Is this our future – living in permanent fear and subjugation?
Yesterday afternoon the ‘Great Covid Showdown’ was supposed to have happened in the ghost chamber, formerly known as HoC. Well, it didn’t. There was also a ‘Repeat Performance’ given by the two Doom-Mongers, Messrs V and W, this time garnished with the august presence of the PM. Nothing new was said, but there were some inanities.
The good news is that there was not one ‘covid scare’ headline in this morning’s papers The bad news is that the various editors – chief, health, science – have still not understood anything, have still not got a clue about what we plebs outside the M25 want the government to do: stop this covid madness.
First of all – my disclaimers: I did not watch the ‘debate’ on the Tory Rebel Amendment nor did I watch the following BJ & Messrs V &V press conference. Live, especially under the covid cosh, is too short!
When you see the empty chamber that is the HoC nowadays, you have to ask yourself what use the whole thing is. Yes, they’re still doing that ‘social distancing’ thing, but even of the social-distancing peacocks which should have been there only a handful attended.
Why do we need such a huge number of MPs when they’re not doing their job? Do we really believe that they were dutifully sat at home, watching proceedings on their laptops or PCs? Does anyone trust them to ‘scrutinise’ government when they’ve been mostly sat at home because: “Covid!”, when their ‘research assistants’ generally answer constituents’ emails with standard texts which say nothing at all?
The one shimmer of silver lining was the speech by the speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, where he gave stern words to the covid-government. He accused government and ministers to have treated the HoC ‘with contempt’. One can’t get sterner than that, not in the Chamber. You can watch the video here. It is good stuff. However, it seems to have escaped even the Speaker’s notice that this covid government is treating us, the electorate, with contempt – something far more important, I suggest, than peacocking before TV cameras in that empty covid-HoC.
As soon as I heard the Speaker’s statement I knew the various MSM comment writers were right when they hinted that a deal might be in the offing: a ‘deal’ had indeed been made. The online papers are sort-of fine with this ‘deal’ and have refrained so far from either praising BJ for being statesmanlike or the Brady Bunch for getting the covid-government to accede to their demand.
However, there are weasel words in this ‘deal’ which, no matter how those concerned try to spin it, give the game away:
“Ministers staved off a Tory rebellion yesterday by promising votes for MPs on national coronavirus restrictions “wherever possible”. Matt Hancock, the health secretary, said that parliament would be consulted on “significant national measures” but not on putting areas into local lockdown. The announcement won over the majority of Conservative backbenchers, […] Mr Hancock conceded that “scrutinised decisions are better decisions” and that advance votes should become a new convention for the pandemic.” (link, paywalled)
Why is it so hard for those Rebel MPs to understand that they’ve been sold a dud? That it’s the BJ-MH duumvirate, aided and abetted by Messrs V & W, who will decide what “whenever possible” means? That this sell-out only refers to ‘national lockdown decisions’, not local ones? That this covid government has no intention of relinquishing their power to keep us in subjugation? See this:
“The circumstances in which rules would be introduced without any consultation were unclear. “The government must act with speed when required and we cannot hold up urgent regulations which are needed to control the virus and save lives,”Mr Hancock said.” (link, paywalled)
Does one really need to be an Oxbridge professor of contemporary politics to see that, under the pious pretext of the alleged urgency of ‘saving lives’, this covid government will proceed precisely as it has done so far?
The press conference given by BJ, flanked by those two SAGEs, V & W, was proof if proof were needed. The PM was in full ‘we’re in a war’-mode, and yep, the same tired slogans were fed to the dumb plebs. It was again about ‘saving lives’ and protecting ‘Our NHS’. It was again about muzzling up, washing hands, keeping away and following ‘teh rulz’:
“Boris Johnson has defied calls for an easing of Covid restrictions, insisting the “only way” to fight a second wave of the virus is by making sacrifices which might have to get worse. In a riposte to his critics, the Prime Minister told a Downing Street press conference that “no matter how impatient we may be, how fed up we may become, there is only one way of doing this”. (paywalled link)
It’s ‘his way or the highway’, no discussion permitted. There’s more, and anyone who was still thinking that BJ might have taken on board some arguments against this sledgehammer approach better think again – Tory Rebels included:
“Mr Johnson said: “I know some people will think we should give up and let the virus take its course, despite the huge loss of life that would potentially entail. I have to say I profoundly disagree. And I don’t think it’s what the British people want. I don’t think they want to throw in the sponge – they want to fight and defeat this virus, and that is what we are going to do.” (paywalled link)
Who are these ‘British people’? The muzzle-fanatics, the ones living in Audi Avenue who have secure jobs, well paid, ‘working from home’? Are LockdownSceptics not ‘British people’? BJ seems to believe that his war-like language will make us follow him even into another National Lockdown.
I am certain that, should this covid government deem it “necessary”, the HoC won’t get a say, Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s words about contempt notwithstanding. Messrs BJ and MH only have to declare that the situation is so ‘urgent’ that they ‘had to act’ before the HoC could debate. It’s in ‘the deal’ they struck with the Brady Bunch.
In a remarkable instance of letting the mask drop, showing that these ‘measures’, unto the National Lockdown sledgehammer, are meant as punishment for us:
“The Prime Minister said that if people failed to stick to the rules, “more costly” restrictions would have to follow. He suggested the coronavirus second wave was a “localised” issue and insisted that he did not want to impose any more national restrictions, although he refused to rule out a new national lockdown.” (paywalled link)
Yep, BJ ‘doesn’t want to do this’ unless “we” make him to … His words, meant to tranquilise us, were shown to be nought but posturing when at that same press conference the gloom duo said on the one hand that:
“it was “far too early to say” whether Covid could be restricted to local outbreaks and predicted “a long winter ahead”.” (paywalled link)
… while saying on the other hand that the virus ‘could’ be contained by local lockdowns:
“because Britain is not yet seeing the same national outbreak it did in spring, […] Chris Whitty said that the second wave was looking more localised than the first and illness and deaths could end up “very highly concentrated” in some areas.” (link, paywalled)
You only have to look at Wales where nearly three quarters of the Principality are in ‘local lockdowns’. Only the sheep – the four-legged, woolly variety – roaming the hills and mountains aren’t locked down. When one locally locked-down area merges into the next one – how long does it take to get what will in fact become a national lockdown?
Meanwhile Sir John Redwood writes in his Diary this morning that ‘we need an exit plan, a message of hope’ and concludes:
“I am trying to persuade Ministers they need a new plan to restore our liberties.’ (link)
My apologies to the indefatigable Sir John, but this attempt will be futile. It won’t happen as long as BJ keeps listening to the V & W ‘science whisperers’, as long as he seems to be incapable to accept any criticism by scientists and clinicians as eminent in their field as those two ‘SAGEs’.
To crown it all, MH was caught out in a blatant lie which could have serious consequences for the lives of covid-patients, but apparently with no consequences for keeping his job:
“Matt Hancock wrongly claimed that government scientists had run unsuccessful tests. The health secretary told the Commons last week that he had ordered a trial that showed vitamin D did not “appear to have any impact”. Officials now admit that no trials took place.” (link, paywalled)
Lying to the HoC used to be a sackable offence. That MPs, that the ‘science editors’ in ‘Our MSM’, aren’t yet up in arms about this lie is unbelievable, in view of this:
“New evidence from Spain suggests that vitamin D, which some scientists believe helps to prevent a fatal overreaction to the virus, could save lives. […] Charles Bangham, chairman in immunology at Imperial College London, said: “Public Health England already recommends that everybody take a daily vitamin D supplement but the message is not getting through to a large section of the population.” (link, paywalled)
I suggest this ‘message’ isn’t ‘getting through’ because it was never given.This lie, apologies: this ‘mis-speak’, documents that Mr MH only regurgitates what his ‘advisers’, scientific ones or not, are telling him.
Messrs BJ and MH seem determined to keep us under their control, in abject covid fear, with more ‘measures’ and the threat of a national Lockdown. They’re thus making a mockery of their slogan that their ‘rulz’ are about ‘saving lives’. They are in thrall to a handful of ‘scientists’ who are not going to relinquish their power over those two sorry figures.
Must we keep living in fear, must the economy, must our civil liberties, be thrashed because ‘fear’ is all BJ, MH, V and W are offering us, in order to keep us in subjugation?
Who will rid us of those troublesome figures – these two puppets and the two puppet masters?
KBO!
Have our minister succumbed to ‘school prefect syndrome’ inventing ever more absurd punishments and regulations – Certainly the ego of authorities everywhere mean they do not want to give up their new status from new crises powers that they have never enjoyed the like of before – We all now know that lockdowns/masks/curfews just postpone the few deaths and do not prevent them – We all know most don’t even know they are ill unless tested – We all know total deaths are average – We all know the vaccine will be pointless when herd immunity arrives and that many of the medical masterminds depend on the vaccine to make their fortune – Is all this pointless destruction of our future health and finance simply to delay herd immunity? – Most of the conspiracy theories make more sense than government action that’s for sure.
Loving the Middlesbrough Mayor’s flat snubbing of the Medical Dictatorship’s diktat to lock the town down. He said:
“I have to tell you I think this measure has been introduced based on factual inaccuracies and a monstrous and frightening lack of communication, and ignorance.
“I do not accept the statement at all. I do not accept these measures.
“We need to talk to Government, they need to understand our local knowledge, expertise and ability to get things done, and preserve jobs and well-being.
He continued: “As things stand, we defy the Government and we do not accept these measures.”
Top man.
Great photo in Metro today. Boris at a bricklaying college. Trousers way too long like from charity shop. Bootlace undone tub o lard looks like he’s a half drunk derelict.
As I have said for a long time.
Supremo Boris will weather any flack from his Covid escapades or inanities, but should we not get a “Decent” Brexit on 31st December, then he is toast.
And by “Decent” I mean FULL Sovereignty restoration over the ability to make our own laws, be clear of the ECJ and fry our own fish
I hope he is playing a waiting game and “kicking the can down the road” until time runs out for an agreed deal and it is WTO
But, to be quite honest I am more worried about this separate defence commitment to the EU – nothing gets mentioned in the press and from what
I understand are the present terms, we can emerge with all the apparel of Independence as a sovereign nation and yet be unable to make our own foreign policy without reference to the EU, be obliged to merge our forces totally, so they are ultimately commanded by a foreign power (note I use the word power as for an independent stance and full participation on the world stage – as is our right, we must actually own and project that power even if we never use it)
Our economy partly depends on our armaments industry and we cannot just depend on dictated shared use or production nor development.
Above all in my worries is our attitude and relationship with the “new” Commonwealth which must become a major or if not primary trading partner, and if we are to share defence with anybody I would rather it is with friends rather than the “Enemy”(in trading terms)
Anyone who understands the true significance of the Covid fiasco could NEVER excuse Bojo, but thanks to Tory con- artistry and a lying MSM etc many or most people will never understand it. Or don’t care.
And Brexit wont be Brexit unless for one thing we break free of the EU Arrest Warrant and EU Criminal Justice System : but from corresponding with Steve Baker and my own MP, Govt has no intention of doing this.
Re Covid fiasco, here are 2 very potent illustrations of the significance of muzzles :
https://www.lockdowntruth.org/post/tools-of-enforcement
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/october-2020/democracy-muzzled/
I’m sorry people , but the economy cannot support this situation.
Rationing will be imposed for certain important items. :–Bog Roll to start. You RATION will be issued by Ap on brand new mobile phones.and new snazzy tablets that fold. I wonder what advertising genius thought that up.
Quite Right Viv. Almost feel like blowing up the House of Peacocks. Effigies in Parliament Square?
How many false positives. The question we need an answer to.
We won’t get that answer Michael, because we would realise all our fears of the virus are groundless and that would destroy any control the government has over us.
Testing kits just make colossal profits for the fat pharma pigs, and I maintain aren’t necessary. All they need is an HONEST record of number of hospital admissions for Covid .But that wont happen.
It should be glaringly obvious by now that the ultimate of our government is to install a totalitarian regime under cover of an epidemic that 99.9 per cent of the population recover from with no lasting effects. The MSM is colluding with them and daily spreading fear and panic in the population. The next step will be compulsory vaccination and forcing everybody to carry a ‘health passport’ which will determine where you can go and what you can do. The government will then have total control of the population. The model is China where this system is already in place. It is all part of the nightmarish ‘new world order’ that is being set up under UN Agenda 21/2030. Why more people can’t see this and how the UK government and governments around the world are getting away with it is beyond my comprehension.
bohma. The reason people can’t see it is because not everyone has access to on line info and many that have, are either too busy trying to get on with their lives or too brain dead to do more than post selfies and such.
There does seem to be a groundswell of opposition – let’s hope it is in time.
Yes bohma,
It`s known as “going to hell on a hand cart”
and that is where this apathy is inevitably leading.
I met a lady the other evening while we were walking on the river bank, she was very knowlegeable and referred constantly to information she received from UK Column.
I pointed out some of the stuff I learn on Independence Daily (Told her about the Betrayal Column and our wonderful E-I-C Viv), but asked why nothing we say EVER seems to get actioned “up there” and she agreed, saying “write to your MP”
That`s the problem, we may do, but they are now (along with the rest of the establishment and media) already so controlled that a grass roots revolution in the fashion of Brexit is required
i.e. a referendum on whether this nation should become a fully paid up member of a Totalitarian Oligarchyship
Roger I thought of writing to my MP but had much the same thought as you. Mine is a new boy Tory. I did email him wanting him to support the Brady amendment – no answer yet. I can guess he or his staff will write back soon pointing out it was not called. Typical politician fudge.
It is hardly likely he was one of the 24 that voted against continuation of the dictatorship, for the reason you say.
A referendum crossed my mind too. Bring it on. But how?
Aye Pauline there’s rub – referendum bring it on but how?
Perhaps Nigel might be prepared to carry that baton, I agree with him, in that he thinks he is not much of a politician ( he’s too direct), but he certainly knows how to inspire people and fight a revolution and win against all the odds
I gave up writing to my MP and wrote to the constituency offices in my area.
It may be coincidence BUT everything I have commented on has materialised…..
Later I will be girding my loins to do that formerly most banal and mundane of activities, shop at the supermarket, now a daring show of defiance that could cost me £200 when no muzzle is worn. Until more people openly defy this rogue junta and its increasingly senseless and logic-free rules they will go on for years. Laugh at them. Follow your own moral code and common sense not these diktats.
You can’t fight a virus by edict. It spread around the world in a fee weeks and is completely endemic now. Our immune systems deal with it as readily and efficiently as they deal with all the other couple of hundred corona viruses. Some very sick and therefore usually very old peoples’ immune systems cannot cope but even in those cases there is Vitamin D, HCQ and Zinc, C-Pap and so on to help fight it.
In no way is Covid anywhere near as harmful as thousands of ruined businesses, delayed cancer screens, mental illnesses, child and domestic abuse cases, suicides, world hunger, untreated real killers like strokes and heart disease, malaria etc. When will the people get angry at this? What is wrong with them? False positives are not deaths!
MWT Rogue junta just about sums them up. So MUCH evidence, staring them in the face, that there is no enemy there to fight. THEY are the enemy.
ASDA supermarkets wont let you in without masking up. They give you a pack and charge you, worn or not.
For me its the same distance in miles to a big ASDA as it is to a big TessyCohen’s. No more to be said.
ASDA : Blasted cheek. I’d rather starve than play their filthy game, I really do mean that.
Even at the farm store I go to I weep to see how the (muzzled0 staff have gone from being humans that you could talk to, to robots, machines, worn down ghosts of their former selves.
“Matt Hancock wrongly claimed that government scientists had run unsuccessful tests … that showed vitamin D did not “appear to have any impact.”
This from a government that blows up perfectly good coal-burning power plant that once provided cheap reliable electricity because grotty little Greta says we’re all going to die in 10 years if we don’t ‘cos climate change? While totally ignoring that Communist China’s carbon ‘pollution’ is going through the roof and ACCELERATING?
Why am I not surprised?
The sad thing is once they’ve finished destroying a lot of people’s jobs they will turn round and say “See, it was worth it. It worked.”
Somehow, politically, we need to get rid of the Conservatives and Labour because they’re all in it together.
Michael K. Blowed if I know what can be done. As Viv points out lying to the House always has been a sackable offence. We knew ages ago Hancock should go. Now it seems B.J. is totally committed to all the lunatic policies.
If furlough ends, as ordained, at the end of the month and nothing changes the reckoning will begin. All those comfy middle classers will suddenly find themselves without jobs or money and, as I have always said, the one time people need to worry is when they rise up because they are the backbone of the country. They pay their taxes, follow the rules and spend their money. Break the back and you break the country. It will make the lefty rebellions look like a vicars tea party. I hope someone sees sense before then.
HEZ The middle classes have always been the backbone of the country I suppose. I hope you are right.
My postman, plumber, butcher, binman and girls at the Coop have not taken any furlough and they IMHO represent the backbone of this country not the ‘middle class’ white flighters in their verdant retreats lapping up their furlough monies. If the ‘middle classes’ do rear up in defiance it will be more to do with their own interests rather than any national one. Like Brexit it was the former who got us out of EU servitude not the latter.
Jake, the same thoughts crossed my mind. Surely the ‘middle class’ are just those civil servants and cogs in big business wheels who are sitting pretty and unlikely to even think about what has happened to our country. It is the small businesses and self employed that have suffered financially.
Who knows though, from where the defence of our liberties will come.
Piers Corbyn spoke against the lockdown outside Parliament yesterday. Sir Desmond Swayne went by on his way in and waved and thumbs upped.
Jolly Good. So Piers Corbyn did ‘get out of jail’ then. Another two sensible people on our side.
“BJ-MH duumvirate”
“these two puppets and the two puppet masters?”
But which two are which, our elected representatives and the graph-bending, model abusing ‘scientists’, who are the masters now?
JF
IMHO, that’s self-evident – and it’s not our elected representatives who are the string-pullers, not once one realises that Messrs BJ and MH have exchanged their own Mandarins for those ‘Sages’.
Whole raft of motives. Doris covering himself against being accused of risking lives. People with a finger in the vaccine money pie. Bureauocrats building empires. More power for poiice. They always want it.
Just read JR for today. Even he seems to be soft pedaling now over covid restrictions, doesn’t he.