Covid Passes to be Scrapped Within Two Weeks
The Health Secretary has said Covid passes will be scrapped in England this month as the country’s Omicron wave continues to collapse. MailOnline has more
Sajid Javid is said to have told MPs [yesterday] that he shared their “instinctive discomfort” at the certificates, which 100 Tories voted against.
Ministers are also keen to ditch widespread working from home guidance when the current Plan B measures are reviewed on January 26th. It could mean that compulsory masks on public transport and in shops will be the only remaining curb.
Britain’s Covid cases have fallen week-on-week for the past eight days in a row, with 109,000 new positive tests on Thursday. Hospital admissions have also flatlined.
At a meeting with Tory MPs yesterday, Mr Javid hailed the “encouraging signs” – but warned that hospitals remained under “significant pressure”, the Times reports.
Currently, people in England need to show proof of vaccination or a negative lateral flow to enter large events and nightclubs.
A Whitehall source told the newspaper: “There was always a very high threshold for the policy and it looks increasingly likely in a couple of weeks that threshold won’t be met. The way cases are going it will be hard to justify renewing.”
Boris Johnson faced his biggest Tory revolt since the start of the pandemic over the introduction of Plan B measures last month, with nearly 100 Conservatives defying the party whip to vote against them.
The PM’s chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost dramatically resigned in protest over the rollout of the curbs. Yesterday he slammed the “Covid theatre” of masks and passes, and called lockdown a “serious mistake”.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has done a U-turn, announcing that all Covid restrictions will be lifted in Wales in two weeks in spite of describing England as an “outlier” last week because it had fewer restrictions than Wales. MailOnline has the story.
Mark Drakeford today confirmed all major coronavirus restrictions will be lifted in Wales in two weeks as he faced accusations of “overreacting” to the Omicron wave.
The Welsh Government will reopen nightclubs, end the rule of six in pubs and lift the 50-person limit on outdoor events.
Mr Drakeford, the Welsh First Minister, had warned just one week ago on January 7th that the Omicron “storm is fully upon us” as he predicted the peak would not arrive for “another 10 to 14 days”.
He also slammed Boris Johnson’s decision not to impose similarly tough restrictions in England as he branded the neighbouring country an “outlier”.
But speaking this morning, Mr Drakeford said case numbers are now “coming down very rapidly” as he rejected accusations of a U-turn.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Sign this petition which specifically calls for mandatory face masks in shops and on public transport to be scrapped.
Stop Press 2: Daily cases have fallen below 100,000 in the U.K. for the first time since before Christmas. MailOnline has more.
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Things are looking up, unless you’re in Scotland, then?
I’m guessing Krankie has commissioned a tartan-themed vax pass, and doesn’t want to be left with a warehouse-ful.
Wales keeping vaxx passes and I guarantee England will keep the regs to allow the passes to be recommissioned at a whim. The passes were the goal and they ain’t going away!
And muzzles.The Welsheeples now have them surgically grafted on to their stupid faces.
All just to normalise the fake normal. July’s “Freedom day was irreversible don’t forget, but not was reversed.
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Yup, Krankie has doubled – or tripled – down by announcing that from Monday, the merely double-jabbed are now to be considered plague rats and barred from public life. There’s no sign of her changing her burst-bagpipe tune.
So it looks like the Celtic Fringe will continue to forge ahead doing active tinkering with vaxpässen while the knee is briefly removed from English necks, until the next “wave” arrives and vaxpäss 2.0 is rolled out.
Remote scanning and automated gating of anti-citizens is the obvious next step.
“Remote scanning and automated gating of anti-citizens is the obvious next step.”
Show your Vaxx Pass at the entrance to Tesco, otherwise the barrier won’t open.
Yes, I remember
Or Wales.
Ready to be re-introduced to “combat” the next “wave”.
Colour me sceptical.
Exactly this. Not a U-turn but a slowing down of the march to tyranny.
once all records are burned and backups purged we can return to mere vigilance
Covid waves appear to come every 4 months or so. I expect the next one to come in May.
What is going to be interesting is whether this spring we’ll get ‘the new normal’ of a rather high plateau in cases between the covid waves. There is a likelihood that this is due to mass vaccination, although it is by no means certain.
Agreed. What we’ve had so far has been a test run. They’ll take some notes and come up with a more “convenient” way to re-impose them. Remote scanning is the biggie, so that anti-citizens can be spotted and barred without Day-Glo Derek even getting involved.
I’d love to be wrong about that.
Vaccination Status linked to your bank card is the one that will really turn the tide – no latest jab, bank card stops working.
“They can’t do that! It’s illegal!” they will cry…
“Card payment terminals are a real and data-secure way to establish if an individual person has a risk of spreading the coronavirus. Combined with widespread vaccinations, the system could significantly speed up the opening of societies.”
https://www.sitra.fi/en/blogs/could-credit-cards-hold-the-answer-to-improved-coronavirus-tracing/
Hospitals remain under ‘significant pressure’ because the staff are sitting at home with no symptoms after dodgy PCR tests.
Skiver’s charter.
The best staff are soon to be sacked by the Government for exercising a choice protected by international Human Rights legislation and the Nuremberg Code.
There was never any chance they would be sacked. It was always an empty threat to encourage employers to adopt the policy.
They sacked the care home staff .
They haven’t yet sacked any staff at my mother’s “assisted living” place. And there are a few, who aren’t jabbed, and they are the carers most respected by other carers.
Staff, including carers, nurses and cleaning staff, must show proof of vaccination to work in any CQC registered premises. Assisted living facilities aren’t CQC registered. There were thousands of private sector workers sacked in October 2021.
This includes dentists and staff, too, who are under the same coercion to be injected.
I read some were at some homes, I also read of a last min reprieve from the Gov, can’t find the source now though!
Yeah I think there was a loop hole released one day prior to deadline that you could medically exempt yourself. Unfortunately it wasn’t widely publicised and of course many staff had already quit 🙁
Where did they all go?
What policy?
https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/fundamentals/emp-law/health-safety/preparing-for-covid-19-vaccination
You make a fair point.
Yep. By definition they are the really smart and ethical ones.
With “significant pressure” still remaining on the NHS despite falling demand for CV19 treatments whether acquired in or out of Hospital, according to Hon Sec of State Health portfolios it really feasible that he will sanction further staff shortages who will be off work for a lot longer than 5 days doing absolutely sod all for waiting lists/NHS staff moral?
Trailing in the polls, very bad Partygate press, failure of “if not Boris, who else” and very evident remained/rejoiner media campaigns with Edwina Currie wheeled out as cheerleader ( always going to work with her as figurehead..not) – is it not conceivable that a monumental fudge is about to be announced, at least for some staff…..?
Lateral flow tests now. Claimed results. If you’re in the public sector, you can now get a full 28 days of free holiday just by saying “Positive test, feeling a bit poorly, see you in a month” without providing a shred of evidence.
Good. Why not? Play them at their own game. In fact, everybody should stay at home in case they are ‘asymptomatic’.
surely regular LFTs have to be a thing of the past now at least? When you upload your LFT results onto the govt website the sole purpose seems to be to validate your covid passport
The 28 days self-certification applies to anyone for any industry and any illness. It’s just to ease up the “pressure” on GPs to provide them after 7 days so that they can give out “boosters” instead.
Also it is January and the hospitals have ALWAYS been under pressure at this time of year.
Skiving is now even easier due to the withdrawal of the need to confirm a “positive” LFT with a PCR test
My local pub is giving away free beer tomorrow.
Oh dear madam/sir, don’t torture me like that. Post the address of this pub pronto. And promise to protect me when I get drunk in it and insult someone.
I’ll have a pint of Gullible’s Best please!
Mine has said that every day for six years. I’m beginning to smell a rat.
If you’ve had covid, you shouldn’t be able to
Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow…
Things are looking bad, Prime Minister; we need a… look! …A Squirrel!
Well, let’s make our minds up. Either more restrictions are a distraction away from government misbehaviour or fewer restrictions are the distraction? Or is simply anything the government does that attracts attention a distraction?
At this point, I’d take the squirrel any day.
squirrels are an animal reservoir for covid
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/12851281/animals-pets-farm-zoo-coronavirus-covid-19/
luckily its just a cold
“…it’s just a cold” How very dare you?
A mink?
R values from Zoe for Winter peak 2020/21 with 2021/22 exact same dates overlain
its clear to see the effect of last Winter lockdown – ie fuck all
Be fair, you are also seeing the impact of this year’s “vaccinations”, fuck all.
the square root of fuck all to be precise!
Hang on, I’ll just grab a calculator.
I can do it in my head – its fuck all!
Fuckall cubed
lol – I got your drift before you edited 😉
But you know that is what they are going to claim, don’t you.
First it was the lockdowns that saved us. Then it was the vaccines.
(And Florida and Sweden don’t exist.)
That is a problem for the future. On the plus side, at least while the madwoman to the North hangs on to her lockdown, it might be possible for scientists to actually get some comparable data (which I guess we are all confident will show the uselessness of lockdown regulations in controlling a virus, setting aside the obvious long term harms.
are you saying the seasonal bug is affected by the seasons!
you science denying heretic you!
Say 3 hail faucis and wear a horse hair scare mask for the next week.
Bugs are not seasonal, we are. And it’s important to note that the seasonality of a virus has not yet been adequately explained. we get this shit about “oh people are indoors more in winter” – nope, simply isn’t true and is not an adequate explanation anyway. I think the vitamin D explanation is far more plausible, but is still not well supported.
2 years does not make a trend but other corona virus outbreaks peak reliably in winter.
Otherwise the annual NHS “we failed give us more money fest” could not occur.
I note that it is now over 6 months since the UK’s large vitamin D for covid trial finished (coronavit). They’re certainly not in a hurry to publish the results.
What do you think about the Project Veritas leaked PDF?
JAG_Docs_pt1_Og_WATERMARK_OVER_Redacted.pdf
The ivermectin trial was dropped a week or so ago.
Funny that. Get a novel vaccine to market in months but trials of the safest drug known to man takes over a year and is then dropped……..
Of course ivermectin/covid trials have been stopped before. The drug was found to be so successful it was medically unethical to continue trials whilst the placebo group were dying in numbers.
I second TLWL’s question – have you read the leaked paper, if so, what do you think of it? If not, please have a look at it. It makes some interesting points on what vaccination would lead to.
I’m not sure it’s been authenticated yet, but for argument’s sake let’s assume it is authentic.
also suppression of ivermectin as a treatment.
Yes – I skimmed through the paper on Zero Hedge, I’ve downloaded your pdf and will read that at a slower pace.
What jumped out were that HCQ worked at the early stage (something stated by France’s Didier Raoult in spring 2020 – he made it quite clear even then that the drug had to be given at the very onset of symptoms to stop replication, that it was useless as a treatment for seriously sick patients, as it was no longer the virus making them ill but their own immune systems).
I found the point that ivermectin was useful the whole time very interesting, I thought it’s primary use was similar to that of HCQ, stopping replication.
If I remember correctly the paper speaks of the antibodies to the spike protein causing the same symptoms of disease as the virus and that therefore the vaxx would not work. Amanuensis has referred to this before, that it is the spike antibody that appears to be the big problem and that therefore the issue isn’t so much whether a vaxx is mrna, viral vector, subunit or old-fashioned whole virus, if they produce the spike antibody the problem remains the same.
That might also be the reason the antibodies to COVID fall off so fast they are having autoimmune effects and are getting used up!
Suppression of ANY early treatment
Take it from me it does work!
Vitamin D is a likely factor. There was also some research that suggests lower temperatures inhibit the immune response. Which was one of the many reasons why locking yourself in the house with the windows open was one of the more ridiculous of many ridiculous pieces of advice given to combat the virus.
We really do live in a fuckwitocracy.
We are seasonal, because everything else is as well, as we move around the Sun. There is still a lot to learn about how our immune system works in relation to environmental factors, and our diet etc around the year. But it should be common knowledge that things like heating and ventilation vary, along with weather related air quality in general. More likely to catch a bug in a crowded pub in late December, e.g. Alright, we don’t usually have “smog” these days, but there are many other things that are affected by the weather and our activities. The Vitamin D functionality has evidently become more interesting to some – even the NHS site has doubled the numbers of recommended supplementary intake, e.g. The market has opened up for enhanced levels as well – in my local supermarket I’ve bought some of it. 25 µg per day is available now – sold as things like “bone health”. That is 150% more than the recommended values in some places, but there seems to be a wide range, which suggests a degree of ignorance to go with it. In the early days, one of the first things that was discovered about it,… Read more »
I’m now a great believer in taking Vitamin D ! It does work! We haven’t been ill for 2 years in our household, in fact ever since we started taking supplements. Even my hay fever has disappeared, which, I have since discovered could be due to taking Quercetin. No wonder Big Pharma wanted to destroy alternative medicines!!
yes quercetin is the antidote for hayfever
Just to correct the article. All covid restrictions will not be removed in Wales as covid passes will still be required. I’m gonna say now that the covid passes are here to stay in all home nations. This dialling back is temporary. The venues requiring the passes will be slowly and quietly expanded.
Does it say that in the Mail article? I never click on Mail links….
Yeah, click on a Mail link and wait half-an-hour for it to download cookies and other spyware to you device. And then read very badly written Cabalist propaganda and disinformation.
If the mob with the pitch forks and flaming torches ever start marching, the Daily Mail needs to be listed as a place worth visiting.
The Daily Mail has knowingly aided and abetted genocide.
Can’t argue with that.
Use Ghostery. Eliminates all that crap.
Apart from the Sidebar of Shame – Orwell’s word ‘prolefeed’ could have been written specifically with that in mind!
And if The Daily Mail were to go, there’d be no readers’ comments to uptick/downtick – and ticking is a very important part of winning this war.
Hear, hear.
His hand has been forced by the upcoming Six Nations Rugby. Hard to explain away why people are allowed to attend in England but not Wales given cases are falling in both countries despite different restrictions
The key is testing and what it represents.
Pre 2020, you didn’t have to prove you were healthy. You were free to conduct your life without giving any explanations about your health to anyone.
Post 2020, the government has a right to dictate how you live your life dependent on your “health” status. That implies they have a right to find out what your “health” status is.
Until and unless COVID, coronavirus, or whatever you want to call it, has its status as some sort of special disease removed, really, nothing has fundamentally changed.
And to be honest, I feels we are quite a long way from that.
Beyond that point, the battle will then be to establish that never again will our government have the right to deal with a disease this way. Otherwise, the threat of all this coming back remains and is sure to materialise, the moment Gates, Fauci, China, the US military or whoever decide to do a rerun and claim a deadly virus is on the loose.
“Until and unless COVID, coronavirus, or whatever you want to call it, has its status as some sort of special disease removed, really, nothing has fundamentally changed.”
It’s had its designation as a condition of concern rescinded for some time now.
Yes I know. In March 2020, before the first lockdown.
I don’t mean officially. I mean in practice. In most people’s minds. That is why it will take so long.
Yes I get the feeling it’s an easing off of the throttle in order for things to carry on behind the scenes (sorry for the mixed metaphor). Same as last year’s ‘roadmap’ nonsense – all restrictions were lifted but HMG made no effort to ensure private companies and NGOs got rid of their own restrictions. Come autumn it will all start up again, or sooner if there is some sort of new globalist push for vax ID etc to bring us into line with Europe.
I’m going to go for ‘This is good news.’ I realise I could be punched in the face again in the Autumn, but this does sound good. Although, as at 12.13, it’s not on the BBC News…
Her Majesty’s Government reserves the right to punch you in the face and will not hesitate if the science supports it.
I agree with you. There will be a lot of ‘science’ done analysing what’s gone on over the last two years. Political allegiances will change and (fingers crossed) some people will be kicked out their jobs and hopefully some will be prosecuted. Fauci springs immediately to mind.
A neighbouring article has this headline: ‘New Emails Reveal Scientists Stifled Lab Leak Discussion to Protect “Science in China”.’ In the article itself is this question: ‘So why did Andersen’s view shift so dramatically in such a short space of time?’ To answer that we need to take a look at a rough timeline leading up to the virus appearing in Wuhan in late 2019. Up to 2014, scientific laboratories in the United States were openly conducting gain-of-function research and experimentation. Some accidents had occurred – I’m not sure whether in the US or elsewhere in the world – which had resulted in the release into local communities of potentially very dangerous viruses. Some scientists saw the danger that gain-of-function manipulation of viruses posed. (Gain-of-function is where scientists collect up viruses from the wild and genetically merge them with each other in a laboratory. The actual goal is to make more virulent and contagious viruses – militaries and despots across the world would pay generously for an effective bioweapon, such as a slow-burn virus that didn’t kill people so quickly that it hadn’t time to infect the entire community. Of course, Big Pharma also likes… Read more »
Valuable post.
Excellent post. I just want to add a comment to my comment on the other thread about ‘science’. The thing about doctors and scientists being not the kind of people we thought they were, is that they are actually people, and doing science does not change that. People are lazy, corrupt, greedy and all the rest. Becoming a scientist does not suddenly magic all that away. Yet we have set up this construct, ‘science’, as if it is some giant cosmic get of out of jail free card, as if it is everything religion claimed to be but failed to be. Paul Feyerabend, philosopher of science, pointed out that rationality is just another tradition of human thinking, and does not have any a priori claim to be superior to every other mode of thought. We have set ourselves up with a new god, the god science, and it turns out he is every bit as disappointing as every other false god. We thought it would be different somehow this time, but it never is. So yeah, trust the science says Greta, and all the progressives nod their heads and agree.
When many modern doctors leave medical school, they are little more than biological data banks.
A majority of trainee doctors spend their time in medical school simply cramming their heads with data and information, with no training in how to problem solve or to think critically.
I suspect that any problem solving and critical thinking abilities that trainee doctors have when entering medical school is drummed out of them. Big Pharma and the Rockefellers give large grants to medical schools and these like their doctors to be docile and obedient in prescribing their profitable pharmaceuticals.
These types (autism spectrum) that can quickly learn and hold enormous amounts of data in their heads are apt to lack normal emotional ability and be somewhere on the lower rungs of the sociopathy scale – or, in other words, cowardly geek-types that unquestionably obeys authority.
This would explain how so many doctors could go along with “vaccines” that they had to have known were causing serious injuries and even deaths.
Indeed – that and the payments they got for each jab they did. Mixing money and drug pushing is never a good idea.
The Oxycontin opioid addicted half of America because doctors didn’t take the trouble to ask the right questions of the pharma reps.
Instead, they enjoyed the away-days and ski weekends and happily prescribed the country into dependency.
Which sounds almost like our own politicians, when you think about it.
No government will put itself on trial Nuremberg style.
There has been a strong and coherent movement in the United States for quite some time with the aim of putting the corrupt and debauched players in the deep-state on trial. Both Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada had very childish and spiteful meltdowns in the last few days. The idiot in Canada accused “vaccine” objectors of being racists, misogynists and white supremists, while the moron in France practically said he’d remove their citizenship. These two little debauched twerps are simply showing their true puerile personalities and characters. What I believe drove these two disgusting human beings to reveal their true selves was pressure from the Cabal. I don’t think the COVID-19 plandemic worked out quite like the Cabal wanted it too. And the Cabal are taking their frustrations about this out on the likes of Macron and Trudeau. Perhaps they’ve reminded these two debauched freaks of all the blackmail material they have on them? Trudeau has kept company with many known paedophiles, some of whom have actually been convicted of crimes against children. And Macron, in the past, clearly had an affair with a male Arab bodyguard. I suspect the Cabal have a lot… Read more »
Dan Wooton was all across this in his show last night. Fauci and Collins in real trouble apparently according to the US correspondent he interviewed. The only sort of drawback to the show was that while we here have been familiar with these arguments for almost 2 years now, anyone coming new to his show for the first time wouldn’t have had a clue what he and the interviewee were discussing; bit more background, very slowly spelled out, would have been necessary, and to a newbie the whole thing could have smacked of utter conspiracy theory which they’d have been liable to dismiss and go back to ITN/Sky/BBC News [eugh]. Having said that, it seems that with almost each passing night, Dan gets bolder and braver; last night the word “propaganda” was used liberally, I think “tyranny” got a mention, among others, and the idea that the virus came from a bat was just laughed off the programme. The covid regulations were described as BS. So, keep up the excellent work Dan!!! We love it. A LOT of Dan’s opening to the show about the PM and the parties could have been culled directly from the BTL comments on the… Read more »
Javid changes his tune- why?
What is he planning?
Beware another deliberately demoralising “False Dawn”!
I think/hope there is a shift in narrative. Only a moron will think this winter needed a lockdown. I think the narrative against lockdowns in general is gaining ground and people will want to switch sides earlier rather than later.
Not sure if they will say ‘lockdowns 1-3 were needed but this winter wasn’t’ or whether they will look to blame the scientists
sadly for all the evidence marshalled here (charts,graphs etc) against lockdowns all it would take to decisively turn public opinion is a picture of Boris and chums in part hats doing the conga.
I have a feeling that the leak of the 2 parties in no 10 into the early hours the night before DofE’s funeral, forcing No 10 to apologise to Queen made to sit on her own at his funeral might be what does for him.
I hope you’re right.
But I have to say, I despair for the future. I wandered up and down the high street of my local Dorset market town. And was shocked and the prevalence of masks on the faces of people walking outside. And not just old people, either. Young healthy lads and pram-pushing young mothers.
Masks have become the “new normal.” Just day there was some arrant nonsense in The Guardian about a “study” showing people felt surgical-masked faces were “most attractive.” God only knows when, or if, they’ll ever go from commercial airplanes.
I have to say, I understand how massive human tragedies like the Holocaust, or Mao’s Great Leap Forward, or even Witch Burnings could have happened. The art of critical thinking is one that doesn’t seem very prevalent in the human species.
I’ve said before that I think the best analogy to the last 2 years is the Chinese deciding to kill every sparrow in China – which resulted in ecological collapse and 45 million dead of starvation. And reimporting sparrows from Russia
How could anyone be so stupid? Well – ‘we’ do it all the time and we have just done over the last 2 years what may look like the Chinese experiment in years to come.
I remember being taught about the Chinese sparrow disaster by a teacher way back in junior school, in the sixties. .
The lesson has stayed with me. I can still visualize the teacher in question explaining it. I think it’s coloured so much of my life. It sowed my distrust of the state and of socialism; made me try to bear in mind the dangers of focusing on one aspect of a problem and not considering that there might be a bigger picture; made me really distrustful of ‘common-sense’ solutions; hell, even made me permanently distrustful of anything that is the work of Chinese people – they’re the ones who enthusiastically carried out the cull, after all.
“Some sparrows found a refuge in the extraterritorial premises of various diplomatic missions in China. The personnel of the Polish embassy in Beijing denied the Chinese request of entering the premises of the embassy to scare away the sparrows who were hiding there and as a result the embassy was surrounded by people with drums. After two days of constant drumming, the Poles had to use shovels to clear the embassy of dead sparrows”
“…even made me permanently distrustful of anything that is the work of Chinese people”
I respect your opinion Paul though I have to say that the bat & pangolin soup from my local takeaway is absolutely first class. Achoo, achoo, achoooooo!
I never heard of this. I’m sitting here in tears after reading it. What the hell is wrong with the human race? That so many members of a totalitarian government are bat-shit crazy is not such a surprise, but for ordinary people to respond so enthusiastically to such cruelty and madness is beyond comprehension.
Are the Chinese more susceptible to mass formation than other peoples? After all, binding the feet of women at birth in order to cripple them for life is not exactly the most sane of policies, cultural or not. It seems insane to have anything to do with such people, on any level.
Consequences eh?
Maybe the same small Dorset market town, Drew, but I’ve noticed exactly the same in mine. It’s the whole age range as far as I can see and still well over 90% compliance in shops.
So in Dorset they don’t know “it’s all over” ?
Regrettably not! I’ve done my best but it’s obviously not good enough. After I’d posted the above comment I was out in the car and passed two cars where both drivers were alone and masked, all within the space of a mile.
Three cars within a mile of each other in Dorset? God it’s busy for this time of year
Well I’m happy to report today was market day in our town and most of the masks had disappeared, last week hjowever about 99% had decided to wear one!
My guess is digital IDs from April, plus continued T&T, called laughingly ‘living with COVID’.
Until our pre-2020 freedoms are returned in full, it’s existing and not living.
Anyone who has a Twitter a.c should relentlessly tweet the truth at Javid until he snaps. He seems to have a short fuse, based on past form. Currently he’s still spouting nonsense about vaccines being our salvation.
If you challenge Javid on Twitter he’ll simply tell his freedom of speech suppressors in Whitehall to delete your account. And if your challenge had merit, he’d send the Gestapo round to charge you with a hate crime.
Careful, he’ll be on his walkie-talkie getting his brother onto you
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/bas-javid-why-I-joined-the-police
Bas Javid:
They missed all the “Asian” paedophile grooming gangs.
Sounds like celtleiter Drakeford is worrying about being shoved in front of a wall Ceausescu style when the Welsh people realise what he’s inflicted on their health, wealth and liberty!
Ahem!
I have wattsapped that same photo many times over the last 2 years!
A dog is forever, not just Christmas. But dictators only get till Boxing Day.
Nah – Romanians are a tough bunch and the Welsh, certainly of this generation, are bed wetting cowards. They’ll all be terrified that they might not be living in a sterilised gulag.
I shall believe it when I see it. when I can leave and re-enter the country without having to show some poxy health record I’ll accept this globalists’ coup has failed.
Same here. I planned to spend part of my retirement travelling around Europe by train and even wasted money renewing my passport in Jan 2020. Now it looks as if I’ll be confined to this country although my passport as ever uses the words ‘without let or hindrance’.
I think the ****s assume that their coercion … ‘no jab, no flight’ … policy will induce most people to get injected. No it f****** won’t.
Unless I can work out what exactly Dolores Cahill does to get on flights with no ‘procedures’ … except for sternly talking to people who block her way about what the law says … I’m stuck this side of the Channel.
I have made a number of predictions in the past. The last one was the moment the South African data broke and I said this will be all over by spring, bar the shouting. Fully over by summer.
So far all my predictions have panned out.
You won’t have a problem travelling across Europe this summer, and certainly not next summer.
Let’s see which, if any, powers they relinquish first. Then we can count chickens.
I think they will seek to extend them
You could always buy a dinghy 😉
If you ever find out will you post on here for the rest of us.
Budget carriers will be breaking down doors to have any restrictions on travel rescinded. It’ll take those that have survived 10 years to get back on an even keel.
Unless there is a global economic collapse in that time (or major war).
Order in some extra stomach powders, you are going to be hearing more and more of this vomit inducing hypocrisy in the coming months.
I understand from people who have attended such venues ( eg;Tottenham Hotspur) where covid passes are required that they are not checked anyway. There are signs saying ‘random checks in operation’ but they don’t even do that. I believe the same happens in France.
This is our experience travelling all over Europe during 2020 and 2021. 2022 is shaping up well. France is included in my little piece of news. Border guards have been the category of person giving the fewest f*cks.
Unfortunately my unvaxxed daughter ALWAYS has to show a LFT to get into a nighclub
Oh, I have no doubt such venues exist but it is by no means policed as much as MSM tell us it is. Not that I would know from personal experience as I have no intention of going to any venue that even ‘goes through the motions’. Unless a venue is totally without limitations, policed or not, I am not giving them my cash.
Same here. I reserve my particular ire for those businesses such as the Royal Albert Hall which imposed health apartheid when it was not even a legal requirement.
Our local theatre was doing the same. I find myself in conflict – I want it to stay open, of course, but at the same time I want the whole nauseating lot of them to be thrown on the dole queue.
Oddly enough a contributor yesterday (BTL on the round up I believe) shared a recent experience at Spurs where he was harassed by stewards to show papers, whilst fellow fans didn’t exactly back him either. Sounded like a thoroughly unpleasant experience. In addition the fanbase of my club were moaning on Twitter the other month that papers weren’t being checked hard enough and kindly requesting the club step up the fascism on matchdays.
Masks must go too, it’s not an option to leave them in place.
I agree but it will be a very long while before they are the exception. Many are committed to them for life – certainly in shops.
When the swelling ranks of the unmasked begin pointing to, and laughing at them in supermarkets, they’ll stop.
‘Mummy, why is that lady hiding her face, is she a robber?’
‘Yes darling, one of the Great Covid Robbers who stole our economy and liberties’.
I doubt that will happen. No one, adult or child has pointed to me or made issue that I am often the only person in a supermarket WITHOUT a mask. I suspect once the mandate is dropped there will be a (very) gradual discarding of the masks but some will cling onto them, probably for life now. Around my Home Counties area it was still about 50/50 just before the mask mandate was reintoduced as clearly many could not let go of them.. We have a long, long way to go yet.
Until the people A) wake up [and see what partygate demonstrated – there was nothing to REALLY fear like the government was telling us – how may parties is it now? I’ve lost count] or B) the government specifically TELLS the fearful masses to stop wearing them (not going to happen) then the masks will be worn by the fearful because “you just can’t be too careful” and you have to “stay safe”
We have not been wearing masks and have not been challenged. Try it!
Even more so than passports, they affect more people.
You only need to make them advisory and prevent discrimination against those that choose to breath fresh air rather than recycled bacteria.
Why advisory? They don’t work.
Of course they don’t, but some people think they do and I don’t want to spoil their party. They are enjoying themselves, loving it all – leave them to it and laugh at them but no need to discriminate against the fools, that is what they have been doing to us all this time.
Drakeford’s policies are all over the place.
It only makes sense if his main priority is merely to do something different than England.
Drakeford is one of those awful Teetotallers and he was desperate to stop every Welshman drinking because he doesn’t like it.
Why is he so fat and pasty if he doesn’t drink?
As the rancid establishment look over their shoulders at the figures that cannot be denied, they’re forced into dropping the vax pass coz your many times more likely to catch the convid or pass it on if your stabbed with the cytotixin, but the coronavirus act remains in place!
Whilst this malevolant shower of establishment shite move the deckchairs on the Titanic, the massive fucking elephant in the room is current all cause excess mortality (post vaccine rollout) that’s not tagged as a covid death…Why is there a 40% increase in deaths of working age people? Why wont the ONS release child death figures post vax rollout for their age group? There’s a storm coming!!!
Lockdown is such a massive policy response I’m surprised it was done on the say so of a handful of mentally ill ‘scientists’ – with poor track records (Ferguson)
I would expect to be pointed to scores of papers from pre-2020 showing how – on balance – it would be an appropriate response for a virus of spreadability X and mortality Y. When to apply these and to what extent. I would expect most Universities to have a ‘Lockdown Studies Unit’ which have researched this idea in depth for decades and has the evidence of the effects afterwards for every time it has been applied historically.
It seems an extreme example of the butterfly effect. A scientist has a ‘vision’ and the world follows like the Pied Piper. Surely we can be governed better than this?
Hmmm. “We have never been at war with East Asian Covid” to paraphrase George slightly.
For Drakeford’s reverse ferret to be a U turn he’d have to actually have a substantive policy to turn. He doesn’t. His sole focus is his own electoral popularity. He stirs up hatred and fear when he thinks the polls will favour him for doing so; he reverses when the polls indicate he’s losing support.
Politicians are generally a cynical and self seeking breed. Drakeford is one of the very worst: a complete vacuum of principle, policy, evidence, reason and integrity. It’s a bitter irony that the Welsh devotion to Labour has enabled a politician so cynical and so utterly devoid of any interest in serving the people of Wales.
Ten days’ isolation for any “unvaccinated” adult entering or returning to Britain – whatever their citizenship, British or foreign – is a major restriction.
Stop it – your’e killing me! It’s so excruciatingly funny, to the point of it being unbearable. For the love of God, show some mercy.
Where’s that laughing-policeman when you need him?
There’s only thought police now!
Have you had too much to think?
Drakeford could gain a smidgen of credit if he admitted he got it wrong a fortnight ago, but don’t hold your breath.
Has the word fortnight been redefined to mean 2 years?
Those who believe it’s highly unlikely that the British state will sack patient-facing [*] healthworkers who are “unvaccinated” should take a look at Tunisia, where some schoolteachers who are “unvaccinated” are being told that they must WORK WITHOUT GETTING PAID.
Note
*) Sorry but I am not going to use the term “front line”.
Something’s happened in the UK which has surely thrown a monkey wrench in this whole enterprise. It’s fascinating. I knew something was up at the end of the last round of restrictions in mid 2021. These things require momentum and ours was lost somewhere in the early autumn. The problem (from the perspective of the technocrats) was that we in the UK were given a roughly four month taste of normality; almost no restrictions and no resultant mass casualties (of course). So it had already become a bit tenuous in these parts as we headed toward winter. Other localities kept certain restrictions in place and masks (an important visual/psychological reminder) were never withdrawn. So even before the arrival of the omicron narrative the fear was comparatively low and, well look around you, it took only a whiff of ‘it’s not as dangerous as delta’ for many, many brits to think it’s all over. Perhaps bojo is now being threatened/punished for this by the globalist influenced parts of the establishment. I don’t know. But if the aim was overbearing technocratic control domestically (don’t think it was btw) they’ve fucked it, and I think there’s no way back.
Good comment. In addition I’d say the fact that many people have actually ‘had’ Covid has greatly reduced the fear factor. For 2020 and 2021 Covid was presented as this new mythical disease that most were hearing about on telly that was wicked deadly and must be avoided like Ebola cuz it can kill anyone. Not many personally ever got it, or knew anyone that did but they knew it was out there waiting for them. It was put onto a ridiculous pedestal because of the government and media reaction and became a boogeyman. Now people are ‘getting it’ (testing positive) in their hundreds and thousands and realising it isn’t actually that bad after all, and maybe, just maybe considering the possibility that it wasn’t worth destroying our civilisation for. I mean whether or not that’s the case, I think the past few months have had a ‘de-mystifying’ effect.
I think the ‘evil heartless tories partying while grannies died alone’ schtick is having an effect too. For some it’s causing them to double down, ‘well if they won’t follow the rules we’ll have to show we DO’ etc – but for many there will be a feeling of if they’re not bothering, why should I? (Of course, most won’t make the obvious conclusion that if 100+ government officials weren’t bothered about catching Covid maybe it wasn’t that serious after all).
You’d have to be nothing short of insane to “double down” on compliance. Anyone with half a grain of sense would abandon them completely.
If testing stopped everywhere in UK this whole thing would be over by tomorrow.
You are dead right, but unfortunately at this point we are dealing with people who have quite literally gone insane. So the double-downers will be ten-a-penny, especially the Guardian reading types whose raison d’etre is hating those nasty Tories
you may be right – but what about the discrepancy between England and the other celtic fringe nations of the UK [who all dialled everything up after Gove told them to]???
zero-covid lot have gone a bit quiet!
I remain a big advocate for it.
Shame the downticker didn’t get your tongue in cheek!!
I know.. 🙄🙄🙄 I refuse to end comments with /s; I’m not signposting my jokes!
Yes, it takes all the fun out of it.
Nicola Sturgeon will increase restrictions, to be more Scottishy because Scotland doesn’t need fossil fuels or an economy.
How do you make a scotch egg without sausage meat and eggs?
That is unionist Quisling treason, according to Nanny Ceausescu….
And I will add another fact about the new ‘reset’ Scotland – lightly poached mars bars in almond milk is not going to fly either.
NB. It must be a thankless task milking an almond, but I know somebody does it, I have seen it on the supermarket shelves.
Did ye no ken that the so-called ‘Scotch egg’ is, like the tartan, nothing but an invention o’ the English? The oppressed Scots have always been too poor tae afford eggs or meat.
But never too poor to afford Scotch
Not long now to ‘Burn’s Night’. Wait and see what she does about that. Perhaps they need a new cultural event – Sturgeon Night, or whatever!
She cancelled Hogmanay on whim, she will do the same with Burn’s Night
None of this has been a problem to me – I wear an invisible mask, have an invisible covid passport, did invisible exercising, and invisible socializing. Cannot see the problem? The Invisible Man.
At least you’re being transparent about it.
I can see where you’re coming from
Mmm, Van Tam quits yesterday, then this.
Although I’m suspicious, it does appear that there is a certain amount of in-fighting going on. Let’s hope the cracks widen.
Does it seem to you that somebody somewhere has got wind of a leadership challenge and they are rushing to present the ‘friendly face’ of covid dissent because it has suddenly become popular?
Not Van Tam of course, but Frost and Javed could be contenders.
Yes – something is going on.
It’ll be interesting to see what else the spooks have in their blackmail library in the event partygate doesn’t work in getting rid of Johnson (I just hope it’s not a video of him in a cupboard, back-scuttling an ex-colleague e.g. a warmly wrapped, hen-murdering pensioner).
Javid’s head and big spoon!
I’ve heard an alternate theory that Van Tam has quit because he knows some really nasty oppression is on its way and he wants no part of it. I laughed quite hard at that one.
If it’s nasty oppression it will be us.
There’s got to be! The most dishonest and selfish people in the world stage a gigantic fraud. It will be riven with backstabbing, betrayal and infighting. Get the 🍿!
Anyone noticed that Prof Van Tam is going to ‘leave his position’ in the next few months? Presumably (IMHO) job done and off to earn $$$ in Big Pharma or to work for the WEF as payment for doing their bidding?