Jonathan Sumption: Pandemic plans & police overreach | SpectatorTV
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- Former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption tells Andrew Neil that Britain should have followed its pandemic planning before locking down. He also says that the home secretary and police have too much power in the new policing bill.
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Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Protect the vulnerable. Free the healthy.
Well said, although I feel like a coward, an inadequate for not doing more to protest.
Hear hear 👏🏻
Brits the Benjamin Franklin quote. you should have said that before brits agreed to disarm themselves.
Death rates, if you use goverment figures were half of what they were in the 1980's with approx 2000 deaths per every 100000 people in the UK,with approx 1000 deaths per every 100000 people last year in the UK. We Should never have locked down, herd immunity would have combated this eventually.
@@tonybonestheproducer well put Tony!
Why is such a reasonable and compelling man such as Jonathan Sumption almost totally ignored by the media and the powers that be?
Because he doesn’t support the narrative that the Government is pushing. Simple as that.
@@patl709 You don't say stop all that common sense Patrick. The media never said you were allowed to think that.😂
All Planed
Unfortunately many follow orders and take the poison
He's far too intelligent for joe public. He's also white.
I think you have answered your own question there .
I agree with Lord Sumption we need to do our own risk assessment and get back to real life!!! We need to start looking at the evidence in a sensible way. This is harming our children not to mention all the other damage to cancer patients, economy etc etc etc this cannot go on forever!!!
Its refreshing to have an interview where both interviewer and interviewee engage thoughtfully and politely in order for a point of view to be aired sensibly.
Indeed,. Very refreshing.
Certainly is.
I’d like to see Mr Neil interview Dr Pierre Kory
Well said, I am tired of people shouting at each other. I have always said it didn't make sense.
Yes, definitely not American.
I love this man’s eloquence - not one wasted word. Thank you for speaking up Jonathan and informing us of the government’s scam.
He makes Sir Humphrey Appleby sound like a yob, practically.
Yes, and he fidgets the way the cleverest kids in a class often do.
Not a wasted word maybe, but few intelligent sentences.
@@commentbellow8185 Looks more like a health problem of some sort
I'm not here to argue with you, just to mention that while Sumption is very articulate, I find his stance on taking the vaccine to be a logical fallacy, considering his stance on masks and the lockdown. He criticizes governments like they are a different set of people from the pharmaceutical industry. That's the biggest gov lobbyists in the US. Government is not a different group of elites. It is the mechanism of the elites. Sumption is criticizing the mechanism, not actually who's using it.
Hope Boris is listening if not should be
Doris and his cohorts are deaf.
Listening to Bill Gates and Carrie, yes he is.
@@elmp7501 defijitely.
@pootle50 The lizard people? I'm starting to think it could be true!
He's too busy listening too Klaus Schwab
Such a sensible man, why do we not get people of his calibre in Government instead of the dross we currently have in charge? !
Too true! This guy could siphon Tory, Labour and LibDem voters by the tens of millions.
The man was a lawyer. Lawyers, unfortunately don't make great politicians.
@@HM-mw7cg He was also a Cambridge Fellow at Magdelen College. This is a great man and I agree with R.Chales Allsopp. We do need mean men and women who are actually educated to the degree that the understand the history of the world. Boris you like the man who has a dog but barks himself to guard his house.
The scientist said don’t ever shut down and look after the vuranable who should stay home as they know they are weak, heart, lungs. over weight.and let the young and fit get on.
It a disgrace that pen-pushers has thrown out scientist years of research and said nahhhh we do it our way. That they have gone against the advice of paid for research by the Bisitish tax payers and broken our Britain our economy they should go to jail.
They dont have the right to lock us up speacially as the scientist told them it will not do the slightest good.
But we want too it makes us feel important. They scientist had the first and last say. politicians now should be held account and sent to jail for doing this as they knew it was not the right thing..
@@rachelbutler9105 his education is beside the point I'm afraid. You can read his own words in defence of politicians in his book Trials of the State. It's an excellent book. Also, I understand the desire for technocrats (what you're essentially describing) to take charge, but they have downsides too when it comes to politics. It all boils down to how you view the world. Put absolute power in the hands of a few very capable and intelligent people, you get something like Singapore, which is probably too authoritarian for British sensibilities, and somewhat more at risk of falling into the wrong hands. Johnson is, for all his obvious faults, still surprisingly popular among the electorate. So there's the argument that the electorate gets what it deserves. But something does need to change, we in the West cannot continue to choose such incompetent or, in another sense, toothless and ineffective leaders. We continue to have some of the best quality of life standards in all the world, but we'll soon fall behind the efficient and forward thinking Asian states in terms of competitiveness, and no doubt quality of life will follow in tow.
@@HM-mw7cg the problem we have is the order of rule -
Democracy: people direct government, government directs business, business directs economy.
Currently: business directs government and economy, government directs people, people eat sh*t.
The police have been selecting what protests to "police" all year long allready.
Thank you for an interview that eschewed the covid groupthink of politicians and the media in favour of a reasoned discussion.
Seems to be the only person I have heard speaking any sense. Well done Sir.
ron matthews
''Thank you for an interview that eschewed the covid groupthink of politicians and the media in favour of a reasoned discussion.''
So you think it is reasonable to bargain away our last bastions of freedom, by participating in an experimental vaccination programme, accepting digital health passport control, permanent testing etc. etc etc. in return for a night in the pub, a 10 day beano to Benidorm, Ibeza et al. I don't think I'd want to place much faith in your judgement.
@@peterchurch2412 Did you actually watch the video? Lord Sumption was highly critical of the government's handling of the Covid-19 outbreak.
@ron matthews ''did you actually watch the video?''
Yes, I watched and listened to every word of it.
''Lord Sumption was highly critical of the government's handling of the Covid-19 outbreak. ''
Indeed he was and has been from the inception. However, perhaps you can explain to me how a person can on one hand be critical of gov. policy whilst advocating not only the vaccination programme , but the mandatory introduction of Health Passports. Particularly in the vein that the vaccination programme, continuity of testing and Health Passports have always been integral components of gov. agenda.
Do you opine that Lord Jonathan Sumption QC doesn't understand the implications of vaccine passports and is oblivious to the long term health implications of an untested, experimental vaccine. His hypothesis appears to be that the potential consequences of adverse health effects and digital enslavement are lesser evils than lockdowns which are not permanently enforcible in any event.
Lord Sumption is a rather obvious 5th columnist whose connections to the Blair gov. go back nearly 20 yrs. How do you suppose a practising QC managed to get appointed to the Supreme Court, an unprecedented appointment for a QC with no previous judgeship experience and here he is in 2021 advocating Health passports . There’s no prizes for guessing who is in charge of promoting Health Passports, it is indeed the right hon. A Blair who is in turn funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Isn’t that a coincidence, would you not concur.
@@peterchurch2412thank you for taking the time to write this.
Jonathan Sumption is terrific! Reminds me of what Britain used to be before it was corrupted. Clear thoughts expressed in first rate English. Never a superfluous word.
He reminds me of the BBC many decades ago. Someone you can respect, learn from, agree with, who speaks English well. Now I end up cringing at poor grammar and sloppy , lazy pronunciation, and swearing at the views expressed. I don't watch TV and occasionally listen to Radio 4 and normally regret it.
Why was this brilliant man with his calm and erudite manner not interviewed by the mainstream media..... were they afraid the public might realise how idiotic this government has been in its behaviour throughout.. Like many other reasonable voices on the subject he has been ignored and given no real patform to question their actions. How wonderful would it have been to have heard him questioning Boris on government policy. We know who would have been the victor in such a debate......Boris has been a huge disappointment and I speak as one who voted for him. I am incredulous at what he has done to this country. How will we ever recover ?
The whole of Europe was corrupted by the Euro elite, Hapsbergs, Astors etc etc. Queen Victoria's grandkids ran Europe didn't they. The reason why this country didn't want to leave the EU was because most of the 'British' elite are actually of Euro decent. The people are not well represented in this country.
@@elainesanders5450'' How will we ever recover ?''
Certainly not by accepting Jonathan Sumption QC's hypothesis of a compromise on civil liberties with the acceptance of a Health Passport, or perhaps you haven't been following what he has been advocating. Obviously, identifying a fifth columnist isn't your forte.
I like the cut of this man's jib. If he was once a Supreme Court Judge, let us thank the Lord for small mercies and large doses of plain common sense.
He was. He also gave the Reith lectures in 2019 or 2020. They are on UA-cam.
@@richardpentelow655 thank you for that. K
Sumption was also on UnHerd, a channel covering the pandemic from a philosophic point of view. A lot of the comments on it are not the usual UA-cam garbage.
Robert
''I like the cut of this man's jib. If he was once a Supreme Court Judge,''
Actually, the role of a Supreme Court judge carries less responsibility than that of a trial judge, if for no other reason, the former is only one of a number of others, thereby allowing any mistakes to be rectified by fellow judges prior to delivering judgement..
Whereas a single trial judge carries full responsibility for any legal errors made in the duration of a trial. For instance summations, admissibility of evidence, counsel's conduct et al. which could reverse a verdict upon appeal.
God bless Jonathan Sumption, if only our world leaders, politicians, judges, police chiefs, and media heads were as humble, educated, honest, and fearless as this man is we'd live in a very different world!
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TheBestlaidschemes
''God bless Jonathan Sumption, if only our world leaders, politicians, judges, police chiefs, and media heads were as humble, educated, honest, and fearless as this man is we'd live in a very different world!''
Indeed we would, we'd be living in a fully vaccinated world , complete with health passport ball and chains attached to our ankles. God bless Jonathan Sumption QC and his long term affiliation with the right hon. A Blair.
@@peterchurch2412 Did you not listen to a word he said?
"One's right to protest stops short of trampling on another's right to go about their daily business."
That means: "We have rights, and we may not impede other's rights through the exercise of our own rights."
If you think he means anything else, you're not listening to what he's saying, you're listening to what you think he is saying after it has been passed through your self-deceiving-perception-filter.
Conservatism is not a one-dimensional monolith that exists only as you see it in your mind. You cannot in reasonable conscience distort the actions and words of others in the image of your misrepresentation.
If you think I'm right-wing because of what I've said here, then your expectations and metrics are inaccurate.
If you think I'm lying to confuse you, you're really too far gone. Honestly, I've had people actually think I'm really a "right-winger" trying to "trick" them into thinking I'm not conservative.
In truth, I don't like the label and the stereotypes evoked by the labels of either side, especially when it doesn't really map onto a one-dimensional continuum either.
Part of the world's problem is that we like to see the world in black and white, and overextend the purview of what can be useful oversimplifications. We must recognise them as just that, oversimplifications that serve as a tool that can be useful in limited contexts, otherwise we run the risk of misrepresenting the world itself by proxy.
How I wish JS was prime minister, and parliament was full of individuals who think like him.
We are the people, we can hold the power to make something different that works for everyone.
💯👍🏼
Absolutely,the democracy we deserve with individuals of Caliber and moral fibre.
I dunno, someone who can't do up his collar buttons on a shirt?
@@terenceokeeffesmotorcyclestuff as opposed to someone who can't brush his hair...
Jonathan Sumption: an unsung hero
Mike Richardson
''Jonathan Sumption: an unsung hero''
Jonathan Sumption, an outed chameleon.
@@peterchurch2412 Peter Church a more on.
When this nightmare is over I vote for Lord Somption leads the public enquiry. One of the finding I say should be that all politicians, advisors and civil servants that created this nightmare of a dream be made to pay back the fortunes they have made out of this disasters. Could be one reason they want to continue another year of lock downs is to make as much money as they can while their sun shines. As a PS. Any awards in the queens honours list made should also be returned.(watch this space for this years awards)
It's never meant to be 'over' .. are you not getting this yet?
"It's clear there's a third wave going about".
No it's not, Neil.
Oh it is !! And then there will be a new strain and then a new wave and then a new strain... you get the plan?? lol
@@paullancaster7066 🤣 Stop all that common sense your speaking immediately!
@@thepoliticalitalian8615 Guilty as Charged! lol
@@paullancaster7066 Ans so on unto infinity! Ha Ha!
It's complete bollocks and they well know it
Lord Sumption you are a voice of calm and sensibility in a hubbub of hysteria. Thank you. If only our governments could draw on experience such as yours for their own guidance.
I disagree. He has lost his grasp on reality and his utterances on covid are sadly embarrassing.
@@topcat9852 can you explain why governments around the world dropped their pandemic plans?
@@God_help_us Is that a serious question? World wide lockdowns, curfews, vaccinations,, travel restrictions - governments have dropped no plans, they simply changed the definition
@@topcat9852 Lockdown has never been used before in history...do you know why? I'll help you out, they are unethical.
@@God_help_us You are clearly not a student of history. WW2, mandatory blackout, petrol rationing, food rationing. Spanish Flu 1918 to 1921, schools closed, public transport cancelled, self isolation. I suggest checking facts before spouting inaccuracies.
You might have thought that by last summer things might have opened back up but the planners of the pandemic did not share your vision and never did .They have no intention of ever relinquishing their newly found power and never did ! The only way this is going to end is for the people to make it so ! Why interview someone with a differing opinions if you have no intention of actually listening to it ?
They have started something and have no intention of stopping!
Common sense - why is that so scarce in government, politicians and civil servants alike!
They all sold out to evil long ago, just like the media.
It is actually scary that such evidence and reason against lockdowns has been totally ignored by the UK and most European countries. I wonder though if the public would allow this ridiculously blunt instrument to used again in the near future, I truly hope not.
Unfortunately, it will be used again and the public in general will accept it.
You are forgetting how the public reacted during the first lockdown, 3 months holiday, it was nice weather (remember the beaches) and everyone was buzzing and didn't give a toss about covid, everyone is fed up now and hindsight is a wonderful thing
Stop furlough......then see how popular lockdown is
People have been so brainwashed by pro-lockdown propaganda that they no longer believe that there are alternatives and they will accept future lockdowns as an unavoidable 'necessity', even if it ruins them. They have been conditioned to 'know' that it's a simple choice between lockdown or huge numbers of deaths. and we must 'save' the NHS (even if a better strategy would be to reform this unwieldy, inefficient behemoth, increase staff retention/recruitment and reverse the continual ongoing reduction in ICU beds). Expect further lockdowns from September onwards, when cold/flu season kicks in again and the excuse of a new variant can be used, because a lot of influential people are getting insanely rich on the back of this.
@@alancameron6937 EXACTLY!
Individual freedom has been lost, it is up to the people to decide and NOT a bunch of ex-Eaton boys.
The day we started becoming ' individuals' and lost our culture and society after the collapse of Christianity and starting worshiping money, was the day we lost our power that a group collective can bring.
*eton
Rather than asking why all governments copies one another why are you not asking why Florida South Dakota and Sweden fared much better than others
It's his old school bbc, devil's advocate, interview style. Not saying you aren't correct, but the interview style works well imo.
Florida! Cretin.
@@JustFamilyPlaytime eh? Forgot to take your meds today? Florida has been open since August, is full of old people, and has had no particular spike in deaths.
@@JustFamilyPlaytime I don`t see your point about Florida. Never mind though....undisputable is the case of Nth Dakota v Sth Dakota....one locked down with masks, one didn`t....they are next door to each other with similar demographic populace, yet a miniscule difference in death rates, which to my mind is absolute proof lockdowns, masks etc make little or no difference. In fact, on the WHO website in 2019 it stated that once the virus is in the country there is little point in lockdowns, masks or other restrictions, just shield the elderly/vulnerable and hope for the best.
Get your facts right. Sweden is not a success story, it is in the worlds top 30 worst hit nations. Florida is 4th in the highest death toll in the states. You are talking nonsense
Good interview, professional not like the BBC!!!!!
If only I could speak and express my mind so eloquently.
The eloquence and articulacy of this man is a marvel. No wonder he is a former Supreme Judge. Their minds are incredible. Unparalleled clarity of thought.
I'm pleased that Lord Sumption continues to speak out about the negative effects of unnecessary blanket lockdown. He has my respect and the respect of many other people.
He sings a tune that pays for his supper. His title seems to impress the gullible, his later judgements were not impressive
Vernon Skinner
''I'm pleased that Lord Sumption continues to speak out about the negative effects of unnecessary blanket lockdown. He has my respect and the respect of many other people.''
Its just a shame he advocates the introduction of vaccine passports which are a far greater imposition on civil liberties than any form of self imposed internment. Please accept my most profuse apologies if you are unaware of his long term affiliation with the right hon. A Blair and sanctioning of the aforementioned documentation.
What third wave, 🤷🏻♂️, it’s a fallacy. LD’s cost lives, please keep up with the data.
Third wave! Wasn’t even a first wave.
Exactly. Look at the percentage of the population that died in 2020 compared to other years. There was no pandemic and if there was, I’ve lived through lots of pandemics. All the years between 2000-2008 were all pandemics according to the same logic.
I thought we was still on the so called first wave.
Agreed, seasonal flue hijacked as convid 19
1968 Hong Kong flu killed 4 million. The world did not close down. Everyone had to take personal responsibility. Why are Politician pen pushers allowed to disregard years of scientific research. Men and women with no or little medical knowledge did everything against what they were told to do incases of a pandemic by the scientists?
@@rachelbutler9105 I think it’s to do with the banking system and the fact that it is near to collapsing. Also to bring in the NWO
We should all make our own assessments for ourselves.
PCR Test cycle rate past 25 was the chief mistake made.
The question is was this excessive cycle rate a genuine mistake or.........?
Are you sure it was a mistake 🤔 This has all been coerced in my opinion.
Oh man! I’m so with you on this!!!
'Cycle until it's Positive'
Thank you for this interview, best interviewer in the world imo.
People like Mr Sumpton need to be heard more often.
I know, but so many people people don't like Sumption. I've been told by my dad he's 'a lefty loony" apparently 🤣
@@jasonuren3479 @Jason Uren I know, but so many people people don't like Sumption.
That's because he's insincere and two sides of the same establishment coin. He was parachuted into the Supreme Court without any previous experience of judgeship,, an unprecedented appointment. His legal career irepresents a litany of gov. representation.
The mere fact that he would appear to take an anti gov. stance at his stage of life should be enough to raise a gargantuan red flag to even the most intellectually challenged in our midst.
@@peterchurch2412 Fair point. It does seem odd that a seemingly establishment character is taking the stance he is. And the fact that, as I understand it the supreme Court was instituted by the Blair government, says to me to be wary of characters like Sumption, but at the same time, I can't help but agree with most of what he says.
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@@jasonuren3479 ‘’as I understand it the supreme Court was instituted by the Blair government, ‘’
He also successfully defended the Blair gov. against the Railtrack private shareholder’s action in 2005.
‘’I can't help but agree with most of what he says.’’
I also, Jason, that’s the aspect that makes him less discernible and more dangerous than the more obvious chameleons, Hitchens, Swayne et al. The best way to gauge a person’s position is to apply the following criteria, Any person advocating or participating in the vaccination programme is the enemy. Any person seeking to justify gov. policy on the grounds of incompetence is the enemy.
Follow these guidelines and you won’t go far wrong. Yer know it makes sense. ‘)
A refreshing interview from intelligent and thoughtful people, unlike the Johnson/ Handcock set
Thank you Jonathan Sumption this gentleman has way more more common sense than any fool in our government!
An intelligent and articulate presentation from a Guy who has years of experience looking at evidence and coming to a clean and impartial view
Never seen Andrew so quiet & not going for the bullets of his gun. He must have known Lord Sumption was a target of which NO weapon that Andrew Neil on this occasion would be able to hit. Sit Andrew.
How you manage to make Andrew Neil doing a good job into an opportunity to assert some kind of weird internet dominance over him is a little strange my man.
That’s the way educated interviews take place with respect & finesse
Thank God he has been given a voice. Let's get back to normal!!
The best post on this subject ever.
How on earth are the government getting away with this?
'Cause the Sheeple are letting them
Sorting out this ridiculous mess is beyond the abilities of Boris - time he went.
Clown-Boy Boris is doing what he's told.
Could you please interview members of The Great Barrington Declaration... we might get somewhere then....please.
Never ask for sense, not from these body snatched lizard creatures.
"I was really rather drunk..." Rowley Birkin The Fast Show
This can only end when we the people say so. I don't see much chance of that at the moment. Cognitive dissonance is rife and rightly so, because we have been trained for decades.
Well the government are paying people to stay at home. People aren't going to come together en masse, unless they're not getting any wedge.
A gentleman and a scholar.
Not many around, certainly not in public life.
A dangerous idiot.
like he said this was planned in 2010, straight from the horses mouth
The deaths started rising last Autumn because that’s when the respiratory infection season starts NOT because they opened up a little in July!
I've come to the conclusion that the current Western economic model is finished and that they are going to kill it off under the guise of this "pandemic".
Absolute pleasure listening to this.
We have fallen very very low and frankly it’s pathetic.
When extremists groups try to close down an airport, or a road, or railway station etc, that is not a peaceful demonstration, it is an act of disruption worthy of designation as criminal. The perpetrators should be arrested and punished and their assets and those of there sponsors and promoters should be subjected to levies in order to pay appropriate compensation to their victims.
The difference is if this protest is in the public interest.All protests generally incur some disruption however I would not want the police/Home Secretary to decide what is or is not in the public interest and/or is acceptable disruption.
@@andyhunt457 Well I'm sorry after seeing what went on in Bristol I think protests should be banned!!! I saw one person holding a flaming rag under a police van AND THE POLICE WERE IN IT!!!! that is not protest it's attempted murder and should be treated as such!!! These protests are completely out of hand the far left are attaching themselves to them and they just want to cause mayhem you can't let that go on!!!
@@wendynicholss6886 I was not referring to this Bristol protest being right or wrong in particular moreover the general point about being able to protest should not be governed by one person who is not independent of political bias,neither home Secretary nor the police are independent are will not protect the rights of all us to protest at something we believe is wrong.This bill can effectively be used to silence critics and that is not something that is ever a good idea.To have opposition,to have a opinion that others do not agree with is part and parcel of any democracy and leads to better decisions on the whole.
On your point about that or those protestors who did those particular things that would be a case in point,trying to set fire to a police van is not in the public interest I think the vast majority would agree and should be dealt with according which would involve a court appearance and 12 peers who would decide.
Malign actors will manufacture disruption in order to persuade the average person that their own freedoms will need to be curtailed in order to protect them. THAT is what is wrong with what we are being fed by the MSM propaganda machine.
@@wendynicholss6886 Well then maybe just ban the backward socialist, commie type riots oops I mean protests ;) if they can't hold a peaceful demo and control their emotions without chim ping out and throwing their own faeces around then they don't deserve the right to protest.
There's a saying in aviation: Follow your flight plan, because you made it on the ground, when you had all the time in the world. When you're up in the air is not the time to change the flight plan. Yet this is precisely what most of these governments did.
I've had enough 11 months ago. FFS The government needs too get out of my life
Make your own risk assessment and live your life. I love this man. Thank you Jonathan Sumption.
J Sumption 👍👌
Death rate similar to 2003 still waiting for the deadly pandemic to arrive.
Seems you don’t give a shit for the nurses especially in ICU who worked up to 7 12 hour shifts a week and looking after 3-4 patients each instead of one during the height of the pandemic.
Allowing for changes in population, 2020 death rate almost the same as both 2000 and 2003; 2001 and 2002 were only slightly better.
Haha, absolutely!!
Me too. The only one I am aware of is a pandemic of abject hysteria.
@@classicraceruk1337 Seems you don't understand public health, excess suicides, exponential increase in mental health issues - including children, exponential increase in NIA in children, millions losing jobs and businesses, the unfolding economic catastrophe and the fact that only 400 people under 60 - without pre existing conditions - died of this new virus in 2020. Yes the nurses worked hard and yes all of the young people I know in the entertainment industry and Myself have had no work for a year and another 4 months to go....does that not count also? Meanwhile, many people do not acquaint themselves with the facts available at the ONS. 2020 is 34th on the list of mortality rates as a % of the population in the last 50 years. I have no more patience with what we are doing to the life chances of our young people when the facts do not support this. Think this is wrong: check the facts and listen to Mike Yeadon (ex head of Pfizer research)
How much of that would we have heard if the BBC or Channel 4 or Piers Morgan were conducting the interview?
Andrew's arguments presuppose lockdowns work (in the temporary sense).
He is wrong.
Wow, what an articulate man-thank you jonathan.
Lord Sumption...only bloke I've listened to making sense...
One thing I have decided if they delay ending restrictions or even worse close public places of entertainment I'm going to be inviting friends & family to my home, visiting my elderly parents & staying over I'm never going back to a severe lockdown!
A good, sensible, intelligent man
Jonathon is correct , it is a shame that knowledgeable people like him are not listened to nowadays , I think he would make a great prime minister,
RG
Unfortuntely he is far too intelligent to be a Prime Minister.
@@Baz63 Indeed true. A Prime Minister needs to have many followers, or they can't survive long as leader. So a bit of stupidity to align themselves more perfectly and intuitively with what the people are thinking is an asset!
I'm 79 years old, and have lived a life so wonderful all over the world, from Norway to China to Africa and the Americas, I speak and understand most
Major languages and have had the privilege to live on all continents from Australia to Alaska.
I have had the freedom to travel and speak my mind all my life.
Now in my twilight years, the world has been turned upside down.I don't believe one word of what the government's are trying to get us ( the whole world) to believe and follow.
You Sir,are the only person that I have heard tell the truth in 5-6 minutes.
How did we get to this misery on a world scale, I fear for my
Children and grandchildren
I can find no fault with what Lord Sumption is saying in this video.Quite the contrary!.
Me also Gary
I disagree. His views are that the healthy should be at liberty to carry on as normal as they are the majority. I oppose that simple, short sighted and selfish view
Top Cat In my view you have not paid attention to the entirety of his view on the subject matter.In your comment you have over simplified.
@@garyward2088 I have listened to this interview, and read in detail his recent outings with the media who look a senior judge espousing his views. I have read his legal judgements and the views of other lawyers as to how this once eminent lawyer has gone off piste. So no, I don’t over simplify, if anything I am being charitable to a judge who really should hang his wig up for good
Top Cat.Well we will just have to agree to disagree.
I like Lord Sumption.
Being a retired Supreme Court Judge, he talks a lot of sense.
It has been interesting to listen to Jonathan Sumption and what he had to say made lots of sense. Regards from Blighty :)
Thank you me Lord I love mr Sumption 👍❤️
Wow. A great free thinking, sensible , man!
More people need to see this!!
It’s a world-wide conspiracy I tell ya!
Make him Prime Minister.
Wonderful interview
Im mystified why at the start of this we HAD to follow the WHO medical advice. Now we studiously ignore the WHO regarding lockdown policy.
Neil Ferguson doesn’t even have a degree !!! C 4 urself
Lord Sumption is one of the few people who has spoken much common sense on this subject right from the start.
Thank you Jonathon.
This man speaks sense but no one seems to be listening. I sometimes think we are living in a post-common sense world.
Thank goodness someone is talking some sense. Our politicians have severely let the British people down. It is time for the restrictions to stop and for everyone to conduct their own risk assessment - very simple and effective!
@@hunt4redoctober628 UK is doomed.
So like Sumption, your attitude is screw you, I’m all right. How selfish and arrogant is that ? It’s not sense, it’s despicable
@@topcat9852 Sorry no! I care passionately for the well-being of everyone. Particularly those that have lost their livelihoods, their mental mental health and their sense of hope. It will take a decade or more to recover this. The Government has made so many bad decisions, now that the most vulnerable have had the vaccine there is no reason to keep the lockdown and restrictions.
I particularly enjoyed Jonathon Sumption's views on Brexit and the function of representative democracy.
Much more polite and restrained with this man, a Lord of course,than with so many other interview subjects. What a crawler.
Thank you for speaking out Jonathon. God Bless you.
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Well said john, I’m the same 👍🏼 stay strong 💪🏼
I am 78 and not had the jab. The lockdowns are crazy. Lord assumption is a great guy.
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Thank you so much, wonderful, what an incredible man. Yes, please, let us make our own choices.
God bless Jonathan Sumption and Andrew Neil.
It's refreshing not to have to read between the lines.
Finally !- someone who talks sense!!
I’ve been following since March 2020 👍🏼
It's almost like Scrapping all cars at 10 years old irrespective of it Roadworthy Condition and Value .
I’ve had the Rona. Why can’t I go back to normal? This is a Casedemic, not a Pandemic
No , no , no ! Can't have this . This man is talking sense. Whatever next !
Sound advice from Lord Sumption as one would expect. Why are the government seemingly not asking for nor following such advice?
The great reset
They listen to the Scientists they're paying to follow the official line.
Plans were thrown out because of the World Economic Forum mandated it so... Along with everything else.
Lord Sumption - brilliant
UK becomes the first police state in the Western world.
Fined for going abroad for a holiday but you are able to go abroad and renovate a second home.
There is a clear difference in the rules for the wealthy and those for the rest of us. Exactly what you would expect from a Tory government.
You can also go to view prospective homes. The estate agents are going to be overrun with fake enquiries and the brochures will fly off the shelves 'as proof'.
People also don't realise that once the World Health Organisation announces "Pandemic", the membere are obliged to take a certain approach.
At the end of the day, I think the likes of Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Chris Whitty and Patrick Valance would be thinking very differently about the decisions they're making and their approaches, if they were actually affected in any way by them, which they aren't!.
With advice to take vitamin D at high doses we need have had no lockdowns or financial penury. The whole situation is manufactured to drive drug company profits. Now vaccines out the NHS is no longer vulnerable so restrictions need not apply
"no-one ever saved lives by making themselves poorer" did you see the bill from WWII?
It only took until 2006 to repay the USA.
Having watched and listened for a few moments I became joyfully distracted by Jonathon's little idiosyncratic body shimmy to his right such that I substituted the Bee Gee's, "Stayin' Alive' tempo in my mind. I'm afraid I lost all concentration such that I had to restart the interview - hilarious!
Reflects the calibre of politicians throughout the world...
This man was universally regarded as the cleverest man in England when he practiced at the Bar. And it shows in this brilliant interview. He ought to have mentioned the appalling effect on the criminal and civil justice system that are now an embarrassment and a disgrace.