If you haven’t heard of the UK’s Lockdown Files, a release of thousands of What’s App messages between Matt Hancock and various Ministers, I recommend a read of this UK Telegraph article:
The Telegraph has published revelations based on more than 100,000 leaked WhatsApp messages from Matt Hancock, the former health secretary, and other ministers and officials.
The Lockdown Files show the nature of government during the Covid pandemic and how, despite public claims to always “follow the science”, key decisions were made on the fly for political reasons.
They call into question much of the reasoning for months of national lockdowns and other restrictions on daily life in Britain, including social distancing, face masks and the closure of schools.
The Lockdown Files: 10 things we have learned so far by The Lockdown Files Team
However, what inspired this post, was the following tweet by Jordan Peterson, where he retweets Rita Panahi of Sky News about some of the UK Government Ministers wondering if it was time “to deploy the new variant” that would “frighten the pants of people”, thus triggering “proper behaviour change”.
Also, if you didn’t know that the UK Government used a military psy-op teams to manage and direct behaviour by using fear, then this tweet will be extremely confusing for you. Feel free to ask questions in the comments.
A shadowy Army unit secretly spied on British citizens who criticised the Government’s Covid lockdown policies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Military operatives in the UK’s ‘information warfare’ brigade were part of a sinister operation that targeted politicians and high-profile journalists who raised doubts about the official pandemic response.
They compiled dossiers on public figures such as ex-Minister David Davis, who questioned the modelling behind alarming death toll predictions, as well as journalists such as Peter Hitchens and Toby Young. Their dissenting views were then reported back to No 10.
Army spied on lockdown critics: Sceptics, including our own Peter Hitchens, long suspected they were under surveillance. Now we’ve obtained official records that prove they were right all along | Daily Mail
The most interesting part of this leaked “admission” is the weaponisation of the “new variants”. Are there actually “new variants”? Or are they just a way of expedient explanations on how “the virus” acts differently once everyone is jabbed? Just to calm down any plebs who might notice the more injected everyone was, the sicker and the more deaths? Oh, that’s the “new variant” doing that!
Behold my screenshot of the impact of “Omicron” last year in NZ after the shots were rolled out to children and shot 3 was given to the general 12+ population, and just before shot 4.
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Well, as each day goes by we move further and further from conjecture and “conspiracy” to an orchestrated litany of lies, manipulation, propaganda and deceit.
And on top of the points already raised, what exactly is the extent of the “desired behaviour change”?
I partially covered that back in March 2022 post, Failed solutions, Moral Cruelty and Advertising, which was based on a book called A State of Fear by one Laura Dodsworth, and it’s about SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights) and the larger science group they advised, SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies). Part of SPI-B’s response:
Also this post of mine on February 5 this year, I suppose we were spied on by all these… mentions that Army unit via a Substack article I’d read.
Given these revelations it’s time she issued an updated version – on a book only a year old.
From that same post are remarks made by Professor Mark Woolhouse, who was a member of SPI-M, the modelling group on SAGE, and I’ll repeat them here in the light of Hancock’s stuff:
You can also see some background on the “Nudge Unit” inside the British government, which I think was a little separate from the Army unit, at this post, A Warning From The Recent Past.
And we have a similar unit here in NZ – see Brian Easton’s article linked at that post.
All good posts, Tom! And essential reading for anyone wanting to know more as well.
“…the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” – Herman Goering
This probably deserves a separate post, given what’s been revealed in all these messages about the British lockdowns, The sinister cruelty of lockdown has been laid bare:
It’ll be the same when the Climate Lockdowns come. Like the old USSR and its satellites, or the feudal systems.
When it was “normal”, we could have debated all of this to a fine level of detail. However, this (waves hands at all the issues brought up in this post) is just part of an avalanche of crazy coming at us.
OMG, the NZ Herald has published this story!!!
UK officials discussed when to ‘deploy’ new Covid variant to push lockdown, WhatsApp messages show
Not written in NZ, instead just a republish of an Australian story.