The Science of Fear.

 Well, it's happened: Science has crossed the rubicon and is no longer Science as we knew it back in the Seventies. 

Back then Science was... Science. No corporate or financial funding pressures, Science was done on an altruistic basis. It was for the benefit of humanity. Funding was done not on the basis of profit, or return on investment, or what those funding the science could get out of it.

Then in the Eighties and Nineties, return on investment became ever more important. Pharmaceuticals in particular defunded research in compounds that didn't have promise and a lucrative application down the pipeline.

Environmental scientists started to speak of Armageddon in order to stoke up pressure for funding. At the end of the seventies we had tales of impending ice ages. By the Nineties, that had changed to tales of runaway global warming. Fear was a great tool to use to stoke up funding for research into largely unprovable theories of impending doom decades further down the line, when the funding couldn't be clawed back if the science was found to be flawed.

Now epidemiology has caught the fear bug. We are being told that we have to shield in place to avoid contact with a virus that has a 99.9% survival rate in healthy people under the age of 60.

Er, isn't that just like the "normal" 'flu? Well, essentially, yes.

So, why are we buying in millions of doses of vaccine to vaccinate people against a virus they would survive?

Why are we not doing as we do with the normal flu and only vaccinating those that have underlying health problems and therefore are in the 0.1% of people under 60 that are at risk of dying from the bug, along with those over 60 that are at greater risk?

Again, fear is driving the process, as scientists stoke it up and justify their salaries and funding. But wher is the science. I mean, the actual, objective, unswayed by money science?

I can't see much of it anywhere, least of all in those so-called scientists that are advising the government to wast money vaccinating people that need not be vaccinated, stopping people from working that need not be stopped, preventing people from socialising that need not be stopped.

Either the Wuhan Flu is just another Corona virus and will do what viruses do normally, the majority of the people will get it and not be affected.

Or, there is something in it Governments and scientists across the world aren't telling us. We need to know, because without knowing what that "it" is, their fears and subsequent knee-jerk reactions make no sense.

Either treat it like normal 'flu and let the majority of people get on with their lives, or come clean on what is special about Covid-19 that requires nay, mandates that everyone be vaccinated.

UPDATE:

It seems now that there are reports by the News agencies that even though we get vaccinated, the virus will still live on in our nasal passage. 

Er, yep, that's not news. A multitude of viruses live in our nasal passages after we have beaten them off.  They need to be infecting us to make us infectious. If we have had the virus and we are no longer spewing out viral particles they are not harmful to us, nor are they harmful to others. Normally.

Unless there is (as I said above) that there is something special about COVID-19 that surpasses all the previously known virologic and epidemiologic science.

But we need to know the truth to be able to make an informed decision and especially to understand government policy, which at the moment appears random and incomprehensible.

COVID-19: Response is The Definition of Insanity.

 So, the majority of the country goes to Tier4, which is Lockdown in Name Only.  Which has been proven not to work. Twice. The definition of insanity is repeating behaviour that has been proven not to work with the misguided notion that it will, finally, work.

Strangely Liverpool, Surrounded by Tier4 Zombie apocalypse wastelands stays in Tier3. I assume the decision is political to save face over the track and trace fiasco that failed in Liverpool. Gone quiet about that hasn't it? It was supposed to be a beacon for the country as best practice. 

Then everyone in Liverpool did what they wanted and stuck two fingers up to the track and track people. Either by ignoring them or just disabling bluetooth on their phones, or just not downloading the NHS Covid app.

Anyhoo, I expect Liverpool will be in Tier4 next week. Just a slight delay so the government can say T&T is working when we patently know it isn't.

So, the Isles of Scilly are the only area in Tier one. The Isle of Man stays Alcatraz-like off the coast of the North West refusing to allow people on or off. You're imprisoned on that rock for the foreseeable. Unless you have a jetski.

Rumours abound of an impending new, specially-made-up Tier 5 for the naughty boys and girls that don't isolate. You will be sent back to your room without tea and you'll stay there until your attitude improves.

If you don't mend your ways, the government are contemplating Tiers all the way up to ten.

Tier 9 is "Kill Yourself - to save the NHS"

Tier 10 is "If you won't do it, we'll come round your house and kill you ourselves - to save the NHS"

Otherwise known as the Final Solution.

COVID-19: Tier4 Bollocks.

So, let me get this straight. We're now in Tier4 essentially across the UK because cases are rising.

However, lets have a common-sense look at this.

Tier4 is essentially lockdown, yet the borders are still open, the schools will be going back in January and the "essential" shops have no limits on the amount of customers placed in them. 

So it's not a lockdown and keeping people indoors will do nothing to stop the spread if other vectors for transmission are not closed down as well.

Anyone with kids will know how effective they are at spreading any germs around, so unless the schools maintain social distancing inside school (good luck with that, controlling small kids is like herding fog) and the adults at the gate keep 2 meters apart and wear masks, then this new variant covid is just going to jump the gap and infect the lot of them.

So really Tier4 is a load of bollocks. Because yet again the public can see Swiss-cheese size holes in the Government's rules. Either lock down properly or don't fucking bother. Just saying.

Talking of Swiss Cheese, I see in the news that a bunch of Brits just escaped Switzerland "Great Escape" style overnight, because Switzerland were about to impose quarantine restrictions on Brits so they had to isolate in place for 10 days. But it was Verbiers so very posh and those posh knobs don't like following lockdowns. I have visions of a convoy of Black Range Rovers heading for the French border in the small hours of the morning.  I expect they "escaped" the UK to avoid tier4 rules anyway. I say don't let the fuckers back in the UK. I bet they don't quarantine on arrival either.

My prediction is we'll be back in a national lockdown on the 2nd of January, or close afterwards. Not that lockdowns work. Especially the notlockdowns we keep having in the UK.

Again the government has missed an opportunity. They could have called a nationwide lockdown over Christmas. 10 days full lockdown from Christmas Eve all the way through to 2nd of January, which would have cost most people only 3 or 4 day's pay.  Warn in advance, let people get to where they need to be for Christmas/New Year and then they stay there for 10 days. If 14 days is warranted, then move the 2021 Bank Holidays to the beginning of January. 

No excuses for going out. Borders closed, schools closed, all shops shut, no no nipping out to the corner shop for mint sauce. No excuse for "essential workers" either, they stay in place for the duration. 

Given enough warning, even the essential care homes could have put measures in place and the NHS could have got staff in to cope and put them up over the period. 

But is that too simple? Am I missing something? Am I asking too much.

 I suppose I am, given the NHS had over 97,000 people off sick in one day over the weekend.

Now there are rumours that the Government are going to invent a new "Tier5" set of restrictions for after the New Year. Yeah? Fuck. Right. Off.

It's meaningless bollocks. Do it properly, with public consent and the consent of Parliament to make it lawful, or don't fucking bother at all. Cunts.

It is Incumbent on Good Men to Ignore Bad Laws or rules, or Covid edicts.

 Okay, so most people I've talked to will ignore the Tier4 restrictions. We've all come to the conclusion there is no basis in science for the increased restrictions.

For instance you're limited to meeting one person from another household. Fucking brilliant, I've just met the best part of a thousand different households in Asda!

So how can you justify limiting OUTDOOR meetings to one other person?

Stay 2 meters apart by all means, but anything else gets a big fuck you from the people under tier4.

As I say, there is no justification in science. It's now just a lesson in control.

Just as there is no justification in Science of the rule of six (but not 7), just some arbitrary number plucked out of thin air.

Just as there is no justification in science about pubs serving meals being safe and other pubs not being safe. Does a meal kill the virus or something? If not, why is the rule in place?

The same can be said for the vaccine. If (as we are told) there is no resistance to Covid, what use is a vaccine? How does the vaccine grant immunity when catching the virus doesn't? Why did Boris self-isolate when he came into contact with someone with Covid even though he himself had been infected and got through the virus so should have been immune? Is there something the government isn't telling us? Or are they just changing their mind when it suits?

If we lose immunity after 12 months, 6 months, even 3 months, are we going to have to have covid shots every 3 months for the rest of our lives? How much is that going to cost? Isn't it cheaper and better to just get natural immunity by catching the virus?

Right now, in order to get people to comply, the government needs to start spelling out why they are coming up with these apparently nonsensical rules. Lets have a debate and an explanation for the reasons why these rules have been brought in. Lets have a discussion of why six and not seven, lets have a debate on why pubs not serving food are less safe than pubs that are. Lets have an explanation of why Tier4 in the areas affected.

Until then, fuck Boris and Fuck the rules. 

COVID-19: Just when you Thought It Couldn't Get Worse, Now Even More Bollocks.

 Okay, as I suspected, most of the people in tier4 land are ignoring the rules. 

Went to Asda yesterday and it was like being in a rugby scrum. No restrictions on numbers, no social distancing and quite a few people with no masks. Utterly predictable as people have to make last-minute Christmas shopping trips to buy in stuff they hadn't bought because they were eating Christmas dinner at their relatives.

So as I opined the other day, a big Fuck You to Boris and his made up nonsensical rules.

So nonsensical that on one side of a street you are tier two, but you can look across the street and the plague-ridden wasteland of tier4. No walking to your neighbours for a cup of sugar, or to deliver a Christmas card. You won't be allowed back across the street. Utter nonsense.

You can't mingle unless it's taking kids to school, don't go out of your house unless it's for work, shopping, wear a mask unless you don't feel like it... yadda yadda. Utterly nonsensical.

Now we see how united Europe is by the European countries closing their borders to the UK. As if that wasn't going to happen anyway because of Brexit.

Right now Boris is slipping down to May-esque levels of support. It seems the robot Hammond is running the show and he's doing a pretty robot like (i.e. Crap) job of it.

I know of one estate that straddles a tire2/4 boundary. And yes, the Police were predictably sat on the border. And just as predictably the first few people on the estate interrogated by the Police gave them a big fuck you. Then word got out and everyone used a different street to get across the border to the shops.

Over in Gosport and Fareham (tier2) there's much debate on people travelling to the Tier4 Zombie apocalypse that is Portsmouth. It was even on local radio this morning. 

The rules are just a farce now. No-one believes in them any more, because they've been changed so much and they make absolutely no sense. 

The figures in Portsmouth are driven by case in QA hospital. A huge super-hospital; that takes cases in form miles around. It covers more than 100 square miles. Tell me then why is not the whole of the area covered by tier4? Why does Portsmouth have to go into tier4 for cases that have been imported from other surrounding areas?

Farce upon farce.

Fuck You Boris!

What a fucking shambles!

Hey Boris! Fuck You!!

 Apparently Boris and his health Nazis have just this weekend invented a completely new tier of restrictions. 

NOTLOK or "Not lockdown" or Tier 4 is a newly made up set of restrictions for naughty areas that couldn't give a fuck what Boris and his bunch of twats say.

Tier 4 or Tier fucking 14, the people of Portsmouth, Havant and especially Leigh Park will carry on doing what they have always done: stuck two fingers up to authority.

Send the Police in to bugger up Christmas? We'll burn your fucking Police cars and beat up your coppers.

WE the people decide. Not some Blonde twat in London.

Also Boris, fucking good luck getting elected next time, Nigel Farage is going to run away with it.

When Does the Shooting Start?

 Over in the USA the fallout from the election continues.

Most of the in-state lawsuits have been dismissed out of hand due to lack of evidence and now the between-states lawsuit instigated by Texas has also been thrown out by the Supreme Court of the USA.

So now where do those with a grievance regarding the egregious behaviour of certain states go for restitution?

The states that voted for Trump are quite rightly upset that Biden-voting states overturned their vote based on unconstitutional changes to their state voting laws. Had Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and  Georgia abided by the constitution and not done mass mail-in voting, not accepted ballots that would normally be thrown out, the result would have been much different.

So where do those disenfranchised voters go now? If the courts won't even hear their grievances, what option do they have?

Courts normally are the safety valve for grievances. It's a way of preventing violence. Now if that safety vale is faulty and won't allow the scape of all that pent-up pressure and angst, where next?

I hate to remind people that Republican states are more likely to be proponents of the second amendment of the constitution and allow gun ownership, whereas the lily-livered Blue States tend to be more restrictive on guns. Which gives the Red states an advantage. 

Of course there's nothing to stop a local militia taking over the legislature of these aberrant blue states.

In the name of the constitution, the public have the right and the moral obligation to take over these states by force if necessary and put right the wrongs that would cause the splitting of the USA if not corrected. If the courts refuse to provide the process that rights the wrongs done in these states then it's up to the public to step in. 

The constitution of the USA provides the ability by means of the second amendment to bears arms and also instructs the public to defend the constitution against enemies of the state, both foreign and domestic. In the case of those that would cheat the system and allow voting in the general election to be affected so badly, I'd say the public has an obligation to remove them if the courts decline to get involved. 

Hey Joe Biden, Fuck You!

 As above.

As two sovereign countries, the UK and Ireland can work out our own borders thank you. We don't need lessons from sleepy ol' dementia Joe.

If the EU force Ireland to impose a hard border, then so be it. We don't care either way, just so long as we're out of the EU.

You know, that thing we voted for in a democratic election. Not that you'd know much about those, eh Joe?

COVID-19: A Test Case Before the Big One?

It's without doubt that the Governmental response to Covid-19 worldwide is far in excess of the actual mortality rate of the virus itself.

Now we have a handle on it and the health professionals have good and workable solutions to mitigating the effects and keeping people alive, the death rate is no so shocking, down to figures comparable with a bad 'Flu season.

So, why continue with the draconian lockdown policies?

Despite what the "One World Government" conspiracists tend to espouse, I think there's a far more sinister and deadly reason: the er is another disease on it's way that is far more deadly, far more contagious and requires stringent sanitary standards and if it ever gets here will involve whole areas of the country being tightly cordoned and controlled.

It's called Ebola.

In Africa for two years now, there has been a war on Ebola. It's not in the news, but it's there. The bad news is that unlike previous outbreaks that have been contained to remote bush areas, this time Ebola got to large towns. Supposedly classed as ended on the 25th of June this Year, yet another new outbreak was declared 25 days earlier. 

Thanks to the number of infections overall and the spread of it geographically, it looks like there's now a large pool of the disease in the wild, just waiting to crop up again. 

It is essentially uncontained.

All it takes is for it to hit a major city in Africa and it will be game over, it will escape Africa's borders.

I believe Covid-19 is a trial run, to see how the population will react to widespread infection and what the  Government needs to do in order to isolate the disease and keep people safe.

Otherwise, why is the cure worse than the disease?

The Governmental Cult of Immortality.

 Let's state some facts.

Fact 1. Things change. The world changes. In the long term, continental drift and subduction of tectonic plates will ensure that millennia from now, all traces of the human race would be wiped out. 

Even in the short term, weathering by the Terran climate ensures that our presence is a mere blink in the eye of the Cosmos.

The Earth changes, the climate changes, people live and they die. 

So why, all of a sudden the preoccupation with the preservation of the globe, as if time can be stopped in it's tracks? Why the huge expense of trying to avert things which cannot be averted? When did the Human race develop the hubris to think they could preserve the planet in aspic and halt millennia of change?

In the short term, we are spending billions trying to keep everyone alive. People that unfortunately are destined to die. From expensive cancer drugs to long-term lockdowns to halt Covid, Governments around the world are expending Billions to keep a small number (0.01 percent) of the population alive. To the detriment of the 99.99 percent of the people that can carry on without issue.

In the long term governments are committed to spending Trillions trying to avert climate change. When the climate changes naturally. We've had Ice Ages and we've had tropical climates. Why are we bankrupting countries trying to stop the unstoppable? 

When did we begin to think we are immortal, when did we start to think we could stop time in it's tracks, when did governments decide it was worth spending billions on it?

What the Fuck is Happening to the Conservative Party??? Pt.2.

 IT's been reported that Hancock the health minister hasn't ruled out compulsory or mandatory vaccinations against covid.

FFS, we have NEVER mandated a vaccination EVER. 

Is this Great Britain, or is it Mother Fucking Russia? Are we free or are we in some fucking Gulag?

If there was ever a reason to tell the Government to go fuck itself, the time, and the reason is now.

What the Fuck is Happening to the Conservative Party???

 We've already had more Socialist policies from the modern Conservatives than Neil Kinnock ever dared to put forward in the Eighties, but now we're staring a road pricing. 

I think I now know why Cummings jumped ship: this Conservative Government is hell bent on getting the Brexit/Reform party into Government at the next election.

The Labour party are an ungovernmental bunch of leftards and it seems the Conservative party is sliding down the same left-leaning slope.

God save is from Rabid Socialism PLEASE!

I'm not sure what happened to Boris in hospital when he had Covid, it looks like they removed his balls accidentally. Fucking NHS!

Road pricing has been found to be the most unpopular policy going. What you're doing is making the Social mobility the realm of the rich. It is not a progressive tax, it's regressive. Those with lower incomes will eventually be forced off the roads altogether.

I've already blogged about the inequalities in the vehicle excise duty in that poor people can't afford luxury cars any more. Even cars that are close to being scrapped, because they attract a higher VED even if they are 10 or 15 years old. It'll be nearly 20 years since the VED was changed and luxury cars from 2001 will still attract a high rate of VED.  

Now, as well as the regressive VED, the government want a regressive road pricing policy.

I can't sanction pricing the poor off the roads. I will not support ANY government that introduces such a policy, nor will I vote for a party that refuses to abolish it when in power.

Trump Lost? Are you Sure, I mean Reeeallllly Sure?

 So, the Left are sayi9ng Trump should roll over and accept defeat. 

But if thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of votes were accepted that shouldn't have, in states that could be swung by such numbers, wouldn't the Democrats be doing the same as Trump is now?

I can think back to the fiasco in Florida that gave Bush the election (eventually).

This is not without precedent. 

The votes have to be counted in a fair and legal manner. The Democrats seem to be a bit eager to get Trump to roll over. It smacks of desperation to me. 

USA 2020: Vote Irregularities Should be Contested

 Okay, despite the media's assertion that claims of voter fraud in the US Presidential Election are unfounded, there are enough first-hand accounts now to assert the opposite.

Although not fraud, the "Sharpiegate" incident in Arizona does really require a re-run of the election in that state.

Plenty of voters that had been given Sharpies to mark their ballot papers have had their votes cancelled. There are a number of people now checking the status of their ballots and getting the news that their vote had been cancelled. They can only assume the ballots were rejected because of the use of a sharpie.

In Detroit there are videos of vand and cars arriving after the votes had been counted with even more "late" ballots. All recorded 100% for Biden. If these were genuine ballots and not attempts to push Biden to a win, then there would also be votes for Trump in those Ballots. To be 100% for Biden is statistically impossible.

There is a video on Twitter circling that shows a vote counter flipping off a ballot form and then screwing it up and throwing it in the trash. Okay, not evidence of organised fraud, but how many counters were doing that? If only one, how many votes did he destroy? In a ballot that could come as close as hundreds of votes this single person could swing that state either way. 

A re-run is required in Michigan.

And so it goes on. Vehicles turning up unannounced, with hundreds of ballots, unchecked, unsecured. people carrying ballots in open carrier bags. 

Volunteer observers prevented from checking the validity of ballots. 

What Trump is saying is the election process needs to be fair. The rules have to be followed and whichever way the vote goes, it needs to be legitimate. I'm not sure why the Democrats would be fighting that. Because whichever way it goes, the winning side can claim a legitimate victory.

The only way to object to that is if you know you are winning illegitimately.

USA 2020: States holding onto Trump Votes?

 Why do I get the impression that states are holding onto Trump votes and deliberately not counting them?

In Wisconsin over 100,000 votes were counted supposedly from the mail-in ballots. for Biden. Not one main-in vote went to Trump. A statistical impossibility.

In Arizona, the state has been claimed for Biden, even though the pro-Trump rural counties have not yet been counted.

So in this instance, could it be the Michigan postal votes for Trump have been squirrelled away somewhere so that when Trump goes to the Supreme Court to get the the election finally called it backfires on him?

The Democrats can say they won and it's tough luck on Trump - he was tripped up by his own impatience.

At the very least, the ballots in Arizona, Wisconsin and Michigan should be recounted. There is enough anecdotal evidence of vote rigging in those states to force a recount.

Late night unsecured ballot deliveries, statistical anomalies, all of them point to at least a properly scrutinised recount in those states. I'd have thought that's the most fair solution.

In the future, the US really needs to get a handle on ballot security. Turning up with ballots in carrier bags is not secure. How tempting would it be to remove certain ballots from pro-Trump areas from the bag and throw them in the trash, to try and help your favoured candidate? 

In the UK our ballot boxes have seals on them and the seals are not broken until the box arrives at the counting centre in order to ensure ballot security. It works so well some of the boxes are now over 100 years old. 

The US really needs to start looking at how they do elections. Obviously there is enough opportunity for impropriety that the results can be cast into doubt. As can be seen when elections get as close as this one.

When the difference between winning and losing is below a hundred votes, you really need to know every vote has ben cast, collected, transported and counted correctly. And provably so.

USA 2020: Why Trump almost lost the Election (and could still lose it)

Trump's main failing prior to the presidential election was to not deal with the persuasive nature of the far-left's arguments.

I can see why the arguments are compelling: more equity, more equality. Let's all be the same. Pay the same, get the same rewards. Without mentioning it's essentially Communism.

But the arguments are persuasive to normal tax earners that are seeing the likes of Google, Amazon et al pay minimal tax. For instance if Amazon can essentially decide how much tax they are willing to pay, why can't the mom-and-pop shop in the high Street? Without equality, there is unfair competition.

Trump needs to start addressing the inequality on the tax system that allows big corporations to pay miniscule tax. Otherwise the socialist/communist message of the rich fat cats getting better deals and paying less is going to continue to resonate with the population and embolden the radical socialists.

He also needs to start addressing the huge bailouts paid to corporations during the covid pandemic. Money the corporations were supposed to use to keep people in jobs, but instead kept for themselves and still laid people off. If I was Trump, I'd be looking for legislation to claw that money back and more from the big corporations. With incentives for US production. basically you get clobbered if you produce in China and import, but you get a sweet deal if you produce in the US and keep American jobs. With incentives all the way down to mom-and-pop on the high street.

It's time Trump gave the person in the street the same tax breaks as Amazon, Facebook or Google. 

COVID-19: Ignoring Lockdown

 I think we'll see a lot more people ignoring lockdown rules this time round. Mainly because the rules don't make sense and most of the measures put in place since the first lockdown haven't stopped the rise of case numbers. 

The wearing of masks hasn't stopped a rise in cases.

Social distancing Rules haven't stopped a rise in cases.

Plastic screens in pubs and restaurants haven't stopped a rise in cases.

So, if they haven't stopped a rise in cases, they are not stopping infections. So why do we persist in using them?

The obvious answer is infections are being caused by something that these measures don't prevent.

So where are the infections coming from? What has opened up since the initial lockdown? 

Is it the pubs? Is it the Restaurants? Is it the non-essential shops? 

Or could it be the opening of schools and colleges? 

Persisting with measure that provably don't prevent the spread of the virus is just wrong-headed. Why are they still in place? Are they just there to reassure people? If that's the case, that's criminal. 

Reassurance does not stop infections.

We need to look into this and find the real reasons why infections are increasing. Then deal with it properly.

Locking down and keeping schools open sends the wrong message. Also if schools are the source of the spread, then keeping them open whilst locking down won't stop the spread.

Is this some sort of giant experiment to try and find the true infection vector?

People are fed up with jumping through hoops and being blamed for the spread, when it's the government's lack of acknowledgement of the rear sources of infection that is the real issue.

We've jumped through hoops and the infection is spreading, so why do we continue to jump? People are rebelling and I've heard several normally compliant and sensible people saying they will rebel. 

Fuck the rule of six, fuck the masks, fuck the closure of non-essential shops. They will find a way round it. A kind of lockdown black market is already forming.

It's about time the government came to it's senses and started coming up with common sense solutions that people can get behind.

Voting Day in America.

 So, America goes to the polls today (and for up to ten days after for postal votes in some states).

It will be interesting to see what happens.

Will Trump win by a landslide? Will Biden win by a landslide? If there isn't a landslide and decisive victory on either side I envisage weeks of legal wrangling.

If there's a slight victory on the night I envisage post election postal vote-stuffing to try and win the states that allow post-election postal votes to be counted. It works both ways. If Biden wins, lots of Republicans will be getting their postal votes in. If Trump wins, democrat voters will be doing the same. 

Either way, the expectation is violence from the left wing, either in protest at a Trump win, or in celebration of a Biden win where they just get off scott free. Washington DC is all boarded up awaiting the Far-Left shitstorm.

Anyway, popcorn will be at the ready. An evening snooze and a late night watching the results come in.

To be honest, I hope Trump wins, just for shits 'n' Giggles. He's a vastly more interesting person than we've seen as US President for a long time. 

I think Sleepy Joe will just sleepwalk America into Authoritarianism. A puppet President a bit like Bush the Younger. Biden will look all sleepy and innocent and behind him the levers will be pulled and America will one day find itself unable to escape. 

I just hope that with a victory, Trump is unmolested this time by endless lefty interference. Let Trump get on with it. I'm sure if the left hadn't interfered with endless attempt to discredit Trump and let him govern, they would have had so much ammunition to hit him with. Instead he can just blame the left for any issues with his Presidency.

COVID-19: More Lockdown Madness Ensues

 I agreed with the lockdown in March, to help stem the flow of cases of a virus with unknown mortality.

But this latest lockdown is a step too far. The scientists are meddling with computer models again, rather than use proven scientific method. 

Also public opinion is against this latest infringement of liberty. Organisations are already emerging to rebel against the lockdown. 

It's not helped by the idiocy of the latest rules. People losing jobs and confined to home whilst kids are free to mingle at school and bring the supposedly deadly virus home with them. 

When people see unfair rules, they rebel. When people see nonsensical restrictions they rebel. When they see huge contradictions they will rebel.

You can only push people so far. When there are alternatives that are fairer they will question the rules.

With an opposition in parliament that wants to go even further, lock down harder, sooner, there is no chance of an opposing voice.

Let's see what the next few weeks bring.

Bye Bye BOND: Sean Connery Dies

 RIP Sean Connery, the man who made spies look cool. 

French Government Flies the White Flag on Muslim Extremism.

 In this article in the Independent, the French interior minister has declared there will be more terror attacks by Muslims.

The attack, euphemistically called "stabbings" by the media was actually beheadings, with the heads of the victims allegedly placed on the altar.

This, perpetrated by a Muslim so-called asylum seeker who only entered France the week before. 

This is EXACTLY the sort of violence we are warning about when we criticise the open borders we have in the UK. Except here in the UK it may be worse: Eye witness accounts report Muslims are arriving on the beaches of the South Coast carrying automatic weapons under the cover of darkness. These are the people not being reported on by the media. It's only known by the people that actually live near the beaches and have seen the terrorists (definitely not asylum seekers) arriving when the people trafficking fodder have already arrived and been processed by the Border Force water taxi.

Border Force are happily home for biscuits and tea, while the real threat to our country is steadily building up strength in numbers and capability.

I rue the day when a large shopping centre like Meadowhall, Trafford, or Bluewater, or London's crowded shopping streets are attacked by a large gang of heavily armed terrorists. The carnage that would ensue is not really the time to say "I told you so", but I'll be thinking it.

To be brutally honest, a force of about 20 armed men would be sufficient to stage a surprise attack on Parliament, or some other major target. It doesn't need to be a soft target. Just one that routinely is guarded by one or two armed Police officers. There's no way they would be able to defend against 20 well armed terrorists with AK47s and grenades.

Right now I think the only thing delaying the terrorists is the lack of numbers of victims. Usually packed shopping centres are running at lower capacity thanks to Covid. But I'm sure it will come.

The sad thing is our own Government., like the French, will do absolutely nothing about it. In the name of diversity.  They would rather sacrifice the lives of their own citizens for ideology.

I can't begin to express how wrong-headed that is. 

Governments are supposed to protect, they are supposed to have our best interests at heart. 

COVID-19: Welsh Lockdown Bollocks Exposed and in Other News the SBS capture Pirates

Well, it's only been a few days and the Welsh lockdown has been exposed as a load of Bollocks. Those bollocks have already been massively and embarrassingly exposed.

Not only do lockdowns not work as I've espoused recently, the Welsh version is another layer of stupid on top. 

Shops are allowed to be open to sell essential goods and non-0essential goods are not allowed in Communist Taff-land.  But no-one knows what is essential and what is not. So the shop-owners have basically sealed off EVERYTHING that is not food. 

Want a birthday card? Fuck You!

Want beer? Fuck You!

Want kids clothes? Fuck You!

Want Tampons? Fuck You, you transphobe!

It's absolute madness, the sort of mad fuck-uppery that only a short man in charge of a small government with a chip on his shoulder and a huge sense of inadequacy and a huger sense of entitlement and power could dream up. 

It's classic lefty Labour shit. 

In other news, it's been all over the news this morning that the SBS have reclaimed a Tanker in trouble off the Isle of Wight. Apparently stowaways have been causing trouble and verbally abusing the crew. The crew then went straight to their safe-space or refuge.

So the SBS were called into action and quickly subdued a bunch of Nigerians armed with sticks and harsh words. Hardly the Iranian Embassy is it?

I was sat in a pub in Shanklin on the IOW last night watching the ship going round in circles. I even posted it's track on Facebook for a laugh.

I sadly missed the Helicopters and the rest.

What's the betting that the stowaways apply for asylum. I thought we dealt with Pirates in a harsher fashion...

COVID-19: Unanswered Queations.

 It seems the media have slipped into full propaganda mode lately and just parrot the government line on anything, not just the Covid crisis. 

But there are questions that need to be asked. 

For instance why are we locking down the whole population when less than 5% are at serious risk of complications from the virus? 

Why are we  paying people that are effectively immune from the virus to stay at home?

What happens to the DNA information gathered as part of the Covid testing procedure? 

Is it stored and if it is, where is it stored and for how long? 

Who has access to the DNA information collected?

By what authority is the Government issuing Lockdowns?

What oversight is being done by the various Parliamentary committees regarding the Government's use of powers regarding Covid?

Are the Government just issuing illegal edits that can be challenged legally, or is there full Parliamentary approval?

What legal powers do the Police have under these circumstances? Are they acting legally or illegally?

What risk assessments have the Government done regarding Covid-19 and are they available for scrutiny?

How much has been spent during the Pandemic and how do the Government expect the money to be paid back?

Will taxes be raised in the future? If so, for how long?

The list goes on and on, but there seems to be no-one putting these questions to the various authorities.

There seems to be a blind acceptance by the press that the government can just issue commands and they get blindly implemented by the NHS and the Police. That's not how things work in a democracy. The government has to put it's plans before Parliament and then Parliament including the House of Lords ratify any changes to the legal framework.

If this is not being done, how legal are these edicts? Can they be challenged in court? 

For God's sake media, please wake up and do your job!

Brexit: Finally a Clean Brexit?

 Well, it seems the negotiations are over and we are heading for a full and complete exit from the EU in the New Year. 

Unless the posturing is all smoke an mirrors and some orchestrated chicanery of a "miracle/hard negotiated/last minute" deal is "pulled out of the hat". 

If the latter is the case, I call bullshit on the "deal".

Right now, businesses across the country should be getting letters to state the position they will find themselves in 10 weeks from now. Those letters should state categorically the trading terms in place for European trade. Notwithstanding the "Kent Passport", we should know what VAT rates apply, what tariffs if any apply on importation of goods etc. 

Businesses cannot be expected to go to the wire and change their systems overnight. IT systems need to be carefully programmed so that no errors creep in. So the rules need to be available and programs changed to accept them and then those systems need to be tested to confirm compliance with the rules and also to confirm no bugs are introduced anywhere else in the programme by the new code.

10 weeks is not a long time. Any less and we'll seriously face issues and errors arising out of ill-preparedness. And if the situation in Kent is anything to go by, it looks like the government is going down the "fine companies if they get it wrong, even if the rules aren't available" route, which is completely unfair.

Basically I see an inevitable hiatus in the trade between the UK and the EU while companies (once they get detailed information on the rules applicable) change their IT systems to cope and deal with the changes.

That's just the issues within the UK, never mind any issues thrown up on the EU side like even more rules  (compatible with UK rules or not), required paperwork, prohibitions on certain items and the blockage of port by disgruntled French fishermen.

2021 will have an interesting start to the year i think.

COVID-19: Wales in Lockdown.

 The Welsh government has announced a short sharp lockdown beginning November 9th. 

Who exactly is paying for all of these Welsh people to sit at home? I hope that the devolved government will be footing the bill and any damage to the Welsh economy will be paid for out of the Welsh pocket.

Otherwise I think the UK government should be quite right to overrule any decision like this that the English have to foot the bill for.

Also, what are they going to do about people in England not under lockdown rules crossing the border into Wales? Are they going to sit Police on every single road between the two countries stopping traffic?

When are they going to accept that it's past the time for lockdowns? They're good for stalling the inevitable, but once you have the extra capacity in place like the Nightingale hospitals, the lockdowns are not a positive measure. Instead they only prolong the length of the infection. 

Now we have the extra capacity available, let the country go about it's business and hospitalise those that need hospitalisation. Only if the nightingale hospitals are at serious risk of being overtopped should we start to restrict movements and meetings.

Common sense realy, which seems to be in very short supply in political circles these days. It seems emotions and posturing for political effect totally outweigh common sense.

The Biden Fiasco and the Blatant Censoring of Online Commentary

 Well, I think this time Facebook and Twitter have really done it. I really think they have signed their own death warrants. 

They are openly and blatantly refusing to even countenance publication in any form of the accusations laid out by the New York Post regarding Biden, his son and Ukraine. Or even any commentary on the accusations.

Now, here comes the killer blow for those "platforms". If they are censoring content, if they are actively suppressing even commentary of the accusations, then they must fear a lawsuit for doing so. In that case they are thinking like publishers. They are acting like publishers. They are publishers, not platforms. 

The distinction is complete and therefore previous "platforms" given immunity under section 230 of the CDA does not apply because they are now thinking and acting like publishers. 

Which then opens the gleeful opportunities for citizens to sue said former platforms/now publishers for the laws that apply to publishers: defamation, libel etc.

You cannot have the ability to act like a publisher without de facto being a publisher. If you act think, edit, suppress and manipulate content like a publisher, then you are a publisher. If you think and therefore act like a publisher, then you already accept the fact. Whether the entity doing the publishing is a person or a corporation, there is no difference. 

The opportunity to sue arises merely because in can be argued in court that the "platforms" are no longer acting as such. By there mere actions, they become de facto publishers and lose section 230 immunity.

I'm rubbing my hands now waiting for the first big lawsuit to drop.

Facebook and Twitter, by their actions have opened themselves to this. Jack Dorsey has realised this and has gone on record trying to justify the censorship: it's not proven, the information was obtained illegally, yadda-yadda, even using the usual management weasel-word phrases like "we didn't communicate correctly". It doesn't matter. A platform would not censor and suppress on any grounds other than possibly public safety. 

The Biden revelations do not constitute public safety and there are grounds for public interest arguments in defence of allowing commentary on them.

These so-called platforms were on shaky ground previously. I think this is the final nail in the coffin for any protections availed to them under section 230.

COVID-19: Making Political Points out of a Pandemic.

 So far this week we've had Labour MPs lying about lack of engagement with government over local lockdowns, we've had the leader of the Labour Party lying, saying that all Northern Councils were against the lockdowns, which pissed off the leader of Bolton Town Council.

Then we had the leader of the Welsh assembly (yet another Labour idiot) saying that he's closing the border to Wales and stopping people from covid hotspots entering "his country". Totally unpoliceable and in effect racist. Denying people from England access to Wales when parts of Wales are fucked and in extra lockdown measures anyway is a bit rich. 

It's exactly the same as people blaming the channel-crossing immigrants for everything bad that happens in England. It's just as bad, just as wrong-headed.

Talking about immigrants, what is he going to do about the immigrants being bussed from the Dover coast direct to the camp in Wales? 

Especially as they are not isolated for two weeks, they can roam free as soon as they get to Wales. Is Mr Drakeford going to install a wall around the camp to protect his Welsh countryfolk?

Or is he talking totally unworkable bollocks for soundbites? I think I know the answer.

Wee Jimmy Crankie up in Haggisland is also facing somewhat of a quagmire of her own making now. The rules and regulations in the North have twisted and turned so much.

I just wish that we could just get back to common sense politics. But no-one is holding the posturing politicians to account. The press certainly aren't asking intelligent questions when policy is announced, which begs the question: are the press intelligent?

If the press don't have the wit or intelligence to ask probing questions, then who will? 

If we don't start start knocking the lying, grandstanding, point-scoring politicians down a peg or two, we're on a very slippery slope. Because the politicians will get a sense of unfettered power, which is not a good thing. Being held to account is what prevents excesses like those that happened in the thirties. We do not want totalitarian governments of any stripe, flag, banner or political persuasion. 

COVID-19: Stop the Scattergun Approach.

 The government says when it comes to covid that it is following the science. However, from their actions, this seems about as far from the truth as you can get.

The science says people under the age of 50 have a 99.9% chance of surviving the virus. The chances of surviving stay above 95% up to the age of 70.

So why are we not targeting those people who are at higher risk, like old people and those with pre-existing conditions, like diabetics? Get them to shield at home and let the rest of the population go about their daily business.

The current lockdown approach, even local lockdowns are a like using a Blunderbuss to kill a fly. The lockdown rules themselves are pushing people together and creating MORE risk of transmission than just letting people carry on with their lives.

I've already said we should (for the time being) lower the pension age so that those over 60 can remove themselves from the workforce and reduce their number of contacts.

Those with serious illnesses (essentially those people that qualify for the flu jab) should get a letter to be paid to stay at home. After all, if the flu is s risk to these people, then covid-19 certainly is.

Then the youngsters can get on and get infected. Those with serious covid symptoms go straight to the Nightingale hospitals, which allows the regular NHS facilities to function as normal. Only if and when there's a chance of the Nightingale units being overtopped (say 75-80% occupancy) is the point we start to lock down. 

That way the economy gets to continue, people's freedoms are not eroded and there's a bloody good reason for locking down. Rather than the shit-show we have at the moment, where a city is in full lockdown but the people can still drive to a pub 10 miles away.

At the moment the government have it arse-about-face and it's about time they were challenged on the policies in place at the moment or the government themselves had a bloody good rethink and returned to common sense.

COVID-19: Targeting the at Risk.

First, let's look at some facts. 

1. Those over the age of 60 are at significantly greater risk of serious complications from covid-19 infection.

2. Conversely, those under 30 are at significantly lower risk of serious complications.

3. The two facts above inform that paying young people to stay at home or isolate in another lockdown is a waste of money.

4. It also informs one that keeping older people in work increases their risk of exposure to the virus and therefore significantly increases the number of serious cases and therefore the cost in lost man-hours, tax revenue and NHS costs.

5. We also know that the virus is here to stay and a vaccine could be years away.

So if a way of targeting the vulnerable and paying them to isolate while at the same time keeping the young in employment could be found, that would keep the economy going whilst simultaneously keeping the numbers of serious cases down. Effectively the holy grail the government is seeking.

I commented on the Guido Fawkes website yesterday about my idea to lower the retirement age to 60. It was the first comment on there that I've had with more down votes that up.

Interesting.

The reasons varied from the cost, to why force old people to retire.

So, let's examine the cost. So far we're at the thick end of a Trillion pounds spent on the COVID-19 response. A lot of that was paying the wrong people to stay off work. We now know that the virus has a disproportionately bad effect on people the older they get. 

So instead of a 2nd blanket lockdown, which the government is trying to avoid, let's target old people and get them out of the job pool. Those billions paid will be paid to people at highest risk of death and therefore the money isn't being wasted on paying 20-year-olds to sit at home when they are at minimal risk from the virus if they get it at work.

The money is keeping those older people at home, away from work, it's reducing the workload on the NHS created by serious covid cases. 

The money is allowing older people to pay the rent and put food on the table without the need to work. It gives them the choice. If they feel the risk to them is minimal, they can continue to work and mingle in the community. But it's their choice and hopefully those mad enough to think they are immune will be in the minority.

That gets on to the criticism of forcing people to retire. No-one is forcing anyone. They assess the risk of working against the risk of staying away from work and daily exposure to the virus. The option of the pension and associated benefits is there should they assess the risk is too great. At least then when they do give up working they won't starve or end up homeless.

The other thing is there's no need to set up yet another government agency to administer the change. All that is required is a change to the rules regarding pension age and then people opting to retire at 60 can do and the machinery to support them is already there.in place and just kicks in 5 years earlier than normal.

This is a minimal impact option, especially if the virus is going to be around for years to come. The number of deaths in the 60-65 age group can be severely reduced by taking them away from the work environment and removing that source of infection from their lives. Let the youngsters replace the oldies, the people best able to resist the virus when exposed to it.

The main impact of lowering the retirement age would be private pensions and mortgages as people retire at 60 instead of 65. Again, the government can chose to mitigate any adverse financial impact to the minority of people affected. A minority of a minority, a comparatively low cost. Certainly not paying the whole flipping workforce of the UK to sit on their arse..

If a vaccine is 3-5 years or more away, or if some herd immunity can't be achieved, we are going to have to come up with a solution that supports the parts of the population most at risk. Here it is.

COVID-19: 2nd Lockdown Imminent

 I've said for the past couple of weeks that a second lockdown is on it's way. Possibly only for 14 days, but this next one provides a bit of a quandary to the Government: how do we do a lockdown but at the same time prevent further economic strain?

The answer is, we can't. Businesses are having a hard time as it is and unfortunately a second lockdown and business closure will kill them off.

It's quite clear now that opening everything up and wearing masks isn't working. The infection rate is rising and the stats show that allowing people to mix in whatever way is providing an ideal spreading ground for the virus.

Now what is it that is causing the spread? We're now three weeks since the schools went back. Is it that causing the rise in cases? I mean, those of us that have had kids know what lovely little germ-spreaders they are. They don't just bring homework back from school. 

Of course the thought that millions of kids could start to mingle and not spread the virus was a fallacy. 

The thought that we could mingle in pubs and cafes with several strangers in close proximity, but can't have more than six people in a room at home is provable stupidity.

In my travels around the country I've seen good businesses doing their best to keep customers safe, but I've also seen cafes and pubs open with absolutely no changes to the way they operate. No screens, no masks, no extra separation, nothing. Only lip service to track and trace as if that's some panacea to the problem. It won't prevent infection, which should be the objective. Not bolting the stable door after the horse has been infected.

Right now, the government's health advisers have been shown to be totally inadequate and not up to the job. Chris Whitty is out of his depth and should be sacked. I said it from day one: he was wrong at the start and he is wrong in his advice to the government now.

I see already that thanks to the stats not showing increases in deaths in line with infection rates, that people are railing against a second lockdown. But we know that deaths may lag behind infection rates by as much as four weeks. So there is a case for locking down immediately.

I'd like to see establishments that don't put proper precautions in place to be closed down. With eating establishments it should be akin to the hygiene rating. Without proper covid countermeasures, you get zero rated and closed until you improve.

The problem with a new lockdown is how you keep the economy going whilst simultaneously attempting to lower infection rates. The answer is you can't. Either the economy takes a dive for a second time, or we learn to somehow live with the virus. 

Whether the Government is strong enough to live with the second option is a moot point. With a huge majority in Parliament it can essentially do whatever it wants, but it really needs to get it's shit together and stick with it.

For my two penn'orth I'd say because the virus hits the oldest and the weakest most, then those with underlying health conditions and those over retirement age should shield at home. The government can then boost any benefits or pension contributions to handle any extra costs involved in having goods delivered rather than collected. Even better if the supermarkets used some of those huge profits and waived the delivery costs for those shielding. That would cost a lot less than stopping the country from working at all. 

Public meeting places such as pubs and clubs subject to tighter restrictions and enforced closures under public health for those who fail to install effective distancing and screens. 

If necessary reduce the retirement age to 60 and pay those over 60 to shield in place. In effect make it a permanent retirement option for those over 60 and stop one of the highest risk age groups having to go to work. Solves the pandemic issue and also the issue of the people cheated out of pensions by raising the retirement age.

Those leaving the workforce can then be replaced by the younger , more covid-resistant age groups. That also solves the issue of unemployment in the young.  That way the economy carries on even if a vaccine cannot be found for the next year or two. 

By doing this the government is only supporting a population between the ages of 60 and the current retirement age. There will be fewer people in that age bracket thanks to old duffers dying off, so fewer numbers to support rather than the whole of the country. It really does make a sort of sense, especially if a properly tested and safe vaccine is some years away. Unless the object is to kill everyone off close to retirement age so they can't claim a pension...

It a pretty Socialist agenda, but by God this is the most Socialist Conservative government we've ever seen. So why not?

Be bold, be radical and help the people for once. Pay for it by raising corporation tax, let those benefitting from a younger and more productive workforce pay for it. You're welcome.

COVID-19: Land of Confusion.

 The Government has announced new extra lockdown measures for the Midlands, North West and parts of Yorkshire.

Glossing over the high Muslim population in the Midlands and Yorkshire, the restrictions are hitting Merseyside too, but then the Scousers don't go much for being told what to do.

But I notice that some parts of Greater Manchester are going back into lockdown after Augusts extra restrictions were lifted. I didn't know that the extra restrictions were lifted already.

And there's the issue: with all of these different edicts, rules, regulations and restrictions coming out of government, it's hard to know what the score is in parts of the country. England, Wales and Scotland, not a problem. Wales and Scotland talk funny so you know you're somewhere where the rules may be different.

But issuing several on-off-in-out-shake-it-all-about restrictions and relaxations in England is just causing confusion. And people are now saying "fuck it, why bother?" because it's too complicated to keep up.

Instead, lets have a short, sharp shutdown to sort the issue out. 14 days lockdown and let's see how the virus progresses afterwards. The time has come to reset, reboot and make it simple again. Stop spreading the fucking virus!

And why the fuck are we accepting illegal immigrant's from plague-ridden France still? Immediately bussed to hotels in Northern England and the Midlands (those locations sound familiar) and then free to roam the streets immediately, with no 14 days isolation period. Coincidence? I think not!

Let's have it: lockdown and only essential workers exempt. 

And only release lockdown after clear guidelines have been given and pubs, restaurants and cafes only allowed to reopen with proper mitigation measures in place. I've seen too many lax establishments open up with absolutely nothing in the way of mitigation. No screens, no distancing, not even hand sanitiser. Those fuckers need to be jumped on.

And lets stop pretending BLM and Extinction Rebellion are immune. They're not. Large Gatherings and protests should be stopped.

In Southampton the boat show was stopped just hours before it was due to open. What the fuck was it doing opening anyway? Who the fuck thought it was a good idea?

God fucking help us if COVID-19 was something really deadly like Ebola. We'd be royally fucked by now.

COVID-19 - Release from Lockdown Failing

 The cracks in the release from Lockdown are starting to show. The Government has just released figures that show the R or infection rating is above 1 for the first time since lockdown.

It's now quite obvious the policy employed since lockdown has failed. For whatever reason, the infection rating has climbed above 1 and the virus is starting to increase once again.

I urge the government to act now and not fuck about like it did last time. We need lockdown NOW.

Close the schools, close the pubs (the most obvious vector for the virus and not at all necessary to keep open), and limit access to shops again. This time, keep non-essential shops open, but limit access. So at least a significant majority of people can continue to work and keep their jobs.

Schools should become a safe repository for kids while parents are working. Kids stay in fixed classes, no moving around from class to class spreading the virus. 

Beauty salons are not essential and promote close personal contact. They should also be closed. Tough luck ladies, learn to love the grey.

Work should continue as much as possible, with proper social distancing measures in place. Offices should install screens between desks and workers should wear masks where they can.

Movement between households should be stopped. Scrap the rule of six, stop all non-essential meetings between households.

Non-essential travel should also be stopped.

Migrants reaching our shores should be returned under quarantine back to France. They should not be allowed into the country, they should not be bussed to the North and they should not be allowed the freedom to roam the streets.

It should be made clear to the country that they cannot go back to pre-lockdown levels of social interaction. If they continue to act in the irresponsible way they are, then they risk a second lockdown and this time the country may not be able to afford the cushion that was given to them the first time round. Next time will be harder. Unless they start to act responsibly and start to get back to what they were doing during lockdown, then there will be a tougher period of lockdown. Your choice.

And to the Government: for fuck's sake stop changing the rules! No wonder people just do what the fuck they like, because the Government changes the rules every week. Let's have some common sense rules that people can actually see make sense. Stop with the ever changing tag lines.

Right now the government should be saying we should be working to prevent another harder lockdown. We are all in it together and if we don't, the government cannot be as generous as last time and the next time will be harder for a lot of people. It may be harder for YOU.

Do you ant to risk your home, your job? If you don't then start to act like responsible adults and keep your distance, stop spreading the virus and stop acting like there's nothing going on. Stay away from pubs if at all possible. The pubs are there as a service, they are not be be abused on drunken orgies like before the virus. If you can't grow up and take some responsibility, then you will lose the privilege and pubs and other services will be shut down again.

Importing Terror

 It seems record numbers of illegal immigrants are reaching the shores of the UK, in the last gasp before the weather turns wintery for good, we've had a rush of so-called "asylum Seekers" arrive on our shores.

So many the Border Farce and RNLI can't keep up. Either that or the people smugglers are getting so proficient at avoiding said authorities (you have to ask, given they get free 4 star hotel rooms why they would do that) that they are actually now getting to the beaches unchecked in increasing numbers.

The night time invasions are increasing too. The anecdotal evidence of weapons being smuggled ashore at night are not so far fetched. People by day, guns by night. It's a lucrative trade. And a deadly one for the people of the UK.

Especially the Gay people of the UK, who have seemingly borne the brunt of another terrorist attack, this time in Birmingham. Same M.O. as the terrorist in Reading. Stab random victims in a predominantly Gay area. Sorry, but two now is not a coincidence.

What fucks me off though is that the sell-out corporate shills in organisations like StoneWall stay silent. If this was a straight-on-Gay fight, they would be up in arms demanding Gay rights and protection from the Police.

But make the killer a Muslim, A Muslim "asylum Seeker" and the fuckers are as silent as anything. 

But that's the left for you: devoid of reason, without a rational clue about fuck all in the real world. Poncey Politics outweigh reality. 

It does make me wonder how far these organisation have to be pushed?  When the Muslim Mullahs take over control of Birmingham and start to close down Gay establishments. will they find their voice? 

Right now, those of us who understand, who have lived in Muslim areas, who understand the majority Muslim view isn't the same as the Muslims you see in the Media.

The people that believe the mouthpeices are in for a big shock the first time they taste Muslim majority rule. Think living in a majority Muslim country won't be bad? Rear up on how quickly Iran changed from the model of a modern Muslim state, to the extremist religious fundamentalist pariah it is today. It changed almost overnight.

Right now, the import of thousands of Muslims poses an existential threat to the modern Western way of life. It's a way of life that has given equality to everyone regardless of race, or gender or sexuality. They have been hard fought for by thousands of people, over hundreds of years. 

The numbers of Muslims coming into the country is a threat to all of that work. Feminism will fall, Gay rights will be abolished. If you can't see that in our future, then you are either naïve or stupid. 

Stop looking to the right for the bogeyman, the thereat from the right has been extinguished. 

The threat now comes from the left, the threat to your communities is YOU. YOU are allowing enemies of your community to come into the country unchecked, YOU are allowing them to persecute your communities already, YOU are allowing them to murder people in your community without standing up and highlighting the issue.

And if YOU don't stand up now, YOU will be allowing the Muslims to make the rules and you and your communities will be living lives under threat and all those hard-won rights you so dearly chanted about during the Sixties, the Seventies, the Eighties and the Nineties will evaporate away.

BLM Self-Abuse: Until the Cyle Is Broken, it Won't Ever Stop.

 BLM and it's supporters make a good fist of blaming virtually everyone else for the woes of the BAME communities in America (and the UK), but really guys, you need to look in the fucking mirror.

It's black communities burning down businesses serving their own communities (making their own communities deprived), it's black activists spouting shit like "time is racist", or "science is racist" when patently it's abount having a massive fucking chip on your shoulder.

Want to get involved in Science? Do the fucking time and education and make yourself worth hiring. 

Want to get involved in law enforcement or law, or justice? Ditto.

Let's not sugar-coat it: you're not going to get it handed to you on a fucking spoon with sugar on top. Do the fucking hard work like everyone else and stop with the false entitlement.

Also, when middle class white kids feel a bit guilty about their non-existent white privilege or some other bollocks, then tell them to fuck off and take their patronising whinings elsewhere. When those same white kids start burning down your cities in your name then you need to make a stand and tell them to stop. They are dragging you down, they are getting you tarred with the

Stand on your own two feet for a fucking change. Be responsible. Take responsibility. Respect others. 

Are those white principles? I don't think so. Are you telling me some village elder in some goat-herding village in the middle of Africa doesn't deserve respect? Don't you think he's going to whip seven shades out of you if you don't respect him? Don't the villagers have some sense of responsibility to each other? Don't you think they all RESPECT each other? Think they're exclusively white concepts? You're a fucking idiot.

The black community especially needs to start taking responsibility for the shit state of their community. It's no-one else's but your own. Start being responsible for your community. If kids are running rampant causing crime, then sort the fuckers out. 

In a white working class community feral kids that cause trouble get dealt with. No Police involved. Nobody else required. Community self-help from members of the community that deserve respect.  They get delivered back to their delinquent parents bloodied and with a warning: Don't. Do. It. Again.

Yeah, but that's a white concept, it doesn't concern the black community. Let the kids roam free, no consequences,. no boundaries. See where that's getting you. Fucking idiots.

False Entitlement: The Problem with BLM, Trans and Other Activist Organisations

 The recurring theme coming out of the BLM movement and their spokespeople is one of institutional racism, or ingrained racism, or some term that defines a hampering of their ability to do the same jobs as white people just because of skin colour.

It's entirely bogus of course. There have been laws against such practices for decades and if a person of colour can prove such a thing has occurred, then they have the full force of the legal profession behind them in seeking redress.

However, it doesn't happen, because well, it doesn't happen.

What BLM and a lot of these new activist organisations seek is False Entitlement. They want things they are not entitled to. Black people don't want equality: they already have that. They want an "easy in" to any job they so chose to select, just because. Brain Surgeon? No problem sir, we'd be glad to accept you and you can just bypass all of that hard work and years of study, just go right ahead and open up Mr Smith's skull and crack on.

That's maybe an extreme example, but it illustrates the type of thinking that BLM and the like have. They don't want equality, they want more. To get that and to "guilt shame" the rest of us, they'll dredge up any number of reasons why they should get preferential treatment. Slavery being the current reason, but others have been systemic racism, or instructional racism. No proof needed, just give me what I think I'm due, because history.

BLM want nice houses, want good jobs, want lots of money. Well, you know what? Go out and fucking EARN them. Stop your kids skipping school, stop your kids stabbing each other, stop gangs, stop petty criminality in your communities.

Drag YOURSELVES out of the cesspit you are in. If your area is a cesspit, then MOVE. YOU have to change the situation YOU find yourself in.

I've done it a couple of times now. I was up North getting paid low wages for what should have been a well paid job in computers. I moved to Oxford to get the salary I deserved and also to get myself and my family out of the cesspit that is Greater Manchester. I didn't claim any form of entitlement to that job, I learned my stuff, put the time in, got the experience and made the move. I did that. I didn't wait for someone to tell me I was entitled to a better job and just hand it to me. I went out and got it.

The downside to doing that was the fact I also faced prejudice, despite my so-called "White Privilege". You be a Northerner with a Northern accent working down South, working in high technology. See, hear and feel the prejudice. "What University did you go to?" was an all too common question. Just as with the colour of people's skin, I was rated by my education or lack of it. Despite years of provable experience.

So don't talk to me about my privilege.  I know pregudice.

And this is what galls me about BLM. They want it all, without putting in the work, they want an easy ride. They want representation in all spheres of life without getting there on merit. If you want more black brain surgeons, make sure your kids to well at school and have a stable home life. Make sure they get educated and go on to attain and get there on Merit. Don't claim entitlement falsely without doing the work. 

The Channel Illegal Immigrants - Let's not Sugar Coat it, It's a National Security Crisis.

 The left is making much lightness of the migrants coming across the channel, saying how could we be so heartless as to stop all of these pregnant mothers and families with kids coming across the channel?

All very twee and ever so unthreatening. What's to worry about? These families will assimilate into our culture and before you know it will be model citizens...

Except that I know they won't. I've seen what happens first hand. I've lived through mass immigration. I've seen neighbourhoods become ghettos and for the immigrant communities to close ranks, close doors, close their own borders, even as the left insist we keep ours open.

I lived in a multicultural area. I have said this many times. Back in the 60's on our street you could find Poles, Romanians, Indians, Yugoslavians. Those from the Eastern Bloc displaced when the iron curtain fell were happy to be here. The Indians likewise wanted to be here to make a better world for their kids. They understood the benefits of being here and were grateful.

In the 70's we received a wave of different immigrants. They were unsure why they were here. Sure, they were shopkeepers, they took opportunities. But as more and more came, they became resentful. They installed enclaves and isolated themselves, establishing closed borders. Where the Poles and the Romanians and the Indians had happily shared their culture, their homes and their lives, the immigrants from Pakistan and other parts of the Muslim world thought their religion superior, their way of life better, they refused to integrate, except for a small percentage. Mainly those who had to deal with the world outside the community. Those within the community live isolated lives, insulated from Western values and as they see it Western imprudence. The isolated core that gives rise to the us/them extremist murderers and hides the child rapists. The other communities were pushed out, sometimes forcibly by the new, resentful neighbours.

Those people not intercepted by Border Force and get to the beaches melt away into the countryside. Mobile phone in hand they contact cousins who direct them to the isolated enclaves. There they can live and earn a living without the British authorities ever knowing about their existence. They are off the books, illegal. Driving cars insured in the names of cousins, holding driving licences in other names. Woe betide you meet one on the road.

The people arriving on the beaches are the most organised, the most resourceful, but not quite the most dangerous. That moniker is left for those that make the crossing at night. Those are the people smuggling not only people, but people of fighting age, with an ideology imbued in them. They run up the beaches and into the night to be picked up in vans. Sometimes they carry other things. They carry drugs, or weapons, and pass them to their brothers waiting in the white vans that drive to the coast of an evening.

Going back to the lefties, they say only 5000 have arrived, hardly a threat, hardly a drop in the Ocean, why can 't we accept them with open arms?

Because dear leftie, 805 of those 5000 are of fighting age and male. That's 4000 young men in the country illegally from who knows where.

Let's be hypothetical and assume that a low number, possibly 5 or 10% of those young males are not looking for employment, but are looking to cause mayhem. To use those smuggled weapons?

That's 200 men. Just think what a group of 200 organised men could accomplish. They can recruit, they can organise, they can attack. 

Even if only 10 percent of those men attacked a shopping centre as we have seen in other countries, that's 20 men. They can cover all the exits in a shopping centre and go on a shooting spree. 20 men is plenty enough to cause major carnage, cause more than 20 deaths. The trade off would be worth it for them. There would still be 90 percent of them available to continue and they could recruit more.

We can't keep those 200 men under surveillance.  Not all the time. And we already have more terrorist-grade radicals and extremists than we can keep an eye on. So why would we want to allow more in?

I hope that when the first atrocity occurs that involves an illegal immigrant or a significant number of organised immigrants that the left and the Labour party especially will eat humble pie. I would hope that they won't blame the government when they, the left were the apologists for terrorists.

This is a National Security threat. It threatens every single one of us. I'm not scared of Muslim extremists, I have no irrational fear of Muslims in general. I have had Muslim friends, I have Muslim family. But I have also experienced the extremists, I have knowledge of them and I know how they live, isolated amongst the Muslim community. I know how they manipulate not only their own community, but manipulate outsiders.

If you can't see the threat, then I suggest you have been manipulated buy the very people that despise you, are too trusting and cannot see what is very obvious.

COVID-19: Waiting for The Discrimination Card to Be Pulled.

 As we move from panic/pandemic mode, to more measured test, track and trace, I can see issues arising.

When we move to random testing, where we see who's had the virus and which communities still have the virus circulation, I'm waiting for the race card to be hoisted high.

Why?

Because the BAME communities can't help themselves, even when something as serious as a pandemic is ongoing. Because they can't help themselves even though testing shows their community to be a hotspot, somehow highlighting the fact will be racial.

Nothing at all to do with the huge numbers of Muslims lining up outside Mosques with no face masks and no social distancing and nothing at all to do with the lack of both within the Mosques. Sharing of washing basins with no disinfection between users, no social distancing, it'll be Allah's will if they get infected and die.

But pointing out this fact that no precautions against infection spread will probably classed as racist. 

As will pointing out the fact that BAME communities are more likely to have a number of generations families in a household, so that the older family members are more likely to catch COVID-19 from younger members of the household. It's not about poverty, it's about social norms. Even the most affluent BAME families have been affected by COVID because younger family members share a household with elderly, more at risk family members. But hey, pointing that out will also most likely be called as racist.

As for the most supposedly racist thing: pointing out that illegal migrants coming over the channel are not subject to 14 day isolation on arrival, but instead are being put up in hotels (4-star ones no less) with other migrants. Without any form of isolation and with no security they are able to mingle amongst the general population.

But... this is all racist nonsense and nothing at all to do with the extra lockdowns and the higher R numbers in locations where the population has a high percentage of minority (especially Muslim of Pakistani origin) population in the area. Populations that accept illegal migrants and where they can live, sleep and work without ever interacting with UK laws, completely isolated and outside the wider non-Muslim community.

I've seen it with my own eyes. I've been sent pictures by mates. No masks, no social distancing, carry on as normal, no virus here.

I've said before these areas are a breeding ground for extremism, they are also a breeding ground for COVID.

If these communities do actually get on board with testing (doubtful) then I'll just wait for the race card to be hoisted when extra lockdown measures are applied to their community specifically.

And just wait when the vaccine comes out... Haram or Hallal? Seeing as other vaccines are classed as Haram, I don't hold out much hope.

But hey, I'll probably be called a racist for pointing it out.

So Actively defending Rape of Women and Children is a Thing Now?

 It seems it is.

Not only am I  talking about the rape by Muslim men of children in our towns and cities across the UK, but now it seems the "Elite" rapists entertained by Jeffrey Epstein that abused women on "Epstein Island" seem to be similarly protected.

By whom?

By the Media. By Newspapers, by the television channels, by all of those so-called News outlets that ignore the facts of cases presented to them.

The protection by the legal system of men convicted of raping girls as young as 10. By restricting the publication of trial dates, by restricting the publication of names, by the restrictions put on individuals by the legal system of the UK to avoid excess publicity of organised rape gangs. Gangs in every town and city of the country. Gangs who systematically raped thousands of vulnerable children.

"Think of the Children" the saying goes. Yeah, but only when it suits.

When did the media, news outlets, the Police and the Legal System all become apologists for child rapists?

The rape gangs continue to ply their trade. Children are still being groomed and still being raped. But the Police stand idly by. The Media are silent. The legal system actively protects. The Government do nothing.

Now we are getting information from America. Information about the clients entertained on Epstein's Island. The client who indulged themselves the girls provided to them by Epstein and his entourage.

All very specialist, all very Elite. Private jets, Champagne and Caviar. But lets remove the glossy veneer. Statutory rape is statutory rape. Prostitution is prostitution, whether caviar is involved or not, it's just as sleazy as a downtown motel room rented out by the hour, or some dirty back alley blow-job. 

Former American Presidents, British Princes, the Creme-de-la-Creme of the Corporations, the Elites of the World are all implicated by their visits to Epstein Island. They are complicit. Either personally by their illegal actions, or by their conspiracy of silence, their inability to enlighten the authorities.

Something is rotten in this world, and the higher you go up the tree, the more it stinks.

COVID-19: The Problem with the Track and Trace and Shielding the Over 50's

The track and trace scheme, and the on/of plans to isolate the over-50's are all well and good, but if neither scheme is backed up by a reasonable level of payment, then neither scheme will gain much support.

Boris has said that he expects companies to be reasonable and support those people affected. But what if the company is "reasonable"? What if they don't pay the person shielding or isolating? How can Boris force companies to pay employees that have to isolate or shield?

Basically, he can't. So either scheme is a busted flush.

Because without financial support, people will just continue to go to work. Either they won't declare symptoms, or they will ignore the track-and-trace advice. Over 50' will just take a pragmatic view and continue to work.

Without financial support from the government, you can't expect people to just stop working for two weeks or indefinitely. To make the schemes work you have to have a carrot. Sticks don't work and quite soon you'll have an angry mob on your hands.

Want to win the next election Boris? Have some common sense and sort it out.

COVID-19 Panorama Programme and Community Integrated Care.

Last Thursday the Panorama Programme highlighted the care charity Community Integrated Care and how one of their home for dementia patients coped during the COVID-19 crisis. They lost quite a lot of their residents to the virus. 

Sadly Panorama did the usual lefty thing of Tory government bashing and tugging at heart strings. Plenty of emotional content and not much factual content. Let's have less of the "care workers crying in front of the camera" angle and more of the "fucked up confusion, changing the rules on a daily basis" angle instead.

The Panorama programme completely missed the reasons why care homes failed to prevent COVID-19 infections from getting inside.

In fact the programme blatantly showed on of the big issues during the crisis: whilst NHS hospital staff were doing full-on biological protection in what were effectively hazmat suits, care homes were left to deal with COVID-19 patients using just surgical masks, gloves and plastic aprons.

Where NHS staff were exiting COVID-19 wards and completely stripping off scrubs and PPE, the care home staff were wearing the same clothes walking from resident to resident.

It came as no surprise then that once testing had been established, the majority of care workers and residents in the home being filmed tested positive for COVID-19. The infection prevention was lacklustre at best. But homes can only follow official advice and use the equipment given to them. If they overstep their remit they can (and are) sanctioned. 

And this is where I am at odds with the Panorama programme: they didn't focus on the differences in advice and procedures between the NHS and care homes. Given there were dealing with effectively the same environment (working closely with a number of "patients", both infected and non-infected), why were the advice and infection control procedures so disparate?

The pictures on the news coming out of Covid wards at the time are chalk and cheese different between the advice given to care homes at the same time. 

The NHS had the resources available to protect staff (although there were issues even within the NHS) and patients. In the care sector people were just left to muddle through and deal with it as best they could.

The Panorama programme dealt with the subject of patients being sent to care homes from hospitals without covid testing and in some cases already infected patients being delivered to care homes which then went on to infect other staff and residents. Panorama dealt with the pressure that care homes were being put under to accept these patients, but nothing was said about practices, procedures and advice given to care homes. Yes, this was an issue, but only in limited cases.

In fact Community Integrated Care used common sense and instigated the full PPE policy (albeit only masks, gloves and aprons) and locked down care homes way before they were given official advice, which protected the majority of their homes from infection. The majority of their homes being infected from residents returned back to them infected from hospital visits.

The second thing the Panorama programme failed to investigate was the almost daily changes in official advice coming from official sources. I remember early in the pandemic, there was no advice for a number of weeks. Those homes that took it upon themselves to isolate and protect staff and residents fared best. Official advice at the beginning was woeful.

It was only when the horror stories came out of Italy of care home residents being left to die in abandoned homes that the government and their agents started to get their shit together and start offering advice. In one week the advice changed three times, such was the chaos around care. There was one change at least every week. And I've already blogged about the difference in advice given to different care sectors. Even though they may be doing the exact same job or type of care, residential care homes regulated by the CQC got more robust advice then other care sectors. The only difference I could see was that CQC regulated homes account for the stats about care homes that were being shown on the daily briefings. Unregulated care homes count as stats in the general population.

Other types of care such as domiciliary care or supported living were not given the same level of advice or support. My wife manages a number of homes that provide different forms of care. She was working to one set of guidelines for her registered home and a completely different set of guidelines for her other care homes. Despite them doing essentially the same job. That's how fucked up the advice was and still is.

And that's just advice. The debacle around getting hold of PPE is another saga entirely. Private care homes left out in the lurch, care homes in general left out of government initiatives and even when government -sponsored free PPE was available, the emails looked like a scam from some completely non-healthcare-related company.

The government deny care was an afterthought, but the evidence suggests otherwise.

But in my book, by concentrating on emotions Panorama spectacularly failed to score any point against the government. 

How's about playing back Chris Whitty's first few visits to the daily Covid-19 briefings when he went on about herd immunity when it wasn't a given there was any immunity against covid? How's about contacting care providers and asking for the emails that changed on almost a daily basis? How's about checking the difference between registered care homes and other forms of care?

And still the bollocks continue to be dropped: currently the plan is to test every care home worker for COVID on a weekly basis. Residents get tested every 28 days. 

Except currently not one testing kit has been delivered, so homes cannot meet the weekly target. Where's Panorama on that spectacular clanger?

It just shows that the BBC is run by children who fixate on one point and spectacularly miss attention to other details. They could have made one hell of a damning documentary if they had a clue about the subject they were filming.

Emotional Politics.

It seems that emotional politics has begun to override factual politics.

By that I mean no longer are decisions made based on cold hard facts. It seems statistics (not the most accurate science) and emotions are now dominating the political arena.

Look at Black Lives Matter for instance. On the face of it a laudable statement. But hold on: the BLM movement are not dealing in facts. Otherwise the fact that more black people are killed by black people than any other ethnic group would be front and centre of their efforts.

BLM deal in emotions. They only surface when they can use a white on black crime to incite the black minority into action. On the back of which mainly white Antifa-types pile on and start trouble, causing riots.

Riots in the cities of American is now the new norm. Although I will qualify that: Riots in DEMOCRAT-RUN cities is the new norm.

The Democrat led city councils have sided so much with the rioters they have withdrawn any opposition to them. The Police have been withdrawn and now the Mayor of Portland has stood in solidarity with RIOTERS! You can't make it up. Well, you could, if you were writing some dystopian novel about how America descended into chaos and civil war...

But BLM is only one organisation that uses emotions and not fact to further it's agenda.

Extinction Rebellion are another clownworld outfit that deal in emotions instead of facts. They say the world will be dead in 12 years (why it's always 12 years I dunno, maybe because everyone is programmed to accept 10-year timeframes, but 12 years seems that bit closer but not quite close enough).

Greenpeace used to deal with straight science. But now they've jumped on the emotional bandwaggon.

All the pressure groups have changed tactics and moved from facts to emotions: BLM, Climate, Race LGBTQ+ issues, trans rights, it's all about victimhood or how those affected FEEL, rather than how they are directly and factually affected.

It's interesting to note though, that all of these organisations are left-leaning. They are also in the majority supported financially by the same people. The ultra-rich.

Their members are also in the majority middle-class young people, a minority telling the rest of the population how to live their lives through manipulation of pressure groups that largely outweigh the influence their membership would have under normal circumstances.

Back in the day they would have been crushed by the establishment, the Police would have gone in cracking heads and cleared them away from the streets. Now they are indulged, because the people that finance them also have influence in government.

There is a reason for this insanity. There has to be, because there is no other explanation.

The elite, the ultra-rich want these people to succeed. They want their agendas to be government policy.

So, look at all the various pressure groups. What is the common denominator?

Authoritarianism.

Every single one of these organisations I have mentioned want people to be forced into certain behaviours. No pressure via the ballot box, no majority decision, these organisations use the media, protests and if necessary riots to put pressure on governments to adhere to their minority view.

It's subversion of the ballot box, it's subversion of democracy, it's totalitarian and authoritarian in it's goals. It is Fascism writ large.

"But we are far left" "But we are Communist", "we are socialist" these people cry. We cannot be Fascist because they are right of centre.

These people really need to understand history. Fascists come from both extremes of the political spectrum.

Illegal Immigration Gravy Train (with Help from the French and UK Border Force)

Lots of evidence now that the boats crossing the channel containing migrants are part of an organised trafficking setup. Some of the immigrants that arrive here upon asking have said that the going rate is still around £5000 per person.

For that they get given the boat, a life jacket, instructions and are driven to the beach whereupon the immigrant will be united with his boat and his fellow seafarers.

They used to do it at night and arrived on the beaches of the South Coast under darkness, running up the beach and into the waiting vans. Eventually to join the black market working in sweatshops under what can be precarious working and living conditions, just short of modern slavery.

But those people are part of a social network that allows illegal immigrants to enter the country and then live, sleep, shop and work in the UK, all off the books.

Those without the social network, take the safer route of daytime passage. The small dinghies that leave teh French coast are "shadowed" by French cutters until they reach UK waters, whereby the immigrants in the dinghies will be picked up and taken to UK ports and processed.

Upon arrival they are processed and taken to a hostel. Probably the first nights sleep in a real bed inside a real building any of them have had for months. They are left under their own recognisance to stay at the hostel while they are being processed (paid for by the taxpayer).

If they fail to gain asylum on the first try, then the first option is to appeal (tying up even more taxpayers money) and whilst on appeal they get to stay in the facilities provided at taxpayer expense whilst the lawyers on both sides of the appeal get paid out of the taxpayer purse.

If eventually it's determined they haven't been successful in their appeal and if during the appeal they haven't taken themselves a gullible British bride and had a kid or two (which guarantees them leave to stay under EHCR rulings) then they have the option of going back home where the weather is better, or skipping dodge and disappearing into the illegal labour market.

Very, very few of the illegal immigrants that arrive in the UK actually get sent back. Their network is savvy enough to try and tick all the boxes to get leave to stay under refugee status, or failing that they have time to get themselves a British bride and family, or the final option is to just bugger off into the grey yonder and join the thousands of Muslims and Eastern Europeans that will flout UK law and support illegal immigrant workers.

So far there are about 500 boats stacked up in storage close to Dover. 500 boats with an average of (say) 10 immigrants aboard. 5000 immigrants immigrants so far this season.

5000 extra people that you and I have to feed, house and clothe. 5000 people that should have registered their status in the country they entered into the EU. 5000 people that are here to stay.

5000 people at risk of exploitation in the illegal labour market when they fail to gain asylum.

5000 people that crossed the channel and were picked up by border force. How many more made the crossing undetected? How many of these people have bad intentions towards the UK? How can we tell if we do not stop them at the border and record them?

In the interests of National Security, the influx of illegal immigration has to be stopped. The security of those people already here must surely outweigh the rights of those people that may have ill intent towards our citizens?