EU
Express
FURIOUS European Union leaders are putting together plans to smash Britain with tough new trade sanctions and have accused Boris Johnson of “taking them for fools” over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Post-Brexit tensions between the two sides are boiling over yet again, with senior Brussels diplomats claiming Lord Frost had “completely failed to engage” with the European Commission on implementing the agreement that was agreed at the end of last year. There is a crunch meeting of the UK/EU partnership taking place next week that will revolve around issues on the controversial Protocol. One EU diplomatic source told The Times: “You are starting to hear member states say that the time has come to show Britain that we’re serious.
“Johnson signed the protocol and he needs to implement it.
“If we don’t get that clear indication in the coming weeks then we’re looking at imposing retaliatory trade tariffs.
“The feeling is at the moment that Johnson is taking us for fools.”
The trade deal agreed signed between the UK and EU on December 31 states either side can impose retaliatory tariffs on the other’s exports for breaching the agreement, pending independent arbitration, which also covers the Protocol.
Express
BRUSSELS has been accused of assisting deplorable regimes in an effort to boost the EU’s military presence in Africa.
Internal documents have revealed plans for eurocrats to offer significant levels of support to military dictatorships in the region. Eurocrats hoped to build compounds for Chad’s security forces and border defence systems for Zimbabwe. The scheme has been questioned by critics who believe EU taxpayers’ cash should not be spent on offering technical and direct support to loathsome regimes in Africa.
Under the plans, Chad’s security forces are expected to build at least eight compounds across the country.
The EU-funded facilities will be equipped with command centres, gyms, armouries and sentry boxes.
In Zimbabwe, the EU wanted to fork out on “Border Traffic Management Systems” and technical advice on managing the country’s frontiers for its security services.
Brussels has recently highlighted human rights abuses by the Zimbabwe government.
Freedom Day
ITV News
The planned lifting of coronavirus restrictions on June 21 is under threat, with reports a two-week delay is being considered in government.
A surge in Covid-19 infections, driven by the Delta variant first identified in India, is causing concern among experts, after the UK’s coronavirus cases rose by 75%.
Along with a delay, multiple reports also say the next step out of lockdown could be scaled back, with social distancing and face coverings apparently set to continue.
Hopes had remained high for a June 21 reopening, with Boris Johnson insisting this week there’s “nothing in the data at the moment that means we cannot go ahead with Step 4″.
But on Friday the UK recorded its highest number of new confirmed coronavirus cases – 6,238 – since late March, according to official figures.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also suggested the number of people who had the virus in England has increased by around three quarters in a week, taking it to its highest tally since mid-April, with the R value between 1 and 1.2.
Surge testing is being launched in Berkshire amid community spread of the Delta variant, with everyone aged 12 and above in some postcodes in Reading and Wokingham offered PCR testing from Monday. Meradin Peachey, director of public health for Berkshire West said cases are mainly among young people, with “virtually nobody over 60 or anyone who has been vaccinated”.
Similar stories can be read in the Independent and Mail
Independent
Remaining Covid restrictions will be lifted as planned later this month if there is no increase in hospital admissions in the coming days, Matt Hancock has suggested.
The health secretary said the number of serious illnesses is the “crucial” test – pointing out that the number of people in hospital is currently “flat”, despite the surge of the Delta, or Indian, variant.
“It is too early to make a final decision,” Mr Hancock said, with the verdict due by Monday next week.
But he added: “We’ll keep watching the data for another week or so and, critically, watching that link on the number of cases to the number of people who end up in hospital.
“And it is absolutely true that the number of people ending up in hospital is broadly flat at the moment.”
Mr Hancock revealed that his latest advice is that the Delta variant is 40 per cent more transmissible – a higher figure than about 25 per cent mooted last month.
But, crucially, he said the link between rising admissions and serious Covid cases was being “severed” if not yet “completely broken”.
Furthermore, the evidence suggested two jabs delivered the “same protection” against the new variant, he said, adding: “The good news is that the vaccine still works just as effectively.”
G7
Telegraph
Rishi Sunak declared victory on Saturday in a clampdown on tax avoidance by global tech giants after thrashing out a deal with G7 finance ministers to ensure they pay more tax.
The move marks the biggest overhaul of international tax rules for decades, forcing the world’s largest companies to pay a global minimum tax on their profits of at least 15pc in a bid to stop firms from shifting their earnings to havens around the world.
The agreement followed days of talks in London and “demonstrates that we as a country can play a leadership role,” the Chancellor said.
“Various people have asked, what does the UK do after Brexit? Has our standing in the world diminished? Do people listen to us? I think this is one of hopefully numerous examples of the UK unquestionably playing a leadership role,” he said.
“That’s the UK doing it’s job, playing that leadership role on topics which help people’s lives. I hope people feel proud the UK has stepped up and done this.”
Although critics argued the G7 deal could have been more ambitious – US President Joe Biden had initially suggested a minimum tax rate of up to 21pc – Mr Sunak said the “historic agreement” was a “huge prize for British taxpayers – creating a fairer tax system for the 21st century”.
A similar story can be seen in the Independent .
Mail
Boris Johnson will use the G7 summit to secure a global pledge to vaccinate the world’s population against Covid-19 by the end of 2022.
The Prime Minister will call on world leaders to agree a plan to end the pandemic by ensuring every person has access to a jab within the next 18 months.
He hailed the summit, which will be held in Cornwall, as ‘historic’. The G7 starts on Friday, when the leaders will gather for a face-to-face meeting.
Mr Johnson said the premiers – which include United States President Joe Biden on his first foreign visit since taking office – must use the event to ‘rise to the greatest challenge’ since the war.
Speaking ahead of the summit, Mr Johnson said: ‘The world is looking to us to rise to the greatest challenge of the post-war era: defeating Covid and leading a global recovery driven by our shared values.
‘Vaccinating the world by the end of next year would be the single greatest feat in medical history.
‘I’m calling on my fellow G7 leaders to join us to end to this terrible pandemic and pledge will we never allow the devastation wreaked by coronavirus to happen again.’
The leaders of the G7 will arrive in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, for three days of meetings.
Similar stories can be read in the Times , BBC News , Guardian , Evening Standard , ITV News
Covid
Express
DONALD TRUMP said China should be forced to pay a massive bill to “compensate” for the damage caused by Covid.
At a Republican Party rally in the US state of North Carolina on Saturday former US President Donald Trump called on world leaders to demand China pay “reparations” to “compensate” for the damage caused by Covid. In a brutal attack on China’s Xi Jinping, Mr Trump demanded a massive ten trillion dollar pay packet to cover the economic chaos covid has caused. The ex-President has long spearheaded claims that China is the source of coronavirus and has repeatedly attacked the East Asian powerhouse, famously labelling covid “the China virus”.
The former President said: “The time has come for America and the world to demand reparations and accountability from the Communist Party of China.
“We should all declare within one unified voice that China must pay, they must pay!”
He added: “In addition, all nations should work together to present China a bill for a minimum of ten trillion dollars to compensate for the damage they’ve caused.
“And that is a very low number, the damage is far, far greater than that.”
A similar story can be read in the Independent .
EU . who needs thisplague ridden base for illegal seekers anyway.
EU gets tough. Good . L ets impound and crush all the EU plated vans still working illegally and under false insurance .
With or without the drivers.
“Loathsome regimes in Africa”! (What about the loathsome regime in Britain?). Why dont BLM get up in arms about the abuse of human rights by Zimbabwe? The Zimbabweans threw out the ‘whities’ in favour of home rule. I doubt there was anything like the abuse of rights cases under white control and there certainly wasn’t the genocide of Shona against Matabele that occurred after Mugabe took over! Or the coercion to keep voters ‘voting the right way’! Whites, overall, are not the ‘bad men’ that the BLM rioters portray (even if there were some bad eggs). They provided work and food for the population. Now there is famine and starvation and abuse!
So the ‘dear leader’ is doing what he does best…..’grandstanding’ in the G7 summit! Whichever way you turn him he is globally red all over! And living under the cats foot to boot! A real man…..not!
Freedom Day
Did anyone seriously expect government to relinquish the unprecedented level of control that the “Pandemic” has afforded them?
EU
Tit for tat is the necessary response to trade sanctions.
This is a very grim reality.
“‘No-Go Zones’ for White People in Britain, Muslim Author Documents”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/06/no-go-zones-for-white-people-in-britain-muslim-author-documents/
Nothing new flyer.
Twenty odd years ago I was in London. Pub in Catford. Sneering hostility in all directions. An indian subcontinent pub. Not welcome. Same as parts of Birmingham and Leicester.
A later visit to Londonstan. Pub elsewhere (!). Spot on domino. Experience of working in Nigeria and Central America useful.
So guessing must expect muslin no-go areas for the next visit (?). Has Morden still got the biggest mosk in you-rope?
Do read this article, lengthy as it is, by Dr Mike Yeadon. He knows a thing or two about covid.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/06/dr-michael-yeadon-withdraw-your-consent/
…what’s this about the Continentals’ concern to “” boost the EU’s military presence in Africa”” ?
Bizarre.
The empire’s urge to expand is obvious and the current thrust continues towards a euro army – that various Continental armies are fighting terrorists in the dark and deadly Sohal corridor — running coast to coast and supplying hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the EU via the Canary Islands — should be enough for Berlin. [ the Canary boaters, so close to the Afric mainland are shipped quickly to the EU – many choose England as their destination. Media silence continues ] .
I wonder why the ‘Test everyone to raise the scare level Czars’, have pounced on John Redwood’s constituency? Has he stepped too far out of line in some way? I can’t imagine somehow that it is a hotbed of Indian immigrants or recent visitors.
I’m disappointed that B.J. now wants to vaccinate the world as well as save it from Global Warming.
Actually I’m now very puzzled at just what is going on. Hancock apparently has said something sensible – the number of cases is not as important as whether they threaten to overwhelm the NHS, which they are not.
All very strange. Is there an internal war being waged within the One Party that rules the Dictatorship?
And what exactly is our wonderful Leader up to?
So the unelected brussels overseers are annoyed with Lord Frost’s declining to give in to any / all of their demands.
I read the book last year. This is the bit in the story where Frost is fired for doing his job and prime minister johnson then rolls over to any / all foreign entity demands.
Haven’t we been here before? ‘Its BJ the Butler wot dun it’.
And what about Fauci?
“Fauci defended by Biden administration even as his ‘cover-up unravels”
https://youtu.be/WHgZtxg2_Nk
Covid again. If this woman’s family hadn’t payed for a private autopsy, they would never have known that she died of an adverse reaction to the shot.
“Arizona Mother Died One Day after the Shot / “Bill Gates” in the studio”
Sanity 4 Sweden
https://youtu.be/0IfdMQqhow4
Another article from Zerohedge. Why are we whites bound by strict hate speech laws when blacks are allowed to spread this kind of hatred openly in our universities?
“Unloading A Revolver Into The Head Of Any White Person”: Yale Features Violent, Racist Diatribe By Psychiatrist
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yale-event-featured-shrink-telling-students-she-fantasizes-about-shooting-white-people-head
Talking of Covid, how come the mainstream media never talks about this from Zerohedge.
German Study Finds Lockdown “Had No Effect” In Stopping Spread Of COVID
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/german-study-finds-lockdown-had-no-effect-stopping-spread-covid