Michael Gove hinted on Thursday that plans for vaccine passports could be dropped because the alleged benefits are “finely balanced” against the “hassle” and “friction” that would come with introducing certification. But the i has reported that ministers have already signed several vaccine passport contracts, including one worth up to £21 million that can be renewed each year.
Speaking in the Commons today, Cabinet Minister Michael Gove said the Government is still reviewing whether Covid-status certifications could be used to help the return of “mingling at the bar” at large-scale pubs and to facilitate major events such as Premier League matches.
Asked whether vaccine passports might be used to reopen the hospitality sector, Mr Gove added: “It might be the case in venues like nightclubs you could see a role for it.” …
He added that in his “own view” any vaccine passport programme “has to be rescinded at some point in the future”.
However, i can reveal that the Government has already signed several vaccine passport contracts, including one worth up to £21 million that can be renewed each year.
The Department of Health and Social Care earlier this month signed a contract with HH Associates, a subsidiary of outsourcing firm HH Global, to produce paper vaccine passports for people who do not have access to a smartphone or computer.
The contract, worth up to £21 million this year, will see the Surrey-based firm print and post vaccine passports to members of the public in England unable to access their vaccination status for free digitally. The agreement is due to expire in May 2022 but can be extended annually…
People in England who have received two doses of a Covid jab are now able to access their Covid vaccination status via the NHS app, or by printing off a pdf of their certificate for free from the NHS website…
The Government’s website states that the certificates are for those who wish to travel to countries which require proof of vaccination.
But MPs and politicians have accused ministers of opening a backdoor to permanent ID cards without proper Parliamentary scrutiny.
“This is the biggest shift in civil liberties in the history of the United Kingdom. Why is it OK for this to happen by stealth?” said Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, former Director of advocacy group Liberty.
She told i: “This is a recipe for bullying and discrimination with no public consultation or Parliamentary consent. They promised us this was going to happen by consultation, and instead it’s happening by stealth. Liberal and libertarian Conservatives, like all U.K. citizens, must stand up.”
Steve Baker, Deputy Chair of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs, told i: “The Government appears to have decided to introduce Covid-status certification – a two-tier checkpoint Britain – by stealth, without a vote in Parliament.”
He called on the Prime Minister to “pull the plug on that attempt” immediately and for Parliament’s spending watchdog to scrutinise the £21 million annual cost for the paper certificates.
Details on plans for the introduction of vaccine passports – as well as on mask-wearing rules beyond the fourth and final step of the “roadmap” – are expected by the end of the month.
The i report is worth reading in full.
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I’ve had enough of this bunch of crooks and criminals. Throw them out, they are not worthy to represent you and I. I would gladly pay a reward to have the likes of Gove arrested and charged on the grounds of treason and malfeasance.
I understand your rage. We all feel it. But none of that is going to happen.
People might buck the ‘rules’, but the majority are believers.
Remember, remember:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/feb/07/nadhim-zahawi-uk-has-no-plans-to-introduce-covid-vaccine-passports-video
“Vaccines are not mandated in the UK […] and it would be discriminatory”
These people are lying to us on a daily basis, and they have no concern about the consequences. They have made sure there are no consequences:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/561730
Indeed they would be and are discriminatory.
As is ANY different treatment or requirement of the unvaxxed compared to the vaxxed.
Unfortunately, most people in all countries seem to have learned nothing from history here, least of all ze Germans.
Every discrimination in the past for which people were prosecuted later, and/or for which we are rightfully ashamed centuries later, was normalized, LEGAL and even enthusiastically embraced by the public at its time.
The same is and will be true of the discrimination of the unvaxxed, all the cheerleaders of it, all the people who execute it and all those who are in favour of it or keep quiet about it.
At the very least, they’ll rot in hell.
Introduced by stealth? Sorry, they’ve been planning this for a very long time, 2018 at least looking at the EU documents out there.
So much of parliament, especially 2ithin the Conservative Party, appear to be nothing more than controlled opposition. Bleating indignation even though they’ve never once attended a protest.
Until they take it to the streets with the people. They are not to be trusted now.
How long ago was it when Gove stated there were no plans for a vaccine passport?
Thaat was when I knew there would be one.
Don’t these people realise they are living under a dictatorship?
No.
And sadly, they don’t much care.
Bread and circuses…
The bloody idiots are taking a vaccine they don’t need, that hasn’t completed trials, is a new type that messes with your cells and be electronically tagged just so they can spend 2 weeks in the sun! Which might even be snatched from them at the last moment.
There’s no hope is there?
No they don’t — I have no idea what it will take for them to say enough is enough – I am absolutely staggered at what the average person is prepared to accept — That they cannot leave their home or hug their loved one — What is wrong with them.
The only very slight hope I have is that the government is always spending money on contracts that don’t come to much. Maybe this will just fizzle out and simply be a waste of the 21 million, which in the grand scheme, is pin money to governments. Or maybe I’m being too optimistic.
I agree. I think there will be much that will fizzle out, particularly when more folk have had enough of the fear mongering and back tracking. Then there will be much that will simply disappear into the ether. Think back to stuff a year ago that you’ve forgotten about. The only way I cope with all this is through my eternal optimism!
Wait until the sheeples find that the barperson knows all about the treatment they are getting for the clap. And about their under-age daughter’s contraceptive coil and their son’s heroin addiction.
It’s not pin money. It’s our money that they’re handing out. They’re transferring our money to a chosen few, and we have to foot the bill.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17415/sinking-ship-of-state
“As historians will tell you if we have the wisdom to listen, no one escapes the devastation of a debtor nation. No one.”
This is certainly worth a read. Concerns over the pond but is very interesting as it gives a background to the news leaking out around Fauci.
Dangerously Changing Inconvenient Rules – POLITICAL MOONSHINE
Excellent article, and excellent website. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this
At this rate they will be asking people to check health status apps for HIV before having a bunk up. I fear too many people will claim this is a good idea.
Yesterday they were, In front of committee saying that it was not likely. All such lies.
“All the lies in the world lead to one big truth”
Is that the vaccine passport we were told on numerous times we weren’t going to have?
UK Column News covered this at lunchtime. We can no longer trust anything the government tells us.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-28th-may-2021
This video was an eye opener – especially the clip of D Cummings saying that Bill Gates and his circle were advising Dominic and Number 10 to use mRNA vaccines and how to go from zero to roll-out in a speeded up system.
That guy is such a conspiracy theorist.
No Longer?! Been this way for over a year mate.
The announcement makes tomorrow even more important.
Obviously, money for the mates is a major driver.
So, the little shit that is Michael Gove, deliberately mislead the Parliamentary committee yes it seems. C<^t!
Credit where credit is due. Please use the word ‘cunt’. It is justified in this case.
Gove surely is the creepiest creep of them all – I think he is actually worse than Hancock for he is cleverer – but in my opinion lack any kind of humanity and are liars in order to advance their vile careers…
Wow, never thought I would find myself agreeing with Chakrabarti.
The movement to reclaim our lost human rights and civil liberties has thrown together some unlikely bedfellows however we must not let our political or ideological differences divide us on this fundamental issue.
Yeah, it’s like Lord of the Rings, never thought I’d find myself fighting with dwarves.
Or in Johnsons case Game of thrones, lots of boobs and weeners
Neither did I —- but I do
When even Call Me Dave calls you a Mendacious wanker
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/15/five-things-we-learned-from-david-cameron-memoir-boris-johnson-michael-gove-referendum
I suspect that the government are in the process of biting off more than they can chew. These are tinpot half-arsed dictators and the brand of pathological totalitarianism they seem to have been ordered to usher in is most likely beyond them and will create a legal mess they are nowhere near capable of managing. Most likely outcome: constitutional crisis, scandal, collapse.
Mengele Gove will tell you, with a straight face, that black is white and the Pope marches through Belfast, wearing a bowler hat and playing the flute.
He calls himself a libertarian while being a totalitarian.
Who cares what he calls himself — What is accurate is what most people would call him – probably not printable — Ghastly vile man
Historical dictators had ideology, oration and force of will at their disposal. This lot have smoke and mirrors; pathetic lies and sorry excuses. If they want to play at totalitarianism, creating a caste system, and hardcore oppression, they will need to up their game.
If biometric data, 4th industrial revolution, full elimination of internal combustion engine etc were that good, it would evolve organically. The fact that subterfuge and propaganda are being used and seemingly an infinite supply of currency to pay for this fiasco suggests that the end game is not simply this. If indeed a Central Bank Digital Currency – CBDC – is being introduced, then the reset runs much deeper and whatever currency is being flushed away will not matter once the government crypto is in place. Tinfoilhattery? Protect your families. Inform yourselves on what is going potentially going to be the biggest wealth transfer in history. Buy gold, silver property or crypto…
This article is in reference to the US, but it could just as easily describe the UK.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17415/sinking-ship-of-state
A Sinking Ship of State Drowns Everyone
“To be clear, the spending bill is actually the creation of a national debt so massive that it has the means to destabilize a democracy dependent on a functioning economy.
As historians will tell you if we have the wisdom to listen, no one escapes the devastation of a debtor nation. No one.”
Yup. When the global debt dwarfs by many hundreds of times the global GDP, sooner or later the elastic will break…
Catherine Austin Fitts may interest you. Very detailed exposition of the phenomena to which you allude. She would challenge only the last sentence, particularly crypto; the totalitarian state can zero any crypto they don’t “own”
I just despair that the majority are happily offering themselves up as slaves and think our government cares about them. Wake up sheep!
Is it just me or do other people want to vomit when they look or listen to Gove
More Hancock for me
You know what I would love to do. I would love to put them in one of these crappy masks they make us wear, then tell them that Asbestos and Anthrax particles are larger than Covid 19 particles, and so by their logic these masks will protect them from asbestos related disease, and anthrax, and then put them in a sealed room containing both substnces for at least 24 hours with of course the protective masks on. I am sure they would be very happy to carry out such an experiment
Perhaps the government would consider throwing some of this money into the nhs which is now well and truly on its knees. 18 months wait for cataract surgery, new hips, knees up to 18 month wait, other elective surgeries a very long wait. Dental treatment good luck. And yet spending on a vaccine passport takes precedent to your healthcare. Amazing. No shortage of money for biweekly COVID test kits for every single person in the country with no data to show this is even an effective way to manage whatever it is the government thinks it is managing.
Contracts here, contracts there, the money making scam continues unabated.
A significant proportion of people aren’t having their second injection, especially the younger they are, presumably because of adverse reactions to the first. I predict that even fewer will accept a booster. So if being “fully vaccinated” (and I assume this means having booster injections at specified time intervals) is a prerequisite for being eligible for this “proof of vaccination”, I suspect (and hope) the vaccine passport scheme is going to fall flat on its face within 18 months.
Will there be accountability on what everything connected to Covid has cost/ been wasted in the UK. It must run into trillions.
I ask you to expect absolutely no assistance from any quarter. Westminster, the courts. the media, civil society.
Why not?
Because this whole performance has been meticulously planned.
They’ve wargamed all conceivable responses & developed multiple counters.
At least, that’s what I’d have done. And these people collectively have the massive advantage of knowing exactly what they’re up to.
We can push back successfully only by doing useful but UNPREDICTABLE things.
Hard to counter in advance, so they’ll make far more mistakes.
I can’t emphasise enough that, having thought a lot about this. if we don’t do a great many unpredictable events big or small, to try to trigger those mistakes, I see no likelihood of preventing whatever ghoulish plan is in store for us happening.
As an example. I’ve recently changed to explicitly call everything we’re told is all LIES. It’s had remarkable traction. I’ll keep doing that to the largest audiences I can get.
I’ve also realised (rather late, probably because I don’t want to do it & am not fit & well to, either) that there’s a big chunk of scared people who cannot be brought back from the brink by means of logic & information. A psychologist friend stated that removal of fear would only begin when fearful people were seeing crowds behaving normally, without NPis, and witness no fear. That’s really difficult if there is a sizeable proportion of the population who simply have no intention of returning to normal.