Sir,
“You choose him – you own him”: in the comments to our editor’s Wednesday’s Daily Betrayal piece someone laid into Hapless Hancock’s performance and record in government as spelled out in Wikipedia. There is certainly something wrong with the system – how else could we end up with serial philanderers (Johnson), entitled spineless poshoes (Cameron), out-of-their-depth androids (May), spivs and chancers (Blair), traitors (Heath), blithering idiots (Major) or more traitors (Wilson), at the top of the political dung heap? It is perhaps invidious to choose Call Me Matt (an amiable and polite young man who has been terribly over-promoted) as a target when there are so many failures and under-performers on both sides of the House of Commons, but he does typify the problems we have with those who fight their way up the greasy pole and end up ruling us. Examining his background and performance will help us understand what is going on.
In 2017 he said on Radio Suffolk that he had always supported Brexit. You can search online and find an image of him grinning inanely while holding a Remain flag. His chief political talent is telling absolutely bare-faced lies without shame. But that is not the worst that can be said about him.
As Energy Minister he didn’t know that electricity once generated has to be used or stored, it doesn’t just hang around waiting for someone to switch on their kettle. Without that knowledge – his Climate-Change-deranged civil servants hadn’t briefed him on that as they knew his unenquiring mind wouldn’t look behind their flim-flam about powering the UK with renewables – he just believed what he was told. That same attitude has made the Health Secretary putty in the hands of SAGE and the modellers at Imperial. Anyone with the least amount of intellectual curiosity would have looked at their record on bird flu etc and immediately demanded a different team as advisors. Apparently his qualification to be the man dealing with CV19 is that he once watched a TV drama about a pandemic. Wide-eyed, trusting, he has swallowed the plague narrative and then excused himself from ever looking at whether the narrative matched reality.
The protégé of a horsey family which has millions to spend on getting one of their jockeys into power, the preferred candidate of the Jockey Club, he epitomises the failures of the Conservative Party to break free from its privileged roots. Hence lockdown, hence the Green bollards talked by our masters, hence the increasingly successful attempts by the Green nutters to seize power by rotting our institutions from within.
Balding Lothario Boris Johnson is cut from the same cloth: Arts graduate, a life where the realities of bills and making ends meet don’t impinge. Their class doesn’t understand that £3 a week for access to TV programmes, a fiver extra a week for electricity (it’s going to more than that, much more) really matters to many of the people who vote for them in spite of what they have done up to now.
In Groundhog Day Phil Connors, who is reaching the end of his tether, does a piece to camera which sums up our future if we do not resist these people, or, having resisted, lose:
“I’ll give you a [winter] prediction. It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you the rest of your lives”
When the price of energy leaps, when the cloud rolls in over the solar panels and the wind drops to damn all for a week, when the lights go out then maybe the great British public will wake up. Maybe.
I’ll give you a forecast about our future winters. They’re gonna be cold. They’re gonna be dark. And our children will blame us.
Respectfully, Julian Flood
~~~ OOO ~~~
Sir,
Distractions avoid questions! Whilst the EU is getting itself into all sorts of trouble by being exactly what it is and doing what it is set up to do, it is serving a more important need in the broader aspects of the government’s desire to shift the agenda onto battle grounds it believes it can win on. It just happens that the EU has played nicely into this one, because the agenda had already been neatly diverted into; how many have been vaccinated? Aren’t we doing well? Our vaccine is the tops, and then the heavy boots of the EU just give the whole irrelevance a supercharged boost.
In the meantime, of course, nobody is asking the really important questions, like does it work, what efficacy plan is in place, how will we ever know if it’s working or if reducing infections were the result of changing testing profiles or natural immunity, or the weather? Why don’t we have a vaccine injury reporting hotline, like the US, why were animal trials skipped, why aren’t the grand efficacy and safety proclamations of the very people who make, sell and benefit from these injections independently assessed?
Why not indeed? The government, of course doesn’t want anyone asking such awkward questions, or pointing out that everything it has done has worsened the situation, not bettered it. A cabal of the self-interested is still busily crashing our economy and removing our freedoms yet having a negative effect on the overall situation. No wonder distractions abound.
If it isn’t a new variant, it’s heroes and villains, and so blatant that nobody seems to notice. The recently passed veteran Tom Moore was another of these godsends with just a little help from the propaganda department, you know those same people who wanted everyone to clap for the NHS. Clearly a decent guy, who served his country in time of war, just like millions of others, yet in this time of misdirection and subterfuge he provided a story that left all reason behind. Just to keep the focus away from reality a little more he was knighted, and politicians of all variety clamour to acknowledge this brand new ‘national treasure’. A statue? Why of course. It keeps those awkward questions away for just a little bit longer.
The one fundamental question that nobody has ever asked is ‘why do pandemics go away’? They all do, in the sense that they are no longer pandemics. The causal factors don’t, because former viruses and bacterial infections still exist. Scarlet Fever, at one time killed more children than all the other childhood illnesses put together, yet now that morbidity is a long distant memory. It still exists, in about 10%-15% of schoolchildren, but it does no harm. So why is that?
Why did the H1N1 pandemic of 2009 go away? What about the H3N2 pandemic of 1968? What about all the Influenza outbreaks that occur every few years? Why did they all end, why are they not still dangerous?
Just one expression of simple logic totally undermines the government’s actions. None of these pandemics were resolved by lockdowns, masks or closing businesses. None of them were resolved by mass vaccination. These pandemics ended and these measures weren’t used at all. Today we have a live example, Sweden, but nobody wants to notice, we all prefer cheering the NHS, being on Sir Tom’s side, and berating the EU.
The danger is that not enough people are thinking or speaking out as the preference is to chase the government inspired diversions instead. So, journalists, why is that?
Respectfully, David Allen
Both letters highlight the lack of quality of our MPs. This is due to the fact that they are only incidentally representing their constituents. Actally,all their devotion goes to:-
The party that offered them the chance to be their representative for their party, to the people
The party that stops them thinking by giving them scripted answers.
The party that advertises world wide what he will do .( manifesto ).
The party that can protect him from his constitency commitee which is his main fear . Which in turn empowers the Party Committee.
Representing his constituents ? Speaches, Dinners, One allowed question a year about a local interest or concern given before PMQs and therefore forgotten. Fobbed of with a promise to write a letteretc.
How did this happen ?
It stopped totally, unbelivably, rapaciously corrupt MP seeking nothing except personal gain through constantly shifting transactions with the equally criminal. Constantly shifting with nothing at all done. Even worse then now. So the present was an improvement. Can we not be as good as they were.
So much is fact
So we’ve been here before. So improve the present party system, Stop fiddlig around Recognise the problem and cure it for another 200 years.
And if you keep coming up against a committee for this or that, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
TG Spokes, one thing to say, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Wake me up someone when he has finished. This mantra of his over committees is getting boring now, and I think he would prefer the Chinese way of doing politics so much more to his liking. Change the record for goodness sake!!!
You should know Colin, ” No-one ever learns untill it has been repeated 8 times. To be safe I’ve at least doubled that.
Err . . . . How come I missed these two letters on Saturday 6th?
Oh well. Thanks for digging more dirt against Hancock but please don’t confuse the Jockey Club and racehorse industry with all horse owners/lovers/used to be, riders. Cobs and ponies (including native) are my cup of tea.
And please don’t choose lack of animal experimentation as a criticism of the rushed vaccine. Vivisection is outright cruelty and bad science it proves nothing about potential human reactions.
The vivisectors say it themselves, if there is a bad animal reaction, well that does not prove anything, if there is a favourable animal response it does, so they move on. There are now better laboratory and computer based methods of testing drugs.
Oh and please don’t slag off ALL Arts Degrees. I would not have classed my degree in Philosophy as Arts. It was the powers that be wot dunnit!
Otherwise Julian Flood, I agree with you.
And David Allen too.
Two really wonderful letters. Each one highlighting the fact that the British political system is rotten to the core, It has been rotten for a very long time to some degree of other. But, just now we are living through one of those periods when the ‘rottenness’ has reached the ‘fully ripened pustule’ stage and has burst open to contaminate everywhere and everybody with its rancid putrescence!
The fact is that the system has precluded any chance of a truly independent candidate with any sense of altruism, patriotism or true philanthropy from ever being elected into the HOC. For a start, the costs of self promotion are too high; the chance of the MSM or the biased State Broadcaster of Propaganda ever taking up the cause of an independent and giving him/her publicity or air time is so minimal as to be derisible! Secondly, the electorate has for so long been anaesthetised and silenced by the LibLabCon brain numbing machine, it has lost the power of being able to reason and judge for itself. Generations have voted by ‘colour party’ (blue, red, yellow, green) without a thought as to whether the so-called mission statements, that they from time to time produce, have any relevance or credence.
British politics is certainly in a black hole (can one still use that expression I ask myself?). Given the state of the voting system being currently manifest in the USA and the recently suspected voting manipulation in the UK, from whence will come the necessary ‘saviour’ to restore some semblance of true democracy for this Country?
Frederica. The ‘system’ works against new Parties as well as Independents.
The pustule erupting! YUK! Duck everybody!
Perhaps it is crumbling and we can start to undermine it in May.
For those who think covid is not serious.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9230215/Man-UKs-longest-suffering-Covid-patient-takes-steps-March-year.html
Harry. Why do pandemics go away?
Two excellent letters.
Further to David Allen’s comments, they got it right back in March last year, but no one took any notice, and the false narrative has been ramping up and morphing ever since.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#definition-of-hcid
“Status of COVID-19
As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK.
“The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.
“The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.”
Phil. I hope HarryAgain reads that.
And Phil O’Sophical When did the first lock down end? Probably that was not a reaction to the virus being ‘declassified’. But what strikes me is that there should have been no more lockdowns after that first one.
We’d built the extra hospital capacity. The virus was known to die back in Summer like all flus.
But no, wonderful Hancock and his advisors fed more warnings to the Media and so it has gone on.
Raphael….”…….they are even worse than ours” you rightly say.
What they have in the USA, which I have pointed out on numerous occasions, is in reality, an Obama Third Term.
The world has certainly not been given the facts about the last US Election, but to my mind suffice to say, they still have Obama at the helm……of a country in turmoil and in the heart of a ‘perfect storm’.
Obama has been a mystery character from the very start.
Some say he was ‘magiked’ by a joint CIA/FBI plot……probably because they ‘had the goods on him’ because of his past confused illicit bogus history, his Communist Associates and his up-bringing as a Muslim………..and then of course his drug taking and homosexuality.
So….the powers that be (the CIA/FBI criminal cartel) in the absence from the limelight of ‘their man’, only required a ‘puppet, or two’ with Obama ruling from the shadows of Washington……a man over whom they had, and still have, total control.
I fear that the ‘American Corruption Industry’ so long governed by both the Kennedy and Bush Clans now have the DOJ in their pockets,to the extent that the only possible remaining resistance can only come via The Military………but that, to my mind, would be the End-Game…..because without an independent and strong America, the West will dissolve into chaos……..resulting in a form of World Communism……and with the intrusion into all areas of the world by the spread of the Silk Road,.probably within twenty years.
Correct! I am indeed a prophet of Doom!
That’s what keeps me happy…………
As Dave Allen writes: “What about the H3N2 pandemic of 1968? What about all the Influenza outbreaks that occur every few years? Why did they all end, why are they not still dangerous?”…… Maybe they all ended and are not still dangerous because there were no lockdowns back then to hinder herd immunity. (Sweden without lockdowns has shown that lockdowns only make things worse).
Let’s hope that as lockdown follows lockdown people wake up and realise that these lockdowns are not about crushing Covid-19 at all, but have an entirely different purpose.
Absolutely.
Yes.
Two excellent letters that sum up where are and how we got into this state. Why oh why were you not elected Julian? There must be some sensible people somewhere in Suffolk that will ask the same question. Suffolk would have been better served had you been elected instead of the over privileged nincompoop that occupies a seat he cannot get near to filling or have any knowledge or experience of the real world. What has happened to principled politicians who were worldly savvy and had experience at the coal face? I can only hope that people will see through these “aliens” and that the Brexit voting ordinary “man on the Clapham omnibus” so loved by lawyers will use that inbuilt common sense to get rid of these mountebanks, philanderers and unprincipled rabble that presently rule us. Good on yer Julian, keep at ‘em.
Two great reports ridiculing the governmen and it’s ministerst but that is not difficult to do as they are all a bunch of clowns, the US have joined us and now also have clowns in charge, they are even worse than ours, if that is possible.
What about the clowns who elect them to office?
When will they learn that the whole political establishment is rotten to the core?
Time to get ahead of the musical chair party politics game – support, join, donate, vote for independents, small challenger parties or spoil the ballot paper in great numbers. There is no other way of clearing out the Augean stables of Westminster. That is the establishments Achilles heel.
Speak up, Jake Bennett. Every man next door should hear that message.
Because the electorate when visited on their doorstep have that Conservative inspired ludicrous phrase ‘vote UKIP/Reform UK/or whatever, and get Labour’ booming in their ears. I have heard that being said so many times over the years whilst out canvassing I have lost count. Or they say things like ‘I like what your party says, but we can’t have Labour in so we have no choice other than to vote Conservative, even though they’re rubbish and never do what they promise’. And this is why we are lumbered with the same old same old complacent, dithering, indecisive, weak willed, politicians local and national, who have no political conviction, and no independent thought whatsoever, and just do what their party managers/leaders tell them to do. I think however things have got to such a pitch now that the electorate have begun to see through the parties they have traditionally voted for, and open to voting for an alternative view.
I’ve a feeling you may be right Colin. Things change fast of course but the lockdowns must surely have made Boris just as bad a choice as Starmer.