Ministers accused of ‘political interference’ as wealthy areas avoid local lockdowns
Pippa Crera and Lizzy Buchan – The Mirror Oct 4, 2020
Ministers have been accused of “political interference” over local lockdowns as leaked emails show wealthy areas are avoiding restrictions despite having higher Covid-19 rates than poorer areas.
The Government is under pressure to explain why large parts of the north and Midlands are under local lockdowns while overlooking areas with similar infection rates.
Professor Dominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn with Darwen, in Lancashire area, wrote to Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), saying the measures were “avoidably increasing economic inequality”.
In an email, seen by the Sunday Times, he said: “There is now a different level of central control applied across local authorities, with some of the more economically challenged boroughs being placed into more restrictive control measures at an earlier point in their … case rate trajectory.
“This has the effect of exacerbating the economic inequality impacts of the virus in those areas. We urgently need consistency in the national strategy if the control system itself is not to add to inequality, giving an economic ‘double whammy’ to more challenged areas.”
Labour’s Jon Ashworth raised questions about why seats belonging to senior ministers such as Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick and Chief Whip Mark Spencer had been spared tougher measures.
“I think because there is no clear guidelines as to why an area goes into restrictions and how an area comes out of restrictions then there is a suspicion that there is political interference – I hope there isn’t,” he told the BBC.
“But until the Government publish clear guidelines, that suspicion will always linger.”
Rishi Sunak’s seat in North Yorkshire, has 73 new cases for every 100,000 people, is one of the least deprived areas in Britain.
Newark, represented by Mr Jenrick, the housing secretary, and Sherwood, Mr Spencer’s seat, stands at 84 per 100,000 but have avoided lockdown.
In contrast, Blackburn with Darwen is one of Britain’s poorest boroughs and its Covid rate peaked at 212 weekly cases per 100,000 people.
But when officials first imposed lockdowns in the area in August, they intervened in wards where the rate exceeded 60 weekly cases per 100,000.
In areas where infections exceed 70 but lockdown has been avoided, the majority were represented by Tory MPs.

In NZ visiting overseas Super Yachts have their own special area for berthing in Auckland….ALSO the super rich and their minions participating the the future Americas Cup race ALSO get special preferential treatment….
The rules applying to the super rich are mentioned in the press occasionally….in actual practice there are no restrictive measures levelled against these people.
All of this stuff fits in with the suggestion that fake covid is fundamentally political in nature……carried out by the Jewish elites.
There has been a video shown of Jacinda Ardern the NZPM on the new Spitting Image…..IF this is an example of the new Spitting Image and its “biting satire” then this next series is going to be a pretend version……which is to be expected considering the loss of free speech in Western Democracies.
Satire is non existent in NZ…..this could be something to do with the small population……and the suffocating nature of the NZ media…..staffed by the usual ethnicity…..THE JEWS.
Today the WHO (lol) said that around 10% of the global population has had Covid. Google is a fake news outlet and they say 3.4% of Covid victims die. 10% is 760 million, so 3.4% of 760 million is 25.84 million Covid deaths. The current running Covid death count is around 1,000,038. Even the UKs Covid threater is a show of lies. Going on regime data thrown about on the regimes principle propaganda operation known as BBC Today (News), the UK should be experiencing 2200 deaths every two weeks. This is on a par with the first wave, but we are nowhere near the 1st wave numbers. These are really simple calculations, so what is going on? Are we going to see a radical retrospective dataset which points to a massive cockup? The ‘cockup theory’ is the academic default argument. Just putting this out there.lol Yawn.
Doesn’t anyone realize that the Covid plademic is entirely for the benefit of the lower classes and not for those of us in the aristocracy and the higher classes. It has always been that people of substance and means, and those of us who have been born and chosen to rule are exempt from the laws and restrictions which apply to commoners. In any case, our numbers are so very few. We do not have to go to work. No one dares to interfere with our travel plans. As for social distancing, if you will notice, that is our way of life. With our vast estates far apart from our nearest neighbor, our spacious dwellings where you seldom see or come near anyone, and our distant relations even with our loved ones and certainly with all commoners, we totally aloof and and completely safe from anything coming from any fish market of military biowarfare lab.
I have been following the rant postings and the raving comments on this site for some time now, and I must say that I do find them to be quite grotesque, ignorant, and naïve. It was like no one listened to my announcements when I addressed the world last June at the World Economic Forum. No one seems to understand why the pandemic is necessary, or appreciate the vast amounts spent and all of the tireless work of our subjects in our governments, our universities, our intelligence agencies, our health care systems, our military, and in the media. No one seems to appreciate the sheer genius in all of the planning to bring about the best possible way to facilitate our long-promised New World Order.
It is not by simply shutting down as many non-essential commercial and social interactions as possible, that we are able to launch our Resets to alter all human habits for a greener, smarter, and fairer world order. The Resets as we have indicated are for the sustainability ends we have designated, and they will only become possible mainly by the tracking and surveillance of all human interactions, with the AI microwave grids we have set up, and which will require the entry of virtually every living person in the world into our systems.
What we have seen from our elevated positions is a terribly overcrowded, overconsuming, ignorant, inferior, and selfish human populace, with a strong sense of individual entitlement and importance which only a few really deserve. We are in fact living in a world which will require a great deal of restraint, planning, order, and supervision and that is what our new systems will provide. The first lesson the common people have to learn is that they have no rights except those which we wish to bestow on them, if they are worthy. That will come when our new systems are fully functional.
You complain on this site about your basic rights and freedoms being trampled, but most of the people do not care about such things. As we have demonstrated, when their lives and livelihoods are threatened all they care about is their security. The basic rights and freedoms you claim are being trampled are a fiction, because without the safety and security we give you, they would be nothing. You will see that “safety” is the key to everything. Most people think that the virus is the threat and not us, and that their governments are imposing the restrictions for their safety to protect them.
Without the ability to track each person in the AI control grids we are launching there could be no Resets, and without inserting biometric IC chips in everyone for their safety there would be no way of tracking people and their activities on an individual basis. Without the urgency and the need for a vaccination, there would be no basis for convincing people they needed a biometric chip for their safety to track and stop the spread of not only the second wave of the Covid virus but also to stop all future waves of any virus which might come along.
Also, it we can make the acceptance of such tracking vaccinations the condition of returning to social mingling and other activities, and even for voting, then more people will just have to agree not to oppose them. In fact, it should make no difference to anyone whether or not the vaccinations work. All that really matters is that we have some way to identify and track everyone in our global systems which are now being launched.
You have to realize that there is no point in talking about sustainability and the UN Agendas, unless people can be identified, tracked and organized in the AI technological and financial Resets being launched. It is all about people and for their betterment. You should also see that the fear which has been created in them because of the virus will be extinguished by our ability to make them feel safe once again with the vaccinations, and they will freely comply in agreeing to this for their security and safety as they are presently with all of the government restrictions.
We have no intention of destroying everything as that Mr. Adams suggests, and there is no need to run to the hills. We just want to slow down everything by ending growth and beginning a long overdue shrinkage process, of everything to do with the human race. We have to reset the environment, the ecology, the designated wilderness areas, and the oceans, and in order to do this we have to control and reset the human race to levels that we find sustainable for those most deserving. This will require a great deal of cooperation in continuing to move people off of the land, especially in third-world nations, and to enable them to migrate into our urban areas of he West where they can be of service and regulated for their own good together with the rest of the urban populations. With the end of growth and the beginning of the shrinkage process, everyone will have to make do with less and when there is less, there will be less people, but there also will be more for those who deserve to be left, which is what is really meant by the idea of sustainability.
I repeat to all of you reading this comment, the invitation of my dear friend, Klaus Schwab, during the June 6 World Economic Forum this year, “Come. Come and join us. Be one with us in the elite class. Serve us in this great transformation process, and we will reward you.”
prince C – you doth protest too much. for an article to be effective need not be endless.
there is no aristocracy, there are no plebs. we are all born the same, visit the toilet the same and die the same and do remember vast estates granted was for fawning to some regent. King Alfred the Great was the last great king….from there it was all on a slippery slope
Prince c you are fake like most of the things these days including news, pandemics and “elites”….probably some schmuck sharing his creative fantasy. But assuming you are for real one of those of “substance and means” as you call yourself. There is some truth in what you’re saying about the world we are living in, humanity degenerating, declining environment, etc. It’s a direct consequence of your actions via your subjects in your governments, universities, media, health care system, etc. The issue here is that you are incapable of creating anything. You can only destroy. Parasites may call themselves aristocracy but it doesn’t change the fact that they remain parasites. You may have all the wealth on this planet, this doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things. You will never be a god that you pretend to be, your s_hit stinks the same (or worst) than the s_hit of a beggar. You are very confused about the real values. You can’t bestow on others anything – yes you can control their every move, you can brainwash them, you can enslave them and you can kill them. You have all the power except you don’t have the power to even touch the only thing that matters, the soul (for the lack of the better word let’s call it this way) of the person which is the real deal. Soul is the name of the game and it’s beyond your reach. No any religious connotation here, man-made religion is as fake as you are. You probably don’t believe in soul which is to be expected from your kind. It’s doesn’t matter. It’s real. It’s ultimate truth and you can’t distort it even with the help of AI. The material world that you love some much and want all for yourself is an illusion and you and your kind are the biggest fools in it. From this perspective you are not any aristocracy, you are at the bottom of the spiritual evolution. I kind of feel sorry for you. You have a lot’s of learning ahead of your journey and it will not be so pleasant.