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Government pilot on testing & certification in DISARRAY as Comedy Club pulls out of first event!

6 April, 2021
UNN Staff Writer

The Hot Water Comedy Club in Liverpool has just issued the following Press Release:

We agreed to be part of the ‘Event Research Programme’ in early March. We were made aware that the purpose of this landmark event was to prove that venues and events like ours could be safely reopened and take place. We understood that evidence of the results would be used to support the case for the FULL reopening of venues like ours WITHOUT the need for social distancing. Vaccine passports were never at any time mentioned in any of the discussions we had prior to agreeing to put on the event.
The Liverpool Echo released the article, noted below, on 13th March after we had agreed to be involved.
We believed that Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden set out clearly the intention of the event when he said:
“These test events will be crucial in finding ways to get fans and audiences back in safely without social distancing.
“We will be guided by the science and medical experts, but will work flat out to make that
happen. We want to get the people back to enjoying what they love and ensure some of our
most important growth industries get back on their feet.
“These are important steps towards the safe and special summer we all crave and that I’m
fully focused on delivering.”
We were closed for most of last year but did open whenever legally allowed. We spent over £30k on becoming covid secure based on government guidance and had extra staff on hand to make sure that all customers were checking in on the track and trace app. To this day we have never had a single case linked back to us, but we were still forced to close. We were among the first industries to close and will likely be amongst the last to open.
Fast forward a few weeks to a press release sent out by the government to all UK media. The headlines were all about ‘vaccine passports’. For some reason, all trials had been bundled together under the same press release and it seemed that we were part of the vaccine passport programme. We also happened to be the very first event of any trial in operation so, not surprisingly, the headlines mentioned ‘Hot Water Comedy Club’ and ‘The Vaccine Passport Programme’ as if we were part of the Programme.
On Saturday evening, around 9:30pm, we were made aware of an article in The Mirror closely followed by one in the Liverpool Echo with headlines about vaccine passports and our involvement with them. We then contacted Liverpool Council along with our contacts at the venue as we were very concerned about the way we had been portrayed in the media linking us to vaccine passport trials, something we had never agreed to. Below is an extract from the email I received Liverpool Council.
“This story is wide of the mark – I am assured by the DCMS that this has not been briefed
out by them.
We will be clear in our comms that there will be no use of vaccine passports.”
Unfortunately damage had already been done. Over the next 2 days we were subject to a hate campaign from people opposing the vaccine passport across our Facebook channel, Twitter, Instagram, emails, text messages, negative reviews, refund requests and phone calls. We have over 4,000 separate examples of negative reaction which have significantly damaged our business and brand.
We went out on all of our social channels and had over 15 interviews with the media to correct the record about our involvement in the trial event and what we had agreed to be a part of. Unfortunately there are lots of articles still circulating wrongly stating our involvement.
Yesterday evening we were made aware of the following document;

(https://www.gov.uk/…/covid-19…/roadmap-reviews-update

). This, in our opinion, is very unclear and confusing as it looks like this trial is a pre cursor to covid status certification (vaccine passports) led events further down the line.

As a consequence of misleading press releases/media articles and the confusing messaging on the official government website (which was last updated on 5th April 2021) we have made the decision not to be a part of any programme at all. We have still not managed to speak to anybody in the government about this.
We look forward to seeing you all again soon!
Hot Water Comedy Club
David Clews responded to this news with the following:

We have just won an absolutely MASSIVE victory that will truly shake the criminal cabal running this country to its core. As I intimated yesterday the good people at the Hot Water Comedy Club in Liverpool were literally thrown to the wolves by inaccurate Government press releases and the MSM. I know many of you had emailed them to politely ask them to reconsider taking part in this scheme and this has made a huge difference to the campaign.

I spoke to Paul of Hot Water yesterday in detail and it is so pleasing that they have now chosen to take the side of the people by WITHDRAWING from this event and not supporting the corrupt state in their attempts to segregate people.

Please if you can email them on contact@hotwatercomedy.co.uk and tell them that they are really brave and that we will stand by them and support them whenever possible!

We cannot rest on our laurels here, this sets a precedent now so we have to ensure that no business takes part in these trials and many of them are still on the list and you can find them and contact them now by clicking here. Let them know that Hot Water Comedy Club is on the side of the people and fairness and so too should they!

Tomorrow we will have a letter template out detailing our wider campaign to ensure businesses do not sign up to this medical apartheid.

Many people threw in the towel earlier this year saying the game was up. We said the battle has only just begun and today marks a HUGE victory.

Please click below and visit their Facebook Page as well to congratulate them on their brave decision and enjoy this moment!

Click Here for their Facebook

David Clews

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