So Lord Sumption has apparently backed “vaccination passports,” at least according to Piers Morgan. Peter Hitchens and Sir Desmond Swayne have now taken the “vaccine”, Sir Desmond urging us to “make sure you get yours so we can all get back to normal life,” and Mr. Hitchens saying he feels “defeated.”
When three such passionate, ardent and compelling spokesmen against the illiberal policies being pursued by the UK government so publicly capitulate to this extent, the message is loud and clear. The “resistance” is over. Don’t fight it any more. For figures of this stature to cave in so completely is the final nail in the coffin for any meaningful opposition to these policies.
Effective resistance to the COVID-19 project in the UK is dead. In fact, it never really existed in the first place. The truth is, the British people are psychologically and culturally incapable of rebellion, “except when it comes to football” in the words of Simon Elmer on Architects for Social Housing.
The reader may feel I’m peddling a narrative of despair and point to the heroic efforts of Save Our Rights, Simon Dolan, Piers Corbyn and James Delingpole, The White Rose ,investigative journalists and editors on The Conservative Woman, Lockdown Sceptics, Off Guardian and Spiked, not to mention the voices of Sir Desmond, Mr. Hitchens and Lord Sumption. Yet many of these agencies are hampered in some way from being really effective. Save Our Rights, though gallant and indefatigable, lacks sufficient articulateness to be persuasive or effective in recruiting others to its cause. Spiked, though it campaigns against most of the UK government’s policies, has a pro-vaccination stance and has tacitly endorsed “vaccine passports” for international travel, as evidenced in Fraser Myers’ piece The Tyranny of Vaccine Passports.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/17/the-tyranny-of-vaccine-passports/
He asserts: “The issue has become confused by two separate demands being dubbed ‘vaccine passports’. For some, this refers to passports for international travel. The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, for instance, has ominously asserted that ‘proving Covid-19 health status will become a fact of life’ in its call for vaccine passports. But its proposals are focused on opening up borders. In many ways, this is less contentious. It’s not unusual to need a whole host of jabs to travel to certain places”.
Lockdown Sceptics is, I’m afraid, strongly pro-vaccine and a casual trawl through its fora reveals a significant preponderance of coercive vaccination and lockdown advocates. Simon Elmer writes brilliantly and provides evidence to back up his arguments, but is unfortunately very long-winded and too fond of quoting obscure “philosophers” like Georgio Agamben, a figure virtually unknown outside the arena of COVID scepticism. A number of op-eds seem to be written by people with Ph.Ds, and this would seem to be a good thing. Yet such people have a tendency to parade their intellectual superiority by writing in a vernacular of convoluted sentences and words which have little meaning for the majority of readers. I’ve come across several such pieces that could have made exactly the same point without recourse to this level of verbosity.
What of Reform UK? So far, its presence has not been felt. Or is it just too early? With the ostensible departure of Nigel Farage from politics (again?) we seem to have lost another voice.
Wherever I go in the “real world,” all I hear from others is the official narrative. It’s clear that very few people actually believe there is anything wrong with it and most cannot seem to see anything absurd about the “virus” and this preposterous “vaccine.” It’s been suggested that many are more frightened of the coming dystopia than the “virus” and simply do not want to think about it.
If only we had been able to somehow combine the erudition of those like Sumption and Hitchens with the passion of Sir Desmond and the grass roots appeal of Save Our Rights, along with a flair for organisation we may have been able to make a difference. In fact, we could have made a difference last year by simply failing to comply with the Government’s useless and unenforceable “mask” diktat. But as usual, the British public did what it does best, it grinned and bore it.
I wish I didn’t feel like this, but it’s clear that there is no effective opposition to the COVID project in this country. There never was. For those of us who are left, there will soon arrive the “vaccine” moment, when we are forced to decide whether to join the Borg collective, because resistance is futile.