Gove Ignores Pesky Mask Mandate

Good to see this picture of Michael Gove in the Times of Israel ignoring pointless rules about indoor mask wearing. As you can see, he has set his to one side while he talks to the Israeli Prime Minister on his fact-finding mission in Israel. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is over there to investigate the country’s ‘Green Pass’ system, which is similar to the Covid status certification scheme that he is currently looking into on behalf of the Government.

No doubt when challenged about this, Gove will say he had just temporarily removed his mask in order to speak and promptly put it back on again when he returned to nodding-and-listening mode. But in those indoor spaces where the Government has recommended mask wearing – when out shopping, for instance – the guidance doesn’t say you’re allowed to remove your mask when you’re talking. Surely, if you’re a believer in the magical properties of disposable face nappies, of the type Gove has put aside in this photograph, you think it’s precisely when you’re holding forth at a small gathering that it should be worn? Or is the Gover, who apparently does believe in this voodoo, just worried about being infected by Benjamin Netanyahu and not about infecting him?

Whichever way you cut it, this is an embarrassing photograph for Boris’s right-hand-man.

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realarthurdent
4 years ago

Here is what will happen next.
There will be a big furore about Gove not wearing a mask. Who gives a toss?

And a complete absence of any furore about why Gove is in Israel – to talk over the implementation of COVID passports in the UK which were supposedly the subject of a government consultation exercise but on which it is clear the decision has already been taken.

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Well said.

The picture could be titled :

“Lying supporter of police state chats to lying and corrupt fascist on how to repress the plebs better”

WeAllFallDown
WeAllFallDown
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

My money is on something even shadier. Something to do with the Pfizer contract, maybe? Or ADRs in pregnant women? Or viral escape? I mean what do we have in common?

I mean why on earth would either country be turning to each other for assistance? Neither country actually needs the assistance of the other for a vac passport system. They’re saying that we could build a sort of corridor of the vaccinated between the 2 nations, but I can’t see Britain’s tourists flocking to Israel any more than vice versa

awildgoose
4 years ago
Reply to  WeAllFallDown

I bet one of the most closely held secrets in the world is a list of the gene therapies and precisely which components of the human immune system they affect and the expected medical outcomes.

WeAllFallDown
WeAllFallDown
4 years ago
Reply to  WeAllFallDown

And where’s Nick Boles. He’s been very quiet of late…

realarthurdent
4 years ago
Reply to  WeAllFallDown

Nothing would surprise me any more.

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  WeAllFallDown

What they have in common is Pfizer vaccines – a company making four billion profit from it this year. And what they have in common is a complete political investment in the story that vaccines are our saviours to the degree that children should get them, along with medical tyranny. Those hands Gove is holding up have blood on them.

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  WeAllFallDown

Remember – another link – Starmer was, even before his election as leader cosying up to the Israel Lobby’s establishment front – the undemocratic Board of Deputies that always gets quoted as a voice of Jewry, when much of its effort is spent in attacking Jews who call out Israel’s oppressive tendencies.

Starmer was quite happy to trade off basic democratic legal principles for the support from the BoD and the equally hypocritical Jewish Labour Movement. Both disgrace the memory of the holocaust, whilst using it as cover for neo-colonialism, terror activities and apartheid.

Close observers will note the similarity of their tactics to those deployed towards those exposing the fakery built around Covid. Watch for the similarities between the use of ‘anti-semite’ and ‘anti-vaxxer’ – and ‘holocaust denier’ and ‘Covid denier’. They come from the same nexus.

WeAllFallDown
WeAllFallDown
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

So that’s why old comrade Corbyn had to be shifted out. I wonder what has happened to the Milliband bros?

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  WeAllFallDown

There was indeed a clear connection. Whatever your politics, Corbyn was never the monster that he was painted in a propaganda campaign that bears an uncanny resemblance to what is happening now on Covid in terms of the use of the ‘antisemitism’ trope – which was always pure nonsense. The establishment and the Israel Lobby had a joint interest in getting rid of him, given his support of the Palestinian cause and for Jewish advocates of human rights.

What he was is someone outside the establishment ‘safe zone’, whereas Starmer is part of it – as shown by the pub encounter in Bath.

As to the Milibands – one took the easy option with bad grace, and the other got badly bruised by the same forces as Corbyn, I guess.

Bella Donna
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Strange as it may seem I think out of all of them Corbyn did have principles and stuck with them. I also do not think he would be anything like as bad as this lot currently in office.

LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Corbyn wasn’t the monster, but he cosied up to a lot of them.

karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  WeAllFallDown

David still waiting in the wings for his Charles de Gaulle (sp? It’s late) moment.

Dobba
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Your’e bang on about the anti-semitism and anti-vaxxer similarity.

People think white power is a bunch of rednecks with trucks, guns and flags roaming about America doing nazi salutes and wearing swastika’s but it’s not. It’s a faction of fake white jewish society that have created the perfect system of being white and playing the racism card to further self interests and power shouting ‘holocaust’ and ‘anti-semite’ at anyone that dares to oppose their twisted world view to shut them down and run their lives.

The abused have become the abusers.

LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  Dobba

I think it’s a bit more complicated than that.
There’s definitely a faction of Jewish people who are very left wing and support immigration into western nations.
This Taki’s Magazine article explains some of it:
https://www.takimag.com/article/stop-with-the-golems-already/
Stop With the Golems, Already!

LMS2
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

“Watch for the similarities between the use of ‘anti-semite’ and ‘anti-vaxxer’ – and ‘holocaust denier’ and ‘Covid denier’. ”

But they do that for anything where someone questions the official narrative, e.g. “climate denier,” also invoking “Holocaust denial.”
Ditto calling everyone and everything “racist.”

It’s all meant to shut people up.

karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  WeAllFallDown

Any such corridor would only be open to those with vax permits anyway.

Talks were also to mutually recognise each others vax permits which would lead to the UK needing to establish bilateral arrangements with approx 200 Sovereign entities worldwide (likewise Israel). Someone who can do big sums can work out how many that would mean in total.
Lots of work for hard pressed bureaucrats and diplomats.

WeAllFallDown
WeAllFallDown
4 years ago
Reply to  WeAllFallDown

All the news over on Fakebook’s more unstable elements is about a secret pact of silence over the recent mass medical experimentation in Israel and the multinational bots are going bonkers sharing some nonsense about people spreading spike proteins all over the place!!!! SPIKE PROTEINS. They’re everywhere! We’re all doomed! They’re sweating.. them.. out.. through.. their.. pores.

And for some reason, I keep thinking about the film Tremors. Something both preposterous and terrifying. 😂

Dobba
4 years ago
Reply to  WeAllFallDown

Remember who the greatest contributor of funds are to the Conservative’s: Conservative Friends of Israel. Ask who is pulling who’s strings.

Espedair
Espedair
4 years ago

‘One rule for us
For you another
Do unto yourself as you see fit for your brother.
Is that not within your realm of understanding?
A fifty second capacity of mind
Too demanding?

Your shame is never ending
Just one psychological drama after another.
You are guilty (GUILTY!) and how you ever entered into this life
God only knows the infinite complexities of love’. ~ Erasure

bOrgkilLaH1of7
4 years ago
Reply to  Espedair

Indeed Espedair… I’m reminded of Margaret Thaler Singer’s 1995 Cult Recovery book…. Here’s how a cult indoctrinates initiates… 1. Keep the person unaware of what is going on and how he/she is being changed a step at a time. Potential new members are led, step by step, through a behavioral-change program without being aware of the final agenda or full content of the group. The goal may be to make them deployable agents for the leadership, to get them to buy more courses, or get them to make a deeper commitment, depending on the leader’s aim and desires. 2. Control the person’s social and/or physical environment; especially control the person’s time. Through various methods, newer members are kept busy and led to think about the group and its content during as much of their waking time as possible. 3. Systematically create a sense of powerlessness in the person. This is accomplished by getting members away from the normal social support group for a period of time and into an environment where the majority of people are already group members. The members serve as models of the attitudes and behaviors of the group and speak an in-group language. 4. Manipulate a… Read more »

karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

We won’t all have to be Mr Goves concubines will we ?

Max Normal
Max Normal
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

Looking forward to guided meditations with Boris:
well, I’m, you’re on a beach, a, a, British beach, obviously, and there’s no police around and it’s rather jolly cold, um, so, you see a, we, you see something, doesn’t matter what at this point, or does it? Golly, I suppose it might but, anyway, um, it’s something and it catches your eye, maybe it’s a lovely girl in , in, what, in a raincoat, and , oh blimey, where’s this all going, eh? You know I went to a beach in Scotland last year with Carrie and that baby. Had a lovely time until some bugger from the daily mail showed up. Wasn’t even bird watching, well, maybe Carrie but, I told him, you, you can’t do that you know I’m the prime minister, yes, and, oh heck, where was I?

Catee
4 years ago

Hope he remembered to sanitize the table each time he put it back on….

wendy
wendy
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

Indeed!!, I hate to see them on tables no one would put their used tissue in the table and it is no difference at all.

Colin
4 years ago
Reply to  wendy

Or dangling from rear-view mirrors. His n hers. Why not just hang up your dirty underwear.

sophie123
4 years ago

What a c u next Tuesday

nickbowes
nickbowes
4 years ago

Oh, how i would like to witness that creepy wef worshipping c**t Gove do some street canvassing, perhaps visit a pub, any pub, soon.

Jess
4 years ago
Reply to  nickbowes

Wot is wef please? Is it a sort of Gove c**t?

bOrgkilLaH1of7
4 years ago
Reply to  Jess

WEF = World Economic Forum

WEF.jpg
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

1960’s-70’s.
Mortgaged house or rented flat and Austin Allegro on Finance; TV, washing machine, fridge and three piece suite on Hire Purchase (Stereo record player later perhaps); clothes, bedding, kitchenware and soft furnishing from the neighbours Catalogue (on the never never).
No credit cards and cheque books a closely regulated novelty.

We owned nowt but we was happy.

click-clack
click-clack
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Hubby and I married in ’78 and moved into our first home (90% mortgage after 2yrs of saving for the deposit and costs). Our Best Man was a long distance lorry driver for a local furniture manufacturer; our lounge suite fell off the back of his lorry. Our bed and bedroom furniture were pass-me-down from a work colleague. Cooker and twin-tub washing machine were left by previous homeowners. Telly was a (group) wedding gift as were all linens, cutlery, crockery etc. My Dad went ape-sh*t when we told him we were getting a dining suite ‘on-tick’ from a local showroom. We finally replaced that dining table and chairs last year after 42 years faithful service.

Andy R
Andy R
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

We’ll own everything (including you) and you’ll be happy.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  nickbowes

Street cleaning would be better. With his lying tongue.

Julian
4 years ago

Whichever way you cut it, this is an embarrassing photograph for Boris’s right-hand-man.”

Any photograph he appears in from now until he publicly apologises for his part in this evil nonsense is embarrassing.

Hopeless
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Personally, I have found that people bereft of principles, morals and honesty are seldom embarrassed. In Gove’s case, fornication or being found in adultery might bring a slight blush to those pompous and self-regarding cheeks, but not much else.

Jess
4 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

Doubt it.

MUZZLED GOVE b (2).jpg
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Jess

Normally, i’m quite happy to see Gove gagged.

He’s always made me gag on sight.

epythymy
epythymy
4 years ago

#boycotthegovernment
None of them should be served in any pub, gym or other business which they have caused severe damage to this past year. It has been plain to see throughout that they have been swanning about, making shrewd investments and ignoring the rules they implement on the nation – remember the outrage at the commons bar remaining open past curfew? Masks when it suits, trips to Durham, second home clauses for international travel. Something must be done.

J4mes
4 years ago
Reply to  epythymy

All business owners should take a leaf out of Rod the landlord’s book. The way Starmer swanned about in his pub long after he was told, very clearly, he was not welcome, just shows the superiority complex the crooks in power have got over us.

sjonesy1999
sjonesy1999
4 years ago

Reminds me of that scene from The Aviator when Howard Hughes says, ‘Well, what does a Senator from Maine need to visit Peru for?’

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

“Say that again, you want us to nuke the Russian bases in Syria?”

karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Who’s asking, us or Israel ?

JayBee
4 years ago

When you talk, the mask gets moist.
When it got moist, you MUST replace it ASAP- which needs 3 hand washes/sanitazing if you want to do that correctly.

Mask mandates are medically not just ridiculous.
They are impossible to be followed properly and as such much more harmful than beneficial in practice.

Note that Germany&co are the countries still seeing incidence increases and that they are also the only countries who have mandated the suffocating FFP2/N95 masks almost everywhere now.

In the beginning, I thought that scarves, cloth masks etc. were totally ridiculous (I still do) and that if masks could help at all, N95 must surely be better than surgical masks.
But as Sebastian Rushworth recently commented and Germany&co now have proven:
Logic is often wrong in medicine!

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

When forced to wear one, I often use an old jam strainer as a satirical comment.

WeAllFallDown
WeAllFallDown
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Balaclava. All the way, especially in the bank and on the TV, being voiced by an actor. (Oh, the 80s). #bringbackthebalaclava

ScepticSteve
4 years ago

When Lewis Carroll wrote about “slithy toves” in Jabberwocky, I suggest he had in mind someone like the slimy Michael Gove.

leicestersq
leicestersq
4 years ago

To be fair, they will all take off their masks when the cameras go out the room. None of these people wear masks except for show.

helenf
4 years ago

Is Gove not wearing a mask the main problem with the picture /Gove Israel trip??

Ned of the Hills
4 years ago

Does it never pass their minds they simply look idiotic?

Would they take to wearing tea cosies if they thought that some how did the trick? – with one ear stuck out were the handle goes and ‘tother were the spout protrudes?

Andy Lambeth
Andy Lambeth
4 years ago

The only logical defence of masks is that they prevent small droplets of saliva coming out of the wearer’s mouth and so if anything it makes more sense to wear the damn thing when you’re talking. Personally I would prefer it if Gove put a dustbin liner over his head and sealed it round his neck with a rope.
 

BeBopRockSteady
4 years ago
Reply to  Andy Lambeth

They nebulise the droplets. Making things worse.

Andy Lambeth
Andy Lambeth
4 years ago

I’ll take your word for it! I don’t wear the stupid things anyway.

Bella Donna
4 years ago
Reply to  Andy Lambeth

There is no need to wear masks unless you have a communicable disease like TB.

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago

Why would any sentient being have as their ‘right hand man’ an individual whose previously demonstrated loyalty makes Stalin look like a pussy cat?
Ah – of course Bunter is not sentient; he just does what Princess Nut Nuts tells him in case she closes her knees.

OKUK
OKUK
4 years ago

Good illustration of how face masks spread disease. Gove’s supposedly droplet saturated face rag is now lying on a table in contact with the surface which another person, a cleaner or functionary, may touch in the next few minutes.

Anyway WTF is this supposed freedom loving Conservative doing going round promoting social credit certification, CCP style?

Butties
4 years ago

Not much hope that Govid will take climate change seriously. Why did he need to fly to Israel when he could have had a Zoom meeting or similar!

chaos
4 years ago

Stanley Johnson will attend the Glasgow UN COP26 climate change conference
PM’s father said he will ‘constructively’ call for policies including carbon taxes
New role is as international ambassador of Conservative Environment Network

Bella Donna
4 years ago
Reply to  chaos

Its been a while since we had an assassination.

Bella Donna
4 years ago

I think out of all the ‘conservative’ ministers, Gove has been the biggest disappointment. The rest of them I realised from the start were useless spineless nobodies and they have certainly lived up to my initial assessment. Weak without principles or patriotism they are all globalist sockpuppets.

imp66
imp66
4 years ago

Gove proving that he and his authoritarian cronies don’t give a toss ( about “the science”, the law/ guidance or about us). These power crazed b*stards only care about themselves and their position in the international pecking order. These Co-vid passports are coming, and probably not just for international travel.
Think I might move to a more free, progressive place while I still can. Anyone got a dinghy I can borrow? ( But it’s a helluva row to North Korea or Cuba!).

LMS2
4 years ago

I wish I was surprised, but I’m not, not even slightly.
This has been a theme of all these ridiculous rules. Those that impose them on us know the rules are ridiculous and ignore them when they think no one’s watching.
One rule for thee, but not for me.

That’s how we know it’s mostly bllx.

eastender53
4 years ago

The Doom Goblin threatening that ‘the young will write the history books’ so we should choose wisely.

Sleepy Joe making statements about The Science so there’s no possibility of debate.

Interesting that Covid seems to have taken a backstage role as the next phase of the Great Reset kicks in.

Newman20
Newman20
4 years ago

No surprise from another Government hypocritic!