Supreme Leader Nic Sturge-on Tells Scots They May Have to Wear Masks For Years

People in Scotland may have to wear masks in public places for years to come, Nicola Sturgeon has warned – in spite of the fact that masked-up Scotland has a higher number of cases per 100,000 than England. MailOnline has more.

The First Minister insisted that tough curbs dramatically imposed on hospitality venues and large gatherings from Boxing Day had stemmed the spread of Covid, despite official figures showing that Scotland’s virus rate is higher than England’s.

And furious business leaders said Miss Sturgeon’s “gamble” with restrictions must end after they failed to make “any meaningful difference” to infections in Scotland.

Speaking ahead of today’s announcement about extending restrictions beyond next week, Miss Sturgeon said face coverings “might be required in the longer-term to enable us to live with it [Covid] with far fewer protective measures”.

In England, Covid restrictions could start to be lifted this month after Michael Gove said Britain was moving towards a situation where it could “live with” the virus.

Downing Street is examining options to lift Plan B measures in stages if cases remain too high to remove them all in one go. Extending Covid passes, due to expire on January 26th, would require another bruising clash with Tory backbenchers, which No 10 wants to avoid.

But some ministers are pushing for the WFH guidance to be removed first, arguing that it causes the most damage to the economy.

Miss Sturgeon told STV’s Scotland Tonight: “Sometimes when you hear people talk about learning to live with Covid, what seems to be suggested is that one morning we’ll wake up and not have to worry about it any more, and not have to do anything to try to contain and control it.

“That’s not what I mean when I say ‘learning to live with it’. Instead, we will have to ask ourselves what adaptations to pre-pandemic life – face coverings, for example – might be required in the longer-term to enable us to live with it with far fewer protective measures.”

Worth reading in full.

According to the Government’s coronavirus dashboard, the number of cases per 100,000 is currently higher in those parts of the United Kingdom with severe Covid restrictions in place than it is in England, including Scotland.

Stop Press: Nicola Sturgeon has announced that some Covid restrictions in Scotland will be lifted next Monday, including the ban on more than 500 people attending football and rugby matches, and she hoped other restrictions would be lifted the following Monday, pending a review of the data, including limits on attendance at indoor live events, table service in hospitality businesses, and distancing in indoor public spaces. But anyone wanting to access those events will still require a Covid Pass – and merely being double-vaccinated won’t be sufficient if the second jab was more than four months ago. From Monday January 17th only those who’ve had a second dose within four months, had a booster or uploaded the result of a recent lateral flow test will be able to download a Covid Pass. What’s more, she’s thinking about extending those venues that require Covid certification to include pubs, bars and restaurants.

Stop Press 2: Jamie Blackett in the Telegraph says it’s time to disabuse people of the idea that Nicola Sturgeon has had a good Pandemic.

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Ross Hendry
4 years ago

What is it with Sturgeon? Is she one of the WEF’s global “young leaders” or what?

realarthurdent
4 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

Devi Sridhar, her right hand woman on COVID, is a Friend Of The Clintons.

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Sridhar went on Good Morning Britian and told listeners the injections were 100% effective at stopping covid. These globalists lie day in and day out with complete impunity.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

We used to mock this sort of behaviour from the Soviet Union and Eastern block countries. These ridiculous officials spewing out official lies used to be caricatured in cold war movies.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

This is why Putin shakes his head in disbelief at he collective self-destructive mental illness of the West.

We are imploding, aren’t we?

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Being imploded.

Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Yeah, if Putin would stop this nonsense, he’s welcome to invade us.

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I’ve been referring to the First Minister as Nicola Ceausescu, after the communist dictator who interfered with the football.

Annie
4 years ago

She would do well to think on Ceausescu’s fate.
So would Dungford.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

It seems every country and style of political system may have been doing this since forever. The ‘West’ was just more plausible, for a time.

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Exactly. The world has not “gone mad”. It was “always mad”.

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

They were nationalist socialists as well (with a drinking problem).

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

yes, the vaccines were supposed to stop covid spread. yes, the “experts” told us so.

YES! it was a total lie and they continue to tell lies which they know are untrue.
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helenf
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

She also told children via the bbc that the vaccines were 100% safe. This woman is dangerous.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  helenf

I wonder what the sanction of choice is in Scotistan for spouting Covid misinformation…..and why the thought Kripos have not paid her a visit.

Wishful thinking for sure; do as I say not as I do

CynicalRealist
4 years ago
Reply to  186NO

Spouting bollocks, even when it’s demonstrably untrue, isn’t a problem provided it’s on-message.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

That is the defining factor of the people perpetrating and promoting this. They say anything and do anything to get what they want. Zero integrity. Probably marks them as psychopathic too. Watch how when needed they can reverse their narrative without any hesitation or shame.

CrouplessCoup
CrouplessCoup
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

It’s “by any means necessary” for the amoral crew as is explained by Dr Vladimir Zelenko:

https://sage.gab.com/channel/4cminewswire/view/2021-dec-24-breaking-dr-zelenko-61ce632d724ea680ee0ebc00

“Dr Zelenko Warns of COVID Vaccine Mark of the Beast System”

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Say no more.

Jo Starlin
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Devi is a globalist nutjob.

“The World Health Organization is the only body that can promote health through the use of international law. It should make alcohol its next target, says Devi Sridhar…….To help overcome such problems, the WHO should endorse a commission on global health law, headed by an independent expert. Through analysis of other regimes, such as those of trade and finance, that have arguably been more successful in utilizing international law, this commission could provide recommendations on how to strengthen the WHO’s normative power.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/482302a

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

Lots of money was trousered by certain Scottish families supplying “Scotch” whisky to the US during Prohibition. Curiously Presybterians were heavily involved in introducing Prohibition in the first place.

Fast forward 100 years and today’s movers and shakers in the SNP really think they are some kind of Cosa Nostra in kilts.

A commission on global health law, huh?

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

I’d bet the “war of drugs” main backers are similarly placed to profit.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

international law is an oxymoron
Law is sovereign.

The most worrying thing is how a group makes all the world’s countries change their own laws at the same time when it’s clearly against the population’s interests to do so.

RW
RW
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

And by mere coincidence, she’s also in favour of punishing the hospitality industry and its customers in order to combat Sars-CoV2.

Gefion
Gefion
4 years ago
Reply to  RW

She’s teetotal, doesn’t drive and obviously doesn’t believe in letting people enjoy themselves. She is the embodiment of the old Hellfire and Damnation Presbyterian.

lorrinet
lorrinet
4 years ago
Reply to  Gefion

I believe she’s childless, too? So, altogether she operates from a very narrow perspective indeed. What can she possibly know about life as it’s lived by the ordinary person battling to retrieve some semblance of normality despite a leadership hell-bent on maximum misery for its people?

SimCS
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

He means of course headed by a politically chosen and friendly independent expert who’ll say what he wants.

Nitrambo
Nitrambo
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

and she is a YGL

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

Her vision of the future is as barren as her womb.

I say this not to be cruel, but to point at a pattern. This is the way the WEF and Davos like their puppets. With no children of their own to be concerned about, they have no problem imposing generationally despotic policies.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

No children or dark secrets.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Sturgeon – no dark secrets? 🙂 🙂 🙂

Lesbians who can’t stand men being within a mile of them don’t often have children…

Then there’s Liz Lloyd, Sturgeon’s “chief of staff” who is now her “strategic adviser”. Let’s just say that those who are interested in “dark secrets” in Scotland should take a very close look at how Lloyd acted in relation to the prosecution of Alec Salmond – and how she might feel about former British ambassador Craig Murray spending time in Saughton jail.

(^ My lawyers advised on that wording.)

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

You may indeed have heard rumours about their… special parties… but I couldn’t (and daren’t) possibly comment.

Mezzo18
Mezzo18
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

People are evil because they are evil. Their sexuality or choice, as a woman, not to have children, is entirely irrelevant. You do not help your case by impugning any woman who is neither a bimbo nor a brood mare.

Gefion
Gefion
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

I thought there were dark secrets…

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

So where does that leave Johnson?

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

About to be replaced.

GCarty80
GCarty80
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Is it not more that if you think the world is being ruined (by climate change or whatever else) then you wouldn’t want to bring children into such a crapsack world?

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

Mental illness would be the simple explanation. Or simply control freak megalomania?

Scotland seems permanently blighted until she is deposed.

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Support for the nanny state has always been widespread in Scotland.

Before the SNP, a lot of people voted socialist because their father did so it’s not much of a leap to vote for tartan socialism.

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

No, she’s a combination of puritan and communist, support for the nanny state has been strong in Scotland historically, whether it’s Unionist or Nationalist.

Star
4 years ago

She’s a “puritan” when the cameras are filming.

You know she’s a lesbian, and that her marriage to the SNP’s gay chief executive Peter Murrell is fake?

Both of them are well known to frequent certain types of “club” in Edinburgh. Here’s a painting that Murrell gave her:

Look who holds the whip hand chez Sturgeon: Remarkable dominatrix painting said to hang in SNP leader’s home… where husband cooks and cleans

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BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Has she been photographed in such a place?

I ask this only to find out whether it has ever been used against her.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

If that picture is supposed to represent Krankie then we have wishful thinking at its best.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

I’d guess the one-eyed scottish idiot (Brown) hurried marriage was similar.

Tony “miranda” Blair being bestest mates with Mandelson also a tad suspicious

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Irrelevant mindless balderdash, it is her ideas that make her evil, not whatever her sexuality may be.

RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
4 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

Devi Sridhar ‘prof’ of global health Edingburgh and a go-to for the BBC seems to be her most influential adviser. Sridhar is another of WEF’s young global leaders. see https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Sridhar&status=&class_year=&sector=&region=#results

GCarty80
GCarty80
4 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

Sturgeon isn’t a Young Global Leader (please use the correct title!) but her Covid adviser Devi Sridhar certainly is one.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

Must be

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

Political maneouvres.

Sadly the logic behind ending restrictions is never cumulatively binding on govs. It can be reversed for no reason at any time.

Be warned: it won’t end in England this year.

artfelix
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

It will – just not in the way Boris thinks it will

itoldyouiwasill
itoldyouiwasill
4 years ago

The people of Scotland need to rise up. This maniac is going to turn them into a banana republic at this rate. She is completely deranged.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

The ‘Trusted PPE’ industry will blossom, however!

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

“Turn them into a banana” republic – no chance!

A haggis- chips -fried Mars Bar and greasy Donner Kebab republic very likely!

Occams Pangolin Pie
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

SNP are the Donner Party in every sense.

Dave Angel Eco Warrior
Dave Angel Eco Warrior
4 years ago

No one has risen up anywhere in the world in any meaningful way. Governments around the globe have taken marches, petitions, protests, rallies etc on the chin but largely they have been no more than mild irritant to them. To be fair, I’m not sure in what form people could ‘rise up’ or what would actually trigger them (us) to do so as it’s an easy thing to say but difficult to act on. Of course, an easy way would be for everyone not to wear masks but very few are brave enough – even now – to do even that.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

Covidianism is an impersonal tyranny – working through and hiding behind ‘health’ and the internet, i.e. consumer choice. We no longer propagandise obviously like Hitler and Stalin (personal tyrannies), but use the means citizens choose for themselves. And the citizens choose to believe the propaganda.

What can you do?

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Joseph Goebbels admired the work of Edward Bernays.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Just looked up the latter. Ironically, Bernays was from a Jewish family. Seems it was easier to resist this sort of thing pre-Internet/mobile era, though. You could ‘turn off the wireless’ or turn the page on an advert.

Today, the generation most opposed to covidianism is late 30s-50s in age (us): +/-. We straddle the pre-Internet and Internet eras: i.e. we can operate in both pre-digital (print) and digital (computer/screen) arenas, and distinguish/discriminate between the two; as well as play one off against the other. We are not confined or dependent on one type of media alone.

The gaps and contradictions we observe in gov policy and propaganda are less perceptible to the ‘old’ and ‘young’ – each largely confined to one arena alone.

Dave Angel Eco Warrior
Dave Angel Eco Warrior
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Agree. I reluctantly acknowledge that the behavioural insights cabal that have the government’s ear have played an absolute blinder.

Star
4 years ago

No one has risen up anywhere in the world in any meaningful way.

Take a look at Martinique and Guadeloupe.

There is a lot of awareness there because of the history of the use of the insecticide chlordecone, sanctioned by the French government, which has caused those territories to have the highest rates of prostate cancer in the world.

The authorities tried to impose a SARSCoV2 vaccine mandate on healthworkers there, and people successfully resisted using physical force.

The only way the rulers will be able to impose it now is if they crush the population in a violent conflict, a war.

Gotta wonder whether Macron will try to play an “Ouvéa cave” card. But if he does, it could blow him up.

Dave Angel Eco Warrior
Dave Angel Eco Warrior
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Fair point.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago

Silly me, I thought it had already become a banana republic.

Star
4 years ago

A banana monarchy. The SNP is monarchist.

See “Scotland’s Future“, the document the SNP government produced as its referendum manifesto in 2014, “Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland”:

“On independence Scotland will be a constitutional monarchy… On independence in 2016, Her Majesty The Queen will be head of state.”

Before a date was set for the referendum they even had a tantrum suggesting they might boycott it (!) if it wasn’t held in the septcentenary year of the Battle of Bannockburn.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

They’re quite safe with Tin Lizzue. She wants Bliar knighted, everybody else muzzled and jabberoided. Silly old bat.

watersider
4 years ago

Not much turning required I am afraid

snoozle
snoozle
4 years ago

Devolution should have given us real choices. In the states, you could always have moved to Florida or Texas to avoid the restrictions. If you are in England, you can only move from authoritarian and pointless rules to even more authoritarian and more obviously pointless rules. No escape.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  snoozle

“Should”? It was Blair’s tool to break up the successful Union of the county he so detested – worked a treat as we see!

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

The idea of devolution long predates Tony Blair. Margaret Thatcher, with the Poll tax, which was technically in breach of the treaty of union, and John Major, with VAT on fuel, fueled desire for a Scottish parliament.

Tony Blair was decidedly lukewarm on devolution.

BeBopRockSteady
4 years ago

The masks are such a cult accessory. It’s the main one.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

Ironically, she may think masks are a useful indirect psychological tool for bringing about Scottish ‘independence’.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

She is bat crazy and dangerous.

artfelix
4 years ago

She’s gone insane

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

“Gone”?

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

She was picked because she was a loon.

Boomer Bloke
4 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

She’s clearly a firm follower of the Jacinta Ardern school of mental and emotional well-being. Or maybe the Justin Trudeau dogma. Or how about the Emmanuel Macron cult of I sheet in your general direction, alors.

GCarty80
GCarty80
4 years ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

Is it a coincidence that all three heads of government you cited are Young Global Leaders?

Boomer Bloke
4 years ago
Reply to  GCarty80

I don’t believe in coincidences when it comes to heads of government and The World Economic Forum

Rogerborg
4 years ago

At least she stumbles close to honesty by revealing that the main goal is to ensure that we keep “worrying” about it indefinitely.

Aside, the Scotch total fertility rate has plummeted to just 1.29, in the bottom 5 in the world.

We’re being worried into self extinction by this yappy wee terrier.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Masks just share the scare, they’re nothing to do with health.

Jo Starlin
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Yep, Scotland’s annual birth rate has dropped through the floor, down to about 45,000 from around 60,000 ten years ago. Deaths are seriously and consistently outstripping births now.

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

In any sane country, this would be the number 1 priority, outstripping everything else. It’s demographic suicide, and it will necessarily mean a cruel death by neglect for millions of old and sick people, simply because of a lack of hale young people to look after them.

And yet I have never heard that barren wee bism mention it, or be asked about it, once, ever.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Sturgeon appears to hate the indigenous Sots.

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Yes, far more than she hates the English.

Lucan Grey
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

It’s not a problem. Just rejoin the EU and bring in all those lovely immigrants.

That then replaces the non-compliant half of the electorate.

Backlash
Backlash
4 years ago
Reply to  Lucan Grey

They can have ours

GCarty80
GCarty80
4 years ago
Reply to  Lucan Grey

Except that Eastern Europe’s birth rates collapsed themselves after the fall of communism: most of the immigrant workers we got from there before Brexit were born in the ’80s.

If you wanted to import workers now you’d need to look outside Europe, in which case it isn’t really anything to do with the EU.

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

The plan is to import new people. Its called The Great Replacement and was first mooted in the 1920’s with financial backing from the same special interest group behind all todays woes.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Exactly!

GCarty80
GCarty80
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

If it was mooted in the 1920s it was almost certainly just a figment of some racist’s imagination, as neither of the factors that would make it an attractive idea to today’s wokes (skyrocketing populations in an Africa which they believe may soon be uninhabitable due to climate change) existed back then.

Laurence_R
Laurence_R
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

That kind of population decline can easily spiral, as the economy shrinks (especially if the SNP succeeds in shutting down military bases and oil) and people emigrate. Much of Scotland will be ‘re-wilded’ within 50 years, and will mostly be a holiday destination. What the Highland Clearances started, Sturgeon’s communist totalitarianism will finish.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

Are they now intervening surgically to ensure that Scottish babies are born ready equipped with a nappy both ends and no brains?

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

She surely has plans for mass immigration to replace the population she clearly despises.

Laurence_R
Laurence_R
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

That’s why she needs to get Scotland back in the EU.

GCarty80
GCarty80
4 years ago
Reply to  Laurence_R

I thought the SNP wanted back in the EU in order to reduce trading frictions and/or to score internationalist brownie points.

If you want mass immigration now, then Europe isn’t a particularly fruitful place to look, as most of the cheap labour came from Eastern Europe, whose birth rates collapsed after communism fell.

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

I can think of no other reason to promote and support Humza Yousaf’s quite astonishing rant that he is “angry” that Scotland is still populated mostly by huWhite people.

https://youtu.be/qUCFDzzZLKI?t=66

Ostap Melnick
4 years ago

The next demonstration is on Saturday 22nd January at the Commonwealth Monument on “Glasgow Green” starting at 1.00pm.

I will be wearing my Yellow Spot.



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eyesee
eyesee
4 years ago

Wear face masks for years, or don’t have a clinically insane person running your country. You choose.

Dave Bollocks
4 years ago

Looks like I won’t be going on holiday to Scotland any time soon then.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Dave Bollocks

The Hadrian Revival Society …”Rebuild that Wall “( 30 miles further North)

The “Night’s Watch” will replace the Black Watch and keep out the ‘wildlings’.

Zionist
Zionist
4 years ago
Reply to  Dave Bollocks

Same here. I had a few Grahams and Munros to bag but have decided to just stick to the hills south of the border.

Mr Taxpayer
Mr Taxpayer
4 years ago
Reply to  Dave Bollocks

I have a deposit paid for a 5-day trip around the North Coast 500 in September. I am currently glad I didnt pay in full when I booked.

amanuensis
4 years ago

Politicians love power. It is in their nature, whatever the level of the politician (from local government to international bodies).

Whenever they ask for more power, or for ‘temporary powers’ to be extended, the answer should be show us the proof that it is required / will make a difference, and let the public decide (without censoring any opposition to the power).

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

That’s why fought a Civil War to have independent Courts and an independent Parliament to control a despot under the Rule of Law – those happy days BJ ( Before Johnson)

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

What exactly does this dented woman have to do before she is forced out of Office? What is she actually trying to do to Scotland – destroy it?

Is she mentally ill? How come the Scots put up with this total nonsense? What else will they swallow?

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Sturgeon is a global socialist – in other words, a communist. She hates every nation, just the English slightly more than most.

I have no doubt, none at all, that she will destroy Scotland in order to save it from the curse of individualism and free thought.

And she’s already well on her way, with a plummeting and parlous birth rate that at this point has already set Scotland on the course for demographic doom.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Quite so – I meant “demented “of course but “dented” will do just fine.

Demographic “doom” for Scots is of course “paradise” for those currently landing in ever increasing numbers every day at Dover!

NeilofWatford
4 years ago

A country gets the government it deserves.
Solution? Vote them out.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

Too Lazy!

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

Do not expect ANY sort of salvation via the ballot box.

CynicalRealist
4 years ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

And vote in who? The alternatives are no better!

JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
4 years ago

I think this might have more to do with some manipulations from the ECDC.

Earlier this week Spain apparently announced that face rags would be normal in the future, even when the ’emergency’ lessens. Yesterdam the Dutch OMT advised wearing face rags outside in busy places and wearing surgical masks.

From March 2020 to December 2020 it advised against face rags, even when the cabinet pushed and pushed for them to advise their use. On 1 December on the website of the Dutch public health authority, when the face rags became mandatory, in clear breach of the constitution, the public health authority still did not advise them.

Between 1 December 2020 and June 2021 face rags were only worn in public buildings, NEVER outside.

Now, when all shops, restaurants, sports schools, etc. are shut and infections (positive tests) are breaking records, *now* we need the face rags, and preferably surgical ones and an expansion of their use? Utter nonsense, 2 EU countries and now an EU wannabe announce continued face rags within the same week is not a coicidence.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

Room 101

Imagine being forced to spend an evening with Nicola Sturgeon and losing he will to live!

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

I suspect that for many on here condemning them to spend a night with the Sturge would surely result in her loss of life before the dawn breaks.

Backlash
Backlash
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

What she is clearly in need of is BBC. Tradesman’s entrance.

Victory Gin
4 years ago

‘The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes’Thomas Paine.

Victory Gin
4 years ago

Top comment over at the Mail …

Her face was made for a mask to be fair

Star
4 years ago

Start here: the SNP fascists have to find something to do that’s different from what’s being done in England, because their whole culture is anti-English. When they say otherwise, they’re lying. This plays to the stupidest among the voters in Scotland – the kind of morons who can’t speak to an English person without thinking of “Scotland versus England” (cf. a white person who can’t speak to someone who is black or of Pakistani origin without race being uppermost in their “mind”), and who can’t think of what might be a good or bad policy in Britain without thinking “What about the Scottish angle?” It is impossible to understand the SNP without making an effort to understand xenophobic stupidity. You really are talking a sphincter-clenching level of banjo-playing imbecility among most of their voters and their target market. OK, so they’re going to want Covid bullshit in Scotland to be different in at least some respect from Covid bullshit in England, because nationalists gonna be nationalists… But why be tougher rather than more lenient? Here’s why: because having tougher restrictions in Scotland helps persuade residents in Scotland to be more obedient, which is just what you want when you tell… Read more »

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

They are also anti-Scottish, subjecting Scotland to endless, mindless nannying.

Backlash
Backlash
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

I personally can’t speak to a black person without knowing they only got their job and sympathy in life because they’re black.
Divisions are deep in all of the UK, it’s probably much more simple in Scotland. Miserable fat ginger ugly bastards with a chip on their shoulders wanting endless pots of Westminster cash and showing zero gratitude.
At least the immigrants here occasionally try to integrate (so long as it’s clear they’re untouchable and must be given preferential treatment)

Boomer Bloke
4 years ago

Wee Krankie doesn’t do irony, apparently.

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

She does do a permanent nanny state.

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

From what I hear, she makes her… er… husband do all the cooking, cleaning and ironing.

Backlash
Backlash
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

I can certainly imagine she owns a ten inch strap-on, whips, chains and a gimp mask.

tony rattray
4 years ago

I live in scotland and simply state ‘exempt’ when approached by the police about not wearing a mask. Up to now they have actually been polite in their response – no problem, etc.

The approval rating for wee krankie is dropping fast and with the ‘cost of living crisis’ and economic stagnation, etc., on the horizon, she knows there is no chance of getting agreement for another independence referendum. She also has no credible successor. A parliament full of also-rans!

Instead, as per her recent television broadcasts on covid, she is now coming across a bit deranged and petulant – for example, a recent exchange with a journalist about cutting the quarantine period for covid positive essential workers from 10 to 7 days (now likely to be 5 soon!).

Covid is the only thing left where wee krankie can still exert any real power, but her career will end in failure and she now knows it.

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  tony rattray

I sincerely hope so but the idea that Nanny knows best is thoroughly ingrained here.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  tony rattray

Her career will end but the chunky pension payments will continue.

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  tony rattray

I have a horrible feeling that Humza Yousaf will bully-pulpit his way into Bute House.

God – any version of Her – help us if that happens.

tony rattray
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Then that also spells the end of the dominance of the snp. A three year old can ride a scooter:

Scottish health secretary Humza Yousaf falls off mobility scooter in Holyrood. – YouTube

PartyTime
4 years ago

Open letter from a senior Israeli immunologist criticising government policy: https://swprs.org/professor-ehud-qimron-ministry-of-health-its-time-to-admit-failure/

Hawkins_94
Hawkins_94
4 years ago

Won’t happen. England decides what goes on in the UK. Sturgeon and Drakeford just use Westminster policy to fuel divide and take pot shots.

If England remove restrictions, Scotland follows.

iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  Hawkins_94

Yes – time for an Independence poll (for all UK citizens) with two options: a) complete independence or (b) complete cancellation of devolution!

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago

We know Jeffrey Epstein and Ghilane Maxwell were child rapists that have been convicted of supplying victims to powerful men all over the world.
We know that both of the above are directly linked with Israel/Mossad.
We know Epstein operated in London, Prince Andrew enjoyed his company here and overseas.
We know that Boris is completely unable to control his penis.
What are the odds that Boris has enjoyed the hospitality of Epstein and Maxwell over the years and that Epstein and Maxwell had footage of the hospitality that he enjoyed?
What are the odds that such footage has been used to force Boris to impose the covid fraud on us and to force these vaccines into our people?

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

How do we connect the blackmail to vaccines, though?

iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  BS665

Well, if there is anything to this idea (personally, I think Bozo is just setting himself up with a cushy future via satisfied vested interests), think how much money has been made from the non-vaccines, PPE etc., etc.!

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Or it could be that green ideology has been taught for decades and is being put into practice, rather than your mindless claim.

Backlash
Backlash
4 years ago

Green idealogy will sink without a trace in the end. Like it has over every supposed “climate emergency” that spelt the end of the planet for years on end. At least fifty of them over the last 60 years or so.

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Was Andy the only one daft enough to be photographed, when allegedly planes were flying into that island from all over, no more names have emerged.

Gregoryno6
4 years ago

Every woman has one. Nicola is one, too.
An exceptionally obstinate and stupid one at that.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Beware your first statement. You don’t need one to be a woman. Ask any wokeman in the Labour Party.

David101
4 years ago

She’s probably one of the zero-covid delusionals. Is zero-covid possible? It’s more likely that Santa Claus exists!

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  David101

More importantly, it gives her an excuse to nanny permanently, achieving her dream.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago
Reply to  David101

It is possible: it’s already there!

Covid_1984
Covid_1984
4 years ago

I live in Scotland and I am so sad and angry at what this woman and her SNP Cronies are doing to make it a creepy sanitised and irrationally strict place to live. I’ve been to protests and I hope more people will stand up against what is wrong so that the SNP back down. If you live in Scotland and are reading this then go to a protest and being a friend, please.

Here is a link to a funny and sadly accurate 2 minute video about the restrictions.

It’s called ‘Sexy in that face mask’

https://youtu.be/aRhQ2saV_Ps

JeremyP99
4 years ago
Reply to  Covid_1984

First sign I spotted from down South was her decision to create “state guardians” for every child. I think that was stamped out, but were I parent in Scotland, I’d have been a parent in England. The default state of play is that the state butts out of the family.

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

More likely personal ambition, to be seen on the global stage as a potential ‘global leader participating and willing to go to extremes’, sadly they probably laugh at fools like this.

Anti_socialist
4 years ago

Just like to say excellent pic

Stuart
4 years ago

I can’t remember the name of the contributor, but he had a T shirt with a slogan which applies here.

“I’m not a gynaecologist but I know a Cunt when I see one!”

Brilliant

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago

Which part of “Measures do not work” does Sturgeon fail to understand? Does she not even think to question the fact that countries with very few restrictions fare best? Look at France, Wales and Scotland for examples of the complete and utter failure of any and all measures. There is also the fact the not-vaccines do absolutely nothing, look at Israel, 4 jobs and cases soaring – well, that worked well then didn’t it?