limited exceptions permitted).
Relying on this judgment, the DfE asserts in paragraphs 161c and 178c of its memo that “the state can insist on compulsory education, in school” adding that so doing is “within a country’s own ‘margin of appreciation'”.
That this direction of travel is absent from the face of the bill raises significant cause for concern. For a start, it shows a departmental lack of appreciation of the very different legislative foundations of education in England and in Germany. Simply put, officials cannot surreptitiously change British law through non-statutory guidance and the small print of memoranda. It is not to Phillipson’s credit that she has failed to challenge her staff on this matter, especially when it appears that previous Tory incumbents did so.
The difference between British and German law is striking. Article 6(2) of German Basic Law states:
The care and upbringing of children is the natural right of parents and a duty primarily incumbent upon them. The state shall supervise them in the performance of this duty.
Further, Article 7(1) grants the state supervision of “the entire school system”. These two provisions were also embedded in the 1919 Weimar Constitution, as Articles 120 and 144.
According to Felizitas Küble however, writing (in German) in 2017, private education at home was not prohibited, though such articles had existed in previous constitutions from 1717. She cites the unadopted Frankfurt Constitution (1849) as stating, “Home schooling is not subject to any restriction”, a position which remained in place through to the Prussian Compulsory Schooling Act of 1927. Claiming that this settled position “changed under the National Socialist dictatorship”, she illustrates her point by quoting in full paragraph 453 of Mein Kampf, and stating that Hitler’s autocratic views were implemented in the Reich Compulsory Schooling Act of 1938 and have remained in place post-war.
Protecting liberty for successive generations
The dangers of the German approach to education were uppermost in the minds of British politicians in Churchill’s war Government as it was drafting the 1944 Education Act. This was steered through Parliament by ‘Rab’ Butler, a Conservative MP and President of the Board of Education. On March 21st 1944, during the Committee Stage, MPs debated Clause 34 which fixed in legislation that common law cornerstone of the British understanding of education, as identified by Rhys Laverty in the Spectator. It read:
Duty of parents to secure the education of their children.
It shall be the duty of the parent of every child of compulsory school age to cause him to receive efficient full-time education suitable to his age, ability and aptitude, either by regular attendance at school or otherwise.
This foundation remains intact in our current 1996 Education Act (Section 7), and places the responsibility for education firmly on the shoulders of a child’s parents, not in the hands of the state. This was intentional, and with good reason, on the part of the Government of the day. Frustrated that amendments to this clause had been disallowed, a few MPs did try to have it deleted because they objected to the “or otherwise” component.
Their main objection will be familiar to any readers who follow today’s political narrative around education. The first speaker in 1944, Hugh Lawson (Skipton, Common Wealth Party) declared that it contained “a bad principle because it still leaves the two systems of education which we have in this country today”. He later asserted that the choice was between “a society based on class privilege” and “the abolition of class privilege”. Familiar sentiments even today, but whilst it may have been seen at the time as enabling the rich to engage private tutors for their children, today’s British home educating communities are one of the most diverse cohorts in society. Many families exist on a single salary and therefore cannot possibly be classed as materially privileged.
Lawson and a small band of co-belligerents were firmly rebutted by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, James Chuter Ede (Labour, South Shields). Responding to the debate and several interjections, Ede stated:
Let us realise that what the hon. Members are asking is a state monopoly of education. Surely we have seen enough in Europe during the last few years to indicate the danger of that. … I do not believe, and the Government does not believe, that it has the right to prescribe the only form of education that shall be given in this country.
Members left the dissenters in no doubt of their support for the primacy of parents over state, voting Ayes 216, Noes 4, “That the Clause stand part of the Bill.”
Undermining the foundations
Eighty years later, bubbling up from within the matrix which is the Education Blob, has come a serious suggestion that without thorough Parliamentary scrutiny of proposed primary legislation, officials have the authority to impose compulsory schooling on all children.
There is clear evidence that this is not some new idea Phillipson has sold to them since she took up her role. No, it has been on their shopping list of reforms for some time. In October 2021, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) report into Child protection in religious organisations and settings investigation was published by Parliament. Home educators were somewhat astonished to find that their futures had been discussed in these sessions, when Kate Dixon, then the Department of Education’s Director of Schools, had appeared as a witness before the panel in August 2020. Details of what she said in regard to the department’s objectives concerning home education, which had not been spelt out at the time, are explained here, though there is no mention of the department’s attitude to the human rights of home educated children and their parents.
As Dixon’s appearance was drawing to a close, the chair opened up the session for questions from the panel. Prof Sir Malcolm Evans asked her for the department’s thoughts on how to make its intentions “compatible with the obligations under the protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights on the state when it assumes responsibility in relation to education to ensure that such education is in accordance with parental, religious or philosophical convictions”. Whilst confident that this had been considered, Dixon did not have the explanation to hand and promised to write to the panel with the answer.
The department’s additional evidence was published on IICSA’s website in March the following year. The document addresses four issues, with the item of interest in this context being Section C, starting on page 4. The second paragraph reads:
The rationale that these proposals are consistent with the article rely on the judgment in Konrad v Germany (2006), a case on home education. This case makes the points that :..
Essentially, the rest of the response has been copied into the current Bill’s ECHR Memo twice over, including the affirmation cited above:
The state can insist on compulsory education, in school, and that the aims of ensuring acquisition of knowledge and of integrating minorities into society are legitimate justification for insisting on this, within a country’s own ‘margin of appreciation’.
Preserving the bulwark is essential
Here then is evidence that Hazell and Vaughan were correct to report suggestions that Phillipson allowed “a resurgent ‘Blob'” to hand her a raft of policies which had been repeatedly rejected by Tory ministers, and she did little more than sign them off.
If this is so, then it would indicate that she is indeed not up to the job she has been given. Of far greater concern however is her lack of understanding about what makes the British education system the polar opposite to its German counterpart. The principle that the state has primacy in the education of children failed to protect the Germans from a totalitarian regime which forced every child into school in an attempt to mould them into its leader’s narrow mindset.
Even if we don’t see such an outcome ourselves in the next few years, if Phillipson’s Blob-inspired bill is not disarmed, it could easily be seized upon by any future despotic Government, Left or Right, and employed for its own ends. Unless, of course, British people – not just home educated ones – stand up and defend their established British liberty to opt out of compulsory state indoctrination.
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Further restrictions would undermine trust in the vaccine.
Half of Brits expect further restrictions.
Therefore…
The jab is currently providing zero protection from infection.
How do I know? I know a lot of the jabbed and they’re getting colds and positive LFT/PCR tests
If we’d concentrated on focussed protection this would not be a problem, but mass vax ensures mass vaccine breakthrough.
The death of Double Vaxxed Colin Powel from ‘Covid complications’ is getting a lot of attention Stateside despite him being in his mid 80s and so older than than average lifespan.
The WHO/WEF/Davostokracy set have realized that their power base and sphere of influence is steadily shrinking [quickly] and while currently they’re still pushing hard to roll out their GREAT RESET technokratic uber-alas agenda from the top down via their captive G7 states via manipulating data/elections, installing puppet Govt leaders and influencers [Prince William] and heads of parties such as Trudeau, BoJo, Blair and Biden while still openly lying about why they’re doing it [Climate Change].
https://twitter.com/ZaidZamanHamid/status/1449119667553984517?s=20
The reboot reality of which is their BUILD BACK BETTER costs are skyrocketing [energy/commodity prices] meanwhile their acolytes both here in the UK, the US, Canada and EU are proving increasingly inept at closing fully down the dissenter pushbacks.
https://twitter.com/CampariWithSoda/status/1450372199517499397?s=20
Why is this an increasing problem for them? ADE is killing the double tapped and boosted in ever greater numbers, plus the wild COVID virus mutants are burning out benignly too quickly… Dial in that the leading Pfizer mRNA vaxx is obviously too dangerous for even the MSM to keep countenancing its use especially in kids, and is totally unnecessary for anyone under 30 years of age in fact…
However the WEF backed elites still have their sights set on a world controlled through bio-security technocracy, ruthless policing [track-n-trace] and surveillance social credit control. It’s a monumentally stupid idea… but then again, so was lowest common denominator communism.
So to summarise, events are converging, much is accelerating all at once, and the pandemic narratives of the last 18months are in collapse.
What will you decide to do about yourself, your community and what’s left of your function country?
Let’s go Brandon… buckle up.
It ends in War, the ultimate distraction. It always does.
Yes they will go for war and one they can’t win, but which has the potential to kill all of us, unjabbed and jabbed.
Things may be slowly unravelling on a more fundamental basis, i.e. lack of cheap and abundant energy
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2021/10/08/213-a-moment-of-truth/#comments
Bankers, economists and politicians haven’t a clue about these limits. After 100-150 years of growing prosperity, these limits are getting ever larger again.
The “spin” though is that he had been treated for cancer (and apparently Parkinson’s). In reporting on his death, I have not read when he was diagnosed with cancer – before or after his vaccine.
The question I have: Is it possible he would have survived if he had NOT been vaccinated? I guess we can’t know or won’t know. But he was vaccinated so his vaccine did NOT prevent his death.
The reports I have heard (GB News and Talk Radio) both mentioned multiple myeloma.
Exactly. Vaccines won’t stop people dying of, with or without Covid, when they become this ill. I just fact checked that statement and it’s true.
It would be interesting to know whether his cancers had a sudden growth spurt and spread after the jabbing, as found by one of the main oncology laboratories in the US.
He was 84, people do actually die, this is not news.
Now apply that same logic to the virus.
The amount of attention that a well known and respected vaxxed person died ‘of covid’ is the news, not his death itself.
Klaus Schwab will be 84 next year, so let’s keep our fingers crossed.
Yeah, but he won’t have taken the experimental jabs, I’d wager!
Most of the people who died from COVID were old and had other illnesses just like Sec. Powell. However, “out side” couldn’t mention this or it was deemed irrelevant – until old people with pre-existing conditions who had been fully vaccinated started to die in noticeable numbers. Now it’s obligatory to point this out.
Mr Powell had cancer & there is the possibility, being discussed by medical bods in the USA, that the jab enabled the cancer to return due to a damaged immune system post jabs.
That would seem to be at least a possibility, but one that can’t be discussed in any mainstream media forums or articles.
Same here. Lots of respiratory infections and strange symptoms such as extreme exhaustion amongst the injected. Some testing C19 positive, others not.
My wife has been vaccinated and since then has been knocked down with several illnesses, the most latest diagnosed as bronchitis. It is safe to say she has had more episodes of “feeling bad” with various symptoms than before she had been vaccinated.
And like many here I am struck by the seeming spike in cancer diagnosis, tumors and other odd illnesses and symptoms. Many people in my town also have some kind of “crud” or cold-like symptoms. The anecdotal evidence of vaccine caused health events continues to become even more voluminous.
I know loads of people , vaxxed and unvaxxed and have not noticed anyone being ill
My workplace has a 600+ employed. We have been working throughout the “pandemic” being classed as “key workers”. Before “vaccination” zero hospitalised with covid and only a handful complaining of bad symptoms, however since “vaccine” rollout we have had a couple of deaths and at least 20 people having pneumonia, strokes, heart complications, miscarriages, fainting, and generally feeling unwell, needing two weeks or more off. So something clearly is going on.
Also no covid measures were implemented (distancing/masks) until around November last year, all of which have been rescinded in the last couple of months, and were optional.
Very important sub-thread, this. You are right, @Superunknown – something is indeed going on. In a time of wall-to-wall lies, trust only what happens in front of your own eyes, and be a bit wary even of that. (And stock up on food and fuel.)
Through personal contact and by word of mouth, it will fairly soon become obvious to nearly all that the “vaccines” are indeed exceedingly dangerous interventions. This will be an uneasy time for the elite cabal and the sell-outs in government. Expect them to lockdown hard at the first signs of mass unrest. Very difficult times ahead.
“at least 20 people having pneumonia, strokes, heart complications, miscarriages, fainting, and generally feeling unwell, needing two weeks or more off. So something clearly is going on.”
Several cases of E coli in the water supply have been reported recently in England, Ireland, and the US.
Best to boil all drinking water now…
I expect that they cross the road when they see you.
Some sections of the media are talking about ‘the worst cold ever’, have you had it? Do tell’.
The effects of mRNA vaccines will be a military secret. They may well include having to kiss one’s a*** goodbye soon after one of the flu viruses comes along. My feeling is that whereas a few percent more chronically ill octogenarians have died of pneumonia in hospital over the past year and a half than is usual, as far as a pandemic is concerned the Real Thing may soon be with us. Could even be bacterial – who knows?
The jab is providing a negative level of protection, even PHE admits that.
Those jabbed are also infecting the unjabbed. I know many who are suffering a very bad cold for the first time in years. They all have one thing in common….. members of their family are jabbed and contracting really bad colds which seem to be highly contagious.
Those families who remain unjabbed seem to also be very healthy.
I have noticed over the years that my friends and family who have their regular flu jab always have a cold during the winter months. Some years that cold is really heavy and they always think their jab has prevented a worse infection.
Absoloutley right.
They may bring back some mitigation measures, but lockdowns don’t achieve their goal of digital-ID/currency! Vaccine passports do. Lockdown undermines vaccine efficacy & value of the passports.
Whatever your opinion is on the motive of the covid fraud, malfeasance or incompetence, constant lockdowns only generates greater dissent, they have to dig themselves out of this hole somehow lockdowns aren’t SUSTAINABLE ;-).
Agree but they could lock down on the basis of insufficient injection / booster take up. You know, blame the filthy unjabbed for having to implement an unsustainable policy…
Lockdowns are a means to an end. They can be used to demoralize the population and increase the pressure on the unjabbed by blaming them and demonizing them further. Of course, this is nonsensical but I’m afraid the gullible masses will almost certainly go along with it just like they have gone along with the rest of the insanity up to this point.
Maybe it’s the final straw to wake some of the dozy buggers up from their inertia!
Latvia has apparently just gone into lockdown, with curfew
for just the next four weeks
https://www.metro.us/latvia-announces-four-weeks/
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Greta Thunberg wants Britain to ‘feel ashamed’ for its part in the Industrial Revolution
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Brainwashed fools.
33%. Ha! Interesting choice of number.
64-and-a-half. Clearly 78% of my age group are delusional snivelling cowards. Not something to make me proud.
67 in three weeks time. Not been double or single tapped; apparently I had the equivalent of the Black Death 4 weeks ago. No illness, no temperature, no cough, no phlegm, nothing. And I have cancer, so I should be susceptible to the bloody virus. Perhaps having vitamin D3, C, zinc, iron, magnesium, calcium, turmeric helps.
There’s no “perhaps” about it. D3, C, B12, iron, bee pollen, flaxseeds, nigella, etc. – they all help strengthen the immune system. I took zinc supplements too but stopped because in large doses zinc can cause fatigue. Best wishes to you, @beancounter. Long may you thrive.
Since the sun went I’ve started taking pharmacy supplied multi vitamins despite not being advised to do so by my many encounters with NHS staff.
You do have to be careful with multivits, double blind trials showed some mixtures potentially made things worse, ask a pharmacist, again.
personally I found a nice lozenge with a few mg of Zinc, a ‘normal’ level few ug D3 & a hint of Vit-C, for the winter months. Coming from Yorks. & having had family members & neighbours with MS, quite plausibly caused by insufficient oily fish or mid-day sunshine, I think it’s wise to consider some food supplements.
Famously Aussie igNoble prize winner Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki walked the whole 9thC Camino de Santiago pilgrimage through northern Spain, whilst monitoring his blood Vit-D levels, they were completely way below what they should’ve been, even after weeks in the sun. That factor-30 isn’t always appropriate….
Thank you David
In fact this is part of the nudging. Everyone else thinks this, so you should think it too or you are an outlier. Ignore. Delete.
And so the cycle continues.
Saw reference on the BBC to a new variant of “Delta”.
Im just awaiting the headline “calls grow for firebreak lockdown” to “save our NHS”.
Is it me or is this all so predictable?
It won’t work this time. People have seen through the lies. Just keep ignoring the signs and diktats. The lie is crumbling.
A number have, but unfortunately I very much suspect that the sheeple are still a significant majority!
Not just you.
However, if there is a new variant of concern then COP26 should be abandoned as we cannot be seen to be the leper of the world by infecting everyone again (NOT)
You’re so cruel. Johnson and all his post-Downing St ambitions would be crushed.
Everything they do has been predictable since the ramping up of actual restrictions before the end of Lockdown 1 early summer 2020.
Yes, the ‘priming’ has already started.
We’re put on notice about the ‘worryingly low’ take up of the ‘vaccine’ in 12 -15 year olds in England, as also the ‘booster’ for the older age group. Nothing a bit of fear-mongering and the threat of a lockdown can’t fix.
A new variant has been promoted in UK media today, even though it has been known about for quite some time. This latest variant was mentioned by the press in Israel a week ago from a briefing given about it by their Health Minister Prof. Nachman Ash, who referenced it as an external threat in Europe. Last Tuesday the Israeli government called an emergency meeting with top ministry officials to discuss the threat posed by AY.4.2 spreading from Europe, and that stopping it spreading to Israel was “a very big challenge”.
How can Israel have an emergency meeting, and the Health Minister give a press conference about it, and yet no journalist in the UK report it or investigate it when it is in our midst?
Because now messaging is all controlled. Obviously today is the day the UK government wants to get this into the media. It’s all looking rather contrived.
A Plandemic.
They need to speak to Australia – they are the experts in keeping the virus out and “keeping people safe”! (also known as “fucking up their society”)
“Very big challenge”. Israel only has one major port of entry to speak of – Ben Gurion airport.
You are correct about the ‘new variant’. As ever, the Daily Wail is making the most of it, see:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10107049/Is-infectious-strain-Delta-taking-Britain.html
this could be the variant that causes ADE in the vaccinated
An indication of increased cynicism rather than fear of Covid.
74% are ‘concerned’ about another winter wave.?
Likely poll question
“How concerned are you about the predicted severe 3rd wave coming this winter ?”
A) hugely concerned.
B) concerned enough but hope it doesn’t happen
C)Concerned but all will be well if we can have lockdown again.
D)Not concerned because I have my head in the sand and am too thick to understand the evidence presented to me by the experts.
A+B+C = 74%. Bingo.
Funny but true. The ‘public consultation’ on vax passes had questions like that. I berated them heavily for their biased survey questioning in the additional comments section.
Bet there wasn’t an option for ‘expect numbers to rise but really don’t give a toss if they do’ either…
The biggest issue is that the public in favor of lockdown has no clue about economic consequences of this. They are thinking “oh well, so we will stay home again, no problem, if that helps the NHS, I’m all for it, and the government will pay like the last time”. They simply do not make the necessary connection between empty shelves in shops, debt-driven inflation, poverty and their own retarded life attitude.
Many of them don’t actually have to worry about the economic consequences of lockdown (in the short term, anyway). In particular, the retired (but also those on benefits long-term).
And, to be honest, a lot in employment are equally blinkered as well – government bodies, railways, charities – they all think that their jobs are secure. It’s only the private sector (and not all of that) where people seem to be able to see what the outcome is likely to be.
Shortly after starting my mortgage interest rates rose to 15%, I managed to ride that out but many didn’t and they lost their homes as a result.
I believe the very long term rate is +/-5% but people now think that 1% is ‘normal’. It won’t take much of a run on Sterling as a result of both Quantitative Easing (printing money = inflation in property assets as occured) and the enormous cost of Lockdown and all the rest for rates to double or more.
Someone who thinks they are comfortably off will be in for a rude shock when their mortgage repayments double overnight. It might even bring about the collapse of the ponzi scheme house of cards that has been the housing market for the past several decades.
Not sure what’s happening with the housing market at the moment – prices have continued their seemingly inexorable rise, but there is nearly bugger-all being advertised. Look in any estate agents’ window – there will be loads of ‘Sold’ and ‘Sold STC’ padding it out.
“It might even bring about the collapse of the ponzi scheme house of cards that has been the housing market for the past several decades.”
…on which the banks have been floating.
a lot of people get overstretched in an era of low interest rates
government overspending = money printing = inflation = higher interest rates = lots of people going to the wall
we covered up inflation for 20 years by outsourcing our manufacturing to slave-state china
Get people maxxed on credit then shoot up interest rates…
It’s all so predictable.
The most worrying thing for me is the lack of even attempted stealth in looting us.
Thumbs up to your comment “we covered up inflation for 20 years.” Officials also changed the way “inflation” was officially calculated to cover up real inflation. “Shrinkflation” is one of the many “workarounds” manufacturers use to try to conceal real inflation.
The inflation – terrible now but only going to get worse – is going to be the real killer and misery producer. This is already the case.
I think the worst of the pandemic is behind us but the worst of the restrictions are still ahead
Exactly – that is the ‘None of the Above’ answer
Back when the first lockdowns had just started I made one post several times:
“This ship will sink.”
My (economy) analogy was a line from the movie Titanic, spoken by the character who designed the ship.
At this point, There’s nothing that can be done about it. It’s going to get worse, which is already happening to the economy. This economy will also sink/implode/explode, etc. It was really going to happen before COVID, but COVID sped everything up dramatically.
Why bother asking. The majority have been brainwashed by endless misinformation and fear.
The survey probably reflects that half of the population are terrified of the future, and the other half hope for the best.
I’ve little doubt that the people commissioning the survey (UKG, SAGE etc.) are simply interested in seeing how effective their propaganda and nudging have been, and whether there’s any sign that the public is finally starting to push back.
I too expect another lockdown, but not because there will be an infection wave. We are coming into flu season and as we all know, flu is regularly misidentified (maybe on purpose?) as covid. A new wave will be manufactured, just like the previous ones, and we will be in lockdown again. This will be blamed solely on the unvaccinated in an effort to increase population hostility towards those that refuse the vaccine. People are, of course, too dumb to see through this, and come 2022 we will start seeing people policing others, asking for proof of vaccination, and being violent towards those that can’t provide it. The authorities will be predictably appalled by this, but will do nothing to prevent any of it, as this is their plan.
Divide and rule as they tried but failed with masks, fighting in the aisles hardly occurred at all.
It’s us against them … and there’s now a lot more of them.
The government has already stated we will be locked up again, should the NHS come under strain.
Will it come under strain? Of course it will, from two different areas:
1) Lack of staff, resulting from self-isolation or sacked for refusing Vaccine.
2) Large numbers of vaccinated patients suffering from ADE, the vaccine shot itself, or other respiratory illnesses courtesy of diminshed immune systems after eighteen months of avoiding company, sunlight and fresh air.
Lockdown and Vax passports are just part of Plan B, which is the only plan in reality.
At the hospital trust where my wife works, the HR department is now belatedly “keeping track” of staff opting to take “precautionary self-isolation” if they suspect that they or one of their family members may have been in contact with someone who has tested positive. No actual positive test results are required from any of the individuals claiming their 2 weeks at home, some of whom have already pulled this stunt 4 – 5 times during the current pandemic.
Actually, three different reasons, the third being hospital wards crammed with bed blocking oldies who have recovered from whatever ailed them, but cannot be decanted to their care homes because they are refusing to let new arrivals in having sacked 20% of their unvaccinated carers.
The bed-blockers alone means an NHS crisis this winter, quite apart from the other two reasons I mentioned in my previous comment.
I think this is all deliberate. Lockdown is THE prime objective of the criminals in government.
And, of course, it comes under strain every winter!
Many hospitals were overflowing and taxed to the extreme in the months before the official start of the pandemic – in December 2019 and January 2020. This was caused by widespread flu or influenza like illness. Reporters conveniently ignore the stories they wrote that document this. BTW, I think some of these sick people had COVID.
or perhaps they had sARS1 or something like it.
Which is why SARS2 didnt wipe out as many as the panicking govt thought.
Every now and the someone posts here a montage of a dozen or so newspaper headlines from successive years each screaming
“NHS overwhelmed by flu crisis!”.
I’ve saved many of those stories. All of these stories about terrible flu outbreaks always include one obligatory quote or statement: “It’s not too late to get your flu vaccine.”
This required sentence in a story documenting that this year’s flu jab obviously did NOT protect tens of millions of people from the flu.
Re-stated, as I would write it: “The flu jab this year did not match this year’s flu strain and so it does not work, but everyone should be sure to get the flu vaccine.”
Anyway, this Alice in Wonderland world/logic did not start with COVID.
I believe this anecdote is actually important: There was no need for a vaccine to “work” to convince everyone they still needed to get it. There was never any push-back on these statements; they were never challenged by the skeptical press so it’s not surprising people became conditioned to get the jabs they were told they had to get.
Certainly one hospital in the south east had a large number of respiratory patients but the number of patients being coded with influenza was a minor component of the total.
This article says flu was up 10 fold right before the start of the pandemic. Somewhere I saved some other stories from the UK to this effect.
I don’t remember a year where more schools in America temporarily closed because of the “flu” than in the winter of 2019-2020.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/03/hospitalisations-flu-10-fold-higher-last-year-official-figures/
A former colleague ‘shielded’ from the first day of Lockdown and still was the last I heard a couple of months ago.
I remarked to others who knew us both that his immune system will be shot to hell as a result and that he would fall to the first lurgey that came along once he emerged from self-isolation.
Last week I received a 5 page letter from the DHSC informing me that my status as ‘shielding’ has been rescinded, I expect that he has too.
Why would there be more lockdowns when our amazing vaccines were our way out of this nonsense? talking about experimental ‘vaccines’…
Evidence that the injections lead to an increase in deaths: These 163 graphs show Covid deaths for different countries before and after the commencement of vaccine programmes. They were produced from official data by Joel Smalley, quantitative analyst and blockchain developer some months ago and what they show is pretty startling: https://t.co/yPdI0oNzav. Static copies: https://t.co/ScLlSruHYR?amp=1.
The first six (4%) countries/provinces have fewer Covid deaths than expected post vaccinations, the next 27 (16%) have more or less expected levels. 131 (80%) countries/provinces have more deaths than expected following introduction of vaccines, with many displaying obvious and dramatic rises in deaths immediately following introduction of the vaccination programme. Data sources: COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (https://systems.jhu.edu) and https://ourworldindata.org/Covid-vaccinations. The expected red dotted line is based on a well-tested exponential decay function.
And more up to date graphs for some countries including the UK are found here: https://www.bitchute.com/video/kSLAtKEufR3z/
for more information on the lack of vaccine safety – visit…
https://www.independentinformation.co.uk/resources/articles/covid-vaccines-safe-effective
Nobody with a functioning brain believes these polls represent public opinion.
I suppose they’re interesting as an indication of where the propaganda is heading, but little else.
Unfortunately our current government has not hit a functioning brain between them and will take it all on board.
Just an opinion pollster trying to get some publicity. Their accuracy in gauging public opinion has a terrible record in recent times. My poll in the practical and productive sector is almost completely against shutdowns, although many were happy to take the bribes last time. Rishy Washy’s budget next week might focus minds further.
One certainty through the ludicrous shutdowns and money poured away on dodgy tests and job retention handouts is that everyone under 55 has lost 5 years in state pension at least, possibly 8. Washy will be preparing the ground for that right now.
COP 26 finishes on 12th Nov when all those tree huggers and eco warriors go home on their private jets.
ImprisonmentLockdown, end of Nov anybody?If we locked down on 10th november the more equal would still be allowed to travel in their zil planes.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time but you can’t fool ALL the people ALL the of time. That time has come…..
Yes, but you don’t need to fool all of the people all of the time. All you need to do is fool just enough people most of the time, and “enough people” is a surprisingly low number.
They have had a damn good try and for the most part have pretty much succeeded. I strongly suspect most would dutifully mask up again if and when the instruction comes – which it probably will.
If I remember correctly from studying psychology, around 20% of the population are subservient, will do just about anything they are told without question, around 20% are sceptical, so that would be us, and the remaining 60% are fence sitters. That’s where a good dose of propaganda comes in, to sway the 60% and hopefully hoodwink a portion of that sceptic group. Humans aren’t quite as far up the evolutionary ladder as we would like to think we are. Quite simple creatures to manipulate.
But 100 percent (maybe 99.9 percent) of those in the mainstream news media believe all of this BS* …. so the “gatekeepers of the news” are not going to allow any information through their gates that would allow more of the 60 percent to become skeptical.
It will be game set and match when Reiner Fuellmich and his associates win their first major headline-grabbing class action law suit in the U.S., Canada or elsewhere. (Or win against Drosten, Wieler, et al and their fake PCR test, in the German courts).
Hang in there. “The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine”
The first lie was people falling down dead in the street in Wuhan in 2019. We know that was a lie because they fell down carefully. The last lie is today’s case rates are rising and we must save the NHS! In between these two lies exist only more lies.
As mentioned yesterday the DHSC has written to reassure me, as a formerly shielding person, that while
‘”Cases are rising, the numbers of people becoming very ill, going to hospital or dying are not”.
If any country locks down after all these months having bullied, bribed and blackmailed citizens into taking the jabs I think there’ll be full on riots in the streets. Or there bloody should be! Basically it’d be admitting that the much lauded “vaccines” have been a failed experiment of epic proportions and going back to square 1 isn’t an option many ( I hope ) would tolerate.
Hence the narrative of getting Troops on the streets for the recent fuel ‘crisis’. Getting people used to seeing military in their neighborhoods, first whiff of violence then it’s martial law, jabs for everybody “to keep you safe” and off to the races.
I’m a biker and attend the MotorCycle Live event every year at the NEC.
Not this year though.
Buried in the small print is the requirement for the NHS app or a negative covid test result. I’m certain many will attend without realising this, only to be turned away without a refund.
This is the first occasion I’ve run into the new medical apartheid and won’t play their game. We need to apply direct democracy to boycott any and every event that demands this nonsense.
Any chance of a shout out on this from LS to raise awareness?
go an have a Bike Meet in the car park.
It’ll be a lot more fun and won’t be full of corporate PR biker “skin suit” wearers.
“We need to apply direct democracy to boycott any and every event that demands this nonsense.”
Thing is as long as they get a reasonable turnout, enough saying “it’s no big deal” to show their confidential medical info to get in the door, these places will keep on doing it.
I totally agree with your sentiment and where I can, am making places fully aware of my non attendance and associated reasoning. Also raising complaints – medical information is private and personal, and this therefore constitutes a direct breach of GDPR, if an organisation will not abide by it, complaints can be directed to the Information Commissioner.
If they say it’s OK, hold an event and explicitly ban people treated for STDs or AIDS.
ask for proof on the door.
“We need to apply direct democracy …”
Depends on what you mean. If unfettered individual choice on such issues – fine. If majoritarian rule by prejudice – f. off.
The above cartoon should use ad nauseum instead of ad infinitum!
Of all the COVID skeptics, Eshani King wrote perhaps the most impressive summary of evidence that rebuts the key elements of the COVID narrative.
One brief section of this paper mentions a topic/possibility that has not received enough attention in my opinion, and is very possibly germane to the topic of whether there will be another seasonal spike in cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
In the below excerpt, my King postulates that the flu vaccines might have contributed to deaths and hospitalizations last winter. He seems to be saying that those who received the flu vaccine might be more susceptible to serious cases of COVID. I remember thinking the same thing last year. Before the seasonal flu season, cases, hospitalizations had fallen significantly. This changed markedly beginning in November. What was also different about the months November – February? Large numbers of people had received their flu vaccines, especially those in the older age cohorts.
It takes no imagination to come up with a theory on why no such study has been done as such a study might show that the flu vaccine, in many people, might somehow cause or contributes to severe cases of COVID.
Anyway, if there is a correlation between those who have been vaccinated for the flu and adverse COVID cases, we would again expect to see a major increase in deaths and hospitalizations this winter (after most people have dutifully received their flu jabs).
What will be different this flu season is that almost everyone will have also received a COVID vaccination. I think it’s very possible that we might seen another rise in deaths and hospital admissions this season, with the flu vaccine perhaps playing some role. It would be nice if someone would provide data/statistics on severe cases among those who have received the flu vaccine and those who have not.
Here’s the excerpt that reminded me of this possible correlation:
“Flu vaccines urgent warning: Studies showing that flu vaccines increase the risk of contracting and becoming ill/dying with coronaviruses in general have been added to in the last 20 months by a number of studies also showing this to be the case for Covid in particular. It is interesting that there had been massive flu vaccination drives in both Wuhan and in the Lombardy area of Italy just before the outbreaks of Covid. These are the areas that generated the video footage that terrified the world. In my opinion, it is highly inadvisable and irrational to take a flu vaccine if you are at all concerned about contracting Covid. I wrote to Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock warning about this as soon as a flu vaccination drive was suggested in the UK in early 2020. This was ignored and articles appeared in the press dismissing the research, encouraging everyone to have a flu vaccine ‘to prevent clogging up hospital beds with flu patients’. Might some of these beds not have been needed had the flu vaccines not been administered? We won’t know, but it will be interesting to discover what proportion of people that died of Covid or became hospitalised had taken a flu jab in the previous year. Press reports confirm Boris Johnson had had a flu jab in October 2019 …
…. My anecdotal “evidence:” Even today, I only personally knew three people who have died of COVID. They were all aged 70 or older; they all died last winter, and I would bet they had all recently had the flu vaccine.
Here’s a link to the full document:
https://www.independentinformation.co.uk/resources/articles/covid-vaccines-safe-effective
I read about that in this article too. Nice to see it’s being read and shared as it really is a thoroughly good piece with many useful links to be used as a resource for our benefit.
Yes, very impressive piece of research. He obviously knows the science, but did a great job of presenting the information in terms laymen can follow.
I also agree with his conclusions about why these vaccine passports and mandatory vaccines are being pushed so hard. He thinks it’s to further the effort to get us closer to digital currency and “social credit” tracking.
“Digital currency” is a euphemism for banning cash in my opinion.
Yes I’m tending towards this theory more and more now too tbh. I also watched a great talk by the German chap, Ernst Wolff ( I think…) who seems to be of the same mindset. He gave a fascinating 30min talk which I could always find and share if you’re interested. If we’d only known in 2019 what we had in store eh? How I might have lived that year differently! :-/
They are also doing everything they can to eliminate the “placebo” groups.
Yes I agree. It seems to smack of desperation in many countries as they’re using every trick in the book, from subtle nudging to outright threats, to get as many humans jabbed asap. Then there’s ‘Prison Island’, formally known as Australia, which is on a whole different level of dehumanizing and brutality!
https://odysee.com/@LongXXvids:c/Ernst-Wolf-speech—summary:3
Nice one!
Hence also the recent rise of contactless card payments to £100.
In the U.S., there’s language in a bill right now to have the IRS notified of any transaction over $600. Throughout Europe, I think cash withdrawals above a certain figure have to be reported (as in America). You can’t travel outside the country with cash over a certain amount. They make it as hard as possible to migrate to another country (out of reach of the tax man).
They don’t care about you or me leaving. They care about you taking your money with you.
Ron Paul once made a profound statement in a presidential debate. The topic was the wall with Mexico. Said Paul: “You know walls not only keep people out; they also keep people in.”
Personally, I’m glad they only added a couple of miles of wall to the U.S. border to Mexico. One day my heirs might want to get out of this country.
all those soon to be unemployed track and trace folks can be re-employed traciking and tracing people who risk using cash.
Excellent article. I have bookmarked it.
Whipped!
I recently tried to book a physio appointment via the NHS Patient Access website. The message is that MSK staff (Musculo-skeletal) have been assigned elsewhere ‘due to Covid’.
Or could it be that they’re generally short-handed due to the pushback against mandatory jabs for healthworker employees?
Not so much the fault of covid as that of the loons who are ‘in charge’ of this fiasco.
I’m happy to wait for my physio, but what are the chances that cancer sufferers and the like will again be sidelined so as to ‘fight’ this Wu-flu?
Sorry to hear that; I’ve got a consultancy coming up with Musculo-skeleto physio department.
That referral was made by my in-hospital lymphoma Consultant which I’m beginning to think trumps GP or self referral since it’s happened before.
All of which goes to show how gullible a large part of the population are, and how little understanding they have.
Another good debunking of masks here.
https://anthonycolpo.com/covid-19-face-masks-are-not-only-useless-but-harmful-part-1/
The final video is well worth your time.
Excellent post. Thanks for the link; as you say, well worth the time to view the final video!
Definitely “worth a read” ….
Washington State’s football coach and four assistants have been fired for not getting jab.
This quote drives me mad:
“Our priority has been and will continue to be the health and well-being of the young men on our team,” said athletic director Pat Chun in a statement.”
Can any reporter at least report the number of Washington State athletes who have died or been hospitalized from COVID. The FACT is NO ATHLETE in the world has died of COVID. There is no real health risk to healthy young athletes, regardless of vaccination status. But five coaches – who were doing a great job by the way – are now out of a job.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/washington-state-coach-nick-rolovich-four-assistants-fired-for-cause-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/
8 The Matrix
7.5 the cult of Covidius
dammit, should be 8.
I expect a lockdown, all the noises for months have indicated that there is one coming and Doctator Ferguson is already calling for restrictions.
Yes, quite likely. But that will seriously damage the vaxx uptake – a lot of people, certainly those under 50, got vaxxed because it was the way out of the crisis. More of the same nonsense, along with rising ‘cases’ merely emphasises it was pointless at best and harmful at worst. Who would want to give up on the vax cash cow? And what do Western governments do with the gazillion vaxxes they bought for the future?
I just caught a headline over here that virologists are shocked that even with a positive test, people keep their green check in their vaxshist pass. Not quite sure why they are shocked – the OMT was advising back in the summer that even the double-vaxxed should test before going to big events. About 3 weeks ago the government announced that they weren’t going to modify the software, so that even if someone tested positive but was vaxxed, they could still go everywhere. The reason was clear – otherwise those still unvaxxed would not bother getting the shot.
But the new variant may come to the rescue. Alpha more infectious than original Wuhan, Delta more so than Alpha, now Delta+ even more infectious than original more infectious Delta. What happens when we hit the variant that is more infectious than the most infectious variant ever? Will that be something like a fate worse than a fate worse than death?
it’s obviously about coercing people into social credit and out of cash, it obviously is not about health.
It never was about health; social credit is definitely the end game and via that, central control over what people spend their money on. Cash will be verboten as those transactions can’t be readily traced. The excuse will be to stop tax avoidance and the black economy. Spending on items deemed as being bad for either “public health’ or ‘the environment’ will be strictly rationed via the social credit system. Welcome to the Gulag!
The Black economy matters, it’s the uncoerced un extorted one.
It has been about our health – the degradation of it, physical and mental.
I watched a segment on C-Span in the U.S. this weekend. The guest was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who wrote a big piece about how China is moving ahead of America on the transition to a “digital currency” and all the advantages this would allegedly give China.
I can now read the real intentions of such stories. This is more of the “roll out” of the digital currency “ban cash” program. Importantly, the predicate of the story was that going to digital currency is a good and smart thing and China is ahead.
If there is one prediction I am supremely confident about,it’s that the Powers that Be want to get rid of cash. Now I’m not sure this desire will be fulfilled, I just know this is what the Establishment wants to happen. And, as we should all be able to tell by now, these people usually get what they want. We know the press will do its part with stories like that referenced above.
No to your last question because as was widely predicted here and elsewhere when Variants became a thing; as each variant becomes more infectious they become less dangerous to the individual.
All viroligists know this and so will most other medical staff, journos and politicians even.
at least Latvia is doing some sums concurrent with their Lockdown, which started today.
https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/lockdown-will-cost-latvia-eur-200-million-says-finance-minister.a426280/
Life is shit enough without more restrictions but I think our only hope of victory in the short to medium term is for the Satanists to turn up the heat too much and for Joe Public to realise he’s a boiling frog.
It’s taking a long bloody time! I’m expecting a lot of double-jabbed to end up in hospital in the coming months and am hoping that that will finally wake people up. Of course, if the hospitals fill up with the dreaded flu epidemic they’ve been conveniently predicting. People won’t fall for that of course, the symptoms of severe flu and covid are so different – oh wait..
I don’t think enough people will be severely harmed by the vaccines to make a difference. But a severe, long lockdown would piss people off bigtime.
It would just take one shocking story to (maybe) nix their plan or kill all of their vaccine momentum. I think this best scenario of this actually happening would be a high-profile athlete dying from a cardiac event traced to myocarditis, which would be linked to the COVID vaccines.
There might have been a “close call” with this story of an American football player who was rushed to the hospital for “undisclosed” reasons. The lack of follow-up journalism is of course predictable if disgusting.
Anyway, if the incidence of myocarditis is significantly elvated among young males, the probability that such an event would occur on the sports fields is probably pretty high. This possibility must be keeping officials awake at night.
I have no doubt there have already been serious health events among athletes and these stories have been suppressed. But you let some athlete die on national television and I don’t know how everyone would just shrug their shoulders and no one ask what caused this death.
https://www.startribune.com/trey-potts-gophers-still-in-hospital-five-days-after-purdue-game/600104593/
Interesting thought. I fear that the same syndrome applies to both – that cognitive dissonance is resolved by belief in both – whatever the evidence.
But you’re right about the fact that most people will not come across serious adverse events. The same was true of Covid – and they still believed it was deadly. You pays your money and you picks your perception according to initial confirmation bias.
Sorry, I didn’t mean that people would end up in hospital because of the quackcines (although I do believe some have done and will continue to do so), but rather that a lot of double vaxxed will end up in hospital this winter with covid, despite being ‘fully’ vaccinated.
Right now we’re where the UK was around the middle of summer – infections/positive tests were highest in the unvaxxed in August, started to rise in vaxxed and fall in unvaxxed in September and at this point in October are coming close to 50-50. Official figures (not entirely convinced of them, but don’t think they’re totally bogus) say some 75% in hospital now are unvaxxed. As infections rise in vaxxed and fall in unvaxxed I expect hospitalisations to do the same. As we are arriving at this point just as respiratory bug season gets into gear, I suspect we may get hit harder than the UK did over the summer and that hopefully more people will wake up and wonder about a vax that not only doesn’t stop infections/transmission, but also doesn’t stop people from getting ill and going into hospital.
I’m in the NL too and I also take those figures being reported with a pinch of salt, despite being mindful to check my confirmation bias. It’s a shame they don’t have the clear and concise data like that of PHE here, as I was on the RIVM site and the page saying 75% hospitalised were unvaxxed was dated 2nd August. Surely it cannot be the same figure more than 2 months later…? I don’t really know where else to look for the detailed government figures they’re reporting in the press, and relying solely on the press is obv a mug’s game! Especially as it seems to be a universal rule to class those that have had their 2nd jab less than 2 weeks ago as “unvaccinated”, I find it hard to believe there’d be such a high % of genuinely unvaccinated people hospitalised with Covid this late in the game, esp given Delta is less deadly. Wouldn’t they have acquired it long before now?? Doesn’t add up and would love to check these reported figures that are bound to be regurgitated and used to prolong the discrimination by Rutte on 1st Nov.
The 2 August text is ridiculous, if I’m not mistaken that is on the Corona Dashboard.
The figures I quoted were on the RIVM website. Every Tuesday they give the newest figures, ‘weekly covid 19 figures’, a lot of the website is available in English and Dutch. They also give a 90 page PDF epidemological report updated every week, I think that’s only in Dutch. That one is quite detailed, although different from the UK data.
You should be able to find it under RIVM news ‘4 in 5 covid patients in ICU are not vaccinated’, that article gives you the figures I quoted. They are much better than that text from August, but they are still not complete.
To be fair, I think the figures here are more reliable than in most countries. I don’t think it’s the OMT (or not all of the OMT) that’s the biggest problem, I think it’s Rutte taking orders from Berlin/Brussels and De Jonge’s political ambitions that are the driving force behind the measures. I will never forgive that moron De Jonge and his insistence on the face diaper last autum – baat het niet dan schaadt het niet.
We had a couple from our bowling club who died last week ‘from covid’, I suspect if they carried out post mortems they would find it was ‘from vaccines’.
Ever heard the saying two cheeks of the same ass? I’d like to slap both cheeks of this ass.
Boris Johnson And Bill Gates Talk ‘Sacrifice A Goat’ / Hugo Talks #lockdown
I don’t know how many they asked but they didn’t survey me.. No doubt it was another carefully selected sample of results and a load of useless computer modelling (also known as guessing) to generate the results. It’s nonsense.
3 people replied all against it but we modelled another 500 people who were all for what we got paid to
promotesurveyAre these WFH,’Brits’. Cut their salaries and see if they still want to WFH
2,103 Adults interviewed = meaningless = you can make nothing of such a low sample. Here’s one for you 2,103 adults were interviewed for Newsnight on whether the Prime minister is doing a good job, 48.5 % said he was.
‘The survey, by Savanta ComRes, found that 49% believe there will be further lockdowns, with 74% concerned about another virus wave this winter. Fears are highest amongst those aged over 55, at 78%.’
Granting the veracity of this (I haven’t ‘clicked’ the link), since this shitshow began I have been disappointed in, and frankly gobsmacked at, the level of fear and compliance from the older generation(s), a generally rational and well educated demographic, who ought to know a thing or two about the immune system and, more importantly, possess a meaningful philosophy.
Anyway, that’s not what I’m here for. I trotted over to share a video I just watched. Now, I have no earthly idea who Jimmy Dore is, but he has helpfully compiled a montage of the great and the good flatly contradicting themselves with regard to ‘masks’ and ‘vaccines’.
Watching the video, what mostly screamed out to me was, What in the world could make these people contradict themselves to this extent in such a short space of time other than a great big metaphorical hand up their backsides?
https://youtu.be/gD9YmiGVEkA
I reckon there will be a final lockdown that will pave way to the implementation of the Social Credit vaxport.
They’ll tell us that there’s too few vaXXXed people and the only option left is to lock us down again. They’ll say we need the 3rd shot to save Christmas and they will roll out the vaxport to ensure uptake.
As noted last week, I have seen the helicopter delivering patients to the local hospital again – this only ever seems to happen in the weeks leading up to lockdown. I’m very sure another one is on its way.
Feeling ‘done’ with it all? Fancy a positive spin? We’re all frustrated at the irrationality and absurdiry of it all, aren’t we?
Consider this. While we are living in truly absurd and crazy times, we are also living in interesting, exciting, and historical times (truly, in the sense that historians and laymen of the future will marvel at and teach against our actions for decades and centuries to come). Our children and grandchildren (and beyond) will reap the benefits of our monumental errors. Society will flourish once again.
Think of your children and grandchildren. They will reap the benefits of our horrific error. This will not be repeated for a very long time.
That’s certainly a “glass half full” take. I hope you are right, but I’m not sure. One would also think that society would have learned from what took place in Nazi Germany regarding the threat of evil totalitarian rulers. One might think that enough people had read and appreciated Orwell’s 1984 to make enough people never want to go to this place.
That is, I’m not sure future generations actually do learn the appropriate lessons from history.
Also, as a society we are becoming even more “dumbed down” and the tools of complete control might even be more efficient so it’s possible the future will be even bleaker.
I also don’t rule out global nuclear war. As societies implode and rulers become more tyrannical and paranoid, a global apocalypse might be more likely than it’s ever been. Wars are often used as distractions from economic and social upheaval.
‘That’s certainly a “glass half full” take.’
It is, Bill, and it took me the best part of a bottle of Glenfiddich to get there.
‘One would also think that society would have learned from what took place in Nazi Germany regarding the threat of evil totalitarian rulers.’
it did (to a point), hence such things as the ECHR.
‘One might think that enough people had read and appreciated Orwell’s 1984 to make enough people never want to go to this place.’
I hear you, but that’s a book.
‘That is, I’m not sure future generations actually do learn the appropriate lessons from history.’
They do. It just depends on to what extent/how long.
‘I also don’t rule out global nuclear war. As societies implode and rulers become more tyrannical and paranoid, a global apocalypse might be more likely than it’s ever been. Wars are often used as distractions from economic and social upheaval.’
Ultimately, God is in control.
Again, you may be right. I hope you are – some good might come out of all of this. We are all definitely living through historic times. “Historic” in the sense that something big is happening (has changed).
1. Historically speaking, of course I’m right.
2. Indeed, my friend. Something very big is happening, hence my proposition that we are living in truly ‘historic’ times.
I’ve had the same thought. One always wonders how they would have responded if they were living through big historic moments. For example, if I was living in Germany in 1933 would I have sat back and said nothing about what was happening in my country or would I have risked my neck or life to sound the alarm and try to stop it? Well, I might be living in similar times so I guess I will see.
Well put, my friend.
And the teaching unions are the reason for the “dumbed down” population
I’ve come to believe the effort to “dumb down” the population was also intentional. If I am correct, that’s some long-range planning right there.
There will be FA to repeat in an Orwellian society peopled largely by slaves.
I’d bet on a further lock up for sure. They haven’t bumped off enough elderly and vulnerable yet, so another lock up with astronomical gas, electric and fuel prices despite pensions being decimated (and no furlough), plus monster colds/flu should do the trick.
The next lockdown is to protect the politicians from an angry population, I suspect.
To give them enough time to make their escapes.
Results from 2,103 extrapolated to population of over 66,000,000 produces a load of rubbish.
Leading questions instead of open ones – garbage in, escalated by algorithms and fly-tipped everywhere by modelling – maximised garbage out.
Opinion about what government will do and opinion about virus are separate issues. Survey assumes they’re not separate.
As someone said: ‘assumptions are the mother of all chaos’.
I’ve been of the opinion for many years that it’s government that needs restricting
If you ASSUME it makes an ASS out of U and ME
Yep. Lots of false assumptions. Most of “conventional wisdom” is either completely wrong, or at least dubious or debatable. Of course we are now told we can’t even debate these topics or present information that challenges conventional wisdom.
Those who think the worst is yet to come are concerned about the carnage caused by the jab and the numbers of deaths coming down the road. We know when the eugenicist government and their globalists cannot hide the genocide any longer there will be anger and fear like never before. THAT’s what we are really concerned about because lockdown will be swift and total.
many of us just cannot believe that so many people are still walking around thinking this flu is really dangerous and they need more and more vaccines.
They will try, they will definitely try. The sheep will follow for sure. But it’s up to the rest of us to fight back, ignore it all and pushback hard, verry hard.