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by Luke Perry
8 November 2021 11:22 PM

  • “Covid cases continue to plummet: infections fall by another fifth” – “The Department of Health posted another 32,322 positive tests across the country in the last 24 hours, down 19.4% last Monday. Cases have dropped week-on-week on all but one day since October 24th,” reports MailOnline.
  • “I was thrilled to get the first two Covid vaccines. But I won’t be getting the booster” – I have come to the conclusion that I don’t need a third jab, and it has been my life-long policy not to take medicines that I don’t need, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
  • “I won’t take my family to America until it stops making toddlers wear masks” – The U.S. has some of the world’s most restrictive Covid rules when it comes to children, writes Natalie Paris in the Telegraph.
  • “Iconic singer Van Morrison sued over Covid comments” – “Northern Ireland’s Health Minister, Robin Swann, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Van Morrison after the rock and R&B legend labelled him ‘very dangerous’ over Covid restrictions during the pandemic,” reports RT.
  • “Myocarditis ‘tends to be mild’? Tell that to this vaccine victim” – “it is no comfort if you are one of the ‘rare’ cases to find yourself in hospital with heart inflammation like Amanda Hartnetty’s 21 year-old son,” says Sally Beck, who analyses the vaccine side-effect of myocarditis in TCW.
  • “Where has BMJ editor Peter Doshi, a vaccine sceptic, been hiding until now?” – “Perhaps it’s not surprising that he never became a darling of SAGE or found himself in the inner sanctum of government science advisers. They might have found his pursuit of the truth rather hard to stomach,” writes Kathy Gyngell, who examines the research findings of BMJ editor Peter Doshi in TCW.
  • “For whom do the Covid ‘fact checkers’ really work?” – We are living in a world where fact checking institutions are literally asserting as fact something which is at best unproven, writes Vinay Prasad for the Brownstone Institute.
  • “Pfizer ‘vaccine’: kill 200 to ‘save’ one?” – Analysis of official data shows the risks attached to the Covid ‘vaccine’ far outweighs any theoretical reward, says Kit Knightly in OffGuardian.
  • “Israel has surrendered to the vaccine mob – and for what?” – “The Israeli Government is ignoring expert critiques of the flawed NEJM study and is rushing to implement a third and possible fourth booster shot to its population in a campaign based on dodgy data,” writes Karen Harradine in TCW.
  • “Republicans slam Biden vaccine rule for businesses as health groups defend it” – Divided reaction to mandate requiring that large companies either vaccinate staff or administer tests mirrors vaccine rollout in U.S., reports the Guardian.
  • “Pfizer to ask FDA to authorize boosters for all aged 18 and older” – Pfizer are planning to ask the FDA to authorize their Covid vaccine for all Americans aged 18 and older as early as this week, reports the Mail.
  • “The trouble with Austria’s vaccine passport plan” – “Are vaccine passports being used in other countries in an attempt to cut Covid infections, or to try and boost vaccine take up by curtailing the social lives of those who refuse? The latest change in policy in Austria would appear to confirm that for them, it’s the latter,” argues Ross Clark in the Spectator.
  • “COP26: Why China, India and Australia are reluctant to ditch coal” – China burns nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined, while Australia is one of the biggest exporters of fossil fuels across the globe, and India relies on coal for more than 60% of its electricity, reports Sky News.
  • “Now he will go to the climate ball – HSE defends giving second Covid test to Eamon Ryan” – The Irish Environment Minister can now attend COP26 after a second Covid test, which came back negative, overturned his previous positive test, reports the Independent.ie.
  • “‘They’re woke!’ Aussie commentator accuses Kate, William and Queen of becoming ‘political‘” – Top royals, including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and even the Queen, have become “political animals”, according to an Australian journalist, reports the Express.
  • “Stop blaming racism for Covid’s impact on minorities” – Cheap accusations of ‘structural racism’ are a distraction from the real causes of disparities, argues Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
  • “Pronoun badges for staff at major U.K. retail chain trigger calls for boycott” – “Marks & Spencer, a British high street favourite, has started offering staff the opportunity to wear a badge featuring their preferred pronoun, alongside their first name and the firm’s logo,” reports RT.
  • “Why is the army fighting the culture wars?” – The Ministry of Defence now expects personnel to announce their pronouns at meetings, reports Jo Bartosch in Spiked.
  • “Scientific Merit and the ‘Equity’ Cult” – “Astronomer John Kormendy withdrew an article from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), after a preprint version that he had just posted on the web drew sharp criticism for threatening the conduct of ‘inclusive’ science,” writes Heather Mac Donald in City Journal.
  • “Railway museum to research steam trains for racism and slavery links” – “The Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York, together with the National Railway Museum, Network Rail, and three other museums in the North of England will spend £9,000 researching how steam power aided imperial expansion and profiteering during the Industrial Revolution,” reports RT.
  • “Unvaccinated care home workers face the sack on Thursday” – Care group boss Mike Padgham speaks to TalkRadio: “This is risking not having enough staff, they have to balance it out. It doesn’t make sense to me.”

Care workers in England face the sack if they are not double-jabbed by Thursday.

Care group boss Mike Padgham: “I believe being vaccinated is a personal choice.

“This is risking not having enough staff, they have to balance it out. It doesn’t make sense to me.”
@JuliaHB1 pic.twitter.com/j1KTHCPNab

— TalkTV (@TalkTV) November 8, 2021
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Dinger64
Dinger64
7 months ago

Well that headline says it all doesn’t it?
What a brain dead heartless chunt!

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Dinger64
Dinger64
7 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Forgot to add he’s just a biological robot with motor function but no thought patterns!

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JXB
JXB
7 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Lizard brain only.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
7 months ago

“Keir Starmer has shocked observers across the political divide”

Not sure why anyone is shocked. He is doing what he said he would do, and following the path we knew he would follow. Why would he have regrets? It seems like back in the day, Blair and Cameron tried to be subtle in their destruction of this country, in order to get re-elected, but these days the Uniparty just goes hell for leather and couldn’t care less about their popularity.

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stewart
stewart
7 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

That is really what has changed.

The contempt for ordinary people and their views is displayed openly.

The Iraq war seemed to me the watershed moment in that respect. The establishment took us to war when the population was clearly against it and there were no consequences. Worse still when it was discovered it was based on lies, still no consequences.

It was the moment the establishment realised it did not need the consent of the population and that it could instead dictate whatever it thought best.

Last edited 7 months ago by stewart
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
7 months ago
Reply to  stewart

People keep voting.

At least we now have an alternative, hopefully, possibly – Reform.

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RW
RW
7 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Reform will be kept out for as long as that’s cheaper than buying it out. And then, it will be bought out. See also The Story of Meloni.

No matter how hard you vote, you don’t control the system.

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stewart
stewart
7 months ago
Reply to  RW

Until there is evidence to the contrary, it’s hard to disagree.

I’m intrigued at how much of what has been promised the Trump regime will actually accomplish and I stand prepared to correct my opinion on how things work. I really hope I have to take all my words back. But for now I remain highly sceptical.

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RTSC
RTSC
7 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

The Globalists are in a hurry now. They know they’ve been rumbled since the Covid Tyranny and lockdowns and they’re getting considerable pushback …. so they are no longer bothering to act discreetly.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
7 months ago
Reply to  RTSC

Yup, I think that’s plausible. Also I think they were rattled by setbacks before then – Brexit and Trump 1 being the ones that spring to mind.

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stewart
stewart
7 months ago
Reply to  RTSC

I actually don’t think they are working to a specific plan or agenda that they have a timeline to execute

I think they are arrogant, depotically minded people who think they know what’s best, are ideologically wedded to the collectivist approach to everything and they react very badly and with no sense of self doubt when there are set backs or push back.

They just plough on on the assumption that those who oppose them are stupid, evil, dangerous and need to be overcome.

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
7 months ago

Of course.
It’s the plan.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago

“Keir Starmer has shocked observers across the political divide after he said he has no regrets about the decisions he has made in the past six months and would do nothing differently.”

He had no choice but to make this statement because to say anything contrary would put him in deep doo doo with his WEF handlers and Kneel is nothing but a spineless order taker.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
7 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yes but count your lucky stars he’s not a woman, or you’d really be up sh*t creek.🙎‍♀️

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varmint
varmint
7 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Or a Black Lesbian in a wheelchair

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

😀😀😀

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RW
RW
7 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

The woman has been put int control of the purse!

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Jack the dog
Jack the dog
7 months ago
Reply to  RW

The national credit card – always bad news.

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Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
7 months ago

Of course TTK would do it all again – he’s serving his globalist masters, not the British people or the British state. And there’s nothing odd about his friend buying knickers for his wife; nothing queer at all. And if OAPs freeze to death, or the WASPIs are treated unfairly, then that’s okay as they’re mainly white people.

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stewart
stewart
7 months ago

That is the technocratic attitude.

What they do is right. Any pain or strife arising is necessary for the greater good. And if it hasn’t worked, it hasn’t been done enough and more of rhe same is needed. Or was correct based on the information at the time and nobody could have known otherwise.

It’s an unassailable position that means that the technocrat is never wrong.

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ChrisSpeke
ChrisSpeke
7 months ago

Danny Finkelstein told us all some years ago that Starmer was a Constitutional Marxist and so it has proved. He must deconstruct the Industrial base of Britain and tax the Middle Classes out of existence . The next step will be to increase the Police Force to ensure that we shall be cowed !

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago
Reply to  ChrisSpeke

I wonder what members of the population will be “recruited” to increase police numbers. Surely not the Calais Yacht Club members?

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MadWolf303
MadWolf303
7 months ago

and it is all downhill from here….by the way he obviously got nothing from his meetings in the US……President Trump doesn’t do deals with losers.

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varmint
varmint
7 months ago

This Government will not last till 2029. They must be removed.

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mrbu
mrbu
7 months ago
Reply to  varmint

Your average native Briton is very good at complaining, but revolution isn’t really in our DNA. If there were to be a revolution, I would think it more likely to come from the immigrant community, to impose some form of Islamic rule.

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Jack the dog
Jack the dog
7 months ago
Reply to  mrbu

No that’s not true. When pushed we can be bloody minded to the other degree.

As sstarmer will find out.

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Jack the dog
Jack the dog
7 months ago
Reply to  mrbu

And for exactly that reason, pal, it ain’t gonna happen.

Luckily where I live there may not be a right to bear arms but at least I can own them .

I honestly don’t understand why anybody still lives in the failed UK.

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mrbu
mrbu
7 months ago

I was going to describe him as an “ostrich”, but that would imply that he cared about what is happening. The truth is, he doesn’t care about how unhappy the populace are. His aim was to get elected, and that’s what he’s done.
He doesn’t care that he told lies to get to where he is. He doesn’t care that people are feeling poorer, not wealthier. He doesn’t care that unemployment will rise and the economy is flatlining. He doesn’t care that all this extra tax is going, not to the people of this country, but to foreign nations or their citizens who have entered this country illegally. He doesn’t care that pensioners are shivering. He doesn’t care that our family farms will be ruined. He doesn’t care that we could well face energy rationing in the near future.
He’s set out to bring the country to its knees, and that’s what his government is doing. The sad thing is that we knew it would happen, but not enough people voted to stop it at the last election.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago
Reply to  mrbu

Hear, hear.

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Cotfordtags
Cotfordtags
7 months ago

Let’s not forget, he was a barrister (and the most successful DPP the country has ever had) and, as such has no skin in the outcome of any game. As long as he delivers a good speech and looks nice in court, the outcome matters not a jot, he will still be handsomely paid. Project forward and he is now the greatest PM we have ever had, because his majority shows the massive support he enjoys in the country and as long as he keeps making nice speeches, he thinks he is doing a good job. Trouble is, as a member of the legal profession, he became accustomed to arguing on on

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Cotfordtags
Cotfordtags
7 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

Bugger, got to move the comment button, so as I was saying before being so rudely interrupted, he became accustomed to arguing on one side on the Monday and the other side on the Tuesday, so the fact that what he says today makes a lie of what he said yesterday is just standard procedure for a member of the legal profession and nothing to worry about.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
7 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

What massive support? Never Here Two Tier Kier has the lowest support of the electorate in history with less than 20% once the anti-Tory vote is removed.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
7 months ago

Man’s a sociopath.

Dead eyes
Bristles when challenged
Outraged when laughed at (viz. TV audience bursting into laughter at his “Son of a toolmaker” crap
Pathological liar.

I am yet to find ANYONE who admits to voting Labour. Good job – they’d get a mouthful.

At 73 I have never been angrier at the government, and worse, have never been frightened at what the govt might do. Were I 21 and not 73 with Grandkids, I’d have gone before they were elected. Hungary probably. A month in Budapest in 2022 convinced me

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JXB
JXB
7 months ago

Is there a psychiatrist in the house?

Tte man’s barking mad.

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RW
RW
7 months ago

It’s important to keep in mind that this is the real Mr COVID, the guy whose unfaltering support for each and every Corona measure enabled all of them to be delivered to be people asking for them. And he’d done much more in this respect hadn’t he forced to cooperate with a nominally Tory prime minister.

He delivered vaccine passports, school closures, permamasking and -swabbing of children, furloughing of the inessential, restrictions on what people were allowed to buy, wholesale abolishment of social life in favor of whole population house arrests and always accepted the collateral damage with a smile, telling people how hard it was for him to be so hard towards others. But it had to be done and he was the tough guy who could.

So, here we Keir again: Starmer, without fear of favor, love, hate or compassion or – for that matter – any emotional involvement at all, delivering. Fiat iustitia et pereat mundus.

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Cotfordtags
Cotfordtags
7 months ago
Reply to  RW

Absolutely, had he been in power, it would all have been so much worse. Let’s also not forget, he excoriated any member of the Government who might have been in the slightest breech of the rules, while at the same time running a preplanned curry night for which people had advanced notifications but for which he was not investigated, because it was in an area with a Labour police commissioner and an activist chief constable. He also waved off any criticism of the current Minister of State for Care, who also broke lockdown rules by travelling to deliver food parcels to his parents.

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RW
RW
7 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

Well, yeah. But what I was trying to get at was that this guy has proven that he has just as much empathy for the objects of his policy choices as one Dr Mengele had for the objects of his experiments and that his decision making is unbeschmirched by either common sense or a conscience. To Starmer, everyone but Starmer is just a pawn which might – regrettably – need to be sacrificed for the benefit of the whole.

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Jack the dog
Jack the dog
7 months ago

Either he is a liar or an idiot.

Probably both, but even more liar than feckin’ imbecile.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
7 months ago

These are the words of a programmed automaton and he really is that. Look at everything about him and you will see that everything matches with the behaviour of a programmed automaton. That is what they are looking for and he is the apotheosis. Conformity to the agenda to the point where you don’t even seem human anymore.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
7 months ago

Proof that he and his student union government are on a different planet.

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djg682
djg682
7 months ago

Those sorts of people appear to lack the capacity to regret.

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Rusty123
Rusty123
7 months ago

Of course he wouldnt change anything, he’s just following “orders”, and no doubt getting richer by the day.

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RTSC
RTSC
7 months ago

Why would he? He’s doing what he’s been instructed to do ….. it’s deliberate and he knows that in our pretendy-democracy there’s nothing we can do about it.

And the Official Opposition doesn’t want to anyway, since it’s signed up to the same Agenda ….. UN 2030.

He probably won’t survive as Leader until the next General Election but his future is secure and someone else, probably Streeting, will takeover and continue the process of dismantling the UK.

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coviture2020
coviture2020
7 months ago

I wish it were hubris , sadly it’s lack of insight

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marebobowl
marebobowl
7 months ago

Puppets do as they are told. As you can see. Everyone happy? No, I did not think so.

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