Confusion Over Reported Plans for October ‘Firebreak’ Lockdown
There is some confusion today on recent reports that the Government is planning a potential October ‘firebreak’ lockdown. A senior Government scientist told the i that an “extended peak” of Covid ‘cases’ and hospitalisations could push ministers to impose another lockdown next month, but BBC News today quotes from both the Department for Education (DfE) and the Prime Minister’s spokesman who have denied this report.
“It is not true that the Government is planning a lockdown or ‘firebreak’ around the October half term,” [the DfE] said in a tweet.
The Prime Minister’s spokesman also denied the report. He said plans had been kept for a range of scenarios – “but these kind of measures would only be reintroduced as a last resort to prevent unsustainable pressure on our NHS”.
“I think we’ve been clear throughout that we will take action, and indeed we have done when necessary to protect our NHS,” he said.
But the spokesman pointed out that when rules were brought in the past, the U.K. did not yet have the protection from vaccines.
Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has, however, been a little less clear in his denial of reports. He is reported in Sky News as saying that we can “continue on this sort of one-way road” towards reopening “if we do [the booster vaccine roll-out] well” (emphasis added).
Speaking to Kay Burley on Sky News, Mr. Zahawi did not confirm or deny whether he would endorse an October ‘firebreak’ if hospitalisations for Covid remain high. …
He added: “So the booster programme that we have had interim advice from the JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] on is my absolute priority.
“That will protect the most vulnerable to serious infection – that will absolutely help us to transition the virus from pandemic to endemic status.
“The important thing is that we get that right, because I think if we do that well, we can continue on this sort of one-way road towards sustaining the opening of the economy and, by next year hopefully, transitioning the virus from pandemic to endemic and dealing with it on an annual basis.”
Later during his Tuesday morning broadcast media round, Mr. Zahawi added that he had seen no plans for an October ‘firebreak’ lockdown if cases rise this autumn.
It is worth noting that, on the basis of the impending introduction of vaccine passports despite Zahawi’s previous claims to the contrary, an October lockdown could be on the cards even if the Vaccines Minister had ruled one out.
The BBC News and Sky News reports are both worth reading in full.
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I don’t know about you, but I’m not intending to stay in my house in the autumn.
Same here. I’ll be going to ‘work’.
I’ll be exercising, shopping, getting some fresh air etc. I believe the general term for the activities I plan to undertake is ‘living’!
The law is an ass. Especially lockdown law.
If enough people unite in noncompliance the law is irrelevant too. The more it tries to crush everyone the less it can plausibly threaten anyone, there has never been a time so good as lockdowns to refuse to pay fines. Covid cannot collapse the NHS, although lockdowns do a pretty good job of that, but defiance can collapse the law. And if they try a lockdown this autumn, or vaccine passports, it will be collapsed.
I don’t think you got the meaning of my post!
I saw your use of the inverted commas… I was just adding my two cents and probably should have replied directly to snoozle.
My dog says we’ll be going for our usual walks, three times a day, one of which will be around two hours. Just like all the other lockdowns I will continue to ignore all restrictions that can be ignored. No tests, no masks and no genocidal “vaccines” remain my watchwords. Resistance is of course vital, if we are to survive what is bound to be an intensifying slaughter.
I’ll be going to ‘mind your own business’.
I’ll be “exercising”, exercising my right to protest and seeing about exorcising our parliament of this crooked regime.
During the last lockdown, we discovered that the KFCs on the M6 in service stations were open and there were indoor tables. It’s not my prefered restaurant, but it felt so normal to be eating a restaurant that I took my family a few times.
I realise that my local branch of The Range was open because it has an Iceland concession in store. I had several pleasant morning browsing their very large store …. and then bought some frozen prawns.
I’ll carry on as normal, but my children need the schools to be open
And that’s likely to be the problem. A casedemic, bubbles sent home – all to promote The Great Sting for children. I will give free help and tutoring to those in my area who withdraw children from school to protect them.
I’m also a tutor and am also offering free sessions in the daytime if the parents of my after-school students decide that their children will be having a short break from school….
It’s supposedly the half-term break plus a week, but they’ve lied so many times, I’d double-check if they told me the time.
Fucking right.
I’ll go stand on a hill till they drag me away if I have to.
I’ll be out and about too- socialising, horse riding, just going about my business as normal.
“both the Department for Education (DfE) and the Prime Minister’s spokesman who have denied this report.”
Rumours are only ever true once they’ve been denied by an official spokesman.
”There are no plans for another lockdown.”
Yes, let’s get ready for the inevitable lockdown.
They haven’t told the truth since the start, no one with a brain would place any trust in these sadists.
Based on the “No we all not raise taxes – lot at our manifesto) debacle.its a racing certainty
Is this firebreak only 3 weeks to flatten the casedemic curve?
Boris needs to get FIRED, this is all the country needs to return to health.
yes but Big Pharma wont fire him, he’s doing a great job
Big Pharma and the eugenicist Bill Gates just love eugenist Boris.
Probably the best example of this in the whole shitshow (so far) was last January with schools – repeatedly insisting it was “safe” to open them, open for a day, then suddently it wasn’t “safe” and they had to close. Can quite see a repeat of this happening.
Yeh yeh yeh. But he actually got elected!
By default.
He shouldn’t count on it next election. He’s peed off too many of his voters, i.e. the ones that only voted Tory because they liked the other parties even less.
Most elections are like that – it doesn’t counter the fact that he was elected.
To be honest – and as a consistent Labour voter – I can’t relish the weasely Starmer replacing him as the resident establishment floating turd in No.10, either. And that’s by far the most likely alternative outcome – you can forget any revolutionary thinking, given that there has been absolutely no indication of a will to kick against the pricks.
I certainly wouldn’t trust any popular judgment, either, given the recent record. It’s a sad state of affairs.
I was a Labour voter until Tony Blair. What a set of arseholes politicians are.
Not all politicians; not always. As I’ve written before – I saw a major decline in quality over 3 generations of MPs in one constituency – all of whom I knew personally.
I’ve always had a simple litmus test about character : Who would you trust if you were in the trenches? Between the 1970s and the early 2000s, I would have trusted the two MPs who represented the constituency. They were loyal, of different persuasions, but their own people. One was a Whip of legend, and of the right, the other someone who was willing to put his Select Committee chairmanship on the line over matters of principle, and was of the broad left.
The one who took over under the manipulative Blair regime was an Islington tourist. ‘Nuff said.
But, even in those drought years of neoliberal Blair et al.,things were never as bad as this, where the main aim of Starmer has been to keep the world safe for dangerous establishment interests by turning the Labour Party into an empty momochrome shell.
There are very few now that’s for sure.
Yes it attracts the worst of society.
Starmer is another globalist puppet. The only answer is to send the lot packing. MPs are also very much part of the problem. Cowardly MPs ought be getting very nervous, as they won’t get the protection given to ministers and they will be easy prey for the inevitably very angry hordes.
A Great Rest of the people.
Use technology to provide more democracy and freedom. Tempted to say clean the swamp! 😮
I wouldn’t count on the electorate and if the polls gave an indication that an outsider could win they would rig them.
Johnson or Starmer, now that’s some choice. They should both be in jail.
Yeah and the choice now is him or plastic facemask starmer? Starmer will be worse, part of the trilateral commission, he would have us locked up at home like they are doing in Australia right now.
The entire cabinet needs to be fired, permanently.
As someone else put it in a different context: I think they’re poisonous enough that they should be safely incinerated.
Every family member of the 1,600 (or 16,000?) vax victims should get to jab the politician of their choosing with the vax of their choosing.
That would bring us a lot closer to justice…
That is a splendid idea. 2 shots + boosters 🙂
And what do the families of all of the lockdown victims get to do? Because that number is in the hundreds of thousands.
Yes indeed, burnt at the stake, I like the sound of that.
Perhaps Mr Musk should reverse his plan to sustain humanity – send the politicians and bureaucrats to Mars and we stay here.
Douglas Adams (a sad loss too young) laid the seed with that idea with the Golgafrincham B ark. Except the law of unintended consequences caught them out – which is happening a LOT with restrictions. Interesting that the rest of the population left died due to a bug caught from an unsanitised telephone 🙂
It won’t help firing just Boris. The institutions are captured and that includes both partys. This runs very deep.
Not just Boris needs firing (and to be put on trial once sacked too), also every Tory MP who did not join the CRG, every Labour MP who failed to sign up to Big Brother Watch’s StopVaccinePassports pledge…
Liar, liar, pants on fire? Expect the opposite to whatever these charlatans say.
Time for Reclaim & Reform UK to ready their civil disobedience campaigns in my opinion. We need figure heads to swell our numbers.
Time for them to resolve any differences and merge. We can’t have the opposition to this fascism split.
I’m signed up to both, I’d just like them to sign up to each other, and form some deals with David Kurten whilst at it.
And how I wish they, and other organisations like Big Brother Watch who are on our side, would actually start some disobedience campaigns rather than keep trying to play the rigged games of politics, media and legal proceedings.
Here’s a conspiracy theory….
The early vaxxed will start getting ill and even dying in the autumn due to vaccine related ADE.
The media, sage, bill gates (and therefore the government) will all blame the unvaccinated and a witch hunt will ensue
The country will lockdown because that is not an effective treatment for ADE or anything else – but is an excellent tonic for stupid people
good luck peeps….
with 15 or so vaccines I’d be surprised if at least some of them didn’t have ADE issues
if it did happen maybe they’ll let all the previously infected out and lock up all the vaccinated?
not sure about the vaccinated after having previously been naturally infected – maybe let out on Sundays?
I expect ALL 15 of them to cause ADE! They’d be bucking the trend observed for every previous attempt of a coronavirus vaccine candidate if they didn’t!
Thing is – in terms of popular perceptions (i.e. not in the context of normal test data analysis), dangerous side effects will be relatively rare, and will not impact much on those perceptions if they are under-reported anyway.
Note that the fact of no bodies in the streets has not broken through that wall of popular (propagandised) perception, and a large proportion of the populace have not added 2+2 to make 4. Too many are still scared shitless.
Further – you can bet that everything will be attributed to the virulence of ‘Covid’. Thus blithe acceptance of control measures.
Makes me sad and disappointed that you speak the truth.
”if it did happen maybe they’ll let all the previously infected out and lock up all the vaccinated?”
that would involve admitting that the vaccines are the cause of the problem, I have little faith in that.
As a healthy, unvaccinated disease vector, I will take my share of the blame. Guilty, until proved innocent, innit?
“As a healthy, unvaccinated undiseased vector”
The only bad thing about this will be stumbling over the corpses of the gullible as I walk my dog.
Unfortunately, there is high probability you are correct. Reminiscent of Germany in the 30s?
The important thing is that we get that right, because I think if we do that well, we can continue on this sort of one-way road towards sustaining the opening of the economy and, by next year hopefully, transitioning the virus from pandemic to endemic and dealing with it on an annual basis.”
does he mean annual winter lockdowns?
Bingo! Your guaranteed method of ‘dealing’ with the scary virus for the years 2020–2030 while the ‘new normal’ structures are put in place. After that you’ll get to stay at home for an entirely different reason (i.e. to save the climate) and by then you’ll know when you’ll be allowed out in your electric car within a 5 mile radius of home because your government social credit score app will flash green once you’ve complied with all the latest unnecessary medical interventions, have eaten your 5-a-day vegan/meat substitute alternatives to real food and completed all your compulsory yoga exercises. Coming to a planet near you courtesy of the cuddly global elites…
And they won’t even need to impose the Telescreens on a lot of the population in order to keep an eye on them – they’ve already gone out and voluntarily bought them from a large online retailer…
The only saving grace is that they intend for most if not quite all of us to be dead well before 2030. Likely that will be eminently preferable.
And if he hasn’t realised that the virus has long since become endemic then there’s little chance that he will realise this in future – if it was ever a pandemic (which is certainly questionable) it hasn’t been for probably at least a year now.
The virus is a smokescreen.
What he’s alluding to is probably flu-style annual vaccination campaigns. But that’s just a statement for the press and to me, the only real content seems to be We’re not going to accept living with endemic COVID this year.
Just another three weeks to flatten the population.
Annual winter lockdowns and six-monthly jabs.
He means collapse the economy, impoverish the public so that they beg for the reset and happily give up their homes for a cell in the city – a portion of those that are productive at least. The unproductive can look forward to an early grave.
Regarding Fires I think tatty Yellow wigs will sell well before november 5th when we celebrate the only honest person to enter parliament.
Zahawi is full of BS and empty words. About as trustworthy as the Taliban, and as lethal as a Black Mamba.
Oh … I think the Taliban are far more trustworthy. They do what is says on the tin.
You mean, they’re already known to be untrustworthy lying, violent bstds?
No – completely reliable, honest violent bastards. It’s the western powers that have done the untrustworthy, lying bit!
I notice the Taliban are learning from us and pretending to be nice while they pick out their victims.
The Taliban have got their hands on a lot of the surveillance kit the US left behind, and China is supplying them too. I bet the media won’t report the full scale of what those thugs will do with it though, they don’t want people starting to realise the consequences those systems cause when the bad people start using them as well as the (supposedly) “good” people.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-chile-authorizes-sinovac-vaccine-kids.html
Chile wants to jab kids despite CFR of 0.2%!??!
Well this isn’t a surprise but it won’t make the problem any better. The government and media think in only one way . On the “front line ” in the health service August has been very difficult for anyone who is unwell.and needs hospital treatment. Despite ( or because ? ) of the vaccination program the number of Covid patients on wards is 10 x what it was last August. The Out of hours service offered by 111 has collapsed ( is the media interested in this story ? ) and kids with temperatures are only seen in A and E .. The average wait time to be seen in A and E if you have a kid with a temperature who might or might not need antibiotics is 7-8 hours.
If you need a new hip or knee , and are in pain you will be put on a routine waiting list and provisionally booked for end of 2022. Many care homes now run on empty at present, they will be loosing staff soon due to mandatory jabs which clogs up the hospitals . Do you remember when it was 2 weeks to flatten the curve ?
Yes. It was completely absurd – insane – to think that you could massively diminish a year’s capacity in the under-resourced health services and expect no knock-on consequences.
Whether another locked down is really planned or just one of Chris Whitty’s wet dreams, the ‘leaked report’ clearly had a purpose behind it and I’d lay money on it being further coercion to receive further drugs that the government still claims are ‘COVID-19 vaccines.’
I suspect the forthcoming lockdown will only be for the unvaxxed.
This household will be ignoring. Millions more will be too.
Yes but you can’t ignore closed shops, gyms, and schools
Bear in mind they ‘denied’ vaccine passports were being considered, that no more lockdowns after the June/July reopening – period, that the Emergency COVID Powers would only need one extension until September, that (originally) only the vulnerable would be vaccinated (and only once), the just the over 60s, then over 40s, then over 18s, then not 16-17yo’s, then certainly not 12-15 year olds, no boosters needed, that fully vaccinated would then be essentially safe and thus that’s why kids don’t need to be vaccinated OR masked or tested and sent home if ‘positive’ despite not being unwell.
They are now saying no vaccine passports for pubs, cinemas, restaurants, etc. My bet is them cancelling Christmas again. The Great Reset (to 2020) is here. It MUST be resisted with everything we have, and exposed for what it is.
Before they cancel Christmas (which I agree they probably will) they will widen the Vaxports to all hospitality venues (possibly non-essential retail as well), and when this makes no difference to the manufactured casedemic (which it won’t, and won’t be intended to) they will cancel Christmas and blame the unvaccinated / people who don’t ‘follow the rules’ / schools / whoever else they want to have a go at that week.
Well two options based on previous experience. Either he’s flat out lying or just lying by omission – ie it’s end of October not the half term.
This story suggests to me that SAGE is planning a further lockdown. Of course, SAGE has effectively taken over the government, so I would think a “firebreak” in October is very much on the cards, regardless of what the Prime Minister’s spokesman says.
Exactly. Poor Boris still thinks he’s “sort of” in charge. He hasn’t even clocked the agenda. His views on what will happen are immaterial. Ruthless and co will appear mid Sept with the modelling and explain his orders, and he will comply because he will imagine it is best for him.
I do hope Carrie has not had the Great Sting. It seems very sad to put a child at risk for Boris’s PR team and because the mother is terminally naive.
If by the – Great Sting – you mean the clotshot I would suggest that if you think any of TPTB and their families have had anything other than saline shot into them you’re quite naive.
Time will tell (potentially very soon) when ADE kicks in big time with the onset of respiratory season, we’ll see how many of them succumb!
Indeed – and Boris has had 3 jabs, hasn’t he? Doesn’t anyone think that’s strange?
Plus he supposedly had a whacking dose of the original virus.
Allegedly.
Some are not as important as they think they are.
Oh, I bloody hope she’s had the sting.
Especially as Wales demonstrated that it’s utterly futile!
But with all of this, if it doesn’t work it’s because of those not “following the rules”, or because it’s not draconian enough, of course. It’s defintely not because it simply doens’t make any difference.
And in any case, on previous experience we know that they will just keep extending it, probably for the whole winter. They’ve clearly not learnt anything from the fact that “cases” declined rapidly after th removal of muzzle law in July (despite Pantsdown’s predictions), or from comparisons between Florida and California (or any other similar pairings).
It’s as if cloth with holes 500 times bigger than a virus fails to prevent viral transmission through it!??
How much did the government or SAGE bribe the paper to say that?
Double-bluff. Set up so that the government can justify their actions either way. “Remember e said there would be no October lockdown” or “remember the i said we’d made plans for one”.
We just don’t know who we can trust any more.
More seriously, I would have thought that if a lockdown was on the cards, the fear propaganda would be back in place by now.
Meanwhile, people will be thinking “oh, I’d better get my kids jabbed, just in case it prevents this…”
they all lie constantly – its not worth listening to them at all. better off reading tea-leaves
“We just don’t know who we can trust any more.”
If it’s a poltician or one of their many “expert” acolytes, it’s safest to assume that they are probably lying unless there is strong evidence to the contrary.
There are a few exceptions, but not many and most on here will already know who the few trustworthy ones are.
“I would have thought that if a lockdown was on the cards, the fear propaganda would be back in place by now.”
It still is in place – ready to be ramped up on a whim. Nothing much has changed in this world of the ever-present ‘pandemic’.
“I never believe anything until it has been officially denied.” (Peter Hitchens)
It was originally attributed to Claud Cockburn
If it was Hitchens who said that, then he would still be waiting for the government to tell us that the “vaccines” don’t work, before indulging himself in the vaccine roulette death challenge. Clearly it wasn’t him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJiTzPkegLg
Tony Blair: The 9/11 Attacks, Two Decades On
Don’t watch Evil miranda, but read the comments.I never liked the obvious phony.
One of the very best 9/11 documentaries, absolutely essential viewing:
War by Deception
https://www.bitchute.com/video/d8E6qLblH0Ib/
Another very important 9/11 clip with Jeffrey Epstein’s friend and associate, former Israeli PM Ehud Barak live on the BBC on 9/11, the first time the world heard the official 9/11 fairytale about men in caves living like nomads bringing down the most heavily funded military machine in human history:
Ehud Barak September 11 interview London UK 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tbxYWKtYWM
The Saudis don’t live in caves.
And flying a commercial plane into a very tall building after being trained to fly commercial planes by the U.S. doesn’t stretch credulity.
And the Afghans, some of whom do, have defeated all attempts to conquer them for more than 100 years, i.e., the British, the Russians, the U.S. and its allies.
This is a poor effort at distracting from the incredibly important information I shared. The kind of bullshit the moron majority sucked up at the time – “why would they attack their own people?” etc. Please, FO.
Like how they have it on the front page of the ‘i’ (9th letter of the alphabet, they believe 9 is Satan’s number, masonic eye etc). They have a sense of humour at Whitehall / MI5. The joke is on the spineless UK population as ever.
“Firebreak lockdown.” LOL! Because they worked so well wherever they have been implemented before. By the way, I thought the vaccines were the way out of this pandemic?
“I thought the vaccines were the way out of this pandemic?”
Aren’t they? I mean – did I miss something? 🙂
Just about to say that. Like Wales last year.
Don’t expect a stupid, dopey old tw@t like Drakeford to notice they don’t work.
As previously said : “No plans” : the oldest double-speak in the dictionary.
Hospitalisations are not particularly high at the moment and they seem to be barely rising. I don’t know what the panic is about.
The virus is coming! The virus is coming!
Now the Mu variant is out to get you! Get back into your homes, seal the doors and windows! I’m not joking, this one is ‘vaccine resistant’!
Almost as if predicted.
“It is not true that the Government is planning a lockdown or ‘firebreak’ around the October half term,”
So its definitely on then.
You gotta love journalists’ bare-faced hypocrisy on so much these days – many in the Telegraph who were avid lockdown and spend huge amounts of money we don’t have on COVID response, green issues, HS2, etc, etc are now changin their tune and pretending they were against X or Y bad policy all along, now that slowly but surely, public sentiment is turning against them.
The latest is (IMHO) Associate Editor and one-time wannabe Boris’ spokesperson (no bad loser syndrome there then) Camilla Tominey, who now has a go at Boris & Co in every article she submits, it appears.
I recall the Camilla from 2015 onwards and especially last year that was cheering for their draconian lockdown policies and where the swathes of criticism from readers was regularly deleted from the BLT Comments areas, ending up with them being absent for the most part.
It appears she’s seen which way the wind is blowing and has ‘converted’, Damascus-like, to our side of the fence. Does anyone else not believe a word she and her ilk say? What she previously said and, more importantly, HOW she said it, can’t be unsaid.
‘Does anyone else not believe a word she and her ilk say? What she previously said and, more importantly, HOW she said it, can’t be unsaid.’
Indeed – I’m somehow reminded of the scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in which Tuco (after having tortured Blondie almost to death by dragging him over a desert before realising he has the location of the treasure) tells a recuperating Blondie that he was responsible for saving him, ‘You’re just lucky I was there when it … happened’!
We won’t mention the blanket anti-Trump sentiment expressed in multiple Telegraph articles, no reader comments allowed. They cheered on Biden as a return to normal. Now they act surprised and disappointed at how much of a mess he’s made of the US and foreign policy.
Thing is – Biden being a senile idiot doesn’t make the Fart a sensible alternative. False logic.
Lockdown: The cruelty is the point – The Conservative Woman
.. So, Laura perrins hit the nail on the head back in February. Not just the cruelty, but the whole polemic/shitshow/scamdemic/fraudulent scenario – however you want to look at it. Confusion rules !! It’s all about the pain. The vagueness. Oh, fuck, what will they do next.? what do they mean ?? Are we allowed to do that.? Can I come out of the cupboard, now sweetie? Oh gosh, what’s silly old Boris down now? Shouldn’t those slightly mad types at ‘sage’ [who’re holding the poor government to ransom], just let us all out now, hmm !? Simply part of the illusion and the blatant manipulation of emotions. It’s engineered to maim, hurt and cause mayhem. The shit being played out in Oz, is a great example !! All fun and games, until someone loses an Eye !!
Please shut up about an October ‘Firebreak’, it only encourages Johnson the Morlock.
Personally, I have plans for that month and if I am thwarted I will be suing Johnson and co.
I see that the eccentric early 90`s “stadium dance” band The KLF are making a comeback this autumn – Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Mu Mu…
If you follow the reference and the symbolism The KLF were warning us about these parasites!
Dr Christian Vélot: Lecturer in Molecular genetic at Paris-Sud university: “it is possible the unvaxxed are protecting the rest of the community by stopping a new variant from appearing.”
https://twitter.com/Arwenstar/status/1434951148465762309
FOIA Release: Fauci Funded Construction Of ‘Chimeric Coronaviruses’ In Wuhanhttps://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/massive-foia-release-proves-fauci-funded-wuhan-research-construct-sars-related