“Perl says that he didn’t know people were being gassed, their bodies being turned into smoke and ash, even when he was inside Auschwitz – that he only fully understood that after the war. As a prisoner, he had seen the huge chimneys of the crematoriums, but when he asked a fellow inmate what they were, he was told the building was a bakery. Call it a coping mechanism, or a survival strategy, but the repression of that knowledge – and the knowledge that most of his family had been murdered – may have helped him live from one day to the next.”
[The Guardian].
Very odd. Comment perhaps superfluous. Still, that interviewee was apparently inside the Auschwitz camp briefly, before he was deployed to work hundreds of miles to the west, in Bavaria. Like others, he saw no “gas chambers”, heard of no “gas chambers”, even when actually staying inside the Auschwitz camp, and when he asked another prisoner what were some chimneys seen, he was told “a bakery“. Why would that other prisoner lie?
It is that kind of oddity or implausibility that fuels the unstoppable wave of “holocaust” revisionism. A certain narrative, pushed for about 75 years (but particularly since the 1960s) is being questioned by more and more people, because much of the story put before the public just does not add up.
“Regionally, only 14% of people in southern Europe, 15% in northern Europe and 17% in the English-speaking world (Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US) believed they were in sync with their government. In the UK just 12% of people firmly believe that their government shares their values.“
[The Guardian]
“The shark can smell blood in the water a mile off when it’s hungry.” [John le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold].
.@Tucker demolishes Corporate media’s lies about Russia blowing up a dam that supplies water to their own nuclear plant.
This is dangerous, they won’t allow him to tell this kind of truth about the Ukraine war for very long. I wonder how they’ll try and stop him this time since… https://t.co/o8wPv7qXco
The balance of benefit/detriment is surely showing that Ukrainian (Kiev regime) forces destroyed that dam; maybe not “beyond a reasonable doubt”, but surely “on the balance of probabilities”.
⚠️Mel Gibson is about to rattle the cages of some of the most powerful people in America. This is extremely dangerous work, and it’s going to raise a lot of eyebrows.⚠️
Russian analysts believe that the introduction of the main UAF forces into the fight can be expected in the next 72 hours , and that the main direction of the attack will be Orehovo – Tokmak – Melitopol
The Russian Ministry of Defense publishes footage of attacks on the attacking units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South Donetsk direction. pic.twitter.com/1OEIUr9Arh
Tony Gosling says that from a military strategic point of view, the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam could be an effective Ukrainian move to cause massive flooding and halt the advance of Russian troops. Press pic.twitter.com/OvvdT30jow
The destruction of the dam is unusual, in that such attacks usually clearly benefit one side or the other. Here, the weight of detriment seems to fall on both sides, making it hard to confirm who blew the dam.
The British military is too weak to fight Russia in a European war and cannot rely on the US in a European conflict, British MPs say pic.twitter.com/FtcTJ0JXyn
The premise is absurd. Why would Russia attack the UK? To take over decaying cities filled with non-whites? There is no reason for Russia and the UK to fight (once the UK Government stops funding the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev). In any case, the British Army numbers fewer than 70,000 in reality, and the hard-nosed bit of that is probably no more than 30,000, maybe far fewer.
Now look at it. Middle-aged ladies handcuffed behind their backs because they are wicked enough to sit on a bench overlooking the sea.
Two young women stopped and each given £200 fines for the “crime” of having driven (separately, at that) to a lake about 10 miles from their homes, where they were planning to take a walk together.
They, and/or similar women, were also fined because they had cups of peppermint tea.
I am not joking. Derbyshire’s pathetic and unpleasant plod force, which made itself notorious in 2020 for similar “poundland KGB” activities, informed the women that the tea counted as “a picnic”, which (ludicrously enough in itself) is “banned” under the stupid “virus” “lockdown” “rules”.
[Britain 2021: Dorset Police arrest a woman for having been sitting quietly on a bench by the sea]
[Britain 2021: the police are now a militia force menacing the public; they loiter in threes and fours…]
[Britain 2021: three police —again— try to intimidate a person taking a rest on a park bench]
“It comes as footage emerged showing three police officers surrounding a woman for allegedly leaving her house more than once in a day.
Another four officers appear to arrest a different woman for what she claims was ‘sitting on a bench’ on the seafront.
The new rules were on full show on Saturday when a woman was surrounded by three police who claimed she had left her house more than once.
The woman, who is joined by an elderly man, bursts into tears as the police interrogate her over the alleged lockdown violation in Bournemouth.
The officer, who was wearing a face covering, continues but the woman starts crying and wipes her eyes.
She says: ‘How have I acted anti-socially, I was sat on a bench having a cup of coffee, that is not anti-social.’
One officer tells the first woman: ‘At the moment you’re allowed out for exercise once a day.
‘You’ve been filmed today in the town centre and around here and walking up and down.’
Meanwhile the cameraman walks over to another part of the promenade where a woman is being cuffed by four different officers.
The four officers lead her away in handcuffs while other pedestrians ask why they feel it is necessary.
The footage comes to an end as the second woman is led to a police van while the first continues to bicker with the police.
Derbyshire Police faced criticism on Friday for taking the lockdown crackdown too far after officers swooped on two friends for driving just seven miles to go for a walk at a beauty spot.
As a result, the ‘intimidating’ force is reviewing its Covid operations after getting clarification about the rules, with West Mercia Police also mocked for threatening to fine people £200 for playing in the snow.
Elsewhere, Norfolk Police revealed a couple had travelled 130 miles from their home in Wellingborough in Northamptonshire to Horsey on Thursday to look at a seal colony.” [So?]
Last night, the Broseley and Much Wenlock division of West Mercia Police tweeted: ‘There have been two reports of snowballs being thrown last night between 11 and 11.30pm.
‘This is obviously not a justifiable reason to be out of your house, this behaviour is likely to result in a £200 Fixed Penalty Notice for breaking the lockdown rules.’
Meanwhile, Derbyshire Police fined beautician Jessica Allen and her British Airways flight attendant friend Eliza Moore £200 each for driving for a socially distanced stroll at Foremark Reservoir, which despite not being her nearest park is only 10 minutes from her house.
The pair were also told their cups of Starbucks peppermint tea, which they bought at a drive-thru, were not allowed because they were ‘classed as a picnic’.
Current lockdown guidance instructs the public to limit exercise – including running, cycling, swimming and walking – to once per day, and says while people can leave their home, they should not travel outside their local area.” [Daily Mail]
As seen in 2020, official “guidance” and “advice” is being conflated with law. The whole idea of the “rule of law” and “a society under law” is trashed by such conflation.
The sheer state of this country! Yes, police warning or threatening about snowballs thrown in people’s own gardens, or getting hold of some old lady, handcuffing her hands behind her back (as seen on American “reality” TV…) and bundling her away, “mobhanded”, may all seem somehow funny or eccentric, but in reality this is now not even the “toytown” police state seen 8, 9, 10 months ago. This is now becoming a real police state.
There is now no legitimate (or competent) government, no check on that by a viable official Opposition. The Press, radio and TV mostly retail government propaganda and the “fake news” of the misnamed “SAGE” scientific drones [aka “DUMB”— Department Under Matt and Boris]. As for “journalists”, 95% of them just spout officially-approved news. Soviet Britain.
It is not confined to the “virus” “panicdemic”. We see the attack on free speech continuing too (and not only in the UK…across the Western world).
Neither did any of those people mentioned say one word of support for Alison Chabloz, persecuted and even prosecuted for singing satirical songs about the hoaxes and fakery around the so-called “holocaust” farrago.
[Alison Chabloz]
Yes, it’s very important now that the citizenry are locked in their homes that their reading and viewing should also be restricted. No non-approved views permitted. What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/aYEqUHy8hr
[“Police Scotland” louts force themselves into a private home]
There is now strong evidence Covid leaked from a Chinese biological weapons research laboratory rather than developing in a wet market, says a senior US official. https://t.co/qM465WO9hU
Roughly the level of analysis you’d expect from a hereditary TV presenter. In the 1970s the UK joined a trading bloc. In 2016 (after that organisation had morphed into something else) the UK voted to leave it. Nothing to do with genocide. https://t.co/XDnViHYDPx
I just signed please do the same if you life in the UK. Killing bees literally will kill us.
Uk Government : Stop the UK from allowing EU banned bee-killing pesticide to be reintroduced – Sign the Petition! https://t.co/qeTaFM4JSw via @UKChange
— Little Miss Heike and His Lordship Dino (@TweetHeike_HHL) January 10, 2021
Starmer on #Marr is a bit painful. Votes for a crap deal because his indolence up until that point meant it was a straight choice between a crap deal and no deal. What does he stand for? He can’t really say, but he’s not Johnson and I suppose that’s enough for me to vote for him.
No @edstratton1 exaggeration weakens your case. We are not *in* such a state but we are on a path which might lead towards it, if dissent does not first survive and then grow. https://t.co/k6gZME8OWr
The enthusiasm of the police/militia for handcuffing peaceful, non-violent citizens in public-humiliation street theatre is remarkable. It is precisely because dissent is so weak, and mobs are incited against it, that this sort of thing becomes easier and more common. https://t.co/bLIjytmETu
Just listening to some Radio 4 politics show. Oh, dear…They interview Margaret Beckett, now a member of the House of Lords. As an MP, an expenses cheat and freeloader who made sure to employ her husband on expenses as well. Unlike most British politicians, not a complete idiot, but her greed and careerism vitiates her better qualities.
Now they interview the Jewish former Conservative Party leader, Michael “Howard”. Not a particularly nice person, but far from the worst of the Jews in politics in the UK.
Finally, an interview with Joanna Cherry, described as “a senior member of the SNP”. I suppose that that is so, but the very idea that the SNP can have a “senior member” is a bit of a joke, bearing in mind that the SNP had only a handful of MPs until 2015.
Joanna Cherry seems another not particularly nice person: a rather bullish lesbian, several of whose Parliamentary staff complained about being bullied, both by her and by her office manager (Joanna Cherry herself was officially exonerated later). There have also been problems over her expenses since 2015.
Britain deserves better politicians.
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For what reason? From what I have been reading about him he was an excellent soldier, and loved by his men. He received the Victoria cross which was not given out lightly. Sick of all this woke nonsense
I was a practising barrister, and during the years 2002-2008 was based in Exeter (professionally; I lived in Brittany from 2005). Local politicians and bureaucrats are often deadheads. The few I met in Exeter were no exception.
The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. 🧠 pic.twitter.com/cxbtlR3cTn
Watched the 2002 TV film Goodbye Mr Chips the other night, a period piece set in an early 1900's boarding school. Not one black person featured in the cast. In 2020 every period piece to included black people. Social engineering and indoctrination now in full operational mode.
Coronavirus: Fresh air 'forgotten weapon' in fight – BBC Newshttps://t.co/ejhTYATHQy Aerosols in a restaurant could infect everyone in there regardless of face mask or distancing. Don't stay in poorly ventilated areas is the best advice for some time in my opinion.
So what does the Government of Clowns do? Make the entire country stay at home on pain of penalty…
You still see tweets and other comment to the effect that the first and second “lockdowns” did not work because a very small number of people broke the (probably legally invalid) “rules”. What nonsense.
The real fallout from the “lockdown(s)” or shutdowns will come later, when the British people will be unable to get medical care, dental care, jobs, decent pay, and when their children will be unable, after pointless further education, to get even the most basic work, or much of a future.
As I understand it the 'once a day' is guidance, not law, . Does the officer also say to the woman 'we've been filming you?' AS for *handcuffs* employed by mob-handed police against a single peaceful woman, can *anyone* justify? . https://t.co/nyZ04DmgS1
PETER HITCHENS: I am, for the first time, afraid for the future of freedom in my country. (Comments are always open on this blog) https://t.co/Km5QubuUB9
Call me old-fashioned, but there used to be a wise and firm rule that ministers did not in any way involve themselves in police operational matters. Abolished, obvs:Matt Hancock “absolutely backs” police who fined women walking in park https://t.co/fUO7AsScee via @MetroUK
Little Matt Hancock. As for Keir Starmer, the Jewish-lobby puppet now posing as Labour leader, he thinks that the only thing wrong with “lockdown” no.3 is that it should be stricter or tougher! So…everyone should sit at home and wait to starve?
What a total limp waste of space this Starmer is! I have heard two interventions from him this week, the “Government should be supported but do it tougher” statement today and, a few days ago, “People should now resume weekly clapping for NHS (or whatever)”. That one fell totally flat too.
No System party now has any legitimacy.
Canadian expert's research ( he used to be a lockdown supporter) finds lockdown harms are 10 times greater than benefits. https://t.co/B8gk76ZroJ
On BBC Radio 4 Today (or should that be “Toady”?), the presenter bleats as a question, “but if it [lockdown] saves a life…?“. At least he did not rev it up to “but if it saves even one child’s life…?“. Such lazy (un)thinking. Cars and trucks kill people daily. Are you going to ban them? No? Why not? Because we have to accept, as a society, that a relatively small number of people will be killed because of cars, so that we as a society have cars, have mobility, have road transport and road freight. So what do we do? We try to make road traffic as safe as reasonably possible (the key word being “reasonably“) while keeping society and economy working.
That is the approach that should have been taken, and should be taken, vis a vis “the virus”.
The “lockdown” nonsense (and associated facemask nonsense) will kill (already has killed) more people than “the virus”.
Boris-idiot becomes Boris-chicken
The part-Jew bad joke posing as Prime Minister has ducked addressing the CBI this morning. Apparently it is the first time any prime minister of the UK has failed to appear. One can see why. “Boris” would face a critical and very experienced audience. As in other ways, “Boris” is not up to it.
In fact, Alok Sharma will now address the CBI. Funny to think that that little Indian (who was at the same school as me, though about 10 years later, and I never knew him) is a Cabinet member, now addressing the CBI, and I am sitting, near-penniless, in a rural backwater… The world is upside down.
A half-Jewess, she seemed (in the TV show noted) obsessed by the “Nazis”, and exhibited the kind of (to my perception) ersatz emotion that one often sees displayed by Jews when talking about their relatives who were affected by the large-scale events of the 1940s. I say “ersatz” emotion, because said relatives cannot have been known personally to the Jews now emoting about them. There’s something fake about it all. You don’t see British people, or Germans for that matter, crying because a (never-known) great-aunt or great-grandfather was killed in WW2.
Well, as said above, Jane Seymour did emote from time to time on that TV programme. To adopt the words of Dorothy Parker (about Katharine Hepburn?), Jane Seymour “ran the gamut of emotions from A to B”…
Some of her relatives crossed illegally into Switzerland from France in late 1943, three years after Germany invaded France. Others died in Poland, and one or two were sent to Germany from Poland on one of the “death marches” in which inmates of camps were marched West in order to flee the approach of the Red Army. A strange thing for the Germans to have done, if all they wanted and intended to do was to kill their prisoners (as per the “holocaust” narrative)…
As I say, I know little of the background of that actress. I recall seeing her a long time ago on American TV, maybe after the death of Rodney King in Los Angeles in 2012, but I think after other and earlier events, supporting the black rioting that ensued. She even gave a clenched-fist salute! “They” always support upheaval (unless “they” are the victims of it).
I also seem to recall that she owned a country house in Somerset (I think), and used it partly as a kind of expensive guest house for a while, which if correct seems odd, for someone with so much money (she’s supposedly worth around USD $100M). I believe (read somewhere) that the locals disliked her for some reason but, if that was so, I forget why it was supposed to be so.
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It now looks like the scientific figures used to terrorise Boris and justify a second lockdown may be four times too high. They’re getting better. The previous lot were 10 times too high.
Memo for Shropshire covidcops: I will be putting on our normal family #GuyFawkesNight celebration shortly after dark. If you wish to commit treason against #English tradition by all means arrest me. Or you could head to Telford and arrest some gr**mers.#flyingpigs#BorisMustGopic.twitter.com/k3AGism14a
As it's not April1st, we have to believe this is accurate. 2 mums walking 2 six-year-olds to school can't stop for a chat. 2 adults can't meet a third fellow citizen to discuss living in a #GreatReset police state which destroys health, jobs & #freedomhttps://t.co/HiQexKr7PQ
The toytown police state gradually transitions to a real one. Political or socio-political activity of the traditional sort is frozen by order…as for religious services— banned. Looks as though Christmas itself will be all but banned by order, too. I interpret that as partly an attack on religion, but equally an attack on a way of life.
A way of life, when it disappears, does not leave a vacuum for very long. Another way of life replaces the former.
There is a scarcely-disguised push now by evil transnational powers for a robotic slave or serf-society to replace what has existed for the past several centuries in Europe and beyond. Call it The Great Reset and/or The Great Replacement, or something else, it has to be fought before we do not have the means to fight or even protest.
@c4lsyr. Awareness does *not* equal panic. The authorities and the well-informed have been perfectly aware of many outbreaks of respiratory disease comparable to this and have taken proportionate measures. It is only Johnson and Hancock who have strangled the country & the NHS. https://t.co/rRueNrIqBh
But @cl4syr , how you know that Covid would ‘kill more’ if these panic measures were not taken? Where is the causal evidence of their effectiveness? Even their advocates admit that at best they postpone and delay. But the panic has killed many. https://t.co/rRueNrIqBh
The NHS is a good idea that is now not working well, and has to some extent become a bureaucracy working mainly for its own employees. It needs radical change, with layers of (mis-) management removed, just cut away, and clinical need (and clinical excellence) put into the driving seat. The once-derided “Matron” figure must return. Standards of cleanliness are terrible now in the NHS. That is perhaps partly because of the number of non-Europeans now employed, but poor management and admin is at least as important.
@ClarkeMicah is correct, there's been very little criticism of gov policy since March. The BBC still gives a platform to Neil Ferguson for crying out loud.
She’s right. The dancing around the subject in the UK is also, as they now say, “a thing”. A “let’s not be beastly to the blacks” attitude. Example: one of the perhaps brainless TV shows I watch is The Chase, even though I know all the answers except the popular music, sports, “celebrities” and “soaps” ones.
On The Chase, occasionally they have a black contestant with a huge and visible chip on the shoulder. They usually claim to be studying something (superficially) difficult, such as (one, recently seen) Forensic Science. When the contestant gets bumped off, both the presenter and the “Chaser” almost bend over backwards to say how clever the black contestant is, and how unlucky he/she was to lose…
On the day of my Tribunal hearing, I was amused to discover that, on the previous day, the “Chaser” known as “The Dark Destroyer”, Shaun Wallace [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Wallace] had also been a respondent (defendant). He was lucky that most people missed the news about him. Other news, not least the headlines about my case (in the Daily Mail, Express, Independent, various other newspapers, and on Sky News etc) pushed Wallace’s incompetence off the news agenda.
It makes me laugh when the presenter, Bradley Walsh, introduces Wallace as “It’s the legal eagle, The Barrister, the Dark Destroyer that is SHAUN WALLACE!“
I notice that, like a lot of black people with at least some education, Wallace tends to regurgitate irrelevant facts to show that he knows something, even if the facts regurgitated are not really in point.
Actually, most of those who are regarded as highly educated and intelligent on game shows are actually not terribly…so.
In fact, on the The Chase itself, there is Mark Labett, a former maths teacher in a Welsh school, who received an underwhelming Third (3rd-class degree) in Mathematics at Oxford (he was unlucky; no-one gets a Third now, thanks to award inflation).
Then we have, to give another example, Carol Vorderman, another supposed great brain, who read Engineering at Cambridge, but received only a Third in the end: “Her degree was only a Third, a result she has described as having been “disappointing”[6] and is a member of the Nines Club,[7] having achieved a third-class score in each year of study“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Vorderman.
Rachel Riley of Countdown, the woman constantly ranting about “antisemitism”, especially in the Labour Party, received a 2:1 degree, but that was in or about 2008, when awards were already rather more generous than they were in the 1980s.
Actually, a degree is only a (possible) entry ticket: some of the most financially (etc) successful have no degree: Richard Branson, Lord Ashcroft etc.
I wonder whether any more idiots will be out soon, clapping and banging kitchen pans for the self-congratulating public services (which are fading away in terms of actually helping people…)?
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Glenn Gould performs Bach’s Partita 2 at his cottage in Uptergrove, Ontario in the 1958 documentary “Off the Record.”pic.twitter.com/PALAfXRe5X
One of the gunmen in #ViennaAttack tonight. #Macron winds them up. They go wild. We hate them. And we all forget that the people who own Macron are resetting our world and fucking up our lives. pic.twitter.com/jUPFtqUPot
Reminds me of when I lived in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1996-97. Almaty had few “luxury” shops then. I went into a place to buy Paco Rabanne XS and got into conversation in Russian with the little Kazakh policeman who was moonlighting as a security guard. He even let me examine his submachinegun, and talked about its mechanism, magazine capacity etc.
Fraser Nelson asks where on earth the government's new doom-laden forecasts come from https://t.co/cMqs8f4vjU
Growing opposition to the throttling of the economy & the NHS is worrying the LockDown Zealots. I've been the target of two attacks on Twitter in 24 hours, people I'd never heard of before making near-identical attacks on tweets they wouldn't normally even have seen.A compliment.
What is a Covid-denier? Now publish the Swedish *death* figures instead of meaningless tallies of mostly healthy people who have had positive PCR tests. https://t.co/AuUR0qdEQ7
On the contrary @butterleyreg, many cancers and much heart disease are entirely preventable. They are also treatable, at least when the NHS has not been strangled by panicking Lockdown zealots such as your good self . https://t.co/drzKpwm0nh
Yes, we do now have the nucleus of an actual opposition @Gillianabeth, which we certainly lacked in March and which many countries lack entirely. But it is still far too weak. Millions have no idea that dssent even exists. https://t.co/EAyiLLpeEC
“No child has been found to have passed coronavirus to an adult, a review of evidence in partnership with the Royal College of Paediatricians has found. Major studies into the impact of Covid-19 on young children show it is likely that they “do not play a significant role” in spreading the virus and are significantly less likely to become infected than adults.” [Daily Telegraph]
It is clear to me, as to many, that the “lockdown” need not have happened at all, with exceptions: nightclubs, pubs, the Underground (which was not shut down, incredibly), hairdressing places, mass events where people are likely to be breathed or sneezed upon e.g. popular or other music concerts, racecourses etc (though it occurs to me that racecourses could have continued to hold meetings safely if they had been willing to close the cheaper enclosures (Silver Ring etc) and Tattersall’s, leaving only the Members’ enclosures open and perhaps restricted to annual members).
Schools in particular need not have shut; the same goes for universities.
Economic enterprises are now shut, to a large extent; to re-open the economy or get it moving may not be easy. Meanwhile, Downing Street has been trying to invent statistics to support its “lockdown” “strategy” (kneejerk reaction):
They rang and asked us to put in a statement from them saying approval of the govt was not falling and asking us to change the headline. Despite 18% drop innet approval of govt handling in a fortnight, and 10% drop in confidence. Is that enough information?
All those for whom the state sponsored panic shutdown has meant release from commuting on full pay, and long sunny evenings consuming misted glasses of Waitrose Chablis beneath the Wisteria, might take a look at this: https://t.co/rqNM27bLPm
Dismal news of planned mass sackings from British Airways once again underlines the profound, lasting damage done to the economy by the Johnson government's mistaken panic measures. The sunny dreamtime is over. Hard, chilly reality is here. An inquiry is needed.
I had to look up “Matt Haig” on Wikipedia. Apparently a “novelist and journalist”, despite not knowing the difference between “less” and “fewer”. Well, after all, this is the UK. In 2020…
I looked at some of his tweets. Castigates this idiotic government for not having a stricter “lockdown” (wrongheaded) and for all Boris-idiot’s other failings (right). Presumably that includes Raab, little Matt Hancock and the other stupid wannabees like Priti Patel. I cannot disagree with him on that score.
Monsieur Haig does not seem to realize that, while a vaccine or medicine may be developed within months, it may take years. It may even never be developed. That is possible. Does Mr. Haig want the UK to basically just shut down for not even months, but for a year, two, three, four years?! I do expect people who preach to the assembled masses at least to try to think logically or realistically.
As always, one realizes how absurd and irrelevant Twitter usually is. That person has over 400,000 Twitter followers!
The skies are starting to fall in— Boris-idiot is no Atlas
It is a unfortunate concatenation of circumstances that leaves Boris-idiot and his Cabinet of fools in charge at such a time, and with an official Opposition so weak that it might as easily simply not exist.
Large employers are becoming or are already insolvent: Debenhams, Oasis, Warehouse, Swissport, Virgin Atlantic etc;
Other large employers are laying off thousands of staff, or will do once the State stops subsidizing furloughed employees: British Airways alone is soon going to let go at least 12,000.
Huge numbers of businesses are perforce not paying rent, for now immune from legal action. Once the special measures are lifted, there will be a crushing tsunami of corporate insolvencies, lawsuits and personal bankruptcies.
In the parallel universe that is Twitter, most of the tweeters (sheep? rabbits? Why dump human inadequacies on the animal kingdom?) support “lockdown”, even longer and/or severe “lockdown”. A good rule of thumb is that any viewpoint trending on, or popular on, Twitter is probably wrongheaded and/or an irrelevance. Like most tweeters.
I saw a report on Sky News (I think) about the effects of the “lockdown” on the retail and service sector. Regent Street shown, empty as if after a sci-fi alien attack of some sort. It may be that the ultra-wealthy will be back, buying jewels and furs, before very long. As for less well-padded consumers, I doubt it.
Court backlogs
The Lord Chief Justice has expressed a fear that huge backlogs are building up, in particular in respect of criminal trials likely to take 3+ days. At present, such trials are all stayed (frozen) because of the Coronavirus situation.
I imagine that many trials scheduled, and many others which might have taken place, will now either not take place or will collapse at hearing because of the fact that witnesses will (for various reasons) not be available or will not come up to proof. In the old maxim, “justice delayed is justice denied.”
Private-public partnership (in tyranny)
The new liberalism takes up the censor's blue pencil: 'Constitutional and cultural differences mean that the private sector, rather than the federal and state governments, currently takes the lead in these practices…'https://t.co/erLoXzT8WR
Look at (UK) TV ads, mostly by private-enterprise organizations of all kinds, at present. All promoting an almost-identical racially-mixed multikulti society, many also pushing the present “all in it together” fake communitarianism and “Conservative” government propaganda.
I have also blogged, previously, about how non-State quasi-monopolies (Facebook, Twitter, Amazon etc) are imposing a (largely Jewish-origined) censorship on the world public.
'Digital surveillance and speech control in the US already show many similarities to what one finds in authoritarian states such as China.' https://t.co/erLoXzT8WR
Of course, one cannot, as “they” tend to say, “blame” all of this on the Jews, or even on the overtly Zionist Jews; but you do tend to find that, behind most attempts to repress, control and censor socio-political expression (commonly called simply “free speech”), there is a Jew, or Jews, or Jewish organizations. Not always, but usually, and at the higher levels (in politics, msm, legal “regulation” too, these days) even more often…
The excuses for such “control” of “free speech” are various, put out to fool the public at large
Useful idiots are often found to lay the groundwork for repression:
'The surveillance and speech-control responses to COVID-19, and the private sector’s collaboration with the government in these efforts, are a historic and very public experiment about how our constitutional culture will adjust to our digital future.' https://t.co/erLoXzT8WR
Forget most of Twitter, the most energetic users of which are either unemployed, effectively unemployed or retired, or work in relatively secure public service occupations. They will not be hit so quickly or so hard as the rest.
The fact is that the UK now has a hapless, hopeless government of idiots, headed by the least useful idiot of all. Yet so panicked has been the British public, that they all applaud or at least accept Boris-idiot, while his Indian Chancellor, Rishi Sunak (an “Indian giver”?), has been acclaimed by many in the msm and on Twitter as almost a conquering hero, throwing gold sesterces to the plebs of Rome. To some, Sunak is thus “proven” to be a suitable later prime minister, while to others he mixes the erudition of J.K. Galbraith with the intellect of J.M. Keynes. Not to all, though!
And this government of half-educated inexperienced bobo teenagers *is* qualified to take these enormous decisions? What qualifications have they to take this dangerous action @andyrossecon? I am arguing for caution, and against rash action. https://t.co/tHgqfWJJXR
No @andyrossecon, I'm much more sure, with every day that passes, that the crashing of the economy and the accompanying assault on personal freedom were grave and disproportionate errors. https://t.co/0w3yjtLq6C
I am not a 'libertarian'. I have seen no evidence which shows that curtailing liberty and wrecking the economy saves lives. It is a presumption, which far too many people accept without thought or question. https://t.co/GJzvzNFBuV
Went to get a few things at Waitrose. The usual bare shelves in the dried pasta and home-baking areas. Everything else seemed to be in good supply. A few last-day things on sale for as little as 10p (smoked mackerel pate); brie, bread rolls etc.
The sky was thundercloud grey-purple, but the little sun in front of that made the scene look like one of the most famous paintings of Shishkin, Gathering Storm
Waiting in line to enter the store, I noticed the oddness of the situation: the line of “socially-distancing” people (mostly men, presumably sent out to get something), the black-garbed and scarved Handmaid’s Tale militia (Waitrose marshals), pleasant enough but controlling the line. There was something about it that made me wonder what really is at the back of all this?
Professional hypnotists usually condition suitable subjects before placing them under actual hypnosis. Is that what is happening, on a grand scale? Whole populations being conditioned to behave in certain fixed ways, like human marionettes: to dress in certain ways at certain times etc, to stand a certain (almost completely arbitrary) number of feet or metres apart, like soldiers on parade? To move forward only on command (however amiably voiced)? To become accustomed to being corralled by keepers or marshals? Is this in fact a preliminary experiment on the populations of the advanced countries, to be deepened and quickened at a later time?
What might be the socio-political consequences of the UK Coronavirus “crisis”?
We are being told, usually impliedly, that once Boris-idiot has gathered up his courage (if any), “lockdown” will end (“in stages”…why? There is no credible reason; the usual hospitals are almost empty, the new instant ones have no patients) and everything will return to normal, with the exception that we may all have to wear scarves or even masks when not at home. The criminals (acquisitive department) will love that! Joking aside, in reality the so-far-lulled public might find that a very different UK awaits them.
In the UK, analysts are already saying that UK unemployment figures could top the 1984 peak of 12%. In other words, millions on the dole.
Businesses are going to collapse, not by the hundreds, or even the thousands, but quite possibly (if very small businesses are included) by the hundreds of thousands.
This could be social-nationalism’s moment, if a movement exists to harness the power.
Afterthought
I just realized: the socially-mandated clapathon (“Clap for NHS” etc) was supposed to be this evening. Nothing. Not a sign, not a peep. Is it petering out? I hope so. I have nothing but praise for most NHS staff, but this is not toytown North Korea (yet)…
Ian Robert Millard 