Once again we get the vile virtue signalling shaming.
Many things in life fall into a grey area. Not this.
If you travelled out of London or the South-East on Saturday, you are an appalling individual, and you make me ashamed to be British. To be human, actually.
The train companies were obviously morally – but apparently somehow not legally? – negligent to sell so many tickets, but if you packed on to the trains, you are disgusting, selfish, ungrateful, gross.
The only words I can find to describe the author of this execrable piece of shit are her own. Fine, she has fallen for the fear porn. Fine, she is happy to have her life ruled and micromanaged from Westminster. Fine, she is too thick to ask the appropriate question (is it actually more virulent? Likely as not, no it isn’t). But she has no business whatsoever judging others. That she has done so means that I can now judge her and I do so accordingly.
Polly Hudson, you are a disgusting, selfish, ungrateful, gross individual. Generations of people laid down their lives for the liberties you cast aside so cheaply. Take your opprobrium, your self-satisfied, sneering, self-righteous virtue signalling and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine you nasty, pompous scumbag.
I see on the news that Ferguson has wormed his way back into a government advisory position and is reckoned to be the one who pushed Boris into his U-turn.
Is Polly incapable of understanding that someone who takes advice from someone who’s been proven not to take his own isn’t fit to govern?
@ Julia – it seems that Ferguson never left Nervtag, he just laid low for a while:
https://twitter.com/hector_drummond/status/1340968326038732803
“Ferguson … pushed Boris into his U-turn”
Pushing on an open door, I’d say. While his verbal advice back in the spring was to lock everything down, Ferguson clearly believed that, really, it was fine to have his girlfriend come over. So, contradictory advice but given that actions speak louder than words, the latter would be the version to go with.
Boris sacked him for that, which is a clear statement of the advice he wished to hear.
There are many things in my life that I have had to be quite rightly afraid of. I’ve had to be afraid of the concentrated sulphuric acid that I used in a photographic darkroom, an electrical circuit completed without the addition of a fuse and even a mad Irish Republican drunkard waving a lump of wood at me. All these things could be generally frightening. But I will not be afraid of a virus with an extremely high survival rate when compared to other much nastier diseases such as Marburg or Ebola or Polio.
Polly Hudson has indeed bought into the fear porn, as have too many other Britons, that is obvious. However she expresses her fear in the dehumanisation of her fellow citizens by not just the words quoted above, but in her original article where she demands that the sainted NHS deny any treatment to those who have not bought into the Government’s fear porn. It’s a disgraceful article where the fear, unwarranted fear I might add, that Ms Hudson has imbibed, seeps through like noisome pus from an infected wound.
Ms Hudson’s piece is tyrant level propaganda of the sort that we saw being put out by those not worthy of the term ‘journalist’ in the 20th century in support of the tyrants such writers pandered to. I’ll go so far as to say that if Ms Hudson’s screed had been directed at one of Britain’s over protected ‘protected characteristics’ groups then she’d probably be in a cell right now. But she’s having a go at Britons so that is OK according to the corrupted modern Zeitgeist.
I hold a contrary view to that of Ms Hudson. I may have taken the government’s cautious line re covid at first but no longer. The time for failed policies like lockdowns are over. Unlike Ms Hudson I don’t see those who are saying FU to the tyrants and travelling to do normal human things like see loved ones who’ve been kept from them by this disgusting government as ‘selfish’. On the contrary I see them as free thinking heroes who’ve quite rightly had enough of this bullshit.
In terms of nastier diseases… Just remember that six feet is ok for covid but ten or even thirty feet is not enough for wisps of “second-hand smokE”! Sheeesh!
– MJM
Yes there’s no damn logic in any of it
It’s the blatant dehumanisation that appals me. This creature has learned nothing from the horrors of the twentieth century and the techniques used to enable them.
That’s what struck me. It reminded me of something you’d see on a Nazi or Soviet poster denouncing either Jews or Kulaks respectively. I’ve written some challenging stuff about Islam in the past but I’ve always reserved my most vehement criticism for the ideology not the individuals who may be trapped within it, but Ms Hudson’s piece does not do that, she targets the individual people. She is treating those people who have made logical and rational decisions about a less than lethal virus as if they were sub human scum. It is indeed as you say blatant dehumanisation of ordinary people from an elitist who has bought into the by now laughable fear porn.
@Fahrenheit
I don’t usually read the Mirror at all. Indeed given its support fir an anti- Semite of a type not seen since the death camps I’m surprised to see it able to be presented as a credible news source. However, I did notice this (I think it was auto suggested by Apple News) I think the response to anyone saying NHS treatment needs to be withheld is the one offered by our erstwhile host here – ‘Fine, then I’d like a refund on 40% (or thereabouts) of taxation paid over my lifetime’ And goodness knows my NHS experience with my late father was at least pretty good unlike his with his late partner. Hudson is a pro Lockdown Stalinist and like so many incapable of having a thought that is either original or reasoned from first principles. An empty shell of a person
Whenever I think of the Daily Mirror, my mind goes back to the wonderful, decent, accurate and accomplished Mirror journalist I once worked alongside and who had done everything and been everywhere, including on World War II merchant ship convoys. I then think of what sort of creatures that the Mirror now employs as journalists and weep for the rag that it has become.
Not just the Mirror. Peter Hitchens is one of the few still standing.
You speak for me there, Josh. But then, you generally do!
“Take your opprobrium, your self-satisfied, sneering, self-righteous virtue signalling and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine…”
I don’t think she’s allowed to go to Scotland.
She’d fit in with the wicked witch of the North.
Polly Hudson is no doubt so wrapped up in her own self-esteem that your entirely apt description of her would be water off a duck’s back. No doubt even the even-tempered yet stinging words of Lord Sumption on this topic would fail to penetrate her carapace of smug, self-anointed virtue:
“The fanatical and the frightened are fond of saying that those who criticise or ignore the rules are selfish. The real selfishness is the selfishness of those who are willing to inflict all of these disasters on other people in the hope of enhancing their own security.”
That’s the concluding paragraph of Lord Sumption’s piece in yesterday’s Telegraph – a masterful and elegant piece of writing, as one would expect from such a distinguished figure.
Though behind the Telegraph’s paywall:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/12/19/simple-truth-lockdowns-do-not-work/
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