Boris Holds His Nerve
In spite of a last-minute lobbying campaign by various SAGE panjandrums to postpone step three of the Prime Minister’s roadmap, most parts of the U.K. will be easing restrictions on Monday. In England, masks will no longer be required in schools, indoor drinking and dining will be permitted, fans will be allowed back into football stadiums (in limited numbers), foreign holidays will no longer be illegal and gatherings of up to 30 people will be permitted outside.
But Boris struck a cautious note on Sunday evening. BBC News has more.
People must continue to play their part in stopping Covid, Boris Johnson has said ahead of the easing of lockdown in England, Wales and most of Scotland.
From Monday, millions of people will be able to socialise indoors in limited numbers, hug loved ones and visit pubs and restaurants inside.
The ban on foreign travel will also be lifted and replaced with new rules.
But Mr. Johnson said everyone needed to still be cautious, and also get tested twice a week.
“Together we have reached another milestone in our roadmap out of lockdown, but we must take this next step with a heavy dose of caution,” said the Prime Minister.
He added that “everyone must play their part – by getting tested twice a week, coming forward for your vaccine when called and remembering hands, face, space and fresh air”.
“I urge everyone to be cautious and take responsibility when enjoying new freedoms today in order to keep the virus at bay.”
BBC News published a summary of the new rules two days ago:
Meeting up
- People can meet in groups of up to 30 outdoors
- Six people or two households can meet indoors and overnight stays can take place
- Up to 30 people can attend weddings, receptions and other life events
- Number of people who can attend a funeral is no longer capped, but determined by the size of venue
- Up to 30 are allowed to attend a support group or parent-and-child group (not counting under fives)
- Care home residents can have up to five named visitors, and more freedom for visits out of the home
- Social distancing guidance is also changing. Contact with close family and friends is described as a matter of personal judgement, but people are asked to remain cautious around close contact, like hugging.
Leisure and entertainment
- Pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants will be allowed to serve customers indoors
- Indoor entertainment such as museums, cinemas and children’s play areas can open
- Theatres, concert halls, conference centres and sports stadiums can all reopen
- Organised adult sports and exercise classes can restart indoors
- Steam rooms and saunas may reopen
- Hotels, hostels and B&Bs can reopen
At least Boris didn’t bottle it, in spite of the outbreak of mass hysteria among the public health “experts” about the Indian variant. (See Glen Bishop’s thorough debunking of SAGE’s 10,000-hospitalisations-a-day-in-mid-July claim in yesterday’s Lockdown Sceptics.) I suppose we should be grateful for small mercies, but, really, with the virus now posing less of a threat than an average bout of seasonal flu we should be reopening in full.
Stop Press: MailOnline has more on Boris’s remarks on Sunday night, but adds the detail that Tory MPs have urged the Prime Minister not to give in to “panicking scientists”.
Sir Graham Brady, a senior Tory MP, urged the Prime Minister not to “panic” over the new variant, which is still rare in the U.K..
And his colleague Iain Duncan Smith said it was “bonkers” to even consider further delays to reopening when evidence suggested existing vaccines worked against the Indian strain.
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Sounds like he’s preparing the ground to gaslight the public again.
Is anybody here sticking twigs up their nose twice a week?
No. Never. How the hell is it necessary to stick that thing literally into the middle of your head when this “deadly virus” can apparently spread via our breath?! Shouldn’t they be able to simply swab the back-of-our-throat-spit from our hands, or ask us to breathe on something?! It’s all Utter Nonsense because the first premise was false. Everything which follows is therefore nonsense. Reductio ad absurdum: if we spread such a deadly virus simply by doing what we must to stay alive (i.e. breathing) then we must all stop breathing NOW. Follow the argument to its logical conclusion – absurd!
This nasty little procedure was devised to be just that – nasty. By now a simple, straightforward saliva test should be all that’s needed, and nothing else. But it’s all part of the prole control programme. Or should I say the Prole Control Racket.
what do they actually do with these DNA samples from law abiding citizens anyway?
The lateral flow tests go in the incinerator at the local hospital. Bagged up together, every day at the test center and local schools and destroyed. 3 in my family have worked in testing PCR tests
Yes. I heard about these incinerators. Ruddy Belsen. (Sorry, that’s my pro-life tendencies coming out).
No need to apologize.
The ones taken by teachers and children at home just go in the bin though.
What is important about the tests is profit for test manufacturers and test providing and analysing centres.
Summarised
Maybe you wouldn’t like the real answer.
No, never. Healthy people can’t pass on to other people a disease that they don’t have. I don’t recall the British public ever signing up for zero covid.
That’s the point of the Fear campaign – of which these rituals are a part – to create a compliant population who will sign up for anything.
The pcr’s weren’t invented for this were they you know that! Look at the work of Dr Reiner Fuellmich and one of his class action cases against Drosten!!! Hope he nails the bastard.
Oh yes, I’ve been following Füllmich for many years.
“ How the hell is it necessary to stick that thing literally into the middle of your head when this “deadly virus” can apparently spread via our breath?! “
Exactly – but one of the inconsistent magic beliefs of this shit-show.
I have had two hospitisations in the last eight weeks and I refused the twigs every time. I actually told a doctor that testing people with no symptoms was absolute nonsense.
He walked away with his chin round his ankles. I suspect I have been “red flagged ” as a result.
Good for you! Why didn’t the laboring women refuse to mask?’
If you’ve ever been in labour in hospital, you need to do it again to remind yourself.
Being in labour is not parallel with “being in hospital fir a procedure”.
Honestly!
I have. Four times. Point is, the women should not have allowed themselves to be subjected to this cruelty. What is your point?
Well – as a male, I can quite easily understand why such resistance is difficult when in Labour.
The point is that women should never be put in that situation.
Because when one is in labour, one is focussing on the body doing something which is beyond your control & anything happening outside of that can’t be dealt with. As no birth partners were allowed, nobody was there to stand up for the labouring women. Bloody criminal!
Good reply. Is that Susan a woman?
LOL – I was present at both my wife’s childbirths – very quick labours. Took them by surprise both times. Each time, when my wife insisted that she was “ready to go” (with me nodding vigorously behind her), the doctors tried to stroke her back to soothe her – and immediately felt the full force of her slap. Then they understood. These doctors need to be told.
PS My wife is not normally like that 😉
Because they’re vulnerable in that situation.
Well done indeed!!!
Good for you! Excellent
Been in the same situation myself.
This is where some ‘sceptics’ get it totally wrong. Most medical staff are not ‘evil’ – they have been coerced and brainwashed just like the rest of the population. That becomes obvious when you have faced these situations a few times and had the conversations.
In fact the overall situation becomes more ‘evil’ when you dispense with easy individualized condemnation at this level, and see the manipulation at higher levels.
One thing I cannot understand and accept is the administration of experimental drugs to pregnant women. The Pfizer variant seems to be very effective at causing spontaneous abortions. The effect on foetuses that survive? Who knows? Surely the Thalidomide debacle is still known to medics?
I think the thalidomide issue is much more general in its warnings, given that the original testing was actually reasonable (for the time), as I understand the situation. It wasn’t a scam in the way that this snake-oil is being pushed totally without checks or balances..
Nope. Never will. I understand the dangers because I’ve researched the subject – unlike all MSM journalists in the UK.
oh those tests. I didn’t know I was supposed to. 🙂
No. We have a box of tests, brought home from work by the lodger on his last day at the testing station. They will only be used if any of us have symptoms and want to rule out covid before continuing work or visiting older relatives.
I’m not against testing those with symptoms, just the mass testing of healthy people.
Just to be clear – in a situation where you are definitely sick, since you have symptoms of an illness, you will do a test to check whether it’s (supposedly) one particular virus and then…not go to work or visit elderly people if it’s Covid-19 but if it’s not then you’re perfectly happy to carry on as normal and spread this around 🤦🏻♀️ This is the problem with convincing people that Covid is the only illness we ought to care about.
Correct, stay at home, keep out of people’s way and go back to work or whatever when you’re better. Simple really.
Agree everyone has become paranoid bit of a sore throat my friend said she said it was nothing caught of her baby grandson. Her son said over the phone have you been for a test!!! I won’t repeat what I said I would have said to him. She said it’s not Covid for gods sake it’s a bit of a bug that’s all! I don’t know what’s happened to the British they are lost lost forever. Covid Psychosis.
But the tests’ results are not reliable.
No. Never have, won’t be starting now.
Never have, never will. Never worn a mask, don’t own one. Never stayed at home, never watched tv, never heard what restrictions we were under so never had anything to obey. Living outside the cities meant that many of me neighbours also lived their lives as usual. we supported each small business as far as we could but unfortunately couldn’t support the pubs and restaurants as they complied with government diktat. We are retired and our family run a small business that was already moving on line. Business has been good for us. We are well aware that millions of others have cruelly suffered because of the careless and uninformed way this scam has been handled. What it has thrown up clearly, is bureaucratic government has no idea how small businesses work. No idea how innovative ordinary people are. No idea how quietly we go about our daily lives regardless of their stupidity. It has also shown up that those who have too much connection with State can be controlled, suppressed and frightened into doing some very dangerous damage to themselves and society. The lesson we must learn is break up the State, smaller government, leaner councils, lower taxes and… Read more »
Oh dear – you spoiled it by riding a knackered hobby horse at the end.
You gullibles really believe simply that smaller local authoritarianism and low taxation is the solution to this?
How naive. It’s already disproved.
That is an irrelevant hobby horse
Just a reminder, it’s not about a virus.
Bibble
No tests, no masks no jab!
No!
Mass testing of asymptomatic people is guaranteed to produce more false positives than actual cases.
Who are the twats who keep getting tested?
God no. We’ve been supplied with some by kid’s school for use over Easter and half term, even though we’ve refused consent for testing at school. So that was a waste of another few quid, giving us tests we’ll never use. A microcosm of the sunk costs fallacy. Whilst I understand that some employees are in a tricky position and feel they have to take them if they want to keep their jobs, I can’t even begin to understand why a parent would consent to testing their kids.
Toby , Toby , com’on .
Boris is going to do the covid oke koki until he is told to stop, then he thinks he’ll be made a hero by Building Back Better.
try and keep up.
by the way spend more time talking to James , all the rest are converts to the cause. But you know that already.
If I see much more of that word ”allowed”…….
but you’re not allowed to. 🙂
(see “The Scouring Of The Shire” for a good example of horrible, mean, pettifogging rules telling you what you can and can’t do).
Johnson bottled it from day 1 Toby, along with pharma-puppet chums.
The result has been over a year of unprecedented over-reaction, unjustified imprisonment, unnecessary economic collapse, NHS collapse, deprivation of what had been inalienable civil rights, arbitrary uncontested ministerial decrees (including harmful mask wearing) and educational rationing (to name but a few), all backed up with truncheon led state violence and day to day cronyism on a scale that still eludes most people to even contemplate.
Now we go onto the mandatory dishing out of experimental phase 3 gene therapy (already causing 1:44,000 deaths per jab, as well as literally hundreds of thousands of ADRs), and all without Big Pharma being liable.
What sort of bizarre inhuman values are operating here – or is this site deliberately to attract the sceptics only to convert them to compliant Big State orthodoxy?
Never.
I thought he was going to bottle it later this month when he updates us on our (non)freedom day of June 21st.
June 21st we won’t get there!
Well said
We come here to discuss the “news”. We don’t write it ourselves.
Kind of agree with SweetBaby here.
Because the effect is that it produces excellent comments like yours BFF, and now gives us something to get our teeth into. This is the crap being promulgated throughout MSM, we need to know, (keep you enemies closer etc!) and counter it with comments like yours that I specifically come here to read and learn from.
I’m also beginning to think Toby enjoys revving everybody up!?!
Have thought the same regarding your last line.
Great post BFF, thank you. I feel the article is either playing Devil’s advocate or it’s yet another small mistake in the brought forward, and therefore somewhat rushed, great reset agenda. But actually who cares? Because this utterly brilliant business model has generated great wealth for the few perpetrators; so it will happen again, and again, and again.
My god that is a brilliant piece 👍👍👍 I’ve just read this out to my husband. I can’t say anything to that really other than the anger in this country is growing. We all know, (don’t we), that if there are any deaths in clinical trials the trials are stopped immediately. Yet deaths are mounting. I feel sorry for people who are having the jab. We’ve studied the spike protein and what it does to our cells. We are seeing the results and it will continue. God help them all.
Johnson didn’t bottle it. He was bottled. There is an interesting parallel with the 911 event. The US Deep State tried to ram through the US PATRIOT Act, but some politicos and journalists opposed that. Strangely, they were then targeted with military grade anthrax killing some of them and a few bystanders (postpersons). They rapidly changed their minds to support the Act. Johnson came down with something that was called covid, he changed his attitude and the lockdown was implemented.
Yes. It was noticable at one stage he changed.
How can anyone stand the sight of him?
definitely post-watershed stuff these days.
It’s the ‘I’m clenching my fists to demonstrate how intensely sincere I am’ bit I can’t stand. They all do it nowadays but he is particularly annoying.
Not much of a clench though, is it? Looks like he has no power in his hands. Looks the kind of clench a very small child would make.
Utter twat
They’re not ‘new freedoms’ you son of a fucking bitch. They’re normal parts of life that you have removed from the populace.
Fuck you, fuck you and all your ‘experts’. Fuck you and all your government. Fuck you and all the brain dead sheep that have kow-towed to your mind manipulations. Fuck you and the msm. Fuck you and ‘social’ media. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
Some of us are edging ever closer to… the last exit for the lost.
Well said think that speaks for a lot of us, angry – moi?!
Get it off your chest I must say that 50 times a day fuck them all!
I wish I’d written that. Well done!
Sadly, although I still and will always respect Toby for having given us this haven of relative sanity, I must say this post really demonstrates how Toby has ended up entangled in the weeds ever since he went for “vaccines will make you free”.
Toby seems in some sort of denial (he can’t plead ignorance since he speaks regularly to Delingpole). He wants Johnson to be the bumbling but essentially freedom-loving fool of his imagination. Its absurd – it doesn’t match with the reality which is that this government is intent on introducing Digital Compliance ID (aka vaccine passporting).
I think Boris is freedom loving. Certainly considers himself free from constraints posed by, for example, marriage vows anyway.
But I think he loves money more. Or needs money more. And the through the digital ID he can see the opportunity to make himself a quick buck through the sale of data, and he’ll gladly force people to give up autonomy and freedom to enrich himself. As long as he can carry on being free to do what HE wants, he doesn’t give a shit.
Spot on!!
He needs plenty of brass for all the child support he has to pay (probably).
Excellent I’ve more or less said that in another reply. He’s being directed told what to do.
Excellent I’ve more or less said that in another reply. He’s being directed told what to do. Oh crikey what did we do I wish I’d never voted.
He wants to be a great pm, remembered by history. And, sadly, the elections told him that Sage has led him to success.
Why change course?
So, basically, he’s a slave.
Perhaps he’s just been spoken to.
Good old Sir Graham Brady – deserves to be PM!
I do like him I just wish he’d show a bit more energy.
Yes, I like him. Desmond Swayne seems to have gone quiet, unless I’ve missed anything he’s said since being injected. The picture of him being injected made me feel sad. He looked so unkempt.
I still can’t reconcile though, how they rail at the government’s imposition on our liberty and freedom yet advocate the injections aka shite in a syringe…
The observation “Boris holds his nerve” is ludicrous. FFS, how many times have we heard brave statements from our spineless PM, only for him to come shuffling back a day or two later with yet more restrictions. Trust absolutely nothing this pathetic creature tells you. If he told me the time I’d ask for a second opinion.
Yeah, the public need a small break before the wave of inflation comes and wipes everyone out. Then you can see what this was really all about:
“You will own nothing and you will be happy.”
We are heading for a totalitarian way of life have another jab until the entire population, or almost are reliant on drugs. Fantastic making lots of people very very wealthy. The sadness is that these elites are not interested in the human race. Only themselves. Same as Boris he has only ever thought about Boris. Shame on him. I’m disgusted does not explain how I feel.
Toby Dung full of cuck again. Boris holds his nerve against SAGE is the headline they want the sheep to latch onto. Partially out of lockdown and into another full lockdown in September/October is the plan. Save the whale. Save the planet. Save the young fanny. Anything for a quiet life, an easy life. Decisions made by others. Easy. And continued access to Carrie’s young fanny. Men like Boris will do anything for sex and money, including fucking up the country and taking bungs.
I completely agree with you Boris is a vessel of emptiness he has not got the British peoples interest at heart and neither have the others. It is very dark and sinister we all know that.
Believe me, the globalists will not reverse their reset now. They know too many people are ready to hand over complete control of their lives to an enemy. 40 years of EU bureaucracy has broken the ability of UK politicians and Civil Service to govern with confidence.
Does anyone with a fully functioning brain believe anything that comes from Govt any more?
Hard to believe Toby thinks Boris actually has a spine !!!!
One word “BOLLOCKS”
Our Liberty is not his to allow or disallow, just remember that!
Is it me or should LS be renamed “Vaccine Daily”?
On arriving at the holiday flat the owner was horrified to learn we had not downloaded the NHS app! 😵😵😵 Never mind eh!
YouGov: one in five men reckon they could beat a chimpanzee in a fight and one in ten reckon they could beat a gorilla or crocodile. Nearly one in ten men believe they could take on a brown grizzly bear.
These are the people who take the YouGov surveys that help convince Bunter the dictator to keep us locked down.
That’s actually funny on this Monday morning.
Compare the analysis in the article below with the absolute tosh above. Any half decent ‘sceptic’ should be coming to the same conclusion.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/delay-re-opening-we-saw-that-coming/
Thanks for the link and I see what you mean; the contrast is startling. I have previously had an instinct not to read articles on this site showing pictures of the PM or giving facts about the vaccine, I’m sure you understand why. But some of the posts this morning made me do it, and indeed it seems that the “critical editorials” are actually spouting the government line.
He can make as many rules as he likes. I am a free agent in a democratic society and will do what I like!
Boris “holding his nerve’. Lets leave it a few days. How many times in the past has he allowed himself to be bounced into further crackdowns by his in house team of crackpots?
Just one tiny point.
He’s still saying: “Hands, Face, Space”. And yet we know from a kosher source that the chance of getting the virus through touch is less than one in 10,000. That study is available on the internet and has been in mainstream news.
The very rare chance would be somewhere like hospital, dealing with the secretions or bedpans of currently sick patients.
And yet Boris is still lying openly to his people on this.
Still making businesses buy cleansers.
Still forcing the theatre of hand washing.
Still unchallenged by reporters.
Lying.
The Government has known Hands was a lie since last May.
If a man speaks an obvious lie in one part of his speech, how can you trust anything else he says? Would you buy a used car from a man who lied about the mileage when the tachometer hadn’t even been changed and you could read it for yourself?
Boris is a man of lies. Made of lies.
Unfortunately it’s basically all lies. Hands – lie. Face – lie. Space – lie. Fresh air I will accept.
Articles like this that may explain why Dr. Vernon Coleman, who gives a string of sites to visit at the end of his arm chair talks, doesn’t mention Lockdownsceptics. At best it’s complete crap, but it could be worse than that. Eitherway, it’s certainly misguided and would be more at place in the Daily Mail. BTW the article this morning about vaccines beating the Indian thingy is the same.
This reminds me of 1984, where the chocolate ration was reduced then a few days later there were marches thanking Big Brother for the increase in the chocolate ration.
So Big Boris has taken our freedoms away and now we have to be thankful because he’s given us a minuscule amount back. (No doubt he’ll be taking those back and much more in the near future).
SARS-CoV-2 is now endemic, just like it’s sibling, the common cold virus.
“I urge everyone to be cautious and take responsibility when enjoying new freedoms today in order to keep the virus at bay.”
And ‘new freedoms’ can always be revoked. So, for your own good, don’t go breaking the rules of your parole.
Good point. It needs to be constantly emphasized that these aren’t ‘new freedoms’ – they are basic entitlements.
Who is taking any notice of Johnson crap? Hands up!
One thing thats sure to get the young men to roll up their sleeve is the new report out that C19 causes ED problems. Suppose big Pharma has got us both ways now. I can just imagine the new TV ads . . . “From a Boner to Corona Pfizer is there for life’s little emergencies” “Free Pill given with every jab”
It’s just a little prick for a little prick
Boris holds his nerve – don’t make me laugh!