One story dominates the news and it isn’t “English Tourism Week“, which started today. The Prime Minister’s efforts to draw a line under the Dominic Cummings’ affair yesterday by declaring he had done nothing wrong and he was standing by him were not successful. If anything, they just emboldened his chief advisor’s critics. If they could now force Boris to do a U-turn they would succeed in weakening him as well as burying Dom. The airwaves this morning were dominated by the same coalition of politicians and commentators that supported the Remain side in the EU Referendum, sniffing an opportunity to take revenge on their two greatest foes.
This afternoon at 4.30pm Cummings took the unusual step of holding a press conference in the Downing Street rose garden, beginning with him reading a lengthy statement explaining why his behaviour was “reasonable” in the circumstances. Turns out, he didn’t make a second visit to his parents’ farm in Durham; rather, he remained there for two weeks while he, his wife and his four year-old son battled with illness. He wasn’t staying in the same household as his parents, or his sister, but a separate cottage on the family farm, and he didn’t come within two metres of any members of the public. His reason for driving to Barnard Castle was to see if he was fit enough to make the longer drive to London; it wasn’t for sightseeing purposes. As far as he was concerned, his behaviour was “reasonable” because he was doing whatever was necessary to protect his child.
Will this be enough to save him?
According to some lockdown zealots, Boris’s refusal to throw Cummings under a bus will “cost lives”. That was what Stephen Reicher, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of St Andrews and a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), a sub-group of the Strategic Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), told Sky News. “More people are going to die” because Cummings is still in post, he said.
One Cabinet source told the Telegraph: “The discussion among Cabinet ministers at the moment is that this will cost lives. People will look at this and decide that if Dom can ignore the rules so can they, and the consequence of that will be that people get infected who would have otherwise stayed at home. This has massively undermined the lockdown message.”
For lockdown sceptics, of course, that’s all the more reason to applaud the Prime Minister for standing by Cummings.
“Boris has put his credibility and the Government’s credibility on the line by sticking up for Dom,” a senior Tory source told the Telegraph. “How can we tell people they must abide by the lockdown now? The lockdown is effectively over because this makes it unenforceable.”
We can but hope.
My view is that Cummings’s behaviour complied with the letter, if not the spirit, of the rules. I don’t think he should be punished for this, not least because that will confirm people’s mistaken view that travelling across the country to visit their relatives will “cost lives”. It will embolden the finger-waggers and tell-tales, encouraging them to inform on other miscreants and probably prolong the lockdown – and that is what will cost lives, as we sceptics know only too well. I’m thinking of the recent interview on ABC News with some doctors in Northern California saying the rise in suicides since the state was shutdown on March 19th has killed more people than the virus. The same is true of Tennessee and no doubt other US states too. A report compiled by Just Facts at the beginning of the month estimated that anxiety alone will result in at least seven times the loss of life than can possibly be prevented by the shutdowns. Seven times was the low end. The high end was 90 times.
But in the grander scheme of things, it’s difficult to have much sympathy for Cummings. As more than one reader has pointed out, he was Boris’s chief adviser when the Prime Minister embraced what may well turn out to be the most damaging and costly policy in British history. That was confirmed by Cummings in the Downing Street rose garden this afternoon. “The truth is, I’d argued for lockdowns,” he said. “I did not oppose the policy.”
Perhaps the Government’s initial decision to place the country under lockdown is understandable, given the apocalyptic predictions it was being presented with by Professor Neil Ferguson and others, talking about “the science”. But given the weight of later evidence, strongly implying that that Ferguson’s doomsday predictions were exaggerated, not to have immediately eased the lockdown is unforgivable. Cummings has to accept some of the responsibility for that.
The mastermind of Brexit once talked, very persuasively, of “taking back control” from a centre-left, technocratic elite whose policies (such as the creation of the single currency) have wreaked great damage in Europe. In the UK, the same people have presided over a massive transfer of power from the British Parliament to unelected officials in Brussels and elsewhere, all in the name of “progress”. Cummings gave many people hope, including me, that this trend would be reversed, and the success of the Conservatives at the last General Election seemed to confirm that faith. Yet the lockdown policy has handed these same ham-fisted “experts” and bureaucrats unparalleled power and allowed them to do more harm on a grander scale than ever before. Our civil rights have been suspended, Parliament has effectively been mothballed and freeborn Englishmen have been treated with the same arrogant contempt as always. In short, Cummings has not “taken back control” from the metropolitan, liberal elite. Over the last two months, he has handed back control to them.
Lockdown Blowback in Bangladesh
I got an email this morning from a donor, explaining the catastrophic impact of the lockdown on his business and the knock-on effect for his migrant workers and their families:
I am by no means the first to call attention to the millions who will die in poorer countries because of our lockdown and our obsession with a relatively small death count here at home. I have first-hand knowledge of this knock-on effect. I employ a number of Bangladeshi workers in a fish-trading business in the Maldives. Their salaries sustain large families back home. Dim-witted policies like inbound quarantine have now extended the block on tourist travel to the Maldives, so there is no one to eat our fish.
I am trying to keep the Bangladeshi boys on even with no business coming in, but our cash flow forecast says we will run out of cash at the end of July. The situation is made worse by their relatives back home who work in garment factories having been laid off because big buyers like Top Shop and Next have stopped placing orders. These families will come very close to starvation and disease will start to cull the least strong. The relatively minor risk of getting an illness which most people recover from quite quickly pales into insignificance beside the massive knock-on effects the lockdown policy creates. And I speak as an 80 year-old who is firmly in the so-called high-risk category.
A Thunderer from Brendan O’Neill in Spiked
There’s a humdinger of a column by Brendan O’Neill in Spiked today. He detects a growing disconnect between the fealty people pay to lockdown orthodoxy when asked about it by pollsters or journalists doing vox pops and their actual behaviour, in which they regularly flout the rules.
The disconnect between public backing for the lockdown and (anonymous) public breaking of the lockdown is fascinating. It suggests there is a significant minority of what we might call shy libertines out there – people who have been exercising their freedom in defiance of the strict rules but who are shy about saying so. They live part of their life outside the lockdown, but they tell pollsters the lockdown is great and must continue.
He argues that we need to empower these shy libertines so they feel more confident about challenging Covid orthodoxy:
Covid conformism must be confronted. In their echo chambers, where they’re all trying to outdo each other in their levels of commitment to smashing Covid, the political and media elites have become increasingly blinkered, dogmatic and intolerant on everything related to COVID-19. The lack of relaxed, freely stated opposition to their lockdown mania means they become madder and madder in their commitment to it. The corrosion of freedom of thought in relation to COVID-19 has deadly consequences, because it means the lockdown endures – nine weeks now – when many people know in their heart of hearts that it is wrong and deeply damaging to the future of this country.
Worth reading in full.
A Contrary Point of View
I get surprisingly few emails from defenders of the lockdown. But I do get the occasional one, such as this one from a former epidemiologist who posts as djaustin in the comment threads:
Whether people choose to accept it or not, cases were doubling at the time of lockdown every three days and deaths every two (my comment under Djaustin has the numbers for you). Whilst models might have predicted the four horsemen were soon to arrive, even simple extrapolations showed that we were in a bad place and that healthcare would be swamped within a couple of weeks. Forget the 500k deaths, micro Simulation models etc… Robust decisions are insensitive to assumptions. This point has been lost in the noise. Early in an epidemic all one can know is the rate of doubling.
As for “Does the lockdown work?”, well there is ample evidence on the way DOWN that the harder the lockdown, the shorter the time to halve cases and deaths. Spain is declining faster than Italy and UK, which are in turn declining faster than Sweden. These are the facts. The debate is really what level of infection can reasonably be sustained? How low should cases fall before we adopt the (probably fortuitous) Sweden experience of static population burn (albeit at a much slower rate than they expected). Should eradication of this new pathogen be a goal?
I’m a mathematician, scientist, former epidemiologist, and now work on COVID-19 new treatments. I generally disagree with your political stance and the incumbent Government. However, with regards to the scientific method and scepticism, I agree that one should be sceptical. I believe that when the data is analysed carefully (which I have done since mid-March), there is evidence that lockdown has had some impact, both on peak and rate of decline. The questions regarding cost, ethics, liberties and so on are valid, but the science is clear.
We currently have approximately 60k excess deaths, more than any bad influenza year from 2010-19. These excess deaths are nicely correlated with COVID-19 deaths In timing and magnitude, and will soon be back to weekly baseline. The bigger questions, which I think your site should ask, are why we were not encouraged to act more responsibly and earlier (as in Germany). Clearly this has given Germany more options on the way down.
A Good Reason For Not Sending Your Child Back to School?
I got an email from a grandpa, worried that his granddaughter, who’s in Reception, won’t be returning to school on June 1st:
Had an interesting conversation with my daughter on Zoom last night. She’s not sending her daughter back to school. It’s nothing to do with the risk of catching Covid which she fully accepts is negligible.
No, she doesn’t want her daughter to be taught in an atmosphere of “silly” social distancing which she thinks will stop her daughter playing with her mates properly.
She also doesn’t want her being taught by teachers wearing masks and rubber gloves which she believes will scare the children.
Finally, she doesn’t want her to suffer the indignity of being sent home because she has had an unexpected “accident”.
She says she’s going to wait until September when she hope things have calmed down and got a bit more sensible.
What sort of world are we living in?
It’s Worse in Scotland
I get quite a few emails from readers telling me that as bad as things are in England, they’re worse in Scotland under Kim Sturge-on. This one, from a donor, is typical:
In Scotland, the situation for anyone who is pro-free enterprise is even worse than in England as our First Minister makes unchallenged assertions to UK network journalists who are not well-briefed enough to respond. Meanwhile, our domestic institutions are starting to resemble a one-party state. You will no doubt have seen the story in the Times today about STV publishing videos of children praising our glorious Nicola. Scotland is so poisoned that even a pandemic has constitutional overtones. But the point about the lockdown is the same as for the rest of the UK. It is an irrational and catastrophic reaction that has destroyed lives in ways more insidious than the virus itself.
Some Hope For Parents of Newborns
A reader has got in touch who is friends with a registrar in her county with news of a possible loophole to get your newborn registered (I flagged up this problem yesterday):
It is indeed true that birth registrations have been on hold. But apparently parents can demand registration by a special dispensation. Most people don’t know about this and councils haven’t publicised it.
Usually births, marriages and deaths have to be registered in person. Procedures have been in place to register deaths, but there is now a backlog of births. My friend estimates about 2000 in our county alone.
Postcard From Sri Lanka
A few weeks ago we published a “Poscard From Spain” by a reader and today I’m publishing a “Postcard from Sri Lanka” by another. This one is from Omar Kahn, a global consultant who’s been locked down in the country the the past nine weeks. Here’s a taste of the Sri Lankian authorities’ response:
At the time of the curfew, Lanka had 66 cases of Covid-19, with seven fatalities. One month on, post curfew, there have been 271 cases and… wait for it… seven fatalities! But rather than throwing a success party, the authorities decided to double down, even though it was now clear that the healthcare system wasn’t being overwhelmed and that the fatality needle hadn’t budged. No one is quite sure why the most draconian option was chosen and then manically sustained, except that we all mistakenly thought that this was an “equal opportunity” virus, and it’s not. The fatality numbers testify to that, and some regions are relatively far less scathed than others, which clearly hasn’t always been down to the brilliance of their response. But as per all the model-spinners and prognosticators, it was only a matter of time before things exploded here. As of today, the fatalities up to nine, and we have been curfewed longer than Wuhan was economically shut down.
Worth reading in full.
Round-Up
And on to the round-up of all the stories I’ve noticed, or which have been been brought to my attention, in the last 24 hours:
- ‘How scared should we be?‘ – Decent piece by the Nick Triggle, the BBC’s Health Correspondent, on the need to balance risk as we emerge from lockdown
- ‘Coronavirus data prove Australia is in Asia‘ – Professor Ramesh Thakur becomes a “graphodisiac” to prove lockdowns don’t work
- ‘A short guide to justifying re-lockdown‘ – Heather Mac Donald in the Spectator USA on how those who forecast doom after Georgia eased its lockdown last month have been proved wrong
- ‘Universities are pressing the self-destruct button‘ – Joanna Williams in Spiked on the perfect storm facing Britain’s universities and their failure to do anything about it
- ‘Rand Paul Confronts Dr. Fauci to His Face, Exposes Truth About Modeling‘ – Clash between the libertarian and the public health panjandrum. Still on YouTube, remarkably
- ‘An Orgy of Plague Death, Deferred‘ – Noah Rothman in Commentary on the fact that the governors of Georgia and Florida got it right – deaths haven’t increased since they eased their lockdowns last month
- ‘Native American casinos roll the dice on reopening‘ – Article in the Times about Native American casinos reopening
- ‘Combat and team sports receive the go-ahead for full-contact training‘ – The Telegraph reveals the Premier League has been given the green light to resume full-contact training. Does this mean we can all abandon the two-metre rule?
- ‘WA Premier Mark McGowan announces school attendance will become compulsory from Monday‘ – The Premier of Western Australia has declared that school attendance is now compulsory. Can Education Secretary Gavin Williamson take a leaf out of his book?
- ‘Covid-19 could hasten rise of the robots as companies seek to cut expensive labour costs‘ – No surprise there
- ‘Lockdown restrictions to be eased, allowing more social contact and shops to reopen‘ – Telegraph reports Boris Johnson is planning to reveal we’re doing well enough to move to “phase two” of the lockdown easing, but those plans may have been derailed by Cummings-gate
- ‘Abe Declares End to Japan Emergency And Seeks to Boost Economy‘ – The Prime Minister of Japan is ending the lockdown, according to Bloomberg
- ‘Dreaming of a Visit to Japan? The Government Might Pay for Half of Your Trip to Jumpstart Tourism‘ – And thanks to the above news, there’s all the more reason to take advantage of this offer
- ‘My plan for reopening Wetherspoon pubs‘ – The redoubtable Tim Martin is champing at the bit to reopen his pubs. More power to his elbow
- ‘Eleven reasons why COVID-19 won’t usher in a socialist Britain‘ – Tim Walsh delivers the
goodbad news in the Telegraph. Will come as a disappointment to my left-wing readers - ‘Closures looming over Pizza Express‘ – Another beloved high street chain about to go to the wall, says the Times
Theme Tune Suggestions
Some more suggestions for theme songs from readers: “Libera Nos (Deliver Us)” by The Sixteen, “Keep Your Distance” by Richard Thompson, and, for Dom, “Where do you go to my Lovely?” by Peter Sarstedt and “Six Days on the Road” by Dave Dudley.
Small Businesses That Have Reopened
Last week, Lockdown Sceptics launched a searchable directory of open businesses across the UK. The idea is to celebrate those retail and hospitality businesses that have reopened, as well as help people find out what has opened in their area. But we need your help to build it, so we’ve created a form you can fill out to tell us about those businesses that have opened near you. Please visit the page and let us know about those brave folk who are doing their bit to get our country back on its feet.
And try to avoid getting too irritated by the over-the-top social distancing procedures some retailers are putting in place. One reader has complained about the absurdly elaborate rules her local garden centre has imposed, including:
- Please have a shopping list ready before entry, we cannot allow for prolonged visits and wandering.
- If we suspect any illness, we have the right to refuse entry.
- Do not touch any products that you are not purchasing.
- When at the tills, wait to be called forward by a cashier. Once called, push your trolley into the taped area in front of the till. Then stand in the taped waiting box whilst the cashier stands your items. You will then be called forward to pay once the cashier is safely behind their screen.
- CARD PAYMENTS ONLY!
- Vacate the exit area immediately.
On the plus side, the same reader says other shops in her neighbourhood are being more reasonable:
A local grocer has a simple sign outside his shop saying: ‘Only five people at a time’. (It’s not a big shop – I can’t remember ever seeing more than five people in there at any one time.)
Shameless Begging Bit
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And Finally…
This meme has been doing the rounds for a while, but I thought it particularly appropriate today after watching the press pack hound Dominic Cummings and whip up public anger against him. I know what it’s like to be pursued by an outrage mob and it aint pretty. Whatever you think of the rights and wrongs of the matter, no one deserves this.
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Lesson 1 in how to ensure workers continue to work from home and entirely bankrupt the rail services.
Way to go rail unions. Dumb union leaders who can’t think their way out a wet paper bag.
Followed swiftly by:
You would imagine that might be a clue to the utterly dense union leaders, but no, it’s the well worn extortion tactics that appeals to them. It’s all they know.
Was it union action that helped get you your pension?
Probably/almost certainly, several decades ago, but something happened to unions in the last few decades and they do seem to have become corrupted/self-interested as organisations … perhaps as a result of Thatcher’s attack on them … or perhaps because, as Ivan Illich has written about, institutions almost always tend towards having a life of their own, including prioritising their own survival, an agenda which takes over the individuals working in them.
Thatcher didn’t attack the unions, she confronted them.
When I first started working I was required to regularly visit nationalised industries.
It was shocking how many workers were idle for most of the day. Literally sitting around drinking tea. All unionised, usually closed shops, and the union leaders literally extorting money from workers, openly stealing as much as they wanted whilst management watched, and choosing their own hours to work (very few).
I remember when Maggie died, she was defended by the writer Ian McEwan, who produced a list of totally idiotic BS regulations that she had abolished. McEwan, as I understand, was no fan of Mrs T. But he had sense enough to recognise that she had made many lives easier by hacking away red tape.
No. It was investment action.
The money pumped into the railways went to the private companies running the trains.
Why shouldn’t railway workers/employees ask for more money and better working conditions? With the cost of petrol having risen by 70%, a 10% pay rise isn’t going to cover that!
Of course they should ask.
The issue is what happens when they don’t get it.
An adult would look for better work elsewhere. An entitled infant would throw its toys out of the pram and demand to be paid to do nothing.
Actually the subsidies for the rail industry went into land-title prices near train stations.
They’re too busy working out how to increase their already obscene salary levels
all part of plan to make sure that you don’t go further than 5 k from your home
And… it’s another government exercise in creating the illusion of consensus:
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/companion-animal-welfare-and-sentience/consultation-on-cat-and-dog-microchipping-leg/
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/cat-and-dog-microchipping-consultation
First they came for the dogs (etc), then they came for the cats (etc) then they came for me….
Closing Friday 20th May.
And also… it’s another rabbit hole.
https://catsherdyou.com/pet-microchips-cancer-know-facts/
Now that’s interesting.
Dont forget the key role the treasonous Police are playing in the roll out of microchipping animals, clearly a precursor to warm people up to be chipped themselves, as we observe taking place in Sweden. This is an agenda. Full stop. And we see the Police running relentless terrorism campaigns about DOG CRIME IS ON THE INCREASE. Hands up who is NOT aware that DOG CRIME IS ON THE INCREASE. Weve all seen the signs. Weve all seen the news reports. Its all coming from the Police – a FREEMASONIC ORGANISATION WORKING TOWARDS THE GOALS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER POWER PLAYERS – AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE CITIZENS OF THE UK WHO PAY THEIR WAGES – running psyops on the public to soften them up and braintrain them into surrendering to this crap. Theyre not Police, theyre an ugly social engineering army working for the Freemasons
Grow up. Cops go to work, do their job, then go home after a long day, just like you. Most of them are married, have kids, dogs and mortgages just like you.
They suffer the cost of living rise just like you, pay inflated fuel costs just like you and have a pint down the pub just like you.
Unlike you they are held to a standard from the day they are sworn in until they retire, not just when they are working but 24/7/365.
There are a few bad apples, as in any walk of life, but of the millions of police hours worked every day in the UK, there are very few.
Most cops wouldn’t know what a Mason was if one jumped up and bit them.
And if there’s only one thing they turn up for work every day to do, it would be for the satisfaction of catching a criminal.
The most frustrating part of the job is watching said criminal leaving court with a pat on the head.
Sort out our government and bleeding heart societal wasters before having a go at the cops. It’s people like you who squeal like a pig when your child is caught nicking something, instead of taking the brat home from the nick and dishing out your own punishment.
This would be a lot more credible if it said which school this was. Looked at that article, and the Times article. The school isn’t named. Teachers are anonymous. Why? Normally when there are incidents of this kind, the school is in the papers, there are statements from named headteachers etc.
The young woman in question is currently preparing for her A levels. It’s understandable that she doesn’t want to be doxxed and hounded at this exact moment.
Don’t worry though – the thug Owen Jones is on the case.
The right to privacy in the UK is not just a luxury, it’s a legally enforceable right, particularly with children.
How about your kids name, school and address was plastered over the front page of the media for saying what is self evidently true.
“Family take legal action after son, 26, died after AstraZeneca jab” – The heartbroken family of 26-year-old graduate Jack Hurn, who died from “catastrophic” blood clots on his brain two weeks after he received an AstraZeneca vaccine are considering legal action, the Mail reports.
This is a terrible story of a young man assured that the jab was “safe”, after expressing his concern. Those concerns were dismissed.
By cowardly and incompetent doctors and a tyrannical and callous regime.
Article at Zero Hedge about another/second spike in neonatal deaths in Scotland. First spike was in September, this one was in March.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/investigation-launched-after-mystery-surge-deaths-newborn-babies
The mtax the unvaccinated’ article is absolutely scandalous. It concludes: ‘In the end, we believe there is a serious case for considering taxes based on vaccination status, as such taxes are in the end not that different from current taxes on risky behaviour.’
The authors think the tax is justified even if the vaccine sometimes causes serious harm to the recipient.
And there is no attempt whatsoever to examine the assumption that the unvaccinated cause harm to others. None. None.
And this is from the University of Oxford. But let’s remember that the University of Oxford once burned three bishops to death for challenging a murderously despotic government. The thugs have form..
The premise is appalling. Let’s talk about forcing people to take injections that might injure them and see whether or not we think it’s a good idea.
This is a political act. They published their discussion. They must know that there are those in positions of power who will relish it and might act upon it.
Perhaps they might like to discuss another proposition: That those who provide arguments for forcible injections which might well seriously injure or kill people should be charged with incitement to criminal violence. Discuss.
It shows how many mentally ill people, their minds utterly deranged by leftism, are in working in academia now.
Taxing people based on gene therapy status is just another way of begging men to rise up and clear this vermin out once and for all.
Based on what they’ve got away with, worldwide, in the past couple of years, I’m pretty sure the vermin are secure… and they know it?
Let’s hope it stays as just talk because this idea is obviously scandalous. I haven’t read the article above on principle as I fail to see any “pros” to this bullshit at all! If this can somehow be twisted enough to be justified then I’m all for obese people, smokers and those who live a generally unhealthy lifestyle getting taxed more. The latter is something being talked about at the moment in the Netherlands with regards to health insurance. At least this argument genuinely does have some pros and cons. But penalising people based on what medicines they choose to put in their bodies, especially ones with a now proven track record of being both unsafe and ineffective? Beyond absurd!
It is poorly written, robotic in style and lacks any logical foundations. It fails to address actual accounting for costs if they exist at all. It clearly doesn’t bother looking at any data.
it is scandalous and I am considering writing to this glorified Oxford think tank.
Looking at the authors bios you can se their links to climate, sustainability nonsense as well as behavioural science of manipulating populations.
They are the bots that run the system of technocracy. When you read what they do, you realise you don’t need a cadre of secret behind-the-scenes evil people manipulating the world, there’s an army of these autistic fucks working together to control us and take away our rights and freedoms.
These are the droids:
Alison Pirlot: alice.pirlot@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Kristoffer Berg: kristoffer.berg@sbs.ox.ac.uk
We are going to need a revolution to change direction….
People like Pirlot and Berg make a strong argument very similar to the Nazi policy of Confiscatory Taxation of Jewish Property and Income – i.e. here is a subgroup we don’t like very much, so they will be financially punished.
They seem like really nice people.
Write them. See how they justify their arguments vs data. Might be entertaining. Could be worthwhile mentioning Nuremberg.
I may do.
Left wing academics are hilarious.
They haven’t the brains to recognise that they are always the first to be dragged off to the gulag ‘come the revolution’.
I’m on the Autism Spectrum and I don’t think that there is any basis for your reference to “autistic f***s” in particular being responsible for these ideologies/campaigns. Yes, people on the spectrum may have tendency to want/need to control their environments etc, however they are not very often the people in power, nor do they tend to be any good at influencing people.
They are far more likely to be used by neurotypicals including sociopaths who are good at social networking etc and are looking for ways to increase their portion of power, eg plausible justifications etc.
Don’t just consider it AYM – Do it! write the letter – write it for all of us.
Had encounter last weekend with wokish guardian reader in favour of all this and planning to move to Vancouver. It will all end in tears
As far as I can see, it’s the vaccinated who tend to require more medical assistance than the unvaccinated.
Over jabbed children with sensitivities, allergies, gut issues, neurological issues, for adults it’s cancers, dementia etc, all these things seem to have increased with increased exposure to prophylactic medical treatments.
If many of these issues are actually arising because the medical system has been messing with your immune system since you were 8 weeks old, then perhaps it would be more appropriate to punish those responsible for this assault on humanity?
If they pull the tax the unvaxed trick, my business income will suddenly drop below the tax threshold, and they’ll get nowt.
Oxford Universty is clearly under the control of the criminals running these scams. How do you think Tommy Robinson gets gigs there. The BIG CLUB in action
One good bit of news – it was put out on Twitter and it was absolutely trashed apparently, into virtual oblivion, so it would appear that some are beginning to stir now!
The rate at which the vaxxed are dropping off, the unvaxxed will soon be the only ones left to pay tax anyway.
It’s from the Said arms dealer funded school of “business”…
off-g found some conflicts of interest…
https://off-guardian.org/2022/05/17/big-pharma-funded-paper-recommends-taxing-the-unvaccinated/
Surely a PROPER School of business should maintain that the JABBED should be funded by those who want to be jabbed..
More Tax is the default position of the left as the answer to everything.
It’s clear for all to see that a gargantuan class-action lawsuit must be brought against the regime’s puppets in Westminster. Their outright and rank lies about how the gene therapy was “safe and effective” have injured, maimed and killed masses of people and they must be made to pay for it with massive fines and life sentences.
Exactly. These victims cannot just be written off as mere ‘collateral damage’ or an ‘extremely rare’ case anymore. I haven’t read it yet but this young guy will of course been at no risk from dying due to getting Covid. Instead the much-lauded novel jab, the thing that was touted as our “way out of the pandemic” and all-round saviour against a “deadly” cold virus killed him in this terrible irony. Just the fact that any other new medicine/vaccine would have been pulled off the market at a tiny fraction of the deaths and injuries these things are responsible for tells you all you need to know about how much our governments and the regulators care about public health and the agenda they value more than human lives. We’re just statistics to them. As faceless as a herd of cattle.
Honestly, these tradgedies need to be happening to the scum who are responsible. It’s always the wrong people, the innocent, regular folk, whose only crime was being gullible, that are affected.
Oops, *tragedy*. Fat fingers alert!
Okay, I’ll be that guy…
Edit: earworm alert!
LOL, at least it wasn’t Steps!
I think those who were told they needed to get jabbed or lose their job ( and as a result, their home, car, ability to support their family etc ) might beg to differ. Not much of a “choice” really is it?
Indeed. But from a legal point of view it may be viewed this way. A civil case in France where a man died and the wife sued the insurance company for payout concluded he had committed suicide as he voluntarily took an experimental drug.
Recent Robert Malone:
Dr. Malone Father of mRNA Jab: Global COVID Summit, VAIDS , Global Takeover, WHO Pandemic Treaty
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RhDS65yuBj9q/
There are major question marks over the validity of virology as a science, spreading of disease etc which deserve proper scrutiny, not mocking and sneering. Despite that Malone has an important voice in this and he has stood up for justice and put himself out there, which is to be applauded. He is directly calling out the World Economic Forum which has successfully installed a load of treasonous scumbags in govermments all over the world – including in the UK – fake lying traitors like Boris Johnson or whatever his non stage name is and many others.
Did You Know That The UK Has At Least 21 Politicians Who Are Members Of The World Economic Forum ?
https://threadsirish.substack.com/p/did-you-know-that-the-uk-has-at-least?s=r
Who Would Have Guessed That Every Major Politician Who Has Visited Ukraine In 2022 Is A Member Of The World Economic Forum ?
https://threadsirish.substack.com/p/who-would-have-guessed-that-every?s=r
You make reference to his ‘stage name’ which we all know is Boris Johnson. If he has signed documents [including any incriminating ones re jabs lockdown laws etc etc] using his stage name, does this get him off the hook if he is ever sued or prosecuted, when they would legally have to use his real name, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel (or whatever it is) Johnson?
just wondering.
It must surely soon be time to start a serious discussion about how we clear out the small elite doing this to us and restore our democracy. We need to be having this conversation with out friends and families and anyone else who will listen. These people have to go and the ballot box is no longer an option because each one is bought and paid for by the same people.
It is fantasy to believe our woes are the result of a small elite muscling their way into power. That they represent some foreign element at odds with society.
Most would go along with an antivaxxer tax as it reassures the jabbed they did the right thing. It feels good. The very fact they allowed themselves to be injected in the first place tells you all you need to know.
We have sat back as various governments have introduced minimum pricing on alcohol, suggested sugar and fat taxes, and now openly discuss online censorship for our own good.
These people reflect the views of many, and all of them vote. That is the really horrifying thing.
30% obey, 50% question but obey, 20% disobey. That is human society. The 80% will be directed by any elite in control of mass media and norm-formation. We have an elite that supports globalism, we need an elite than believes in nation-states.
I’d argue something similar. 20-30% reject, a similar number are true believers. The rest conform.
So yes, a small number can change a nation.
THIS IS SOMETHING GB NEWS HAS TO DISCUSS AND CALL OUT BEFORE IT TAKES HOLD AS UK POLICY
The Tories moved to the left of Blair in the 90s and have been utterly worthless ever since. The Tories offer zero salvation to any person in Britain who loves their nation and has pride in its traditions and values. With some very notable exceptions, the Tories are despicable.
There is no political solution to any of this. Until people accept this there is no hope.
Agreed. Trump and Brexit were two spirited attempts to recapture policy control by grassroots movements via the ballot box. They failed because in neither case was the elite replaced.
Much of what we see today, the passports, censorship and control measures are a response to Brexit and Trump. They were genuine popular movements. And that rattled the powerful. They had it all sewn up.
Biden is a Trump plant.
I think he’s just a plant.
Well, perhaps a vegetable.
Take a second to imagine being a healthy 26 year-old man who is lied to by the government and his doctors, and possibly bullied by his contemporaries, to take a novel cell therapy he doesn’t need, and then is killed by it. And then times that by thousands of cases across the country.
This is an outrage that must be answered.
A healthy 26 year old child. A 26 year old adult has enough experience of life to make their own informed decisions and live (or die) with the consequences whether it’s being disfigured with multiple tattoos, under the wheels of a lorry on an electric scooter, £20k in debt on credit card etc. There are enough serious threats to our traditional way of life without wasting effort on the lost – sad but ultimately true.
Yes a competent adult needs to do their own risk assessment and take personal responsibility. It’s not an excuse but I think the explanation is so often naivety. Most are not only naive about trusting the authorities, who repeat mantra-like “safe and effective” and continually fraudulently refer to these products as “vaccines”, but they’re also naive in that they know some people have experienced nasty side effects but they convince themselves that such a thing will never happen to them.
I feel that if the true extent of the adverse effects and deaths linked to these injections were actually known, ( we’re talking ‘ideal world’ here, where they’d be widely published in the msm, for example ) as opposed to being suppressed, covered up and ignored, people would be able to do an accurate risk/benefit analysis and therefore decide if it was worth playing Russian roulette with their health. As it stands people are being decieved due to the complete lack of transparency in both the dire safety profile and huge inefficacy of the jabs, therefore they have a false sense of security.
How can he have done a risk assessment when he wasn’t fully informed?
It’s symptomatic of the infantilisation of the UK population that anyone (adult over 16) thinks it safe or reasonable to outsource risk assessment on personal issues such as health to a third party. I dispute that anyone didn’t have the information to make an informed decision and instead they acted out of motives that they now conveniently blame on others.
Wouldn’t part of a risk assessment about something novel be to avoid that thing until ‘fully informed’ is a possibility?
Take a second to imagine being a healthy 26 year-old man who is lied to by the government, and possibly bullied by his contemporaries, to wear a military uniform in service of a lie, sent abroad to kill foreigners for the benefit of a finance ruling elite, and then is killed by it. And then times that by thousands of cases across the country.
How the NHS works …
Actually, based on the last year or two, that’s wrong. They’ve been given a heap of money to get the job done and, instead of employing more Dave’s, who actually do the work, they’ve brought in even more managers
My speculation on the matter is that HMG policy is to draw the cell therapy scandal out for as many years as possible, hopefully poke the bear a few more times in Eastern Europe until a bigger conflict kicks off, and then when that’s finally over in 2030, hand out some peanuts to those injured while deadcatting it out of news as much as possible.
Is that about right, Boris?
I don’t know why you are asking Boris. He hasn’t a clue and couldn’t give a shit about it anyway (so long as his bank accounts get fatter). Klaus has the answers.
The vaccinated must be given hope of salvation before it’s too late. The virus was only a pretext, this is about global compliance. More pain will come to those who participate in this deception.
I’m thinking the transfer of nation-states’ health policies in the event of a future pandemic to the WHO is also another litmus test – to see how much sovereignty the plebs will let them steal.
What do the plebs do? One thing that has become obvious these last few years is how few avenues we can pursue.
I’ve watched as they have targeted my city for woke statue toppling. Every local councillor is on board as far as I can tell. Writing to them is pointless.
One tiny example. But indicative of the whole.
So nothing to do with printing hundreds of billions of pounds and paying people to sit at home and do nothing then?
People barely understand arithmetic never mind economics. If they are told their Gran froze to death because Putin is Hitler, they’ll believe it
I had a proponent of a windfall tax on energy tell me that letting children starve and pensioners freeze was evil so he proposed a solution of making both energy and goods rarer and more expensive.
What??? No, no no…ignore all that…look away…c’mon, look over here, not over there….it’s the “WAR” I’m telling you!!!
Bank of England protecting wealth of hedge funds at the expense of Joe public.
Hedge funds addicted to cheap money.
April RPI = 11.1%
“Lord King warns that Covid money-printing spree and low interest rates were major errors”
The Same Lord King that completed missed the Great Financial Crisis, and was caught flatfooted like a rabbit in headlights.
Why would we think his counsel is any use?
The money-printing spree was indeed a horrific error. Low interest rates were a horrific error.
Only to those who are hard of accounting.
Paying anybody free taxpayers money for doing nothing is bad economics at any point in the cycle. Which is why base rates should be zero and no ‘government debt’ issued.
If you want to hold a bank deposit for no income, feel free. But you’re not going to be swapping that for a state debt instrument that taxpayers have to fund.
Consume or invest in real productive assets. But money hoarders should be discouraged.
“ But money hoarders should be discouraged.” – your Keynesian fake economics, itself a rehashing of ancient monetary crank fallacies, has been noted.
He was a feckin useless coward when he had the job.
Do give it a rest my Lord. You’ve been banging on relentlessly about this since the beginning, giving us the benefit of your wisdom and warning how they were making a huge mistake. Oh, wait…
A serious case of 20/20 hindsight.
“Bank of England has made ‘serious mistakes’, former Governor says” – While the NHS and the Civil Service were unfit for purpose during Covid, the supermarkets were superior in every way, retaining staff, recruiting staff, remaining open to the public, providing goods, we need the logistics management of the supermarkets running the country.
Tesco General Hospital.
Interesting suggestion.
Club card points with every treatment?
Looks like the Cognitive Dissonance has got too much even for the BBC and they’ve finally had to admit that the Mairupol Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered to the Russians.
Of all the euphemisms the Woke have come up with to try and explain why black is white “evacuated via Russia” for “surrendered” has to take the biscuit.
Traitor Jeremy Vine – the liar on Radio 2 who has been instrumental in pulling off the convid scam and scamming, terrorising and brainwashing innocent well meaning British men women and children into signing up for a weaponised gene therapy injection programme which is causing injury and death which is then covered up by said scumbag, Jeremy Vine. Anyway, the pernicious Jeremy VIle has another piece of dirt in form the Police who is about to announce how speeding should be treated like a serious criminal offence and how motorists should BE ENCOURAGED to video and record road “crimes” and report them to the police, thius further making the UK an Orwellian surveillance intensive paranoid police state society. Get these pieces of shit out NOW!
The western MSM’s denotation for the forces besieged inside the Azovstal steel plant has been changing, from “Ukrainian soldiers” to “Ukrainian fighters” to “Ukrainian militants”.
Well the neo-Nazi Azov Regiment (formerly known as the Azov Battalion) is not paramilitary any more. It’s a part of the Ukrainian army. They are soldiers.
And all the signs are that there have been substantial numbers of foreign mercenaries inside that plant too, almost certainly including Israelis.
How many times can you remember Israel being asked to mediate between two other powers? Nobody ever asks them to mediate. Nobody would trust them.
Take a look at this article at the Zionazi website “Forward”:
https://forward.com/fast-forward/502628/jews-fought-at-mariupols-azovstal-plant-question-depends-40/
Scraping the very bottom of the barrel, they quote one “scholar” as being offended when someone remarks on how some Jews have funded and fought alongside neo-Nazis such as the Azov Regiment. She finds it offensive when someone who isn’t Jewish talks about who a good Jew is.
You have to unpick that. Nobody has said that helping neo-Nazis makes someone a bad Jew. Who cares about such an absurd concept? What it makes them is a bad human being. And of course if they are also into being a Zionist, then given that a large part of the Zionist ideology for many decades has rested on ideas about the mass murder of Jews by the racist German regime in the early 1940s, then of course they are disgusting hypocrites in that particular context.
But oh no, the said “scholar” doesn’t like that one bit. She doesn’t think anyone who isn’t ethnoreligiously X themselves should dare point out that someone who is ethnoreligiously X is a bad person and an outrageous hypocrite.
Frankly, who is someone who supports the existence of Israel to criticise Nazis on some kind of universal human grounds? That in itself is the utmost hypocrisy. It’s also hypocritical to scream and shout that “Israel has the right to defend itself”, when no western politician dare say the same thing about the Palestinians. (Besides, Israel “defending itself” usually means massacring civilians, often civilians who have become refugees after their homes were stolen.)
I doubt Israel has been in an especially strong position regarding Azovstal. What has probably happened is that they have made concessions in order to get some of their soldiers out. These concessions probably include telling their puppet government in Kiev to free some Russian POWs.
It is interesting – and a good thing – that those who are coming out of Azovstal are being checked by the Russian army, the forces of the Donetsk republic, or both.
Legally mercenaries are not entitled to be treated as POWs, but let us hope of course that all soldiers and anybody else who comes out of Azovstal, whoever they are, including if they are Israeli or British or Hitler lovers or some combination – whether their favourite tattoos are swastikas or the Star of David or something else – are treated with humanity.
”Bank of England…. serious mistakes…”
Perhaps Carnage was a TrueDope creature, as TD is a Schlob creature.
You couldn’t make it it up: VAN TAM, THE MAN MISSES HIS KNIGHTHOOD CEREMONY BECAUSE HE HAS COVID!!!
Pity that some of us will miss the rest of our lives because of fanatics like him.
His shitehood ceremony, more like.
Let’s administer laxatives to him, just for a laugh….
My daughter knows five women who were coerced into being jabbed early in their pregnancies.
Three lost their babies already and two have just discovered their babies have serious defects and a termination is advised.
None of them were comfortable with getting jabbed, but they caved to the pressure.
Nobody is apologising to them.