The first death jab cases over here?

Interesting to see what happens:

Two lawsuits working their way through the U.K. court system could determine the fate of a class-action suit filed against AstraZeneca by more than 80 people who allege they or a family member were injured by the drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The two lawsuits are being heard as test cases for the larger class-action lawsuit.

One of the test cases was filed in the U.K.’s High Court by Jamie Scott, a father of two who sustained a permanent brain injury as a result of blood clots caused by the vaccine in April 2021.

The Telegraph, reporting Wednesday on the Scott case, noted that the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was “branded ‘defective’” and that case “will suggest claims over its efficacy were ‘vastly overstated.’”

The second test case was filed by the widower of 35-year-old Alpa Tailor, who died after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.

These “are the first lawsuits brought in England and Wales over an adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine, according to publicly-available court records,” Reuters reported.

More at the link above (beware the hard sell to subscribe). 🍿🍿🍿

“But It’s What You Asked For!”

NatWest has been accused of 'intrusion' after starting a new function that combs customers' accounts to track their carbon footprint.

A 'Carbon Footprint Tracker' on the bank's mobile app uses transaction data of its customers to make suggestions on how to reduce their carbon footprint based on their shopping habits.

More fool anyone who selected the setting to turn this aspect on, then! 

According to The Telegraph, the bank told customers to consider fixing their clothing instead of buying new items, and start drinking plant-based alternatives to dairy milk. The bank also urged customers to share car journeys, wash clothes in cold water and turn off tumble dryers.

Yes, as I suspected, the usual pointless stuff designed to make you feel virtuous while actually doing nothing at all when set against actual climate reality. Still, if it's what people want, right..? 

One customer, Faith Scott, said she thought the bank's carbon footprint calculator was an 'intrusion'. 'We don't need all this preaching to us. I don't take flights hither and thither. I grow my own vegetables and make my own food,' she said.

So, Faith, did NatWest hijack your phone and force this setting on you? Reader, what do you think? 

A NatWest spokesperson said: 'Customers tell us they want to take action to live more sustainably, and to save money at the same time on things like energy bills, but they don't aways know where to begin. The Carbon Footprint Tracker is an opt-in feature in our app that helps customers to see the carbon impact of their spending, at an aggregated level, and provides tips and suggestions to reduce this and to help them to save money too. If a customer opts-in, they can then opt-out at any point in settings in the Insights section of the app'.

Always RTFM, Faith... 

Tale of the pesky professors

Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister are aged, like us, but their themes are eternal and one of those themes is the "expert" who has not been bought. In short, he/she's a bit eccentric, a bit nutty, but also seemingly incorruptible ... he/she's an awkward morsel the political body cannot bear, so it tries to eject, vilify, mock.

Such is the case with Prof H at the Covid Whitewash, showing up the charlatanism of the undeserving woman in charge of the inquiry, whose (allegedly) corrupted conclusions we could write even now.  

Here he is and his colleague:

On August 25th, the ONS published on ‘Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England: deaths occurring between April 1st 2021 and May 31st 2023‘ and an Excel datasheet.

Then, on October 20th, an Adjournment Debate on the Trends in Excess Deaths occurred. It was attended by Andrew Bridgen MP, a handful of other parliamentarians and the Westminster cat called Mog. Ostensibly, the debate was about the role (if any) of Covid vaccines and excess deaths.

On October 24th, in response to the debate, the U.K.’s Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) released a document called ‘Trends in Excess Deaths and Covid-19 Vaccines‘.

Read on.

There are those of the Sceptical Brigade of the first water ... they're experts at noticing, smelling rats, analysing and furthermore ... getting the results out ... finally being eccentric enough to be impervious to criticism, whilst still noting the substance, if any, of those criticisms.

In short ... these are dangerous people to monolithic bodies full of ambitious, easily bought and easily manipulated people, such as the woman running the covid inquiry (allegedly). The First Water of Sceptic is thorough, he/she analyses in much the same way as Drs H and J.

The Second Water is those of us who might possibly learn to analyse in the manner of Drs H and J but who lack the time ... or even the sharpness any more due to age and slowing brain. 

For example, she may be in full time work, he might be getting on a bit now and running several blogs, which involve collating and coordinating.

And then there is the skill of "persistence", the bit between the teeth thing, the crusader mentality ... that's a critical factor, plus "openmindedness" of a very real kind ... a truly scientific mind which will consider all data, plus the pesky data which does not fit the hypothesis sends him back to the drawing board to rethink ... rather than just discard, shelve or ignore.

The overwhelming problem for the First and Second Waters is that it's slow, laborious work, annoyingly obscure to those of the Third Water and below, who are far more used to half to one page summaries or short vlogs, whose attention span will not allow him/her to Press On Regardless.

These Third Waterers are, imho, most important for (true) progress ... for a start, there are far, far more of them, they're far more incognito, they're willing to learn and apply the precepts, maybe imperfectly but improving over time. 

Such people are gold to Second Waterers because they will carry on when the First Waterers are made examples of and the Second Waterers themselves are less spectacularly suppressed.

And so it goes, down to the Ninth and Tenth Waterers, by which time fatal errors are present in the method, e.g. a priori suppositions, plus laziness in sourcing.  Which is not to say that they're worthless ... many a fine snippet is stated by a Tenth Waterer, which Second and Third Waterers note and file away for future retrieval.

But oh, the whole process is slow and laborious. As pollies and covid inquiry grandstanders know full well ... the average normie has neither the patience nor analytical ability to persevere, to expunge his/her own minor errors and start over, plus there is "confirmation bias" to contend with. Plus the desire to have the neatly packaged conclusion presented on a platter ... uncritically.

The good Drs H and J can patiently lay out the case, making subtle points here and there ... but how many of us have either the time or patience to see it right through to the bitter end? 

However, some can summarise the situation well, such as this commenter below the article:

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Recall we also had the weird practice of discounting the first 14 days post jab, I believe classifying those in this window as unjabbed, although the exact specifics escape me (I’ve read way too much to be able to find it again easily)

ONS aka “Obscuring Nefarious Shenanigans”

’As a result, a member of staff at the children’s home has been suspended.’

Frankly, I'm struggling to see why it hasn't been shut down:

In a letter submitted to the court, one police officer who has visited the child multiple times noted that “he is always vaping or smoking tobacco” when he met him in the community. Having challenged the children’s home staff as to how the child was able to buy these products, as he is always accompanied, the officer observed: “[They] have no reasonable answer.” The same officer wrote how the boy is “very open about the use of [cannabis] and … smokes it in the house and bedroom in an open manner … The on-site care staff are aware and never challenge him”.

 Are they being paid to? I’m guessing they are. If so, why are they not being told to do their job or GTFO..?

The boy is subject to a deprivation of liberty order, in which a local authority can ask the high court for permission to deprive a child of their liberty for their own protection. This occurs when they do not meet the criteria to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act. A deprivation of liberty order allows a child in an unregistered placement – because no secure registered placement is available – to be subject to restrictions on their liberty. Upon hearing the boy is subject to the order, Lieven said such a situation continuing could be seen as “a legal sticking plaster” for a “wholly unacceptable” standard of care.

That’s because it’s what it is. I very much doubt he’s the only young thug in these circumstances, and we are likely to need more and more of these places, thanks to the standards of parenting in this country, so why aren’t we building them and staffing them appropriately?

We Do Not Need Another Holocaust Memorial.

 

Despite an Appeal Court Judgment, the slimy Tory crew are intent on building the Holocaust Memorial on, in and under the grass of the Victoria Tower Gardens, on the Embankment immediately South of the Palace of Westminster.

After the proposed Memorial was soundly rejected by Westminster Council, the Government’s ‘Elite’ the ‘Establishment’ proceeded to manufacture such a hullabaloo over the rejection of such a monstrosity being built in one of the few green spaces in Central London that a Public Enquiry was organised to judge if the Holocaust Memorial was worthy of the siting in such a well-loved place as the Gardens obviously are.

I contributed to the debate, amidst such well-known names as Sir Peter Bottomley, Rabbi Jonathan Romain, Chris Dawes, Sir Jeremy Blackham & Lord Howard of Rising.

My points are made in just one paragraph:-

“So, Members and Participants in this Inquiry; here’s my proposal, which is to discard the proposal to build this Memorial and Learning Centre, and instead spend at least part of that £50 million quid to fund the purchase of 90,000 hardback copies of ‘The Scourge of the Swastika’; along with the production and reproduction of 90,000 DVD copies of ‘Holocaust: Night will Fall’. These items will be distributed amongst all, repeat ALL British education establishments with an enrolled age of 15 years or older. No one would be allowed to demur from watching the DVD or reading the Book. The Book will form part of the Syllabus, along with timely showing of the DVD to those schools, colleges, Universities: so that Britain's youth can, should and will learn of the capacity, within a nation from whence sprang genius; of Man’s INHUMANITY to his fellow man within the policies of that feared FINAL SOLUTION.” 

The Inquiry ground on, and eventually, at some huge cost, delivered its considered opinion that the Memorial should be built on the grass of the Gardens. But an Appeal was made against this decision, and the Appeal Court decided against the Memorial being built within Victoria Tower Gardens, which would irreparably damage a well-loved open space.

But the Tory Government laid their plans quietly, and those plans saw fruition in the Speech which Charles 3rd gave at the ceremonial opening of Parliament. In direct defiance of an Appeal Court Ruling, they are pushing for the passage of a Bill which would see this expensive garbage despoil a well-loved Garden. The dreary clowns which populate the Tory benches will just nod it through; the Lords have always drooled over the lack of a ‘modern Memorial’: when we already have 3 memorials already in London. The first is in the Imperial War Museum, the second is the Memorial Statue to the ten thousand Kindertransport children, sited just outside Liverpool Street Station at pavement level; and the third sees The Holocaust memorialised in Hyde Park in a simple design, with engraved boulders in a gravel space, surrounded by white-stemmed birch trees .

We do not need to be ‘educated’ by some Establishment bunch who reckon that they know better than others what to push into the minds of the inquiring. When the very term “Educational” is but two steps removed from the ‘Re- education' in Orwell’s '1984'. When a simple online search for “Jewish Holocaust” produces 60 million Web page addresses in 0.51 seconds. I end with the words; “Seek, and you shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you!” 

If no one cares at all … what then?

First off, I count Leggy a mate and hope he reciprocates, though I do have these “strange religious leanings”. ☺️

https://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com/2023/11/07/no-mans-middle-ground/

This means that the loony left (not the actual gay people, note, it’s the usual proxy victimhood shouty sweaty wild-eyed loonies who always do this) demand that I declare support for something I don’t care about, while the intensely religious demand that I denounce something I don’t care about. Well, both sides are welcome to watch me not care.

On the face of it, that seems perfectly reasonable and I’ll not take this argument below over to Leggy’s home, it being his home, but I shall certainly mention over there that I’ve written on it at OoL.

Right … to the issue and it’s the old attribution to Edmund Burke … if good men do nothing. It’s not, imho, farfetched to use the “drowning man in the river” analogy … we walk past, he’s frantically waving, we wave back and continue on.

Ok, substitute a drowning child for a drowning man … same reaction? I think not.

Ok, what of industries being shut down over climate lunacy? Why do Them continue? Because no one speaks out of course. Just look at that M&S ad which they rapidly pulled because of its vile tackiness … they do watch and listen, these pains in the neck … they do react … unless there’s an agenda from above impervious to what people are saying and needing.

“Well, both sides are welcome to watch me not care”

That begins to ring a little hollow, no? In fact the PTB are wholeheartedly counting on us either not caring or being too fearful to give a mouse-squeak … it’s factored in.

I’ll go further and say that that stance, in itself, is just as extreme as that of the “intensely religious”. See, there’s a middling type place, is there not … more “let it be” than “micromanage every bloody little detail of other people’s lives”, but not actually “not caring in the least”.

Now please don’t jump on me accusing Leggy of not caring about anything because otherwise, why would he tweet on issues? Of course he cares … there are things though, as he states … which don’t move him either way.

In principle, fine and I quite agree … we look after our own first … but sometimes some one takes one of those “not interesting” issues and weaponises it, starts lawfare over it.  And ordinary people see a trend starting and it’s a bad trend … it ain’t going to end well for the people of the land.

What then?  Still say nowt? Just because we do not personally care about that particular issue? Don’t forget Niemoeller’s famous line:

First they came …

See, if we sit back, remain shtum on something clearly bad … and what do we consider bad by the way … well, the devil’s in the detail, no … if we do that, fail to holler about it, fail to use our spending power as a society for example … then Them above will continue with greater and greater outrages. 

What then? Do we sit in the corner of our urine soaked, stinky new cell, moaning to ourselves?

One though for us all to bear in mind:

Why Wouldn’t You Want To Know?

The census may be the biggest mass participation event in the country, but there is a strong possibility that the last such poll across the UK has already been held.

There's a reason why it was started, as the 'Guardian' tells us. 

The first official census in Britain was conducted at a time of great national insecurity. Amid failing harvests and a war with France, MPs were concerned that the country could run out of bread to feed its population. The problem was, nobody knew how big that population actually was. And so, on 10 March 1801, the first census of England and Wales was held (it counted 8.9 million people, roughly equivalent to the current population of London).

So, is this now a case of the government not wanting an answer to a question they already know, and perhaps fear? 

Proposals by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which conducts the survey in England and Wales, suggest the government intends to scrap the census in 2031, relying instead on a network of disparate public sector sources of data.

Ah, public sector data. There's a reliable alternative, eh? 

Our lives matter too you know!

This is why we are furious, seething, about next weekend’s planned, crass ignoring of our own people’s concerns …

Our hands are tied

Consider this for a moment:

It's certainly the playbook west-wide right now ... all this "hands tied" pleading.  Fishi Rishi and Braverman are doing it regarding the desecration coming up with this rally in London for atrocity animals Hamas.

I wonder if they truly think we buy these protestations.

The New Term For ‘Retreat’…

 …it’s ‘de-escalation’.

A group of Jewish people gathered at the station to pray for the people of Gaza before videos appear to show British Transport Police officers attempting to break them up and take their speeches. A small scuffle broke out with clips suggesting around half a dozen officers were involved, before the situation was de-escalated by them walking away from the group.

Did they wave a white flag too? It's really a mystery why we have such little confidence in the police these days, isn't it? 

Another case in point:

How can we have confidence in British policing? pic.twitter.com/2Y9MOAsyvw

— David Vance (@DVATW) November 1, 2023

How, indeed...