Fascist Scottish Government wants to make emergency ‘Covid’ powers permanent (That has been the plan from the start and the same everywhere). As I’ve said since all this began: It doesn’t end until WE end it
Nicola Sturgeon’s ministers have been accused of being unwilling to give up their control over Scots’ lives after unveiling “dangerous” plans to make their emergency Covid powers permanent and more wide-ranging.
John Swinney, the Deputy First Minister, unveiled a public consultation on removing the March 2022 expiry date for a host of extraordinary powers, including the ability to impose lockdowns, close schools and require people to wear face coverings.
Controversial rules allowing more prisoners to be released early could also be extended, along with the wider use of fines as an alternative to prosecution.
Mr Swinney insisted measures that were no longer needed would be removed, but argued those with “demonstrable benefit to the people of Scotland” should be retained for use against Covid or anything else deemed a public health threat.
He argued the consultation was “an opportunity to maintain changes that have been welcomed by people who now don’t want to lose transformations that have been innovative” during the pandemic.
Unease over ‘sweeping powers’
However, the Scottish Tories questioned why the SNP government needed to retain the unprecedented powers when restrictions had been eased following the success of the UK’s vaccination programme.
Murdo Fraser, their shadow Covid recovery secretary, said the move would allow SNP ministers to impose “sweeping powers upon society on a whim” and accused them of sneaking out the consultation while Holyrood was in recess.
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Psychopath Midazolam killer Matt Hancock to have personal WhatsApp and emails searched in court battle over ‘Covid’ test contracts he awarded as Health Secretary
Matt Hancock is to have his personal emails and WhatsApp messages searched as part of a legal battle over millions of pounds’ worth of antibody test contracts handed out during the coronavirus pandemic.
A High Court judge ordered that both the former health secretary’s government and non-government communications used for Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) business should be searched for relevant material.
The proceedings were brought against the DHSC by the Good Law Project, who claim that more than £80m in contracts were awarded unlawfully. The legal campaign group say that Abingdon Health received three contracts in April, June and August 2020 that were not published until October.
The Good Law Project also claim that the contracts were awarded secretly and directly to Abingdon Health without advertisement or competition and that they “comprise very substantial unlawful public subsidies”.
Mr Hancock has denied any wrongdoing, insisting that he was not involved in the awarding of the contracts and that they were approved through formal processes.
Petitioning the High Court to order a search of the former health secretary’s “non-government communication systems” — which is believed to include WhatsApps — Good Law Project barrister Joseph Barrett said that Mr Hancock was the “ultimate decision-maker” in awarding the contracts and that he had used multiple personal email accounts for government business.
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Systematically kill thousands of old people to manufacture the ‘Covid first wave’ and shag your aide and this is the reward you get: Hancock named a United Nations special envoy (with special responsibility for killing old people)
Former health secretary Matt Hancock has been named as a United Nations special envoy.
The ex-minister said the job would focus on helping Africa’s economy recover from Covid.
It comes four months after Mr Hancock resigned from his cabinet post for breaking social distancing guidelines by kissing a colleague.
“Honoured to be appointed United Nations Special Representative,” he tweeted.
“I’ll be working with the UN and UN Economic Commission for Africa to help African economic recovery from the pandemic and promote sustainable development.”
The MP, who resigned from government in July, posted a letter online in which Under Secretary General of the UN, Vera Songwe, praised his “success” in tackling the UK’s pandemic response. [size=12]Ms Songwe said the “acceleration of vaccines that has led the UK move faster towards economic recovery is one testament to the strengths that you will bring to this role, together with your fiscal and monetary experience”.
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Heat pumps are one of the biggest cons I have seen and Johnson’s £5k grants to householders to install them is doomed to fail, writes construction expert Roger Bisby – Ah, but it’s not about whether they work. It’s about whether Gates and the Cult want them
Having started my working life as an apprentice plumber aged 16, run my own building company for almost 30 years and then appeared as an expert on TV shows from the BBC’s Rogue Traders to House Of Horrors on ITV, I thought I’d seen it all when it came to the building trade.
But even I have been unprepared by the scale of opposition to the heat pumps that the Government is so keen to make us all fit in our homes, having ripped out our gas boilers first.
On the building advice website that I now run, I have been deluged by unhappy customers who were persuaded to install heat pumps (which are either ground source or air source, depending on design) but who bitterly regretted their decision.
One told me that he bought a new-build house which had an air source heat pump installed.
The customer’s bills were similar to those from the gas boilers they had before: But now they pay an extra £450 a year for service and maintenance if something goes wrong – as it frequently does.
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MPs vote to allow water companies to dump raw sewage into rivers because they care so much about the environment
MPs are facing a backlash after voting against amending a bill to stop water companies dumping raw sewage into Britain’s rivers and seas.
Just 22 Conservatives rebelled against the Government last week by voting for an amendment to the Environment Bill which sought to place a legal duty on water companies not to pump sewage into rivers.
Sewage pollution is a key component of what MPs have heard is a chemical cocktail of pollutants going into rivers, with raw sewage being discharged into waters more than 400,000 times last year.
It comes seven weeks after wastewater plants were told by the government they may dispose of sewage not fully treated due to a shortage of chemicals caused by the lorry driver crisis.
The amendment, introduced in the House of Lords by the Duke of Wellington, would have also forced water companies and the Government to ‘take all reasonable steps’ to avoid using the combined sewer overflows, which regularly release untreated waste into rivers and seas.
Campaign groups including Surfers Against Sewage said it was crucial to ensure action to tackle sewage pollution started now.
But Environment Secretary George Eustice recommended MPs reject amendments to the bill, just days before Boris Johnson hosts world leaders at the Cop26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
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MPs vote to allow water companies to dump raw sewage into rivers because they care so much about the environment
Professor Neil Ferguson called a ‘fucking murderer’ by audience member during pandemic lecture – so at least one person was telling the truth that night
The scientist dubbed ‘Professor Lockdown’ at the height of the pandemic was heckled during a lecture by an audience member who said he was a ‘murderer’ and ‘a disgrace’.
Epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson was delivering a talk at King’s College London earlier this week when he was interrupted by a woman who began berating him.
In a video clip posted online by a group known as Resistance GB, Prof Ferguson – who insisted on strict restrictions in 2020 – is heard saying: “I think the real long-term legacy of this pandemic is going to be the enhanced inequity that it has generated.
“Basically, the young sacrificed an enormous amount to save the elderly and that’s exacerbated into generational inequity.”
He is then interrupted by the woman who shouts: “And what for?”
As another member tries to tell her to be quiet, telling her that questions will be at the end, the woman says: “I don’t know how anyone can sit through this nonsense, you’re a f*****g murderer.”
Walking out of the lecture theatre, she adds: “You’re a f*****g murderer… you’re a f*****g disgrace.”
A clip of the woman outside sees her add: “The guy’s just evil. There’s something not human about him. That’s it. And I’m glad I told him he was a f***ing murderer.”
It comes as experts suggested that Covid cases in the UK have probably peaked for 2021.
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