It is almost guaranteed that the Government will extend lockdown by at least four weeks. What is not yet clear is how much this will cost. Economically speaking, the outlook is dire. According to hospitality industry estimates, hundreds of thousands of jobs will be put at risk and the economy could lose £4 billion. The Sunday Times has more.
The Prime Minister has been accused of killing the summer of fun, with thousands of events set to be cancelled, including the potential for a second successive summer without big music festivals.
More than 5,000 music gigs by artists including Olly Murs, Beverley Knight and McFly are also expected to be cancelled at a cost of £500 million.
According to industry estimates, a four-week delay to the end of restrictions will cost pubs, bars, hotels and restaurants £3 billion in lost sales and £4 billion to the economy overall. A further 200,000 jobs in the sector, which still has 600,000 people on furlough, could also be lost, according to Kate Nicholls, Chief Executive of lobby group U.K. Hospitality.
Under the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown, all social distancing restrictions were due to end on June 21st. At present, theatrical performances and sporting events have their attendances capped at 50% capacity while pubs, bars and restaurants are allowed to provide table service only, with social distancing and the “rule of six” indoors. All nightclubs are closed.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, 73, the theatre impresario, said that another delay to the roadmap delay would be “devastating” and pleaded with ministers to increase the permitted attendance from 50% to 75% as a compromise.
Melvin Benn, the promoter of Wireless, Download, Reading and Leeds festivals, said it would be “a complete and utter disaster for the country” if the easing of restrictions was pushed back to July 19th because test events showed capacity crowds could attend safely…
The final decision on whether to cancel freedom day is expected to be made at a meeting tonight, or first thing tomorrow, ahead of the announcement by the prime minister later the same day.
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When these lying shysters are saying the same things next summer; more variants, need to stay under restrictions for just a little bit longer etc, what are people going to say then?
When is it enough for the masses to make a stand? What point do you say, that’s enough for me? (pointless question on here, but it’s something I consistently ask family and friends)
Andrew Lloyd Webber said he was going to defy the rules and fully open his theaters. Has someone had a word with him? A couple of blokes in boiler suits from the SAS in the middle of the night perhaps – to read out his horoscope?
Nah, Lloyd Jabber was always just talking big – much bigger than the gnome that he is.
It was only a matter of him and the money in his pockets. Apart from that, he has no other interest in what happens, and is definitely not a beacon of freedom and liberty.
People I speak to (few and far between in these days of no pubgoing), keen Tories or otherwise, still seem to think that “Boris”, along with the Grims and “Bullseye” Ferguson, is doing a wonderful job in “keeping them safe”. Any disagreement with that often provokes the response that Labour would make an even bigger hash of it (or, in reality, be more successful in destroying the country). Such a yardstick or comparison is ridiculous, as would be comparing a dead racehorse’s prowess against one equipped with three legs at best. I wish I knew what the pollsters’ questions are, that so encourage many to want to persist in this Hell on Earth.
Another spineless gobshite no doubt.
For me, Andrew Lloyd Webber gets a few points for courage – for saying something that goes against the pack or the authorized narrative. So too do Vann Morrison and Eric Clapton.
The important thing to note about Baroness Andy is that he refers to anti-injectionists as ‘drunk drivers’.
Yes but can his tennis bat stop coroni?
Until the MSM tell the sheeple that other views are possible the mindless will continue to accept their serfdom.
In other words there is no end. I remember being pilloried, even here, for my gloomy outlook last year, but, and I say this with slender satisfaction, I told you so!
Indeed. I have had the same experiences.
Sadly I cannot see the owners (and their controllers) of the MSM allowing the official narrative to change.
I hope that independent platforms like this one are allowed to continue without the imposition of censorship and control.
They aren’t going to make a stand, or they would have from the beginning. You are framing this the wrong way around, the government is cancelling another summer because it knows now that people are frit, divided, and utterly incapable of making a stand. The goalposts keep being moved, and they slowly accept change in the fashion of of a junkie becoming addicted or a delinquent becoming accepting of a life of crime despite it contradicting their upbringing. It was termed neutralisation and drift by Matza and Sykes (1964).
Meanwhile, around 2740 equivalent lifetimes are lost every day under UK lockdown. That is based upon 80,000,000 people with an average lifetime of 80 years means 1,000,000 lifetimes lived under lockdown every year – or 2740 UK lifetimes every day.
Also the peer pressure underpinning vaxx (and lockdown) compliance is calculated and deliberate, and the rationale can be found in many academic papers, of which the following is but one:
‘Vaccination as a Social Contract’
Lars Korn / Robert Böhm / Nicolas W. Meier / Cornelia Betsch
We are being played so easily.
Maybe they are thinking ADE will reduce the gener pool enough come the winter to keep the rest in line FOREVER?
The examples of Florida, Texas etc leaves no excuse for this lockdown madness.
Absolutely! I’ve just had a Texan woman commisserating with us here in Britain for our Lockdown and saying they’re finding it shocking we’re being treated this way.
Amazes me how many people are still walking around with masks on and keeping their distance -. I honestly feel like shouting this at them sometimes ….
Great graphic!
Sadly it looks like one of the prisoners has passed out (top right-hand corner) 😷
Nice name Manjushri!
Thanks! Hope I can do the name justice?
For those of you that didnt know: Manjushri was the name of a Buddhist Deity who amongst other things had an instinctive ability to cut through the BS to find the truth.
Leave them, sod ’em! We tried a little bit of gentle mask exemption awareness in our town the other day, and we were met with hostility or rudeness. “I LOVE my mask!” said one. But a positive note there were lots of people without masks in the shopping centre today. And we had a really big turn out in our A Stand In The Park. Lots more people joined us, and passers-by read our posters and asked questions.
The huge economic cost of the continued corona madness that we know, because the contracts are signed, will carry on long after whatever nonsense does or does not happen in June or July
All the people making these decisions to impoverish the rest of us are in secure tax funded employment with eye wateringly good pension schemes, again taxpayer funded.
None of them will have to bear the costs of their decisions.
Apart from the very top tier of elites, they most certainly will have to bear the costs of their decisions. They just don’t know it yet.
Fervently hope so however the cynical bit in me says they will be protected in sinecure jobs and will never appreciate how much poorer everyones lives are through lost opportunities.
Don’t let’s be beastly to Boris
When our victory is squandered yet again.
It was just those nasty experts who made him avoid the fight
And their Models and Predictions are really far worse than their bite
Let’s all be meek to him, and turn the other cheek to him
And try to ignore more predictable duress.
Let’s give him full respect, and admire his intellect
But don’t let’s be beastly to Boris
(with apologies to Noël Coward)
Nah
Boris is a fucking cunt.
S’truth…
We played “Boris Johnson is a fucking c*nt” (by the Kunts) out loud the other night. The window was open, we’d had a couple, my brother was round, and there was some people outside making a racket, so we ratched it up….it went very quiet, after! Ashamed (not ashamed!)
How can we end this whole thing? I think it is a numbers game. Once we reach a critical mass of people who have “left the matrix”, then the whole narrative will fall apart. I think we should all concentrate on doing that (if we’re not already) – waking up as many people as possible.
I myself was awakened by my ex, who sent me links to a few videos (Mike Yeadon’s being one of them). Then my natural curiosity led me to delve deeper. The point being – I wasn’t an idiot beforehand – it just hadn’t occurred to me that what I was seeing on the BBC might be complete propaganda. I’m sure there are many, many people like myself.
I think we need to try to awaken everyone we can, before it’s too late.
Two things help our communication – pubs being open, but to a much greater degree offices being open. Since going back to the office I have already discovered a small number of like-minded people, and because we have the truth on our side, it is easier to enlist others. It is especially effective when we make our opinions known and back each other up and it also just so happens that the sceptics are also the people previously regarded as being the smartest and most capable people in the business.
Backing each other up is so important. I’ve often been in arguments where I was the lone voice – it never works, no matter how many facts you have on your side. But when you have one ally – the difference is amazing.
Good to hear 👍
It has been for several decades. In that time many, many folks have tried to point this out – and have ended up with terribly bruised heads due to the UK’s cultural brick wall.
You make a good point.
I also have seemingly intelligent people in my circle who believe some of the crap.
For instance, my sister – who has a PhD in Biology ( and is in her mid forties ) – has been jabbed 😱
… and my Brother whom I call “One Six Four Boy” because that’s his ( tested and verified ) IQ has ALSO been jabbed 😱
There’s a LOT of peer pressure happening !
IQ is not guarantee of either integrity, courage nor it seems is it an antidote to gullibility or brainwashing
Tru dat !
I woke up to the BBC a few years ago which is why I stopped paying for it.
We need a multi million pound budget- probably tens maybe hundreds of millions, from a sceptical billionaire who doesn’t care about upsetting the mainstream, would probably need to be American as anyone in the UK would be shut down
Fund a counter propaganda effort around which the many anti lockdown bodies would coalesce
Good post. Thank you.
Yes, by all means, end the lockdowns on June 21st. But I’m here to tell you: This is already way too late. The economy has already suffered a fatal blow. For example, this inflation – that either does not exist or is “transitory” – is actually just warming up.
Yep I strongly suspect you’re right.
I gues you know stuff such as a shipping container consignment used to cost around 8k dollars, a few months back was 16k or more. I heard recently it can now be as high as 60k USD per container 😳
Also ALL building materials are going up ( I employ a few builders for various projects ) etc 😬
It’s impossible to buy any DIY building materials.
“end the lockdowns on June 21st.” Very little will end on June 21st or any other date on the bullshit roadmap. The only date on a roadmap that matters is where the leaders admit it was a huge mistake, apologise, put in place measures to stop it happening again, and dismantle the global multi-billion pound corona madness industry. Until then, temporary respites from this or that restriction are just part of the boiling frog strategy.
‘The only date on a roadmap that matters is where the leaders admit it was a huge mistake…’ Sadly, that’s highly likely to be the 12th of never.
It’s time for a revolution in the UK, for people to take back their sovereignty. I would not cancel any event or festival or performance. Instead reopen at 100% and take off your mask, and dare these “leaders” to try and stop you. Urge the cops and Met to turn on and arrest MPs and councillors guilty of destroying the liberty of your people, and arm yourselves in case of a brutal crackdown like in the Philippines or China.
I’d love that as someone in the events and festival industry. Unfortunately, they have you by the balls because you can lose your license for future events.
If anyone watched the UFC last night, held in Arizona, they’d have noticed that the arena was 100% full with no one wearing masks. Surely that sight should wake people up to what’s happening in the UK.
It should wake the people up Mark, but the majority of Brits have become zombies and unable to use their brains.
Why would anyone watch UFC?
The plan was never to end restrictions but to destroy the hospitality and entertainment industry…first. It’s so blatant now, what the agenda is. Thia only ends when we end it.
Yes – get rid of hospitality and entertainment so people don’t meet and talk in unmonitored groups. Destroy travel – aviation first, soon to be followed by private cars – so that people can’t go and see what is actually happening anywhere. All we will see is manipulated MSM reporting. Once this is in place mass protest becomes virtually impossible. QED total population control – even without the inevitable digital I.D.. I do think people will eventually wake up but, just like the collapse of the old Eastern Block, it will take decades. The only thing that could go wrong is if the “vaccines” kill too many people (especially children) too quickly.
Notice how the length of the delay had changed over the past week:
It started off as a two week delay.
Then it was 2-4 weeks.
Then it was no more than 4 weeks
Now it’s at least 4 weeks.
All part of the ‘softening up’ strategy.
It won’t stop there though!
ON Radio4 they sometimes say a month and at other times four weeks all part of the confusion.
Final decision was taken months ago just as the next decision which will extend into Spring has been taken and the one after that and the one after that.
How depressing it is to live in this country that used to be Great Britain. I often wonder if there is anything that the government can do that will waken up the people who live on this island to realise they have been taken for complete fools – masks, anti-social distancing, the destruction of our children’s education, vaccines that have yet to complete their medical trials. And, sadly, I realise that the answer is no, there is nothing that will stir the people of this land to any measure of resistance or thinking for themselves. If it weren’t such a complete tragedy, it would be farcical.
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Lockdown is not a victimless crime
The Conservative Party – the party for business. Sorry my mistake – the party for big business that funds them and hands over backhanders.
The government’s activities over the past 15 months prove that they have no interest in the small and medium enterprises that form the backbone of the economy.