Labour continues to bump along almost at the bottom of major-party credibility. As I have blogged often previously, Labour’s problem was not Corbyn, as such; neither is it Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer, as such. It stems more from Labour’s disappearing traditional base, and from Labour’s now almost invisible identity.
The opinion poll above does not show Conservative Party popularity so much as Labour Party unpopularity, of course. The point is, for what does Labour stand? Anything? As many have said, half-joking, it seems to be something akin to “workhouses are good, but we say let’s run them efficiently, and more fairly”. I do not think that that will attract many voters.
Of course, there are still pockets of die-hard Labour right-or-wrong support around. The sort of old-style Northern English tribalism that can be seen on TV in the Daily Mirror journalist Kevin Maguire (who in fact lives in some comfort in London).
That kind of ping-pong, cuckoo clock Con-Lab-Con-Lab politics is so out of date now. Especially when the policies of the supposed political rivals are almost identical.
In July, there will be held the Batley and Spen by-election. Labour is putting up the sister of the assassinated MP, Jo Cox, which MP has been all but canonized by the msm since her death in 2016.
I shall blog about the by-election when all runners and riders are in the frame, but what occurs to me at this stage is how desperate Labour must be to select as candidate someone purely because her sister was assassinated. Labour obviously hopes for some kind of sympathy vote, or “solidarity” vote. I doubt that it will work, but we shall have to see. Labour really has no other card to play.
Reality v. semblance
Nobody should be disciplined for stating a biological fact.
“Nearly a third of all prosecutions brought under Covid-19 laws in the first year of the pandemic were incorrectly charged, a review has found…Police forces around the UK were handed powers by the government last March to enforce the ‘stay at home’ message and break up large gatherings of people…Officers were also empowered to prosecute people for breaking lockdown, not wearing masks on public transport, throwing house parties, and meeting in the street in groups.
However a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) review of court cases which had been concluded by March 31 this year found that 549 out of 1,821 had been incorrectly charged…Every one of the 270 prosecutions brought under the Coronavirus Act 2020 – which granted powers to direct infectious people into quarantine – had either been abandoned or convictions overturned.
The review also found that the wrong offences contained in a myriad of versions of the Health Protection regulations had been deployed by police officers.
The problems with the use of coronavirus offences were first identified last April, just days into the pandemic, when journalists noticed that a woman had been wrongly prosecuted and convicted under the Coronavirus Act in Newcastle.
The review found the Health Protection regulations had also been misapplied by police, using out-of-date rules and making mistakes such as deploying an offence specific to Wales for a London prosecution.
The review found that 1,272 of the 1,551 Health Protection regulation cases had been correctly charged, with some prosecutions abandoned due to insufficient evidence.
More than 1,000 Covid-19 cases have been brought to courts through the Single Justice Procedure, which allows a magistrate to deal with the case administratively instead of at an open court hearing.
Those cases are not reviewed at court by a prosecutor, and are instead processed by police forces.” [Evening Standard].
So once again the police failed to know, understand, and properly apply laws and regulations and, in this case, conflating these with (supposed) “rules”, and with cretinous “advice” given out by politicians and their ridiculous advisers.
More farcical news. It seems that “because of the disruption caused to education by Coronavirus“, school pupils and others will have their exams marked “more generously” in 2021. In addition, they will be tipped off as to which topics within subjects will be particularly examined!
You really could not make it up! Or, as Victor Meldrew would say, “I don’t believe it!“. Except that I do believe it, because it is entirely consonant with the tenor of the times. Award inflation has become a notorious fact over the past two decades. Something like 35% of students at Oxford and Cambridge are now awarded First Class degrees (at one time awarded only to the brilliant few), and no less than 94% are now being awarded either Firsts or Upper Seconds.
Likewise at the secondary educational level. The school student who gets (in the Americanized vocabulary of the day) “straight-As”, is now almost the rule.
The reality is not so shining, and is not infrequently clear even on shows such as University Challenge, the showcase of “la creme de la creme“.
We might as well just give high marks to everyone, and have done with it! Oh, no, wait… we already do.
I suppose that the Government announcement is a political move designed to mollify the young, to “stuff their mouths with gold” (or at least Fool’s Gold).
Such welcome news from @DefraGovUK Culmination of 50 year's campaigning. We will give every support to ensure the ban reaches the statue books. Live animal exports have always been cruel & unnecessary. We will not rest until finally consigned to history. https://t.co/pNHm5GCQfB
Brimelow: Government has published 304 statutory instruments re covid restrictions – 8 per week since 6th March. Laws have been uploaded in the middle of the night, in one instance just 30 minutes before it came into force.
"It is time to clear the fear and let us all breath," says @Kirsty_Brimelow criticising the government's covid laws which she says has led to the "criminalisation of social behaviour". pic.twitter.com/dGhHc3LAoX
“Mitigating for Moyo, defence lawyer Michael Goldwater said: “He came to this country at age 20 and lived in Coventry with his family and remained there until his release from his last prison sentence in 2016.”
Rishi Sunak dines at lavish private club days after freezing public sector pay
The Tory Chancellor attended the exclusive surroundings of 5 Hertford Street days after announcing austerity measures following the coronavirus crisis https://t.co/y0izLALtgP
Once again I urge my fellow journalists, regardless of your political views, without fear or favour, to speak out against the extradition to the USA of Julian Assange, a threat to the freedom of all journalists. Your words will matter. So will your silence, if you choose that..
@benswin_ is that so? Then please provide any hard, objective testable evidence for the effectiveness of strangling the country, in reducing Covid deaths. ‘It stands to reason, dunnit?’ does not qualify. https://t.co/vH82XORlPI
It's not about defeating the virus, that requires a vaccine or drugs that stop it killing people. It's about controlling the spread of covid to stop the NHS being overrun, save lives & buy time. But lockdowns obviously come at a huge economic, & associated public health, cost. https://t.co/YT8r65OrHA
Looks like ignorant TV face Piers Morgan is finally (just) starting to wake up…
As for “lockdowns” supposedly “protecting the NHS”, the NHS staff have been protected (many are working from home, and not even at hospitals and medical centres) but the patients have in many cases been left to sink or swim…
Last chance to write to your MP before tomorrow’s vote on the iniquitous, despotic Coronavirus Act . This vote is symbolic and only a start. But we *must* use the lawful democratic weapons which are open to us, if we are to regain our freedom . pic.twitter.com/YimMF7KWb2
If rebels had the stomach they'd be willing to go nuclear & vote down the renewal of the entire Coronavirus Act, should the Speaker refuse to select Brady amendment. But they don't have the stomach – which is exactly why the Speaker feels no compulsion to select Brady amendment!
From @SteveBakerHW: The Coronavirus Act created the most dangerous changes to state power seen in a generation. It must be replaced. https://t.co/r4kL1Bu1oU
The irony is that changes to state power in various other countries in the past century were done because a party and a dictator wanted to institute a dictatorship in order to carry out a programme; in Germany, the Enabling Act 1933 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933]; in the Soviet Union, a number of decrees, conference resolutions and executive actions [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Vladimir_Lenin].
The present clownish government in the UK has no real, let alone radical or revolutionary programme to promulgate and execute. It is swept along by events. There may be an overarching “international conspiracy” “programme”, but that goes beyond this discussion and is being directed from secret sources. As far as the “Conservative” Party government led or headed by Boris Johnson is concerned, it really has no programme at all. Rudderless.
Boris-idiot resembles the jester or court fool of the mediaeval period, who is made “King for a Day”.
Who to blame? Obviously, firstly, Boris-idiot himself. It was his ambition to be “World King”, —Prime Minister is the nearest offered by the UK— that has led him to his present rank.
I blame also the Conservative Party MPs, who supported “Boris” as party leader, thinking that he would be popular with the voters. I blame, also, the 90,000+ (out of 140,000) Conservative Party members who wanted “Boris” to be their leader.
Most of all, I blame the uncritical mass media, the scribblers and talking heads of which have been promoting “Boris” openly for about 20 years.
What of the voters themselves? Yes, they, at least those that voted for Conservative Party candidates, are also to blame, but they were misled by the msm, which promoted “Boris”, and at the same time demonized Corbyn. The Jewish lobby was a large part of that.
The Speaker needs to show some flexibility here. A majority of MPs clearly want the chance to amend the Coronavirus Act, in order to restore the role of Parliament in the making of law. It would be extraordinary if they were denied a chance to vote on this https://t.co/MK6qGS3OtF
Still think that you live in a “free and fair” “democracy”?
This is getting more apparent every day. If they don’t get the amendment they have got to vote against the coronavirus act because Hancock is not going to give them what they want otherwise. He still wants to make any rules he likes. Hopefully they are well aware of this too.
Voting @diywest is not compulsory nor is it a moral obligation. Abstention is sometimes a duty – and the freedom not to vote for bad candidates is a vital part of liberty. The ideal solution would be a 'None of the Below' slot at the tope of every ballot paper. https://t.co/Fb6TOOC333
Here (above) we see Peter Hitchens offering a non-solution to the problem. Abstention, while it may send a vague message of sullen resistance to the System (eg if the voter turnout is 10% rather than the usual General Election figure of 60%+), achieves nothing beyond that. The same parties (in Hitler’s words, “the dirty democratic politicians”) will fight for that 10% just as they usually do for the present 65% or 70%), ignoring the non-voters.
Any similar graph showing world “Covid-19” statistics would be even more striking, because in the world as a whole a million have died, but of course that is out of eight thousand million! One death for every eight thousand people on the Earth.
Then his constituents should draw the obvious conclusion. If he does not wish to represent them, they should find someone else who does. That’s how it works. https://t.co/YU3TkCKXl2
Once again, above, Hitchens has no answer except to say “don’t vote” or “vote for someone/anyone else”! Parliamentary democracy as we have known it for the past couple of centuries just does not do its job any more.
Sometimes this country (as it now is) infuriates me, often it exasperates me. “Bloody Sunday” is one example. Whatever the rights and wrongs, the fact is that those events took place nearly 49 years ago. In earlier ages, Britain (Ireland maybe not) made history, good or bad, then moved on, to make new history. These days, everything drags on forever.
It is the same with the Hillsborough football stadium thing. Yes, very sad that people died in an incident probably avoidable, yes the behaviour of some of the police and Press was wrong, but it was 31 years ago. Enough!
Jeremy Corbyn is being sued by a BBC journalist and maybe others (I have not kept up with the nonsense). I notice that Corbyn’s legal defence fund has now slowed almost to a halt, but not before it has reached (as of today) £332,803: https://uk.gofundme.com/f/47gyy-jeremy039s-legal-fund. That compares to about £318K a couple of months ago.
The mouse that roared
On my way back from, as the Americans say, running an errand, I decided to call in at a “Mole Country Store”, one of a medium-size chain of such outlets. I had only been there once or twice over the years.
They had instituted a silly “one-way” system, presumably in case someone is a plague-carrier. I went through the labyrinth without finding what I wanted, so approached one of the two cashiers, a woman in late middle age wearing a mask despite being behind a perspex screen.
I pulled my disposable facemask down to say “I am looking for…“, and that was as far as I got before the harridan barked (and that is the accurate term) “PUT YOUR FACEMASK ON PLEASE SIR!” (the “Sir” very much the kind of “Sir” sometimes tacked on by the police to some sarcastic remark, or by instructors of Army officer-cadets, as in “you will call me Sir and I shall call you Sir; the difference is that you will mean it.”…).
After a brief exchange in which it turned out that “Mole Country Store” did not have the product I wanted (I think that the old bitch was lying, in fact, in order to mess me around), I expostulated that “this is nonsense!“, as I stormed out, tearing off the mask.
There were only three customers anyway (it was much busier there a few years ago), so it may be that the place is living on borrowed time. I hope so, if that is how their serfs treat the customers. Anyway, they have just lost one customer.
I think that the sort of situation just described is one of the worst aspects of the Government-imposed nonsense of the past months. That woman is no longer a poorly-paid wage-slave in some rural store. Oh, no. She is now the guardian of publc health, who can bark at people to do this, do that etc. All sorts of nuisances, pains-in-the-whatever, and busybodies, have been emboldened and their existences somehow validated by the “lockdown”, “social distancing” and now facemask nonsense imposed by Boris-idiot and his Friends of Israel regime.
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What they're not telling you is that they're short because vaccine companies switched staff from working on the new flu #vaccine to research #COVID19. Normal flu is already killing 11 x more than covid & even more extra deaths are on the way.#clusterfuckhttps://t.co/NgoFZRtygw
Poised to lash out at a protester for not wearing a mask. With all the power of an aggressive hamster. We've plenty to be angry about but nothing to be scared of! These are social workers LARPing at being cops. #lockdownrebellionpic.twitter.com/8uF9TOx5K4
Is that woman’s face and expression that of the British police, or of what amounts to that of a merciless invader, alien and wishing harm to us? I hope not the latter, but am not very optimistic.
Everyone should know about the vital court case brought by @simondolan, which has so frightened HNMG that they keep trying to delay it. https://t.co/F8hxo9zXMW Astonishing how little coverage it gets, compared to Gina Miller. https://t.co/P2zRkz3zAP
Mis-spoke, Pfeffel, @borisjohnson old bean? That's the sort of thing Ronald Reagan used to say. Either you meant what you said, and understood it, or you didn't. If not, whatever is going on? You're Prime Minister and, as I recall, very much wanted the job. https://t.co/OGOqyXx7rz
Peter Hitchens is right when he suggests that people who are deeply in trouble, like @BorisJohnson and cannot admit it need to be helped to climb down as honorably as possible. This farce must end.
Pfeffel now becomes a pathetic, pitiable figure. This is what happens to politicians who try to make normal life illegal and Christmas an arrestable offence, in pursuit of wild Utopian goals. Once he has gone to spend more time with his family, I shall feel sorry for him. Not now https://t.co/iT8EzlXrzh
I was looking on Oddschecker Political for odds around current UK politics. I see that the betting is that “Boris” will depart from Downing Street next year (2021). That is the favourite bet, followed by this year! Few are willing to bet that he will still be there in 2022, 2023, or 2024.
I cannot say that I am surprised. Recently, I saw someone deflated, someone who has achieved a lifetime ambition only to find that it has turned to ashes in his hands.
“Boris” never was fitted to be a Prime Minister, or any kind of minister. For all his spouting of rote-learned Latin and Greek tags etc, he has not the intellectual horsepower; neither has he any real ideas. In fact, “Boris” is unsuitable in every possible way.
Look at that: the “British” police will brutalize a British (i.e. white) middleaged woman, but they will kneel down in surrender to a mob of blacks, and will do the bidding of a pack of organized Jews such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, which has suborned senior officers of several forces.
True (though I notice that the baby in the poster is non-European; the non-European population has to be reduced worldwide).
If record high temperatures are a sign of global warming, then logically record low temperatures are a sign of ….. Except, of course that there's no logic when the United Nations & global elite have their #NWO agenda to force down our throats.https://t.co/klb1ZWyGdc
Whether one takes at face value the “global warming” idea, or not, it is clear, surely, that something is happening to the global climate? It may or may not be caused by “emissions” of carbon gases; that is unproven. However, there seems to be, putting it this way, more happening in various ways than was the case at least in the last few centuries.
Successful Community Day for Young German Nationalists. More nationalists getting the message that there's more to the struggle than trying to pbeat the enemy on his home ground by fighting unwinnable elections. Good work in #Germanyhttps://t.co/tnoCnU2ais via @ETNostra
…and, though few know it, the Guantanamo concentration camp inmates were/are not the first victims of American “dehumanization by mask”; those accused of helping John Wilkes Booth were held on a ship or hulk in the Potomac, hooded and/or masked, for months.
After this, no prisoners. If the police do the dirty work of an emergent police state, they are part of that emergent police state.
That we’re weak? That we’re losing? Moral high grounds work best when holding the *actual* high ground too, not when you’re being chased through the valleys. https://t.co/IYd9R2VPJE
Douglas Murray is just a well-paid puppet of the Jewish lobby, Israel lobby and the NWO/ZOG “System”. Much of what he writes is correct in itself, yet serves the power cabals.
If those students were from the 60s/70s they'd charge out of the building and no one would be able to stop them. That is the problem with today's society. Too conformist.
The sheer conformism of the students is incredible. I saw some on a TV news broadcast. Not one said anything like “let’s all march/demonstrate/go home when we feel like it/ do whatever we want to do”. One even said that he does not like the “lockdown” but it must be necessary or some such BS…
Thinking beyond the immediate present, one wonders what those students are actually getting out of their “degree” courses. Presumably most will be rewarded for their passivity and conformity by being awarded “top” degrees (meaningless because almost all will get them), after which they will struggle to get any jobs, certainly any lucrative ones or any that aspire to being part of a “career”.
“Ingrid Seward, Editor of Majesty magazine, said the couple were ‘hypocritical’ for agreeing to the reality series after they left the UK for the US for greater privacy. It is extraordinary. This is exactly what they said they wouldn’t do,’ she said.” [Daily Mail]
“Royal Married with Children“? (my suggestion of a couple of years ago). Or “The Real Housewives of Windsor Castle“? What a farce, and predictably so. Harry and the Royal Mulatta…
Britain no longer has an Empire, just a few remnants, but I suppose that Harry could be appointed to a post such as Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands, thus following in the footsteps of the one-time Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, who was kept out of the way as Governor of the Bahamas
Notice how keen the #covidcops are to punch an elderly woman, but how they back off and hold up defensive hands when young men then confront them. Cowards! Acquiesce and they'll enslave you, push this regime and its destructive tyranny will collapse. #lockdownrebellionpic.twitter.com/UzVaQ3vk72
More than ten years ago I wrote about a disturbing brush with Britain's new militarised state police. After the worrying events on Saturday in London (I believe there should be an independent inquiry), this seems relevant: https://t.co/V1RR2AMuEe
1/2 My whole argument, from March onwards, has been one of proportion. Are these measures justified by the problem we face? I believe the answer has always been 'No'. But I do tire of being told I am a 'denier', that I don't care about deaths, or that I am a conspiracy theorist. https://t.co/tKU4FBYOcx
2/2 To say that the measures taken are grossly disproportionate is not to say we should have done nothing. But it it is certainly the case that *irrevocable* actions, such as the strangling of the economy and the destruction of jobs, should not have been taken in a panic. https://t.co/tKU4FBYOcx
'Do we really want the hand of a foreign power to be able to reach into our country at will and pluck out anyone it wants to punish? Are we still an independent country if we allow this? The Americans would certainly not let us treat them in this way.' https://t.co/pJrphsW9J1
I look forward to blogging about her when her trial (assuming that there is one) is over.
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Kind of you @wolf77925005 but Carl Heneghan and Sunetra Gupta have no need of me, now that the mainstream media have finally realised they exist and have something to say. We need to see them debating with pro-shutdown scientists, so people know there is more than one view. https://t.co/rt166htegp
Extraordinary that coverage of the tragic police killing in Croydon has now entirely ceased to mention the relevant fact that the suspect was allegedly arrested in possession of Marijuana, while still going on and on about his tenuous, chaotic 'terror'connections.
So easy to U-turn over bars in Westminster, so hard to do so over the whole mad policy of making mnormal life illegal for no good reason. Still, at least MPs (seldom there late now, I think) now pay some small direct price for their supine indolence. https://t.co/MW6nzAHxuG
I mean much more than that @lynnbritney2. The key to politics nowadays is the cultural, moral and educational struggle. The Tories have, mostly without understanding them, adopted the policies of the 1997 government. https://t.co/ewEbLusraw
Unsurprising. After all, what we have in the UK, whatever the party label, is ZOG— Zionist Occupation Government. Now if only Peter Hitchens (or others, for that matter) would make that clear in columns and on radio and TV (before the Zionist Jews gang up to get radio, TV and Press to sack him), that really would be a game-changer; but it is asking a lot to expect any msm journalist, scribbler, or talking head to sacrifice career, income etc for the truth.
Ten deaths! Out of thousands of cases recorded, and a population of maybe 70 million! This is madness. It is clear from the graph above that “the virus” peaked, in terms of deaths from (with) it, in early April, and that there is virtually no danger to most people now.
Pubs, bars and restaurants were to blame for only 3% of all coronavirus outbreaks last week, figures show https://t.co/TaeoTWtu8B
Neil was not “woke” enough for those who now run the BBC, and he tended to “cut through the crap”. He has his faults, such as being completely on the side of the Jew lobby, but he is still by far the best political interviewer around.
Egyptian man, 25, dating 80-year-old British grandmother says critics who don't believe he's really in love can 'go to hell' https://t.co/7peC6eSsEU
Oh, no, not another old fool…When I was living for a few months in Egypt (1997-98), I became friendly with a British woman and her Coptic Christian husband (an Egyptian). They told me that this sort of thing is a perennial problem: the older woman from (usually) the UK, aged 40-60 usually, but sometimes older, who “falls in love” with a younger Egyptian (20-40), sometimes a felucca skipper on the Nile, sometimes just someone met at a bar or hotel dance. These days, I suppose one has to add “met on Facebook” or similar to the possibilities…
The woman, divorced or widowed, but sometimes married (but if so, husband not en poste on the holiday) gets seduced and eventually marries the Egyptian. She returns to the UK to sell her house to fund her exciting new life, buys property in Egypt (put into the husband’s name), then, after another trip back to the UK, returns to find her husband living with his real or prior wife (whom the Englishwoman may have met, maybe at the “wedding”, when that other woman posed as the man’s “sister” or “cousin”!).
The British woman soon finds that she has been well and truly “stitched-up”, unable to reclaim her property or money, and quite likely finding that the “marriage” is not even valid under local law.
I might add that a few such marriages are genuine, as with the couple I met, but most are not.
You find this sort of thing reported on occasionally in the UK Press, not only re. Egypt but when British women even marry black Africans from some tribe or other. Absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker Lindsay Hoyle BLOCKS vote on Tory rebel amendment over Covid curbs because 'he doesn't want to do a John Bercow' https://t.co/RUlcuRuj6L
What stupid vandalism, for a service road “needed” for a rail line upon which may or may not eventually run a train which by that time will itself not be needed or wanted.
I predicted quite a while ago (about 7 or 8 months ago) that any serious Parliamentary opposition to this government of clowns would eventually come —and have to come, in a Parliament where the Government sits on a majority of 80 mostly inexperienced MPs— not from enfeebled and compliant Labour under Jewish lobby puppet Keir Starmer, but from within the Conservative Party itself.
Beria was not alone in the Politburo. Other members had doubts about various core Soviet policies: Collectivization, mass repressions etc. After the death of Stalin, Khrushchev, himself one of the harshest Stalinist repressors in the 1930s and 1940s, arranged (with the rest of the surviving Politburo) to release most of the prisoners of the GULAG labour camp system [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag], and made his famous”Secret Speech” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequences] in 1956, after which he appeared internationally as the figurehead of the post-Stalin wave of “the Thaw”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchev_Thaw.
Where was the most significant opposition to Ceaucescu in Romania? In the highest councils of the State itself. Who ordered the execution of Ceausescu and his ghastly wife? Revolutionaries? No, not as such. Palace revolutionaries carrying the rank of general or minister.
Where is any opposition in North Korea? Among peasants and industrial workers? No, they are far too downtrodden, poor and frightened even to think of rebelling. The opposition, as far as it exists at all outside people’s own heads, exists in the higher ranks of the military machine and State officials. Which is why Kim Jong Un has had some (including his own relatives) shot, cut to pieces, fed to dogs etc. He knows where the opposition to him lies.
Reverting to the UK, now staggering under the weight of the governmental mistakes of 2020, we see the same. There is no real opposition from the Labour Party. Those feeble “me too”, bent-knee bad jokes have swallowed the whole “Coronavirus will kill everyone” thing whole. All they do is support the Government or say “do it more!” Nothing can be expected from Labour. In any case, Labour has no power even in potential, having only 202 MPs out of 650.
So we see that opposition to the absurd dictatorship of the clowns now starts to grow from within the Conservative Party itself, from previously-supportive newspapers etc. It may be that the courts will now turn to the illegality of several of the measures that have been taken.
*One* member of the liberal elite finally wakes up. 'Parliament surrendered role over Covid emergency laws, says Lady Hale' – and, do you know, she is dead right. 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️https://t.co/AQKVf4mOAk
Tory backbench leader Sir Graham Brady says on BBC R4 the government is ruling by decree, and that the national mood is changing. I believe he is right about both. *You* now have a role in amplifying and reinforcing that change, and ending rule by decree.
Painful listening to @BBCR4Today's Martha Kearney repeatedly trying to interrupt Sir Graham Brady as he voices reasoned opposition to rule by decree. Yet the absurd Hancock, as he stomps abut wrecking jobs, lives and freedom, is treated with sycophantic deference by the BBC.
Yes, I too noticed that Martha Kearney, that ridiculous BBC drone, was trying, repeatedly, to close down Sir Graham Brady, and to weaken what Brady was saying about this dictatorship of idiots pretending to be a government.
Daily Mail main main editorial accuses PM of 'administering the shackles of authoritarianism too enthusiastically', asks 'Isn't it time Parliament had a say? Asks 'What will draconian curbs actually achieve?' Things are shifting.
I effectively never use the railways now, but was talking to a lady who travelled from Hampshire to London then (after taxi transfer) to the “****hole of England” (the Kent estuary) recently. She said that the First Class from Hampshire to Waterloo was empty, and the Kent suburban service almost empty.
How mad is the Government, to keep pumping money into this black hole? It continues to depress the economy by its actions, makes the public scared of their own shadows (or of those nearby), then is surprised that the working masses do not want to commute or attend offices!
Just remember that, out of 8,000,000,000 people in the world, 1,000,000, i.e. 1 in every 8,000, have died from (or, more accurately, with) Coronavirus. That puts this whole “panicdemic” in proportion.
Yes, but 60+ years divided (albeit unequally) among 7 defendants means about 9 years each, so they will be out, averaged, in about 4.5 years…Idle thoughts? Covert elimination…
Eventually, a real government will have to thoroughly clean our Augean Stables.
No, Pfeffel is saving his energy for his Tuesday evening Presidential broadcast, when he will tell us to tell us we must all hide under our beds, shave our heads, and wear flippers, gauntlets and gasmasks, to save our grannies. It really is true there is no P*** left to take. https://t.co/TJJuj0E3zC
Why does this chart start on August 1, when a longer base would clearly show that these recent figures are nowhere near those of March and April? Well, why do you think? https://t.co/0L9euSh4Fb
Why does this chart have a vertical axis that stops at 200? Because if it went UP to 3,000 and BACK to March you might spot what was actually going on. https://t.co/CUhJRtNXzThttps://t.co/YRnjnN2VpW
If this is not a prediction, and they say it si not, then why was it made? Who will take responsibility foir it if it turns out not be accurate? https://t.co/uM9tC0Ay8D
They say this is not a prediction. So why are they pubishing it at all? It's a blatant attempt to panic us, as we were panicked in March, so that MPs will vote to renew the shameful Coronavirus Act. https://t.co/uM9tC0Ay8D
1/2 Remember, remember, the 30th September is the day they plan to renew the repressive Coronavirus Act. This is the actual reason for all this sudden exaggeration of danger.
He wants police to taser people who refuse to “comply” with police “orders” (by going home at once, instead of walking peacefully in parks etc). He says that those people (i.e. ordinary citizens, who pay for the police, by the way…) should then (after having been tasered) also have baton rounds (ie “rubber bullets” about 5 inches long) fired at them. The idiot (a former senior police officer in London, who was later one of those useless “Police and Crime Commissioner” wastes of space) ends his rant (on LBC radio) by wishing that the police could “beat people with long sticks” as in India (he is referring to a long thin baton used in India by their police, and called a lahti).
He had been criticized by then Home Secretary Theresa May. He had also remarked (perhaps understandably, but inappropriately) that he wanted to “batter and break the legs” of one criminal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-35793654
This is a good example of the madness that is now abroad, with police shouting hysterically at completely harmless members of the public because they are walking alone or with spouses etc in the open air, or driving —again completely harmlessly— along highways or motorways. Screw them! This is not (yet) North Korea.
There is an element in the UK, in the police, on Twitter etc, which is the 2020 re-emergence of the WW2 busybodies who volunteered to walk around urban and suburban areas yelling “put that light out!” etc (a complete waste of time, because the Luftwaffe had this thing called “navigation”…).
Latest Coronavirus forecast
The latest forecasts are that the number of deaths from Coronavirus in the UK might be as low as 5,000, far from the 250,000+ many were predicting (some quite recent estimates were as high as 800,000!).
If that is so, and if something like the 5,000 estimate turns out to be accurate, we shall never know whether that result was because of the strict “lockdown” regime imposed, or or other reason. In the meantime, it is clear that the “lockdown” has given the coup de grace to much of the already-struggling UK economy. I shall be blogging separately about that.
So far, the death toll in the UK (attributed to the virus) is below 1,000.
It struck me very forcibly that, in Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic, and where the Coronavirus situation may now have passed, only 3% of people ever caught the virus, about 85,000 (confirmed cases). True, 3,000-4,000 still died, but one has to remember the size of Wuhan, the 9th-largest city in China. We are talking about a city as populous as London, in broad terms. 11 million inhabitants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan
I am sure of one thing. When this is over, the freedoms we have temporarily forsaken by Government decree, I suspect we won't be getting all of them back.
"We are pleased to announce that the number of deaths were far, far lower than predicted because we, the British people, were magnificent, we went on our doorsteps, clapped for our NHS and thus, saved many. many lives. And for that, I thank you." Boris Johnson, sometime in 2020.
Scientists at Kings College London suggests that as many as 6.6 million Brits may already have had the virus. Total deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the UK are 759, which equates to a mortality rate of 0.0115%
‘I love Big Brother!’ . Fancy a stroll down to the Chestnut Tree Cafe’ ? Their gin flavoured with cloves is very good? Oh , sorry, this isn’t 1984, it’s 2020, so I can’t even leave Victory Mansions. Freedom is slavery. Confinement is liberty. https://t.co/s0CO8jAmYM
We shall never know whether, or to what extent, that is the result of the extreme measures now in place.
Hypocrite of the day
The Transport Secretary, the Jew Grant Shapps, a “businessman” who owns two private planes, now says that British people will have to give up private cars and move to using buses, trams, trains, or start to cycle and walk! What a hypocrite!
Is that part of the hidden agenda behind the Coronavirus Act, which confers almost dictatorial powers upon the present government? Make British people poorer, import even more blacks and browns (the Great Replacement), repress dissent and any political meetings etc?
More police bullying
Looks like the thick plods at Derbyshire Police are firmly intent on making themselves despised, hated and ignored:
Despite posts yesterday highlighting issues of people still visiting the #PeakDistrict despite government guidance, the message is still not getting through. @DerPolDroneUnit have been out at beauty spots across the county, and this footage was captured at #CurbarEdge last night. pic.twitter.com/soxWvMl0ls
A man and wife with dog in the middle of nowhere, labelled by Derbyshire Poundland KGB as anti-social elements and a threat to public health, despite there not being another person for miles around!
Ha ha!
We saw last week where such places in Derbyshire and other parts of the country became dangerously overcrowded, making social distancing extremely hard, and in fact today our officers have had to break up a group having a picnic.
A picnic? Did the police shout out “Sweeney! You’re nicked!” as those picnicking bastards tried to reach for a cucumber sandwich or a Scotch egg?
This really is becoming a bad joke that leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Actually, I recommend to all my blog readers that they read the Derbyshire Police on Twitter and, most importantly, the responses. The responses come in two main categories:
intelligent people who understand that the Derbyshire Police (and some other police forces) are going beyond both commonsense and the wording of the (new, dictatorial) law itself;
unintelligent people eager to enforce the strictest and least necessary “regulations” (as misinterpreted by over-zealous police) on other people simply because “authority” “says so” (as the uninformed believe).
Why so many Coronavirus deaths in Italy and Spain?
The present estimate for the eventual total of deaths in UK from Coronavirus is 5,700, but Italy is forecast to top 28,000 and Spain 46,000. I wonder why that is so.
Which are the highest (gross) totals for deaths in Europe from the virus? Italy, Spain, France, UK, Netherlands (so far). Obviously, population levels differ. Still, there is obviously a correlation in the numbers washing hands and the number of Coronavirus deaths.
It could really be as simple as that.
Overkill?
Obviously, the government, faced with Coronavirus, needed to prepare. In fact, it did not prepare well at all. The response has the feeling of a last minute bodge and panic. Now it is preparing mass mortuaries and mass temporary hospitals. These may or may not (probably will not) be required, but I make no quarrel with such preparations.
As to the police, they have rendered themselves a laughing stock. The Kevin Hurley person noted at the top of this blog post —wanting to taser and shoot and beat with long sticks people harmlessly walking or exercizing in parts or open country— may be an outlier, a ranting bully-type and/or (clearly) a control freak sans-pareil, but many of his colleagues up and down the country have been almost as bad, with their Common Purpose “leading beyond authority” arbitrary and illegitimate decisions as to what the law (such as the new mad law) actually is. The police are now in danger of losing all credibility.
The damage done to the UK economy, society, respect for law and order etc may be as good as permanent. Some of that damage may have been unavoidable, but most was avoidable.
What is really behind all this?
The political hit from all this will not be apparent in its plenitude for some time, maybe not until 2021 or 2022. So far, the government is riding fairly high, because there is no Opposition now. Labour is a bad joke far more than it was before the 2019 General Election. Also, Rishi Sunak’s open Treasury wallet has bought off much criticism and has shot Labour’s fox to a large extent, if not entirely. Sunak has buried the “austerity” of 2010-2019, at least in big picture terms. How long is the open wallet sustainable? That is an open question. No-one has asked anyone to pay the bill. Yet.
Evening foray
Seems that my opinion of two days ago was right: the supermarkets are getting on top of the “panic-buying” trend. This evening I went to Waitrose about half an hour before close. Everything seemed to be in good supply despite it being at the end of a Saturday of (I presume) busy shopping. Very few shoppers were there when I visited.
All the “panic-buy” items were still in supply: bread, eggs, water, meats etc, even loo paper! Only two items hinted at public anxiety: there was no flour for breadmaking. Completely stripped, as were items used for breadmaking, such as bicarbonate of soda. Also, all chickens had gone.
I was only there to buy bread and water, but did buy some other things, notably some excellent marked-down bargains (sushi boxes at 35p each instead of £4 to £7; cappuccino mousse at 15p instead of 80p, some nice pasta and pine nut salads at about 30p instead of nearly £4). So a successful ratissage. Hard to get used to the Handmaid’s Tale “militia” (Waitrose marshals) though, shuffling about outside the store and in the foyer, wearing their black clothing, armbands, woollen hats and scarfs covering the lower face.
I expect to stay home, like a good quiescent “Coronavirus” citizen, for a couple of days now.
The midnight hour…
Final thought
The Government is now saying that if the final death toll is not in the hundreds of thousands initially predicted, then that will have been only because of the strict “lockdown” measures ordered. The msm is parrotting that official line unthinkingly, not even questioning it. Why not? The “lockdown” measures were only ordered about 4-5 days ago and have only been effective for about 3 days . There is something not quite right here. Obviously, the “lockdown” will have an effect, but there is little precise evidence so far.
Update, 10 June 2020
Well, here we are three months on from the above blog article. Most the the above holds good. The glaring anomaly is the total of deaths. which in the UK is now taken to be 40,000. However, the statistics are unclear because the NHS has been certifying people who die with Coronavirus (and often also with another 2, 3 or 4 other “co-morbidities”) as having died from Coronavirus. Indeed, it now appears from the NHS’s own figures that the number of those who have died solely from Coronavirus is below 1,400.
The NHS has been seen to “protect” its hospitals, staff and some patients by simply off-loading patients with the virus to care homes, where tens of thousands have died. Scandal. Despite that, it seems that 20% of (known) Coronavirus infections took place in hospitals, a stunning indictment of the low standards of cleanliness in the HS.
Since I wrote the blog article, the vast new “Nightingale” hospitals have opened and then closed (many without having received a single patient), the ordinary NHS hospitals are uncrowded for the first time in decades (as patients wait at home, dying of everything but Coronavirus), and the economy is tanking as few people work as before the panic.
Ian Robert Millard 