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Letter sent to BBC in middle of Covid

7.2.21

Dear Sir/Madam

I write with regard to the Covid crisis. Please understand that I am not denying that Covid exists nor the tragic circumstances for many families who have lost loved ones. Nor am I denying the sensitive coverage by the BBC of many who have suffered either directly or indirectly in this crisis. However I do believe the presponse of the authorities and media has been grossly disproportionate.

It is evident to me that the BBC is far too complicit in pushing the narrative that lockdowns are the only way of dealing with the pandemic, followed by the vaccination roll out of course, and in effect you have been operating as the propaganda arm of the government for the last ten months. I have listened to you consistently and there has been no deviation from the official line. I would have thought it more serving of the general public for the main news channel in the country to have a far more circumspect approach, wondering at the very least if there might be a better way of dealing with Covid, and yet there appears to be a frightening level of group think which is unwilling to debate or air sufficiently any other viewpoint.

The government could be forgiven at the beginning of the pandemic for taking a full lockdown approach given the fact that we had not experienced a serious plague for 100 years and what was happening across the world in countries like Italy and the US. However it was evident pretty quickly that the vast majority of deaths were of those over 65 with comorbidities. We had the opportunity then to reevaluate the lockdown policy and debate whether there was a better way. It surely would have been a far more common sense approach to have concentrated on protecting the vulnerable and get the rest of society back to normal as quickly as possible. Instead despite some easing of restrictions in the summer the government imposed mask wearing and doubled down on the lockdown approach with the tier system and further lockdowns in the autumn and into 2021. The BBC just went along with this as if it was the undisputedly correct approach.

It is obvious to anyone with an ounce of discernment that shutting down society to deal with Covid is an incredibly blunt and brutal instrument whose negative effects are incalculable – separating people from one another, splitting families, isolating an enormous number of single households in this country, putting on hold treatment for other health issues, excess deaths from those who had heart, cancer or other issues that were never dealt with, destroyed businesses and consequently broken lives, disrupted education for millions of children (I am a teacher and strongly oppose the union policy of keeping children put of school). The list goes on. Despite any government intentions it could be argued that this was an anti-human and some would say even wicked thing to do in the name of a public health crisis.

This is especially galling in view of the fact that although hospitals have been under pressure the numbers of deaths in historical terms have not been that great, although each death is obviously awful for many families. But be honest, how many deaths have been of fit and healthy people who are not overweight and do not have secondary conditions? Very few. This is where the media have blown the crisis out of all proportion and together with government have projected an unhealthy level of fear over society which in turn has led to an unhealthy level of control which we are now struggling to get out of. This would be considered by many people to be unforgivable.

In the late summer of 2020 an opportunity was given through the Great Barrington Declaration which was supported by over 50000 medical practitioners to change course by concentrating on protecting the vulnerable and releasing the rest of society to get back to normal, a perfectly common sense approach which would have avoided the continuing collateral damage to the economy and society. But it was cast aside by the powers that be who continued with arguably their ruinous lockdown approach. Can you please explain to me why we as a society cannot concentrate on protecting the vulnerable if we can produce reams of directives to regulate every other possible area of society? The proposal could have received at least considerably more debate.

On top of this are the problems with the data. The BBC feeds us with a daily figure of the number of deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test. Yet neither you nor the government nor anyone else, even medical experts can tell us how many of these people actually died of Covid and how many with Covid. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to surmise that the majority of those people died mainly of other causes given that they were old, such as heart problems, cancer, pneumonia, kidney failure, so on and so forth, and Covid was simply another condition whose extra weight and burden especially to those of great age overcame the patient. In addition is the problem of the high rate of testing with false positives with the popular Covid PCR test, which muddies the waters even further.

Given that what we know about the virus most people under 65 are under little threat from the virus, we then have the issue of social distancing. This whole idea of people being asymptomatic is fraught with difficulty. The idea that we have to socially distance because we might or might not have a virus is a rather tenuous basis for a major public policy. Even if someone had the virus what sort of virus load would they carry especially if they were asymptomatic, and honestly how much threat would they really be to most people they come into contact with, bearing in mind that they might be much more careful with older relatives? The human body is an incredible and wonderful creation and has the ability to develop immunity to viruses through natural means. Surely allowing healthy and younger people to mix normally could go some way to building up a natural immunity to this virus.

There are also disturbing conflicts of interest in this whole affair. We are told for instance that Professor Patrick Vallance has a shareholding of £600000 in GSK which was contracted to develop vaccines. The BMJ put out an article in December concerning the interests of doctors, scientists and academics advising the government on how to manage the pandemic. The article made the point that Downing St has shown little concern that advisors to the coronavirus vaccine task force have financial interests in pharmaceutical companies receiving government contracts. We should be mindful that ‘the love of money is the root of all evil’ and that these issues are worth questioning. Chris Whitty is on the Interim Board of CEPI (coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) which evidently unites players in biotechnology, Big Pharma and health charities, government agencies, etc to push global immunisation which fits in nicely with a lockdown strategy. These issues are worth querying by both governments and journalists?

Historically my understanding is that national lockdowns have never been used before as a tool of public policy. I am sure that public health policy up to recently would never have entertained such an extreme method to deal with a virus, especially given that we have had very serious flu outbreaks within our lifetime and also potential scares with new viruses which never caused many deaths and certainly didn’t move the authorities to lock down a whole society, and especially as this virus is little threat to anyone apart from the old. The way the government is micromanaging people’s lives is serious government overreach into areas it should have nothing to do with, especially as they are illegitimately taking over the management of risk from private individuals and families into the realms of the State, again something unprecedented in human history. The only type of governmental system that would take such drastic action would be an extreme communist or socialist regime, as we saw with China leading the way.

We now have an impressive rollout of the vaccination programme and the medical and scientific community must be congratulated for all their superb work in producing a way out of the grip of this situation. For many people this has been the holy grail. However we have again been fed a narrative that this is the only realistic way out with an underplaying of alternatives. What about an emphasis on development of other treatments that could be another pathway for people, as has happened with HIV for which there is no vaccine but nevertheless the development of amazing new treatments?

There is also evidence that this is a man made virus which adds another level of intrigue to the plot. It is not beyond the realms of imagination that there is another agenda at work in all this and that unscrupulous people would like to use this virus to bring down nations for their own very suspect purposes. It is little wonder that there are so many doubters over this whole affair as both the government and media have left themselves with too many own goals. People are discerning, you can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time. It is no surprise that people turn to conspiracy theories or ideas that players behind the scenes are engineering this crisis for their own ends, whether for love of money, desire for global government or whatever. You cannot blame people for asking hard questions.

I would like to see a far more open debate in the mainstream media over these issues and a much more critical approach to the efficacy and suitability of lockdown, given that this crisis could go on somewhat longer than people would hope. This would give you more credibility with many who question what is going on at the moment and undermine any accusations that it is in your interests to push this agenda.

I would suggest respectfully that we are being ‘played’ in this Covid crisis by a very powerful spirit of manipulation and control, and both the government and mainstream media are party to this and to a degree are under that spirit. It would be in the interests of everybody to have a far more open debate about the whole issue which would go some way to allay the fears and questions of many.

CS Lewis, one of our greatest thinkers said something very prescient many years ago: ‘Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.’

I humbly suggest that you have to govern for the welfare of 65m people and that we have lost sight of that in this crisis, allowing coronavirus to rule us rather than keeping it in a more realistic perspective.

Thank you for reading this letter, and I look forward to more balance in the lockdown debate,

Yours faithfully

Covid 19 counterfeit religion

If any religion has shaped Britain it is Christianity which has gone deep into the warp and woof of our culture and substantially affected it in profound ways, to the extent that many of us are living off the fat of the land, the rump of Christian culture that is our heritage passed down from generation to generation. However that culture is now seriously compromised and so poses the question does this leave Britain weak when faced with serious challenges such as that which faced our grandfathers in the Second World War.

Covid 19 has proved almost a step too far for our survival as a nation and things were very much in the balance with a fully vaccinated population, vaccine passports and even digital ID in the pipeline at one point. We have and are, like many other countries, in danger of moving swiftly into a surveillance society the end game of which is what we see in communist China with its social credit scores and coercion and control of each individual. The common law, primacy of Parliament, independent judiciary, freedom of worship and association, freedom of speech and all things associated with being British are fast disappearing and will be a thing of the past unless there is a massive backlash.

It is interesting given our Christian heritage to draw some parallels between true Christianity and Covid 19, which became almost like a substitute religion for many people. The foundational difference is that the religion of Covid is based on fear whereas true Christianity is based on faith, hope and love. The fear of course Is fear of death which was ramped up shamelessly by a ruthless government and mass media machine which relentlessly pushed a narrative of the dangers of Covid out of all proportion to the reality. Of course fear of death is a reality, but those with a Christian faith know that death is not the end and that this life is just a precursor for eternal life in heaven forever with their Saviour. Many have no faith apart from the insecure trappings of this life, reliance on personal abilities, intelligence, money, power and material success, so are easy prey to that which threatens their security.

Covid 19 is a Pharisaical religion, based on rules and regulations, crossing every t and dotting every i. This was the only way to achieve freedom from Covid with the eternal mask wearing, track and trace apps, plastic screens, signage and arrows on floors. This was the way of the Pharisees in the New Testament who believed the only way to heaven was a religion of works, adhering to thousands of petty rules which produces a never ending feeling of falling short if one does not adhere to the Covid code, which like the Ten Commandments must be obeyed at all times. Contrast this with real Christianity, a religion of grace, mercy and forgiveness which offers pardon to the most recalcitrant sinner and respects free will. Anyone can choose to follow or reject the message, you still keep your personal liberty.

Any true religion is based on solid rock and its adherents are secure in who they are and what they believe. Covid 19 was an insecure religion and gave itself away by refusing to countenance any other interpretation of how to deal with a virus. We must have lockdowns, everyone has to be vaccinated, we have to limit human interaction to the extent that family members are cut off from one another, weddings and funerals are curtailed and the hard face of the law governs what we can and cannot do. Anyone who thought outside the box was a heretic, even if they were seasoned professionals and experts in their field, and had to be shut down. There is another way of doing things they cried, you are disregarding the huge collateral damage of lockdowns, Covid is of little threat to healthy people, emphasise the importance of a healthy lifestyle, diet and exercise, with lots of sun and vitamin D, let the body build up natural immunity, there are other remedies and medications for Covid apart from vaccinations. But the MSM, the social media giants and government shut down or ignored such voices, shamefully, demonstrating their huge insecurity over what they were doing or supporting. That alone should have been an alarm bell to everyone.

Meanwhile real Christianity emphasises the importance of free will and respect for an individual’s right to make their own decisions on whether they follow the narrow way that leads to salvation or the broad way that means doing your own thing and not submitting to any divine will. It is based on a secure foundation of theology and historical witness, and has weathered the storms of criticism and persecution without having to dominate the narrative and shutting down opposing opinions. Sure, twisted interpretations of Christianity have been use to dominate and control societies in the past, but true Christianity respects the dignity of the individual and its enormous value before God such that you cannot force the Christian worldview on anyone

Covid 19 had its prophets of course, found amongst its so called SAGE experts, spokespersons like Whitty and Vallance and lockdown fanatics like Professor Ferguson. Their platform was the BBC and other mainstream media from which they issued their edicts from on high and mathematical models. They presented their vision, the latest graphs with their doom laden predictions, emphasising how many people could go to hospital or die if we didn’t have another lockdown. They came with their Ten Commandments, to stay at home, not socialise, meet only in a bubble, only visit essential shops, get vaccinated, get a booster, get the flu jab.

Of course counterfeit religions have their rituals and sacraments, and perhaps the most ghastly and soul destroying was the lockdown, a policy which had not had any clear cost benefit analysis on its effects on society but was churned out as the panacea to the Covid problem. But if ever a religion could be accused of taking a leap of faith without any sold evidence that it worked it was in relation to the disastrous policy of lockdown. And the Covid 19 adherents kept coming back to the same policy despite evidence that it didn’t work and the slightly more obvious point that you don’t quarantine healthy people, which is exactly what they did!

The Covid crisis has exposed the leftist stance for what it is. In the UK Boris Johnson”s conservative government has hardly acted in a conservative way in dealing with the pandemic, imposing lockdowns and restrictions on an unprecedented scale. It might be argued that Johnson’s libertarian instincts prevented England from experiencing some of the worst excesses pursued by some governments around the world. Yet behind Johnson were the Labour Party who supported these measures all the way and it is a small mercy that they were not in power as they would have been even more restrictive and coercive in their policies. It was only with the help of the Labour Party that Johnson was able to push through vaccinating NHS workers and vaccine passports for big events in the Commons. The Labour Party have been as useful as a chocolate teapot in critiquing lockdown and all the other big state interventions.

Again you saw leftist policy at play in Europe, in Austria where they mandated vaccinations for everyone, Germany where they considered the same, Italy where you were not able to function in society unless you had a Green pass, and France where Macron set himself against his own people with vaccine mandates. The USA has been one giant experiment in how to deal with Covid. Again it was Democrat leftist states that pushed the vaccine ie mandates, mask restrictions and coercive control measures whilst Republican states left the people to make judgements on whether they want to wear a mask or take a vaccine. Florida is the glorious outlier here, and De Santis the buccaneering governor who did away with all Covid restrictions and encouraged an influx of migrants from other states. It’s always the same, people will move from oppression to freedom, wherever you are in the world, whether it’s east to west Germany or from New York to Florida.

Meanwhile in other parts of the Anglosphere, notably Canada and parts of Australia, the hard left has outdone itself in draconian regulation of peoples lives. Dan Andrews in Victoria has been possibly the most extreme western leader with lockdowns in the city of Melbourne continuing for virtually longer than any other place on earth. The heavy handed behaviour of the police has been one of the most disturbing features of the Australian lockdown.

Sadly, the deception of the Covid narrative has captured the one institution that could have taken a clear alternative angle on all this, the church. Instead of shutting its doors when Covid struck, the church could have kept its doors open and ministered to the spiritual and moral needs of the nation which had been so very great over the previous two years. Admittedly at first when Covid struck we were all flying blind, having not experienced a serious epidemic for a hundred years. This was an unknown and potentially lethal virus and many would say the government could not be blamed for taking a cautious approach at the beginning. However the truth came out pretty quickly for those with eyes to see and who would not bow down to the powerful spirit of manipulation and control which was working through the media. The church could have held the government to account over its draconian restrictions and policies, and challenged the lawfulness of banning normal human interaction in the name of health and safety. The church could have taught the nation the reality of the healing power of God, that deliverance from viruses is not only found on the NHS or through vaccines, but also from the power of prayer and the ministry of the laying on of hands. There have been notable exceptions to this of course, with church vicars criticising state interventions and standing up for freedom, whilst much good has been done in the form of food banks and helping the poor and oppressed, whilst some in the church have threatened the government with legal action over church closures and saw the government back down. All this was very laudable but the case remains that the church was relatively supine, uncritical and far too accepting of the government line and not open enough to the possibility that unscrupulous men and women were using this crisis to further unhealthy agendas. The church is called to prophetic discernment of the times and the seasons and to give spiritual leadership to the nation. In this it singularly failed. A tragedy that will blight our nation for years. The sad fact is that non church people have had more discernment on the wicked oppressive plans that have been rolled out over the last two years in the guise of a health crisis. I have witnessed this myself having attended about five of the demonstrations in London over the last eight months or so of the Covid era. It is those people who have stood up for out freedom and seen the dangers of state overreach so clearly, whilst the church has meekly stood on the side.

However all is not lost. When all’s said and done there is always hope and grace and an opportunity to do things a different way next time round. Who’s to say this won’t be an opportunity for a reboot of society and for the church to rise up in new boldness and faith in a time when courage and fearlessness are in short supply. God is that God of the second chance, and his grace covers a multitude of sins. Who’s to know that Covid may have been a time of seeding, when the hearts of men and women have been prepared in the quiet places for future leadership and influence. The past two years will have opened the eyes of many to the deception and wickedness in high places, working through big government, the MSM and the social media giants and they will have learnt that the greatest malevolent spirit we face is the spirit of manipulation and control that works through the majority. An article was written recently that heralded the rise of war leaders to deal with the present situation. Not made for times of peace, such warriors arise when courage is needed to stand against extreme wickedness

Christianity has the cross, the supreme symbol of self sacrifice as God invaded the earth, becoming a man to bear the punishment for our sin. The past shows us that Christianity gets right in amongst the poor, marginalised and sick to minister relief and healing to people. In the plagues that hit the Roman Empire it was the Christians that got in amongst the sick and diseased with no care for their own well being, knowing the risks of catching deadly disease but motivated by love and care for their fellow man. The church has risen to the occasion in terms of social care, ministering to the poor, supporting food banks and suchlike. However by and large the church has complied with government regulations rather than challenge lockdown which is arguably the worst public policy disaster in modern history. The draconian restrictions on human contact, limits on attendance at weddings and funerals, bans on meeting with loved ones in care homes and hospitals, especially when sick family members were at the end of their lives were an opportunity for the church to face down the government on the unprecedented bans on human interaction. We have to,pray that with future threats like Covid or otherwise, that the church will respond ina more discerning manner.

Letter to Rishi Sunak (How many letters has he received?)

The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak
Prime Minister
10 Downing St
Westminster
London

Dear Prime Minister

Things have come to a head over the illegal immigration into the UK along the southern shore, but it is also the legal immigration that is far too high. I consider successive British governments as complicit in helping to destroy the cohesiveness of our society in allowing these vast numbers to continually come in from abroad, and for that reason alone any party that has allowed this should be annihilated at the next election.
For me immigration is the key and biggest issue facing this nation, far more important than GDP, economic growth, taxes, climate change, the NHS, the lot. Demographics is everything. The UK is a tiny country and is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. It has experienced massive immigration over the last two and a half decades, not supported I suggest by most of the indigenous population. It is utterly unfair on The British people to allow this to continue. Even recently the Daily Mail reports that 1 in 6 of the UK population was born abroad, and it has just been reported that net migration has just risen to half a million. The latest census figures have just come out showing the declining percentage of white people in major cities and the falling percentage of Christians in our society. These trends are very worrying, unacceptable and need an immediate response. You must bring legal immigration right down to a manageable level, in fact there is a strong case for a moratorium on all immigration as there has been far too much. The so-called economic arguments for immigration must be defanged. There are enough people in the UK to make a success of our economy, not least the unemployed and the young who can be trained to fill gaps in the labour market without continually resorting to bringing in people from abroad.
In this regard I see a trade agreement with India is in progress which may entail even more immigration as a condition. I do not want this continual legal immigration. We have had far too much in a short space of time. It is nothing to do with racism and everything to do with preserving the cohesiveness of our society, which is obviously unsettled by continual influxes of often alien cultures. You must stop the policy of allowing family members to enter the UK on the coattails of initial immigrants. Also you must change the law to ensure that no money is paid to legal or illegal immigrants who have contributed nothing at all to our society at least until legal immigrants have been here for, say, five years. Surely we need to think of the usefulness of contributory as opposed to non-contributory benefits.
There are massive strains associated with the level of immigration we have, and none of this scale of immigration has the agreement of the British people. It is obvious to anyone the pressure on roads, railways, housing, health and education services that huge immigration brings. The pressure on the NHS is enormous, and has hit close to home. I suffered a stroke in August and had to wait five hours for an ambulance. There are many other examples. I cannot fathom how politicians cannot see the chaos they are encouraging by not clamping down on immigration, unless of course it is a deliberate policy to destroy the nation, which undoubtedly some people believe.
There are also societal strains especially from importing totally alien cultures into the UK. How does the UK government think in any way it will benefit the country to import so many people from poor developing countries which often have cultures with totally different values? You are allowing for instance many Moslems to come here. The world view of many Moslems is completely in opposition to the historical values of this country which are substantially based on the Judeo-Christian worldview. Even Norman Tebbitt said some years ago that you cannot have two dominant cultures in a country, one Christian and one Moslem. We are stoking up trouble for the future, and any statesman worth his salt would be aware of these things. It is sheer madness to allow so many Moslems to enter the country, it’s not racism, it’s simple common sense.
The British people are going to get increasingly very, very angry over what is happening, and don’t bet on there not being a backlash and a quiet but effective revolution. The political class have no right to allow the level of legal and illegal immigration currently being experienced by the UK. Your first, holy and sovereign duty is to put the British people first and thus to protect our borders. That means robust, strong and decisive unilateral action regardless of what the rest of the world, the French, the EU, the left-wing establishment or media think. I remember the Lebanese border with Israel some years ago. If someone tried to cross the border illegally, a warning shot was fired. If they continued to cross the border, the next shot was not a warning. I am not advocating such a policy, but we are far, far, far too soft, and a laughing stock to those taking advantage of us.
The illegal channel crossings is such a huge issue that if you can sort it I suggest that you can win the next election as Labour has little clue on what to do. I suspect that success on this issue alone would give you enough support for a victory, such is the level of concern. Again this is close to home as I am considering at the moment whether I should rejoin the Conservative party to which I belonged for ten years, or wait for a new Conservative opposition to arise from Reform or some combination of other parties with or without Nigel Farage.
Why don’t you just push the boats back like the Australians did? There is nothing anyone can do, apart from making a lot of noise. Reform say that this can legally be done. We seem to lack the ability to be really hard and ruthless when we need to be, and such a time is now. We must take uniliteral action to impose border control by force if necessary, regardless of what anyone else thinks. If you push the boats back the problem will be solved immediately. Look at what the Hungarians and now the Poles are doing, building a fence or wall and refusing to allow illegals to penetrate their sovereign territory. That is exactly what we should be doing. If we need to leave the ECHR and withdraw from the Human Rights Act in order to be free to protect our borders then the government should expedite this as soon as possible to close every loophole that can be exploited by wicked and unscrupulous people to take advantage of our largesse.
I deeply resent my taxes contributing to paying for the keep of illegal immigrants who have no ties to this country, in fact there is a case for withholding tax because the government is failing in its responsibility to protect our borders and therefore the British people. And why are illegals being put in hotels? This is incredible, why are vast amounts being wasted on this when illegals should be put in the most basic accommodation as a deterrent if they make it to these shores? Old military bases or army camps, or perhaps an old cruise ship that can be anchored mid channel would be far better. You are really treating the British people as mugs in paying for hotels for illegals. Again, it is the indigenous people that suffer from the inability or refusal of the government to do its job. At the very least you should immediately return these illegals simply because they have entered the country illegally, surely that would be a deterrent. If other European countries like Sweden and Germany can do it, surely we can too?
Can I urge you to take swift action to deal with the stupendous scale of illegal migration, and to reduce significantly the legal immigration taking place. The UK is not a giant Heathrow for people to land and take off as and when they wish for economic reasons, but an ancient culture with its own mores and traditions that should be lovingly protected. This has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with taking a principled patriotic stance to carefully steward what has been passed down to us from previous generations. You must change or else the danger is a new political movement that will sweep away the old political order and genuinely put the British people first.
A national emergency should be declared on this issue. The boats should be pushed back to stop the nonsense. At the very least anyone who gets here illegally should be immediately deported. You must not allow any form of amnesty to be brought in to clear the backlog of asylum cases as this will be seen as an enormous betrayal and will send a message that illegal entry will be rewarded with the right to stay here. I expect immediate results on this issue, we need to see numbers of illegals coming right down and being deported straightaway. If I don’t see serious efforts by the Conservatives to reduce legal and illegal immigration with such immediate results I will have to question whether my future is ever to return to the Conservative party. In conclusion, the UK should also seek to disassociate itself from any international migration agreements pushed by bodies like the UN and the WEF which push damaging globalist agendas. They hardly have our interests at heart. You must put our country first, there is enough wisdom and talent within these islands to run our country perfectly adequately without interference from international bodies.
I do thank you for reading this letter, and trust and pray that you will do the right thing for our country,

Yours faithfully