Dominic Raab Rejects Calls to Speed up the Exit From Lockdown
No amount of good news on the Covid front will persuade the Government to speed up the exit from lockdown. We are “very close now to really turning the corner” in our efforts against Covid, but not close enough that our unlock can be brought forward, according to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. What’s more, he said that rules on mask-wearing and social distancing could continue beyond June 21st. MailOnline has the story.
The Foreign Secretary warned “there will still need to be some safeguards in place” after [June 21st] in comments likely to anger Tory MPs who want all coronavirus rules to be lifted.
[Talking to Sophy Ridge on Sky News,] Mr Raab rejected calls to speed up the roadmap as he insisted “we are very close now to really turning the corner” in the battle against the disease.
The success of the U.K.’s vaccination programme and falling infection numbers have prompted demands for the Government to bring forward its reopening dates.
But the Foreign Secretary this morning urged people to be patient as he insisted June 21st is not far away and “we are nearly there’”.
He argued that “taking steady steps out of the lockdown is the smart way to go” to avoid undoing the progress made during the national shutdown.
He also… promised that on June 21st “almost all social restrictions will be lifted”.
To justify the “roadmap” continuing at its current slow pace, Raab said: “[The] fourth step out of lockdown is not far away now so I think [we should] just hang on.” But for the sake of the hospitality venues that have yet to reopen (and even those that have reopened outdoors), and for the sake of the nation’s mental and physical health, any amount of time still spent in lockdown is too long.
MailOnline‘s report is worth reading in full.
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“almost” all restrictions is the worrying word.
In other words “All restrictions will not end”.
They’re never going to let us out.
“Almost” means “none”. You either have a restricted life or an unrestricted life, there’s no half way.
Dominic Raab knows nothing about the road map – he’s only Foreign Secretary. Like the rest of the Cabinet, he simply obeys the PM. The PM himself obeys ‘the scientists.’ The scientists obey ‘the evidence.’ That’s why how right they can be. Your MP is most likely to obey the whips. Parliament has been pretty empty for a year – both physically and politically. They are shadows. For what it’s worth, I won’t bother to vote this Thursday.
We thought of refusing to vote but have to decided to go and write NONE OF THE ABOVE on our ballots.
Exactly my thoughts.
https://www.votenone.org.uk/protest_votes_count.html
Thank you that’s really helpful I will definitely be putting a vertical line through the boxes and writing NONE across the candidates. Bring it on.
I’ve got a postal vote, instead of the wearing a muzzle and distancing farce
I’m going.
I’m voting.
I’m not wearing a muzzle.
Not voting to register a protest is indistinguishable from apathy.
I agree. Get out and vote for Reform as they are anti lockdown, or UKIP (so are they) or an independent.
My choices are Tory, Labour, Lib-Dem or UKIP only. I can’t face voting UKIP so will take up Banjones link suggestion (thanks for that)
More – I’d say voting is to be complicit.
I was considering writing ‘f***ing Nazi scum’ against all the candidates on mine.
Or like the Protestant Minister in Canada, maybe write “Nazi Gestapo Psychopaths” and instead of “get out of my church” write “get out of my country!”
Just a thought. I think I’ll begin my ballot with that in the corner and move onto being more direct…
https://votingcounts.org.uk/spoilt-ballot
Never having been a person who will use two words when 100 will suffice, I’ve been leaving a very detailed message, crammed onto my ballot, for years now. This year it will be twice as crammed.
”Road map” my foot. How many more patronising phrases are they going to roll out to bamboozle the peasants?
I’ll probably vote LibDem as their MPs vote against lock downs – not that you would know it from their election literature.
everyone obeys the behavioural scientists. which the behavioural scientists love and its my they became behavioural scientists in the first place
And they all obey those that hold them to their oaths within their chapters!
None of the above for me. Such non-votes are counted and give at least a hint of warning to MPs.
Do the scientists obey the evidence? Or they obeying the directives from those who are really in charge?
Please go and spoil your paper. That is what I will do, a spoiled paper is a stronger protest than simply not voting.
Don’t spoil that’s a bad idea, do what bajones suggested i.e. this: https://www.votenone.org.uk/protest_votes_count.html
Dominic Raab probably does know about the roadmap.
He’s lying, just like the other ministers, because what he says isn’t logical, unless there’s a completely different motive in play other than “controlling the virus.” That motive is more about controlling the population.
Make sure you do it so it counts.
https://votingcounts.org.uk/spoilt-ballot
And one of those “scientists” running the Government is a long-time (and current) Communist, one Professor Susan Michie, member of SAGE – a behavioural scientist. That is to say, she is one of the behavioural scientists directing the fear-mongering, to keep us under control. You just could not make this stuff up.
At least vote against the LibLabCon, if possible. Unfortunately I had to spoil my ballot paper as only LibLabCon was on there.
The scientists obey the evidence – like hell they do. SAGE follows their masters with the money and through fear and scaremongering work to destroy our rights and freedoms whilst increasing control over our lives. Massive damage continues to be inflicted upon us for no justification. All of us must say no and ignore their draconian mandates.
All these corners…Sod this bloody government (under occupation) doing it’s master’s bidding. They have NO intention of letting go of the power and control. It’s a wet dream come true. They’re already brewing another lockdown. Until then more gas lighting and lies…Come Thursday, my vote will be one of “absolutely no confidence – not fit for purpose!”
What we need to do now, is organise a movement similar to the “yellow vests” movement in France. There has to be a highly organised visible protest before the rogue Governments of the UK will pay the slightest attention. As we have seen, even hugely attended protest rallies don’t make the news.
Everything – only- makes sense, if, as and when one finally accepts the true, evil motivations behind all this of our rulers and theirs.
I wonder how many holidays Raab has had this year so far? He’s looking a bit tanned don’t you think?
When are people going to wake up to the fact this has nothing to do with our health and everything to do with keeping us in our homes while they go on holidays, dine out and have a wonderful time. Oh how they must be laughing at our stupidity.
This is not about a virus. A fast-vanishing and mild virus. Why on EARTH can’t EVERYONE see that?
Because the Government has conducted an excellant brain washing campaign and the gullible suck it up. Makes me weep.
And the MSM are almost 100% onside.
BRILLIANT: Dr. John Lee, Prof of Pathology UK – Unlocked Documentary! – YouTube
Worth a watch
Explains it all, a must watch! If only we had more honest commentators like him.
As any totalitarian dictator will tell you, instil fear in the population and you can do what you want with them. It works in China and North Korea, so why not give it a go here?
Nothing these snakes are doing in the name of Covid19 can be justified on any level, so in saying this, Dominic Raab has unveiled himself as a defacto enemy of the people of the United Kingdom. He should be removed from office asap, he is a liar and a fraud and he is causing great harm to the people of this country. He is ignoring the science and fuelling the fantasy that a virus which justifies the actions of the government is in circulation. This is provably false and has been known to be false by the government since the IFR became established in March 2020. High consequence infectious diseases (HCID) https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#status-of-covid-19 Status of COVID-19 As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK. There are many diseases which can cause serious illness which are not classified as HCIDs. The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more… Read more »
If he wants masks to continue did he not get asked about the law breaking photo-ops the week before last of Johnson (England), Gove (Israel) and Starmer (Wales)?
This is what happens when you accept a date to lift the restrictions, you are buying into the fact that they were necessary and have made any difference at all. Lockdown has killed more poeple and pushed sickness into winter at best. Beyond that it’s all been one big joke.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/973183/S1143_Hospitalised_vaccinated_patients_during_the_second_wave__2_.pdf
“We observed an abundance of patients admitted to hospital within 7 days of vaccination”
presumably this is what happened in India. Just after they had almost defeated the virus. But those patients would have been spreading it around
When I get time I’m going to look at the stuff published by our most lockdown fanatic scientists over the last decade. I bet some have been calling for winter masks for flu for years. We know Devi wants alcohol banned. I think we have always had these social misfits and control freaks – they’ve normally been in dark corners of Universities being ignored – for some reason they are now running the country!
This man knows it’s all based on a big lie and deception. His body language and sweaty brow gave the game away, a year ago. I look forward to hearing these words, to him and his ilk: Bring forth the defendant…
Preferably with the judge putting on a black hat!
black hat should be welded to his head for the duration!
Even better
‘Take him down’.
“The UK government is still aiming to lift all Covid restrictions from 21 June, but safeguards such as social distancing and masks may need to stay in place, the foreign secretary says”
ie restrictions not to end in June
No one should follow any of these guidelines.
I went to a newly opened restaurant this morning in the sun. They had all the track and trace nonsense out but ignored by everyone. All the kids from all different families playing together. It was glorious. Almost like the calm after the Nuremberg trials before the hangings started
what the bloody hell does a foreign secretary know about disease?
Judging by the continuing unjust imprisonment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, he doesn’t know anything about foreign affairs, never mind “the virus”.
There are two issues that are weighing on the government’s minds ( well three if you included redecoration).
Firsly the ‘restraints’ cover up the effects of trade flows after TransEnd on 31/12/20. Its not good new, best covered up for as long as possible.
Secondly they have to publish the paper on ‘Improving the Energy Performance of privately rented homes’, which is the forerunner of the same for all homes. Costs of £20k per household at least for having colder homes. This is going to go down like a lead balloon in Tory land. They have to get it out under the cover of removing covid restrictions , yet its so damn difficult they are frightened of the effect.
So yes there are idiots on SAGE, but I strongly suspect this is about politics, pure and simple.
Must read is the excellent how science has been corrupted in Unherd.
https://unherd.com/2021/05/how-science-has-been-corrupted/
I’ve found that everywhere I’ve gone, without a muzzle, people have been very polite, I think they prefer to see a face and sometimes a smile than that ridiculous masked mug.
Same here,but watch out for the repulsive, toad-like form of the zombie customer.
Prof Openshaw wants us all locked down forever
He has a paper here
https://cmr.asm.org/content/cmr/18/3/541.full.pdf
discussing diseases enhanced by vaccines
“After subsequent RSV exposure, the rate of virus infection in children receiving FI-RSV [the vaccine for RSV] was no less (and was perhaps even greater) than that in a control group immunized with a control parainfluenza vaccine. Most remarkably, 80% of RSV vaccinees needed hospitalization, whereas only 5% of RSV-infected children given the control parainfluenza vaccine required admission. Illnesses among RSV-infected FI-RSV-vaccinated children included pneumonia, bronchiolitis, rhinitis, or bronchitis; two of the vaccinated children died (87). Importantly, these trials were conducted in the absence of prior animal testing.”
“The severity of illness was remarkably dependent on the age of the vaccinees, with the younger children suffering more severe symptoms.”
“enhanced RSV disease occurs within 2 years of FI-RSV administration (128). Therefore, a window of protection may be followed by a phase of disease enhancement (111), followed by a final period during which immune memory is still measurable but neither protection nor enhancement is seen.”
good that we can learn from past mistakes!
Govt praying something will happen before 21st June to allow them to continue this charade.
They will find that the vaccines enhance disease after a delay (see below). They will say its a tragic error but now we deffo have to go zero-covid
The India variant for one
Exactly right. That’s why those who have been compliant to date, must stop now, without waiting for Government permission to be free again. Some of us have refused to obey from the get-go and the same some of us will never obey the rogue Governments of the UK – every last member of each of these Governments should be put on trial for crimes against humanity. Let me be on the jury, please and thank you.
Although maybe we ought not give them a trial – that would be to confer on them some human rights. Human rights are clearly ‘nice to haves’ that they don’t deeply believe in.
Only the Americans wanted the Nuremberg trials. The Brits and Russians wanted to just shoot them
If you don’t give rights you don’t deserve them, so anyone who professes to be pro-rights must do so.
I’ve often wondered about Raab, it seems he’s always worn a mask.
Agree, even more slimy than Wancock.
Raab is just baffling is so many ways. How someone so incapable is in such a position has baffled me for a while. Nothing between the ears.
Spot on!
This is the same party that had Chris Grayling in a variety of posts. Nothing surprises me about appointments since then.
I will be voting against socialist fascism…..so for any candidate not associated with any of the three main parties, or associated with any ‘green’ party, and not associated in any way shape or form with ‘der grosser reich’ and its socialist fascist policies.
wow, you’d think these politicians work for silicon valley… we must lock down, we must stay locked down, we cannot rush the exit out of lockdown… just a few more billion please mr Bezos
If only this dreary government puppet would keep the mask on his face so that we did not have to see or listen to him we would all be a lot happier
Hood over his head would be better.
Life long Tory — I will never, never NEVER vote for them again –
I can’t understand why everyone is waiting for permission to be free again. Our freedoms come from God – not from the Government. And certainly not from Dominic Raab. Those who have gone along with this disgraceful tyranny should take back their freedom now that it is crystal clear that the Government has absolutely no intention of giving up the control they are exercising over us.
In May 2020, much of the commentariat were complaining that the British people had been lied to, that lockdowns didn’t work, that the NHS was fine, etc. (eg: https://thecritic.co.uk/the-peoples-pantomime/).
In May 2021, we are saying the same thing. Nothing has changed. We have achieved nothing.
What will we be saying in May 2022?
By now we have to realise that the epidemic was a means to an end: a locked down, masked, tracked population. That is not going to go away unless a huge number of people protest against the loss of freedom, but all the signs are that they won’t.
A £320 Million Media buying Contract awarded by the Government to OMD Group, to last until end March 2022. What do they know that they aren’t telling us? Thats another 1/3 of a billion quid of our bloody money just like that and we didn’t even have a say! WTF?
Since when is a Foreign Secretary a medical expert? The guy is an idiot.
Another ignorant politician mistaking his mouth and his backside. Nothing to see here, move along….