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by Toby Young
30 June 2020 7:00 PM

What on earth does the Government think it’s doing? What possible reason is there for reimposing a full lockdown on Leicester? In an act of sheer lunacy, Matt Hancock announced this morning that non-essential shops have been told to close today and schools asked to shut their doors to the majority of children from Thursday. Pubs, restaurants and hair salons that have been gearing up to re-open on Saturday have now been told to remain closed.

The rationale, needless to say, is that Leicester has seen a “surge” in cases, with over 900 new cases in the past two weeks. Confusion surrounded this figure since the published data for Leicester recorded just 80 new positive tests between June 13th and 26th. But Hancock now says there were in fact 944.

How do we know the increase in cases isn’t simply an artefact of increased testing in Leicester? We don’t, obviously. The 80 figure is based on Pillar 1 data, which are from tests done in hospitals; the 944 figure is based on Pillar 2 data, which are from tests done at Government centres or at home and processed by commercial labs. But surely the hospital data are more reliable than the community data – although these are all PCR tests and they’re all notoriously unreliable (see this Off-Guardian piece). And if the number of new cases being discovered by hospitals is low that suggests there isn’t a “surge” in new cases in the community. Deaths, too, are low, although, to be fair, if the alleged rise in cases has only happened since June 13th you wouldn’t expect to see any corresponding rise in deaths yet. On June 29th, only two people died from COVID-19 in the whole of the Midlands. According to the FT, the rise in infections is mainly among younger people (as it is in southern and southwestern US states) which means we’re unlikely to see any corresponding rise in deaths.

Let’s suppose the Pillar 2 data are accurate and there have been 944 new cases in Leicester between June 13th and 26th. That’s an average of 472 new cases/week. Assuming an infection fatality rate of ~0.25% (almost certainly an over-estimate), that means ~1 person/week will die if the infection rate remains where it is. And even that’s over-egging it, given that a majority of the new cases are among younger people.

Is it really worth reimposing a lockdown on Leicester to prevent one person/week from dying? I looked at the NHS England data for hospital deaths and of the five people who died from coronavirus on June 29th four were 80+ years’ old.

So the people of Leicester are being asked to close schools, shut non-essential shops and keep their pubs, restaurants and hair salons shuttered for two more weeks in order to prevent the deaths of two people aged 80+? Setting aside the civil liberties argument, is Matt Hancock confident that more than one person per week won’t die as a result of reimposing the lockdown? I’m thinking of cancer operations being postponed, the increased risk of suicide and domestic violence, and elderly people who may die of thirst or starvation because their relatives aren’t allowed to visit them.

What an absolute shower this Government is. If I was the Mayor of Leicester, I’d just point-blank refuse to comply. This report on Sky says the Leicester lockdown has “legal underpinning” which sounds like a mealy-mouthed way of saying its not legally enforceable.

Hector Drummond’s Graph

There’s a good piece in Hector Drummond Magazine entitled “This Is What We Shot Ourselves in the Foot For“. Hector has plotted the ONS’s figures for all-cause mortality in England and Wales dating back to 1900 on a graph and it shows a pretty modest uptick in 2020. For graphing purposes, he assumes that the number will be the five-year average for 2015-19 (531,355) + total Covid deaths. However, as he says, that’s probably an overestimate since some of the people who’ve succumbed to coronavirus would have died anyway this year. He’s also taken total Covid deaths for the UK (42,462), not England and Wales, so that too means the uptick is higher than it will be. Nonetheless, it’s still a pretty meagre increase. He concludes:

So: no gigantic, bowel-emptying spike in 2020. No jaw-dropping upwards vertical rocket-ship to match those jaw-dropping downward vertical cliffs we saw with the economic data. Just a tiny little uptick, like many other little upticks in there, indistinguishable from random noise. If you asked someone in the future who was unacquainted with the era to point to where the once-in-a-century medical disaster was, they would have no chance of picking it out.

Far from being a once-in-a-century pandemic, COVID-19 turned out to be a bad flu. We shut down the world for a bad flu. We shut down the world despite living in the safest era in the whole of history.

ONS Says All-Cause Deaths Now Below Five-Year Average

Deaths in England and Wales

Today’s data release from the ONS for the w/e June 19th shows all-cause mortality has dropped below the five-year average. This is in addition to Week 23 having the lowest Covid death toll for 13 weeks (623).

A total of 9,339 people died of any cause in the w/e June 19th, down from an average of 9,404 for the same week over the past five years. This bears out Hector Drummond’s suspicion (see above) that the total Covid death toll for 2020 is likely to be lower than the five-year average + those who’ve died from Covid.

As one reader points out:

Since it’s inconceivable and impossible that without COVID-19 being a factor the average death figures would have been below average for Week 23 because of some magical and coincidental reduction in other causes of death, then that leaves only one conclusion, viz. that many people who have died of (or “with”) coronavirus in the UK would have done so this year anyway.

In the movie Aliens, Ripley tells Newt, the small girl and only survivor of the deserted space colony, of all the precautions she and the marines will take to protect Newt against the aliens.

Newt says: “It won’t make any difference.”

I wonder what Newt would say if you told her that, from tomorrow, we’ll have been locked in our homes for 100 days?

“It won’t make any difference.”

Rate of Decline Flattening. Oh No! Mother!

Amusing comment in the Guardian on this graph just released by Downing Street showing the declining daily death tolls:

Downing Street has updated its daily dashboard with the latest coronavirus figures. These are UK figures. Here is the graph showing the number of daily deaths. It is still going down, but now the rate of decline is flattening.

Well, yes. The rate of decline is flattening. That’s what happens when the number approaches zero. When it actually gets to zero – next week? – expect the Guardian run a story saying: “Rate of Decline In COVID-19 Deaths Worryingly Flat.”

Price Fixing

Why is the Government telling pharmacies what price to put on hand sanitiser products and face masks? Has it lost its faith in the market to price those items fairly? A reader writes:

Another nail in our freedoms: the Competition and Markets Authority and the General Pharmaceutical Council have threatened pharmacies with fines if they sold face masks and hand sanitiser at high prices. Have these two organisations heard that in a free enterprise market economy prices are not fixed by officialdom but float subject to supply and demand, the exception being where there is an abuse of a monopoly? As far as I am aware, there are multiple manufacturers and suppliers of these products, which are available in supermarkets and on-line as well as in pharmacies. Why are we allowing our freedom to be infringed by such bureaucrats?

Alternative Poem

Excellent alternative to the ghastly propaganda poem I published in the last Lockdown Sceptics update. This one is by Annie, one of the best commenters below the line.

POEM, TO BE LEARNED BY HEART BY ALL CHILDREN WHOSE PARENTS ARE NOT ZOMBIES

By Annie, Covipoet Laureate and Composer of Deathless Verse for All Occasions (fee scale sent on request)

There was a boy called Johnny
Who as a general rule
Lived a normal, quiet existence
Between home and play and school.

But when the lad was seven
His whole life turned to bad:
Some people caught a flu germ
And all the world went mad.

They took our little Johnny
And every other kid,
And slammed them in a dungeon
And then screwed down the lid.

Johnny went into the garden
But the policemen came and said
There was virus in the garden
And our John would soon be dead.

Mummy took him to the playground,
But all the slides and swings
Had hazard tape all round them
And other dreadful things.

His granny came to see him
Most secretly one day,
But the next-door neighbour dobbed them
And the police dragged her away.

John’s mummy said the police were right,
And Johnny he should not
Even dream of hugging granny
Or she’d drop dead on the spot.

When mummy went out shopping
She put a bandage round her head
It made her look so monstrous
Johnny hid under his bed.

Then she put a mask on Johnny
And to our lad it seemed
That mask was going to choke him,
And he screamed and screamed and screamed.

Then Johnny got into his bed
And turned to face the wall
And it makes no difference what they do,
He won’t come out at all.

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:

  • ‘EasyJet to sack up to 4,500 staff and close its bases at Stansted, Southend and Newcastle‘ – Another airline in trouble
  • ‘GCSE and A-level pupils can sit exams if they don’t like coursework grade‘ – Er, so why couldn’t they have just sat the exams anyway?
  • ‘Christian leaders invoke Magna Carta and sue the government over church lockdown‘ – At last, some red-blooded Christians we can get behind. Christian Concern is suing the Government over the decision to close churches. May God be with them
  • ‘LOCKDOWN LUNACY 2.0: Second wave? Not even close‘ – Comprehensive debunking of “second wave” balls by JB Handley
  • ‘Flatten the Fear‘ – Excellent new sceptical initiative by US docs
  • ‘The Real Pandemic Was a Nursing Home Problem‘ – Great post on the American Institute for Economic Research blog
  • ‘The lockdown is causing so many deaths‘ – Dr Malcolm Kendrick interviewed in Spiked
  • ‘Boris Johnson could quickly come unstuck‘ – The always sensible Matthew Goodwin in the Spectator. Ya think?
  • ‘A minority opinion on Covid deaths‘ – The peerless Lionel Shriver in the Spectator
  • ‘Welby must look to future, not fuss over past‘ – Trevor Philips in the Times says Welby should stop fretting about the church’s past and start worrying about its future, particularly if he remains at the helm

Theme Tune Suggestions From Readers

Two suggestions today: “Beyond Belief” by Elvis Costello and “It’s Time to Get Away” by LCD Soundsystem.

Small Businesses That Have Re-opened

A few weeks ago, Lockdown Sceptics launched a searchable directory of open businesses across the UK. The idea is to celebrate those retail and hospitality businesses that have re-opened, 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. Now that non-essential shops have re-opened – or most of them, anyway – we’re now focusing on pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants, as well as other social venues. 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. Don’t worry if your entries don’t show up immediately – we need to approve them once you’ve entered the data.

Note to the Good Folk Below the Line

I enjoy reading all your comments and I’m glad I’ve created a “safe space” for lockdown sceptics to share their frustrations and keep each other’s spirits up. But please don’t copy and paste whole articles from papers that are behind paywalls in the comments. I work for some of those papers and if they don’t charge for premium content they won’t survive.

And while I’ve got you, any holiday tips? Mrs Young thinks Greece is too risky – sensible, given that they’ve just extended their quarantine for another two weeks. We’re now looking at Italy, Austria and Switzerland, but can go further afield. All tips gratefully received. The little male Youngs are keen on a swimming pool that’s actually open and Mrs Young is happy with anything sunny provided she doesn’t have to cook. Miss Young (16) would ideally like to be near a beach.

Shameless Begging Bit

Thanks as always to those of you who made a donation in the last 24 hours to pay for the upkeep of this site. It usually takes me several hours to do these updates, along with everything else, which doesn’t leave much time for other work. If you feel like donating, however small the amount, please click here. And if you want to flag up any stories or links I should include in future updates, email me here. (Please don’t email me at any other address.) I’ll try and get another update done on Thursday.

And Finally…

I was interviewed by Stephen Knight, otherwise known as Godless Spellchecker, for his YouTube channel on Monday. We were supposed to be talking about the Free Speech Union, but I got a bit sidetracked when he asked about Lockdown Sceptics and launched into an epic rant against the Government.

Worth watching in full, obviously.

And, for the die-hard fans, there’s always London Calling, the weekly podcast with James Delingpole and me. Quite a lively one this week, with both of us getting steamed up about Britain and America’s Maoist moment.

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
10 months ago

Labour already being attacked by the pro Palestine wing and losing seats to them.
They are not going to be so easy to push around as Reform.
Interesting times and we are already betting on which group will call a strike before the Summer recess. My money is with the train drivers.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
10 months ago
Reply to  CircusSpot

Junior doctors and Port Talbot steel workers.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
10 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Come to think of it, are there any steel workers elsewhere in the UK?

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
10 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Certainly there are in Sheffield, the main factory is opposite our offices.

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
10 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Although Sunak did manage to spoil the strike chances of the Teachers and College Lecturers!

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
10 months ago
Reply to  CircusSpot

Aren’t the train drivers still on strike but everyone simply ignores them?

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RTSC
RTSC
10 months ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

No-one much bothers using the trains anymore.

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RTSC
RTSC
10 months ago
Reply to  CircusSpot

It’ll be interesting to see Unite attacking Labour for it’s determined destruction of our oil and gas industry.

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Baldrick
Baldrick
10 months ago

Well you can say what you like about the Tories, but both Chris Chope and David Davis have kept their seats. Chris Chope was trying to sort out vaccine damage compensation if I remember correctly. And David Davis (no not David Davies) also challenged the vaccine passports and was trying to raise awareness about Vitamin D. There were others on the Tory side who questioned lockdown like Charles Walker (seat lost), but Sir Desmond Swayne has kept his seat. Not too many Lib dems, nor labour, nor greens did much of that.

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Baldrick
Baldrick
10 months ago
Reply to  Baldrick

Esther McVey has also got re-elected. She did quite a nice speech criticising the MHRA and their ties with big pharma. Of course likely to have made no difference.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago
Reply to  Baldrick

That’s good news about Sir Desmond Swayne.

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Jon Mors
Jon Mors
10 months ago

Whilst pleased that the Lib Dems aren’t the official opposition, it would have been better if the Tories got only a handful of seats more than them. As things stand, there are inevitably talks on ConservativeHome of ‘how we rebuild’, with the comments section infested with wets that can’t stand Farage. That being said, this piece was fairly on the money.

https://conservativehome.com/2024/07/05/requiem-for-the-lotus-eaters/

Focussing on the positives:

Woke fascists in Scotland got their comeuppance
Penny Mordant is now unemployed and busy setting up an OnlyFans account, no doubt.
Due to delayed voting, fake-rightist Kemi might miss out on the Tory leadership election in which case Suella could become leader.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

It would have been if Reform had won, or failing that, the Tories have fewer votes and crucially seats than Reform. But 6 million+ supposed conservatives voted for more of the same Blairism even when they had a clear, viable alternative.

I will repeat my take on the election result, with reference to this article and the focus on Labour. Instead, look at the % of votes. 80%+ of those who voted, voted for some variation of a left wing Big Government party. We’re doomed!

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stewart
stewart
10 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Doomed in the sense that the population will never vote to reform or change anything substantial. Change will never come from within.

What will happen is that the system will collapse. Eventually. When is impossible to predict. The economics won’t hold up forever. Eventually the capability to confiscate wealth and print money to sustain it all will come to an end. And all the madness and contradictions will become unsustainable.

We are a society that has actively chosen to live in self delusion, mesmerised by riches and welfare that we cannot afford. We have allowed ourselves to be convinced that we deserve all these things and are owed them.

It’s all going to end badly. And honestly I can’t wait because I can’t bear the stupidity. It’s become oppressive.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  stewart

I agree but it will take more than our lifetimes to happen.

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Jon Mors
Jon Mors
10 months ago
Reply to  stewart

I find the hardest part of it all is the loneliness. It’s not much fun living amongst a population for most of whom I have little more than contempt, and some degree of fear (what will the ****ckers do next?). Maybe I’ll join Reform just to make some friends 🙁

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
10 months ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

Not a unique feeling. I’ve never forgotten my Marxist fellow student at medical school who looked a bit down in the mouth. When I asked him why, he said, “I’m the only socialist amongst six hundred fascists.”

Just resist following his therapy of making lists of the categories of people who would be shot come the revolution…

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago
Reply to  stewart

But we DO deserve all these good things, because our Ethnic European = “White” ancestors worked hard to build up the West into great nations, and we did, too, as their descendants.

Collapse will come as planned by the Globalists forcing it upon us, using lawyers & judges & chicanery to thwart any populist revolt against it.

And they will continue to welcome swarms of termites to eat up your house, smiling all the while, telling you that they really love your house, and your “values”, and that you should just lay down and let them eat up your house, because you are “racist” and “guilty of white privilege”.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
10 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

True, but continuing, ironically, with unsustainable policies, like NET Zero, DEI, High Carb diets, ‘a pill (or jab) for every ill’, and promoting corrupt Arts, Humanities, Social and Climate Science at the expense of STEM subjects and Manufacturing, does hinder receiving our inheritance.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
10 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Yes, I agree. I think sums it up;

https://x.com/Earthdriver/status/1809101947523207615

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jsampson45
jsampson45
10 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

How many voted Tory to keep someone out, rather than voting *for* anything?

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
10 months ago
Reply to  jsampson45

I am baffled as to why anyone supposedly conservative would have voted Tory this time given that there was a clear conservative alternative. Monro has explained his reasons for doing so which I think were illogical but he obviously has strong feelings, but I think most of them are asleep.

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Smudger
Smudger
10 months ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

Penny Mordaunt has that kind of dominatrix look about her that may be in huge demand in certain London gentlemen’s clubs which could, I imagine, be quite financially rewarding.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
10 months ago

Not unrelated topic — TCW the invention of Islamophobia 2
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-invention-of-islamophobia-part-2/

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RW
RW
10 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Thanks for the link.

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Baldrick
Baldrick
10 months ago

Could be interesting if the new prime minister wants us back in the EU, even if by stealth. Isn’t much of EU becoming right wing?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
10 months ago
Reply to  Baldrick

Depends on the definition of Right Wing.

We don’t want Mussolini style fascism.

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Baldrick
Baldrick
10 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Agree. Maybe the term is now meaningless.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago
Reply to  Baldrick

“Right wing” just means “Conservative” in the dictionary….wanting to preserve the traditions, heritage, culture and ethnic identity of the indigenous inhabitants.

It does not mean, nor ever has meant, “fascist”.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
10 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Just like with the BUF, Mussonili wasn’t antisemitic. Both later became antisemitic, the tatter because of pressure from Hitler during the latter part of WW2.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

It turns out that you are right.

“MUSSOLINI’S JEWISH LOVER WHO CRAFTED ITALIAN FASCISM”

“Margherita Sarfatti wasn’t just the dictator’s most erudite paramour; she was his secret adviser and ideologue.”

https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/2014-11-23/ty-article/mussolinis-lover-who-crafted-fascism/0000017f-ef00-d0f7-a9ff-efc51f0b0000

“THE JEWISH MOTHER OF FASCISM”

“Margherita Sarfatti was known in Italy as Benito Mussolini’s mistress, but she was much more than that. She was his ideological companion, planned the ‘March on Rome’ with him, wrote articles in his name, edited the Fascist Party organ and wrote his first official biography.”

https://www.haaretz.com/2006-07-06/ty-article/the-jewish-mother-of-fascism/0000017f-ebd9-d639-af7f-ebdfe9040000

“MUSSOLINI’S JEWISH LOVER WHO HELPED LAUNCH FASCISM”

“The aristocratic, intellectual and ambitious wife of wealthy Zionist lawyer Cesare Sarfatti, and mother of their three children, did not only share her bed with Il Duce. She also helped him forge and implement the fascist idea; she contributed advice — and Sullivan says, money — to help organize the 1922 March on Rome in which Mussolini seized power.

During those 20 years she was his eminence grise and unofficial ambassador, glorifying him in her 1925 biography that was translated into 18 languages.”

https://forward.com/life/209758/mussolini-s-jewish-lover-who-helped-launch-fasci/

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
10 months ago
Reply to  Baldrick

Someone said if the EU moves anymore to the Right Nigel Farage will want to join back up.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
10 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

The EU continues to be an Authoritarian Big State, and the people are starting to rebel because they yearn for Small State, market driven, patriotism.

And the result would be that Europe would become a collection of independent, sovereign states that trade with each other.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago
Reply to  Norfolk-Sceptic

Yes! No “European Union” of any kind is necessary.

Just “Sovereign states that trade with each other”, as they did for centuries.

Now that the US Federal government has proven again and again that they are essentially hostile to the interests of the American people, each individual state in the USA should declare themselves to be independent nations trading with each other, greatly facilitated by their common language and culture. The US Federal government no longer serves any useful purpose.

Since the Globalists want to abolish all borders, nations, and ethnic identities, everyone in the world should do the opposite: more and more independent nations, WITHOUT any Supreme Court Kritocracy telling them what to do.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
10 months ago
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😀 😀 😀

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Monro
Monro
10 months ago

Surely this political strategist number is money for old rope.

Labour vote share in England stays the same.

The Conservative vote share plummets.

A brand new party with old Conservative policies and a charismatic leader takes all those votes the Conservatives lost.

So all the Conservatives have to do is to embrace the old Conservative policies and the charismatic leader and they are back; home and hosed…..

Keep It Simple, Stupid

KISS and make up……..

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soundofreason
soundofreason
10 months ago

40.1% of the registered voters couldn’t be bothered about the outcome. That’s quite a bit more than backed Labour. This number does not include those who fail to register to vote. Meh. They didn’t even have to turn up – just ask for a postal vote.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
10 months ago

Starmer’s words about treating ever person in the country with respect rang a lttle (very) hollow with the hecklers at Farage’s speech.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
10 months ago

“… the lowest turnout since the arrival of universal suffrage at 59.9%”

The real story. Thank God they managed to hoodwink a large % of the masses by bringing Farage into the game. Without him a voter turnout of less then half may have been on the cards – something that would have been impossible to ignore, and the first domino would wobble. An excellent move to make the unimportant think they’re still important. Well played.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
10 months ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

…a voter turnout of less then half may have been on the cards – something that would have been impossible to ignore

You give them too much credit.

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Westfieldmike
Westfieldmike
10 months ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

You sound like a nasty leftie

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
10 months ago
Reply to  Westfieldmike

Nasty leftie? Bless you. Made me smile. Proof, as if it were needed, that there is no bottom to the idiocy barrel.

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pamela preedy
pamela preedy
10 months ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

That’s rich coming from a person who wanted to be ‘fair’ to Harriet ‘The Harridan’ Harperson, a supporter of PIE because she ‘didn’t want to rock the boat’ of the MMM.org (MinoritiesMatterMore.org) aka the leftard civil liberties brigade.

Proving her craven urge to keep in with the Leftie in-crowd even in old age, she jumped off the old-hat Feminist bandwagon onto the very trendy Transophilia Girls’R’Us bandwagon full of ugly men in daft dresses sporting 5 o’clock shadows.

To hell with XX chromosomers, their rights will just have to give way to a REAL minority of XY ‘women’ – much smaller than 50% of the population!

Doubtless, a percentage of those ugly, badly-dressed men are paedos disguised as grandmas, so Harriet might get another great opportunity in ECHR to support a deserving minority, courtesy of Smarmer. Deserving of what, I won’t say.

FL, you’re right, there’s no bottom to the idiocy barrel as shown in the results of this General Election promoting a White-Brit-hating marxist rabble to power in majority White (for now) Britain.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
10 months ago

Hmm, isn’t Rayner the one who wants to welcome in loads of immigrants across the country ( just so the ‘cultural enrichment’ can be fairly doled out so there’ll be no squabbles amongst the citizens ) but there’s not enough houses so she wants to build hundreds of thousands but we all know that’s not going to happen? Think that’s her… What Labour will do is what the NL and Germany have done: just create ‘container villages’. They’re slightly less unsightly than ‘tent cities’ but still look weird;

”Sir Keir Starmer has made Rachel Reeves Britain’s first female chancellor as he appoints his new cabinet to get on with the job quickly.
One of his easiest appointments for the new prime minister was Ms Reeves as his new chancellor.
She played a major role in the campaign and as a former Bank of England economist has helped bring economic credibility back to Labour from the wreckage of the Jeremy Corbyn years.

She is the first female to hold the second most important role in governent in 708 years of the office being in existance.
Earlier Angela Rayner has been handed her own department as secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities taking over from Michael Gove.
Ms Rayner, who will also be deputy prime minister, only the second woman to hold the role after Therese Coffey in Liz Truss’ 49-day government, will mirror the role of John Prescott who was Tony Blair’s deputy and also in charge of the department for local government and development.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-cabinet-keir-starmer-who-general-election-b2574493.html

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
10 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Same office as Prescott, who knocked down 250,000 much-loved houses in Yorkshire and promised 500,000. The first 250,000 would go to those who were displaced. How many were built? Zero.
All Rayner knows about housing is how to get away with fraud and pocket £48,000 of taxpayer’s cash.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

Thanks for the shocking information about Prescott!
I did not know that.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
10 months ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

Prescott also went through Oldham’s 100 + years old terraced stock like a dose of salts. All those houses, thousands of them could have been renovated for £20 k or less. I know, my first house was a two up two down, self renovated.

Replacements – zilch.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
10 months ago

I would say that with a mandate at the level of twenty percent it would be impossible to govern. And that is before they’ve even started to cock things up even more. He will be gone soon, his replacement worse, their replacement even worse and so on. There are limits to systems management. Like Frank Zappa said. the illusion of freedom will continue as long as it is profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
10 months ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

Good quote that.

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Steven Robinson
Steven Robinson
10 months ago

Standing as an independent after being ousted from the Conservative Party, the courageous man of principle Andrew Bridgen also lost his seat – by a huge margin. We don’t deserve such men.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago
Reply to  Steven Robinson

I wish Reform would welcome him into the fold, because together we are stronger than separated.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
10 months ago

He has been chosen as the wartime leader for an escalation in offensive starting in August. It is thought that his voice will be more commanding when it comes to conscription. I strongly doubt it. There is something quite odious in boomers telling young people to fight their wars so that they can keep their wealth. I think the younguns have cottoned on to this.

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Westfieldmike
Westfieldmike
10 months ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

You seem to have an odd name.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

You are forgetting that the “Boomers” you so despise are the ones who protested against all the stupid foreign wars in the Middle East, and before that in Southeast Asia, and now in Ukraine, once they discovered how they had been deceived by Blair & Co., Zelensky & his secret friend Putin, and now China sabre-rattling for the Globalists.

Last edited 10 months ago by Heretic
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Westfieldmike
Westfieldmike
10 months ago

This site is turning into the Daily Mail. Lots of strange fake names and nasty comments.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago
Reply to  Westfieldmike

I like most of the comments on the Daily Mail articles, which reflect what the ordinary man-in-the-street thinks. And the Daily Mail doesn’t allow commenters to post interminable screeds on totally irrelevant topics beneath every article, or one person making at least 10 comments on every article, all day every day.

Jabby on here seems to be one of the 77th Brigade, just trying to wind everybody up.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
10 months ago

Trust me in four weeks time you will all be gung-ho for war and Keir Starmer and conscription and all that comes with it. They know that you will feel that way in a few weeks time and they take advantage of it. Can you blame them. Just wait and see how pro-war you are in 4 weeks time. If you were to be approached or accosted in that moment you would be a raging mess saying ‘kill them all’. If you don’t believe me then just wait four weeks. They mess with you because you are easily messed with. Normal people leave easily messed with people alone but predators don’t.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

Hello, 77th Brigade! Back again, are you?
I wish you were on the side of the angels.
Perhaps one day, you will be…

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
10 months ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

I’m not shedding blood for these Globalists, a civil war is another matter because democracy is dead and has been for a while.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago

Amidst the appalling queue of Kneeler’s Communist Chosen, traipsing toward their new ministerial offices, waving their hammers & sickles, there is one bright little ray of sunshine:

The Five Musketeers making history, “All for one, and one for all!”

Nigel Farage for Essex, Clacton-on-Sea
Richard Tice for Lincolnshire, Boston & Skegness
Lee Anderson for Nottinghamshire, Ashfield
Rupert Lowe for Norfolk, Great Yarmouth
James McMurdock for Essex, South Basildon & East Thurrock

As Nigel gleefully said to the youngest one, “Go on, my son!” 🙂

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
10 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

If only he had the stones to talk to tommy Robinson, I know Parliament would make hay out of it though, but he needs to unite the Right. Not the Tory Right they’re already dead.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Yes, I agree completely, because together we are stronger than the Globalists. He should gather all the patriots into the fold: all those Reform candidates who were forced to stand down, Tommy Robinson, Andrew Bridgen, Nick Griffin, Lawrence Fox, the English Defence League, the Football Lads Alliance, and stop acting like a Witchfinder General, hunting down anyone who ever opposed the Mass Invasion of the West by the Third World, or ever expressed any kind of loyalty to their own Ethnic European people, or ever wanted their own country back.

As someone said,

“I always stand for white folks first, because no one else will.”

Last edited 10 months ago by Heretic
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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
10 months ago

I think by October the situation will be dark farce. W are used to winning every war under the sun because our weapons are generations above the opposition. You are making a mistake to think that it will just be more of this. I wish it would be but it isn’t. On every level we are defeated even on the level of tactical nuclear weapons. I hate to admit it but there comes a point when you have to admit the truth.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
10 months ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

A good general doesn’t win every battle he fights, but he does fight every battle he can win.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
10 months ago

The saddest news of the day was Andrew Bridgen losing his seat. One of the very, very few reputable, and completely honest, MP’s I’ve ever come across.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
10 months ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

Seconded 👍

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