The Prime Minister has signalled that he would not prevent pubs from demanding that drinkers prove they have had a Covid vaccine before entering. Such ideas have previously been dismissed by Government officials as “discriminatory”. The Times has the story.
Pub landlords will be able to bar entry to people who have not been vaccinated, Boris Johnson has suggested.
The Prime Minister said that it “may be up to the landlord” to decide whether to require proof of vaccination or a negative test from customers, in a significant change of heart after ruling out the idea last month. …
A month ago Johnson said that while the Government would look at vaccine passports for international travel, “what I don’t think we will have in this country is – as it were – vaccination passports to allow you to go to, say, the pub or something like that”.
Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, is now leading a review into the idea. He is due to report by June.
The idea is being opposed by many Tory backbenchers and pressed on whether it went against his liberal instincts, Johnson said that he had been “thinking very, very deeply” about the issue.
“The public have been thinking very deeply about it and my impression is that there is a huge wisdom in the public’s feeling about this and people, human beings, instinctively recognise when something is dangerous, nasty to them, and they can see that Covid is collectively a threat, and they want us as their Government, and me as the Prime Minister, to take all the actions I can to protect them.”
He said that people having to prove they were not infectious was “the kind of thing that may be up to the individual publicans, it may be up to the landlord”.
It is likely that vaccination will become mandatory for care home staff, along with other healthcare workers. This, alongside the prospect of Covid “certificates“, and the latest suggestion regarding pubs, begs the question: to what extent can the Covid vaccine really be called voluntary? Steve Baker, the Deputy Chairman of the Covid Recovery Group, has said that such requirements would create a “two-tier Britain”.
The Prime Minister began to tread a dangerous path when he opened the door to domestic Covid certificates. First they said we’ll need them to watch the football, and today that it may be papers for the pub.
Whether the state legislates for it, recommends it or simply allows it, the result will be the same – a two-tier Britain that prevents pregnant women from taking part in society, given that the Government is telling them not to take the vaccine, or one where we turn back the clock and tolerate businesses turning away customers from communities which have shown an unfortunate hesitancy to take up the offer of a vaccine. We must not fall into this ghastly trap.
The Times report is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Toby says a bloke on his street in Acton has already offered to sell him a vaccine passport. It seems a racing certainty that the attitude of the British public – which Boris seems to set so much store by – will be to enthusiastically endorse ‘Passports for Pubs’, then cheat en masse. The man on the Clapham omnibus is a strange hybrid of Captain Mainwaring and Private Walker.
Stop Press 2: Readers can still submit responses to the ‘Covid-Status Certification Review’ until March 29th. Details here.
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2004 and 2014 US led coups. The Maiden massacre by Ukes and the CIA. 15000 Russians slaughtered in Donbas post Maiden. Bio labs, money laundering. NATO, EU takeover of a former Russian state oblast which was never a country. And yet Russia is the bad actor. The US empire as evinced by Rona, fake science and endless wars is the locus of evil.
You sound a bit like a Marxist Revolutionary.
74 down ticks even with the last sentence being true
The quantity of down tickers only means that a group of people don’t like Ferd’s conclusions, not that they are wrong.
Assuming the US and it’s allies, which includes the UK, are the only bad actors in the world is naive. What can be done in the name of national security is just about anything. These clandestine agencies operate above any laws or morality.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/04/the-great-reset-part-2-a-camp-with-no-outside/
The second part of Simon Elmer’s look at their Great Reset and this looks at Digital Identity and the horrors this entails.
“At present, the UK Government is promoting Digital Identity in terms of ease of access, greater convenience and increased safety. So, under the Online Safety Act 2023, Digital Identity will be a requirement of access to the internet, not in order to censor what we can see, read and write but to protect children from pornography and grooming gangs.
Under the Elections Act 2022, it will be a requirement of voting, not in order to further discourage public participation in the electoral process but to stop illegal voting. It will be a requirement of receiving Universal Credit or, in the future, Universal Basic Income, not in order to force the immiserated and unemployed into obligatory retraining and work but to stop fraudulent benefit claims. It will be a requirement of gaining access to public transport, medical care, education and employment, not in order to control us whenever the World Health Organization declares a new pandemic but to protect the population from future health crises. It will be a requirement of travel and movement between nation states and within the UK, not in order to enforce the restrictions on our freedoms imposed by Agenda 2030 but to stop illegal immigration into the UK and save the planet from ‘global boiling’. It will be a requirement of opening a bank account, not to force us into opening a Digital Pound account but to stop financial crime.”
This is actually a first rate article and more like the Simon Elmer I have learnt to appreciate.
Toby, you’ve really got to keep Noah away from Ukraine issues.
DS credibility is at stake.
It’s like being back in London Calling, but with only James’s rantings presented.
Has it really taken you nearly 2 years to make that comment?
It wasn’t worth the wait.
Noah is making a rod for his own back here, because he hasn’t examined Katchanovski’s claims objectively (by having translations of videos, etc. done, as I have). Here’s a brief excerpt from an article I’ve been working on, which shows Katchanovski’s contempt for the facts. However, we know there was one gunman in the Hotel Ukraine on the February 20th 2014, he was seen shooting probably towards government units on rooftops towards the presidential buildings to the north west. It’s almost like Noah is being a cipher for Katchanovski by saying the idea of anyone with a gun in the Hotel Ukraine is a “conspiracy theory”.
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[His] next supposed witness is in the clip beginning at 2m49s. Katchanovski’s caption reads as follows:
To be clear, the Hotel Ukraine was never controlled by the Maidan protesters, as far as I have been able to establish from contemporaneous accounts and videos. It was used as a hotel, occupied by foreign journalists (BBC, RT, etc.) and others during this time. First aid was given to protesters in the lobby on February 20th, but Katchanovski has never established anything more. However, what Katchanovski fails to mention about this witness is that he states that he saw three individuals in uniform run into the hotel on February 17–18th and then down the stairs with cases resembling weapons cases. This is from a show broadcast by the popular Ukrainian channel TSN which, from what I can tell, presents the mainstream view that it was only government forces who were sniping protesters, and it’s clear from the video that these “snipers” were police or other government officers.
It is probably a waste of time dissecting those events yet again.
Ukraine is doomed and it is only a matter of time before the West formally casts them adrift.
America is already building a blame narrative that absolves Biden from any culpability and fingers Zelensky, Zelensky is already blaming his generals for the failures and Aristovich is positioning himself to replace Zelensky.
I think a stock of popcorn is in order.