Two comments on the interview to dig deeper and tackle the normative issues that really are at the core of this (thread)
1) The significance of law and advice. The law MUST be followed. Advice is just advice. But if you explicitly put “common sense” before advice, I’m not sure how meaningful giving advice still is. We need a clear distinction and approach.
2) Devolution, decentralisation and centralisation. My first reaction to some of the questions is “it is unfair to ask the PM about rules in all sorts of areas”. But that’s actually only true once we define clearly who does what.
The fact that it feels weird to ask those questions just shows that it is problematic to centralise. We need a clear model for decentralisation. What would this then look like?
The PM could then answer to a question like that “we have agreed on countrywide incidence rates requiring further measures. Where those incidence rates are met, local councils have to impose further measures. The measures are available at a central website.
(Thanks to the great clerks in Parliament, such a website actually exists).
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