We have been assured that our unlocking will be “irreversible” – that July 19th is the “terminus date” for Covid restrictions (in England, at least). These words would be comforting if only they were matched by Government action. Alas, laws allowing local authorities to bring back restrictions on businesses and social contact in case of Covid outbreaks or – of course – new variants are being kept at least until the end of September, Sajid Javid has confirmed. The i has the story.
Ministers will retain laws that allow local authorities to shut down businesses, prohibit certain events, or close outdoor public spaces “in case of a local breakout” or in case a new dangerous variant emerges, the Health Secretary told MPs.
“We will be keeping in place contingency measures, particularly for local authorities, the so-called Number Three regulations, at least until the end of September, in case those powers are needed in the case of a local breakout,” Mr Javid told the Commons.
He added: “Of course there’s no intention at this point that those powers will be used but we believe it is necessary to have powers in place just in case.
“You would have heard me earlier talk about the risk that still exists from new variants and that is the plan.”
The so-called Number Three laws were first introduced in July 2020 to give local authorities the power to respond to “a serious and imminent threat” to public health by managing Covid transmission.
They form a patchwork of legislation that was used to govern local lockdowns in the second half of 2020.
But Boris Johnson decided to scrap the approach and impose another national lockdown in England in January after a series of painful negotiations over restrictions with local leaders like Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham.
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He added: “Of course there’s no intention at this point that those powers will be used but we believe it is necessary to have powers in place just in case.”
LOL! Imagine having powers and not using them!
Ahh now it is all becoming clear. MSM only reports of the great freedom coming on 19 July but neglects to report that we can still be locked down locally. I thought it was far too good to be true and happening VERY quickly – as if the pandemic was all over or something and we were just going to “have to live with it – like we do the flu”
Oh yes, like when nuclear weapons were no longer pointed at our cities, but could easily be redirected.
Totally predictable in the psyop operation. Next will be a rowing back of some ‘freedoms’ necessary before the 19th.
Of course the 77th Brigade are pumping out 24/7 Gov-Pharma financed trolling bot accounts deployed to suppress any talk about dangers of Spike protein creation in the vaxx, hence thousands of adverse reactions and how remaining face-nappied and getting jabbed ASAP is in all our best interests.
https://climatecontrarian.com/2021/05/28/revealed-why-the-oxford-astrazeneca-jab-is-even-more-dangerous-than-the-mrna-vaccines/
Here is the Whitney Webb interview with Reiner Fuellmich made recently which is a 100% must watch – probably the best they have done so far. Really gets in to the nuts and bolts of who is behind this agenda and who is profiting. HMG are profiting from AstraZeneca and the company Vaccitech which was mentioned as well as lots of military involvement. She is a real fountain of knowledge and super sharp.
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich Interviewing Whitney Webb – Corona Committee – 3/07/2021
https://www.bitchute.com/video/xZ5B7bwNNmrZ/
How frustrating. This video keeps cuttng out every few seconds.
Of course I could be wrong but I suspect July 19 WILL go ahead, simply as an excuse for the September/October lockdown through to next spring “we let you free and look what you did! Back in the box you go!”
Probably among the worst ideas for the country and perhaps the best in party partisan terms a “Conservative” government could have come up with.
Consider the major feature of local government – the tendency to busybody in order to exercise petty power, whenever possible, and the nature of the kinds of people who operate in local government – authoritarian busybodies, fussers and safety obsessives.
Consider that the main “opposition” parties have all adopted the position that the fault in the government’s response to covid has been in not panicking enough.
It’s reasonable to assume that local authorities run by “opposition” parties will inflict more damage by continuing to panic, while “Conservative” run authorities might be constrained to some extent from doing so by party loyalty.
“the nature of the kinds of people who operate in local government – authoritarian busybodies, fussers and safety obsessives.”
That vast and wild generalization labels you as massively ignorant.
Just the sort of shill that means 77th Brigade can sit back and laugh. Well done.
Err,no – Mark has called it correctly. The type of people who work for local authorities are in many cases absolutely as he describes. Hence one-way signs for pedestrians on the pavements of public roads, jobsworth billboards with lists of “rules”, etc. Bradford City Council was particularly bad for this.
Covid cycle lanes in our local authority.
Separate lanes for vaxxed and unvaxxed, of course.
Indeed. My generalisation was not pulled out of thin air, but based on observation of real behaviours, both directly and in the news, as well as sensible analysis based on the incentives and opportunities local government work involves, and therefore the kinds of people it might attract and behaviours it might reward or enable.
Are there many people working in local government to whom that stereotype does not apply? Undoubtedly. That’s the nature of generalisations – they only apply generally. But that obviously doesn’t mean generalisations don’t contain important truths and real implications for how we should behave and expect the world to work.
The more interesting question is not why I made what is a pretty uncontroversial generalisation, but what motivated Rick H’s flying off the handle in response.
Local government is the Peter principle applied to the people who want to be MPs.
They’re too iffy even compared to hancock…!
Absolutely CR. Had a quick read through of my City Council’s glossy magazine distribute to each household at massive expense. It is filled to the gills with how to be “covid safe”.
Funny how quick the dishonest and hypocritical are to pretend that generalisations are somehow forbidden, until they need to make some themselves in order to address the real world usefully.
Quickly
Having worked for a local authority for many years, Mark’s conclusions are spot on. Last autumn, I experienced the full horror of working with safety obsessed jobsworths who were completely brainwashed by the mainstream media into thinking that they were risking their lives just going into the office. Despite being far younger than me, they wore rubber gloves, were double masked and so stressed that they screamed at anyone got too near them. I was working for a Conservative local authority, so heaven knows what it would have been like under a different political regime.
Totally agree, I’m 72 and worked in filth,dirt and gunge all my life including a sewage treatment works in the 60’s when most people thought that “health and safety” were a pop duo.
To see these “nanby pampy” excuses for human beings of all ages with their sanitizer bottles attached to their key rings ( I kid you not) and their surgically attached face nappies turns “ma bally over” to use a black country dialect expression.
GET OUT THERE AND GET YOUR HERD IMMUNITY, THERE’S NO OTHER WAY!!!
This is what I said in March 2020 – have covid parties like the measles/chickenpox parties of old. Get the herd immunity going and all will be well.
The UK and other countries should have followed the Great Barrington Declaration which was commonsense – something our so-called leaders sadly lack.
whatever local authorities are, they’re not safety obsessed. Lots of road accidents that have happened near me could have been prevented by the council doing things a bit differently.
We have got pot holes around here (South Shropshire) that buses would disappear into and all the local council do is paint yellow lines around em!
The pot holes that is,not the buses.
I don’t think the party in nominal control makes a lot of difference. The real power lies in the hands of the “officers” who make all the day to day decisions. The culture tends to be much the same in all local authorities. You won’t see speed limits raised or road humps removed because the councillors have changed.
No- that is EXACTLY what they are- most of them wouldn’t last 5 minutes in the private sector, having to do real, productive work. They will never stop looking for new ways to impose their miserable world view on people, I’ve seen it my whole life. Give them powers to watch for terrorism or other serious crimes and they use them to snoop on local people and fine them for trivial offences. Locally, having been pleased with the reaction to requests for Covid ‘snoops’, they are now looking to extend this into training people to enforce traffic laws and dole out fines, so you better watch your back – don’t step out of line or you’ll find yourself the target of these petty tyrants and it won’t stop there because it never does.
Oh, I do so agree with this. I remember years ago in my party days, that if ever I was introduced to anyone who was in the public sector I would immediately look around for an escape to someone that was worth talking to. I suppose the same applies now but I don’t get out so much nowadays.
It’s a good way to get Labour councils to defenestrate themselves electorally.
The only redeeming feature of the policy – Labour is long overdue for being taken behind the barn and retired (figuratively speaking).
Sadly the same is true of the “Conservative” Party as well, and it’s hard to retire both major political parties at once.
I guess representatives of both brands of the uni-party get chosen by the same people..
The “Conservative” Party is only what it purports to be in relief against the Labour Party. With the Labour Party “retired” all eyes will be on the government and councils and any opposition will inevitably spread into everyday life as it should have done years ago. There will be an us vs. them situation, government servants vs. free agents.
The battle is becoming a free-for-all that will dominate public spaces, shops, events, places of employment and even homes.
It is important that the freedom marches continue and get bigger and bigger until these so called “emergency” powers are binned for good.
The last massive London protest certainly rattled a few globalist cages despite the non msm coverage.
Civil disobedience on a national scale. Ghandi defeated the empire with that simple strategy.
Gandhi was pushing at an open door. In a genuinely repressive state he’d have disappeared into a Gulag.
Due to international pressure on them.
See the problem now?
Did it? How, exactly?
Why would any of our Davosian overlords care one whit? No handwaving, now, specific reasons, actions to consequences.
Those mad lads who gave Witless a bollocking did more for the cause than tens of thousands marching to no effect, and will of course be publicly punished for sinning against a favoured lapdog.
But even at that, that’s all Witless, Continuity Hancock and even Great Leader Johnson are – just apparatchiks. None of them matter, they’re under orders from creatures who will never, ever have to see, hear or smell us revolting peasants.
I do hope you’re right. nonetheless, could there possibly a case to diversify beyond central London (eg Wembley, Heathrow and other major venues of discrimination)?
Boris Johnson is a spineless coward, it seems. Unwilling to fall out with anyone or endure criticism, even from his political enemies.
How can any business or the individual plan anything, when you have the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head like this?
It really is time to take the decision out of the spinless Johnson’s and the self annointed, self appointed, SAGE’s hand. Just get back on with life again. These imbeciles will never yield the power they have given themselves, voluntarily.
And of course test and trace is still in place so whole workplaces could be forced into isolation due to someone being pinged on the NHS app, just when the government is encouraging workplaces to open up again.
These people will never give up power. They will delegate it out to the local areas who will then get high on their power and use it at the first opportunity. Then it will “force “ the National government to act.
Its a setup.
We need to revolt.
I think we are.
What’s stopping you?
Local councils are unfortunately the locus, the very vipers’ nests, of Branch Covidian lunatics. The unproductive hub of ‘professional coffee drinkers’ (council officers and employees) with no discernible work to do. They’ll be pushing for their own George Cross by next spring for handing out Hi Viz vests to £30k a year Covid Wombles, soon to be tasered-up for our own good. Well, where else is the Chief Executive’s limited nephew Rhys going to get a job in this climate?
Best ignore this farrago and just live as of yore.
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data
Zoe heading up (but not exponential). No deaths and no hospitalisations. I wonder if this happens every year? Probably does – we’d never notice normally. Summer sniffles. As this particular sniffle gives you immunity to variants of the same sniffle that people are pissing the bed about – it can go as high as it likes – the higher better. Then we can have it done over summer rather than push any remaining infections to winter (like we did last time and Whitty warned us about but did it anyway)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57733276
How can they announce different rules for the double jabbed if there are no rules?
Lying fecks
Genocide will be the order of the day for the unjabbed
Fight back
Genocide… doesn’t Tedros have form on that? Or have I got confused again?
Local councils have got to use those covid marshalls for something…
Picking up dog shit
Too good for em.
Licking up dog shit. There,,,fixed it for you!
A Boris Johnson promise is just a lie waiting to happen.
My understanding is that test and trace is still going to be in place.
Does anyone know how to avoid this legally?
If you get a test and trace text but ignore it, have you still legally been ‘notified’? And then in theory could the police could get your details from the NHS teams and check on your house?
Similarly, if you ignore the phone calls from test and trace have you broken the law because that counted as notification? Or do you have to answer?
I am aware that the NHS test and trace app can’t track your personal details (though the legal obligation is in theory the same), but if you have left your (accurate) details somewhere I am curious to know what counts as ‘notification’…
Anyone had experience of the nuances around all this? This to me is the final part of the counter-virus edifice and I plan to create my own freedom day on 19 July which will be more thorough than the mandated one let me tell you!
Thanks
Delete the app.
Get one number wrong if you have to leave phone details.
That plus don’t take a mobile out with you and sign in as Mr B Johnson if they insist on details. Worked for me the past insane 12 months
My sister became ‘Mr P.I Staker for a while when we went out together…..
Yup – done this all the time I have been in the UK – you should see the look on their faces when I give them my phone number which is a Thai one.- ’tis hilarious to see. don’t have that sim card working either.
I don’t have the app and just give my name as Neil Ferguson on paper copy with invented phone number. I don’t really know anywhere that asks for it anymore
Very few places around here (South Shropshire/North Worcestershire).
Block the numbers they use to call you. I think one is 0300 0135 000
Thanks, Julian, that does look legitimate. Pre-blocked now.
https://hack-and-trace.me
Some places have started to watch you scan the QR code. This fools them every time.
Yes fully understood re. the app and thanks. I have it but have switched off the bluetooth tracking and regularly delete immediately after signing into a venue. Besides which, it doesn’t connect to you personally.
The scenario that bothers me is where you go to a museum or whatever and have to book with a credit card, thereby revealing name and address. You can’t fake this else the card transaction won’t go through.
Also school / work events where you have to register and everyone knows who you are. Basically any venue where you just have to be honest about who you are. This is why the legality of what a ‘notification’ is interests me. Can test and Trace text you / write to you / turn up at your door and thereby you are ‘notified’?
This is the tricky part. The reality is in Britain there is lots of incompetence in the system so if you don’t answer the phone or respond to texts / letters that will probably be the end of the matter.
Perhaps I’m overthinking it…that’s what trying to game the rules does to you…
Surely we need to be boycotting such places – and telling them we are doing so and why.
In the end, that’s the only way to generate real pressure on these places to counter the endless whining and nagging of the panickers.
The squeaky wheel always gets the grease.
I’ve noticed that most shops don’t make a fuss about you paying in cash anymore.
My local Londis store owner reckons its back to pre lockdown numbers of cash and card payments.
I wonder if the National Trust still insist on card only payments?
I am a member but haven’t been for a while.
I think you may have mis-understood. I am not advocating the app. The link I posted is for a site that pretends to be the app. It can also do fake “vaccine” certificates if you are feeling brave (unbelievably the “vaccine” passports have absolutely zero security countermeasures built in).
I was intrigued by the link. I have seen fake venue check-in before but I am happy to check-in and keep the app’s bluetooth and notifications off. The vaccine one is interesting, would you dare use it for foreign travel? The game here is to play the system but not get caught, hence my interest in the precise legalities and structures behind all of this madness.
Never had the app. Over my dead body. Pubs where I have been required to sign in (and they are few and far between these days) I’ve simply left my name as Winston Smith and a contact number 01984 198484. If you’ve read the book then you’ll understand.
They just want to ban the Victory Gin and Fags too oh and the chocolate ration!
I’ve used Winnie and will now use that phone number, cheers.
Orwell’s The clergyman’s daughter is also a great book.
One piece that has always stuck in my mind is: ” It was a day that would be described as beautiful by those who had absolutely nothing to do”
Description of an hot summer’s day.
Those who have worked in factories, offices with no air conditioning and those who work outside will understand.
I’m going to try John Galt.
https://hack-and-trace.me/
sign in with this if you feel “experimental”.
Don’t download the fucking app, never give a real name or contact details and never get tested.
Just pretend to clock the QR code.
Oh for fuck sake
When will the rest of the world wake up and realise their ONLY end game is to literally destroy us, both mentally and physically, as a society, and as a country, with this monster they’re pumping into people to speed the process up, and they’re loving every single minute of their power! STILL, people think “if we just do this bit more, we’ll be free!” We have no government, only lackies serving their overlords. Their desperation and despotism stinks like sewage. Their evil knows no bounds. This never has been about a disease, it’s always been about the injection, and the top-down ultimate control of all the people. The predictability of their plan is laughable. Our area was locked down in October for two weeks, then put under the harshest tier, then we were FORBIDDEN last minute to be with others at Christmas (didn’t happen) then we were kept constantly locked down and forgotten about until a couple of months ago, and it’s going to happen ALL OVER AGAIN, probably so much worse this time. And STILL, I hardly know anyone who’s actually been ill. But for the majority of people in my area, they suck it up like mothers… Read more »
I always suggest finding your local “A Stand in The Park” or a local “Freedom Hub” on the internet, to meet like minds Sundays 10 -11 ish they always go on!
If only it were that simple.
Why can’t it be simple? build contacts, find solidarity, share experiences then networks can be built, what is your alternative?
Yep, I have and it’s been brilliant. Highlight of the week. We’re just getting to know each now. So good to finally meet some like-minded local souls. But old friends have drifted away,
It’s good, you’ll have a new family.
Could be me! It’s the same where I live- lots of overpaid public sector/professional types who haven’t lost a bean tut-tutting at anyone who dares even think about bending ‘the rules’. The more rules, the merrier as far as they’re concerned, constant wittering about whatever the BBC or Guardian are screaming about, ‘It’s only a mask for goodness sake’, etc. To be honest, if it wasn’t Covid it would be something else ‘we’ should be doing/ believing. It is a lonely place to be but it’s better than the alternative- a brainwashed, humourless, soul-less, supine vegetable.
Go on try it. Find your local Stand in the Park. I’m sure you won’t regret it.
So Leicester and Manchester were the pariahs before. Who will be their new victim to keep the proles inline I wonder?
Won’t be areas in and around London, obviously, and they’ll probably go for more deprived areas as they make handy scapegoats and are less able to fight back. I’d hazard a guess that Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax and some of the large Lancashre towns north / north-west of Manchester are likely to be targets.
Newcastle and the NorthEast, unfortunately. Unfortunately because I live here.
Maybe my dog thinks he’s free when I have him on the long, retracting lead.
We’re cattle not pets.
The difference being, of course, that you genuinely use the lead for your pet’s good as well as keeping him/her out of mischief. We really now need leads for controlling our politicians!
“The planned relaxation of restrictions on 19 July is essentially an acknowledgement that the government is now happy to let Covid spread, knowing the most vulnerable have a good level of protection.”
“That may not happen before we hit 50,000 cases a day, perhaps even 100,000, which of course would mean lots of people having to quarantine because they come into close contact with someone who is infected.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-57688355
doesn’t make sense. if you are happy for covid to spread then what’s the bloody point of test trace and isolate?
They mean, oh shit the vax doesn’t prevent spread so let’s pretend these are new infections of the un-jabbed and a tiny minority of jabbers, go for natural HI, and hope no one notices.
If its to protect the NHS, food poisoning is more of a problem, There are about 2.4m cases of food poisoning in the UK every year – according to the Food Standards Agency.
Ropes, poles, tar, feathers – for the traitors.
The Lard giveth, and the Lard taketh away..
Well, the second half anyway.
The Government and Sage need their noses rubbed in the official ONS figures. Week ending 25 June 2021, 8,690 all cause deaths week ending 25 June 2020 all cause deaths 9,339. 5 year average 9,404.
Isn’t the major problem that “freedom” is COVID-1984 speak?
The New Normal will look nothing like the old. Continued muzzles, temperature zapping, showing the Compliance App, and begging the State, businesses and retailers for permission will all continue to some degree, and will be ramped up again come influenza season.
And this is before Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition and the Celtic Fringe are done screeching for more restrictions, more offences, more punishments, WuGuv and Twatter will confirm that’s what “we” “want”, and the Johnson Regime will “reluctantly” accede to “our” demands.
Michelle O’Neill [NI deputy first minister] has described the English policies of dropping all restrictions to allow the country to re-open as “reckless” and has stated that NI won’t be doing anything like that.
Meanwhile on the nightly news bulletins the worried hand wringers are also slagging the PM off and saying that it is all “far too much far too soon.” Hasn’t SPI-B done a wonderful job?
In other words, yet more sadistic gaslighting.
The fat slimy dictator and his junta have endlessly lied, why would they tell the truth this time?
A rhetorical question, obviously.
Parliament of Gobbledygook
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/reasons-to-be-angry-parts-1-to-100/ ALSO the first comment (s) from numerous Twitter accounts
Why give a speech when he could have just said “Nothing is changing but what we call it”?
The only thing that is ‘irreversible’ is the Government’s commitment to controlling us by whatever means they can come up with. They will do as many U turns as it takes to maintain control.
Quelle Surprise!
What was that film??? Groundhog Day was it?