In a House of Commons vote this evening, 60 MPs voted against the extension of the restrictions, the largest rebellion Boris has faced yet in connection with his lockdown policies – although not enough to defeat the Government, thanks to the support of Labour MPs. MailOnline has more.
MPs have approved the extension of coronavirus restrictions in England until July 19th – but dozens of furious Tories rebelled amid demands that Boris Johnson must not “shift the goalposts” and delay Freedom Day yet again.
The Prime Minister was spared a defeat as Labour backed plans for a four-week delay to the end of lockdown measures, with MPs voting 461 to 60, a majority of 401, to approve regulations delaying the easing of the measures.
For now, limits on numbers for sports events, theatres and cinemas will remain in place, nightclubs will stay shuttered and people will be asked to continue working from home where possible.
But MPs had lined up to grill Matt Hancock in the House as he opened the debate on regulations that formally extended the lockdown into next month.
The Health Secretary defended pushing the date back, arguing the Indian – or Delta – variant has “given the virus extra legs” and stressing that July 19th should be the “terminus” for the restrictions.
Former chief whip Mark Harper voiced scepticism that the latest promise will be kept, asking whether “we are going to get to this point in four weeks’ time and what we are going to be back here again”.
And another ex-minister, Steve Baker complained about the two-week review of the change saying it only “deepens despair” if the Government “creates hope and shifts the goalposts”.
At Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Johnson was challenged by Tory MPs Philip Davies and William Wragg.
Mr Davies questioned why the Prime Minister was not trusting the “the common sense of the British people and his Conservative instincts of individual freedom and individual responsibility” rather than the advice of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).
Mr Johnson insisted he did not want to see Covid restrictions last forever but “a little more time” was needed to vaccinate millions more people to help combat the spread of the Delta variant.
Mr Wragg asked: “When can we expect the co-ordinated chorus of Sage members recommencing their media appearances to depress morale?”
Mr Johnson replied: “I believe that academic and scientific freedom are an invaluable part of our country and I also note that my scientific colleagues would echo my sentiments that we need to learn to live with Covid.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: You can see a list of the MPs who voted ‘No’ here. The naysayers were comprised of 49 Conservative MPs, six Labour MPs and and five Democratic Unionists. The tellers for the Noes were Steve Baker MP and Jackie Doyle-Price MP.
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No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again jack and then rewind the tape
And then play it again and again and again
Until ya mind is locked in
Believin’ all the lies that they’re tellin’ ya
Buyin’ all the products that they’re sellin’ ya
They say jump and ya say how high
Ya brain-dead
Ya gotta fuckin’ bullet in ya head
F*** you I won’t do what you tell me…. Motherf……..
Rage Against the Machine lyrics very much reflect my mood right now
Such a shame that RATM are lefty socialists
Strange thing to say. This situation has nothing to do with socialism.
Except that the socialists are largely cheering for more lockdowns
If you’re referring to Starmers ‘labour’ party they’re not socialists.
Mainly the Fauxialists
LLS is a damn good read
Don’t know about ‘socialists’ – that woolly term, but it’s definitely true of the Tory Party.
Hasn’t it? Actually, this is one more step on the road to international Communism, the end goal of the globalists (‘you will own nothing and you will be happy’). Small businesses must go so that everything can be owned and run by big corporations, who, alongside the State, will also own and run every single aspect of our lives.
Another month of this lockdown will close even more small businesses, just as designed. So yes, this situation has eveything to do with socialism.
Unless of course you still believe that we have a Conservative government?
This IS socialism, or Communism if you prefer. Whatever it is, it sure ain’t democracy!
If they resigned the whip, they would have some leverage, they won’t, so they don’t.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, or for 15 months, shame on…, how thick am I?
They all disgust me.
Is it just me or is the number of opposed actually shrinking?
Yes, 49 Conservatives, not all the 70 in the Covid Resignation Group, 6 Labour and 5 DUP.
I just went through the list. I’m not 100% sure but I think some of those I briefed personally before still didn’t vote against.
There’s nowt as queer as folk.
Bozo believes in academic and scientific freedom?
Hitler was a lifetime campaigner for Jewish rights.
yes,they’re free to agree with him otherwise it’s off to the salt mines.
400 against 60? well there you have it. I am tired of people here yapping and complaining about Sage and Boris Johnson as being responsible for the restrictions… it is obviously the right thing delaying else not how can anyone explain why so many are in favor?
“.. how can anyone explain why so many are in favor?”
Quite easily if you have a brain rather than a space between the ears.
21 But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
22 And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.
23 And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
History teaches that many follow the crowd but weight of numbers does not always equate with being in the right.
‘But I can’t think for you you’ll have to decide, whether Judas Iscariot had God on his side’.
Because millions of lemmings can’t be wrong
20 in on it and 380 not wanting to lose their comfortable salaries for doing very little, which includes ignoring letters sent to them from their constituents. 380 scared of being sent to the gas chambers on a whim of The Great Leader.
Nothing to do with brainwashing is it, clearly everyone is critically thinking for themselves…
As for MP’s, they can’t wait to end the WFH remit and get back to the shitty…
Thanks to the support of Labour Brand Uniparty MPs.
what could 400 MPS possibly have to gain by approving such an extension? 400 of them FFS! I am a sceptic as much as the next guy here but cmon.
Money
Yes, just as they were right about invading Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction…..oh, hang on….
Keeping their jobs. If Starmer had opposed then his sheep would have followed him in that direction.
Comfortable ‘working’ from home + big salary. Plus the fear of being ostracised if they do not go along with the agenda, labelled a ‘heretic’ and thrown into prison to be eventually packed on a train and trundled off to meet their unpleasant fate.
Loss of their space at the trough for not obeying the whips at the next elections.
The interesting thing in my constituency is that the MP is definitely signing her death warrant at the next election, given the particular balance. The local elections confirmed this. Opposing the whip might have given some opposite traction.
I doubt there’ll be another election. Seriously.
I believe we / the world is going to morph into a world government, with affiliated leadership hubs in each country. What a way to live, having them dictating what we must / must not do…
Four more deaths due to ‘rare side effects’ of the vaccine – this time in Scotland …
Covid Scotland: Four deaths caused by rare ‘adverse effects’ of coronavirus vaccines.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/covid-scotland-four-deaths-caused-by-rare-e2-80-98adverse-effects-e2-80-99-of-coronavirus-vaccines/ar-AAL6Rfq
This has nothing to do with a virus, health or saving lives. The only goal is to get as many people stabbed as possible before Autumn.
I’ve just written to my MP thus : Dear … Well, I suppose you are consistent. As a long time member of the Party, I am writing to express my deep disappointment at your choice to once again act as a Tory supporter in terms of the actions of the government in extending its undemocratic seizure of power by fraudulent deception I have refrained from responding to your previous parroting of misinformation about the situation, hoping that you might grasp some reality and act accordingly, given the swathes of information that has emerged about a very unexceptional virus – officially not ‘of high consequence’. Now, there is not even the pretense of an emergency. Only the innumerate, the gullible and the venal would support this measure powered, as it is, by lies and distortions (all obvious to those who are awake and value evidence as opposed to fiction) . As a member of a generation who benefited from the sacrifices of a previous one in preserving liberty in Europe, the appalling leadership of my Party and cowering unfitness of the mass of its MPs is beyond my comprehension as the poll ratings deservedly plummet MPs of previous generations that I have known… Read more »
Great letter. Pointless though it may be I think I might write something very similar to mine.
I’d given up writing, after carefully writing carefully reasoned stuff at the beginning. I saw no point in just ranting.
But I was wasting my time, and just got back government propaganda.
well we get to see your great letter and you inspire us , thank you for writing to your mp
Same virtually everywhere. I do not have the words
I was a member until recently, but did not renew it this year.
I think many of us who remain are hanging on by our finger nails. My only reason is that it gives me at least a vote on issues – but that’s just reluctance,.
Great letter.
I lose the will to live when writing to mine now. To be fair, he has been very supportive in the past with other issues but anything to do with the virus, it’s a no go area. Total love fest and full on support for the government- he’s labour – and he has rebuked the ‘grossly irresponsible citizens who by refusing the vaccine, deny the U.K. the chance to get back to normal as soon as possible.’ I’ve had a lecture on the benefits of vaccines since inception and a reminder how to step forward and access local injection hubs!
He’s full on crackers and totally taken in. He’s a yes man to Starmer – Johnson’s number one fan – so no chance of any change of mind unless Starmer does so.
I am grateful to the few labour MPs who did vote against but the numbers were too shockingly low to make a difference.
I cancelled my membership several months ago. The true Labour Party is no more. It has gone.
Thank you.
“I am grateful to the few labour MPs who did vote against”
What shocked me was that there were fewer than in the last vote.
They’re supposed to be the opposition for Christ’s sake. Even the CRG is fading. Don’t we complain about other countries being one party states?
10/10 for trying
Parliament packed to the brim with scum
Well if it wasn’t packed with scum the people who really choose which MP would sit in which rotten-borough wouldn’t have much control of them.
If you didnt know we dont actually live in a democratic country and our country is not run by Boris Johnson.
Boris does know SAGE stands for Some Archived Groupthink Eejits, doesn’t he? They are a Care in the Community group. What has he been chatting to them about? Charlie Cheswick is one of them and Mildred Ratched has changed her name to Mitchie, or something.
Don’t forget …
Or even better still …
Have never had one to burn but I agree with the sentiment.
Yes, having never worn one, I’d have to buy one to burn the damned thing!
Just go for a short walk and you’ll find plenty of discarded ones in the gutter. It’s one form of pollution that the eco nuts don’t seem to care about.
So wouldn’t burning all those faceknickers cause global warming?
1.6 BILLION per month in the UK alone!
Democracy is a total illusion.
It doesn’t matter who you vote for, it’s who is counting the votes out of sight that matters!
Wow. My MP voted against the criminals in No10.
Labour are a total embaressment at this point.
So did mine, to my amazement. I will send a thank you; they do deserve some praise when they do the right thing.
Pantomime. Kids to be offered up as sacrificial lambs to this cult.
I noticed that Jeremy Corbyn has refused to reveal whether he has had the covid vaccine yet or not – he said “I think everybody should take advantage of it if they wish to.”
‘If they wish to‘ is a far cry from the ‘take up the vaccine offer or else‘ dictatorial approach coming from Johnsons Junta that is now threatening to withdraw access to health services for those that refuse the vaccine.
So I began to wonder whether (under todays circumstances) if Jeremy Corbyn would have made a better opposition leader than Kier Starmer who has been on board with virtually every oppressive proposal made by this tyrannical government since day one.
Probably not … but just a thought.
He couldn’t have been worse. Starmer has not opposed in any way. He hasn’t demanded a balanced risk assessment on which to base his decision. Labour was responsible for ramping up authoritarianism when last in government and wants to have social control powers in place when it does finally get elected.
He voted for the lockdown extension
That has really unsettled me.
” if they wish to.” is a crucial phrase – but unfortunately he does assume an ‘advantage’.
I never thought Corbyn was good leadership material, but at least he had many qualities that the usual whiners and moaners complain as lacking in MPs (although they hypocritically consistently vote for floating turds).
The main recommendation was that he was outside the establishment nexus – which terrified said establishment. Thus the massive propaganda campaign against him. Neutral observers (a vanishing breed) noted that the campaign was unprecedented in recent political history.
Thus Starmer.
Some points to note.
Following the G7. Mask compliance has shot up. Look at the HOP today, all strict on the masks. In fact despite everything, even in society they are having a bit of an “Indian summer” of popular support for “reasons”.
Johnson managed to duck the coming storm of Dom’s texts. How very well constructed was his diary today? Unbelievable how Teflon this fridge fan is.
Europe opening up gives this cow son more hiding space. If he had gone first and it went wrong then he would lose his popularity, which to this lard arse joke is everything.
Fraud. Fraud. Fraud
According to the Telegraph, the modelling that the government used to validate the four weeks extension was out of date. It was based on out-of-date estimates of vaccine effectiveness (and probably natural, sterilising immunity as well).
Even the reduced figures for ‘covid’ deaths make no sense. With increased immunity, there is absolutely no reason why they should be any more than this time last year. Remember last June? After the so-called ‘pandemic’ had ended? The weekly deaths had dropped back to average and remained there until the end of October.
Since the beginning of March 2021, weekly deaths have been below the average for the last 10 years. If they are predicting an increase in deaths in this summer, it will only be because of the toxic jabs. And if they are predicting it before it happens, that reeks of pre-meditation.
I agree with your sentiments but you can’t predict something after it happens.
I’m amazed at how many family members actually believe this will happen. how many times does the Government have to lie to us before people actually get that they’re being lied to?
Good question. No answer.
Where were the Liberal Democrats? Still looking up the definitions of their names in a dictionary at the time of the vote?
Only 60MPs! Are the rest brain dead or complicit? I am in shock!!!
Whats the point? These lazy, conceited entitled people who don’t even sit in the house of commons anymore are more concerned with their career safety than the lives of people in this country, they are all a waste of time. Thos 60 should have resigned from the Conservative party, stood tempraritly as independants thus reducing the Government majority to 20
Mr Johnson replied: “I believe that academic and scientific freedom are an invaluable part of our country and I also note that my scientific colleagues would echo my sentiments that we need to learn to live with Covid.”
The man has completely lost it. OFCOM (a government body last time I looked) has banned any meaningfully scientific discussion on MSM. How is that scientific freedom?
Giving the virus extra legs – what a lie. The Delta is affecting late teens and early 20s. These are people who have been most affected by lockdown because so mant are not in education or training and have no jobs. They don’t shop except on-line and have not been exposed to the wider world face to face until recently becaus of lock-down.
They are perhaps the best example of the fact that lockdown just delays the inevitable infections and doesn’t eradicate them.
“The Delta is affecting late teens and early 20s.”
No – even that is a distortion. It’s nothing to do with variants.
Is this based on hospitalisations, serious effects…or just ‘cases’ as a result of a deeply flawed test. ?
By Ian Brown (rather keenly observed, I’d say);
The scientist and mediatrist
Trying to tell me 2 and 2 is 5
‘scuse me while I mention the strategy of tension, mass mind manipulation
Psychological operation
The general population, hypnotised, right in front of your eyes
Drama and lies
Look into my eyes
This country’s mp’s are a disgrace.