They voted – by 516 to 38 – to turn the United Kingdom into a totalitarian police state.
From midnight Wednesday, the British population will be forced to spend a month (at least) under restrictions so severe that they make life behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Bloc Soviet Eastern Europe look almost carefree by comparison.
Nobody will be allowed to travel abroad (except on approved business). Nobody will be able to go to pubs or restaurants or gyms or swimming pools (all closed, by order of the government). Nobody will be allowed to practise any form of sport — not golf, not tennis, not riding, not shooting, and definitely not any team games. Everybody will be kept under house arrest, other than for certain state-mandated exemptions such as being a designated ‘key worker’ or shopping for supplies (but only those designated ‘essential’).
You might have thought that the biggest theft of civil liberties in British history would get some pushback from MPs, Conservative ones especially.
After all, lockdowns like this are not only enormously damaging to the economy — at a cost of at least £2 billion per day — as well as to the nation’s mental and physical health. Also, as senior lawyer Lord Sumption warned, it ‘marks a move to a more authoritarian model of politics’ which will transform ‘the relationship between the state and the citizen’ and lead to ‘distrust, resentment and mutual hostility.’
Anyone who doubts the corrosive effects this ‘authoritarian model’ is having on the British way of life should have a look at this video.
Nine months of separation. Qualified nurse looking to take her mother home and care for her – ARRESTED – how can this be right, in the meantime her 97 year older mother’s health continues to decline #rightsforresidents #stilllockedaway pic.twitter.com/BkLGjYKMzE
— rightsforresidents (@rightsforresid2) November 4, 2020
It purportedly shows a daughter — a qualified nurse — trying to take her 97-year old mother home from her care home only to be prevented from doing so by the police. It is claimed the mother is now back in the care home…
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