Brexit Trade Bill? Look at this huge squirrel instead!

 

Today we’ll learn what the Eurosceptic Tory MPs and their lawyers have found out about the pitfalls and treacheries contained in BJ’s ‘treaty’. There are more voices raised against the Bill, even in some of our broadsheets, voices which aren’t precisely jubilant. And just as the bible says about the poor who will always be with us, there’s covid … set to be with us always.

Let’s first look at Brexit and the curate’s egg that is the treaty. If I were given to betting, I’m sure I’d rake it in had I placed a sum on how many MPs will have read the whole thing by the time they’ll vote for it tomorrow. As we all know, the devil, especially the EU devil, is in the detail and there’s too much detail in those 1,000+ pages.

While Sir John Redwood was cautiously supportive because there’s a ‘get-out’ clause – see his Diary entry yesterday here – I’m inclined to agree with the analysis by our friends a facts4eu who warn that this bill will pass with the majority of MPs not having read it (link).

This is an astounding lack of responsibility by our peacocks. Also sunk below the current horizon is the fact that the 27 EU member states have given a provisional agreement to the whole thing – and don’t tell me they’ve all read it! Clearly, given the ‘provision’ in the fishery sell-out, there are going to be more negotiations. So we can say that, just as the poor and covid, Brexit will still be with us.

I’ve pointed out in yesterday’s column (here) that the majority of MPs of all rosette colours will vote by proxy and that the ‘debate’ will again be held under covid restrictions, i.e. ‘talking heads’ will appear on those giant screens installed in the HoC Chamber. I am somewhat surprised that this fact hasn’t raised any eyebrows.

I accept that many readers have spent their time delving into the text – but given that this Bill will pass anyway, given that our democratic customs of scrutiny, debate, the possibility of amendments and later votes are trampled and have been trampled ever since the covidians have taken on the role of dictators, it surely is astonishing that nobody is the slightest bit concerned about this.

Meanwhile I wait for the statement of the ERG members, the Tory MPs who’ve been looking at the treaty, helped by lawyers. I will say however that, regardless of their analysis, we’re being treated to a Brexit theatre production. The various actors wave the ‘sovereignty’ banner in front of our eyes while our actual sovereignty, that of us the people, is being trampled underfoot by the same actors who’ve been doing so ’because: covid’ for the last eleven months. Yes, it’s the giant squirrel in action again!

And so to covid. Now it’s not ‘we must have more tests’, it’s ‘we must have more vaccinations’ – or else. The ‘or else’ is again the demand by SAGEs and NHS doctors that “we” must have another lockdown in January. Gove is twiddling with opening or not opening schools next month – at the moment it’s years 11 and over and all primary schools to be opened – but that surely will change once the SAGEs have come back from their Christmas break:

“Ministers are increasingly alarmed by the spread of a new strain of coronavirus. The Sage group of scientists told ministers shortly before Christmas that a third national lockdown, including the closure of primary and secondary schools, could be required. Even those measures might not be enough to slow the spread and stop hospitals from being overwhelmed, they said.” (link, paywalled).

Indeed these measures won’t be enough, especially not when ‘ministers’ are being given the results of the latest ‘modelling’ exercise. Modellers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have come up with a new model which demands more lockdowns. One couldn’t wish for a better example of ivory-tower thinking than this:

“Vaccines will have to be delivered at a rate of two million a week – double the current target – to avoid a devastating third Covid wave, ministers have been warned. The projection has been made by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in a new paper shared with the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), which is understood to be circulating in Whitehall.” (paywalled link)

Do these modellers not know that it takes two doses and at least four weeks, depending on the vaccine, before there’s ‘immunity’ – if this can actually be achieved? We remember that, according to the submissions by the vaccine producers, their vaccine will only keep the worst effects of covid at bay and that they cannot say if it provides permanent immunity.

But never mind that – “we” must still be kept in perpetual fear and anxiety, our whole economy must be geared to providing vaccination to all above anything else – and meanwhile “we” must all stay in lockdown. Just as with the demand for more tests, regardless, it’s now ‘moar vaccine’. It’s not just more people needed for more tests, its now also more people to ‘vaccinate’ the millions. Clearly, our economy must become a covid economy where all work for covid.

Moreover, we’re told that the 200,000 people being vaccinated per week is not sufficient to ‘avoid a third wave of coronavirus more deadly than the first.’ (paywalled link). What evidence is there for such a ‘more deadly’ wave? Don’t expect an answer! Here’s the reason for that LSHTM demand:

“The most stringent intervention scenario with Tier 4 England-wide and schools closed during January and two million individuals vaccinated per week is the only scenario we considered which reduces peak ICU burden below the levels seen during the first wave.” (paywalled link)

Please do not ask these modellers if it’s not a fact that during winter more people, especially the elderly, die of a host of causes! This year and from next week onwards, all who die only die ‘of covid’ because any death is now a covid death thanks to the fiddling with ‘cases’, ‘causes’ and statistics the government has surreptitiously introduced. 

The annual howls by doctors, that hospitals are ‘bursting at the seams’, has now been refined. They now have ‘wall-to-wall covid patients’.  Not one ‘reporter’ asks why that is when so many areas were in tier 4 even before Christmas. Not one ‘reporter’ delves into the archives and checks out that we’ve had the same old wail year after year after year during December – without covid. The skill of connecting dots seems to have vanished ever since covid. Next, look at this:

“[…] the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers said that some trusts were reporting up to three times as many Covid-19 patients as at the peak of the first wave, although those figures for individual trusts are not published. “This means that hospitals and also ambulance services in Tier 4 areas and beyond are incredibly busy, compounded by increasing staff absences due to illness and the need to self-isolate,” she said.” (link, paywalled)

So they have no numbers – but cry wolf anyway. No one asks why so many ‘need to self isolate’ – perhaps it’s because we know that anyone who’s been ‘traced’ by the T & T industry is told to do so, regardless of having tested -ve. Meanwhile the Nightingale hospitals are being dismantled because of ‘lack of staff’. There’s a lovely photo accompanying that report in LockdownSceptics (here). Do read the whole thing. Finally, NHS doctors beg us not to celebrate New Year’s Eve, to ‘Save Our Holy Cow’ – and here I thought we’re all hiding indoors anyway!

It surely must now dawn on even the most frightened covid-rabbit that this whole covid ‘Palace of Fear’ is built on assumptions, suppositions and models, not on real events. Why does no one asks if all those being taken to hospital right now might conceivably have other illnesses? What, for example, is happening to all the cancer patients who’ve been left untreated since the 1st Lockdown? Have they been miraculously cured? Is nobody suffering from heart attacks needing urgent hospital treatment any longer? 

I leave you with another ‘be afraid’ event: snow! The Met office is warning of snow before New Year’s Day, predicting that we’ll be buried under ‘up to six inches’ of snow. Six inches! The horror! But be warned: the covid police will be out to make sure our kiddies keep their social distance when tobogganing down whatever slopes they can find.

As for us who’re made to hide at home thanks to tier 4: be afraid, don’t go out, don’t do anything to imperil our poor ‘Sacred Cow’ and dress up warm. Remember: even the common cold is now covid!

 

KBO!

 

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