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“We May Need to Wait” before Pushing Ahead with Unlocking, Says Boris

by Michael Curzon
27 May 2021 4:23 PM

Members of SAGE are out in force today, warning the Prime Minister that Britain should not unlock on June 21st because of the risk posed by the Indian Covid variant. Professor Neil Ferguson said on Wednesday that this strain could result in restrictions needing to be “tightened“, despite the recent increase in Covid cases not being matched by an increase in deaths. Following further pressure from other members of the advisory group today, the Prime Minister has said that Number 10 may have to “wait” for more data before pushing ahead with ending the lockdown. The MailOnline has more.

Top scientists have called for Downing Street to delay next month’s lockdown-easing because of the spread of [the Indian variant], which has been found in half of England’s 300-plus local authorities.

SAGE member Professor John Edmunds said he would advise Boris Johnson not to take the next step as planned because “at the moment it looks a little bit risky”.

Meanwhile, fellow adviser “Professor Lockdown” Neil Ferguson warned the plans to ease restrictions hang “in the balance”. He said the now-dominant strain would trigger a “small third wave” but that the next two or three weeks would be “critical” in deciding whether it was safe to move to step four on the roadmap.

But one of the Government’s top scientists today hailed “encouraging” data that showed hospitalisations remain low despite cases having ticked up in every region except the East Midlands. However, Dr Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England’s Medical Director, said they have risen slightly and that they were “concerned” about the Indian variant.

Discussing the threat of the Indian variant during a visit to a hospital in Colchester this morning, Mr Johnson said: “As I have said many times I don’t see anything currently in the data to suggest that we have to deviate from the road map. But we may need to wait.

“Don’t forget the important point about the intervals between the steps of the road map, we put that five weeks between those steps to give us time to see what effect the unlockings are having.”

Mr Hancock admitted he “desperately” wanted to proceed with plans to drop the final set of lockdown restrictions next month but ministers would only do that “if it’s safe”. He will address the nation tonight in a 5pm Downing Street press conference.

In a statement that suggested lockdown could continue until every man and his dog has been vaccinated, the Health Secretary said: “Our vaccination programme has reached 73% of the adult population, but that means that more than a quarter still haven’t been jabbed.”

43% of adults have had both jabs, but that means that more than half are yet to get the fullest possible protection that two jabs give.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Boris JohnsonIndian variantNeil FergusonRoadmapSAGEUnlockVaccineVariants
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arfurmo
arfurmo
4 years ago

Todays figures -damn “The number of people with coronavirus in the UK has gone up by 3,542 in the latest 24-hour period, and another 10 people have died with COVID-19, government figures show.”

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PatrickF
PatrickF
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

Irrefutable evidence why we need another lockdown…FFS!

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Baron_Jackfield
Baron_Jackfield
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

So what? “The number of people with coronavirus…” is (a) only a positive test result, not an actual illness, and (b) hovering around the false-positive rate anyway.

And “another 10 people have died…” WITH Covid-19, not necessarily “from” it. Either way, it’s not even a rounding-error amongst the 1800 or so deaths every day in the UK.

The “Indian variant” appears to be no more serious/lethal than the common-or-garden variety, it’s just a useful “peg” for the lockdown fanatics to hang their control-freakery on!

Enough is enough.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago
Reply to  Baron_Jackfield

Don’t the lying bastards realise we know they’re lying?

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

Yes, of course they do – but, so what, if the majority of people are still going to vote Conservative and worship Boris? It’s tyranny and totalitarian control, probably backed by China – where do you think the money is coming from?

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
4 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

You and I and others reading these comments know they’re lying, but countless numbers of the great unwashed don’t. The colossal ignorance of the great majority of British people feeds Sage and makes them impregnable. Most people can barely read.

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

Cognitive dissonance.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

They know we know, and they don’t care.
Saw a great phrase in AIER describing a Sage like medical officer as “power drunk quacks”. That’s what they are.
Soon the drive to jab children.

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Old Trout
Old Trout
4 years ago
Reply to  Baron_Jackfield

Its quite possible, if not probable, that ALL the people dying now are just false positives so not even dying ‘with’ covid.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

The number of people who have tested positive via notoriously inaccurate testing methods have gone up by 3,542, almost certainly due to the surge testing being conducted in a desperate attempt to find more live virus, and another 10 people who in the last 28 days tested positive via the same notoriously inaccurate test methods, but who most likely were suffering from multiple other morbidities, have sadlidied.

FIFY

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zners
zners
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Why don’t people just effing stop testing.

Last edited 4 years ago by zners
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Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  zners

Because they don’t want us to have our freedom back.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
4 years ago
Reply to  zners

I have said this all along no test, no find.

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Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

“The number of people who have tested positive via notoriously inaccurate testing methods “

Have you seen what Kary Mullis, Nobel prize winner and the inventor of PCR said? Basically, Fauci is a twat, the test is not designed to diagnose disease and with a cycle rate over 30 it will detect anything and everything because it’ll find one molecule! This my friends was all said BEFORE COVID and then he died a couple of months before COVID hit. Coincidence? Maybe.

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enlighteneduk
enlighteneduk
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

Eliminated, without doubt. Had he been alive he would have protested vehemently against the use of the PCR test for diagnosing Covid. Couldn’t have that spoiling the plan ! How can people be so utterly thick not to see this?

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

Died aged 74 of pneumonia. Believable.

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George L
George L
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

Just.. he was an extremely fit man for he’s age.Who made the prognosis. I don’t believe in coincidences when ruthless bastards with an agenda are involved..

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186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  Think Harder

So every time Wancock utters this rubbish about PCR testing, demonstrably he has lied – QED the Domster!!

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Victoria
Victoria
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

CASES determined with a high Ct cycle

We always knew they were looking for excuses not to open up….

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Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Victoria

And CASE of WHAT???? mild symptoms?? zero symptoms?? or someone needing emergency treatment in hospital? there is a difference

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Exactly – a case of what? What is there to be so damn scared of? Utterly absurd.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

SO????
I’m beginning to think that there are Covid test junkies who are getting tested multiple times.

Last edited 4 years ago by Fingerache Philip
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beancounter
beancounter
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

You are correct. The sales director at my wife’s company has been double jabbed, and he takes a LFT twice a week “because it is free”. He has no idea how stupid he seems to everyone else (well, to my wife anyway), but he is of an age when he has been brainwashed; he is 47. And he lives in rural Devon, and works in a modern office in a manufacturing company also in rural Devon. He is mad, or mental.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  beancounter

And certainly dangerous.

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m vendee
m vendee
4 years ago
Reply to  beancounter

Indeed he is an absolute bell end.

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Susan
Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  m vendee

Is a bell end what Americans would call a ding dong, meaning a very stupid person? Seriously asking.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

It refers to the tip of a part of the male anatomy located around the groin.

……ahem. Pardon me.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

The shape of the glans of a penis.
I believe.

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Old Trout
Old Trout
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

Haha, its an insult one step up from dick or knob and, has been said by others on here, also refers to male genitalia.

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AnnabelleG
AnnabelleG
4 years ago
Reply to  beancounter

Poor man – needs help and not for Covid!

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sjonesy1999
sjonesy1999
4 years ago
Reply to  beancounter

I’m from Devon and would gladly kick him out of the county.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  sjonesy1999

Ditto; Shropshire.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago
Reply to  sjonesy1999

Me too. And I would seriously suggest that ‘beancounter’s’ wife finds herself a new job. A company with a sales director that thick will go to the wall soon

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

That’s why a lot of companies went to the wall, even pre Covid.

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enlighteneduk
enlighteneduk
4 years ago
Reply to  sjonesy1999

Me too.

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Mike Durrans
Mike Durrans
4 years ago
Reply to  beancounter

Her boss is just like the sheep in my field, runs where the dog wants them to go!

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

Or they just make the shite up.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

There is a strange delight for those
Who like a stick shoved up their nose.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Then there’s the anal test.
Whatever turns your crank, I suppose.

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TreeHugger
TreeHugger
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

Lodger worked at the non symptomatic test center until last week. He had the same middle aged and elderly people coming in 2-3 times a week ‘to be safe’. Some need the tests for work like our taxi driver neighbour, but many have just been terrified by the evil propaganda.

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Tillysmum
Tillysmum
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

The schools are still testing each week are they not?

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  Tillysmum

Twice a week at my granddaughter’s school of 1,500 pupils although there hasn’t been a “positive?” test for 8 months.

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bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

Can someone point me to the data that shows how many people who have had covid have now recovered ? What ? What ? It’s still not being published !

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

It’s too high, it doesn’t fit the narrative.

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lorrinet
lorrinet
4 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

They don’t mention T-cell immunity either, which they did at the beginning. Then the vaccines arrived – and no more talk about naturally acquired immunity! It’s all so transparent – but none so blind, etc. And still people get jabbed despite having recovered from the virus ‘just in case’. I’d like to find this Justin Case and shake him till his antibodies rattle.

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onthefenceinafieldnearyou
onthefenceinafieldnearyou
4 years ago
Reply to  lorrinet

I caught Covid and came through at 55. I have not had the jab and will not. One of my drinking buddies (two doses because of age and bad heart) thinks I am mad. He doesn’t accept that the real thing is better than a copy every time. The jabs will be pushed by governments until they use every last one they have signed up for. Ditto test kits. What a better way to prove they where essential at the public cover up, er public enquiry

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

These 10 deaths I keep hearing about were not all on the same day. It’s bad enough that the media are wetting the bed over 10 deaths as it is but it’s just not true regardless!

Been downloading and graphing NHS data for a year. The media are a disgrace/

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damage124
damage124
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

I tried to do the same…..until I lost the will to live…

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scuzbert
scuzbert
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Yes, they are a disgrace but have no intention of stopping – they’re making tons of dosh out of this and will gladly facilitate the government in their lying.

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Hester
Hester
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

Does it show how many people have died of Cancer, Heart disease or even flu/pneumonia in the past 24 hours. I bet not as the figures would drawth the “WITH covid” deaths

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Hester
Hester
4 years ago
Reply to  Hester

sorry that should be spelt dwarf you know my head is now so full of woke crap I thought I could not spell it this way as the word had probably been banned for causing offence spelt that way.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
4 years ago

I do hope that on Saturday more than a million people march in London and stick their middle finger up at Boris and the SAGE bedwetters.

I would be there myself but I will be taking the family off for a well-earned half-term holiday, assuming there is no new lockdown before then (have already had to change destination once).

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Good on you. We all need to get some time out when we can. I’ve not been on any marches so far because of mobility issues but I’m going to do my damnedest to get there this time, even if I only do part of it. My husband and brother have been attending them, and they say it is incredible the energy and vibe, and the joyfulness. I hope it’s this that’ll keep me going!

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

Good luck. It sounds as if you will be buoyed up by the atmosphere and it’ll help to keep you going.

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

I think it’s a mistake to call them bedwetters. They’re calculative evil bastards.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

You are right. Unable to edit the post now, sadly.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

In America the only sort of protest that works is a violent one.

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Susan
Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

The ones the libs call “peaceful.”

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Don’t forget the good old fashioned British 2 fingers.

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flyingjohn
flyingjohn
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Me too, off with Mrs JB and daughter to the Lake District, sans masks and 2 metre measuring stick. No matter how big the march, it won’t be reported in the MSM because they are the governments pocket due to government being their biggest advertiser and pulling their strings.

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lorrinet
lorrinet
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

My son and his friends are going. They are travelling a long distance so I hope they can get parking. I warned him to keep within a large group and away from the edges where stragglers can easily be picked off. Being partially disabled I cannot join them, or I would.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

He came down from the mountain and he carrieth (dunno) a white board and the white board command

1 Thou shall kill the elderly in the care homes
2 Thou shalt not covet the pig dictators bit of stuff
3 Thou shall let cancer patients die
4 Thou shall close the boozers
5 Thou shall not worship false gods other than the one true god Piers Morgan
6 Thou shall lock up everybody
7 Thou shall not bear false witness unless thou be Matt Hancock
8 The TSG shall smote thee with long batons
9 Thou shall not sit on a park bench
10 Thou shall inform on thy neighbour family and friends

Not necessarily in that order

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Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

I love no 7!!!

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Beowa
Beowa
4 years ago

Dear Fatty – Jog on

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yohodi
yohodi
4 years ago

A case doth not a coffin make…S’all bollox IMHO..(sayeth the Lord somewhere..sometime).

Last edited 4 years ago by yohodi
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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

It only seems like yesterday TY was entertaining the idea Johnson could be a closet lockdown sceptic…

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

It’s possible that he is a lockdown sceptic but he’s not actually in charge.

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CarrieAH
CarrieAH
4 years ago

Love the way Boris Johnson still believes the people are hanging on his every word. Have the Westminster Bubble not noticed that most of us are already back to normal and carrying on regardless? We are done with it. If he doesn’t do away with masks, social distancing etc on 21 June he will become even more of a laughing stock than he already is.

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  CarrieAH

Sadly his party did pretty well in the recent elections
The vaccine rollout is considered a success by most people I speak to

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

They did well because Sir Smear Smarmer offered an even worse alternative.
Except in Wales, where they voted for a shoddy imitation of Stalin because the Welsh love to be slaves. The very word ‘Welsh’ originally meant ‘slave’.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Wales, where men are men and the sheep are careful

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George L
George L
4 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

The boys too..

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lorrinet
lorrinet
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

“Except in Wales, where they voted for a shoddy imitation of Stalin”.

They lowered the voting age to 16, which NO straight government would be stupid enough to do unless it had a sinister agenda to subvert the election. I am part-Welsh, and none of my Welsh relatives and friends can stand Drakeford, especially since declaring Newport a ‘sanctuary city’. It’s now become ‘tent city’ and people go elsewhere to shop nowadays (numerous shops have shut down anyway). It bears little resemblence to the town I lived in 40 years ago.

We can no longer trust election results; they’ve become very clever at disguising fraud, ever since we won Brexit. Look at London (if you can bear to).

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Mike Durrans
Mike Durrans
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

You talk to the sheeple then!

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago

Any fucking excuse they can think of they are going to use. Absolutely ANYTHING will do.

Off on holiday next week, I care not for any of their latest and greatest bullshit rules. Never have, never will.

Maybe SAGE should become a political party seeing as they seem to be running the country!

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Lilacblue
Lilacblue
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Have a wonderful holiday, and know by doing so, you contribute to the wellbeing of many.

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Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

“Maybe SAGE should become a political party seeing as they seem to be running the country!”

No that’s the BBC

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patrickmercer@rocketmail.com
patrickmercer@rocketmail.com
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

No, that’s Our Amazing NHS.

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chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

The horror is that if they were a political party plenty of people would vote for them

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago

So hospital cases have risen “slightly” have they? Nothing at all to do with side effects of jabs, or anything? Go shove your insidious jabs up your @*se!

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HaylingDave
HaylingDave
4 years ago

Oh. Fuck. Off. You. Fucking. SAGE. Cunts!

Last edited 4 years ago by HaylingDave
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beancounter
beancounter
4 years ago
Reply to  HaylingDave

Couldn’t have said it better.

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HaylingDave
HaylingDave
4 years ago
Reply to  beancounter

Just had enough of these bed-wetting, arrogant shit bags. Sigh …

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Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  beancounter

An extra fuck off or two, perhaps?

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Jolly Green Giant
Jolly Green Giant
4 years ago
Reply to  HaylingDave

Crude. But you speak for many!

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patrickmercer@rocketmail.com
patrickmercer@rocketmail.com
4 years ago
Reply to  HaylingDave

Well and sensitively put.

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Epi
Epi
4 years ago
Reply to  HaylingDave

Absolutely took the words out of my mouth and I very rarely use profanities (honest) though I seem to have used them more often in the last 15 months.

Last edited 4 years ago by Epi
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ellie-em
ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  HaylingDave

That made me feel better just reading that! It could easily become my mantra. 🙂

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Mike Yeadon
Mike Yeadon
4 years ago
Reply to  HaylingDave

My sister lives on Hayling Island. The one road on & off gets silly as soon as the sun shines!
Close the Bridge & live free.

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stewart
stewart
4 years ago

So when 100% of the population is vaccinated, then the crisis will officially be over and all restrictions will be removed. Guaranteed.

They’re not saying it in black and white, but they’re insinuating it so that you can reach the conclusion yourself.

Then…

They’ll do exactly the same thing that they’ve done repeatedly in the last 18 months. Claim there is a new piece of evidence that makes it impossible to lift all restrictions. They’ll move the goalposts and sheep will bleat, and a few lockdown sceptics will point out the bait-n-swith for the nth time, and the media will fall into step and we’ll just go round and round and round and round ……

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Yep. All in order to get the dozens of booster shots in peoples arms.

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Jolly Green Giant
Jolly Green Giant
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Sounds about right.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I’d be surprised if they manage to “vaccinate” more than about 90% of the 18+ population, and I think that’s a stretch. Thus, they will have a near-permanent blackmail excuse, and when people already injected, get pissed off with endless calls for more “jabbing” (vile word), that’ll be another.

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Uh, huh. New improved variants, will mean new (didn’t see this one coming) new jabs! Whoppee. More money all round for all the shit weasels invested in this! Their evil coercion and denial of people’s rights, freedoms, and body autonomy are absolute crimes against humanity and they WILL pay for this one day!

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maggy mcgeown
maggy mcgeown
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

And new born babies will have to be vaccinated to keep it to 100%.

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HaylingDave
HaylingDave
4 years ago
Reply to  maggy mcgeown

Indeed … But why stop there my short sighted friend? Let’s vaccinate fetuses in the womb. But wait, there’s still a risk , what about all the un-vaccinated sperm in the “banks”?! Can’t be too careful, now can we?

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Then will come the mandatory top ups.
And passports.
And I think a new virus, if profits and control seem to fall. Any hostile country can release a gain of function virus anywhere in the West, and watch it cripple itself all over again.

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flyingjohn
flyingjohn
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

During the next 3 weeks, look out for a sudden announcement of an unexpected shortage of vaccines accompanied by a reluctant delay to 21 June freedom day, due to ‘risk’ from 25% of the population still not jabbed. Already in the plan to keep us controlled.

Mark my words.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
4 years ago
Reply to  flyingjohn

Wouldn’t surprise me at all. They can have a permanent shortage as far as I care.

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lorrinet
lorrinet
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

And bi/tri- annual vaccines will become the norm, then the law, and as inevitable as taxes. Until one day the human race ceases to exist, as all natural immunity dies and we are left unable to fight even the slightest, once-inconsequential infection.

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JayBee
JayBee
4 years ago

A bit like ze Germans, who were promised parts of their miserable life back under an incidence number of 50.
As soon as cases dropped fast towards that figure, the health secretary Jens Spahn, same type as Hancock, just even more gay and corrupt, lowered that figure to 20.
Without any reasoning, of course.

They are taking the pi** out of us, or rather out of the jabbed Covidians.

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Teamsaint
Teamsaint
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

all a bit Catch 22 isn’t it…..

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Jolly Green Giant
Jolly Green Giant
4 years ago

As long as hardly anyone is dying or getting seriously ill, the number of “cases” matters not one jot, Indian scariant or no Indian scariant

But as sure as night follows day, it was always a given that they’d magick up a new scariant as an excuse for keeping their “measures” in place. And whaddaya know …. here we are.

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String
String
4 years ago
Reply to  Jolly Green Giant

My money’s on ‘no Indian scariant’ – officially, it has been deemed not to exist
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1717876

Wonder what the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner thinks of Hancock & co now?!

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Susan
Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  String

How is it acceptable to say “Indian variant,”but racist to say “Chinese virus”?

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Ken Garoo
Ken Garoo
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

The Chinese are deadly evil. When they released the ‘Chinese virus’ aka ‘a disease so deadly you have to be tested to know you have got it’ (TM)(Pat Pend) in late 2019, they also managed to ensure it appeared in sealed water samples in Europe dating from March 2019. Then they gave a few vapers the ‘deadly Vaping disease’ so eerily similar to covid. Then they forced all the western governments to impose never-ending lockdowns, to greatly enrich insiders with PPE and testing scams and to give blanket immunity to Big Pharma.

The only Chinamen invovled in this are the CEOs of Big Pharma, their bought-and-paid-for PR people at WHO, and the likes of Cummings, Vallence, Hancock, Fauci, etc.

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zners
zners
4 years ago

Just watch the cases get dialled up between now and June 14

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Jolly Green Giant
Jolly Green Giant
4 years ago
Reply to  zners

Which is exactly why they’re doing all that “surge testing”. The agenda couldn’t be more obvious.

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zners
zners
4 years ago
Reply to  Jolly Green Giant

As long as people do not give in on their principals and endure the discrimination the globalists will impose on vaccine sceptics then they will eventually fold. They will never achieve their true desire of mandatory jabs and are too weak to stop the will of the public. They will simply pass the responsibility of pressuring the public ontonprivate businesses who will quite frankly eventually give in to lack of business as well as the sheer operational hassle of checking for statuses. You only have to look at the total failure of the excelsior pass introduced in NY.

It is now up to the public to remain strong. Never underestimate how stupid the other side is.

Last edited 4 years ago by zners
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patrickmercer@rocketmail.com
patrickmercer@rocketmail.com
4 years ago
Reply to  zners

Correct.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

Boris Johnson is Prime Minister and leader of our nation

Apologies there is no other way of saying that

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Teamsaint
Teamsaint
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

did you have to remind us though ?

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AnnabelleG
AnnabelleG
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Oh dear – He is a sad excuse for a man let alone Prime Minister – He has Zero Guts or backbone… . The only thing that could be worse is that Vile Evil Gove somehow gets the job ….. I would say Hancock too but he is finished — second rate man and second rate liar

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Ken Garoo
Ken Garoo
4 years ago
Reply to  AnnabelleG

At least he isn’t a druken sott like his hero Winston ‘Gas the Arabs’ Churchill.

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Paul B
Paul B
4 years ago

If your shit isn’t itchy enough already today I present you scrotum face on Vax passports: https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/1ac6dfcd-827d-4aff-8093-de6b8fe2c082

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Paul B
Paul B
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

Some woman “We know that people get re-infected, around 20% within that time frame” (180 days). Jesus wept we are doomed.

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mmacg
mmacg
4 years ago

And today, in Bahrain,. a new lockdown.
Malls, shops, cinemas, indoor and outdoor restaurants, gyms, etc, closed for two weeks.

The unbelievable thing about this is that access to most of these has been restricted to fully vaccinated (i.e. 2nd shot plus two weeks) since the end of Ramadan two weeks ago.

And Bahrain is reported to be 45% fully vaccinated. That would include 100% of the older high risk groups.

So.
Government Minister: Oh no! A wave of infections! Whatever will we do?
Epidemiologist charlatan: I know, let’s close all the places that only the vaxxed can go!
Government Minister Excellent, superb idea.

Is there a word for beyond Pythonesque?

What is the point of vaccination?

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
4 years ago

Off topic but I’ve just returned from having an aortic aneurysms examination (its something men are offered in their 65 year which I will be soon). I loath masks and refuse to wear one where ever I can and have an exemption card.

I have had arguments with my GP (on the phone and not face to face) and with the reception staff over not wearing a mask etc. However as a friend died very suddenly from an aortic aneurysm a few weeks ago I thought I’d attend and wear a snood as a face covering. I bought the snood early last year when it looked like face masks were to be compulsory everywhere. I bought this snood purely as it was the most absurd face covering I could find, it has a very loose weave and very thin, you can clearly see through it and it wouldn’t stop flies let alone viruses.

Went to the surgery, no problems with my “face covering” and I was the only person in reception.

The best thing about the snood was I was laughing at the absurdity and how ridiculous the heath system has become.

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TreeHugger
TreeHugger
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

There’s a lady who works in our local supermarket, who’s a fellow sceptic. Her mask is home made and of fabric so thin you can see her bright red lipstick through it 🤣

She was told that unless she had a provable medical issue she had to wear a mask. I told her to claim anxiety as you can’t prove/disprove that. Still, her mask is the only one that’s made me smile.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  TreeHugger

I made a lace mask for the same reason. But if absolutely driven to it, I have an indelible ink pen, with which I write in capitals on the mask “masks don’t work”.

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wendy
wendy
4 years ago

”more than a quarter still haven’t been jabbed” he said.

What will they do when there is 5 or 10percent who won’t be jabbed? Round us up? Once they said only the vulnerable, then 80% of adults now it must be 100% and children too.

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Dave Angel Eco Warrier
Dave Angel Eco Warrier
4 years ago
Reply to  wendy

That’s probably when the full force of vaccine passports will be brought in. The loss of custom of the 5% or 10% who are not vaccinated will be considered low enough collateral damage to not bother about.

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TheBluePill
TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  wendy

They desperately need 100% jabbed. Otherwise the next deadly strain (really deadly this time) will be easily identifiable as ADE when the unjabbed survive.

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scuzbert
scuzbert
4 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

That’s what I’ve come round to thinking. If, in the winter colds/flu season, only the jabbed are badly affected, it will be hard to explain that away using the latest variant excuse.

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wendy
wendy
4 years ago

I really liked her once and felt she was honest with a lot of integrity but then she said the science had changed on masks! Even she could be bought.

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago
Reply to  wendy

I noticed exactly this! I thought she spoke with sense at the start of all this…and then she trotted out the nonsense.

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Norman
Norman
4 years ago

According to the news tonight Boris has said he still doesn’t see anything in the data to change the road map.
It is starting to look like he might be a little Covid-resistant.

Last edited 4 years ago by For a fist full of roubles
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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

Lol

He’s resistant to truth, courage, leadership, honesty, rationality

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

Bollox.

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

Quite frankly, I think by the 21st of June, people will quite rightly, be making their own judgements and assessing the risks. Dithering Johnson and co., will be side-lined.

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wendy
wendy
4 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

Perhaps that is what they want so they can blame the public and say they did their best to warn us?

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  wendy

No, they want to control us

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

Up to a point

I have continued to see close friends and family regardless of restrictions but I can’t easily ignore track and trace, masks everywhere, travel restrictions, mandatory testing and vaccine fascism

My life is the same as it was under the first phase of lockdown

I do virtually none of the things I used to do

I can’t see that changing

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Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago

Wake up, wake up. There’s no point being reasonable. This is about ending democracy and removal rights.

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago

Is this Boris Johnson the Lockdown Sceptic? The Prime Minister of the UK – the bloke in charge? Or is there some other Boris Johnson who is a Lockdown Sceptic, not in charge of the government? It’s so confusing.

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beancounter
beancounter
4 years ago

It is not a strain, it is a variant.

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Hawkins_94
Hawkins_94
4 years ago

The reality is if the government doesn’t open up now because of a variant causing virtually no deaths then it sets a precedent for permanent restrictions. My main concern is that as a country we haven’t yet decided what to do about winter. The seasonal increase in deaths of the elderly (before now acknowledged as an inevitability, not a tragedy). Deaths will of course increase from September onwards and there will be shrieks of protect our NHS etc etc. Then maybe we’ll reopen in the spring after another lockdown. Over 85s are the fastest growing age demographic in the UK, which means as far as votes are concerned they will almost always vote for whatever they think leads to their own self-preservation i.e more lockdowns. Without a bold leader who speaks truth (imagine that), no one will dare change this new narrative. How to escape? I half wonder whether the only way out is a huge global financial crash, which isn’t unreasonable to assume will happen in the coming years. It is difficult to see how an end to this madness can occur by democratic means as the old grow older and want every waking minute given to them at… Read more »

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Hawkins_94

The future is rather bleak

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Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
4 years ago
Reply to  Hawkins_94

I’m always having a rant about people not dieing of old age anymore. When I was a child all old people died of old age, now it has to be something dementia, heart disease, cancer (covid) etc etc . We have to die at some point preferably when we’re old. All the old people I know (apart from my dad) are as miserable as fuck anyway.

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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

Dying of old age is still an acceptable death reason on a death certificate for people aged over 80, below 80 it tends to be questioned and a more specific reason is required. To some extent not accepting ‘dying of old age’ is the fault of the people who demand to know why someone has died even though they are over 80.

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Carrie Symonds
Carrie Symonds
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

Carrie isn’t my real name. I was working on getting shot by a jealous husband in my 90’s but give me a gun and I’ll swing for Hancock now.

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Mike Yeadon
Mike Yeadon
4 years ago
Reply to  Hawkins_94

This is a deliberate wrecking tactic in order to abolish sovereign currencies, bring in vaccine passports & begin the serious business of depopulation.

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timsk
timsk
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike Yeadon

Mornin’ Dr. Yeadon, I’m one of your biggest fans – I pretty much hang on every word you utter and repeat them to all ‘n sundry at every opportunity. That said, I’m concerned by comments like “. . .the serious business of depopulation.” I’m not saying you’re wrong; it’s a plausible explanation and one that I’m sympathitic too. However, to the MSM, politicians and those in favour of lockdowns and associated restrictions – talk of depopluation is at the extreme edge of the conspiracy theory bell curve. It’s up there with Bill Gates injecting us all with nano chips. In the eyes of many, this is full on tin hat freakery that can just be dismissed instantly without the need for logic, reason or sound argument. IMO, it undermines all the really cogent points you make that are rooted in established science – real science – not the junk science spoon fed to us by the media. Therefore, until you’re able to provide empirical evidence to support your theory, please, please bite your lip and keep schtum regarding depopulation. Just stick to the science you know and understand – based on your experise and years of experience working in the… Read more »

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  timsk

We all agree this is about control. We all can see they intend to jab the world. We can see absolute lies and breathtaking ruthlessness, Who is already clearly benefiting? Capitalism without moral controls, in the form of pharmaceutical companies, testing companies, the makers of “protective clothing”. Communist China. What will/would absolute control be used for? Because it will be used, if a vaccine passport is introduced worldwide, No good purpose, we can be sure, because of absolute power’s known results. Gates comes across to me as naive, if he befriended Epstein after his first conviction, It seems probable that for him it is all about legacy and self importance. He is certainly in favour of more birth control – not for himself, of course. That something like the contraceptive chip whose research he was funding in 2014. could in a few years be added to the vaccine passport under another storm of terrifying psy ops re climate change isn’t science fiction any more. It’s an easily imagined possibility, especially if you begin to look at what “scientists” say about unstoppable population growth. But the more probable scenario is that Gates’ vanity projects will in the end simply be taken… Read more »

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timsk
timsk
4 years ago
Reply to  Sandra Barwick

Hi Sandra, You’re pushing at an open door with me – I agree with everything you say. However, I stick by my comments to Mike that whilst it’s fine for the likes of us to post such views – it does him no favours personally as well as to the anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination movement in general. Everything – and I mean EVERYTHING – is about perception. Truth and lies, right and wrong – come a very distant second to perception. If the vast majority of the people perceive BoJo, Hancock et al as trying their best, they’ll go along with anything they say. If they perceive a threat from Covid, they’ll mask up, stay indoors and do as they’re told. If they perceive Dr. Yeadon to be a nutter then they’ll dismiss his qualifications and experience as irrelevant. IMO, Mike’s playing into their hands when he talks about depopulation and they’ll use it to beat him with and paint him as a bad apple that’s lost the plot. Discrediting someone like Mike is seriously bad news for everyone on this side of the argument: that he may well be bang on the money with his comments about depopulation is neither… Read more »

Last edited 4 years ago by timsk
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sam s.j.
sam s.j.
4 years ago
Reply to  timsk

me too so glad mike yeadon speaking up and also commenting here

could be that mentioning all that will get people to wake up[ although sadly probably not i have not managed to change a single person’s mind in over a year]

i read that gates invested in nano particle chips and many other things that sound sci -fi but what has happend since march 2020 is sci -fi

the zombies the sheep the GMO gates injection sorry ‘ vaccine ‘passports

so glad to read commnents adn to finally be meeing people in person who think like i do

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Ken Garoo
Ken Garoo
4 years ago
Reply to  Mike Yeadon

The proximate intent is to enrich the CEOs and shareholders of Big Pharma, and all the hangers-on via looting the public purse. It is also to cover the imminent collapse of the financialised western economies. The banksters usually try to create a large scale war but the large-scale opponents are fully aware of that game. They will be first in line to buy assets at fire-sale prices.

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patrickmercer@rocketmail.com
patrickmercer@rocketmail.com
4 years ago
Reply to  Hawkins_94

Yes, but you forget the all-powerful Cult of Safetyism.

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beancounter
beancounter
4 years ago

“SAGE member Professor John Edmunds said he would advise Boris Johnson not to take the next step as planned because “at the moment it looks a little bit risky”.

It would be a bit “risky” for that idiot to come anywhere near a normal person, then he would understand the true meaning of “risky”. God help us all.

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FlynnQuill
FlynnQuill
4 years ago
Reply to  beancounter

It’ a bit risky getting out of bed and going down stairs. Its a bit risky getting in the car and driving to work. It’s a bit risky eating as you may choke. It’s a bit risky getting out of the bath as you may slip and break your neck! What the f@ck are these evil bastards on? Does this man ever leave the house? I cannot, will not, live my life on f@cking worse case scenarios, may as well put a gun in your mouth and end it.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago

Health Secretary Fart Hancockwomble desperately wants o reduce punches from Mike Tyson

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago

‘Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.’ – Thomas Paine.

Be there …

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James Kreis
James Kreis
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Just polishing my Doc Martin’s as it happens.

Last edited 4 years ago by James Kreis
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hilarynw
hilarynw
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

If only this was a week later. I’ve been looking with envy at the U.K. marches from my home in Belgium. Now am I in the U.K. (for my daughter’s 3rd attempt at getting married) I am locked in a pointless quarantine! I cannot risk anything going wrong so must endure it but I can tell you that once I am out I will join in any civil disobedience going.

For me enduring a grilling by some youth at the British passport control about why I wanted to travel to the country whose passport I hold and how long I intended to stay (for ever if I wished to I wanted to reply and nothing you can do about it) was a sign of how far things have deteriorated from last summer when we’d just passed through the real pandemic and had no masks, no tests, no quarantine. A year on, how can anyone still think this is still about a virus?

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
4 years ago

Surely some terminal Samaritan should have topped Neil cunt for the greater good.

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