In 2016, the Leave campaign won the Brexit referendum under the immortal slogan ‘Take Back Control’. It worked because everyone knew what it meant: if we left the EU, Britain would regain sovereignty over her laws, trade policy, and most importantly, her borders. Amongst the 52% of the country that voted Leave, immigration was the largest single concern. After three years of gridlock from Remainer parliaments, Boris Johnson campaigned in 2019 under another three-word slogan, to “Get Brexit Done”. The stonking mandate he won again reflected the Brexit coalition’s desire for low and controlled immigration. “Overall numbers will come down,” pledged the Tories’ winning manifesto.
Yet what happened was precisely the opposite. After a brief fall during the 2020 Covid lockdowns, immigration skyrocketed to unprecedented levels, with more than a million visas being issued annually. From 2021-2023, Britain added three cities the size of Birmingham to its population in as many years. Far from being economic rocket fuel, the majority of these arrivals under our post-Brexit “points-based system” were low skilled, with many bringing dependents. According to Karl Williams at the Centre for Policy Studies, just 5% of visas went to migrants that could be expected to be net tax contributors. Brexit voters unhappy with demographic change had wanted lower immigration and for it to be from more culturally aligned countries; instead, the numbers more than doubled, with arrivals coming largely from outside Europe.
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It makes no difference what the Conservatives say at the moment.
They blew £500Bn on a common cold coronavirus and stuffed the country in so many different ways.
The next step in this country’s rebirth is the demolition of the labour party at the polls, already started…
What happens thereafter, as with all revolutions, is unpredictable.
Reform have jettisoned their most capable operatives and, as a consequence, have no idea how to run a whelk stall, very much as with UKIP before them.
Bless ’em all……….
Yes the Corona Medical Nazism. Viruses are fantasies, used to produce poisons, profits and totalitarianism. Doris happily went along – making money one assumes and getting paid off by Pfizer – like they all did.
Borders wide open, a half assed Brexit, Net zero, woke support etc. the Convict party is no better than the Communist-Labour cult.
Doris should be in jail.
“They blew £500Bn on a common cold coronavirus and stuffed the country in so many different ways.”
This was the case in many countries. Africa was hit particularly hard which is causing a lot of the issues with migration. It all looked deliberately destructive.
Occam’s Razor suggests that the simplest explanation is usually the best, and when faced with a choice between a “cock-up” and a conspiracy theory, Occam’s Razor leans towards the cock-up. Conspiracy theories often involve complex, far-fetched explanations, while cock-ups can just be the result of sheer stupidity:
‘In a wide-ranging interview in the New York Times, Melinda Gates made the following remarkable statement: ‘What did surprise us is we hadn’t really thought through the economic impacts’
‘It’s a maddening statement, to be sure, as if “economics” is somehow a peripheral concern to the rest of human life and public health.
The larger context of the interview reveals the statement to be even more confused.
She is somehow under the impression that it is the pandemic and not the lockdowns that are the cause of the economic devastation…..she very carefully crafts her words to avoid the crucial subject of lockdowns as the primary cause of economic disaster.’
‘…her comments provide a perfect illustration of the core problem all along: most of the people who have been advocating lockdowns in fact have no actual experience in managing pandemics. To many of these, Covid-19 became their new playground to try out an unprecedented experiment in social and economic management.’
‘There are plenty of specialists who have lived through pandemics in the past and managed them by maintaining essential social and economic functioning. A major case in point is Donald A. Henderson, who as head of the World Health Organization is given primary credit for the eradication of smallpox. He wrote as follows in 2006:
Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted. Strong political and public health leadership to provide reassurance and to ensure that needed medical care services are provided are critical elements…..’
The authors of the Great Barrington Declaration never had any doubt that eventually most everyone would come to see that the traditional principles of public health prevail over the previously untested and now failed policy of lockdowns. They spoke out when they did as a means of forcing the issue…….Now if we could only get Melinda Gates to see it.’
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/we-hadnt-really-thought-through-the-economic-impacts-melinda-gates/
Additionally, Britain’s SARS CoV 2 strategy was being dictated by those (Whitty, Ferguson, Farrar) who actually had managed an epidemic and were suffering from the hubris of success which often leads specialists to believe their narrowly focused skills have wider applications:
‘This article sets out the scientific basis for the UK government’s strategy to assist Sierra Leone’s government to reduce transmission. In addition to substantially scaling up conventional capacities at hospitals, we plan to help to build and support community isolation centres where people can voluntarily come to be isolated if they suspect that they have the disease. These interventions represent uncertain ground, but hesitation is more dangerous
than trying out potentially ineffective methods (see ‘Delays mean more deaths’). Climbing rates of infection could soon overwhelm Sierra Leone’s already challenged health service….’
Sounds familiar? It should do. It was written by Whitty, Farrar and Ferguson in 2014:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268234833_Infectious_disease_Tough_choices_to_reduce_Ebola_transmission
Authors:
‘ Christopher J. M. Whitty is chief scientific adviser at the UK Department for
International Development. Jeremy Farrar is director of the Wellcome Trust in
London, UK. Neil Ferguson is professor of mathematical biology at Imperial
College London, UK. John Edmunds is professor of infectious-disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Peter Pi ot is director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Melissa L each is director of the Institute for Development Studies in Brighton, UK. Sally C. Davies is chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser at the UK Department of Health.’
I love the truism that no country ever improves the health of it’s citizens by making itself poorer.
A strong economy benefits everyone and if a few rich people get a bit richer, then that’s fine with me.
True. It makes no difference what they say or who their leader is because almost nobody trusts them to keep their word. (Labour has dug itself into the same hole with their lies, token manifesto pledges.)
I think the Conservative Party will go the way of the Liberal Party in the 1920s, to become the rump of the political system, with a handful of seats. They may join up with the Liberal Democrats, this later being a merger of the old Liberal Party and the new Social Democrat Party if the 1970s.
Doesn’t make it any better but we weren’t alone in loosing our collective minds.
Meanwhile back in June 2019…
“…I was Boris Johnson’s boss: he is utterly unfit to be prime minister:”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/boris-johnson-prime-minister-tory-party-britain
“The Tories have elevated a cavorting charlatan to the steps of Downing Street, and they should expect to pay a full forfeit when voters get the message.“
Lord Frost seems to have conveniently forgotten about Covid tyranny and the costs of that as well as Bunters obsession with the Net Zero scam.
Indeed. Whilst not a fan of Boris, I do feel a tiny, teeny little bit sorry for him as all he wanted was a glorious Brexit and what he got was a very shitty COVID stick. I thought just hit me – is his wish to make a comeback because Trump was in the same place and he’s got a second chance?
I agree with Lord Frost’s assessment that there’s no point voting Fake Conservative. I would take issue with this statement:
“I’ve said before that I think the actual error was not so much the initial decisions on visas and immigration in 2020 and early 2021 because we were in the middle of a massive economic shock through Covid.”
“Covid” did not cause a “massive economic shock” and even if it did, why would importing millions of aliens help?
Totally bonkers.
They tell everyone to stay at home because, you know, otherwise they might die, or worse still kill someone by breathing on them, but then… bring people in from overseas to do the work of the people that have been told to stay at home? So they’re not at risk of dying or killing someone by breathing on them?
It’s completely mental. Do any of these people realise how insane they are?
I don’t see the logic at all. Would love to grill him on this. He seems to have a modicum of sense. He probably thinks immigration is OK as long as it’s done properly. I disagree.
The only kind of immigration that works is the type that isn’t “done” at all. I mean specifically that immigration should “just happen”, as a result of what would normally be an inevitably small number of individuals who arrive via their own efforts alone and wish to immediately integrate completely and therefore play by the rules of that country (i.e. not the ones either imported en masse via state-sponsored rackets, or tempted in by aggressive, deceptive state-sponsored overseas advertising).
In times of war, it gets tricky, of course. But that is not what is under discussion, in the main. And in those times of war, it should be the neighbouring countries which should step up first. Like the French who – while being cautious of being overrun culturally – still managed to provide sanctuary to the many Spaniards who fled Franco during the Retirada. That was a dirty time…
I recommend reading Love and War in The Pyrenees, by Rosemary Bailey. I admit to not having yet read it myself, but the better half has.
Totally agree.
Thanks for the tip on that book, will keep a lookout for it.
Well, they had to replace the 40,000 British/settled Care Workers who refused to be forced into participating in the mass medical experiment and who either resigned or got sacked for believing in their bodily autonomy and the Nuremberg Code.
Tory Mistake? No, it was deliberate.
Good point about the care workers. Agree it was deliberate. And of course the policy of importing cheap labour going back more than half a century was also deliberate. As you sow, so shall you reap.
It wasn’t Tory “failures on immigration.” It was an arrogant and deliberate betrayal of the people who, as Johnson acknowledged, “lent the Tories their votes.”
That’s why Badenough’s apologies for Tory “mistakes” are being ignored. People know they weren’t mistakes; it was deliberate and that means they can never be trusted again.
It will be terminal for the Treacherous Tories.
If Boris returns as the leader of the “Tory” party, that will finish both him and whatever remains of the “Tory” party.
Let’s do it!
Richard Tice is David Cameron 2 and Farage is Boris 2, complete with the faux patriotic “look at me, I’m backing Blighty act”. Farage mentioned the latest Brexit sell out by Starmer right at last minute, even though Ben Habib and Andrew Bridgen have been warning about it for ages.
Reform are Fake Conservatives 2
Hard to tell. You could very well be right.
I think the bigger problem is that whether they mean it or not now, the establishment would do a phenomenal job of grinding any momentum for change down so in the end you would struggle to know whether they meant what they promised but just couldn’t get it done or didn’t mean it at all.
Brexit itself is the perfect example. The establishment from day one sabotaged the project and are getting their way. Did the Brexit leaders – Farage, Johnson, Gove – mean it or was it all fake?
Just llok at what the US establishment has done to Musk.
At this point, the system. Is beyond redemption. It’ll just have to rot away or collapse.
Boris has a long-standing reputation for being lazy and unreliable. Was Boris in charge, any more than Biden? There are numerous indications that the Blob ran the country, ignoring the views of elected politicians and the voters.
Quite. My politics have always been Classic Liberalism – according to Wikipedia:
free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under the rule of law, with special emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech.
This has not been part of UK politics for some considerable time. The Conservatives were closest for a while but eventually they too succumbed to the Blob.
So yes, if you want to control immigration, if you want to get rid of Net Zero, if you want to get taxes down, all this sort of thing you also have to defang the Blob. A tough task, but not impossible.
I was chatting to another doctor yesterday, in a completely different field from my general practice and married to another medic. Like me, they both immediately saw the nonsense of everything in the COVID response – naff modelling, lockdowns, useless mass testing, psyops, statistical manipulation, censorship of clinicians, experimental (and formerly discredited) mRNA “vaccines,” vaccine passports, etc, etc. Like me they were not alternative medicine outliers, but drew conclusions simply from their standard professional expertise. Like me they wrote repeatedly to their MP and got boilerplate crap in reply.
So it must have taken considerable effort to persuade even the bulk of the medical profession that any of the economy-destroying response was in any way justifiable. It took concerted propaganda, organised internationally, which is further ammunition for the conclusion that the whole response was biodefence-led in response to a bioweapons leak, and had nothing to do with public health.
The degree to which the leak was accidental or deliberate, and the degree to which the response was incompetent panic that their virus was more potent than it actually was, whilst covering their tracks, or else a deliberate campaign to remake the world, remains debatable.
The immigration debacle following leaves the alternatives of moronic incompetence or demonic malice, even after all this time, hard to distinguish. But let’s not forget that behind – or more plausibly above – the political establishment lies an entirely unaccountable complex of intelligence mafiosi and billionaire ideologues.
The Covid scam was to push experimental batches of Mrna jabs for a virus that was 98% survivable. These batches were deliberately made more or less toxic to see the effect on those that were forced or persuaded to have them. I am not sure your medical chums have understood what was really happening .
The election of yet another fake Tory as leader was one betrayal too far for me. Voting Reform in local elections proved remarakably painless, especially as the local candidate won (from a prior support base of zero) and the party took a clean sweep of all seven wards in North Warwickshire.
Jacob, Suella and Lord David just do it and switch! You are not the traitors in the Conservative Party.
For me, the real fraud we are sold each year is net migration. This is a rubbish statistic used by corrupt politicians to deceive the population. We need to know how the demographic of the country is changing and only gross migration gives us that data. Equally, we need to know how many come into the country of working age and how many leave of working age. If 90% of those leaving are retirees, we shouldn’t need huge numbers of immigrants to replace them in the workforce. Also, if those emigrants are retaining property in the UK, then the gross migration figure becomes even worse, because even more houses will need to be built. I am sure there is somewhere we can do the deep diving on the data, but suspect no Government would want the truth out there. It’s like the lie that we need massive immigration to support the health and care industries, when roughly 5% of those coming in over the last five years have been on healthcare visas. The immigration industry, left and right, are deceiving us to destroy our nation
100%
So 2020 we were locked up then in 2021 to 2023 Bojoke let 3 million people into the uk ! This must prove there was no health scare & he is working for higher powers ( + probably wasn’t ill either )
I have lived here for 27 yrs and witnessed one incompetent prime minister after another. Which leads me to ask, are there any competent people to lead this country? If so, who are they and where are they? It really is not that hard.