One can write while enjoying the sun outdoors …
In these times of pestilence, a.k.a. The Coronavirus Pandemic, this is a question we all must contemplate while we have time and leisure, enforced as it may be, to think and write. We all have the expertise to do so: you the readers of this site and we who’ve been trying for some years to extract information and arguments on questions of vital national importance, i.e. Brexit and now this Pandemic.
You, dear readers, are as well-equipped to answer this question as are the various people given space in “Our MSM” telling their horror stories: they also only relay their personal, anecdotal experiences.
Your opinions, experiences and observations are as valid as theirs and we would love to read and publish them. Yes, this is an appeal, for you to write articles – it’s no more difficult than writing your excellent (sometimes too long …) comment posts.
One of the top arguments for leaving the EU was, if you remember, our objection to being governed by unaccountable bureaucrats in a far-away place. The emphasis is on ‘unaccountable’. The entities that are now governing us, or trying to, are as unaccountable.
In the past month we’ve seen that MSM journalists, especially those employed by various TV stations, have assumed the mantle of ‘government’ by driving Cabinet decisions. They are now so blatantly anti-Johnson that it looks as if they desire to scupper his landslide victory of only four months ago, in any way they can. Who gave them their mandate?
Now we have a new Labour Leader who of course knows much better than No 10 and would have done everything differently. How, one asks oneself … but never mind: the MSM and Remain are working together to get rid of Brexit, to get rid of Johnson and they seem to believe that Starmer is the solution in this national crisis where we the peasants are ‘in it together’, but they, the MSM pundits, obviously aren’t. Again – where’s their mandate allowing them to step outside this national consensus for Lockdown which they themselves created?
Do they really want a socialist Labour government, to make us to Rejoin as the EU is crumbling and sinking? Do they really think that the solution to our looming economic disaster is to pay more money to the EU? Could it be that our Westminster Bubble dwellers are hankering, now not so secretly, for a China-like dictatorship? Are the MSM now governing this country? Whom are they accountable to? Their multinational owners, perchance? I’m sure you can answer these questions, putting pen to paper!
Then there’s ‘Our Whitehall’, the secret government by civil serpents and jobsworths. Their failures, from Sir Mark Sedwill down to the NHS quangos, have become clear for all to see – all of us, that is, who have been reading between the lines of MSM reports.
The Mandarins pride themselves on running this country by translating government, ministerial policies into actions. During the last four years we all have observed that this ‘translation’ means ‘business as usual, we know best’, and in the case of Brexit ‘it can’t be done because we don’t want to and the EU doesn’t like it’.
So this question needs urgent answers as well, especially as the MSM are in obvious thrall to them, i.e. those ‘senior sources’ without whom they couldn’t write their reports.
And then there’s our State TV – the BBC. This has become another force running our country, from pushing ‘gender issues’ and ‘race issues’ to pushing ‘climate change issues’ and now ‘coronavirus issues’ – all with the aim to get rid of Johnson, in a blatant attempt to thwart the mandate we gave him with our votes on December 12th 2019. To whom is the BBC accountable? Answers on a postcard – no, make that another letter or article, if you please!
I hope that you, dear readers, will try and address these questions in forthcoming articles. Your experiences, your opinions, are as valuable as those of the people paraded in the MSM who are pushing their own agenda. We, after all, also have an agenda to push: the return of our civil liberties, damaged and restricted not just by this Lockdown but by their constant attempts to sabotage Brexit by getting rid of the PM whom we, not they, elected. And yes, we knew and know that he’s not the Messiah …
Thus my plea to you all, on this “Lockdown Palm Sunday”: to write and thus help us to keep the site going. We, the INDEPENDENCE Daily team, cannot cover these vital national questions all on our own. You ought to be heard – make your voices count! A debate on the wider issues of this Lockdown must be started now, before it’s too late.
Please get writing! Now is the time!
Localise the NHS.
That would be one in the eye for globalists.
What a good idea! Lets go for it. After that lets start on education too. Oh! the outrage!.
Localisation re everything is the only way we might beat the globalists. . Not being dependent on them.
Is this the creepy outcome planned by global elite to the lockdown? I quote end of first Zero Hedge articles linked here:
“In short, a reopening of the economy would likely entail the introduction of a smartphone based “bio-passport”, where any person who wishes to “reenter society” will have to not only undergo some form of daily testing to confirm they are virus free, but also effectively hand over most if not all privacy to the government. Needless to say, the long-term sociological consequences of such a collectivization of private information will be unlike anything seen in recent history”
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-bill-gates-just-reveal-real-reason-behind-lock-downs
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/when-will-coronavirus-lockdowns-be-lifted-here-are-one-banks-estimates
The Global elite controls governments through the corporate MSM , knowing that media manipulation is vital to gain power.
One can only speculate why they should first support BoJo then turn against him; maybe it’s part of a smoke and mirrors charade to distract and confuse us while we drift down without protest into 3rd world poverty in a totalitarian state, which is the elite’s aim. .
As has been pointed out by quite a few people, I agree criticism of our Government is justified re their Coronavirus response which is is grotesquely disproportionate and destructive ; and to stand a chance of having any effect, should have been applied earlier coupled with strict control and quarantining of arrivals to UK. It should also have a time limit.
This disgusting removal of our civil liberties and economic suicide must stop now.
Indeed, we are locked down whilst the borders are still open with no health checks, both to legitimate travellers and so-called refugees.
This suggests that the Moroccan authorities are more serious about quarantining people coming into their countriy, than the UK authorities are:
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/04/spain-illegal-migrants-return-illegally-to-morocco/
Interesting link https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/04/lukashenko-elites-are-manipulating-the-coronavirus-crisis-for-their-own-benefit/
Our own kiddos can’t get doctor jobs cos foreinnes get em
I DON’T QUALIFY AS A REVOLUTIONARY PERSON ! – But then damnit, I shouldn’t have to be and nor should any of you !
Over a great many years our Democratic system of Government was brought about. – We should still be open to make it better !
Our Laws were good, but have now become bastardised. – Law breakers are dealt with softly, and some victims are charged !
If an individual or small business needs to take legal action, the Courts are slow to respond and the cost is prohibitive !
Taxation has become a sick joke, where the large multi-nationals are allowed to duck and dive with non-payment of their tax !
Democratic decisions are ‘allowed’, but only if the Monied Interests and the Senior Civil Servants agree to it, as with Brexit !
Immigrants are allowed into UK, but not necessarily for a new start. – We support them in bringing in their rubbish ideas in opposition to our own !
A Globalist Agender is under way, and the UN is beginning to turn in support of it. – Brexit shows our wish to go the other way !
Brexit must happen at the end of this year, and the EU will have to get used to it. – Irrespective of Coronavirus !
Trade must take account of price, quality and availability. – Bringing to Trade the family silver, ( NHS ), is not an option !
“In the past month we’ve seen that MSM journalists, especially those employed by various TV stations, have assumed the mantle of ‘government’ by driving Cabinet decisions. They are now … blatantly anti-Johnson”
Could well be the case, but can you provide us with some examples ? I can’t forward such comment unless it’s backed up, as I’m liable to be accused of sheer vituperation.
Boris do brexit and let us out to get money if not do will vote labroret next illcton
The Globalists run this country. The EU is run by them and voting to leave does not really change much. We still have open borders in the midst of the current pandemic. Illegal immigrants are still allowed into the country. Flights from all over the world are still landing without any health checks on passengers. The MSM is almost completely owned by the Globalists as is the UN. They have infiltrated every level of our society via Common Purpose, from the BBC to the Civil Service to Local Government. Until this cancer is ripped out we will never be able to achieve self government.
Until sufficient people of the centre right engage in active politics demand smaller goverment, lower taxes and the desire to take more responsibility for their healthcare, pensions and educational needs then big government and big business will continue to aggregate more power to themselves and thus shape how we are governed.
“Are the MSM now governing this country? Whom are they accountable to? Their multinational owners, perchance? ”
I’m told that : the mainstream corporate media are mostly ultimately controlled by powerful corporate and banking interests, ie the elite. Bilderberg conferences are heavily attended by media CEOs. (Media manipulation vital to attaining power)
The Elite can make or break their political puppets by using their media people.
Noted; at least I have the internet now and lots of time…
We elected the Conservative government by a huge majority – one of the largest Parliamentary majorities in a long while, and we knew that Boris Johnson was desperate to become Prime Minister.
Yet, as Viv says above, still the Main Stream Media are doing whatever they can to thwart his plans, to get rid of him and bring down his government.
This seems a disconnect to me. Why would those who so emphatically voted the Tories into office in their millions be prepared to buy and read newspapers that criticise the government so mercilessly? There are so few newspapers or news websites that think Boris is doing a good job or that approve of what the government has done since it was elected last December and are prepared to state that in their columns.
Why is it that apparently, those media who slate the government are bought, paid for and read by members of the public who voted that same government into office?
I don’t understand…
I think that people voted for Johnson and the Conservatives because they wanted their country back and had no other choice. I’m very critical of Johnson and the Conservatives because after what we’ve been through after we voted for Brexit with the Conservatives, I’m past trusting any politician. As far as I’m concerned, choosing politicians these days is like trying to choose your favourite disease, you don’t want any of them but you have to choose one.
I think the general public are just as confused as I am, they’d just like to have one good choice, not something that needs curing with Penicillin.
Plans? What plans? He doesn’t have a plan; that is the problem. He has sharp-elbowed his way to the top of the Tory party but is incapable of formulating a plan to take our country out of lockdown and into some form of normality pending either a panacea or vaccine. There are two possible strategies which have already demonstrated success, namely that of China and South Korea. However, Johnson, firstly opted for ‘herd immunity’ without any quantification of the possible timescale and associated mortality, then in a panic, as he watched the deaths mount in Italy, slapped us with an indefinite lockdown thereby inflicting untold damage on the economy and people’s lives. Meanwhile the head of the civil service has demonstrated an incapacity to get PHE, the NHS etc to work with the private sector to tackle this national emergency.
We have third rate governance in this country which has been brought about by the FPTP voting system allowing total inadequates to monopolise the administration of this country in both politics and the civil service. Most of these people have Arts degrees from Oxford; many have been in the Oxford Union or even President but none of them could organise a p**s up in brewery because debating is no substitute for being able produce a strategy and puting it into effect as many of us have had to do repeatedly in order to have had a successful career.
“We have third rate governance in this country”
We got what we voted for. Mostly, folks voted by party label without even knowing who the local candidate might be. That makes no sense to me. By definition, the candidates represent the Party, not the people who voted for the party. And if we continue to do as we’ve always done, we can expect to get back what we’ve always got back.
This is starkly illustrated by the Labour leadership election. Typically: “We must find out what our [sic] voters want and reconnect.” What about ALL voters, not pandering to a section of society? I though the point was to develop the policies that you think will most benefit the country, the entire country, and ask the people, all the people, to agree.
The DT is always sold out early. They could easily sell more but would immediately run out of money and the lending bank would dictate the content. However gracefully and with regret. You would have to change the story.
From my experience, expanding a companywhether by numberof products or quantiy of any item always requires more money to be invested than can be got from profits for a very. very long time and to recoverthe actual investment usually never. This is why banks never lend enough . So that they actually run the company..This is true of virtually every. company in the country. That’s why Britain’s a mess. That’s the real reason for Corporation Tax of course
The whole story is of course much funnier than that. It ‘s not a secret , But any director of a big business could explain more for you. And how the power is expanded globally and profitably from that.. It is just never explained
Debbie,
The Conservatives were, as you say, elected by a huge majority back in December (before we were aware of this virus) but surely you cannot be suggesting that the voters who elected them should refrain from voicing any criticism of their actions until we arrive at the next General Election?
For a start, does the government not have any control of Public Health England? In a damning report by the Adam Smith Institute, PHE has been criticised as being “dangerously slow, excessively bureaucratic, and hostile to outsiders and innovation”.
PHE’s incompetence probably shows why our testing numbers are way behind many other countries. For example, South Korea has tested four times as many people as the UK, Germany almost three times as many and the United States almost twice as many, per capita.
See this article in Breitbart:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/05/uks-health-bureaucracy-is-turning-coronavirus-crisis-into-cock-up/
PHE are almost certainly not aware of being incompetent. Nowadays everyone is. …In this age of computers it is inevitable You thik you are efficient . Less filing cabinets. Faster communications. Data bases at a button. It must be efficient.. And it’s obvious so you’ll never know. So why are engineers drawing by computer. Designing by computer. Why is a manager or engineer or accountant or salesman or designer all typing letters and trying to do stuff. Ask a modern engineer to draw a new screw thread or curve orhelix or whatever, for anything slightly not in the computer. Put that aside.Where did you put that old file? Has it been deleted ? Was that an early windows? or a BBC. The lists of new problems are growing. and faster than the memory which itself is growing faster than thought or resources. I wonder ? Is there anything new? And if so can you find it ?
How much of the day do you spend reading emails before doing work, ?