I’ve written a comment piece for Mail+ about yesterday’s ‘Plan B’ announcement by Boris, arguing that it shouldn’t be seen as the final nail in the coffin of those who cleave to the cock-up theory of history. On the contrary, it’s yet another balls-up. Here is an extract:
A friend sent me a message last night after Boris Johnson had unveiled ‘plan B’ at a hastily arranged press conference: “Still think it’s a cock-up and not a conspiracy?”
I can see his point.
After all, how strong is the medical case for the restrictions announced last night?
The number of Omicron cases may be doubling every few days, but what evidence is there that vaccine passports will ‘flatten the curve’?
Germany has had a Covid certification scheme in place for weeks, yet it has a higher number of cases per day than we do.
The Scottish government published a 70-page document last month making the case for vaccine passports, but neglected to include a single scrap of evidence that they work.
Which is hardly surprising, since people who’ve been double jabbed are still becoming infected and infecting others, albeit at a lower rate than the unvaccinated.
How else to explain the fact that daily cases are creeping up, even though, according to the Office for National Statistics, 95% of English adults have antibodies?
If the jabs don’t prevent you from catching the old variant, what hope is there that vaccine passports will stop the spread of the new variant?
Incidentally, the number of Covid patients in English hospitals is falling, the hospital admission rate of Covid patients in England decreased to 6.02 per 100,000 people in the week ending November 28th 2021.
We know from looking at South Africa, where Omicron has been circulating for a few weeks, that those infected are less likely to be admitted to hospital than people who test positive for Delta.
So why the last-minute, panicky announcement?
My conspiracy-minded friend thinks it’s all part of a worldwide plan. He believes that since March of last year the government has been doing the bidding of a small cabal of powerful billionaires who want to control the world’s population via vaccine passports and other bio-security measures.
The problem with this theory is that the Government isn’t capable of planning something 48 hours in advance, let alone 21 months. In a testy exchange yesterday on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Dominic Raab categorically denied ‘plan B’ was being actively considered, only for the Prime Minister to announce it the following day.
I’ve known Boris for more than 30 years and at one stage worked for him when he was editor of the Spectator. I’ve always been fond of him, but the chances of him being enlisted in a global conspiracy by Bill Gates and his pals are vanishing to zero. That would be like planning a casino heist with Mr Bean.
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A masterful deflection starting with the title of this piece, to acknowledging the friends point of view, through to pinning in it on the governments and Mr Beans incompetence.
Revealing all in the third paragraph from the bottom, the most accurate part, except for conspiracy minded which should read truth seeker and March last year which should read decades old, with the following two paras re enforcing the incompetence message.
Having known Johnson for 30yrs and worked for him, makes you a gatekeeper.
Been a fan of this blog from the start, not any more.
Indeed, you’d have to be willfully moronic not to realise the WEF/WHO/World Bank did all the organising over the last 20+ years, easily found in their planning documents. You only need a few Mr & Mrs Beans in front of their respective countries TV cameras at the front reading the WEF script from a teleprompter “Build Back Better”.
You’d have to be willfully moronic, drunk on your own sense of superior intelligence, to think anyone would fall for such a blatent “Bodge” limited hangout narrative.
Useful idiot, or paid shill, it’s one or the other.
Yes..#BigBozza and his fellow politicians are in all likelihood entirely innocent of premeditation, but I know for a fact the Financial /Pharma / BioSecurity cabal routinely ‘Bounce’ /manipulate the political establishment in pursuit of their long term (longer than the political cycle anyway) plans…
There are none so blind as those who will not see. Such a shame that after all his invaluable contributions through the Lockdown Sceptic and now the Daily Sceptic website Toby can be so proud of parading his wilful ignorance in a rag like the Mail. I don’t want to label him a useful idiot but how he can continually expose such depraved corruption and then be happy to settle on this conclusion is beyond my comprehension.
Spot on – sadly.
Nothing explains the past two years other than the Great Reset, or planned global genocide. No other explanation fits the facts.
I think Tobys love of Bozzer is making him blinkered to what is happening here and worldwide. Yes Bozzer is a clown, just like many other leaders, but they are being corralled and bribed into a new world order as part of Agenda 21, great reset whatever. He is but a pawn in this awful process which we have to stop. Also not true that virus spreading faster in unvaxed
A few months ago any mention that vaccine passports will be implemented were laughed off as a conspiracy theory ….
Sorry, I don’t buy this bumbling fool act. The Psy Ops program is working as intended, they are reaching all their milestones and are planning more ….
Like many I have struggled to make sense of that which is without sense. Watching our own & other governments seemingly self-destruct their societies & economies for a seasonal respiratory virus with an IFR of about the same as flu.
There is a bigger picture though, and it seems it is the Global economy, which its said has been “dead” since 2009 with the financial
system being propped up with limitless fiat money-printing and government debt.
The all powerful Central banks to whom most governments must defer, intend to re-structure the Global monetary system to that of a Central Bank Digital Currency in place of nation currencies.
This is not good news as it gives them complete control of yours & my money & how & if we can spend it.
”Vaccines” are the way to vaccine passports, which are the way to digital identities, which are the way to this new very unwelcome financial system.
These 2 links are some of the best explanations I have read & we hear directly from 2 of the most powerful players, what the intentions are. I recommend them.
https://australianvoice.livejournal.com/57270.html
https://australianvoice.livejournal.com/56341.html
Look over there, an incompetent squirrel, a house of squirrels even.
Don’t look over there at the funding behind Modernas “new” transfection biotech platform (DARPA) or the reseach done in Wuhan & UNC (funded by US). Or that gene therapy that they needed to illiminate the natural immune response to get to work, that transfection tech that would never be accepted by the population without a “pandemic”. Or that virus made from bat shaped lego bricks, which were collected and funded by US money, or especially that spiky lego brick that attaches to hACE2, the one named SHC014 that just happened to have exactly the same name as the one Merck uses in their biotech transfection platform ~yr 2000…. Don’t look at a lab leak from Wuhan when UNC had the same DARPA lego bricks, don’t look at the “Vaping illness” prevelant in North Carolina in Dec 2019 around the same time as the WOrld military games in Wuhan.
Don’t look at the ~15yr paper trail of WHO/John Hopkins et al planning documents and treaties to unify the world response to a pandemic…
No Toby, don’t look over there, look at the squirrel.
want some nuts?
https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2019/10/04/nc-hospital-spotted-mystery-vaping-injury-patterns-early-on/
https://www.militarytech.news/2021-08-17-darpa-secretly-developing-mrna-vaccine-years-ago-through-moderna.html
https://twitter.com/DlakaDarko/status/1460975227605815298
The reports in that vaping piece of Covid type infections, given that the Wuhan gain of function research was run from North Carolina university, and people must have been coming and going, are fascinating. Thank you.
if you like that, remember the video of Mike Pompeo on CNN (March 20 2020) admitting that “we’re in a live exercise here” when referring to COVID-19 during a press conference, when Trump immediately interjects with this remark: “You should have let us know.” ?
keep that in mind when you download the WHO Global Preparedness Monitoring Board GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf
and scroll down to page 39..
“The Secretary General of the United Nations, with WHO and United Nations
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, must strengthen
coordination in different country, health and humanitarian emergency
contexts, by ensuring clear United Nations systemwide roles and
responsibilities; timely triggers to rapidly reset preparedness and
response strategies during health emergencies; and, enhancing United
Nations system leadership for preparedness, including through routine
simulation exercises. WHO should introduce an approach to mobilize the
wider national, regional and international community at earlier stages
of an outbreak prior to a declaration of an IHR (2005) Public Health
Emergency of International Concern.”
“Progress indicator(s) by September 2020 [interesting date no?]
The United Nations (including WHO) conducts at least two system wide training
and simulation exercises, including one covering the deliberate release of a
lethal respiratory pathogen.”
Then you’ll realise (as… Read more »
It look suspiciously like following the lead of Austria and Germany …… with “vaccine” passports and the threat of mandatory “vaccination.”
No-one could cock up so consistently without there being an Agenda behind it.
Come on guys, surely the global lockstep on not only passports, but everything else, including the talk of mandatory vaccinations confirms this is a global script they’re all reading from?!
question is who is writing their scripts?
look no further than Herr Gates and his beneficent foundation, who have funded and extorted their way into just about every organisation across the world, this controlling the narrative.
Add into the mix the Tony Blair Institute and you’ve got a heady mix of fascistic controlling globalists pulling the strings of every government across the globe.
Unfortunately, there’s no James Bond type character to expose and destroy the organisation, in a SPECTRE style. We’re basically fucked. And what doesn’t help is those with their heads in the sand refusing to admit this is going on.
Total disillusioned crap! These twats know exactly what they are doing!
I’m afraid I can’t agree with Toby on this:
Yes Boris himself is a disorganised shambles, but I ‘m certain Boris himself is not the organ-grinder in this scenario; merely the monkey.
There is a global lockstep going on with each country moving at a pace it believes it can get away with : Phillipines super fast; Austria very speedy; Scotland quite fast; UK rather slower; USA slower still.
The Christmas scandels are just a diversion as the next swathe if restrictions are rolled out. Timing is everything.
Why assume that Boris is in on a Bill Gates conspiracy, or any other “plan”? Why can’t he be yet another “useful idiot”? There’s clearly no evidence that Boris is capable of finding his way out of a paper bag. He uses advisors for everything. So do most (all?) of his ministers. In fact it’s a wonderful ruse to have a chaotic government appearing to be in charge, because then we are duped into believing that it’s all some kind of random walk. But when we look at the larger picture, in fact there is a very clear direction, but one that’s obscured by all the rubbish detail.
People seem to forget that we live in a world that hitherto couldn’t even agree which side of the road to drive on, or what voltage to power a household. Yet from March 2020, with a few minor details, there’s been a single narrative driving every single country – well governed, badly governed, hardly governed at all, even the UK – and all have sung from the same hymn sheet.
Watching Boris’ and his chums’ antics is just a distraction. Believing that they are driving anything is a delusion.
Fantastic, absolutely crystal clear analysis. I’m on Team Bresbo!
These apologist articles are getting tiresome. Throw in every British-ism, colloquialism, and throwaway expression to resonate with the masses and grade the language down to nice bite-sized chunks. It is overwhelmingly obvious to anyone with a functioning, critical thinking brain that operates a healthy amount of skepticism, that this is all planned and in lockstep with every other nation, especially in Europe. Still, we’re told the Government “bungled it” again, policies on “the back of fag packets”, “Boris the buffoon”, “knee-jerk reaction”. Please, stop insulting my intelligence.
As soon as plan B was unveiled to exist, it was clear that it was inevitably plan A. Once we have our own concentration camps up and running like in Australia, with forcible detainment, testing and worse – will we will be subjected to headlines about “cock-up sees thousands detained at quarantine camp despite negative tests”.
The truth is simply too unfathomable, too dystopian, too sinister for many to even contemplate as having the remotest possibility of being true. The mainstream media is the conspiracy.
I wonder, is the word ‘friend’ used as a euphemism for James Dellingpole?
Reuters reporting Japan is at 1% of its COVID peak cases and falling. India is at 3% of its peak and falling. What did these countries do? Ditch vaccine mandates for ivermectin. Since April 28, India medical officials started providing hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to its massive population. As India is the major pharmaceutical manufacturer in the world, they were ready for this massive drug distribution. MIRACULOUSLY!, COVID cases have plummeted quickly since then. Meanwhile, all “first world” countries in Europe are reporting a rise in cases. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
I’ve come to think of it as Star Wars clone wars..i watched the whole series in the first lockdown.
Palpatine plays both sides, sets people against each other, creates a civil war, profits from the chaos, blames the jedi, executes order 66, usher’s in a new totalitarian empire with papers please storm troopers, all under the guise of protecting the people
With a small rebel alliance to give us a new hope 😁
Just another cock-up? Now the Pig Dictator and his minions are after the judiciary. The judges may not have done us many favours in this shit show but they are clearly still a threat that needs to be neutralised.
Have a look here and also watch the video it links to
https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-government-power-grab-c5b2a518-39ab-4e85-b79e-b3b800b6e017
Trying to deliberately subvert the judiciary ain’t no cock-up to me
‘It’s just a cock up. It’s just a cock up. It’s just a cock up. It’s just a cock up.’
Pathetic.
Toby Young: “The problem with this theory is that the Government isn’t capable of planning something 48 hours in advance, let alone 21 months.”
This quote looks good on the surface to dismiss theories and beliefs of a totalitarian cabal implementing their plans for world domination. The problem, though, in using it to dismiss this theory is that it would be an absolute necessity for a totalitarian cabal to have in place disorganised and chaotic governments in order to carry out such plans – if a cabal did indeed have such plans.
One of the foremost traits of a disorganised and chaotic Government is that these dysfunctions are quite often an accompaniment to its member politicians having low moral thresholds, a propensity to corruption, and an incompetence in their unsavoury endeavours that leaves them susceptible to blackmail.
The Hollywood-esque and clearly-loving-it way Matt Hancock reacted on the London Underground when teased by a group of females doesn’t denote a man fit for high office.
Nor fit for high office was Jacob Rees-Mogg’s act of sneering to his obsequious acolytes that lockdowns and social distancing are only for the little people – he was very much like the schoolyard alpha… Read more »
This man is PM, so how can someone so inadequate get the top job in the first place. Because doors are opened for the selected people and Bojo is one of those people. See here – he is in cahoots with the top families https://twitter.com/MrLilburne His Dad spends his life to this day conning British people into believing in man made CO2 causing climate change and global warming. He is not doing that job as some kind of upper class environment enthusiast, hes doing that job as a guy on the payroll of the agencies formed by the people who control the world via these scams. It so so obvious how they run the world via deception and psyops. They run operations which have a theme and then you have to dance to the theme and behave as if it is all based on the most solid science and info, even when it blatantly isnt. They want you to agree with them, that two plus two equals five. Toby is happy to confirm that two plus two does equal five, which is why he gets gigs on the BBC and which is why he has worked with Bojo in the… Read more »
The only way Johnson will get his Churchill moment is to come clean.
Now that would reverberate around the world.
Come on you big wuss, you can do it!
Think of the fame!
Immortality beckons – you defeat the great reset single- handedly.
Just imagine the MSM truly aghast at truth!
If he did that, even I would admire him.
I think he knows he’s losing brownie points despite his brilliant “I’ve really got covid and I might die” wheeze.
Meanwhile our Great Saviour Javid, waits in the wings…
head out of arse now!
For goodness sake, get real Toby! This may have been a cock-up, but it is a cocked-up version of what is going on all over the world!
The agenda behind this is the same. Only the obfuscation and ineptitude is different.
Denying ‘The Unvaxxed’ admittance to swimming pools in Finland is not a ‘cock-up’.
Well we have all this new technology now so it makes sense to put it to good use. Anyway, governments are just keeping up with the jones’ on this.
Not a balls up. Agenda 30.
I’ll bet that friend was a certain Mr. Delingpole, Toby. And despite often sounding like a wacko, your mate has been curiously accurate with his predictions throughout. I’m not entirely sure why you are still clinging to your cock-up theory when this is clearly a globally coordinated coup d’etat.
I assume that the entitled members of the cabinet (your mates among them) are finding it hard to get to grips with the fact that they are not really in charge. Each time they fail to do the bidding of their puppet masters, they are gently reminded how their sloppy pasts make them vulnerable to persuasion.
Having been somewhat dismissive of vaccine passports, they were reminded that their indiscretions can be made public whenever required. A phone call here, a text there and the public are suddenly aware of some inane hypocrisy. Back in line fall the hopelessly impotent elected fools. Back to non-sensical rhetoric refusing to rule out mandatory vaccination.
More fool you, Mr Young, if you think that the overpromoted middle managers we call a government are remotely involved in policy making. They are mere enforcers; enforcing policies even they are bright enough not to agree with, in the… Read more »
OK now it’s your credibility that’s a question. The whole of the western world is one big cock-up or Toby Young (& i hate using this term) is a ‘gate keeper‘ of imbeciles or shills.
Come on man FFS, what does it take? You don’t have to believe the WEF stole a James Bond movie script to see the globalist lockstep.
Six sentences in, we’re again at Vaccines prevent infections! They don’t, Mr Young. No more than mouse traps stop mice from coming into buildings. They might prevent transmission. But the current batch of COVID vaccines doesn’t do that.
Correct. As a reminder, this is what the paperwork promoting it to us said in March this year: “We do not yet know whether it will stop you from catching and passing on the virus”. Now they know – it doesn’t; plenty of evidence for that, but ignored by the usual suspects.