Lockdown Sceptic Molly Kingsley: “I Was Cast as an Extremist But I’ve Since Been Proved Right”
Well, that sounds familiar! In an interview in the Telegraph, Molly Kingsley, co-founder of UsForThem, tells Camilla Tominey she was branded an ‘anti-vaxxer’ for wanting to keep schools open during the lockdown, but has since been vindicated.
For lockdown sceptic Molly Kingsley, the discovery that she was spied on by the Government in an attempt to curtail discussion of its controversial coronavirus policies has been nothing short of horrifying.
The mother of two, 44, was disgusted to find out articles she had written for The Telegraph cautioning against school closures, the wearing of face masks in classrooms and the vaccination of children had been flagged by the Counter-Disinformation Unit (CDU), set up by ministers to tackle supposed domestic “threats”.
Yet having endured three years of hatred and abuse for standing up for parents and children during the pandemic, she wasn’t surprised to read Saturday’s Daily Telegraph’s expose, revealing that as well as covertly monitoring lockdown critics with artificial intelligence, social media firms may have used technology to stop certain posts being promoted, circulated or widely shared after being pinpointed by the CDU or its counterpart in the Cabinet Office.
Some posts were even removed from social media altogether following meetings of the Counter-Disinformation Policy Forum, which brought together civil servants from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and technology giants – including Facebook and Google – as well as the BBC to discuss how to limit the spread of what was considered COVID-19 disinformation.
MPs and freedom of speech campaigners have condemned the “truly chilling” disclosures as “a tool for censoring British citizens” akin to those of the Chinese Communist Party.
But for the Cambridge-based former lawyer turned campaigner, the spying has had such a profound effect that she is now considering legal action against the Government in a bid to prompt Covid disclosures even bigger than Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” insists Ms Kingsley. “We need absolute clarity on which ministers and officials knew and authorised this, exactly which agencies were involved, and on what scale.
“Most importantly, we need to know the true impact. Did the collaboration between the Government and social media companies amount to actual censorship? And if so, how on earth was this allowed to happen in a supposedly liberal democracy? If the only way to force disclosure is through litigation then absolutely I would consider that, to get the answers the public deserves.
“I am very open to spending the rest of my life making the Government and all those involved in the decision-making around the pandemic more accountable to the people they serve. I don’t believe this is a political framework that should be inherited by our children. Until we correct the failings of this period then we will be stuck in this doom loop of bad decision-making.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: As an addendum to the above story, Molly Kingsley has called on Elon Musk to disclose what Twitter knew about the Government’s attempts to censor her and other lockdown sceptics.
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“The Counter Disinformation Unit”——-This sounds like some office in Moscow in the old Soviet Union. Well we don’t have them anymore, but we do have the “Reset” and we can’t have anyone undermining that agenda can we now?
The ‘Extremists’ like Molly and myself were never in UberGruepenFuehrer Castreau of Canada’s words, ‘a fringe minority’…we were large, probably 1/3 or more of the population, now i daresay probably 50% are in some way awake (many only partially). Our views were to quote Castreau, ‘unacceptable’ to the fascists. LD as Molly wrote about was a colossal totalitarianism. But it is worse than what she wrote. She understates it. The LDs were used to murder some 30 K old people and count them as Rona. They were used to destroy SMBs. They were used to fear monger the pop into compliance. They were used to justify the fake PCR tests and the stabbinations which killed 5 x more than the virus itself (150 K vs. 30 K max from Rona not with fake tests). The LDs allowed these criminal fascists to profit from the printing of fake money – endless theft, graft, payments for all things Rona, bribery to comply etc etc. They pulled forward digital IDs, digital money and gave the fascists a template for future climate-permafrost melting-new scariants-lockdowns. Pilot projects and all that Molly old girl.
Don’t merely ”consider” legal action, do it! This ever-increasing censorship poses a huge threat and is incredibly concerning. Here David Thunder covers the Digital Services Act; ”Who can argue against a “safe, predictable and trusted online environment”? Who would argue against “consumer protection”? And who would argue against Mr Breton’s commitment to the fight against “disinformation”? I certainly would, because when a person or institution in a position of great power endorses values like “predictability,” rails against “disinformation,” and promises to keep us all “safe” on the internet, you can be sure that it will be “safety,” “predictability,” and “disinformation,” as viewed from their self-serving ideological and political perspective. I am just as worried as Mr Breton about “disinformation,” but my chief concern is with disinformation coming from official sources, which can do an extraordinary amount of harm due to the extraordinary reach and prestige of official organisations. It is these same organisations that Mr Breton would like to put in charge of policing “disinformation”: organisations like national governments, that have been among the most frequent perpetrators of false and misleading information, on matters of no small moment, from the efficacy and safety of Covid vaccines, masks and lockdowns to the… Read more »
Interesting coverage of these and other covid related topics over on TCW today. And a petition here regarding government overreach:
Require impact assessments and approval of MPs for all emergency legislation
I’ve signed that. However, government limiting its own power — fat chance.
Done, although I doubt that it will make one iota of difference.
There has to be an impact to assess, and the MPs would nod it through anyway.
Molly, you’re the best kind.
Don’t let them **** with our kids. Because what the hell else is it all about if not for the kids.
Of course she has been “proved right” but we should never forget that the burden of proof was always on the loonies proposing never before used or considered measures that were entirely evidence-free. The orthodox “pandemic” response was to more or less do nothing. What was done was novel. It’s one of the key Big Lies of the covid maniacs that us sceptics and places like Sweden were somehow proposing crazy ideas that we had to prove were correct.
Completely agree.
This country, in particular, knew, knows, so much about common cold viruses including coronaviruses because the long suffering taxpayer has invested a fortune in research, in particular in funding the Common Cold Unit.
‘It is therefore arguable that in the case of infections like coronavirus or rhinovirus colds, which are normally quickly self-limited, the best approach would be to relieve the patient’s discomfort and disability and leave their immune system to take care of the virus.’
‘A View from the Common Cold Unit’ 1992
Whose advice to follow, ‘Teddy’, the CCP and Gates Foundation or our very own and very splendid David Tyrrell, Head of the Common Cold Unit? Tricky…..or not really….unless, apparently, you studied Classics or PPE at one of Britain’s finest universities…..
We are in danger of believing the Government’s narrative about when all this started. We are expected to believe it was either Cameron-Clegg’s nudge unit or Covid that brought it about or more generally that developments in social media facilitated it.
It may be this sort of thing has been going on for decades.
we know the Westminster Parties, BBC and national newspaper titles met and cooperated at the time of the EEC referendum in the 1970s. It seems unlikely they would give up such a convenience afterwards.
it seems very likely to me that any party or campaign disapproved of with enough vigour might have been targeted by them. I know that in UKIP we suspected it because too many people rocked up and seemed to have unlimited time to cause mayhem and miraculously found allies almost immediately. We found several with unexplained career gaps and evident links with security work or the Tories.
The Counter Disinformation Unit = The Ministry of Truth.
The b@stards in the Establishment, which let’s face it is virtually all of them, consider Orwell’s 1984 to be an instruction manual.
According to the press this morning, Oliver Dowden, the MP for Hertsmere was the bar steward who directed the CDU to spy on British people who did not accept the government lies and propaganda. There’s the individual that Molly Kingsley needs to sue asabp
Er weren’t UK Column covering this years ago? And where have the Telegraph been for the last 3 years? Oh that’s right getting their revenue from the government and TBAMGF.
The FT reports that Lloyds Bank are threatening to push the TheDaily Telegrah‘s owner into administration. Not surprised at this. The DT stooped to join the gutter press the minute it took Gates’ money. They must have lost thousands of loyal readers and continue to do so .
https://www.ft.com/content/6522ee84-9ac0-4ac5-9833-e4339ff9b407
“more accountable to the people they serve” – I would replace “more” with “fully”. It hit the nail on he head though, that govts SERVE us, with our consent, they don’t RULE us.
Right from the start, the closing down of free choice, i.e. whether to be vaccinated or take the known, demonstrably safe & effective (but banned) therapeutics, whether to stay distanced/isolated or continue as normal, whether to travel or not, etc., was viciously enforced. Govts have no business locking whole populations down, ever.
The corrective action in the ‘political framework’, from rule back to serve, must be made, yet we already see the WHO and UN trying to establish this lockdown framework permanently. Slippery slope.
I note that the churches are still deafeningly silent on this. I’m also still waiting for the ABofC to apologize for calling everyone who declined the vaccine ‘immoral’.
My list of govt lies… • That masks are effective • That people who are asymptomatic can transmit • That asymptomatic transmission was a pandemic driver • That the vaccines are “safe and effective” • That it was just “3 weeks to flatten the curve” • That the NHS was far more important to ‘save’ than the people it treats • That you just needed 1 vaccine shot • That you only needed a 2nd vaccine shot • That you only now need to have a ‘booster’ (and all the subsequent ones no doubt) • That the existing vaccines (boosters) are effective against Omicron • That there was no conflict of interest between Big Pharma, government advisers and uber organisations and individuals such as WEF and Bill Gates • That washing hands whilst singing Happy Birthday was a rational response to a ‘lethal’ virus • That the virus came from nature (bats) • That the vaccines are fully tested • That the vaccines are approved • That full information about the vaccines and their side effects is available to enable fully informed consent • That there are no early stage safe and effective (and cheap) therapeutic treatment alternatives to the… Read more »
Great. ————-I appreciate people who do their homework.
Molly and others like her, along with anyone who doesn’t already know will be pleased to hear that Tucker is BACK!
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1666203439146172419