Lockdown measures could be imposed on the UK by the World Health Organisation (WHO) during a future pandemic under sweeping new powers, ministers fear.
Member states would be obliged to follow the agency’s instructions when responding to pandemics, including by introducing vaccine passports, border closures and quarantine measures, under a draft update to its regulations.
A new “pandemic treaty” under discussion would also force Britain to spend five per cent of its health budget on preparing for another virus outbreak.
Ministers are understood to be alarmed by plans to increase the WHO’s powers enabling its governing body to require countries to hand over the recipe of vaccines, regardless of intellectual property rights, and to counter misinformation.
This is, indeed, the imposition of world government. To which the correct response is a stout and robust “Fuck Off, Matey”
That also applies to anyone in Parliament who even dreams of voting for it. And presumably there were some of ours there who were part of the negotiations – lions with friggin’ lasers at the least.
Just like the EU, use every crises for mission creep. They know they won’t get it all this time but they know by reaching for the stars they might get the sky.
We should leave the WHO.
We should also leave NATO: as long as we and the Frogs have nukes the Russkis would stop at the Rhine. (And that’s assuming they get past the Poles which they failed to do in 1920.)
I’m assuming that the Russkis might become armed with western weaponry captured in the Ukraine and bought from Afghanistan. But who knows what the outcome in Ukraine might be? Hell, who knows what the current state of play is?
The morons don’t understand that any form of “World Government” would be “China Government”. Wot, you expect the world government to be run by the 15% of the world population in Europe and North America?
Actually, on second thoughts, the morons *do* understand that World Government would be China Government, which is why they advocate for it. Which makes them the very definition of seditious traitors, conspiring to hand the country over to foreign powers.
The correct answer is “Who do you think you are fooling, Mr Hitler?” by those who can sing in tune
The British government (the real one, not the front of house clowns you get to vote for/against) wants to permanently divest its decision making powers to unaccountable foreign institutions.
It’s why Theresa May, who really should be tried for treason, was busily signing you up to “Global Migration Compacts” and the like. And why, despite voting for Brexit at every opportunity, the British people find themselves still very much in the EU’s orbit and seemingly unable to help ourselves.
You can vote however you like, but you’re pulling a lever that is no longer connected to anything.
Democracy had a brief and chequered history in Britain, but it’s over. You’d have to be a complete fool to imagine any of these people work for us.
@ jgh
Ah! You have noticed that the WHO acted as a spokesperson for the CCCP until too many people rumbled it.
@John77
IIRC correctly it was “kidding”, rather than “fooling”.
I still like Crassus’s practice of lining the roads with the crucified Tim.
Now I come to think of it, you could also crucify those Stop Oil idiots and others who block the traffic as well.
@ Andrew C
Thanks, my memory isn’t as good as yours (or even as good as it should be). I stand corrected.
“ I’m assuming that the Russkis might become armed with western weaponry captured in the Ukraine and bought from Afghanistan.”
It would be useless to them. You need a long technical logistics tail to keep the stuff maintained and operational. They’re currently stripping down washing machines to maintain they’re own stuff, and failing.
Pride month should be referring to lions.
Who, exactly, voted for Tedros? Oh, yeah, no one. Time to pull out of the WHO.
If I was diagnosed with a terminal disease, it would be a toss up as to which scumbag I’d choose to take out. Tedros would be tempting, but Klaus might be a more effective bet. Happy to go along with the popular choice.
It took the WHO till July 2020 to publish a reasonable account of how Covid was transmitted and even then there were many unanswered questions.
https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/transmission-of-sars-cov-2-implications-for-infection-prevention-precautions
I struggle to understand why they though trying to meddle with sovereign states responses was more appropriate than funding, coordinating and disseminating this type of research. My conclusion is that it comes down to the WHO erroneously thinking that the WHO is important.
“You need a long technical logistics tail to keep the stuff maintained and operational.”
They could hire Chinese to do it and to train Russians to do it.
(Insofar there will be young Russian males to train.)
Another reason the Americans keep over 400 million privately-held weapons and enough ammunition to maintain a small war.
@ Barks
As long as it’s not against Canada …
Ha ha ha. I thought the conspiracy theorists were nuts?
They know they won’t get it all this time but they know by reaching for the stars they might get the sky.
I wish I shared your faith in the backbone of our lords and masters, BiND! Our slithery serpents will be busy gold-plating this request, even as I type.
What’s that one about generals preparing for the previous war? None of this stuff even helped much last time!
Ltw @ 3.14: “None of this stuff even helped
muchat all last time”.But that’s not the point.
The UN/WEF/WHO/Gates/Soros/Rockefellers/Malthusians et al, have a vision of the future and know we will not do what they want us to do if we have a choice.
So they will remove the choice.
As well as stripping down washing machines the anti -Steve’s have also told us the Wagner group are a bunch of badly trained ineffective ex cons & hooligans armed with shovels
As L Johnson points out said bunch just defeated a numerically superior Nato trained, armed & directed army sitting in entrenched fortifications inflicting catastrophic losses on the Ukros.
Gonna need a bigger nuke etc.
Ness – the story now is, Bakhmut was a “Pyrrhic victory” for Russia and there’s no significance to the place, which is merely a figment of Putin’s “obsession” (wonder if anyone will tell that to Ukrainian veterans of the battles, or the large number of new widows created in the long, brutal fight for that cursed city).
You can measure the success of the West’s intervention in Ukraine by the fact that the US government is now floating talk of a “frozen conflict”, which is what pessimists were predicting a year and 150,000 Ukrainians ago.
“Member states would be obliged to follow the agency’s instructions when responding to pandemics, including by introducing vaccine passports, border closures and quarantine measures, under a draft update to its regulations.”
Or else… what? Economic sanctions, when the world’s already shut down? War? Yeah, “Fuck off” seems the most measured response.