A new political party has been set up to give opponents of the lockdown policy an opportunity to stand as candidates in the forthcoming local elections.
The Democratic Network, set up by Nigel Jacklin, a statistician and market researcher, is looking for candidates to stand in May. To date, it is the only party that’s pledged support for anti-lockdown campaign group Time for Recovery’s ‘Five Reasonable Demands’.
1. Behave with humanity
2. Give equal regard to all lives
3. Hold a comprehensive public inquiry and a balanced public debate
4. Safeguard all that makes life worth living
5. Get the economy moving for the sake of our children
Nigel says about his reason for setting up the new party:
People want to send a message to the political establishment, and we can do that in May. We have no national ambitions. Our focus now is on the May local elections and we want to get elected.
If you’d like to be a candidate, or support other candidates, you can do so by completing the short survey (‘the Network Survey’) at the bottom of the page at www.TheDemocraticNetwork.org.
Jon Dobinson, the tireless organiser behind Time for Recovery, is supportive of the venture. He says:
Although Recovery has strong supporters in all the main political parties, the Democratic Network is the first to back our Five Reasonable Demands for good Government during COVID-19 as a party. I congratulate them on a very smart move – polling shows that the Five Reasonable Demands have the overwhelming support of the British public, for whom they represent a far less damaging way to overcome the challenges posed by COVID-19.
As the country starts to open up, we must face up to the huge damage that the harsh measures taken during the pandemic have done. As the charity MIND has highlighted, we now face a mental health pandemic caused by loneliness and the Government’s campaign of fear, which is costing millions of adults and even worse, our children their peace of mind.
There’s a massive NHS crisis that must be fixed urgently, with vital screening programmes cancelled and almost five million people now on waiting lists. Plus we have the worst economic outlook in living memory. Yet many politicians still back rules which are making all this worse.
Unbelievably, we still even have the Ofcom restrictions telling broadcasters to censor good news in case people think that COVID-19 restrictions are unnecessary – rules which are worsening the mental health problems of millions of us on a daily basis. It’s time to return to our senses: we urgently need all our parties to follow The Democratic Network’s lead.
The November online poll that Jon’s referring to was carried out by Yonder and involved a representative sample of over 2,000 people. It found that three quarters of people (77%) would support the adoption of the Five Reasonable Demands by the Government. Half (49%) would strongly support them, and only 3% opposed them.
Be warned: several friends of mine who got involved in the Vote Leave campaign in 2016 ended up being pursued mercilessly through the courts by the Electoral Commission in the aftermath of Vote Leave’s victory, often at the behest of embittered Remain activists. It’s a safe bet that if any of the Democratic Network’s candidates actually win in May, their defeated opponents will submit vexatious complaints to the Commission and, if its track record is anything to go by, those complaints will be energetically followed up. If it can find any pretext for doing so, it will make the lives of those candidates and the party’s officers absolutely miserable – a task made easier by the fact that the Conservative Government will be aligned with the Commission in this instance. From what little due diligence I’ve done, Nigel seems like a responsible, decent bloke who is doing his best to comply with the voluminous red tape that any political party has to wrestle its way through. But tread carefully.
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Would the very act of enforcing this not be stirring up hatred?
Well I’m feeling pretty stirred up.
I’m thoroughly fed up of these self-righteous, sanctimonious, idiot, wannabe dictators.
I don’t think it will kill comedy. Maybe public comedy, stand up comedy, comedy shows. But there’ll still be plenty of private comedy. It’ll just be behind close doors, in strict confidence. It’ll be like the Soviet Union, a dreary, fearful place, where technocrats rule everything and keep everyone in fear.
But that’s what Scots voted for, apparently, so…
Scotland doesn’t get to vote for the civil service and neither do the other nations.
The objective will be the same in the rest of the UK. The UK government is happy to block the Scottish Government but not on this.
I’m not sure Scots voted for this, was it in the SNP manifesto? It could be argued that even if it wasn’t in the SNP manifesto Scots should of known what the SNP are like and expected something like this, or the gender self ID law that was blocked by the UK government and opposed by about 70% of the Scottish population, so maybe they’ve only got themselves to blame. If only they could put common sense ahead of their hatred of the Tories/English. I truly despair of the country I’ve lived in for the last 12 years and wonder if I would of been better of staying in England.
Yes but behind closed doors in your own house there could be a snitch that goes and reports you and the law takes on board what that person says, no matter what you have to say. If that person says you were indulging in hate speech then the new laws just accept that. ——It is actually becoming worse than the Soviet Union. This is what the “Progressive” means in “Liberal Progressive”. ——–Slowly progressing bit by bit by bit so you don’t notice. But “progressing” to what? ——The answer is bigger and bigger government having more and more power over you and I
Here’s hoping the SNP are soundly routed in the next General Election, and tyrannical legislation like this is repealed?
But I’m in England, so if the Scots are crazy enough to vote for this, its on them, not me!
We can only assume a Labour led Scotland actually would repeal this!
Whatever, Humza needs to be sent packing, the guy is a moron.
What do Billy Connelly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle have to say about this?
Off-topic but this just in; Kate announces she’s fighting cancer. I sincerely hope she’s going to make a full recovery, bless her.
*EDIT: “Cancer had been present”, but her chemo is *preventative*.
https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1771235267837321694
i hope so too. she never complains .i admire her.
Yes, same. It sounds positive if she’s emphasizing that the chemo is ”preventative”, so hopefully they got it all via the surgery and it didn’t metastasize. She’s also young, fit and otherwise healthy, so she does have that on her side. Much strength to her for the upcoming awfulness that is chemotherapy though.
Blimey, they jabbed her then.
That’s a brave thing to say, but I was wondering the same thing.
There’s no chance she’ll be unjabbed.
Taking the news of 2021 at face value, yes. It doesn’t say which but some reports highlight it would be Pfizer or Moderna given her age as the Az vaccine was officially dangerous by that point.
https://people.com/royals/kate-middleton-receives-first-dose-covid-vaccine/
And Charles, and the late Queen and, presumably, the Duke of Edinburgh who died not so very long afterwards.
Obviously we have no evidence but I am convinced the Queen was murdered. Perhaps the Davos Deviants are having a clear out of the Windsors.
i read something about the royal family are independent of the government and that is why .if only the queen prince phillip and charles had s aid no to the clot shots and masks imagine it could have all fallen apart their we f plans. i really expected them to have more backbone and refuse to go along with it all..
You would think more likely the saline placebo, but then you also have ole sausage fingers as well.
There’s no way to “fight” cancer. Or any other disease, for that matter. Judging from the story, she first had “preventative” surgery and then, someone fabricated a reason for “preventative” chemotherapy. Let’s hope she’s not going to have a “preventative” burial next. She decidedly doesn’t look good in the video, rather worn and haggard.
We’ve had an extreme outburst of cancer marketing recently. Timeo danae et dona ferentes. And they’re not even bearing gifts.
More off-topic but this situation in Moscow is still ongoing. Multiple casualties;
”Graphic footage from inside the hall showed gunman moving steadily through the venue firing shots and leaving a trail of destruction. People were seen fleeing past dead bodies.
Other video showed a number of people lying motionless in pools of blood outside the hall, though the footage was not immediately verifiable, according to Reuters.
It was not immediately clear how many people had been injured and who the gunmen were, but Russian news agencies said 50 ambulance crews had been sent to the scene. Riot police units have also reportedly been sent to the area as people were evacuated.
“A terrible tragedy occurred in the shopping center Crocus City today,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. “I am sorry for the loved ones of the victims.” Mr Sobyanin said all necessary assistance would be provided to those injured during the incident.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/moscow-crocus-city-hall-shooting-b2517256.html
https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1771238097214128302
It seems ISIS have taken responsibility for this terrorist attack;
”BREAKING:
The official ISIS outlet “Al-Amaq” takes responsibility for the terror attack in Moscow & claims the group was particularly targeting an event for Christians at the shopping mall.
Tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of the fall of the Caliphate after the Battle of Baghuz”
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1771290089353551991
https://twitter.com/community_notes/status/1771287127533191561
There have been at least two terrorists arrested so no doubt we’ll know more info in the morning, presumably in the Round-Up.
I expect we will shortly see a lesson in how Putin deals with Islamist terrorists.
I doubt if it will be legislation to brand them Extremists which also names an “extreme right wing organisation” for balance and so he can’t be called WAYCIST.
Not so sure! A new Navalny anti putin group is way more likely!
Democracy in Russia, been there,tried it,doesn’t work, break out the kalashnikovs !
Well I have not looked into this yet. But these Islamic State people better have blown themselves up or shot themselves because if they haven’t they will soon be cursing their mothers for having given them birth. I am not a big fan of places like Russia but at least they are not a bunch of wimps in situations like this. ——-Shamima Begun would not be trying to get back into Russia, she would realise she would be better of in a tent in the dust in Syria.
https://www.farminguk.com/news/farmers-can-now-get-up-to-11-600-per-ha-for-planting-woodland_64360.html
No wonder they are planting on the moors now.
https://www.farminguk.com/news/scientists-to-harness-gene-editing-power-to-transform-uk-potato-sector_64355.html
Gene editing our bloody spuds now. FFS!
In the uprun to the neverendum, people warned that the outcome would gene-edited crops in the UK (among other things). The real point of this is obviously getting Patented Genes™ into all potatoes via natural cross-pollination and then, harvest license fees from everybody growing any. As to other outcomes, let’s hope they don’t accidentally turn them into mosquitos.
https://www.farminguk.com/news/next-few-weeks-crucial-for-growers-as-survey-shows-big-crop-falls_64354.html
Looks like bread prices could rise towards year end. No need to worry we can always import.
Making fun of is not HATE. A joke is not HATE. —-Governments , especially totalitarian ones like the SNP need to use the law to enforce their tyranny and that is what is happening here. ——A great way around this would be to get lots of people up on stages everywhere to make fun of themselves. People in wheelchairs, black people, women , trans, people from different cultures etc etc all poking fun at themselves. The government can hardly charge them with HATING themselves can they? Or we can all make SNP jokes, like for example “What is the difference between an SNP person and a plank of wood”—“I don’t know, what is the difference between an SNP person and a plank of wood” ——–“The Grain” ha ha ha ah hoh hoh haa ha jeez. ——-So will the SNP now make being in the SNP a “protected characteristic”? ——-Probably. ——-The SNP are actually pretty funny, or at least they would be if they were not so PATHETIC
Let’s face it, if you live north of the border in Humza’s fiefdom, there’s not much to laugh about anyway. Cold, dreer, depressed, drug-dependent and now joyless.
“Hate speech” laws won’t stop hate, they simply stop people talking about it.
Talking about things is classed as a therapy (talking therapy) so in the absence of this therapeutic outlet the hatred will fester inside and become magnified and is more likely to manifest itself in violence.
Doubtlessly “Punch a TERF!” will continue to be freedom of expression, just referring to guy who said so as guy will become a hate crime. This is perfect bubble gum legislation — can be stretched to cover anything SNP or Greens don’t like. I wouldn’t be surprised when statements like “There is no climate crisis” would end up being prosecuted as hate crime against future generations.