Care homes could be slapped with fresh restrictions in the run up to Christmas and masks and vaccine passports made compulsory in pubs and restaurants under a tougher ‘Plan C’ being considered by ministers. MailOnline has more.
Controversial vaccine passports could also be extended to more venues under the suite of measures being floated within Downing Street if the Omicron super variant proves to be as dangerous as scientists fear.
A Government source said it was “very likely” care home residents could be banned from seeing more than three visitors over Christmas, with the hopes of preventing another explosive outbreak in the sector.
But campaign groups warned the plans could be “devastating” with many residents forced to pick family members on what could be their last Christmas.
Other curbs include having to ‘check in’ with the NHS Covid app again to go to a pub or restaurant, using face masks in all indoor spaces, and having to show a vaccine passport at even more venues.
The first part of the Government’s Plan B came into force today with the introduction of compulsory face masks in indoor settings such as theatres, cinemas and churches.
New work-from-home guidance will come into effect on Monday, and MPs will vote the next day on the introduction of vaccine passports for nightclubs and large venues.
Labour said today it was prepared to back the Plan B measures despite a suggestion that many opposition MPs could vote against the plans in protest against ongoing accusations that No10 held a number of lockdown-breaking parties last winter.
Worth reading in full.
Our best hope now is that the Government’s ‘Plan B’ proposals are defeated in the House of Commons next week. But if that is the final straw for Boris and he resigns, the risk is that his temporary successor might be a full-on lockdown zealot.
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The trees felled by more rural councils are mostly an obsession by safetyists with the miniscule risk of a tree falling in a storm and injuring someone. Those felled by city councils are more to do with the trees reducing the reach of the high band 5G essential for keeping track of people in the new ‘smart’ and 15 minute cities
Yup that sounds like the real reason when you consider a mature tree goes through thousands of times more carbon than a newly planted tree. Not that carbon is a problem, of course.
The asbestos example is a good one but so is the idea that we pretend to stop a little bit of warming which would if it was really true help to alleviate the 20 times more deaths that actually occur because of cold. All over the western world local governments and national governments compete with each other to see who can pretend to save the planet hardest and fastest, usually with the most hair brained costly schemes when there are serious issues that this money could be spent on. On a much bigger scale we in the wealthy west send billions of pounds and dollars to poor countries for some turbines and solar panels to bribe them into not using fossil fuels. The only fuels that can bring them out of the abject misery they face. Over a billion of these poor people don’t even have any electricity which wealthy people in Europe etc would never accept, yet we are telling these people that they should leave their coal in the ground because of global warming, something they have never heard of. What we are really doing with this nonsense is telling these people that they can never have electricity. —-This is not only absurd but a diabolical disgrace.
It reminds me of Labour Councils becoming “nuclear free” in the 1960s to 1980s. Presumably they had umbrellas to deflect the fall out and filters to make sure no nuke generated electricity reached their meters.
so it is now.
abolish agriculture, chop down trees and spread panels made from polluting chemicals all over them. And with no plan for dealing with broken and end of life panel material.
“In Plymouth last year the council sent in men with chainsaws in the middle of the night to chop more than 100 trees down”
These psychopath councils have gone beyond their remit. They should be prosecuted.
My personal theory why people are so keen on killing trees is that they just hate that these are taller than them.
There used to be a beautiful row of mature chestnut trees on the riverside front of former HMP Reading which was called Chestnut Walk because of them. During lockdown, the council had them all destroyed because “they were diseased”. They’ve planted new ones but I’ll never live to see this close lined with actual trees again.
In building sites it is routine for builders to obtain arboriculturalists’ reports which call for the destruction of healthy trees. Builders and most of their customers don’t like trees, whatever they say.
there is an obligation to enhance biodiversity but it is not practiced and no one seems to bother.
Don’t forget the devastation wrought by HS2 either, the concreting of middle England, to save a few mins on a journey from ‘somewhere outside London’ to ‘somewhere outside Birmingham’. If you can afford a ticket …
Headlines are important.
The headline to this article should be “Green Politics and Policies Damage Us and The Environment” or just “Greens Are Damaging the Environment“.
“Let’s Spare the Environment From the Greens” is too weak.
A local ‘Green’ made the mistake of stopping me on my way through our local market to harangue me about my green credentials.
He did not expect me to retaliate and he certainly did not practise what he was happy to preach to everyone else.
It gathered quite a crowd and enough support for my side to see him pack up and move away.