That got your attention. I’ll come back to that in a moment.
So now we have tier 4. When I wrote a story for the latest Underdog Anthology called Cancelling Nicholas, all about the cancellation of Christmas, I wondered vaguely whether I was going a bit too far. Clearly not. Like Leggy, I am finding it difficult to keep my fictitious imaginings ahead of reality. Eventually we will become documentary writers.
So, tier 4. Because lock-down and tiers have worked so well so far. Given an abject failure that repeatedly delivers the same results what is the best thing to do? Oh, yes, dig in and do more of the same but worse. Here, then, is Einstein’s definition of insanity playing out before our very eyes.
And what has it got to do with Thatcher? Well, only tangentially and with a degree of facetiousness. I fear that her speech on U turns has been taken too much to heart. Modern politicians are so in awe of the media that they would rather trash the economy, cause countless deaths and destruction rather than admit they were wrong and will now change course.
My only hope now is that they have overstepped the mark and people will simply refuse to comply.
I’ve made a start on the gallows.
We’re tier 2 here so at least candidates can travel, and there’s no concern about overnight stays.
You may find the linked information useful.
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging2.html#table
Thanks. I did wonder whether Pierrepoint’s tables were still in use.
In this case though inthink they’re superfluous, I care not whether they lose their heads, are slowly asphyxiated or have their necks broken swiftly.
I think the latter may be too easy on them.
At the moment I dislike Boris with the same intensity as socialists used to reserve for Mrs Thatcher. And it will intensify even further if my 94 year old Dad has to rely on meals on wheels for his Christmas lunch because my sister isn’t allowed to visit him.
“My only hope now is that they have overstepped the mark and people will simply refuse to comply.”
Unfortunately I’m still not seeing any signs of this from the sheeple yet. Within literally minutes of the announcement our festive plans were cancelled by others who aill continue to meekly comply with this madness. Our ancestors would be disgusted.
I’m seeing mixed reactions. On social media, for example, conformity is rife. Among my clients, all I see is exasperation and anger. Many of them are self-employed and not all have been able to claim any assistance. Almost without exception, they are fed up with the whole thing and disagree with the government’s handling of the affair. We never sign in with the track and trace thing, no one has the app on their phone and they wear masks under sufferance.
I think there is a groundswell building, but we won’t see it coming at first.
Bottler Boris U Turns Again Lockdown, Christmas Banned
RoP Refugees Welcome, We’ll Collect You
My brother and his GF left London flat today for Edinburgh house, instead of Monday, when they heard Boris and Profs Doom & Gloom were giving an announcement at 17:00 today
Good decision
Most interviewed on C4 News said ‘FO Boris, Whitty etc, we’ll do what we want’
https://youtu.be/ql0p-J0L4xo?t=162
New strain? I predicted it would be used as excuse for more restrictions. The previous >12,000 strains ignored. 12,001 jumped on to escalate fear. I assume Hancock only found out about mutations this week is reason
Jobs: Sunak announced on Wednesday: “Furlough until May 2021” – that’s over one year.
And all for a virus where only ~350 people under 65 with no co-morbidities have died
Under 75 symptomatic have a 99.95% survival
Boris, Hancock et al can FO, I will do what I want. mRNA Vaccine(s) “Approved Not Licensed” – I won’t be gunea pig for mass trial of never before Approved or Licensed mRNA drug
First person to receive the vaccine [Or Saline?] in the UK is Margaret (90) as she comes out of hospital she is met by her son and daughter in their 20s ???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV3HXT66o0k
@LR
“conformity is rife…….wear masks under sufferance”
No surprise. About time they grew a pair and said NO
Usual cheery waves and chats from staff today in supermarket with un-masked me. Store Security guy behind me in queue at till with his shopping, no problem
PS I’m not daily shopper, ex-staff.. normalish 2-3 visits per week split between Morrisons & Tesco
OT: Talk Radio
What is going on with talkRadio and youtube?
Last week channel silent, back on Tuesday – a one week ban like OAN?
Thursday, Friday and Saturday dead again
Are they being suspended, shadow banned, de-listed even on channel?
Why have they not gone public? Moved to Bitchute, Vimeo, Alt Censored….?
Where are they?
My TalkRadio also went dark on Radio Player last week, but is okay on the app and YouTube.
Oh, I don’t know. Maybe it’s good for the Government to know that they can push people only so far before their diktats are ignored and the power they thought they had evaporates like mist on a summers morning.
That is not “Nothing”.
So it’s essentially keeping us in a permanent damned state of lockdown, isn’t it? Presumably, in a few weeks, they will announce we’ve moved into a new tier 5.
And people shouldn’t kid themselves. If Labour had won the election a year ago, they’d be just as incompetent as the current so-called Conservative government (perhaps they’d be worse, because we know lefties love lockdowns).
I don’t know how many people are aware of this, but it was Thatcher who kicked off the whole global warming bollocks, when she was trying to advocate nuclear power after the ’84 miners strike. She set up the agency that was to become the IPCC.
I thought she was responsible for funding the original Climate Unit at University of East Anglia during the early 80’s. As for the IPCC, I thought it was a UN organisation, not British.
Bill – You are correct, however that led to the creation of the IPCC. See this documentary, its worth watching in its entirety, but the relevant information starts at about the 34 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYhCQv5tNsQ
@Ripper
In 1989/90 Margaret publicly retracted and admitted she’d been hoodwinked by the doom mongers and her doubts had been growing year by year
Don’t remember Margaret subsidising windmills etc at others expense
I’ve despised a lot of politicians in my time. I have held a few in utter contempt.
But I’ve never actually hated one before.
Who knew 2020 would be packed so full of firsts?
I’m the same, I’ve always considered politicians to be parasites and professional liars, a plague to live with with the odd exceptions.
But now, I have reached a level of hatred for johnson, hancock and his rabble of incompetent evil assholes that has never happened to me before.
I remember seeing some wag describe lawyers as ‘the larval stage of politicians’. I always thought that was pretty apt but could probably do with revision as the current crop of vermin in power are way below even lawyers imo.
Many of them are lawyers.
@Julia
For me the revelation is more profound and what I never countenanced
I support ambulance chasing lawyers suing Gov’t over Covid human rights abuses and want every school pupil & uni student to join a class action suit, and all who have lost job, business etc too
Ministers, MPs etc should be compelled to pay for unlimited public liability insurance out of their income as dentists etc are
The thing about Thatcher’s refusal to do a U turn was that she wasn’t wrong, her detractors were. Refusing to do a U turn when you are wrong just means that you stay wrong. For example, she later revised her opinion on global warming when she realised that it was bollox.
Yep. MT U-turned on pro Global Warming, pro EU and more. Johnson’s “U-turns” have been to increase what he’s already done, not reverse
Peeps who post “MT was Global Warming believer” should do some research before repeating lies by omitting “until she saw conclusive evidence it was a lie”