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Two More Years: British Government Places COVID Booster Orders for 2022 and 2023

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The British government has placed orders for 114 million more vaccine doses for use in 2022 and 2023, the Health Secretary has said.

Orders for both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, totalling 114 million doses, have been officially placed by Boris Johnson’s government, with the jabs scheduled for use in 2022 and 2023.

British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said that the newly signed contracts involve 60 million doses of Moderna and 54 million doses of Pfizer, and that the purchase of the doses was “accelerated” over fears regarding the new Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus.

“These deals will future proof our vaccine programme,” Javid wrote online, with the Health Secretary also telling Sky News that the new doses would allow the United Kingdom to “buy time” with the new variant.

“Vaccines still remain our best line of defence,” Javid said, emphasising that the order included jabs that would be modified to tackle new variants of the virus.

Javid also emphasized the importance of the government’s current plan to offer every adult a booster jab by January.

The purchase comes after the rebellion of some Conservatives MPs in the House of Commons during a vote on new coronavirus legislation.

Concerns were aired by some MPs over the proposed legislation only being scheduled to lapse in March of next year, despite the fact that the measures the laws are related to are set for review in mid-December.

The now-passed laws, which require close contacts of confirmed Omicron cases to self-isolate for ten days, regardless of whether they test positive themselves or not, are set to expire exactly two years and one day after the first lockdown began in the United Kingdom.

While other European countries have also been toying with the idea of mandatory vaccinations on top of lockdown measures, Javid has previously stated that it is not a measure he thinks the United Kingdom would ever consider.

The Health Secretary has also claimed that there were no plans for a lockdown this Christmas, but stopped short of promising one wouldn’t occur.

Meanwhile, the head of Pfizer, Dr Albert Bourla, has told the BBC that he expects “annual revaccinations” to be required with respect to COVID-19 in order to maintain “very robust and very high levels of protection”.

Bourla also defended the fact the company expects to make $35bn this year from vaccine sales, saying that corporation has “saved the global economy trillions of dollars”.

“I think it’s a strong incentive for innovation for the next pandemic,” Dr Bourla said, claiming that it was a good thing that there was a financial reward for the company’s work, but that the company “didn’t do it for that”.

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Border 'Control': UK Govt Deporting Convicted People-Trafficker for Third Time in Under Two Years

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The British government is deporting a convicted people-trafficker from Albania for the third time in under two years, highlighting how ineffective its border control regime is even on those rare occasions when it actually removes people from the country.

39-year-old Hazir Lala was tracked down after a months-long investigation which began in July, having last been kicked out in August 2020.

Prior to that, according to reports, he had been extradited to Belgium to face trial for involvement in organised crime and human trafficking, receiving a €102,000 fine — it is unclear whether or not this was paid — and an evidently ineffectual five-year, partially suspended prison term.

Even before this the Albanian had racked up a substantial criminal record in Britain, being convicted for various driving offences and crimes related to fraudulent identification documents, for which he was receiving derisory custodial sentences as long ago as 2016.

“Hazir Lala is a convicted human trafficker and has no place in the UK, his presence here presented an unacceptable risk to the public,” said Jacque Beer, regional head of investigations at the National Crime Agency (NCA) — roughly equivalent to America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) — in comments quoted by GB News.

“Tackling organised immigration crime and human trafficking is a priority for the Agency,” Beer continued.

“We saw with last week’s tragedy in the Channel, the horrendous dangers of organised immigration crime which the Agency and its partners are doing everything possible to combat,” he added — somewhat dubiously, given the British authorities’ exceedingly poor record when it comes to preventing illegal immigration and deporting illegal aliens and foreign criminals.

Indeed, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) recently indicated that it will no longer charge all but a few migrants who break into Britain illegally and the national Border Force has signalled that it has no intention of ever turning back migrant boats, whatever the government says — although it does meet boats at sea in order to help migrants complete their journeys to English shores, often in close co-operation with France.

One possible explanation for this institutional indifference to illegal immigration may lie in the attitude of top officials, with the Border Force’s outgoing chief having recently given a speech in which he opined that “We’re all human beings, we’re all mammals, we’re all rocks, plants, rivers. Bloody borders are just such a pain in the bloody ass.”

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UK Bureaucrats Ban Word ‘Christmas’ for Fear It Will Offend Minorities

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UK Civil servants have axed the word ‘Christmas’ from a proposed government campaign, for fear the term will offend minorities.

British civil servants have apparently embraced their inner Scrooge, vetoing the use of the word ‘Christmas’ from being used in a coronavirus testing drive aimed at students, arguing that the use of the term runs the risk of offending minorities within the country.

The campaign, which reportedly would have revolved around ministers using the slogan “Don’t take COVID home for Christmas,” is part of a larger government effort to limit the spread of the Chinese coronavirus after two cases of the Omicron variant were discovered on-shore.

‘We have been advised by Cabinet Office that we should not use the word Christmas – as the Government campaign needs to be inclusive and some religions don’t celebrate Christmas,” an email seen by The Mail on Sunday read. “The other option was ‘festive season’ which keeps the emotional motivation.”

“We have gone with ‘Don’t take COVID-19 home for the holidays’ – as it links to school and university Christmas holidays,” the email continued. “The alliteration with ‘home’ and ‘holidays’ scans well and is memorable.”

Despite the politically correct alliteration, this suggestion was also shot down in a follow-up email sent by a different British bureaucrat.

“We don’t refer to Christmas as the holidays (that’s an Americanism),” the email read. “Please can we say, ‘Don’t take Covid-19 home’.”

Conservative MP Saqib Bhatti lambasted the decision to remove the mention of Christmas from the campaign.

“As a Muslim, I find it ridiculous we can’t enjoy this special time of year. I look forward to showing my new son his first Christmas tree. The idea you can’t mention Christmas is completely ridiculous,” Bhatti said.

“It’s a time to celebrate, whatever your background. It’s part of the British culture I love. It’s the celebration of all cultures that makes this the most welcoming country in the world.

“I’m proud of that and proud to celebrate Christmas. The Blob needs to stop waging war on Christmas and get on with delivering for the British people,” Bhatti concluded.

The British government is not unique in waging a woke war on Christmas traditions this year, with a short film produced by the Norwegian postal service seeing Santa fall in love with another man.

The advert — which British left-wing newspaper The Guardian has called “heartwarming” — follows St Nick and his new love interest, Harry, who at one point tells Santa: “All I want for Christmas is you.”

The film ends with the pair passionately embracing with a kiss.

UK Asylum Claims Surge to 20 Year High Amid Channel Migrant Crisis

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Asylum claims in the United Kingdom have surged to their highest level in nearly 20 years amid the ongoing migrant crisis in the English Channel, government data has revealed.

Statistics released by the Home Office on Thursday, have shown that the number of asylum claims being made in the UK has risen to the highest quarterly level since January to March of 2003, with 15,104 people claiming asylum between July and September.

The total number of asylum applications made within the twelve-month period to September was 37,562. This also is the highest number of claims made within a twelve-month period since 2004.

Two-thirds of new applicants within that period were migrants who crossed the Channel in small boats from France, The Times reported.

Over 25,000 migrants have illegally crossed the Channel this year, around three times last year’s number, with one attempted voyage resulting in the deaths of at least 27 people on Wednesday, including one pregnant woman.

While the main driver of the increase in asylum seekers has been the ongoing crisis taking place in the English Channel, the Chinese coronavirus also had an effect, the government claimed.

“The increase in applications is likely linked in part to the easing of global travel restrictions that were in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to an increase in small boat arrivals to the UK, of which almost all claim asylum,” the Home Office stated, emphasizing that applications fell “substantially” during the initial coronavirus outbreak.

The Home Office also stated that the pandemic had a “significant impact on the UK immigration system,” restricting its “operational capacity” in dealing with migration.

The rapid upswing in the number of migrants coming to British shores has put significant strain on the country’s infrastructure, with newly arrived migrants being transported up to 500 miles away to Scotland to have their asylum claims to be processed.

Meanwhile, the recent migrant deaths in the Channel have inflamed tensions between the UK and France.

Both sides have accused the other of not doing enough to ease the crisis, with an open letter from Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for greater cooperation causing outrage amongst French officials.

“We don’t communicate from one leader to another on these subjects like this via tweets or by making letters public,” stated French President Emmanual Macron, who went on to say that he was willing to work with the British “when they decide to be serious about it”.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has slammed the British government’s inaction during the crisis, saying that both the Home Office and Home Secretary Priti Patel are “not fit for purpose”.