Medical Freedom

On Saturday 19^th August I did another day-trip through to Leicester, making use of the Park and Ride at Enderby as the service is cheap (three quid return with no parking charge), quick (via bus lanes), clean and efficient.  On getting off the bus I met someone from Kenilworth who was unfamiliar with the Park and Ride and not as familiar with Leicester as I am.  My acquaintance used to stand around in a park in Leamington on a Sunday morning as I did until last September when I got weary of it, as it wasn't achieving anything.  Being ranted at last summer by the person who organises the Coventry ‘Stand in the Park’ after having disagreed with him on one issue just made me think what's the point?  Discussing this with my acquaintance from Kenilworth he agreed with me that many people who are ‘awake’ share the same character traits as those who are ‘woke’: a rigidly held view on every subject, an intolerance of dissent and an incapability of engaging in nuanced discussion.  ‘Stand in the Park’ was set up to campaign for medical freedom and what went wrong with it was that many people got distracted by less important matters once the ‘vaccine’ mandate for NHS staff was withdrawn early in 2022 following the opposition to it.

We were both visiting Leicester to listen to talks given by Andrew Bridgen, the MP for North-West Leicestershire and by others on the subject of medical freedom.  These took place by the Haymarket Clock Tower at the city centre and were hosted by the local activist group which calls itself the ‘Tribe of Leicestershire’, who like the demographics of Leicester itself are multi-ethic and from different faith backgrounds.  They are mostly middle-aged, forty-or-fifty-something by appearance which has been one of the main issues all along among dissenting groups, how to get younger generations to speak out against authoritarianism.  There must be some who are willing to do so but maybe feel uncomfortable with activist groups run by older people.

Andrew Bridgen’s speech was very good as would be expected of an elected Member of Parliament and for the most part he kept on topic dealing with the high number of fatalities and injuries from the COVID19 ‘vaccines’.  He stated that the Pfizer product given to the public was not the same one that had been tested (and for which Pfizer wanted the results hidden for 75 years until a court judgement in the US overturned that decision); also that from the second day onwards of the ‘vaccination’ campaign, doctors had been advised that patients needed to stay behind for fifteen minutes in case of an anaphylactic shock, as some of these had been observed among patients on the first day.  On general political issues he was less than complementary about David Cameron whom he claims told him that he would never get elected for NW Leicestershire, a former mining area that contains the obviously named town of Coalville.  However, during the six years that Cameron that was Prime Minister, Bridgen had never said anything to that effect.

Bridgen spoke about the WHO Pandemic Treaty that will come into effect next May, over-riding the national sovereignty of all signatory countries.  He claimed that more than eighty per cent of the civil servants employed in Parliament are aware of the damage caused by the COVID19 ‘vaccines’ but that all MP’s besides himself claim to be unaware.  He also said that he had spoken to his ‘Brexit-supporting freedom loving’ Conservative – now former – colleagues to ask any of them to join him in speaking out, but was told that twenty years from now what he is currently saying might be acceptable but that it won’t be at present.  So there’s the clue.  Not until well after the carnage has been done and the depopulation programme successfully executed will MP’s, a new generation presumably, admit what had gone on before and they will distance themselves from it.

By highlighting Brexit, Bridgen knew that he was on fairly safe ground with his predominantly middle-aged audience, including those of non-European ethnic background who regard themselves as British but not European.  And this isn’t the first time that he has done it.  In Parliament on the subject of the WHO Pandemic Treaty he said that ‘this isn’t what Brexit is for’.  He is intelligent enough to know that seven years on from the referendum, on the basis that the majority Leave to majority Remain vote by birth year was 1970, there is now an anti-Brexit majority in the country.  So what is his role?  Is it to portray people who support medical freedom as pro-Brexit and therefore to be labelled by the mainstream media as ‘right-wing’?  Is Andrew Bridgen controlled opposition and doing a far better job of it than his former Conservative colleague Steve Baker managed?  (On the subject of Brexit, note that Richard Tice, who along with Nigel Farage is one of the two most prominent spokespeople of Reform UK, formerly the Brexit Party, advocated mandatory vaccination for NHS staff and supported the Australian government’s ban on Novak Djokovic entering the country last year, so the notions that Brexiteers necessarily believe in freedom is a flawed one).

Following on from Andrew Bridgen was Dr Mohammed Adil who spoke about the Beveridge Report of 1942 which led on six years later to the creation of the National Health Service as a public service; and that the Lockdown from the last full week of March 2020 with its closure of GP surgeries meant that doctors had neglected their duty of care to patients. He also spoke about the Nuremberg Code implemented in 1947 and how doctors have not respected it by refusing to recognise the principle of informed consent. He believes correctly that doctors have violated the Hippocratic Oath of ‘first do no harm’. By supporting the rights of patients not to be harmed by the medical profession Dr Adil has been suspended by the General Medical Council with his hearing due to take place in October. Expect the mainstream media, especially the BBC / Guardian, to slander him as a ‘conspiracy theorist’, but even they’d have difficulty getting away with the ‘white supremacist’ trope.

Dr Teck Khong, from the locally-based Alliance for Democracy and Freedom, was next.  His was more of a party political speech than one specifically about medical freedom.  Whether his political party has much support outside of Leicestershire I don’t know.  He talked about having spoken to Laurence Fox, founder of the Reclaim Party, for which Andrew Bridgen now stands (and was wearing the badge to go with it) and with Reform UK and the Heritage Party.  Personally I feel it is better that such an alliance isn’t formed and I would prefer that anyone campaigning for medical freedom, which Reform UK only ever pays at much lip service to, if that, does so as an independent without any party affiliation or wider agenda on unrelated issues.  The ‘Tribe of Leicestershire’ by trying to cover too many issues, are only going to win over those people who agree with them on most of them.  You may notice on its stand something concerning sea level rises, so they portray themselves as climate ‘sceptics’ (or ‘deniers’ as George Monbiot would put it).  Climate is too complex an issue to become a part of the one-dimensional ‘culture war’.   For my part I would never deny that the climate of Central England has changed in my lifetime and mainly in a favourable sense to become milder, but I read up on the subject rather than taking a tribal affiliation.

The next two speakers who took part are both suffering from injuries as a result of the COVID19 ‘vaccine’ treatment.  Both are middle-aged.  The first, who needs a walking stick, detailed what had happened to him; the second suffering from Guillain–Barré Syndrome as a result of the Astra Zeneca product (developed by the Jenner Institute in Oxford), requires a wheelchair with neck support and said that he struggled speaking for too long.  He said that the drug that he has been given with which to treat his disability is also manufactured by Astra Zeneca.  I took photos of each man but I am not going to post them on-line without consent.  Something else that I photographed and which I have subsequently seen someone else post on-line is the photographs on the ground, each with a candle on top, of forty of those killed by the COVID19 ‘vaccines’.  Andrew Bridgen and Mohammed Adil then each returned to thank the audience.  Following on from that people drifted away.  There were then a few other speakers who had volunteered, each dealing with different issues that weren’t relevant to medical freedom and not of interest to me.

I chatted with a few fifty-something women from Birmingham and made the point to them that it is better to focus on one issue at a time, such as medical freedom, the main topic of these talks, rather than steamrollering people into agreeing with everything.  But they were adamant that ‘it’s all interconnected, it’s all part of a matrix’, all part of an over-rated Hollywood movie.  When I mentioned that I had used the Park and Ride, like many ‘awake’ people they were adamant that they wouldn’t use a bus, even one set up for the benefit of motorists.  They’d rather get stuck in traffic in a city that they’re unfamiliar with (and pay to park in the city centre), just to prove a point.  On mentioning that I’m originally from Oxford one of them told me that she had to use the Park and Ride, as if it were a huge burden, when attending the protest there against LTN’s etc in February (in which I didn’t participate).  I think that LTN’s are a good idea if local residents want them, so I’m not going to protest against them.  On mentioning that I’m vegan and grow some of my own food, one of the women told me that she used to be a vegan but believes that we’ll all need to eat meat to survive when food rationing comes in and that she’s going to take up hunting.  I wonder if she envisages a prey of wild boar and deer roaming around Birmingham, or of rats, squirrels and pigeons?  Anyway, I said that I haven’t eaten meat since I was nineteen and I’m still alive.  ‘Oh, but you’re older now’.  Er, yes.

As I walked away westwards along East Gates I saw a small stall with a few people gathered and someone selling a paper promoting ‘Pride’.  The stall was from the Socialist Alternative (which may be one of the various labels that Dave Nellist has campaigned under).  They had a sign with ‘My Body, My Choice, My Future’.  Fair enough, so I guess that I ought to have spoken to them about whether they support medical freedom.  Their stall was for ‘Trans Rights Matter’, more than women’s rights, which the political left used to stand for?  More even than workers’ rights, irrespective of biological sex?  The political left used to be more interested in upholding the rights of employees living with redundancy hanging over their heads than in idiotic ‘culture war’ issues.  I mention this specifically because one of the major high street retailers in the UK has just gone into legal administration, with its owners having allegedly plundered the pension fund.  Most of that company’s employees are low paid and a high proportion, maybe a majority of those on the retail side, are women, real women, ‘cis’ women, for whom their employment may be the only source of household income.

Having visited the Currant Affairs wholefood shop in Loseby Lane I then headed off towards New Walk to visit the Leicester Museum & Art Gallery where I have been several times before, stopping for a chat with and to give some money to a busker doing a good rendition of the Clash song ‘Spanish Bombs’ which Joe Strummer had written about an ex-girlfriend.  In the museum were – and still are ongoing – two exhibitions in addition to the permanent ones.  One was ‘Punk: Rage & Revolution’, about a musical fashion from four and a half decades ago, so the busker knew his target audience.  Though punk had a political element to it, epitomised by the Clash and by Rock Against Racism concerts, I felt that the exhibition made it out to be a bit more political than it really was for a lot of the groups involved.  Also it highlighted the contribution of women as being equals in the punk movement but they never really were for those of us old enough to remember.  This being Leicester, it claimed that local lad Joe Orton had been a ‘proto-punk’ and to bring it up-to-date, the exhibition appended the ‘trans’ issue as a continuation of the allegedly androgynous nature of punk.  There is no rage though about people being killed or injured by the pharmaceutical industry.

The other ongoing exhibition is on ‘Heart of the Nation: Migration and the making of the NHS’ a worthy topic in its own right, one exemplified by Dr Mohammed Adil and Dr Teck Khong, but I couldn’t help thinking that it was an ongoing part of the NHS worship in this country, which overlooks the appalling way that it is managed and that the brand name at the front is continually used to disguise the level of outsourcing.  If it isn’t obvious by now the NHS has become a front for Big Pharma.  Going back along New Walk towards the city centre, I stopped at another small exhibition on punk that I had walked past at a venue whose usual purpose I am unsure of.  It had folders of various press cuttings of the time.  I explained to the bloke running the exhibition that I am old enough to remember punk, having been ten years old in 1977, but not old enough to have been one.  He said that he was seventeen then and was a punk.  Well I guess that he would claim that.  Maybe the press cuttings are all his from the time.

A poster in the exhibition inaccurately portrayed punks as having campaigned on environmental issues hence ‘Extinction Rebellion’ being their successors.  Joe Strummer sang about turning rebellion into money.  Are an organisation of establishment lackeys backed by wealthy businesspeople, generating ‘rebellion’ financed by big money, the new generation of punks?  But did punk itself and its aftermath really radically alter society in any case?  The Clash were signed to CBS and when touring the USA became just another stadium rock band. Apparently it was Punk Festival Weekend in Leicester with bands due to perform at Jubilee Square, conveniently next to St Nicholas Circle where the Park and Ride bus goes from.  At Jubilee Square when I got there a stage was set up with a DJ playing stuff from the punk era.  But I didn’t feel like hanging around.  I did all that I had wanted to do in Leicester and can easily visit any time (as long as there are no more authoritarian ‘pandemic’ measures ever again), besides which the later I left the busier the bus would be and the heavier the traffic to get back to Warwick.