Sir Graham Brady, Chair of the 1922 Committee

 

 

It’ll be a busy weekend for Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee. In the early hours this morning the news of the by-election result in Paterson’s seat, a seat held by the Tories for 188 years, came in. The LibDem candidate won with a handsome majority. The Tories lost 34% of their voters. Turnout was 46%.

Predictably, the MSM are spinning this result as the voters’ reaction to ‘Tory sleaze’ (link, link paywalled, paywalled link). They are correct when they call this a ‘referendum on Johnson’ but I would humbly suggest that they as well as the newly elected LibDem MP are conspicuously overlooking the elephant in the corner: ‘covid-omicron silent lockdowns’ and ‘covid passports’.  

I therefore suggest that this was a vote against the covid policies as much as a vote against Johnson’s Premiership. I suggest this because we recall the voting in the HoC on Tuesday evening where Starmer whipped his ‘loyal opposition’ into supporting Johnson, because voting for this further attack on our liberties was mandated in the name of the health of the nation. 

The Westminster MSM seem to think that the voters in North Shropshire were blithely unaware of that Tuesday vote – as if TV, radio and newspapers were unheard of in that far away rural place. ‘Tory sleaze’ might have played some role, certainly, but look at the result for Labour. Their candidate managed to garner 9.68% of the votes (3.686 votes) – a loss of 12.4%, down from 22.1% or 12.495 votes only two years ago in the 2019 GE.

If this by-election result was only caused by revulsion of Tory sleaze and giving Johnson ‘a bloody nose’ then shouldn’t Labour have made hay in this by-election? Shouldn’t voters have flocked to Starmer’s acolyte, staunchly standing against “Toreee [insert the Labour deputy leader Ms Rayner’s gutter description]”? 

It did not happen. Why? Don’t expect the Westminster MSM editors to mention this. They have been pushing Starmer and Labour as the saviours of the Nation because they are quite content with the covid restrictions now on the statute books. After all, the WFH Westminster swamp dwellers don’t expect to be much inconvenienced by those restrictions – well, except when Macron closes France’s borders to Omicron-infested Brits who still have the money to go on Christmas skiing holidays in France.

I’ll mention briefly the results for the ‘other’ parties. The DM has a helpful list – scroll down somewhat here. All of the libertarian parties fielded candidates, even UKIP, and while the Reform Party garnered 3.75% of the vote, none of the rest even got 1%, each. The whole bunch might have beaten the Greens had they stood together behind one candidate. Some achievement, innit like! Well done, innit like! Keep going – you’re helping to perpetuate the LibLabCon conglomerate. Thanks.

In other Covid News, we read that our covid tsar, Mr Javid, reported from an emergency meeting of G7 health ministers which he chaired. He said that Omicron is the ‘biggest current threat to global health’ (link) and that the only way to fight it is by vaccinating as if there’s no tomorrow. It’s going to get worse:

“More than 88,000 people were diagnosed with Covid in the last 24 hours, another pandemic high, and Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty warned MPs that ‘records will be broken a lot’ by the ultra-infectious variant. Cases are believed to be doubling nationally every two days and spreading faster than testing can keep up.”(link)

Thank you, Mr Javid, for telling everybody having the sniffles that it might be Omicron, to get tested and keep testing, never mind that tests are becoming unavailable: tough for pinged workers who need to show a -ve result every day or every 2nd day! What a way to overwhelm the NHS where we already hear wailings about hospitals cancelling operations because their staff are self-isolating (link, paywalled).

Well, how could the poor old Sacred Cow not become overwhelmed when the non-pinged, omicron-free frontline staff have to work round the clock to inject the nation’s arms with vaccine because all must be boostered. However, I found this cryptic but nevertheless very interesting remark in The Times:

“Professor Tim Spector, lead scientist on the Zoe Covid Study app, said they were “seeing two to three times as many mild infections in people with boosters in Omicron areas as in Delta variant areas”, with levels at nearly 2 per cent in London compared with 0.7 to 1 per cent in Delta areas.” (link, paywalled)

Is he insinuating that boosters ‘make omicron cases mild’ or is he carefully insinuating that the boosters might possibly be a factor in driving up the omicron casedemic numbers? After all, once, ‘BC’ (Before Covid), it was the medical consensus that vaccinating people during an epidemic outbreak was a very serious medical error. 

Meanwhile, the DT has become the mouthpiece of Pfizer. Make a note of the names of these editors who are responsible for a report complaining that the government hasn’t ordered a sufficient amount of Pfizer’s new wonder pill against covid – you can see them right below the headline.The whole thing reads like a PR release for yon pill, the game being given away right at the start:

“Scientists and business leaders have accused the Government of being “asleep at the wheel” over the rollout of pioneering new drugs to combat Covid-19. Ministers were urged to buy enough antivirals for every GP surgery in the country after a Pfizer “wonder pill” was shown to cut hospitalisations and deaths by nearly 90 per cent. Whitehall officials in charge of procuring the drugs were told to show the same “urgency” as the vaccines taskforce, which swept aside bureaucracy last year to buy millions of jabs before much of the rest of the world.” (paywalled link)

Those ‘scientists’ and ‘business leaders’ remain nameless, naturally, nor are we told who ‘told Whitehall officials’ to oder that stuff. I leave it to you to marvel at the proposal of buying enough pills ‘for every GP surgery’ without mentioning ‘Tamiflu’, that wonderful drug which was stockpiled for a huge amount of our money and then had to be destroyed because nobody needed or wanted it. 

And finally: the most ridiculous ‘Omicron’ news imaginable! The Welsh tinpot dictator Dripford has decreed that all nightclubs in Wales will be closed from the 27th December onwards, with social distancing in shops, offices and businesses becoming mandatory on that date as well (link).

This must be an extra-gentle Welsh version of Omicron! It won’t spread now, before Christmas, so good knees-ups can be had by all. The Boxing Day Marathon Sales can go ahead for one day as well, people all piling in as usual. I dunno if the Welsh rain is expected to drown Omicron or if it has softened the brains of yon tinpot dictator. At least he won’t be accused of breaking rulz when he attends his own Christmas Parties …

Meanwhile prepare for a political massacre, decorously done behind the scenes of the 1922 Committee. Fun will be had all round but for some, Christmas Cheers will definitely be lacking.

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