Boris Says Schools to Be Shut Till At Least March 8th
The Prime Minister confirmed yesterday that the lockdown will continue until March at the earliest, dashing hopes of an earlier reopening. Katy Balls in the Spectator has the details.
England’s national lockdown is set to run on until at least March. Speaking in the Commons chamber this afternoon, Boris Johnson confirmed that the return of pupils to the classroom would be the first thing to be eased – and this would not happen in February as he had previously hoped. Addressing the House, Johnson said “it will not be possible” to reopen schools in England after the half-term break next month. However, he remained hopeful that so long as the UK’s vaccination programme remained on track, the return of pupils to the classroom would be able to begin from Monday March 8th.
Given that No. 10 have no plans to relax any restrictions prior to schools reopening, this means the lockdown is here for the foreseeable. However, Johnson attempted to give both his MPs and the public some hope by saying that work on a roadmap out of lockdown was now underway. He said his government would reveal its “phased” route out of lockdown in the week beginning February 22nd. Guiding this work will be the research underway in government on whether vaccines block transmission of the virus.
In fact, Boris was only prepared to say that March 8th “could see the start of a phased return of pupils to the classroom”.
The Government has made this decision despite its own health advisory body, Public Health England, saying primary schools were safe to open after half term, as the Times reported on Tuesday.
Public Health England (PHE) said that there was now a “strong case” for the return to class, adding more pressure on Boris Johnson to set out a timetable for primary schools to reopen.
Pupils in that age group are “resistant” to wider coronavirus trends and play a small role in spreading infection, a series of comprehensive studies has concluded.
Outbreaks were recorded in 3% of primary schools during the autumn term, with most cases among teachers rather than pupils, PHE found. “Everything we have learnt from the summer half-term and the recent autumn term indicates that they are safe to remain open,” Shamez Ladhani, its chief schools investigator, said. Secondary schools were five times as likely to record outbreaks and much more closely reflect wider infection patterns, suggesting that a later, more phased opening might be necessary.
The harms to children from these lengthy school closures are incalculable and often irreversible.
Deborah Cohen presented a carefully balanced report for BBC Newsnight about the risks and benefits of reopening schools on Tuesday evening that is worth a watch.
Stop Press: Portugal has banned private schools from using online tuition during a two-week closure to prevent state schools falling behind. Talk about levelling down. No surprise to learn the PM is a socialist. The Mail has more.
Portugal’s socialist Prime Minister has banned private schools from teaching pupils remotely during a two-week classroom closure. The minority Socialist-led government of Antonio Costa said that allowing private institutions to teach remotely would put state school pupils at a disadvantage. The Portuguese government ordered all schools closed for two weeks last Thursday to slow contagion rates as hospitals faced record numbers of COVID-19 patients.
The performance of state schools was patchy during Portugal’s first lockdown, with many schools coming under fire for poor provision of online schooling.
Portugal’s ban on private schools teaching remotely also includes international schools, meaning British children living in the country doing GCSEs, A Levels or the International Baccalaureate cannot by law be taught for the next two weeks. Learning time lost during the imposed holiday, and any additional time lost from the school closure, would be compensated at a later data in the school year, the Government said.
“Banning digital classes in private education is a totalitarian and Marxist-style measure,” Rui Rio, the leader of the centre-right opposition party said. “[The measure] has nothing to do with the public interest or with the defence of public health. It is the left at its worst.”
Stop Press 2: The Mail reports that teaching unions are calling for even longer closures. The paper has also run a piece with comments from exasperated parents.
Borders Closing Ever Tighter With Arrival of Forced Quarantine
Home Secretary Priti Patel set out the details of the Government’s new forced quarantine policy for arrivals into the UK yesterday. Kate Andrews in the Spectator has the details.
Arrivals from 22 “high-risk” areas will soon be forced to quarantine in a hotel when they arrive in Britain. There will be no exceptions to the rule, and travellers must stay put for 10 days, even if they test negative for COVID-19. The “red list” of countries include Portugal, South Africa, Brazil and Cape Verde.
This crackdown was a long time coming. When Denmark found a mutant strain of Covid last autumn amongst its mink farms, the UK became the only country in the world to close its borders to anyone from there. Did the fast response acknowledge regret among ministers about not being stricter on the border last spring? Quite possibly. This time, the Government has been much clearer about the reasoning behind this decision. Priti Patel told the Commons:
“The Government’s focus is on protecting the UK’s world-leading vaccination programme – a programme that we should be proud of. And reducing the risk of a new strain of the virus being transmitted from someone coming into the UK.“
The details of this quarantine scheme are still up in the air and it is not yet clear when it will come into effect. But despite these tougher measures, it seems that some in the Cabinet wanted the Government to go further. Had Patel had it her way, the measures would have extended to everyone arriving in Britain. Boris Johnson stopped short of this for now. But once the infrastructure is in place, it is easy to see how arrivals from any country, with no advanced warning, could be affected.
Is this an attempt to emulate Australia and New Zealand? Except their strategy was to wait in splendid isolation for a vaccine. But we’re closing borders after the vaccine has arrived because we’re worried about new vaccine-resistant variants. The problem with this is that the logic seems permanent – after all, there will always be a risk of some new mutant variant emerging. As Kate says: “Britain will be one of the first countries to close its borders to countries based on a hypothetical scenario – the possibility of a mutant Covid strain that can evade vaccines – rather than an immediate threat.” Such excessive caution bodes ill for the future and a return to normal.
Worth reading Kate’s piece in full.
Stop Press: Professor Devi Sridhar, the Scottish Government Covid adviser, has said the quarantine plans will be ineffective and need to go further because they don’t apply to all countries. Won’t be long…
Flying is Only For The Rich in Covid World
A Lockdown Sceptics reader has written to tell us about the extraordinary cost and inconvenience his partner had to go to just to fly to Prague to visit her frail mother.
My partner is from Prague and needed to travel home last week in time to see her mother who is very frail, has had multiple strokes and is now going for quite a complex operation. She wanted to make sure she saw her before the potential issue got out of hand (or there were complications in the hospital). So last Monday I managed to book a flight to Prague.
It transpires there are no direct flights although at short notice I managed to book something with KLM via Amsterdam. Having taken my payment, an hour later they sent a message saying that they required not only a PCR test within 72 hours of flight, but also a rapid test at the airport within three hours of flight or so.
Having investigated, it looked like Boots was the best place to get a PCR test, although you have to use two separate portals to book one. It cost £120 and the test results only turned up by email about 12 hours before my partner was due to take off. It was an email showing a “certificate” which could be printed off.
To get the rapid test, we had to use a company called Collinson at City airport, where she was flying from. It seemed to have only been recently set up and may be part of another group involved in test and trace but I cannot be sure. This test cost £80.
Passengers were not allowed to enter the airport (even though it was completely empty) unless they could prove that they already had a test booked with Collinson. Chairs were all removed meaning everybody had to stand outside until they were called for their test. Once the test has been completed, they email you the results but they refuse to print anything off, meaning in some cases this can cause a problem with some airlines if you are unable to show something “physical” at the gate. And to come back into the UK she has to do it all again at similar cost.
Overall this makes a flight that would normally cost £150 approximately £600 just for a quick jump to a European city. This may change, but I don’t think the idea that they want rapid tests at the airport is going to go away anytime soon, making it completely price prohibitive for anybody on a normal wage to travel, especially with children over 12 who are required to have a test as well.
On top of it all, even though everybody on the same flight must have been negative for COVID-19, they all still had to wear a mask. What sort of lunacy is that? Either they are safe to fly since they had the two tests or they are not.
As a side note, since it was a nice day I decided to take a drive along the river from City airport and randomly arrived (I promise) at the Excel Centre being used as a Nightingale Hospital. It looked completely deserted so I decided to drive around the perimeter.
Apart from one security guard who told me that it was “very quiet today” I saw nobody else. I’m not sure if it is officially “in use” currently, but apart from a few signs directing people to “have your vaccination here” I didn’t see anything and it looked completely dead.
Lastly, having just written this it transpires that KLM have cancelled all their flights from Amsterdam to London so I had to scramble to get my partner on a flight with Air France via Paris. Once again there seems no logic to it at all.
Preliminary Materials For a Theory of Devi Sridhar
We’re publishing a new essay today by regular contributor Sinéad Murphy, a Philosophy Lecturer at Newcastle University. She takes Scottish Government adviser Professor Devi Sridhar to task for her “Young-Girlism”. I’ll let her explain.
Following her appearance on Newsnight on Friday January 22nd, Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, tweeted this:
During the past year, those of us opposed to Government lockdowns have repeatedly asked this question: What has disarmed the populations of apparently democratic societies that they have so quietly accepted the suspension of their freedoms?
Devi Sridhar’s tweet – banal as it is – contains all the ingredients for an answer to this question.
2020 did seem, as it unfolded, to impose a sudden reversal of established freedoms. But the surreptitious erosion of those freedoms had, in fact, long been observed.
In 1999, for example, the French magazine, Tiqqun, published a short text entitled “Preliminary Materials For A Theory Of The Young-Girl“, which sketched an outline of the emergent citizen of Western democratic societies, who willingly participates in and perpetuates their own oppression at the hands of global corporate governance, actively consenting to “the molecular diffusion of constraint into everyday life” and to the “immuno-disarmament of bodies”.
The Tiqqun text summarized this acquiescent citizen as the “Young-Girl”. The descriptor has met with objections for its alleged misogyny. But it applies to men as well as to women, and to the old as well as to the young, only seeking to capture the defining characteristics that make the populations of twenty-first century democracies so ripe for control.
These characteristics are: infantilisation, emotionalisation, and relativisation. The Young-Girl, as model citizen of modern democracies, is childlike, sentimental, and eminently prepared to relinquish heretofore absolute values.
Devi Sridhar’s tweet is a perfect example of Young-Girlism. It is worth taking the time to pick it over.
Worth reading in full.
Times Front Page Misrepresents Covid Victim Age Distribution
To mark the unhappy milestone of 100,000 Covid deaths yesterday (which are “with” not necessarily “of” Covid, of course), the Times displayed the names and faces of 20 people who died with Covid on its front page. They’re striking because many of them are relatively young. A Lockdown Sceptics reader has written in to point out that they are in no way representative of the typical age of people who die with Covid, making the image highly misleading.
Whilst recognising that the 20 victims represent personal tragedies, it is also important to note that their selection conveys a very false sense of the age distribution of Covid deaths.
I’ve plotted below the age distribution of all UK Covid deaths (taken from the same edition of the Times) and also the age distribution of the victims in the Times photos. The 45-64 age bracket is nearly nine times over-represented. The 15-44 bracket is five times over-represented.
Right at the end, the article does say: “The vast majority of victims have been older people, with 90% of those who died aged 65 or more and 75% aged at least 75.” Many readers won’t get this far and if they do they will tend to remember the much more salient pictures rather than the stats.
I think this sort of thing matters because it fuels the well documented public risk-blindness when it comes to Covid. And this is going to hinder a rapid escape from the lockdown.
Locked Down in Mexico
Jo Nash has written a fascinating account on Left Lockdown Sceptics about her experience getting stuck in Mexico last spring, and her journey during the restrictions from lockdowner to sceptic.
As lockdown started to bite after a few weeks, my local taxi driver friend who regularly helped me with my shopping told me how the people in the small town where I was living were suffering. The vast majority of Mexicans work in the informal economy on a day to day basis. After a week of no income many were unable to pay bills and buy food. Alcohol abuse was rising alongside violence in the home. Children witnessing these growing tensions had nowhere to go, and often got caught up in family violence. Children in more stable situations were expressing hopelessness and lethargy as their education had been abandoned and they could no longer play outside with their friends.
Then, the organised gang raids started. The Walmart where I shopped once a week was raided by a motorbike gang of 30, all wearing black, all masked and armed, who walked into the store and took as many electrical items as possible – smashing up glass display units with hammers and grabbing their swag in a precise military style operation. Later these items were sold on the black market and it was rumoured the money was used to buy food for the poor which was distributed free by gang members. These were happening country wide and a media blackout ensued to prevent copycat raids.
The left-wing President Amlo appealed for calm as a return to pre-Amlo anarchy was looming on the horizon due to the harms of lockdown. These experiences, and my increasingly obsessive probing of the background to C-19, shifted me from pro- to anti-lockdown as the consequences of the restrictions for the poor became clear. I signed the Great Barrington Declaration within hours of its publication in support of focused protection rather than lockdown and began to follow the scientific and political developments closely.
During this time I worked online editing research, but the isolation began affecting my concentration, morale, and energy levels. I had been hanging on to see when lockdown would lift so I could see my Mexican friends again, and we could resume with our previous plans, but it didn’t end. So, in the middle of May as my visa was about to expire, despite the ‘shelter in place’ order, I booked a flight to Scotland to stay with old friends where lockdown appeared to be lifting and then go on to India from there after summer. I booked a flight to Edinburgh with Tui and two days later the new UK quarantine order was imposed, so it was cancelled. With the refund I booked another flight, with Turkish airlines via Istanbul for June. This was cancelled for the same reason, rebooked, and cancelled again with no refund “until flights returned to normal” the airline said. Other airlines that were still flying were cashing in by charging 300% of normal flight prices.
Not only was I now in the country illegally as my visa had expired but I was five hundred pounds out of pocket and faced paying another £1,500 to get to Edinburgh.
Worth reading in full.
Share Your Story With Julia
Julia Hartley-Brewer is appealing for more “Lockdown Stories” from people willing to share their experiences of lockdown on her talkRADIO breakfast show.
Please email breakfast@talkradio.co.uk if you are willing to speak on the radio about how lockdown has affected you or your family – whether it’s your physical or mental health, missed NHS treatments, losing your job or fighting to keep your business afloat, financial worries, unable to see family members in care homes, children missing vital schooling or university or any other experiences you want to share. Please include your phone number.
Sceptics Under Fire
George Monbiot in the Guardian has proposed a Ministry of Truth to deal with sceptic troublemakers.
I would like to see an expert committee, similar to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), identifying claims that present a genuine danger to life and proposing their temporary prohibition to parliament.
While this measure would apply only to the most extreme cases, we should be far more alert to the dangers of misinformation in general. Even though it states that the pundits it names are not deliberately spreading false information, the new Anti-Virus site www.covidfaq.co might help to tip the balance against people such as Allison Pearson, Peter Hitchens and Sunetra Gupta, who have made such public headway with their misleading claims about the pandemic.
But how did these claims become so prominent? They achieved traction only because they were given a massive platform in the media, particularly in the Telegraph, the Mail and – above all – the house journal of unscientific gibberish, the Spectator. Their most influential outlet is the BBC [Eh?]. The BBC has an unerring instinct for misjudging where debate about a matter of science lies. It thrills to the sound of noisy, ill-informed contrarians.
Self-professed “lockdown hardliner” Peter Franklin in UnHerd is alarmed by Monbiot’s proposal.
I… thought that the claim that the ‘lockdown mentality’ was a permanent threat to our way of life was wildly overblown. But suddenly I’m not so sure. The fact is that some of my fellow hardliners are going off the deep end.
This morning The Guardian published a column by George Monbiot, which calls for Government restrictions on free speech:
“We have a right to speak freely. We also have a right to life. When malicious disinformation – claims that are known to be both false and dangerous – can spread without restraint, these two values collide head-on. One of them must give way…”
The one he want [sic] us to give way on is free speech: “When governments fail to ban outright lies that endanger people’s lives, I believe they make the wrong choice.”
What does he mean by “outright lies”? The examples given include “vaccines are used to inject us with microchips” and other conspiracy theories. But why suppress obvious nonsense that isn’t going to inform government policy? Monbiot’s answer is that ordinary people might believe it and refuse to get vaccinated – thereby putting themselves and others at risk.
On this basis, he proposes a time-limited ban on the most blatantly false claims – “running for perhaps six months”. But why stop there? Why not set up a Ministry of Truth to provide an ongoing means of suppressing dangerous information? If lives are at stake, then isn’t that all that matters?
Worth reading in full.
Tim Worstall in CapX isn’t too impressed either. He suggests George will need to censor himself given his own inglorious history of “dangerous falsehoods”.
Stop Press: Sky News have done a hit job on sceptic Sir Desmond Swayne MP for urging Save Our Rights UK, whom Sky label “anti-vaxxers”, to “persist” with their anti-lockdown campaign.
Swayne’s interview was from November and many of his comments, such as those about ICU occupancy being normal for the time of year, relate to the situation then rather than the unusually busy period in January.
Angela Rayner, deputy Labour leader, has written to Conservative Party chairwoman Amanda Milling calling on the party to take action.
The Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) seems to be playing a big role in this smear campaign. Which is surely a case of mission creep, as being sceptical about lockdowns can hardly be described as “hate”.
Sir Desmond posted on Twitter yesterday: “Sky is wrong. Aside from my question to the PM this afternoon, an examination of my blogs will reveal that I am a most enthusiastic vaccinator.”
Stop Press 2: In response to Toby’s Twitter thread we published yesterday, Sam Bowman corrected himself and apologised for the mistake. Rather oddly, he then blocked Toby, meaning he won’t be able to see any of his tweets again. Sam will have to rely on others in future to correct his mistakes.
Round-up
- “Will the Truth on COVID Restrictions Really Prevail?” – Great piece from Scott Atlas in Real Clear Politics on how lockdowners are blaming sceptics for the failure of their policies
- “Don’t you dare call us ‘Covid deniers’” – Brendan O’Neill in spiked continues his valiant defence of lockdown scepticism
- “How dare they accuse AstraZeneca of deliberately dishonouring the EU” – Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph explains the ins and outs of the EU vaccine debacle
- “Don’t kill Granny, just terrify or ignore her” – Nicola Lund in Conservative Woman on the shocking treatment of the elderly during restrictions that are supposed to be about protecting them
- “Negligence and complacency behind the NHS crisis” – Ann Bradshaw in Conservative Woman argues “the current state of the overwhelmed, under-bedded and understaffed NHS, which is also contributing to the spread of Covid and leading to interminable lockdowns of the UK population, is in reality the price of negligence of those in charge of the NHS”
- “50% of Delhi population has Covid antibodies: What the latest sero survey shows” – Report in the Hindustan Times on immunity levels in India. See also this comment in The Print by Sanjiv Agarwal
- “Police fine two men after finding 20 people at baby shower in east London” – Report in the Telegraph of a police raid on a baby shower. More evidence of covert non-compliance. But how many would tell a pollster they support the lockdown?
- “German paper doubles down on Oxford vaccine claims” – The Spectator reports on rumours that the European Medicines Agency may be about to reject the Oxford vaccine because of its low efficacy in over 65s
- “Another ‘Disease X’ could be around the corner, expert suggests” – Report from ITV News in which Professor Mark Woolhouse claims: “We were all prepared to meet the pandemic flu, and we got something else.” Except the UK’s pandemic plan explicitly allowed that the pandemic could be a virus like SARS and that it could kill up to 315,000 people
- “Moscow mayor lifts ban on nightclubs and drops curfew for bars amid falling coronavirus cases across Russia” – Normality returning in Russia, reports RT
- “Shoddy Covid ‘Science’ on asymptomatic spread” – Watch US biologist Bret Weinstein ask why the same three questionable papers always seem to appear when a researcher needs to justify claims of asymptomatic transmission
- “Faced with the woke onslaught, the Left needs to wake up to the importance of free speech” – Calvin Robinson in the Telegraph highlights Helen Pluckrose’s new project Counterweight, “a sort of Citizens’ Advice Bureau for woke issues” that intends to “provide you with practical information and expert guidance to resist the imposition of the ideology that calls itself ‘Critical Social Justice’ on your day-to-day life”
- “Man arrested for offering free soup (the Common Unity Soup Initiative) in a park during lockdown” – Watch a man being arrested on Tuesday for persisting in providing soup to people in his local park. How dare he?
- “John Kerry reveals Biden’s devotion to radical ‘Great Reset’ movement” – The Hill reports that Joe Biden’s new special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry told a WEF panel discussion in November that, under Biden, the Great Reset “will happen. And I think it will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than a lot of people might imagine. In effect, the citizens of the United States have just done a Great Reset. We’ve done a Great Reset. And it was a record level of voting”
- “Controlling borders is a critical step in the fight against Covid” – Dr Mark Toshner continues the Speccie‘s recent run of pro-lockdown pieces with another liberty-destroying misapplication of the precautionary principle: “If we don’t act now, and assume the worst about these new variants, it might be too late to act”
- “Pioneering antibody treatment for Covid that is being trialled on NHS is found to ‘prevent 100% of symptomatic infections and cut asymptomatic infections in half’” – Daily Mail report on REGEN-COV, the cocktail drug called a “cure” by Donald Trump when he was given it during his coronavirus battle last year
- Jonathan Engler has a Twitter thread contrasting the high excess mortality in 15-64 year-olds in England in 2020 with the lack of excess mortality in the same age group in Sweden and asks if this is a tell-tale signal of deaths caused by lockdown
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Three today: “6ft Further” by Media Bear, “What’s Another Year?” by Johnny Logan and “Break The Rules” by Status Quo.
Love in the Time of Covid
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Woke Gobbledegook
We’ve decided to create a permanent slot down here for woke gobbledegook. Today, we’re hearing from Roger Tarrant, who was cancelled by the Federation of Small Businesses late last year for questioning the ideology of BLM. He wrote about what happened to him in the Critic.
I was cancelled as the Federation of Small Businesses’s South West National Councillor towards the end of 2020. My crime was “wrong speak” on the region’s internal WhatsApp group. Or as the Chair, Mike Cherry, and the Board put it, for “conduct likely to bring the FSB into disrepute”.
What was my crime? In response to the Black Lives Matter protests happening in England in June, I sent a message to an internal WhatsApp group pointing out that only 163 people had died in police custody in the UK in the last 10 years and that 140 were white, 10 black and 13 other ethnicities. I also made the point that disadvantaged white boys in England were less likely to go into further education than disadvantaged black boys.
“Does only BLM or should all lives matter?” I asked. “Are only white people racist? Sorry to burst the moral outrage bubble, but FSB should be careful how it handles its response.”
Immediately, the Exeter Area Lead in Devon, a white middle-aged man, accused me of being a racist. He asked me in the group: “was I saying that… all that stuff about BLM deaths due to coronavirus was probably all made up and there is nothing wrong with a bit of slavery?” It was hard to make head or tail of his accusation – BLM deaths? – but I had obviously said nothing of the kind. He then immediately left the WhatsApp group and made a formal complaint to the Regional Chair and Board. I assumed it would be dismissed, but within days there followed a letter from the director attached to the region asking me to resign. I declined.
Worth reading in full.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
We’ve created a one-stop shop down here for people who want to obtain a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card – because wearing a mask causes them “severe distress”, for instance. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and the Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. And if you feel obliged to wear a mask but want to signal your disapproval of having to do so, you can get a “sexy world” mask with the Swedish flag on it here.
Don’t forget to sign the petition on the UK Government’s petitions website calling for an end to mandatory face masks in shops here.
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption. Another reader has created an Android app which displays “I am exempt from wearing a face mask” on your phone. Only 99p.
If you’re a shop owner and you want to let your customers know you will not be insisting on face masks or asking them what their reasons for exemption are, you can download a friendly sign to stick in your window here.
And here’s an excellent piece about the ineffectiveness of masks by a Roger W. Koops, who has a doctorate in organic chemistry. See also the Swiss Doctor’s thorough review of the scientific evidence here and Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson’s Spectator article about the Danish mask study here.
The Great Barrington Declaration
The Great Barrington Declaration, a petition started by Professor Martin Kulldorff, Professor Sunetra Gupta and Professor Jay Bhattacharya calling for a strategy of “Focused Protection” (protect the elderly and the vulnerable and let everyone else get on with life), was launched in October and the lockdown zealots have been doing their best to discredit it ever since. If you googled it a week after launch, the top hits were three smear pieces from the Guardian, including: “Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including ‘Dr Johnny Bananas’.” (Freddie Sayers at UnHerd warned us about this the day before it appeared.) On the bright side, Google UK has stopped shadow banning it, so the actual Declaration now tops the search results – and Toby’s Spectator piece about the attempt to suppress it is among the top hits – although discussion of it has been censored by Reddit. The reason the zealots hate it, of course, is that it gives the lie to their claim that “the science” only supports their strategy. These three scientists are every bit as eminent – more eminent – than the pro-lockdown fanatics so expect no let up in the attacks. (Wikipedia has also done a smear job.)
You can find it here. Please sign it. Now over three quarters of a million signatures.
Update: The authors of the GBD have expanded the FAQs to deal with some of the arguments and smears that have been made against their proposal. Worth reading in full.
Update 2: Many of the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration are involved with new UK anti-lockdown campaign Recovery. Find out more and join here.
Update 3: You can watch Sunetra Gupta set out the case for “Focused Protection” here and Jay Bhattacharya make it here.
Update 4: The three GBD authors plus Prof Carl Heneghan of CEBM have launched a new website collateralglobal.org, “a global repository for research into the collateral effects of the COVID-19 lockdown measures”. Follow Collateral Global on Twitter here. Sign up to the newsletter here.
Judicial Reviews Against the Government
There are now so many legal cases being brought against the Government and its ministers we thought we’d include them all in one place down here.
The Simon Dolan case has now reached the end of the road. The current lead case is the Robin Tilbrook case which challenges whether the Lockdown Regulations are constitutional. You can read about that and contribute here.
Then there’s John’s Campaign which is focused specifically on care homes. Find out more about that here.
There’s the GoodLawProject and Runnymede Trust’s Judicial Review of the Government’s award of lucrative PPE contracts to various private companies. You can find out more about that here and contribute to the crowdfunder here.
And last but not least there was the Free Speech Union‘s challenge to Ofcom over its ‘coronavirus guidance’. A High Court judge refused permission for the FSU’s judicial review on December 9th and the FSU has decided not to appeal the decision because Ofcom has conceded most of the points it was making. Check here for details.
Samaritans
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History Debunked
I am in complete despair how this Goverment keeps destroying our lives and the economy with never ending lockdown.
Lockdown was the invention of Xi Jinping, the world’s worst dictator.
The proper Conservatives like Sir John Redwood, Sir Desmond Swayne, Sir Charles Walker are left on the back benches while Boris Johnson prefers to listen to his Left Wing Masters in SAGE. He seems more like a hostage under threat than a leader.
Of course we should no give up or we will never get our freedom back
Everybody needs to get out of their dwellings and stand in front of their houses. Everybody – everywhere. Holding a sign stating:
“We don’t buy into your lies anymore.”
The biggest problem with that will be the ‘everybody’ part, though.
A poster in our windows and cars would be better although you risk some Lockdown nut throwing a brick at them.
Well, the ‘throwing a brick’ part might be neglectable – if those standing in front of their houses have some bricks at the door?
Children should stand in towns with signs saying ‘I want to go to school‘
They should also carry a poster showing the relatively low risk to teachers compared to the average person.
That is – just about zero.
.Children should stand in towns with signs saying ‘I want to go to school‘
Exactly. With their teachers holding signs that state:
“We want our students back in their classrooms – NOW.”
Yes restart the 7pm thursday clap but with everyone who wants lockdowns to end on their drives holding their Horns down !! For 5 minutes !! Can anyone in media get this idea going Come on let’s do it !!
Yes. Honking horns to express ones consent/dissent were a new concept to me when I first came to Hawai’i. Now, I am convinced it might be the best action to get people’s attention. Honk it – and if only for five minutes. Tye sooner the better. Time is of the essence.
And what difference will it make to the rulers? None, I’d guess. They’ll just ignore it and pass on.
The rulers do what they are paid to so are unchangeanble by non-oligarchs. The ordinary folks, trustingly relying on the MSM, beleive what they are told. If they see another message, they may start to think about the their own sense of contradiction between the info presented by the MSM and their own experience.
You could invert that of course and with a high likeliness that nothing will make a difference to the rulers.
Because it is a hard pill to swallow, that they are immune to anything non-violent. However, the psywar against the population certainly works in both directions. If nothing else, it will constitute a massive nuisance when the horns go off in the middle of the night – in the neighborhood of Your oppressive ruler. Setting off car alarms is known to be a demoralizing practice by the rulers’ servants to break dissidents.
Spread the word 👍 7pm Thursdays !!
A rather willing hostage i.e. he is no hostage.
February 2020
https://youtu.be/nV1XZQ_8eqE
The Shocking Truth About Health Passports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz2IGjIXKfQ
Vernon Coleman
I Desmond is hounded out of the Conservative Party by these people. Then, those who share his worries for liberty, may join him on the streets. I feel he’s done as good a job as anyone to make the case, but he must know Parliament is being taken over
The title of “he world’s worst dictator” clearly belongs to the Western regime collective. It’s never one personn- it is the organization of the hyper rich that control the narrative. Xi Jinping is nothing more than a ventriloquist’s puppet. Like all the other glorious ‘leaders’. Compare the living standards of China with those of the U.S. over the last twenty years and tell me who is worse for their own populations.
Thank goodness there are a few politicians with a shred of integrity. But they sadly have little impact. Where is the covid recovery group? It beggars belief the power of SAGE. They are wielding public health as a weapon. Truly the zealots moment of glory. My personal frustration with pro lockdowers and supporters of covid orthodoxy grows daily……..and Boris is suffering from stockholm syndrome
Spot on !!
Redwood voted for the lockdown.
Someone should reveal to all of us who are the members of S.A.G.E. and what are their connections.
CNN wants 5 masks.
I started work in September 1968, as a medical representative visiting GPs and Hospital in South West and South East London. I had no problem meeting my appointment targets as the NHS was fully open. It was over this autumn and winter into 1969 that we had the Hong Kong flu epidemic rampant in the UK and killing far more people than Covid and across all age ranges.
The diference between then and now? Well, 24 hour rolling news and social media….!!
What Happened To SARS-1?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2__DH26S6Kk
Dr. Sam Bailey
173K subscribers
Around 17 years before Covid-19 and what is termed “SARS-CoV-2” there was SARS or SARS-CoV-1. But where did SARS go? And how does it relate to Covid-19?
She is great!
Lockdown Stories: My 16-year-old son was suicidal | 26-Jan-21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9JaS2s165Q
A talkRADIO listener has revealed she received a text message from her 16-year-old son explaining lockdown was making him feel suicidal.
Speaking to Julia Hartley-Brewer, Cathy said she was “naïve” about the effects of the lockdown in March, but now feels like she is “in limbo.”
“We thought we would get on with it. My son is 16 and has always had anxiety. Then March came. Then we had all the uncertainty of being at home, what that meant for him. It all left everything up in the air.
“He worked really hard at school. He had support to keep him on track. All that stopped when he was at home, and we didn’t really know what to do.
“It broke my heart. You don’t expect to see a text message from your own son saying he feels suicidal and he couldn’t take the pressure. I wanted to take that away from him… We were in limbo and we didn’t know what to do.”
Stop believing the lies. It will help the son when the parents take a stand against this assault on human dignity.
Deaths within 28 days of covid vaccination
– https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/f/the-common-cold-and-common-censorship
With or of?
Very interesting graph in the article and deserves serious investigation
With or of makes no difference. A device to seed confusion. Take care for people calling themselves lockdown sceptics.
This was written in May, last year:
Track And Trace, And The Difference Between Covid-19 And “From/With Coronavirus”
Second Rate Wind Power Side-lined In China’s Coal-Fired Economic Miracle
https://stopthesethings.com/2021/01/27/second-rate-wind-power-side-lined-in-chinas-coal-fired-economic-miracle/
They should make this legal
The Great Reopen UK businesses are asked to open 30th January – I am not saying anyone should break the law.
Aren’t all businesses essential – contact them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCGI4kurfbY
https://thewhiterose.uk/the-great-reopening-30-january-2021/
One cannot break illegal laws hoisted upon the population. The notion stands that Adolf Hitler never broke a law he had written beforehand. These ‘laws’ are crimes against humanity and the Nürnberg trials explicity stated, that “just having follwed orders” is no excuse. In its inversion, You cannot break illegal laws. Mass disobedience works. But the mass has to be united. Opening all shops/businesses is the only way it will work. At least the absolute majority of those who still exist.
“An unjust law is no law”. Preventing people from meeting their families and friends can never be justified in any circumstances.
Doesn’t it make You wonder why this important fact is never really understood by those who claim to be ‘law abiding’ citizens? Or in the general assessment of: ‘law abiding citizen = good citizen’ versus ‘unjust law disobeying citizen = bad citizen’, that has now changed to ‘disobeying citizen = domestic terrorist’?
Truly Orwellian times we are confronted with.
In Oceania, ‘nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws’. .The Thought Police decided what got you into a concentration camp and what didn’t.
The planetary owner class never thought of ‘1984’ as being a science fiction novel – but an instruction manual.
This regime is also taking out massive loans (actually just digits on a bank balance) with interest due (essentially free money for the banksters). These loans wil be arranged so the creditos have first call on any assets.That interest will have to be paid by future generations, largely the very people forming the small sized business sector that is the heart of the economy. The loans are odious loans and should be publicly repudiated.
So when we were told we could “bubble” with other people/families it was rather silly, but this space bubble concert in the And Finally… section is just fucking bizarre. They’ve taken it way too literally and I do notice that some people are sharing a bubble. Chairs would be nice and I’m guessing the air in that bubble would get pretty stale. And are you allowed to leave your bubble to go to the washroom? How the hell do you get in and out of a bubble? What are the acoustics like inside a bubble? The bubble might be worth it if you can ditch the mask. It’s late here and I’m becoming delirious. Time for sleep so as to refresh myself for another day of insanity…
Totally agree, regards from N Bonaparte.
Hubble bubble, toil and trouble.
Not to forget yet more use of plastic.
Turns out a billion masks ended up in the oceans already. How pathetic is that?
It’s most likely a stunt, but if it isn’t, the practicalities are astonishingly bad. What if someone farts in a shared bubble?
Dutch ovens, ramped up to 11!!
Lots of “it wasn’t me” looks – if it was a silent one…
When you are given illogical science, illogical government orders. You end up with illogical decisions. I am sure this band just wanted to play. I just have vision’s of them playing their best song, you know the one were everyone jumps around and seeing people disappearing over the hill out of control.
They should seal the twats inside – guaranteed to stop all diseases.
Hahaha!!!
Looks like a scene from Alien.
Am I the only one that sees the irony in the Home Secretary standing up in Parliament on Holocaust Memorial Day and telling people they can’t leave the country?
So much better to stay home (ugh) and enjoy the current holocaust of sanity, decency, humanity and civilisation.
When I was a child in the Soviet Union people needed exit visas to leave the country – I never thought that my adopted home would stoop to this level
very sad
I only see cause for a jail sentence.
Let My People Go; How Organising In A Legally Cultural Separate Enclave Destroys Pharaoh
And having a go at influences for taking pictures of themselves in the sun. Two points pratty, first jealous much? Secondly that’s how they get fucking paid, its their job. Nobody is going to pay for a picture of them in the UK wrapped up in 5 layers of clothing.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I know it’s not a laughing matter but FGS this government is the pits!
Interesting discussion at the tail end of yesterday about people dying after receiving a vaccine.
Lots of anecdotal evidence is appearing. However, one poster reminded us that we need to be sure of facts so that we don’t follow the example of the lockdown zealots.
It seems self evident to me that the vaccines are hastening the deaths of weaker, older people. But how would I confirm that when the MHRA are saying it is all coincidence?
What data is out there to confirm or deny the hypothesis?
I think the uk authorities have specifically said they won’t publish anything on this until a later date, by which time it will of course be too late. If the recent Norwegian figures of around 1 in 1000 are any way representative it would indeed account for many of the recent ‘excess’ deaths. But as you rightly say this is nothing more than idle speculation at present.
Isn’t it time to stop calling these people ‘authorities’? These are oppressors by any other name.
This is a tricky one. If Toby and Co. make too much of it, they’ll be labelled anti- vaxx and maybe closed down, so it’s up to us. Let’s strive to keep tabs on all reports of post-vaxx deaths, and of any statistics that do get out.
Oh, the irony that if you die of anything whatsoever within 28 days of a dodgy test, it’s Covid, but if you die within 28 days or less of getting the vaxx, there’s no connection. You’s think even the zombies would notice, but of course their brains are permanently turned off.
I don’t understand. Isn’t it more powerful, and honourable to be punished for doing the right thing? You get what you deserve, and so many people in this country don’t expect to deserve much, evidently. But don’t worry. This gatekeeping operation is for leading you quietly through the process. It won’t get closed down.
New Study Acknowledges Increased Levels Of ACE2 As Factor In Contracting Covid-19; Who Will Take Any Notice?
Unfortunately you are correct, we are being set up to fail. Many people are still under the impression that the police and establishment serve the public.
They use many ways to herd their slaves. Keeping them thinking within the mainstream media narrative is one of them.
If you run a website on your own servers using your own web-space, no one can shut you down. Search engines can attempt to block you but I haven’t seen this happen in the long term. Search engines like Startpage now place their own warnings about websites that don’t pertain to their typically hard-left politics, but they don’t block the website.
Of course if the website is acting illegally, that’s a matter for the courts, but I don’t think it’s illegal (yet) to oppose a dodgy vaccine, is it?
Yes its its not a site that’s earning revenue from advertising that can get pulled because of social media pressure. All the data in April shows the deaths from the virus were 80 plus. This is the same virus, so if people in the 15-65 age group are dying this CANNOT be the virus. We have data from death rates to prove this. Therefore the only logical assumption must be these deaths are being caused by LOCKDOWN. Hennighan FFS where are you man, we need someone to analyse the data.
Already living in a nasty dystopia, obviously. Time to create a new language to inform the people of the truth then? It has been done before.
7 million people have been jabbed.It
Is conceivable that no one has died after receiving the “vaccine”.
The government are suppressing any negative reporting so you will be unable to challenge the governments position using facts and data.
Be assured the government are killing people in the name of protecting them.
These ‘vaccines’were never tested on the cohort who are now receiving them.
There are always injuries or adverse reactions resulting from the application of any medical intervention. They can range from very infrequent and very minor through to more frequent and much more serious. To expect us to accept that nothing at all is going on is another failure of this stupid administration. It will only harden the anti-vaccination stance where it exists.
Polarised reaction would be ‘anti vax’ – just as polarised reaction to enforced lockdowns and degrading impoverishment would be anti-lockdown. The true way to frame this is never in the terms of those who seek to claim a moral high ground from which to frame NOT joining their war as a a betrayal in ‘anti’, ‘denialist’ or ‘terrorist’ terms. Very very few take responsibility for their own thought and speech such as to effectively think in programmed terms. The lockdown of the mind is achieved with locked in meanings – taken and used as currency. Orwell pointed out the use of language as a weapon and a denial of consciousness. The ‘creation’ of the ‘anti-thing’ is the generation of the hate and threat as falsely flagged out AWAY from self onto others – who can then be attacked, degraded, denied. I could tell you all about how this runs as an ‘unconscious bias’ – but this has already been taken as a weapon of the Inquisitor for evil hates and blames – so as to deny the territory of uncovering to an honest open communication of responsibility and choice. But this reveals the ‘enemy’ for what it is; hate, fear… Read more »
So you’ve not read of that 56 year old healthy US doctor that died from the vax then? He’s the first one that came to mind. But there have already been dozens of people killed by it.
Have 7 million people received a “Covid-19 vaccine”? When an agent of UK Government opens its mouth, it’s lying.
Perhaps the stories about vaccine death are for creating the impression of widespread take up?
Ending Government-By-Hoax By Killing Its Perception Shaping Capability Is Eminently Possible, Continuing Death Of BBC Demonstrates
Documented on Gab
https://gab.com/groups/6054
as one contributor put it yesterday, data is their battleground – fuck data. we are about principle. everything they are doing is repulsively, outrageously WRONG, it is EVIL, and they can shove their data where the sun don’t shine.
I appreciate the sentiment, but data is meaningless without interpreting structure of consciousness which is a mind of values and meaning. The adage Garbage in; garbage out – comes to mind as a modern ‘take’ on as you sow so shall you reap. So first principles are the predicate or premise that sets the parameters for all that follows. A garbage result properly addressed does not attack and deny the ‘garbage’ or reframe the ‘model’ to SEEM to make the garbage disappear while of course the corruption at the level of cause will show up somewhere else – as a redistribution of blame and penalty – that is reflected into social terms as wealth and control. The recoil of a split off and dissociated mind, desperate for its own survival at all and any cost is judged evil, denied and ‘cast out’ onto others and world. We are being denied by such a pattern or programming of denial that is ‘contagious’ as hate and fear interpreted as attack and triggering a like response. Triggered moral outrage can thus so easily give consent to worship hate as righteous in casting out blame hate and attack as if to get rid of… Read more »
Old people (especially those in care homes) already die frequently. I think the life expectancy after arrival is around 2 years? No family is going to subject a loved one to the current care home conditions unless they absolutely have to and can’t cope eg not strong enough to lift/bathe them etc, hence I imagine the current population are extra frail.
Add to that that the NHS won’t give them hospital treatment if they are sick, that they are probably ready to die rather than live depressed and isolated in a dystopia and are probably suffering from lower immunity recently.
So I dunno…I’m sceptical that vaccines are killing them but I wouldn’t be a skeptic if I wasn’t!
True sceptics are sceptical of their own scepticism.
I thought the figures for Gibraltar were rather telling.
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/53-dead-in-gibraltar-in-10-days-after-experimental-pfizer-mrna-covid-injections-started/
Take your pick from all of these anecdotal evidence
Local Live today worries us about the record number of cases in the NHS Region and then goes on to tell us the authorities are concerned about outbreaks of Covid in more than a dozen nursing homes this month.
(which had previously escaped infection since last March but they don’t say that bit) I reported on two of these earlier this month.
Post vaccine Covid ? Who knows ?
Looks like I am to be taken by a cattle truck to an interment camp when I return to the UK from South Africa. I left the UK perfectly legally to be with my family over Christmas but return to be imprisoned without trial but with a negative covid test.
It beggars belief.
I imagine the so called security guards and those organising the buses will be of the Covid Marshall type, enjoying their new power role. Pack some comfort food, some good reading material and maybe a bottle of Gordon’s.
Address them as Herr Kommandant
We do have a history of escaping from these kind of places with the help of any Tom, Dick or Harry.
Sturmbannführer, they want to be called. Some of course, Obersturmbannführer.
Using these terms will go by the security staff, they will not be able to put two and two together as they have not been educated about this.
Of course not. History is written by the alleged victors. The universal truth however is, that those who do the bidding of the oppressors will be the first to see the raddishes from below. As an old German proverb states. (Die Radieschen von unten sehen.)
Not really sure though if the people so easily be duped can be educated at all. They are just too prone to regime propaganda – until their country lays in shambles.
Thinking out aloud here but I’d make that a case of Gordans
A bottle? For 10 days? I think I’d max the luggage allowance out with drink alone
It really does. Stay there?? Weather must be better! Out of interest, what is life like over there? Masks outdoors everywhere etc? Many times this winter I’ve fantasised of escaping to Cape Town but not sure the reality would be much better than the uk, except for the climate..
I’ve been told off about a dozen times for not wearing a mask but I plead stupid tourist. I’m waiting for the alcohol ban to be lifted but in the meantime losing weight! Otherwise it’s fine. Social distancing in a shanty is an impossibility but the government has a plan to destroy the economy.
Stephen, what do the rules say? Can you go somewhere else for 14 days before you return and then not count as having come from SA? France, say? Look into it – it would almost certainly be cheaper to take an extra two week holiday somewhere else if it gets you out of paying for, and putting up with quarantine here in the UK.
That would only work if the oppressors don’t look at the stamps in your passport.
Not true – previously you could travel via another country as long as you were there for long enough.
Emphasis on ‘previously’ – but what is nowadays as it was previously. As someone who traveled the world, I was always facing scrutiny at re-entering the U.S.
Immigrations officers always looked at the entry/exit stamps closely. But I don’t know how it is now under the fake pandemic. Nor how the UK immigration agents treat their citizens at re-entry now. My guess it’s also very different now then when I was in the UK during the mid/late 80’s.
SA gov says you can only go to your country of origin.
I would stay where you are if I was you. Not many 1930’s Jews returned to Germany once they had got out
yeh, just head slightly north to Tanzania and claim asylum there. you’ll be closer to your family anyway.
Your “postcard from UK government quarantine” will be interesting. I look forward to reading it.
Total insanity!
There was a successful case brought in the Netherlands stating that preventing a citizen returning to their country was against human rights.
As with many other aspects of this, the UK legal eagles remain silent because people are dying
There was an article last year about lawyers in the UK speaking out about lockdowns. I’ll try and find it again. Please contact them upfront. Otherwise please document the journey on your phone – try and film as much as you can to have evidence for court.
I have lost so much hope about the UK. When my fuses ignite over sending people to quarantine camps, the brainwashed masses just shrug shoulders and say “oh but he could be infectious”. It’s beyond anything I imagined could ever happen in the UK. How long before dissenting voices like us will be sent to re-education camps?
Looks like I am going to be joining you next week when I fly back from South Africa.
Interested to see the item above concerning ‘young girlism’ seeing P.M. Johnson recently various politically incorrect phrases come to mind, so my apologies I could not think how else to put it; wittering, timorous, cowering, big girl’s blouse who needs to ‘man-up’ and get a grip or get out. All this ‘stay safe’ protect the NHS’; save lives is no way to live. When the sparrowhawk takes down a pigeon or the local fox hunts down a rabbit, the local rabbit and pigeon population do not go into despair, it’s what happens, they just carry on. As I see it 99.85% of the UK population have not died of/with/maybe covid, even if they managed to double the dodgy deaths to 200,000 that would still only be 0.3% of the population. At the same time despite a falling birth rate nonetheless more people were born in the UK in 2020 than died. Surely it is the job of the Government to come clean tells the population that yes some people are going to die, this virus can be nasty but we need to ‘man-up’ and face it, remembering that over 99% of the population will not die from this virus, there… Read more »
Thanks for that nugget of common sense and realism Steve. Absolutely agree with you.
The longer the gov’t refuses to acknowledge the basic common sense you mention, along with the fact that the death rate was 0.9% in 2019 and 1.0% in 2020…hardly a ‘pandemic’ and stop the fearmongering – the greater the credence for ‘conspiracy theories’ and worries about a ‘great reset’. As I told colleagues who asked me ‘what the hell is going on’, my answer was wait until end of March, if nothing changes after March, then you have the answer.
Absolutely, although even March may be too soon the way these cunts are stringing this out. I’d go one further and say let’s wait to see what happens in autumn with the German general election.
The AfD are gonna be making a lot of noise – hopefully we’ll hear and see some of it.
Unfortunately, facts not verified by the models are irrelevant.
Well, given that all this is true, we are screwed.
The whole establishment is soft and girly. Until one of their own is under attack.
Not one of them is going to speak such heretical truths in this age of spineless whimsy and magical thinking.
The enlightenment has been snuffed out in my lifetime.
Yes great point Steve. I would only add, why have the government not clicked back to zero. I know i was locked up an all but didn’t we just start a new year? How are you supposed to compare month on month if you just keep the totals going.
They can’t tell us to ‘man up’ (dread term) now Steve because that would be tantamount so saying they’ve pursued the wrong policy.
Agree emphatically.
Hovering over the rabbit hole, I see in its depths scrumpled paper that cost a fortune to compile on which is written: UK Pandemic Response. There are other pieces of paper that cost many more fortunes and are in different languages (some of which I never even knew existed), and none had the fore thought to suggest adopting prison protocols.
Inexplicably, the entire world has dumped all previous knowledge and the rabbits are understandably pissed right off.
They keep telling me that they’re preparing for a further paper dump of currencies – I think the bear tipped them off as he felt sorry for them after wiping his arse with rabbits and realizing they no longer had space in their hole for a shower.
I think we need a bigger hole.
Having to show evidence for purpose of flight and be at the hands of some hi-viz stasi to decide whether they will accept it, I feel is a spiteful gesture by Priti because she didn’t get her way on a total ban. There is no evidence any new strains are more serious, and are these strains or mutations, as have not 50,000 already been identified. There will always be some new virus, so what is Patel’s answer – we exist in an isolated country, fearing normal life events and illnesses, mired in abject poverty and misery. The cruel irony was that this year should have been the year of our independence, forging a path internationally and instead we are shutting down to the world. What is really getting to me is that a hypothetical threat is not an adequate excuse to ban movement and certainly not under any international human rights laws which protect the right of movement – why are none of these international laws, including those protecting individuals from vaccine coercion, not being cited by those many human rights lawyers that once littered the msm with their crusade for the deported criminal and their right to family life… Read more »
Absolutely! THE most fundamental human right we have is control of our own body. We are the ones having to live in that body from birth to death. We are the ones that suffer any pain/illness it gets. So where indeed are the human rights lawyers in this case? Already we see lots of employees forced to wear masks and have invasive tests by some employers. Already there are staff that have even been blackmailed into having the vax by their employers (recalling recent article about a doctor forcing her staff to do so – whether they themselves had chosen that or no) and the more bratty/entitled type parents are already demanding teachers should have the vax and one can see there might be schools blackmailing teachers into having the vax or lose their jobs. Goodness knows I don’t feel any sympathy for all those teachers that are thoroughly enjoying doing less work for the same money – but there will be “real” teachers amongst them, that genuinely do want to just get on and do their job properly and I feel sorry for the genuine teachers amongst all the wittering/scaredy ones that they have for colleagues.
Dr. Fuellmich is one of them. Have not heard any updates, yet though. Need to go to his website.
Starmer was a Human Rights lawyer although you wouldn’t think so, as it’s clear he doesn’t care about OUR Human rights.
Blair’s wife is one as well. Not our rights, of course, unless we’re illegal immigrants.
human rights laws are like bank loans: they are only available to you when you don’t actually need them
Makes you wonder what’s the point of them eh?
I get the feeling the reason why human rights lawyers are conspicuous by their absence and silence is because we don’t fit into their Messiah complex.
Oh but when this is all over……. have you lost a loved one because of the vaccine? Dial now to our team of lawyers are waiting for your call.
Bingo.
Indeed, we have no protection from “government” oppression and the complicit “opposition”. Moreover, except for a courageous few, we have been abandoned by
Pliant “representatives”
Corrupt media
Co-opted military
Lawless “police”
Dishonest doctors
Faithless clergy
Brainwashed public…
We have to fight to destroy the vicious inhumanity ushering us towards perpetual servitude.
You surely remember the most prominent slogan “I’d rather be dead – than red!”?
I’d rather be dead – than grated in reset.
Again the Leading column slowly catches up with reality.
The day after Johnson announced lockdown until February it was legislated to last until March 31.
Furlough runs to April.
It doesn’t take a genius to work out where we are going.
The announcement on schools is due to the growing pressure for them to return.I don’t think they will return until after Easter.
Keep up the pressure, though.
I think the real reason for keeping schools closed is that the bustle of delivering and picking up children, and the sight of uniformed schoolchildren in the streets, gives an impression of normality and the Fascists hate that, because it runs counter to their terror narrative.
On one point I’d disagree – fascists like seeing citizens in uniform. This desire to see children in uniform is a strangely Anglo centric outlook. The UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand. Personally I regard putting children in uniform as a form of paedophilia and as such, do not support it.
Like it or not, it is normal in the UK.
https://twitter.com/donkamion78/status/1354519153760231434?s=20
Sorry Ewan but thats utter rubbish.
And China, Japan, India, Mexico, Colombia, parts of Russia … but hey, don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story :eyeroll
Not if the uniforms are brown.
Personally, having seen Lockdown coming about 2 years before it started (from intuition – so I can’t quote you factual proof for that one) my own take is that it will continue on into next year (again from intuition – and, from my own pov, I don’t believe it will last long enough for me to get into the over-70’s “ooh you are SUCH a bigger risk now/so better lock yourself indoors for life” agegroup). So I hit 70 in January 2023 – and hence my own personal belief Lockdown will be gone before that aspect comes up. My take as to the “how” of why it will be gone boils down pretty much to lots of people will have shown up as having vax injuries and deaths before then and even a lot of the sheeple will have woken up accordingly by then. Added that the Magic Money Tree can only keep paying out for people to be on furlough for so long and I believe furlough will be over at some point this year and, at that point, all the spoilt brats that think Lockdown doesn’t affect them that much will have to re-emerge from their hobbit holes… Read more »
Nice to be optimistic.
‘So I hit 70 in January 2023 – and hence my own personal belief Lockdown will be gone before that aspect comes up.’
It is healthy. As mom said, expect the best, plan for the worst. If people are dying from the Vaxx we won’t hear about it. According to the markets, the GBP is gaining value and has gained value during the LDs….figure that one out. Interest rates at 0 or negative and this gov’t can borrow and print until their eyes bleed.
It ain’t gonna end unless enough people say so.
Optimistic are you? I don’t see the schools re-opening at all. By Feb – March new ‘variants’, dead count will double, mass hysteria by the ‘Teachers’ who will claim that 99% will die from exposure to the new ‘Greenland variant’ etc etc. No chance they open.
I do see them re-opening at some point – because of the huge number of downsides just to the pupils themselves. Add in those parents that don’t want to home school also putting on pressure from their own pov. The only plus side I can see to schools shut is that some pupils that land up getting homeschooled because of Lockdown might prefer to stay homeschooled afterwards (eg those made to go to a Welsh/Irish/Scottish language school against their will – which is certainly something I’ve heard of happening, with living in those 3 counties in West Wales).
Things will reopen when the government can present a face saving excuse of ‘we beat this virus folks’, back slaps all round, a media that supports the narrative, a few gongs dished out to SAGE members and move on to the next issue. Nothing to see here!
That’s what I thought. But then that could have happened in July. Cases minimal, no deaths. Yes we have it beaten. Switch to LFT testing, cases dissappear and everything open. And then they didn’t. They then mandated masks, I then knew we were fucked and are never getting out of this.
But what science can get them back? There is a shit load (see i can use scientific terms) of data showing a tiny amount of spread from kids to teachers and no deaths and absolutely no spread the other way. So what would convince teachers to go back to work? What exactly are you afraid of? What idiocy suggests vaccination for all teachers? You know you can still catch and pass on the disease so how has that improved things. And in the meantime using your logic you have taken a vaccination away from granny. So you are killing granny! With this application of your logic you cannot go back to doing your job till covid is gone. Well that’s fucking never.
I’ll be surprised if the schools reopen before the summer.
In the long term though, the state needs the schools for two things. Brainwashing purposes, and freeing parents up to be tax-cattle.
There will come a point where the govt will, as a matter of its own survival, have to confront the teachers unions. I’d tell them that if we’re Zoom-schooling any longer, we don’t need half of your members.
Biden’s Bird Slaughter: Green New Deal’s Wind Turbines Will Kill 1,000,000 Birds Annually
https://stopthesethings.com/2021/01/28/bidens-bird-slaughter-green-new-deals-wind-turbines-will-kill-1000000-birds-annually/
This is Doris’ ‘guilt free’ energy plan as well. He wants all energy running on the bird choppers and the slave-premised solar panels which wipe out local ecology and generate not much.
Maybe a good idea to attach him to one.
That would be funny. But a bit unbalanced and might not last long. No wait, if we tied handjob and Twatty at the other end (the two of them probably weight as much as one fat pig dictator) that should do the job. Faster, faster!!
As this is a forum to share ideas and concepts, what do the green energy critics propose to create energy into any future.. just curious.
After vaccinations were administered at a care home in Basingstoke, twenty-two of the residents died. A spokesperson for the MHRA said they were saddened by the deaths but said they were not linked to the vaccine patients might have received, saying: “We are saddened to hear about any deaths which have occurred since receiving COVID-19 vaccination. However, our surveillance does not suggest that the COVID-19 vaccines have contributed to any deaths.“It is not unexpected that some of these people may naturally fall ill due to their age or underlying conditions shortly after being vaccinated, without the vaccine playing any role in that. So the agency that provided approval for a product that has not completed the trial stage knows (without any evidence) that the product it prematurely approved did not cause the deaths, and that the timing of vaccinations and deaths is purely coincidental. The number of people and the short time scale surely mean that the authorities are duty bound to conduct a proper investigation, rather than just offer an obviously insincere expression of feeling, and an equally obviously incredible denial. The MHRA’s response is nothing more than a self-serving statement. I do not know what the residents died… Read more »
surely autopsies should solve it
Autopsies are something the government, under its coronavirus legislation, has actively suppressed.
madness – just in case the vaccine does push very frail people over the edge you’d think they’d want to know about it quickly so they could stop doing it. I suspected it would – the side-effects could be quite unpleasant in the healthy test subjects. Anything can push a frail 100 year old over the edge – including the stress of lockdown, not seeing your friends and relatives and being surrounded by people in hazmat suits sticking things up your nose regularly.
Not to mention dealing with the costs of social care of the elderly, which both Tories and Labour promised.
Extremely radical method though.
Yes, I’ve long worried about what they will do about the demographic crisis of an ageing population. Given they are already killing the very young, I suppose one should not be entirely surprised if they find ways of dispatching the very old and vulnerable. I wouldn’t want to be an elderly person in a care home with no family and friends I could rely on.
Frail centenarians cost a lot of money to keep. The vaccine is providential from that point of view.
Yes remember the DNR notices attached to the old in the NHS? That caused an outrage, so this is quieter and easier.
That phrase “useless eaters” coming to mind again. After all, I gather the Government/NHS start looking at us all a bit sideways once we hit 60 and start to reckon we’re a bit “surplus to requirements” steadily from that age onwards. After all – we’ve brought up any children we’ve had and many of us aren’t exactly ‘fit and well’ to work and, if we are, then our skills and work attitudes are deemed to be outdated to a large extent. Here speaks the voice of an office worker that started work prior to computers taking over everything and prior to office workers also being expected to do things like antisocial hours working.
Retired and semi retired folk are crucial to society – providing child care, raising much needed money for a huge number of charities, generally making the wheels go round in most communities in fact.
Think of of them as glue – and you can then realise why so much has come unstuck in society now that we’ve been locked up for 10 months.
Very good point and its true so much has fallen apart and society has become more atomised.
Also keeping many charities and groups going by volunteering on a regular basis.
Surplus to requirements indeed. See my above post.
The “vaccines” are clearly meant to push old people and some others over the edge. There will be stronger versions to come. This should be no surprise, as the Great Depopulator Bill Gates is behind this insane campaign to vaccinate the world with these liability free biological agents.
Cor, their producers must have dollar signs in their eyes!
My view is that is their goal is to kill the old people or else why haven’t they stopped vaccinating them when so many have died???
My dad told me a friend of his died from cancer just before Christmas; a totally expected death, he’d been ill for ages and had discharged himself from hospital to die at home. A doctor told the family that for £200 he’d put covid on the death certificate and there’d be no need for an autopsy.
(Now my dad wouldn’t make this kind of thing up, but a bit of research suggests that expected cancer deaths don’t routinely get autopsied and the cost of a death certificate is £11, so I’d appreciate other’s input into this as I don’t want to be outraged at a misunderstanding. I’m saving my outrage for where it’s most needed!)
A colleague on the railway forum I frequent suddenly died last week, initially from heart failure. But an autopsy apparently was done and he was found riddled with cancer. As far as I know Covid has not been mentioned but it goes to show how many cancer cases are being missed during these times.
This doctor is maybe a drug addict or gambler?
Why would someone with his paygrade ask for £200?
More likely this might be some kind of routine payment to GP’s..
Lots of £200s will add to a tidy sum.
It’s absolutely shocking!
Listen to Dolores Cahill talking to Reiner Fuellmich https://www.bitchute.com/video/XKkLs0IYlGWf/
At about 20 mins she says that if a doctor is treating a patient for cancer and then puts covid on the death cert then that is medical negligence and is a striking off offence, this applies in Ireland and England.
Video is 28 mins well worth watching, a lot of good info.
Post Mortem is (was?) standard if someone dies at home, rather than in hospital.
I thought autopsies had been as good as banned though?
Not banned, but discouraged and now we know why.
they wont do them, which is why they are covid deaths, the normal protocols will not apply.
“ However, our surveillance does not suggest that the COVID-19 vaccines have contributed to any deaths
The word “surveillance” is open to a wide variety of meanings. In this context I suspect it means nothing in practice.
I totally agree. I wonder how many deaths this home would normally have at this time of year. I bet it is a lot less.
I think the total capacity for the care home is seventy-two.
The owners are currently advertising for new residents. https://www.averyhealthcare.co.uk/care-homes/hampshire/basingstoke/pemberley-house/
Dilly dilly, dilly dilly, come and be killed.
My experience of these homes when my mother was ill is that they are rarely full so that is 22 deaths out of a maximum of 72 (presumably not all residents were vaccinated if any due diligence was done at all). So that is at best 30% “coincidental” deaths. At worst much higher.
Certainly we all know that these residents are all approaching end of life and the average life expectancy once entering care is less than 2 years but this is clearly a blip of some sort deserving thorough investigation.
Is it a blip? This is not the fist story along these lines.
Hardly worth changing the sheets.
How many care homes, especially independent ones, will go bust as people will be reluctant to go into care.
On my leafleting rounds I look out for houses which have keyboxes and do not bother there. And there a lot.
For a relatively small town (50k) and surrounding villages, we have a lot of care agencies and they are constantly recruiting for home care.
People will only enter care homes when it is absolutely necessary.
If a home with 72 places had 22 deaths over the space of week or so it should be a police matter, but now no one cares. It is in reality still a police matter and those who should be investigated should be the vaccine makers, the government, both politicians and its paid advisors. This couldn’t be much more serious.
This appears to be a genocide and we were warned early on, that this sort of thing would happen. Bad as things are, we are still only at the thin end of the wedge and very clearly many more vaccine deaths are still to come.
Ad the care home. Remember Stepping Hill? Remember Haroold Shipman?
there seem to be too many of these incidents occuring to be sheer coincidence in my opinion. See about gibraltar where deaths increased after the vaxx was administered – was mentioned on here some days ago.
Apparently one of the first things that a police detective learns is that, ‘There are no such things as coincidences’.
Yes indeed. Twenty two coincidences, yeah sure.
Exactly the same thing has happened in several US care home. Murder in front of TV and everybody wishing for more.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cpQ7dnqu0Sos/
I have circulated that link on another forum I frequent, we need to ‘spread the word’.
Part of the reason this can be so successfully “ruled out” is because they laid the groundwork for “vaccines are safe” for several decades. Every bit about vaccine injury has been suppressed successfully. Questioning vaccines is like questioning the monarchy here in the UK – thou shalt not question them under any circumstance. They are the holy grail of modern medicine despite many speaking to the contrary. Further most people wouldn’t know how a vaccine can actually kill anyone – unless you spent time reading up on ADE and why there has never been a successful Coronavirus vaccine before. Please look up Dr Doug Carrigan and his article “Are Coronavirus vaccines a ticking time bomb?” – the answer by the way is a resounding yes, called the cytokine storm. That’s why it is so important to educate people around you about this – to the extent possible – and why this is a potentially long-term devil’s bargain taking this vaccine. Most people don’t know about informed consent document or for that matter that the marvelous pharmaceuticals have been made exempt from liability from first day of running their “trials”… the cognitive dissonance beggars belief, but I do believe next winter… Read more »
Thanks for the link Pebbles. I wasn’t going to have the vaccine before reading this. I’m definitely not going to now. Unfortunately, my husband who has COPD will be taking it. I don’t want him to and have tried to persuade him otherwise, but at the end of the day it his body and therefore his choice. I am pretty scared…
it occurred to me last night that the FDA would be all over this. And they are a surprisingly transparent organisation. All their documentation is available online. And their experts WILL have considered ADE as a risk.
And so they have. In the EUA paperwork they say that they cannot rule it out. No evidence of it, but no evidence to say it’s safe either. And there wouldn’t be evidence at this point, as you need immunity to wane before it’s a problem. It takes time to become apparent.
The monarch has had the vaccine…
Surely someone should ask. What’s the usual fatality rate? One, two a month? One a week? Surely this MUST be exceptional, and we just accept it? At any other time, in any society this is above and beyond what is acceptable. Previously what were your worst figures for death in one week? Why are the police not knocking at your door?
These people were so frail they should not of been given a jab that stimulated their T cells. The so-called vaccination had only been tested on the fit and healthy under 50’s. Tells you all you need to know.
This has now hit the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-55840781
And what a surprise, it doesn’t mention that they were vaccinated.
Gibraltar has jumped to the top of the worldometer death league
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Its spike in deaths coincides with its roll out of the vaccine. The Gibraltar authorities say only “discredited” individuals are pointing this out.
more info here
https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/f/deaths-within-28-days-of-covid-vaccination
Its completely reasonable to point it out. Like it was reasonable to point out that cholera deaths in London were associated with certain water sources. Anybody trying to discourage people even pointing it out is an anti-science loon with a malicious agenda
And cholera killed thousands before the SAGEs of that time abandoned the miasma theory.
Sorry to be “discredited” but check out Israel and UAE on the worldometer. Serious surge in cases and deaths “coinciding” with vaccine roll-out. These are the two most heavily vaccinated populations in the world so far. (Gibraltar probably higher per capita though.)
A lot of coincidences starting to build up.
It’s all our fault for going outside and breathing in their direction.
Or maybe just for breathing full stop in the case of sceptics!
Could we start a twitter thread saying if you walk past someone you should, out of courtesy hold your breath. You should start this process 5 yards before and after. Get all the zealots on board. Then walk as slowly as you can past them and see them all turning blue. Might make them realise the importance of breathing!!
Ah! so the airport prisons are to be run by PHE
Anyone told them yet?
If you’re confident your blood pressure can cope, read this. So awful in so many ways.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/tony-blair-believes-covid-crisis-demands-completely-different/
Even my blood pressure can’t cope with the headline. Sorry.
That man is evil
Yes, and like the other Telegraph Blair article, no comments allowed.
I’m getting very pissed off with The Telegraph, and The Spectator – both seem to have been got at, or paid off.
My God, Blair is an odious creature. A truly vile odious creature. Happy to say I realised this well before 1997.
The author Paul Nuki has his own agenda too I think.
I stopped reading him a few months ago when he revealed by way of an aside that he thought biological race was a construct despite the well-known differences in inherent make-up producing a need for different treatment of some conditions. A medical correspondent who effectively doesn’t believe in evolution or DNA is no good to me.
Didn’t someone say he was part Gates funded?
Don’t know if this is correct or not (everything bad seems to be Gates funded at the moment).
He’s on my “hit list” – ie the one that goes = if I could only go back in time and ensure his parents never met list.
Yes, he’s one of those characters for whom it might truly be said that the world be a better place had he never been born.
Blimey it hurts so much wrong in one paragraph:
“He (Tony Blair) was early in seeing that face-masks and visors would become necessary for key workers and the wider public; he was big on mass testing before others; and he was first to propose a longer gap between vaccine doses in order to protect more vulnerable people quickly.”
Face-masks now demonstrated to be pointless and anxiety inducing. Mass testing has proved ineffective in “controlling” the virus and is only effective in increasing anxiety. The longer gap between vaccine doses not recommended by anyone qualified only politicians.
Yes, that paragraph struck me too. You’d think it was an ironic piss take; but no, they’re serious.
What a vile piece of work Blair is.
The whole article is an interesting insight into the mind of a monster too. Bill Gates is similar I don’t think they are evil but they just have no principles anything goes as long it serves utilitarian ends.
When I see people like that one phrase keeps coming to mid: ‘The banality of evil’.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/outbreaks-in-private-homes-and-childcare-facilities-on-rise-as-experts-warn-new-case-numbers-fail-to-reflect-true-level-of-infection-40021103.html
Confine everyone to their homes and express surprise when outbreaks of the “illness” (more like positive PCR tests at 40-45 cycles) occurs primarily in homes. It must be great to be an expert.
it’s actually terrifying, because it’s the gateway to the gulag: they will start snatching us from our homes: the WHO threatened us with this very early on
Cue outraged headlines about rises in infection rates in gulags…
On the plus side, and by this logic, I bet pubs and restaurants have almost no reported outbreaks at the moment!
With the quarantine hotels, they now have the infrastructure to take you out of your home for two weeks.
As the bank robber said when asked why he robbed banks: “That’s where the money is”.
Captain Blackadder “Problem. General Melchett wants us to increase the Covid body count”
George “Bit of a tricky one old Blackie”
Private Baldrick “Sir I have a cunning plan”
Capt. B ” Pray tell”
Baldrick “Well Sir, what if we inject old people with covid and when it kills them we count them as covid deaths”
Capt. B “Brilliant, Brilliant, George get me Astra Zeneca on the phone”
George “WHO?”
Capt. B “Ok they’ll do”
Very good, ha ha.
I can even hear this in Balders voice, sir I have a Cunning plan. Made me chuckle!
If schools are to remain closed until April, are the teachers furloughed until they return to work? I’ve always felt that the gumint only has support because it is buying it. Look who is either not working – teachers – who is hardly working – doctors – who is “working” from home – civil servants, council officials – and add them to the groups who are actively gaining from the whole scare like the martials, the people in sales of “prevention”, people who work for Amazon and similar. It beggars the question, if the UK has such a service oriented economy who the hell is earning and paying taxes?
Good question.
Over the last few years, the UK has promoted several sectors like fashion & design, tourism, culture as those that bring loads of money into the economy and bring instant global recognition. No thanks to this lockdown and restrictions, the government has decimated the sectors I’ve mentioned above and how long will it take them to recover is questionable.
Equally if children are not even starting phasing into schools until March, why are the Easter holidays still planned some 4 weeks later? Surely children need to have the opportunity to be in school for the remainder of the year to try and repair some of the damage inflicted.
Because the teachers will need a holiday by then!. Sorry, had to get that it. I’m on the fence a bit where teachers are concerned. Firstly because we don’t know how many think this whole thing is a disgrace and also because these days I could no more be a teacher than fly to the moon. Again, to cover my back, I know not all children are devils in disguise but there are a lot about!.
it’s all funny money. it will all just keep going, until one day – it doesn’t. we are presently Wile E Coyote in those moments before he realises he’s left the cliff edge.
When will the government publish the data and give us daily up dates?
Ha ha, ever so ha.
We’re Still Here
Dead Man’s Shoes
The CDC in the USA has a website “Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System”.
On 15 Jan it reported 181 deaths.
It is now “temporarily down”. Callers are asked to try later.
I suspect the true number of deaths will never be known as all deaths will be put down to pre-existing conditions, in stark contrast to anyone dying with Covid.
Thanks for the reply.
The fact that the goalposts keep changing shows that the government has no option of letting this end. They’ve told so many lies that they’re now having trouble keeping up and their lies are becoming more and more fantastic by the second.
I’m beginning to think that the only way now this will end is when people take matters into their own hands. Several warning shots have been fired in countries such as Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain. But will the government listen?
And as for this country, people are only kept happy by bribe money and Netflix. But for how long?
Three weeks to flatten the sombrero.
Boris Johnson March 2020
And nearly 11 months later……
He forgot to take our collective out when tried-and failed
‘And as for this country, people are only kept happy by bribe money and Netflix. But for how long?’
As long as 9 million are paid by the Hindoo’s magic money machine nothing changes. 12 million work in Gov’t on my taxes so they don’t care. That is 21 mn taken care of. Leaves about 15 million in the private sector. As long as their woke corporates comply and force tests, vaxx, diaper wearing etc. they will be browbeaten and terrified of losing their laptop-based income.
So no I don’t see anything changing.
Real negative interest rates mean the gov’t can borrow ad infinitum. No one seems to care about inflation or real price increases since they torture the #s and conclude there is no inflation (eg. house prices are not factored in).
The Hindoo will enforce UBI to keep the peasants quiet. That should be revealed in March I would guess. My mom used to call it welfare but UBI sounds so much nicer and more tolerant etc. etc.
Well said. That said I don’t think that Sunak has factored in closures and bankruptcies has he?
It will be interesting to see what the unemployment and bankruptcy figures are by the end of this month given that I’ve heard of more job losses despite furlough.
Can I ask why you keep referring to Rishi Sunak as “the Hindoo”? I assume you mean him and not Priti Patel or Alok Sharma. I don’t get why we’re referring to some ministers by their religion? And why you’re spelling it like it’s 1900?
Hindoo is the proper spelling. It is not a religion in my view like say Atheism is. Why is the gov’t saturated with non-English, non-Whites. Oh my. So racist. Is there a White Chancellor in India btw? Just asking. Knickknack is part of the millionaire jet set isn’t he? Golden Slacks et al. As if he cares about you. Check out useless Hindoo Patel’s Home Office, the same ones who said that the Muslim sex Jihad gangs who raped 600.000 white girls were actually White. Of the inner staff only 2 are White. Oh my. Oh no. Such racism etc etc blah blah.
You’re on the wrong forum for this.
I’m not saying you don’t have a point, but I think you’ll find the consensus is that this is not the place for it.
At the end of the day, the ministers all report to Boris Johnson and were all elected by the public.
Agree. The fact that you get loads of people especially during the weekends is an example that more and more people are getting fed up and are less inclined to follow the rules.
I get the feeling that the EHO is simply trying to intimidate you for going against the grain and not being suitably frightened unlike other business owners. Well done for fighting back and keeping up the pressure. As for your mystery “customer” I suspect either he’s part of a set up against your business or has something to do with drug pushing in your area.
The logic is that if they’re scared everyone else off why not you? It’s what I call the Wile E Coyote method – do the same thing over and over again to try to catch the Road Runner.
Most odd and it will be surprising once this is over if someone does come forward and claim the money.
After reading your account, I though it was most odd and sinister.
Another thing I thought of is if he has mental health issues.
It would be nice if he does come back and claim the money.
Really strange man, trouble with mental health is there are times you can’t tell. But from the way you described this man either he’s a paid shill or has mental health issues or even both.
Is there any possibility at all that he might be a supporter making a donation but not want to be identified?
Get cameras up KH if you dont have them already for your own evidence and protection, they cant argue with them and any proceedings would have to allow them to be seen. Keep the faith KH you are doing great.
My money and yours is being used to bribe these people.
Anyone on self assessment tax will be making their balancing payment for the year ending April 2020 in the next couple of days. In that year we made some money because it was mostly pre-Rona. I normally pay these things on time and with only a slight pang because, whilst I often disagree with government spending priorities, by and large I agree that we owe the money and hand it over. This year it hurts like hell knowing how the money has been thrown away and into the pockets of test and trace etc i.e. cronies.
I suppose it was ever thus but it just seems in sharper relief this year.
This is purely about showing us ‘who is boss’.
Spot on, as is all the other stuff now. The government know we’re not complying, and so they want to be tyrannts over it.
Yes I agree there is no end in sight the way it is going!
On the “How long?” question: though I’m pretty much retired, I still have some professional involvement as a member of a committee in my subject area. A company which I deal with in that respect is now saying that they don’t expect external visitors to be able to come into their building till at least 2022. Nationally it’s looking to me like a return to tiers in the summer, and since the “vaccines” probably aren’t much good it’ll be another four month lockdown next winter. On that basis theatres, large scale concerts and other events are also unlikely to come back this year. Will the bankruptcy and closure of all these organisations be enough to force a change in policies?
Reporter “What are the numbers for people who have died from taking the vaccine?”
Minister “Nobody has died from taking the Vaccine”
Reporter “What are the figures for tractor production?”
The fabulous statistics continued to pour out of the telescreen….
It was a record year in tractor output and our GDP has exceeded our five year plan objectives…..chocolate manufacturing is also at record highs…..now on to the footie scores….
Face nappy production?
Or geography teachers giving us lessons about the Ruhr coal fields, Salmon fishing grounds of Canada or even more riveting, the velts of South Africa.
That’s because there was a global cooling trend from 1940 to 1975 (something the fear-mongers like to pretend never happened).
Our art appreciation teacher was very concerned about population growth, and told us that when we were older the entire central belt of Scotland, Glasgow across to Edinburgh, would be built up. The last time I travelled that way there was still plenty of farmland and moorland.
Will the Scotcops get close enough to the Pig Dictator to issue him with a Fixed Penalty Notice for his ‘non essential’ journey or will they be shot by the English Close Protection Officers
Should be interesting
On a more serious note. The Scotcops could issue the PD with a summons to appear in a Scottish Court for his Covid breach
Now that would be a giggle
I have to congratulate Will on his wording ABL today. More in line with sceptical thinking. Thank you.
Except for the line about watching the BBC on school re-openings…in related Pravda news it is scientifically proven that Communism generates genius and killing sceptics in gulags is moral…..
Deb Cohen is pretty good. I think she’s prob one of us.
Don’t approve of referring to him as “Boris” though.
Agree. He is now the “current PM” in my mind. Other less respectful epithets do pass through with astonishing regularity.
It certainly is a novel virus
You forgot ‘Scotch egg detector’.
Covid toe (aka Athletes foot) needs to go on too
covid toe!! OMG, I’ve heard it all now
not as interesting as a camel toe
or Kamala Toe
I ask in despair, before leaving for my illegal and granny killing thermos of tea in the park, how long can this go on?
I seriously cannot recall a weaker or more dangerous government and I’ve lived though Tony “weapons of mass destruction” Bliar and Gordon “I saved the world’s financial markets” Broon.
The blessed St Margaret (science degree) would have clobbered Ferguson with her handbag months ago.
Indeed. More people with proper science degrees are needed in politics and in general I think.
Hear hear
how can you say that? having a science degree means nothing (Witless and Unbalanced and Professor Pantsdown have them, I think even Bill Gates probably has one) – what is needed is to have principles and a moral compass – there is no substitute for that
The PM is the worst leader since Caligula
Caligula at least had the sense to make his horse a consul.
Caligula’s horse would make a better PM than Boris.
And have a better haircut!
Dilyn for PM! At least he could bite some SAGE members’ backsides.
During the Asian flu in the mid/late 50’s Macmillan (Conservative) ignored any concerns as did Wilson (Labour) in 68/69.