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Tony Blair: Govt Should Vaccinate 'Nursery' Age Children and Impose Vax Passes to Prevent Another Lockdown

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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that the British government should begin vaccinating nursery age children and begin imposing vaccine passports in order to supposedly prevent another lockdown in the winter.

In written comments in the foreword to a coronavirus report from the Tony Blair Institute, which has been attempting to steer decision-making in the United Kingdom and across the world from the outset of the pandemic, the former Prime Minister argued children are becoming a significant source of the spread of the virus.

While the government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) did not recommend vaccinating children on health grounds, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has decided to push forward with vaccinating children over the age of 12-years-old, even without parental consent in some cases.

The former Labour leader went further, arguing that the government should now look to start vaccinating nursery-age children.

“To avoid being behind the curve again on vaccination groups, the government should take urgent steps to consider vaccinating children under 12 as well. Evidence shows that young children, particularly those in nurseries, are transmitting the virus and putting at-risk groups in danger,” Blair claimed.

The report from his organisation went on to say: “Careful consideration of data to make these decisions is essential and cannot be rushed. Therefore, it is important that the government now turns its attention to exploring whether vaccination can be extended to children under 12 in order to further reduce transmission in schools and between young children and at home.”

Mr Blair also called for the government to implement vaccine passports in order to slow the spread of the virus and to pressure people into taking the vaccine.

“A viable Covid Pass, displaying both rapid testing and vaccine status, would mean that, even with higher case numbers, a person free of the virus would be free to move around in public,” Blair wrote.

“This step, alongside further action on measures like mask-wearing, needs to be taken urgently to give businesses confidence that avoiding further lockdowns is more than an aspiration but is deliverable,” he added.

Critics of vaccine passports have said that, alongside concerns over personal liberty, they may provide a false sense of security, as being vaccinated is not a guarantee that an individual will not contract or indeed spread the Chinese virus.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has said that it hopes not to re-introduce lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine passports, or stay-at-home orders. However, the British government has been consistently inconsistent during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

The devolved governments of Scotland and Wales have both decided to begin introducing vaccine passports locally for nightclubs and other large indoor events.

In a joint letter, the civil liberty campaign groups Big Brother Watch and Liberty called on the Scottish government to scrap the “discriminatory” vaccine passports.

“Despite vaccine passports being set to become mandatory on October 1, little information is available publicly on the details of the scheme and any associated offences,” they wrote.

“We are particularly concerned about the effect on certain groups, as on our analysis, it is inevitable and unavoidable that a mandatory vaccine passport scheme will adversely impact marginalised groups.

“Covid passports sacrifice equality, privacy and liberty, with no public health benefit. They would turn Scotland into a two-tier, checkpoint society.”

Appearing on the BBC on Sunday, the leftist Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said that he doesn’t believe vaccine passports are currently necessary, however, he added that he supports the government having the ability to impose them if an undefined threshold is reached.

Refusing to say whether he was against the draconian measure in principle, Mr Khan said: “We are not there yet, but we may need them,” adding that he wants a return of mask-wearing mandates on London transport.

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Nigel Farage Declares He 'Won't Obey' Any New Lockdowns From Boris

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Brexit leader Nigel Farage has said that he will not “obey” any future coronavirus lockdowns if Prime Minister Boris Johnson once again backtracks on his promise to return freedom to Britain.

Mr Farage predicted that there will be “mass disobedience” seen in Britain if the nominally Conservative government attempts to impose another lockdown, saying that he would join the ranks of those refusing to abide by government diktats.

“I won’t be obeying the new rules,” he told The Telegraph’s Off Script podcast.

“If they want to lock down again, I’m not interested, I’m too old and I haven’t got the time. I’m just not going to do it,” Farage said.

“I think we’ve been remarkably compliant for a long, long period but I think over the last few months we’ve started to ignore what government says and the confusing rules and just to start to make our own decisions,” he said.

While Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has said that they do not intend to introduce another lockdown, it has yet to rule out it if the National Health Service (NHS) is “overwhelmed” in the winter months.

At present, the government’s ‘Plan A’ for the upcoming winter is to rely on booster shots for the elderly and health-compromised, as well as beginning to roll out vaccines for children from the age of 12-years-old.

A ‘Plan B’ option is still on the table, however, which could see the introduction of vaccine passports for large indoor public venues, mask mandates, work from home orders, and potentially another lockdown, despite Mr Johnson previously promising that the days of lockdowns in the United Kingdom were over.

The Tory government has a well-documented history of contradicting itself and U-turning during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, on issues such as vaccine passports, lockdowns, and the issue of parental consent for child vaccines.

Nigel Farage said that the government’s decision to allow children to overrule their parents on whether to take a coronavirus vaccine represents the “most communist” action taken by any government in his lifetime.

“The idea that a 12-year-old can overrule their parents’ wishes on a vaccine that gives very little protection to 12-year-olds… the idea that a Conservative government would throw out of the window any thoughts of parental rights or the role of the family in society… this is the state replacing the family.”

“This is the most communist thing I’ve almost ever seen in my done by any government in my lifetime in this country and I’m absolutely appalled,” he said.

The government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) decided to not recommend a mass vaccination programme for children, saying that the benefits of vaccinating healthy children only “marginally” outweighed the risk of side effects from the jab.

However, the committee punted on the issue, allowing the government to go ahead with its child vaccine programme as it was not in the JCVI’s “remit” to make judgements on the impact of vaccinations in areas outside health, such as education.

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WATCH: Hundreds Arrested as Anti-Lockdown Protesters Break Police Lines, Trample Officers

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(AFP) – Officers used pepper spray and made over 200 arrests in Melbourne as several hundred protesters flouted stay-at-home orders and marched through an inner-city suburb.

The illegal gathering comes as the city goes through its sixth lockdown since the pandemic started, with the wider state of Victoria reporting over 500 cases of Covid-19 on Saturday.

Police said six officers were taken to hospital after they were pelted with projectiles and trampled in clashes with the crowd of around 700 people.

“What we saw today was a group of protesters that came together, not to protest freedoms, but simply to take on and have a fight with the police,” Victoria Police Commander Mark Galliott told media.

Police attempted to reduce access to the centre of the city, blocking roads and stopping public transport in a bid to avoid a repeat of violent scenes at a rally that drew thousands last month.

But marchers then relocated, with footage from one incident showing a crowd charging through a police line as scuffles erupted along a tram route.

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Protesters march through the streets during an anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne on September 18, 2021. (Photo by William WEST / AFP) (Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)

Huge numbers of police managed to deter a similar gathering in Sydney, with officers swarming a park where the protest had been due to go ahead.

New South Wales Police said they arrested around 20 people in the city, mainly across the public transport network, while several others were arrested in smaller gatherings around the state.

Both cities are enduring lengthy lockdowns as authorities race to vaccinate a way out of restrictions amid growing outbreaks.

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Anti lockdown protesters clash with members of Victoria Police on Burnley Street in Richmond on September 18, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. Anti-lockdown protesters gathered despite current COVID-19 restrictions prohibiting large outdoor gatherings. Metropolitan Melbourne is currently subject to lockdown restrictions as health authorities work to contain the spread of the highly contagious Delta COVID-19 variant, with people only permitted to leave their homes for essential reasons. Victorian COVID-19 restrictions have been eased from today in Metropolitan Melbourne to allow outdoor picnics and small exercise groups, while the permitted travel distance from home has extended to 10km. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Australia successfully pursued “Covid-zero” for most of the pandemic, enabled mainly by closed international borders and restrictions on movements.

But the arrival of the Delta variant plunged its two largest cities back under stay-at-home orders earlier this year, and authorities are now aiming for a 70 per cent vaccination rate before further easing lockdowns.

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Protesters march through the streets during an anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne on September 18, 2021. (Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)

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Exclusive Video: Canadian Populist Leader Says Party Will Win Seats, Force Freedom Debate

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TORONTO, Canada: Populist People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier is confident his party will win seats in Canada’s federal election on Monday and believes the PPC will force other parties to enter a debate on freedom.

Just days before Monday’s Canadian federal election, populist PPC leader Maxime Bernier held several events on Thursday in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and in Toronto itself.

Bernier is a well-known critic of coronavirus lockdowns as well as the vaccine passport, and his PPC is the only major party running in the federal election to outright oppose both policies.

Speaking to Breitbart News at an event by Lake Ontario, Mr Bernier said that he was confident that some of the PPC’s candidates will win seats in Monday’s election, “So now the mainstream political parties, the Conservative and the Liberals, they won’t be able to ignore us anymore like the mainstream media.”

“We will start the most important debate in this country: Do you want more government control or less? We will start that conversation and the other political parties will have to do that conversation with us because of our score at this election,” he said.

“You can always count on us to fight for what we believe, to fight for more freedom, smaller government, that will respect our charter of rights, respect our constitution, respect taxpayers, respect provincial autonomy,” Bernier said.

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Some polls have put the PPC as high as 12 per cent nationally across Canada — higher than the separatist Bloc Quebecois and the Green Party — but the first-past-the-post system could mean that, despite support from over one in ten voters, the party may not win individual constituencies.

The populist-right UK Independence Party (UKIP) experienced similar difficulties in the United Kingdom, for instance in the 2015 British elections where it got 12.6 per cent of the national vote and yet only got one Member of Parliament elected, with their millions of votes buying them 120 second-place results nationwide.

When asked if he would support electoral reform if the party polled well but did not pick up any seats in the House of Commons due to the first-past-the-post system, the PPC’s Bernier stated that he had no plans to add such a policy to the PPC platform, but that he was confident some candidates would win seats.

A crowd of hundreds gather outside the headquarters of Canada’s public broadcaster CBC during a People’s Party of Canada (PPC) event. (Photo: Chris Tomlinson/Breitbart London)

Earlier this week, Alberta conservative Premier Jason Kenney backtracked on promises not to implement a coronavirus vaccine passport, following Ontario’s conservative Premier Doug Ford who reversed his position on the same pledge earlier this month.

When asked if he planned to expand the PPC into provincial politics, Mr Bernier said that he blamed the federal government for incentivising the provincial governments to introduce the measures, noting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had promised a billion dollars to help provinces implement vaccine passport programmes.

“During the Covid hysteria, the federal government spent $354 billion, the biggest deficit in our history. And the federal government said to provinces: you can do lockdowns, you can do a stay-at-home policy because we will have programmes for businesses to stay closed and we will also give money to Canadians,” he said.

“We will cut that,” Bernier said, adding: “That was the incentive to why provinces were able to impose lockdowns and covid passports right now.”

A protester holds a sign outside of CBC headquarters during a People’s Party of Canada (PPC) event. (Photo: Chris Tomlinson/Breitbart London)

“[T]he federal government has an authority. What we will do is stop all that but also we have a moral authority to make sure our charter of rights and freedoms is respected in this country,” Bernier continued, vowing that the party would bring provinces to court.

“What they are doing is illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, unfair, and, yes, we will defend our constitution and bring every single provincial government to court for what they’re doing to Canadians,” he said.

Later in the day, Bernier addressed a crowd of hundreds outside of the offices of the CBC in downtown Toronto at a rally calling for the defunding of Canada’s public broadcaster, the BBC-like CBC, along with several other speakers who also opposed coronavirus lockdowns, vaccine passports, and mandates.

Bernier and the PPC’s rise in this election has been contrasted by a lacklustre campaign by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, particularly in the early weeks of the election campaign.

Trudeau, who previously held a minority government in the House of Commons, has been questioned by many over the timing of the election, especially during the pandemic.

Writer and long-time Canadian political commentator Rex Murphy called the election “pointless” and criticised Trudeau for calling the election as many believe the Liberal leader did so simply to try and get a majority in parliament amid positive polling.

“If such was the thinking, and we have been given no grounds to assume any differently — two weeks in the Liberals have given no substantial reason for why this thing was called — then it is a grotesque misreading of the Canadian electorate. It is the thinking of political charlatans, opportunistic before all else,” Murphy wrote.

Polling released on Friday, September 17th from Mainstreet Research, put the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) at 32 per cent — ahead of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals at 30 per cent, followed by the far-left New Democratic Party (NDP) at 20 per cent and the PPC at 8 per cent.

In the Quebec seat of Beauce where PPC leader Bernier is standing, polls put him second behind the current Conservative MP Richard Lehoux, with Bernier attempting to pull off an upset and take back the former seat he lost in 2019.

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Poll: Americans don't think the government is doing a good job protecting their rights

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A significant proportion of Americans do not think the U.S. government is doing a good job protecting many of their rights, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research nationwide poll carried out Aug. 12-16.

The poll found that only 43% think the government is doing a good job defending the right to vote, a dramatic decrease from 70% in 2015 and 2013 polls, and from 84% in 2011. The Associated Press reported that while 43% indicated the government is doing a good job defending the right to vote, 37% think Uncle Sam is doing a poor job.

Similarly, just 45% think the government is doing a good job protecting the all-important freedom of speech, while 32% indicated it’s doing a poor job. The 45% figure marks a sharp decline from 59% in 2015, 66% in 2013, and 71% in 2011.

Much the same can be said of other critical American rights, including freedom of religion and freedom of the press, which have both seen significant declines compared to past polls.

While a slim majority of 51% in the recent poll think the government is doing a good job defending religious freedom, that has fallen from 55% in 2015, 67% in 2013, and 75% in 2011. Only 44% felt that way about freedom of the press in 2021, compared to 58% in 2015, 60% in 2013, and 63% in 2011. The recent poll found that 26% feel the government is doing a poor job on protecting press freedom, according to the AP.

On the government’s performance protecting the right to keep and bear arms, sentiment has been on the downtrend. The 2021 poll found that only 35% think the government is doing a good job defending that right, a decline from 38% in 2015, 44% in 2013, and 57% in 2011. While 35% in 2021 think the government is doing a good job on the issue, 36% think it is doing a poor job. But back in 2011, 57% thought the government was doing a good job versus 27% who thought it was doing poor job on this issue.

“The nationwide poll was conducted August 12-16, 2021 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 1,729 adults. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3.2 percentage points,” according to apnorc.org.