In this week’s bumper episode of London Calling, James and I discuss Boris’s current difficulties, which are about to be added to by the House of Commons rebellion and Thursday’s possible by-election loss; the likelihood of a lockdown of the unvaccinated in England, and why some apparently sound people are advocating that policy; Sadiq Kahn’s latest assault on our freedoms, which is to ban “inappropriate staring of a sexual nature” on the London Underground; Jussie Smollett’s comeuppance for pretending he was the victim of a hate crime; and, in Culture Corner, Lewis Hamilton’s recent F1 loss, the first episode of Yellowjackets, the strangely sexless central female character in Hawkeye, the Wheel of Time (again!) and vol 13 in Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories.
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I’m not jabbed and I’m not going to be locked down.
And I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who feels this way.
The jabbed are fearful and mentally weak – we can prevail, even if we are a minority.
I’m double jabbed, for reasons I’ve outlined before; at my age and with various suddenly arrived or worsened conditions I have other things to be concerned about.
I do not consider myself either fearful or mentally weak although you are entitled to your opinion. I was never scared of Covid and, in my particular circumstances, am neither scared of Covid vaccines.
(If you subsequently get a
it won’t be from me btw).
I would not encourage others to do likewise especially those with reproductive facilities and especially not young women.
On a lighter note, my helpful neighbour (does my non delivery shopping) has just given up on his fourth attempt to get his boost jab having spent 20 minutes on the phone trying to get an appointment to be told that no appointments were available, ie the system had crashed.
His previous attempts during the past month included
1. Cancelled by them by phone on the day.
2. Required to go to a village Surgery several miles out of town with a lousy bus service (rejected by friend).
3. Turned up, as required, for an open appointment in the city centre. The venue was in darkness with a sign reading
“sorry, run out of vaccines, please come back tomorrow”.
Given that our mutual large in-City Surgery (30+ GPs listed on website plus numerous support workers) is only boosting the over 75s it almost seems as if they want the larger roll out to fail, or at least do not care.
MIL aged 96 and housebound has not heard a single thing by phone or post about her booster jab neither has my son aged 45 and healthy.
When the so called government and their lackeys boast about their target of offering the booster jab by the end of the year, (whatever your views and opinions are) they can’t even get that right.
I would agree, it’s not something that can be stereotyped. Over 65, for example, and/or several comorbidities, the risk of the injection actually becomes less than catching the disease. My problem all along has been universal injections, regardless of age or health.
On the subject of Lockdown, I was not locked down in the slightest last year being out and about, as a key worker, probably more than usual. Meeting the most interesting people, many of them “in the know”, so having very interesting conversations about Covid and Lockdown many of which I was able to report here at lockdownsceptics, as was.
This was what lead me to conclude very early on that Covid was mostly bollocks whipped up by the government and press (in what I considered to be the most amateur, obvious and cynical use of propaganda) and that therefore lockdown was, at best, pointless.
This time around I’m almost medically housebound bar the odd taxi journey to the cashpoint and shops, or NHS, so whatever bozo imposes will make sod all difference to me personally
Will you be having your booster, or your fourth shot? Will you remain as a person whom the system regards as jabbed?
I have to say that if more people had taken a long term view and rejected the first two doses of genetic therapy then we might not have got to this point.
I apologise if I am beginning to sound like some form of ultra, but those in power are determined on a course that is profoundly evil and – in my view – incompatible with the continuance of civilisation.
Certainly not, nor the 3rd Primary injection that they seem to think I require.
The circumstances that led to me taking the first two shots no longer pertain and even apart from ethical considerations I can live without a vax passport no matter how severe they make lockdown even if they make it virtual house arrest.
No need for apologies, you can take any view you choose but, see my picture link below, it might be as well to leave space within our communities for those who change their minds.
I am glad that you’re not taking the third instalment.
I still think my general observation – which somebody regards as a stereotype – is to the point. those pushing and taking the jab are usually of the “woke-ish” mindset. They are fearful and cannot cope with even a different viewpoint. You only have to consider the cowardice of politicians like Starmer – who thinks it unwise to say that only women have a cervix – to know that this is correct. We are heading towards a civil conflict and in that sort of situation the weak minded, even if they have bullets, water cannon and oafs with judicial wigs behind them, will fail.
And both Bozo and Savage Jabber look to me as if they are afraid – afraid like the salesman who misses his monthly target is afraid of a visit from HQ.
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Would you call this double jabbed person fearful and mentally weak?
Would you doubt the strength of his(?) change of heart so typical of the newly converted? It’s almost as though he has been trawling through sceptic posts the past 18 months to find the words to Express his contempt for those who would be boosted.
Todays Daily Mail.
You’re an anti-vaxer if you don’t have your 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th… etc booster.
Phew, that’s a relief, thanks A_s.
Although I signed up to lockdownsceptics I was immediately concerned about vaccines when they claimed that there ‘were no longterm side effects’ which was such a palpable lie. Not to mention the drug companies indemnity, emergency approval and all the rest of it.
I probably don’t have much of a longterm to worry about but obviously younger people do and they certainly don’t know anything about the effects of these barely tested serums on as yet unborn children or the reproductive organs from which they spring.
My main concern back about fifteen months ago was ADE. I honestly thought the Messenger RNA idea was a bit sci-fi. I was totally shocked when I heard it was reality.
So they are just recruiting insurgents for us over time. A curious strategy, really.
946 upvotes 69 downvotes(they all work in the Cabinet Office)
My adopted word for the day is ‘mewling’
mewling
[ˈmjuːlɪŋ]
NOUN
ADJECTIVE
‘The mewling of millions of jabbed bedwetters’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o2fw3Hme-0
“Mewling” is a word we should hear more often. It brings to mind that limerick by – was it Robert Conquest? – re Shakespeare’s seven ages of man.
“Seven ages – first puking and mewling,
Then very pissed off with one’s schooling,
Then fucks and then fights,
Then judging chaps’ rights,
Then sitting in slippers and drooling.”
I’m rapidly approaching stage seven myself.
God knows we need some light relief on what I believe will be another dispiriting day.
No, I wouldn’t call him weak. He has woken up and there is an old phrase about “the zeal of the convert.”
True, there is no fight in the bedwetters
Still just a cock-up?
Seems like a monu-fucking-mentally coincidental cock-up of authoritarian, technocratic Stalinist proportions happening at almost exactly the same time across the western world.
Although your chum Bozza is a top bloke really isn’t he? Bumbling libertarian my arse.
I can smell the backshish from the big tech-big pharma-WEF lot burning a hole in Bozza’s size 46 trousers from here.
Kevin Maguire has just been saying that Peking Piffle is a known liar who has been previously caught out…
True, but fools backed Blair for 13 years despite knowing him to be as false as a male cervix.
yes, the only thing libertarian about Boris is the Johnson in his trousers.
As much as I appreciate Toby setting up this website, this discussion with James shows that Toby does not read the comments here and is learning nothing. It’s why I don’t post here anymore.
Substack is far better, it’s a fantastic open-source intelligence website and the (highly intelligent) writers read the comments and…shock horror…actually change their opinions based on new evidence.
I suggest broadening your horizons and getting on Substack, you can always post the links to what you read back on here.
I can imagine a scenario where the boxcars are being loaded with “antivaxxers” for the camps. Toby will no doubt call it a “multifaceted cock up” and will be waiting for “BoJo’s libertarian instincts to kick in”.
Do you have any particular account in mind, if that’s the way Substack works?
I seem to remember someone once saying that Toby read all the comments on here. Maybe he just disagrees (or is being lent on)?
One could reasonably make a case that this site is worth it for the comments section alone. At any rate, Toby is genuinely upholding free speech on here unlike so many, and that is good enough for me.
LOL I don’t come here for TY’s attention or approval, let’s not forget his own hereditary.
I appreciate him providing a space for free speech, but he is & always will be establishment. His reluctance to accept what’s in front of his face despite his “scepticism” demonstrates that fact.
I can’t help noticing this person started to lose when he began wearing dresses. But then, everyone knows women can’t drive. Ba dum tss! Thank you. I’m here all week.
I remember the Sheila’s wheels ads – they used to drive my mate mad. Presumably they’re not allowed to operate the same way now under discrimination laws…
I think they may have made an exemption for the private hire taxi trade allowing women to request a female driver, fair enough.
Dunno what happens when a driver who looks like a man but self identifying as a woman turns up. It’s all just so complicated.
Story was that some women around Rochdale liked to request a “local” driver (i.e. native British (after the abuse scandals, you know). I don’t know if they can still do that or not.
Funny you should mention that, but Remain lost the referendum shortly after Eddie Izzard appeared as the Remain camp’s main spokesperson on Question Time, wearing makeup and a pink beret and looking like a rubbish drag queen, pitted against Leave’s Nigel Farage, a normal-looking man in a suit.
Shades of Le Petit Prince…
It shouldn’t make a difference really, but how people look and behave does affect how likely people are to be persuaded by them.
So far up their own arses about how appealing fem comedians are to the public the wokes probably genuinely thought that Eddie Issard in frock would boost the Remain campaign.
Did I just hear TY call us all idiots?
You fekking, cock-up sucker.
Look it’s quite simple you manufacture a scandal i.e #10 Christmas parties, that gives bumbling Boris an out of the covid blame game, opening up the position for an even bigger twat to implement even greater technocratic authoritarianism.
The trouble with TY is still holding the deluded view politicians have some resemblance of integrity.
F1 was destroyed years ago by Hamilton & climate justice. For reasons i’ve never understood it (goes against all my principles) but I used to love f1.
F1 should look like a ballet with the occasional blooper (crash) from the outside & be extremely loud & violent from inside the cockpit, hybrid engines & wokism killed the sport.
I used to like Toby and was very pleased to have the link to lockdownsceptics June last year, even contributing £
in the early months. I understand that he needs to be circumspect in what he publishes but that does not affect the way the site, DS, is run on a daily basis.
I note that Luke Perry has, as usual, put together 20 links for the Roundup. Many of these are worthy of widespread discussion but Roundup was only lead item for about half an hour after midnight before being supplanted by Toby’s ego boosting podcast.
Last time I aired this view I was soundly downvoted but I ain’t scared.
Down votes are rite of passage, as a sceptical contrarian, you must earn & wear them with pride, it’s only then you know you’re hitting em where it hurts.
Only sheep flock together in consensus.
Setting aside my reservations about the elitist Intelligence Quotient system, I think it has been pointed out on here before that those most likely to be sceptical of this shambles are the working class together with the most highly educated people with doctorates etc.).
I suspect the most important thing is to have a keen scent for humbug – which can be taught by experience, or by habitual critical thinking.
Of course, if people on average who are sceptical have a mean lower so-called I.Q.., it doesn’t mean that t here aren’t some very intelligent people who oppose it too. There may be very good reasons for the average being lower – people in large families for example are likely to be poorer (thus poorer diet and health) and have less time for the sort of mental masturbation that raises your score on the I.Q. tests. If people in large families are more likely to oppose lockdowns, that would lower the average. For example. Nothing to do with being too thick to see how great lockdowns are.
Decades ago I was involved in Recruitment for an American sales company. Their biggest problem was retention, a few people were very successful, most were not.
They decided to trial something called a Psycometric Assessment (?) for candidates which involved them filling in a large, non specific, multiple choice questionnaire by ticking boxes.
This was compared to a template and was supposed to evaluate each individual in terms of assertiveness, empathy, determination and various other characteristics that would supposedly identify more successful salespeople.
After two years this was found to have had no effect whatsoever on retention.
The four most successful, and longlasting current salespeople were then invited to take the Psycometric Assessment but each came up with a totally different set of characteristics. Their success was down to their own personalities rather than a combination of ‘measurable’ characteristics.
The Assessment was dropped from the recruitment process.
“IQ” is cock anyway. (And what would a cokehead know? Lol.) The notion of “general intelligence” is a (wrong) assumption, and the notion that this non-existent stuff is normally distributed is also an assumption. Many things in life are NOT normally distributed. Nassim Taleb is good on this, including in his book “The Black Swan”.
TY has long talked balls about certain topics. (Maybe there’s a “regression to the mean” from pater? AND THAT IS A JOKE, in case anyone thought otherwise. But if someone must “eugenicise” at Cyril Burt’s former workplace, that’s the kind of joke they’re going to get.) On the other hand, I am grateful to him for this website and its comments sections.
I’m in a particularly satirical mood tonight
Toby and James both got that wrong.
It isn’t the case that more intelligent or wealthier people are more likely to buy into lockdown measures (and so by implication vaccines).
Wealthier individuals, possibly as a result of being more intelligent, are more likely to have desk/terminal based jobs that can be undertaken from home.
Much as some might deny it, they mostly love it. WFH is what they are buying into (not an option for less paid manual workers) and so they must appear to be scared of Covid and thus support lockdown.
I imagine that some will be conflicted about vaccines.
‘If I keep pretending that Covid is dangerous, to stay WFH, I’ll have to take the vax but if I don’t, because I think its the vax itself that is dangerous, they might make me go back to the office’
I think Toby is entitled to any opinion he wants, which is rather the point of this website.
Agreed and nowhere do I suggest otherwise.
Perhaps I might also have premised my comment with “I think Toby . . .” by way of clarification.
The middle class are, in my anecdotal experience, simply more compliant. But there are of course plenty of exceptions. Granted I am comparing predominantly white british middle class areas with much more racially mixed working class areas so there may be other factors at work.
Last year they were hoping, indeed expecting, compliance to allow them back to sunny overseas holidays or at least later Albine ski breaks.
Presumably they are hoping for the same with vaxx passports.
Blimey, is Khan(t) trying to go one better than Peking Piffle with his drinks ban on the underground?
Does anyone actually stand up for individual liberties these days?
On the subject of Khan attempting to ban ‘sexual staring’ (as if that would stand up in Court) I always knew that banning builders from yelling “get yer tits out for the lads” would be the thin end of the wedge.
They tried to ban wolf whistling didn’t they? There was a lady quoted in the media some time ago who warned that they risk destroying flirting if they carry on like this…
I suppose at the going rate all forms of behaviour will end up tightly regulated.
I remember at a sports match once a female referee giving a controversial decision and one of the players berating her. Someone in the crowd jocularly shouted “she’s doing her best”. I suppose that will end up illegal…
I imagine that ‘dating’ will become entirely digital within a very few years, for some people it probably already is.
Being illiberal is the new liberal.
Who was it who said “scratch a liberal, find a fascist”? (Or for that matter that a conservative is just a liberal who’s been mugged…).
“the likelihood of a lockdown of the unvaccinated in England, and why some apparently sound people are advocating that policy”
Apparently sound people who advocate a lockdown of the unvaccinated? Fuck off.
I think that could be read as
“Apparently sound people (but who clearly are not as revealed by the stupid remark they are about to make) . . .”.
Evil people cause division, in any way possible, to cause it between jabbed and unjabbed is a ploy by the MSM. The Fearful should be given the choice to stay locked up and not crash the economy for all of us because of their own paranoia. Someone on our local news bumpf, said “would people please remember that there are people who are eplileptic and who get migraines and if you have flashing christmas lights it might start it off, so please think of them”, these people who think the world should revolve around them need to be told to stay in or words to that effect
Re the picture ATL…
So James Hunt was Toby’s dad then!
Who knew?
There has been an outcry about Downing St. Christmas parties but as far as I can see they are anything but something to complain about. The incidents reveal that Johnson and his friends have been victims of an attack by dark forces in society and the international community. They have been forced to behave in public in ways which their behaviour in private shows they do not believe in. Johnson himself has always been clear that COVID poses little threat to most people. Yet his government has been forced by the baying mob and a group of irresponsible “scientists” to impose draconian, hugely destructive, and largely ineffective, policies on this country. How could this have happened?
I don’t think their party is evidence they have been forced. Elites have always been happy to break the rules that they devise for the plebs.
The Nuremberg Defence doesn’t wash if you are Top Dog.