John Ward January 31, 2020 Black Death Humour

AT THE END OF THE DAY

I can just about live with (or die from) Coronavirus. But if Brexit mutates any further, I am going to be very upset indeed

We of a certain vintage, I am sure, remember that fine Terry Nation series from the days when the BBC was useful, The Survivors. This postulated global air travel sending a deadly virus round the world, killing all except for a few lucky resistants.

While our memories fail us more and more with every year (although memories of mammories still feature in the odd dream for me) I think we probably also still run to remembrance of the May EU Withdrawal Bill which was deemed (using the technical term here) to be shit, but then miraculously morphed into Victory! when the same formulation was rebranded under the name Borisexit.

However, something tells me that if Farage turns up tonight in Parliament Square speaking through a surgical mask, we may well have a problem Houston.

In its wisdom – following two (2) cases in Newcastle – the NHS issued a dire virous warning this morning:

‘To avoid coronavirus, we urge concerned people to stay indoors and avoid contact with other people’

So people, stay away from people: people are dangerous. If you see people spluttering suspiciously, shoot them on sight. Shooting people is good. And unconcerned people, you’re on your own.

While I’m a tad disappointed that this killer is allegedly both ageist and sexist, I can’t say I feel like lodging a complaint to the World Health Organisation. I was born in the West, my life has been blessed, no lunatic has asked me to fight a pointless war, I have rarely been without hugely enjoyable albeit meaningless sex, and I live in the middle of nowhere among people who board aeroplanes once a decade. But I can’t help feeling that the real pandemic here is panic. However, if I’m wrong, well….see you in the Elysian Fields. And if nothing else, it will put Brexit into perspective.

The serious problem is what we do if Brexit mutates into VonderLeyenVerhostadt2020BollockshausenbyProxy. If such occurs, I shall be down the local Bar des Gilets Jaunes ordering a pint of the landlord’s finest Coronavirus Full Strength.

Enjoy the weekend.

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Horseman on February 2, 2020 at 12:49 pm

Seems all the “Ducks are getting lined up for the final push”! A “soft Kill” in the form of a world pandemic as opposed to full out war,would leave little collateral damage other than a body count retuning all those nutrients back to mother earth. US FEMMA Camps are all ready for the “advise” contained in The Georgia Guide Stones which will be the new template for mankind now that the Bankers have pushed the envelope as far as they can over the last 500years. Brexit proper wont happen as “World Events” will be the excuse….i.e. Trump Assassination/Re Election, Bio War being unleashed in China, Imposition of enforced Vaccination to coincide with the 5G Roll Out agenda , Iran further threatened being the last of Middle East States to NOT to have a Rothchild Central Bank, The USA Ashkenazi dictating USA Foreign policy as regards the Annexation of Palestine, and the imminent busting of the “Bubble of Everything” by the Ashkenazi Usery Bankers. And lets not forget the little known fact that the CIA is based in Cern Switzerland, home of the IBS (therein lies the ultimate Conspiracy against Mankind) 2020 looks set to be an interesting year so we best all fasten our seat belts and to quote Bette Davis, Fasten your seat belts cos we’re in for a bumpy ride. Psychopaths are about to take the world over it seems.

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GILMAR on February 1, 2020 at 4:43 pm

On the 6th June 1945 – 4415 (American/British/Canadian) troops were killed on the beaches ( D Day) . that is the most accurate estimate after years of research. On the basis of current reporting from China population wipe out should be around the end of Feb !!!!!!!!!!

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faustobertinotti on February 1, 2020 at 2:47 pm

“….memories of mammories …”

As in “MammOries” being invariably ” made of this”… perhaps?

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chrisbarclay6296 on February 1, 2020 at 10:26 am

Can you remember when we were told that the Withdrawal Agreement would have to be ratified in each of the 27 Parliaments and that each country would name its price for ratification? Seems like democracy is not so strong in the EU. Who would have guessed? Of course the opposition to the WA withered away because Merkel and Macron decided to move on to the next stage of negotiations and everyone else just had to follow in their trail.

May has given Johnson a lesson in how not to negotiate with the EU. In particular, start by claiming to be in a position of strength. Of course the real crunch deadline will be the end of this year. The EU will continue to gamble that Johnson will not go to WTO rules. If Johnson with his huge Commons majority folds, the game will be up and the EU will know that they can demand what they want. If Johnson holds strong, however, the psychology reverses and suddenly the EU will be on the run. By then Italy will probably have a Salvini government, one set not on subverting the Euro by issuing mini-BOTs but on destroying the Eurozone completely by simply ignoring the fiscal rules and then refusing to pay both fines and Italy’s net contribution to the EU. The UK’s position will also be boosted by Trump being re-elected.

There was an interesting article by Tom Harris in the Telegraph yesterday (yes, really). He pointed out that Brexit allows Johnson to devolve more powers to Scotland. Powers that would return to Brussels if Scotland separated from the rest of the UK and returned to the EU. In a future referendum, the SNP would be arguing that Scotland should become an independent nation by transfering powers from Holyrood to Brussels.

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BupenaBatook on February 1, 2020 at 8:10 am

The British Isles are not drifting off into the Atlantic so everything that seems so important right now will in only a few years from now seem like a rather uneventful passage. The US position in the world as top dog is being eroded very quickly and without this dominance the UK will find itself needing to reestablish good relations with many other countries and regions. Countries like Brazil, Nigeria and Indonesia will emerge as new powers and will not accept to be dictated to by the old western and by then much less powerful nations, the question is if they will fall in line behind China or decide to stand on their own. That will be key to how much influence the west will retain but will require the west getting rid of its old and false superiority attitude. The London globalists only got behind the Brexit idea once it dawned on them that the EU was going after their tax evading setups. As long as Farrage and company were only loud mouthing the Brussels bureaucracy for their tyrannical and undemocratic ways everything was fine as it was but during the financial crisis the EU and especially the Eurozone countries devised legislation to root out tax evasion schemes that are structured and insulated by the UKs lax laws it became a big problem. That’s why Brexit was allowed to occur.

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Kevin on February 1, 2020 at 7:06 am

…enjoy your weekend… hmm… until I read this and my libido disappeared.

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Andy5759 on February 1, 2020 at 12:32 am

Thanks John. I will enjoy the weekend.

Thank you for reminding me of the name of that series, it’s been plaguing me (pardon the pun) all evening. Some years ago I went to a mad house party in Monmouth. On the opening after I rise early to forage for breakfast. Across the field came that actor in the series, the wonderful Welsh actor who’s name I forget (age, sorry). For a few moments I thought that we were alone in the world. Now we are alone in the world, no-one to help us make laws and such. What are we going to do? Well, I for one will be keeping a beady eye on the BJ Boy. Any hint of betrayal will destroy him and his party. On his right shoulder is the voice of the Cummingses, on the other the Sedwills. One telling him what he must do, the telling him what is the least he can get away with. We shall see.

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Shaman on February 1, 2020 at 12:08 am

Oh, the US airport we arrived at had zero procedures in place. Just a TV monitor sign that said if you felt sick in the next fourteen days to call your doctor and be sure to tell them you were in China. You can’t make this stuff up!

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Shaman on January 31, 2020 at 11:58 pm

Got ourselves and the grandkids out of Beijing yesterday, although left half my luggage back in Shanghai (would have been home-based quarantined if we went back there). The plane was full of course… everyone wearing the ritually obligatory but functionally useless masks.
What an absolute nightmare for this epidemic to hit during the mass travel holiday of the lunar new year. I wonder if all the ramped up central control during this emergency will ever be ramped down or is it a “never let an emergency go to waste” kind of moment for Xi?

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steptoes bones on January 31, 2020 at 11:08 pm

Well said….perspective, indeed.(is that an Oxford comma? I dunno as I’m uneducated in the Oxford way.)

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Caratacus on January 31, 2020 at 10:21 pm

Like you, JW, I was entranced by “Survivors” back in the 70’s – not least by a rather comely Caroline Seymour who was a great tonic to a young Caratacus who was undergoing yet another medical review at Tidworth Military Hospital, just before it closed its doors to deserving young squaddies who had fallen from grace .. or the back of speeding Landrovers. The overwhelming reaction of the squaddies to the TV series (colour TV, even then) in that place of rough kindness was lust for the aforementioned Miss Seymour, and outright disbelief at the sheer ineptitude of the poor people who had been left behind after the virus had done its worst. Advice as to precisely which weaponry it would be best to acquire varied widely, from sidearms, to Lee-Enfields (marvellous bits of kit but superceded even then by the ubiquitous SLR), to just several sawn-off shotguns and pockets filled with shells favoured by Cpl Bailey. At this great remove, I confess that that dear old corporal’s advice would be that which I would follow if the Coronacherryade-virus were to lay waste to our wonderful civilisation, assuming I was spared by the Lord our Dog.

Incidentally, I was greatly amused to hear those tearful bollock-brains in the EU “parliament” singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ as the UK left the building yesterday – one of the tunes the band played as the Titanic sank beneath the waves 108 years ago. Says it all to me, and thank heaven we’re in one of the lifeboats. Mind you, we had to bribe one of the petty officers with a few £billion paid over the next fifteen years …

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adrianakirk33yahoofr on January 31, 2020 at 10:19 pm

I cannot share this on Twatter I am afraid. Got another suspension. Hey ho.

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Peter Charles on January 31, 2020 at 9:52 pm

Very difficult to say just how deadly or not this coronavirus is. Generally whatever the MSM has actually learned we can be certain will be wildly exaggerated completely and utterly out of proportion to induce shock and awe. If they go too far and cause actual fear and panic they will then report that it is not as bad as first thought, even if by some evil it is. On the other hand there are the stories apparently from China claiming that there are already tens if not hundreds of thousands of infections with people dropping like flies, overloading the crematoria, etc, all of it being hidden by the authorities. Since these supposed sources are private citizens and could be anywhere in the world one must take it all with a hefty pinch of salt, after all, if we have learned nothing else we have all learned to accept that the MSM is 90% globalist propaganda with barely the most tenuous attachment to reality. Only when infections spread or don’t, deaths rise exponentially or don’t, all in our own or a nearby country will we see what we see.

It is comforting in a way to remember that no antibiotic or antiviral or assisted breathing has ever cured any illness suffered by anyone. They only give the body time to marshal its defences to fight off that disease before it swamps us and kills us by filling our lungs with fluid in this case. Of course, an awful lot would die without that time. Infection vehicles, rates and incubation times are of course the critical parameters, a highly contagious and untreatable disease with sufficient incubation time for thousands to be infected before any symptoms appear in the population is the one that will really hit us out of the park, as it were, overwhelming not only our resources but the very infrastructure itself. But then we’ve all seen the disaster films.

Well that’s enough telling Grandma how to suck eggs, so fingers crossed and hope for the best.

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tonyopmoc on January 31, 2020 at 9:40 pm

John Ward, I would like to say Happy Brexit Day, but basically i couldn’t GFA. I knew Craig Murray wouldn’t post this but The Saker did. Not everyone appreciates my sense of humour, but The Russians are O.K. with it. We go drinking with them in Cyprus.

Whilst, I rarely post here, I have been reading The Saker, from long before he became famous around 2012- 2013 I read his book live on the internet, as he was writing it. I saw the events of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, almost live – the videos and tv footage and hourly analysis, live as it was happenning, and I live in London.

Now I know the Saker has a passion for music, as I do. My wife and I still go to lots of Festivals – in the UK and Europe… “Its BREXIT DAY TODAY HURRAY”, as does another writer I have also enornous Respect for Craig Murray – also bought his books

Ambassador Craig Murray, also likes organising and taking part in Music Festivals in Scotland. He runs the bar.

Doune The Rabbit Hole.

Pussy Riot?????

Have you read the review of their first gig in London?

Strangely enough, after doing the most outrageous things in Russian Supermarkets, like stuffing a chicken up their pussy – all on video, and even more outrageous things at Russian Orthodox Christian places of Worship on The Altar, committing some of the most offensive acts imaginable, they now have a male member, who openly masturbates on stage in South London, and have never shown, any musical or artistic talent whatsoever, except after about 5 years, they have one.

All the best Scottish Musicians are playing at Festivals, we are going to in England and Europe.

We are not into Russian Puke.

Did Craig Murray have anything to do with getting Pussy Riot on The Bill?

https://www.dounetherabbithole.co.uk/

It looks Beautiful – A bit like Larmer Tree.

Is that my Niece playing violin there?

I’ll ask her.

Tony

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