JulianMelford

JulianMelford

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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - James Frayne: A clear ... · 0 replies · +2 points

It seems that lockdown regulations are so popular with parts of the police force that they don't feel the need to comply with the excesses.

Eight constables were recently disciplined for the crime of having a tea break inside a cafe when they should have been enjoying a takeaway in freezing conditions outside.

In Greenwich, about 30 officers were fined after it was found that a barber had visited the police station to supply long-overdue haircuts, something which many people feel are necessary not just for smartness.

When law enforcement officers don't comply with the rules, the authorities really should be asking if they are fit for purpose. At the moment many people feel that the government is trying to 'act tough' to make up for its track record of blunders, and it might be news to the boffins of YouGov that the real public has had enough of the farce.

Forget 'the new normal' and show a bit of common sense...

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - James Frayne: A clear ... · 1 reply · +1 points

Have a look at the study by Stanford University researchers led by Ioannides who studied several lockdowns and concluded that they didn't stop the spread of Cv-19. Yet the economic and social devastation is well-known.

I am open-minded on vaccination, but there is a worrying tide of stories from different countries about the after-effects of mRNA vaccines. As these effects are more prevalent after the second dose, I am not surprised to see the government suddenly take the gas pedal off having the second mRNA vaccine dose.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - James Frayne: A clear ... · 0 replies · +2 points

YouGov aren't always right, and I know people who've been on their panel and are suspicious of them.

There was a poll in the spring that claimed '90% supported the government'. After 4 weeks of lockdown, it was more like 50%. Where I was, policing was heavy handed to make sure that people weren't talking to their neighbours over the garden fence. The same police were amazingly absent before when it came to dealing with burglaries and anti-social behaviour.

Where I have been working recently, the police seem to be making a song and dance of LGBT+ surgeries, as if some people are more equal than others (in spite of their oath). Then there are concerns over the way persons in police uniform , but believed to be from a contractor, charged into a peaceful anti-lockdown demonstration at Trafalgar Square.

It seems that The New Normal has got to be enforced at all costs, with the police out of sync with the majority. Sadiq Khan's Met Police even demanded photo id when they had no right to do so.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Daniel Hannan: If a re... · 0 replies · +1 points

The USA have different rules, but in the UK, failure to serve someone on grounds of political opinion is direct discrimination. A restaurant should not do this unless there are other reasons (e.g. criminality).

I suspect the USA saga is more about virtue-signalling, and of course the liberal-left support free speech so long as it agrees with them. If you believe in economic competition and choice, then you should believe in choice in self-expression and competition of ideas.

There are also limitations to the vaccine argument as being vaccinated does not stop you catching Covid and spreading it - there is a story on BBC Scotland about the Mamaril family in Monklands who had recently been vaccinated and fell seriously ill days after it.

The debate on vaccination has hardly been to the principle of informed consent - and there are several cases where people should at least avoid certain types of vaccine, such as pregnant women, those with allergies avoiding mRNA-based. Moderna admit that their novel mRNA product can be rendered ineffective by a strong immune system and there is the under-discussed angle of the side effects that the government knows are coming.as it has procured an AI system to process an expected high volume.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Lockdown is popular, a... · 0 replies · +1 points

Re: Parliamentarians. Most are not virologists or epidemiologists and in the absence of a well-articulated Plan B that they can understand and defend to critics, will more or less side with the government. That includes the Labour benches.

Some support is very reluctant though, and should the measures not achieve success by the lockdown anniversary, I can see there being some very vocal questions. Their constituents are getting fed up.

Don't assume that vaccination will solve everything; though, as it does not stop transmission, and MHRA are procuring an IT system to cope with an expected high volume of adverse reactions.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Lockdown is popular, a... · 0 replies · +1 points

Lockdowns popular, come off it! BoJo, Hancock and Patel have all been railing at those who breach lockdown and other restrictive measures - the number of people doing so is not small. And it includes several high profile people including politicians and 'Professor Lockdown' Ferguson.

From what I can see, the public is split down the middle. Those that the government and BBC have managed to scare with a relentless one-sided narrative backed by conveniently wrong figures. And there are others, perhaps with businesses to run and children to educate who prefer more targeted measures instead of locking down the majority without key health conditions. And their equivalents worried about rising public debt.

California and New York locked down their economies yet Florida did not. The death rate in Florida, with a very aged population, was lower than both. The NY governor said in his press conference that the spread from socially distant indoor dining was 1.4%. The spread in households was 74%.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Sarah Elliott: Trump i... · 0 replies · +1 points

If you think Trump is 'left-wing', wait till you get Biden. Or more likely, Kamala Harris - when Biden proves unfit for office, most likely on medical grounds.

I'm not a fan of Trump's overall, but he deserves some credit for standing up to China and the environ-marxism based around global warming theory. His successor is likely to gut America based on junk science which many conservatives reject after taking time to study the facts.

His more left-inclined successors will push ahead with the WEF's The Great Reset, which in trying to 'share the jobs around' will make sure many leave America. Many opportunists are jumping on the bandwagon to kick a man when he's down, but I think you'll find with hindsight that with all his flaws Trump would have been a mercy compared with what's around the corner.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Auto-rant, bullshit an... · 2 replies · +1 points

Have a look at some other evidence
https://www.newstarget.com/2020-12-07-undecided-e...
https://www.hangthecensors.com/487190.html
https://www.newstarget.com/2021-01-07-situation-u...

There's two sides to every debate and I am cautious over believing the BBC's fevered version. And remember that the Dominion system is liable to be used in May's London Mayoral Election.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Auto-rant, bullshit an... · 1 reply · +1 points

I'm no Trump fan, but found this interesting. May be more than meets the eye... https://www.newstarget.com/2021-01-06-staged-viki...

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Johnson - "When... · 0 replies · +1 points

Boris and Hanclot must go. Their presence is an embarrassment to their party and a danger to society.
The 'new strain' has been known about since September, and Hanclot was uncommittal about it in his words to the Commons on Monday 14th. However they waited until after Parliament had recessed (avoiding scrutiny from MPs) to do the dirty. Trashing many people's Christmas celebrations like a Bullingdon raid on a restaurant.

And all for what? The 'evidence' that Steve Baker and Mark Harper have since requested is damning.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55388846
"The amount of evidence in the public domain is woefully inadequate to draw strong or firm opinions on whether the virus has truly increased transmission," said Prof Jonathan Ball, a virologist at the University of Nottingham.
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The government's advisers on new infections have "moderate" confidence that it is more able to transmit than other variants. All the work is at an early stage, contains huge uncertainties and a long list of unanswered questions. https://khub.net/documents/135939561/338928724/SA...

That 70% number appeared in a presentation by Dr Erik Volz, from Imperial College London, on Friday. During the talk he said: "It is really too early to tell… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3CT9N89L-c&f...
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Does it make the infection more deadly?
There is no evidence to suggest that it does...