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The UK government’s new Covid rules are authoritarian and arbitrary. How much longer will people put up with this?
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Thursday September 10, 2020 13:26 by 1 of indy
All these quotes are from his op-ed piece at the link below. You can read the full article there From September 14, it will be illegal for more than six people to gather in a variety of places, including private homes, in England. This ban also extends to restaurants, cafes, bars, pubs and even outdoor spaces, and applies across the board to all ages. However, the rule won’t apply in an array of other scenarios, for no other apparent reason than Matt Hancock says so. And ...
And it will be noticed that both here in Ireland and in the UK the only thing the government opposition does is declare how if they were in power they would impose even greater absurd restrictions, curtailment of freedom and civil liberties and inflict even more damage on the economy too. It would seem at there is no belief in anything especially freedom and democracy amongst our political parties and all they are interested in is being utterly populist and following the manufactured public opinion. They have no aspirations, nor do they inspire anyone and it is clear there is a frightening authoritarian streak in them all. In the case this country this applies to FF, FG, SF, Lab, GP, SD, PBP, SP and most of the so called independants. .... and then it is obvious where this police state is going for he says:
So the question is this? Will we ever see the likes of this from our own media. We need this type of common sense questioning on a daily basis not just in the odd isolated case. |