It would seem that our Celtic cousins to the north and the west are engaged in a downward spiral of fascism (even more so than our own bunch of scumbags in Westmonster) whereby they are competing to see who can do the most damage to their respective countries. However, eventually, tyrants always engage in overreach and I wonder if the first minister for Wales has done just that.
Staff in Tesco became Wales’ first ‘trolley police’ as they covered-up non-essential items during the country’s coronavirus firebreak lockdown.
The workers in the Pontypool branch were seen hiding shelves of bedding behind plastic sheets to stop customers buying them ahead of the start of the restrictions.
Four members of staff could be seen inspecting the cover-up for a 20-minute trial one ahead of the firebreak starting this evening.
Customer Jamie Cole, 31, said the sale of duvets, bedding and electricals had been stopped by covering them in plastic.
Even the most deluded believer in face nappies, lock downs and social distancing must surely see this for what it is – a power grab by a petty tyrant. Even the most deluded believer can now surely see that this has nothing whatsoever to do with controlling the spread of a virus.
Hopefully even the most deluded believer will finally come to realise that none of this will work, because none of it worked before and buying a kettle alongside your weekly shop is not going to make you more prone to catching a virus. All we can do is hope that the Welsh will see reason and either defy these rules or when the opportunity comes, eject every politician that voted for this clusterfuck – preferably followed by a trial and a brief drop.
The staff are only following orders…
Yes, of course…
Police checkpoints will be set up on a key section of the Wales-England border, officers have confirmed.
That noise you can hear is George Orwell spinning in his grave. Indeed, this past couple of years or so has left him pretty dizzy. I’m surprised he hasn’t burst up through the earth.
It came after Welsh First minister Mark Drakeford snapped today as he was roasted over his ban on the shops selling the items in his lockdown.
Mr Drakeford could not hide his frustration as he was repeatedly questioned on the restrictions, which come into force from 6pm for 17 days.
He insisted they were ‘fair’ and crucial to stop the spread of the virus.
Bollocks. If he think this he’s an even bigger dick than he looks. The stupid, it hurts.
On a personal level – not being in Wales – I have cheerfully ignored each and every rule. I have gone about my daily life sans mask. I have ignored the track and trace app and not signed into anywhere with it, not having it anywhere near my phone. I have not bothered with remaining six feet from anyone and have visited family members despite them not being from the same household even when we weren’t supposed to. I will not enable this nonsense.
Yep fascists they are. Drakeford appears to be a congenital idiot. If the taffys and jocks put up with all this they have the governments they deserve.
Congenital idiot/politician… What’s the difference?
Maybe just me but I’ve always been doing the 6 feet thing. Didn’t need Covid for that.
Yes they keep voting for national socialists, time they got some national socialism good and hard.
I think they will put up with it. I think we’re doomed.
This Corona year has ruthlessly stripped away the illusion of modernity from much of public life. Not the technological gadgets that are everywhere around us, obviously, but it has shown just how medieval people’s thinking really still is underneath it all. We demonstrably haven’t moved on that far from the idea that demons lurk behind this, or that famine or a rain of frogs may follow if we try and buy a duvet with our pasta and toilet rolls.
This year, I’ve become a real apostate from the world of data and analytics (in which I’ve been working professionally for the past five or so years). Data clearly has almost negligible effect when outcomes have already been decided, like a peashooter bouncing off the hull of a T-34. As Dean Swift said, ‘You cannot reason a man out of a position into which he did not reason himself in the first place’.
Interesting article about the suppressed Danish mask study on the Lockdown Sceptics site yesterday – did everyone see it?
That thought has repeatedly struck me. Face nappies are merely magic charms to ward off evil spirits. The complete lack of any evidence to support their efficacy is met with “but it might just work.” Yeah, so might a garlic bulb pinned to your doorway.
The problem seems to be that so many people seem keen to go along with such stuff. You tell them they are saving lives and they act like nodding dogs. Why are the supermarkets enabling this nonsense when it is bound to lose them money? Frankly they deserve to lose out to Amazon. If they all stuck together and refused to co operate they would be doing themselves and everyone a favour. As for the police, if a whole bunch of them were violently assaulted for enforcing this crap I really wouldn’t care. Just following orders, where have we heard that before?
Yeah. Same here. It’s all just theatre, nothing more. Whenever asked to do a QR Code or whatever I pull out my non-smartphone and say “It doesn’t seem to be working”, they then either just take the fake contact details I give or I walk.
The funiest standoff was in court the other day when I was witness for the prosecution under citation to attend (so I had to go or face the prospect of arrest). In the end they just scribbled my bullshit details in a notepad somewhere, because the possibility of being faced with an angry judge who is in the building as opposed to Wee Jimmy Krankie and her gang of demented porridge wogs in Edinburgh was no contest.
Let these bastards tie themselves up in the knots of their own bureaucracy.
P.S. – The defendent did a runner and has now had a bench warrant issued for his arrest, so a complete waste of my time anyway…
The image of Mr Drakeford being roasted ! Oo Err Missus.
But somehow satisfying, so long as all concerned are wearing black leather masks. Cant, I said cant, be too careful.
I do hope that some Welsh speaking rebel will only converse with the border patrol in Welsh.
Which leads me on to wonder if Welsh policepersons’ notebooks are extra wide.
As Guido Fawkes said
Welsh pub and restaurant trade proposal to help their industries survive ?
Ban off sales from supermarkets and off licences.
So having already knackered the licenced trade Alcohol Concern are being invited to go after the home drinkers as well
Hitler and Stalin got their underlings to behave in just this way, attack ‘them’ to save ‘us’.
Hitler hated smoking, that job is nearly done. He also disapproved of alcohol, that is the next target. He did not eat much meat, Veganism, meatless Fridays. Work in progress. Environmentism was Himmler’s pet subject. The Green movement came out of Germany. Anti-Semitism is alive and well amongst the socialist dickheads in this country. The National Socialist German Workers Party is alive and well, and being forced upon us by our crooked politicians.
Sure, but the US experience of prohibition demonstrated how futile that was. Making a decent home-made vodka from virtually any vegetable is well documented and trivial. The only reason we DON’T do it is because it’s cheaper and easier to go down the offie or pick up a bottle from the supermarket. Can’t see that changing substantially any time soon, no matter how the “health” ninnies wish to.
Tobacco is a bit different because you can’t exactly grow it in your greenhouse like you can with…other smokeable substances. Far more people smoke weed than ever before.
But that doesn’t stop them trying. The prohibitionists never learn from history and demonstrate a remarkable lack of understanding of humanity.
Sure. I didn’t say the Bansturbators wouldn’t do it (and they never learn), just that it is futile.
You know this, I know this…
The old guy who used to live next door to me used to grow his own tobacco. He got the seeds or plants through Exchange and Mart. Apparently the stuff was so strong that he had to mix it with bought stuff so that he could smoke it in his pipe.
Leggy used to blog about growing the stuff a few years back.
At least the Soviets had the decency to just not stock the shelves.
You think Mark Drakeford (Welsh First minister) would do that if he felt he could get away with it? Instead of having shelves blocked off, having them stripped bare?
I’m glad that the row over this continues. Maybe there are some lions among the sheep.
I’m loving the guy who walked into the supermarket wearing only underpants and a face nappy because “Clothing isn’t essential” is it? Sure, it might be a cheap shot, but at this point holding political pygmies like Drakeford up to widespread and open public ridicule prior to evisceration at the next election is about the only effective protest we can make at this point.