Brexit Minister Resigns in Protest of ‘Plan B’ Restrictions
Lord Frost has resigned from the Cabinet following the Government’s decision to introduce ‘Plan B’ restrictions. Writing to the Prime Minister, Frost accused Boris Johnson of breaking his promise to ensure that the re-opening of the country during the summer months was “irreversible”. The Telegraph has more.
Lord Frost quit the Cabinet on Saturday night over concerns about Boris Johnson’s Covid curbs and the Government’s “direction of travel”, as the Prime Minister considered calls for a third national lockdown beginning as soon as this week.
The Cabinet Office minister, who was leading Johnson’s post-Brexit negotiations with the European Union, resigned over the Government’s ‘Plan B’ Covid measures, having held private concerns for months about Covid restrictions and the Government’s economic policy, including its planned National Insurance hike.
In his resignation letter, Frost reminded Johnson of his pledge that the lifting of restrictions in the summer would be “irreversible”. He also urged the Prime Minister to “deliver on the opportunities” of Brexit by moving “as fast as possible” to “a lightly regulated, low-tax, entrepreneurial economy”.
The resignation of such a close ally creates a major new crisis for the Prime Minister. His concerns about the direction of the Government echo the views of many Tory backbenchers.
One senior Tory backbencher said: “The trouble is Frost speaks for the party. This is the beginning of the end.” A senior minister said they were not at all surprised at Lord Frost quitting the Cabinet, adding: “I know he opposed ‘Plan B’. The Prime Minister’s supporters are the ones who are least keen on the restrictions. The ones who want to undermine him want the restrictions. Frost going just proves that.”
Frost initially offered to resign earlier this month over Plan B, and had been persuaded to stay on until the New Year. He quit with immediate effect on Saturday night after news of his resignation leaked.
Frost’s resignation emerged as the Prime Minister was weighing up a “sliding scale” of new Covid restrictions, with Sajid Javid warning that ministers may have to introduce new measures on the basis of “early and patchy” data.
As the Government’s scientific advisers called for an “immediate” curtailment of indoor mixing to combat the spread of omicron, the Prime Minister was considering a range of potential measures, from new guidance on restricting social contact, to a third national lockdown.
Frost, a former adviser to Johnson during the Prime Minister’s time as Foreign Secretary, was among a series of Cabinet members opposed to new restrictions.
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Johnson is a globalist stooge hellbent on destroying his country on orders of shadowy figures at davos. Frost is astute enough to see the writing on the wall for this doomed administration which is a stain on the history of this island. More resignations to come if these idiots inflict us with plan c.
Even if Johnson and his whole administration goes, a carbon copy will be installed in its place. It will be done in the same way Johnson was installed when May was exposed as the globalist stooge she was. Portray the chosen one as the next Churchill. Get him or her to say all the right things on Europe, immigration and economic prudence. Get the lemmings to fall for it all over again. Once in power the new administation ignores all its promises and continues the Agenda 21/30, Net Zero, Great Reset agenda. Rinse and repeat. Its been done for generations. Its how we are where we are, but the stakes are much higher now. There are some very dark days ahead.
It is likely to be worse than a carbon copy – could well end up with some militant Covidian as PM.
Would the nation tolerate Gove? Or would his friend Blair make a bid for power backed by the jobsworth Covid Communist Johnson Tories and Starmer’s cowardly rabble? After all we know there are now only 100 “Conservatives” in Parliament!
Blair could rule from the Lords, where most of his Cronies are.
Yes as with Davos “placeman” Hancock, shuffled aside over an ‘affair’ to take the heat off his midazolam purchase and use in Care Homes, Johnson will simply be shuffled aside with guff about family pressures .illness ‘overwork'(sic) etc etc.
Our great fear must be the double-down evil replacement they will fix to put in his place – plenty to choose from in the Cabal.
It might have only taken him 2 years to realise, but I suppose at least he got there in the end
Johnson and his Banker family have been ‘close’ to Gates for years – they share a keen interest in eugenics.
Gates and Fauci formed an alliance to pursue their common interest .in “vaccines” in 2000 . We see the results all around us.
Good man.
Clearly totally exasperated by the Tories failure to tell the EU to take a hike.
Fascinating too how the climate-obsessed Telegraph manages to bury Frost’s objection to Johnson’s Carbon Zero madness.
The Carbon zero bit was mentioned on the BBC though! Is that a breakthrough?
More like a typo
Who any longer reads the ” Daily Gates Telegraph”?
The quislings of the disgrace which is supposedly the “National Broadcaster” could scarcely conceal their glee when reporting the hopes of the EU for a namby-pamby to take over from Frost. That piece was followed by the news that Jerry, along with Johnny Frog, is banning UK business and pleasure travellers to their new fascist (or is it Stalinist?) Reich.
The British used to spend v large sums on holiday in Europe – if that is spent here instead it is all to the good.
This is a minor resignation since he was going in January, though a good start. We need some key Cabinet figures to resign. I’ve given up any hope of Jacob RM finding a moral compass. Any bets on the most likely to go next?
Rishi needs to disassociate himself if he wants to be PM.
Yeah, what the eff happened with Mogg? He looked like exceptional quality a few years back.
I believe from an interview I saw of him that he said he could never be PM due to his religious beliefs.
He worships the God Money!
He also has Etonian contempt for everyone else.
What utter shite.
Marxist shite at that.
In fact, JRM has no convictions of note, as his acquiescence to communism shows.
Your post doesn’t differentiate between earned money and looted money.
Money Bags Mogg knows where his bread is truffle buttered!
Stop watching the BBC – is it a masochistic addiction?
GBNews is trying very hard to be brave in the face of disgraceful Ofcom censorship of vaccine ineffectiveness and deaths ! It needs 100% support.
he is NOT quitting over vaccines or boosters.
I imagine there are an awful lot of things he is not quitting over. Not mentioning them doesn’t mean he supports them.
He’s apparently not quitting over the price of sherbet dabs or dental floss either – at least he didn’t mention them…
Does that matter?
No – just “Covid Policy”
Well if you want a replacement prime minister, there you have one.
Somebody who understands Brexit and has principles.
Perhaps it’s time that somebody succeeded the Marquis of Salisbury as the last PM to lead the government from the Lords.
careful what you wish for, let hope we don’t get Zahawi, who could make Boris look positively Socialist
https://waketfupweekly.substack.com/p/the-dark-fascist-connections-of-the
Kim Jong Johnson is a great fat communist fraud.
Fascism is a form of socialism, Mussolini’s economic policy was identical to the British Labour party’s theory of guild socialism.
‘Fascism’ was defined by Mussolini as the marriage of Corporatism and the State – seems about right.
He should know – he invented it. The present version has Globalist pretensions but otherwise is much the same (other than the overlay of the eugenics agenda and the fiendish project of Pharma Tyranny over the human body and the manifest evil of ‘transhumanism’ ).
In practice, since guild socialism could not be implemented, Mussolini’s policy was an incomplete version of the theory known as German socialism, a theory formed in the nineteenth century.
We will definitely end up with an ethnic PM but likely not him. I jut pray it isn’t that treacherous arsehole Sunak
There appears to have been a “diversity coup” – and nobody even noticed. Project “Reverse Raj”?
Alec Douglas Home, way back in 1963 was, albeit briefly, the last prime minister to “lead” the country from the House of Lords.
No he wasn’t -he gave up his title before taking office as PM.
He is the only honest man among them – so he has no chance!
I think the wrong person resigned.
Don’t get to excited Now Jeremy Hunt and Nadhim Zahawi jostle for poll position in Tory succession race as MPs openly discuss who they’d back if contest to replace Boris was held tomorrow
Another pair of gormless twats.
Unfortunately, I don’t think they’re gormless….calculating, unpleasant, but not gormless
I think we can all agree they are twats.
I’m with James Naughtie on that one
No – very unpleasant and dangerous to democracy and Human Rights the pair of them. Z founded You Gov and Hunt was on his feet i the H of C demanding the vaccination of children i – both f them Davos/Gates to the core!
Dream tickets (for some people). Two millionaires, both of whom fancy themselves. A failed Health Minister who loves masks, lockdowns and jabbing, and another indescribable individual now wrecking education and addicted to polls and jabbing. A pair of would-be dictators. What’s not to like?
I’m sue Bill George Anthony and Klaus love them both – spoiled for choice in fact!
Oh my god! I thought Gove was the worst case scenario!
Definitely, he would have us all in chains!
Gove – the Regime’s Beria in embryo!
Zahawis connections to Le Circle are rather concerning
https://waketfupweekly.substack.com/p/the-dark-fascist-connections-of-the
Anton Lavey rides again.
Everything about him is concerning.
I say this as someone who hates Labour as well as the Tories: the only person I thought was half decent in running the country of late was Corbyn.
Unfortunately he was a puppet. McDonnell was pulling the strings.
Corbyn is communist scum
Whatever he is (or isn’t), I would rather have had a PM that voted against lockdowns as he did, rather than one who votes for…
You jest, Corbyn was planning to do what Kim Jong Johnson did anyway, Johnson is communist scum precisely because he implemented the agenda of Jeremy Corbyn.
Then we are lost forever.
The decent either resign or perish in the struggle – the protected evil ones go on to the wire and are dragged to the scaffold (Robespierre) or top themselves ( AH).
One can never know what is really going on in these political circles, but on the surface at least it looks positive and good for him. Fingers crossed it will have some sort of effect.
He’s a bit late to the party, if he’s only just realised bozo’s a liar.
No obvious option to delete – sorry
You have to just keep poking it
This in a country where 80% still appear to believe that the “vaccines” are actually vaccines, are safe and work and that paper masks stop the ‘virus’ is no surprise.
Sadly one or two resignations won’t deter the fanatical puppets of Westminster. Frost is like a fly pinging off their windscreen as they go full throttle back into lockdown.
No doubt they’ll have a replacement puppet lined up who will obediently vote in line with his masters. My local MP is a perfect example of such a creature. Ian Levy has never voted against the government since his perfectly timed therefore questionable by election “victory” right at the start of this shit show.
Johnson is finished. But it must not be only him that goes; the whole rotten cabal and which has caused such havoc and misery over the past two years must also go, followed by criminal investigations.
Johnson has already gone in their minds – they are currently arranging how to slide his replacement into Office with minimum fuss.
Be sure that we ‘the people’ will have nothing to do with it.
The intention will be ‘business as usual’ with the Reset Project and to keep the “Emergency” Tyranny powers in place for years to come so they can take away all our freedoms at will. If there are problems Starmer witth his “Tri Lateral” connections is on hand to help out.
Doesn’t help the cause of freedom then, if one of the supporters of it and him resigns, unless he and they can also replace Mr. Johnson with one of them.
Let’s also not fool ourselves.
The country is not turning against the Tories and him over the restrictions, only over the sleaze and the Christmas party.
The pensioners are mainly turning against him because their homes being at risk to pay for social care, they appreciate the restrictions.
And the Gregg’s men, red wall and his core voters are turning against him mainly because of the cost of his going too green, which is a strategy he had to embrace to let the Tories have an electoral future with the young. If only Labour is being seen as being green, the Tories are sadly toast.
Which would actually be best for the country, as it and the young can’t and won’t come to their senses otherwise: let Green Labour ruin the country for 4 years and then see a truly liberal and conservative party reform it for the next decades.
Germany has just started that process.
Nice theory. But I’m very apprehensive about the very survival of Great Britain after four years of Green Labour, aided and abetted by the media, academia and the rest.
Will we survive Green Conservatives? Their net zero policy is pretty damaging.
Can we keep our boilers?
Thatcher is dead mate.
It’s their covert “net zero” population policy that worries me!
Green Labour is not the current problem.
Yep, that’s pretty much where I’ve been for some time. Its a sort of acceleration theory – lets do what we can to make things as bad as they’re going to be as quickly as possible. If you’re going through hell, then go through quickly …
Not too sure about that. We are nowhere near the bottom despite the continuing efforts of Boris and the other criminals in Westminster.
The country is not turning against the Tories and him over the restrictions, only over the sleaze and the Christmas party.
That’s what all mainstream COVID outlets relentlessly repeat. But this Christmas party was little but a cooked-up distraction and the people affected by the Corona politics know damn well that they all had Christmas parties themselves. This lockdown was only ever a lockdown of those without domestic social support networks. Plus the teetotalers getting to implement some of their wetter wet dreams.
Germany is nostalgic for a new digital version of the DDR. It appears that the Grundgesetz has been side-lined and ignored.
We are back to the future in simply 1934.
Lord Frost was right to quit, particularly now this article/twitter exchange between Fraser Nelson and a member of SAGE is out: .
Basically, SAGE were only asked to model BAD OUTCOMES from the Omicron variant, in order to justify desired policy decisions. Not to inform and give likely scenarios.
If this is true it is beyond disgusting. They are destroying lives and life-chances based on LIES AND THEY KNOW IT.
The 1922 must get rid of Johnson.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-twitter-conversation-with-the-chairman-of-the-sage-covid-modelling-committee
Who asked, though…
With only 100 ‘real’ Tory MPs and the Johnson Tories lining up with Labour – what chance have we got against the budding One Party State?
Starmer will soon be offered a job in Government to keep the reset and Vax Tyranny on track! Perhaps even Blair will be invited in by his friend Gove?
Good on him. All rebels from last week’s vote should have resigned from their parties by now.
‘This only ends when you say no’.
Yes: more than time for a RealConservative Party, possibly led by Frost!
https://doctors4covidethics.org/blog/
https://staging.dailysceptic.org/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/
https://fos-sa.org/
https://www.spiked-online.com/
https://unherd.com/
https://www.hartgroup.org/
https://www.youtube.com/c/joerogan
https://trialsitenews.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBrand
https://swprs.org/
https://www.gbnews.uk/
Time for a “United Front” Party?
Reprehensible behaviour, how dare he resign whilst the PM is still on maternity leave and breast feeding. She won’t be back at his desk until we’ll into the New Year.
I wonder if this will have anything to do with more people leaving…
It should
Meanwhile, in the glorious, freedom-loving EU, the French follow the Germans and Austrians down the path of health fascism:
“Castex announced that, effective from January 3, 2022, the booster shot can be received in four months, instead of the current five months, after the second dose, reports Xinhua news agency.
“A draft bill will be submitted at the beginning of January to transform the health pass into a vaccination pass,” he announced, stressing that “only vaccination will be valid in this pass”.
According to him, the non-vaccinated will have to get vaccinated as the only valid document presented will be proof of vaccination and not a negative PCR test.
The Prime Minister also said the authorities will “tighten controls and penalties for false passes”.”
France announces new anti-Covid measures
Not health.
Vaccination.
Says it all.
A noble who possesses actual nobility.
Among the more depressing facets of this whole lunacy has been the depressingly small number of resignations.
A trickle should build to a flood rather than remain a trickle. Maybe a few of those rebel Conservatives last week will follow his example.
My granny used to say, politicians are full of propaganda and lies, we seem to have forgotten what they knew, lulled into a fluffy life. The majority have always tarnished the few.
Well done Lord Frost.
How anyone can believe that saving the lives of the dying (still average 82 yrs+ I believe) justifies taking life away from the living?
Frosty the Slowman
If Fat Pang wants to ramp up restrictions, let him recall parliament!
He doesn’t have to bother -our useless Parliament gave away its powers in the “Emergency” without even looking at the small print- – as for the Courts – forget it!
Here’s an analysis of the whole stinking mess, garnered from little pieces of info inadvertently let in the various MSM reports:
https://independencedaily.co.uk/your-ongoing-betrayal-special-on-lord-frosts-resignation-sunday-19th-december-2021/
One point made in the analysis: the covid MSM and the covid tsars are already trying to explain it away as ‘he only did it because he is a covid~ and lockdown~sceptic.
Not so – there’s far more to Frosty’s resignation.
The Guido site has his resignation letter and the Prime Minister’s reply. The resignation letter does not to me really hint at a great disagreement between the two. Maybe the criticism is muted – people should read it and judge for themselves, not rely on the Daily Telegraph.
Thanks. No mention in the fat controller’s response on the covid crap criticism. Surely, he would have at least defended his ‘direction of travel’!?
No-one should any longer rely on the “Daily Gates Telegraph” for any “facts” whatever.
Speaks for the party, does he?
Then it’s about bloody time the party spoke for itself.
Come on, you cowards.
As a friendly reminder: The precautionary mask mandate to allow the scientists time to assess the situation was to be reviewed next Tuesday. Before the parliamentary vote on it, that is. Of course, this was immediately followed by a bonfire of civil liberties and – almost three weeks later – the scientists still claim that they don’t no anything and that more restrictions must urgently introduced because of this.
The German word for scientist is Wissenschaftler. A crude literal translation of that could be knowledge creator. The SAGEs are ignorance cowboys.
HUGE TURNOUT @ LONDON PROTEST – Hugo Talks #lockdown
The beginning of the end? It’s one minute to midnight!
Whoopdefsckingdo.
The government has surrendered control to unelected technocrats. If the technocrats keep control, the puppets can be changed as often as needed over secondary issues to deflect public anger (Ferguson sacked from SAGE. Hooray! But still on NERVTAG doing his worst).
i) SAGE/NERVTAG should be required to produce only most likely predictions, none of this worst case crap.
ii) Mass testing of asymptomatic people must cease.
iii) SAGE should cease to be a vaccinator/mad modeller fiefdom. One vaccinator and the rest othe relevant areas of interest – immunology, wider health care, mental, social, etc.
The Deep State will be outraged, and their MSM puppets will open fire, indicating it is the right approach. Currently the Deep State is more than happy for a puppet or two to take one in the knee to satiate peurile public outrage.
They are jumping ship all over the place. Anyone notice ceo’s of some bought companies resigning?