Thread by @James_Townsend9

🧵PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH, OR CHANGE YOUR SPEECH?🦠

A long-standing Tory MP has backed the idea of imposing lockdowns on unvaccinated people only.

Today, as all robust democracies should be free to do, I challenge these extreme views and expose a catalogue of rank hypocrisy👇🏻

Sir Gary Streeter — @garystreeterSWD — is the longest-serving MP in Devon and Cornwall and served as a junior minister under John Major’s Conservative Government.

In December 2018, it was announced that Streeter would receive a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours List.

13 days ago, Streeter caused consternation when he reacted to an article which said EU member Austria was “considering a Covid lockdown for the unvaccinated only.”

It outlines a scenario where unvaccinated people would only be allowed to leave their homes for “specific reasons”.

Streeter responded to the article by stating that it was a “good idea”, suggesting that he would back similar measures were they to be proposed by the UK Gov.

Whatever your view of the last 18 months, pursuing such a divisive policy would usher in a new era of medical apartheid.

One could only assume this safe seat Tory MP was merely cementing a line of thought expressed previously, no matter how extreme those views were.

And yet, on closer inspection, that is not what I found at all. Instead I found an MP proclaiming to be a mental health advocate.

In a blog entitled “Mental Health Matters” from February 2021, Streeter talks about thoroughly investigating mental health provision in his constituency and calls it a top 3 topic.

“The pandemic is obviously going to make this more necessary than ever,” he concluded by saying.

In an April blog, Streeter bemoaned social media’s role in encouraging “extreme positions” & a lack of middle ground or reasonable debate.

“Our heritage is to hold positions with passion, but recognise the rights of others to hold an opposite view with equal passion,” he said.

He added: “We want healthy debate without closing down those who take another view. Freedom of Speech. We need to listen to the other side. Who knows, we might actually learn something.”

Curious then, that the rights, freedom, & views of unvaccinated people don’t seem to matter?

In another, he wrote: “I accept that our economy simply cannot afford a fourth lockdown and it is better to lock-step our way cautiously towards the total lifting of restrictions over a sensible time period than to rush this and get it wrong.”

Writing in November 2020, the 66-year-old said people needed to “dial down” the outrage, adding: “Although government must be held to account by Parliament & the Opposition & the media, it would help to see a much more constructive national discourse about how to beat Covid.”

In a Facebook post on 16 June, as you can see here, the Tory MP suggested quite the opposite to creating a segregated society based on medical statuses when he said:

“We must learn to live with it and once most adults are jabbed that is what we will do.”

Was this a lie, Sir?

As a regular promoter of the UK’s vaccination programme, Streeter also hails the rollout and in one blog refers to the jabs as “huge game changers”.

He also, at one point, admits to backing lockdown measures despite having no idea if the scientists are actually correct.

And, quite laughably, after the terrible murder of Sir David Amess last month, Streeter eulogised on BBC Radio Devon about Amess’s passion for marginalised groups and those without a voice, and that “everyone was equal and of worth.”

So, @garystreeterSWD, I ask how you as a long-standing MP can in all good consciousness promote your deeply held beliefs in the vaccines on one hand, whilst admitting they don’t work on the other hand by backing such extreme and divisive lockdown measures?

I ask you, Sir Gary, how you as a long-standing MP can in all good consciousness proclaim to care about mental health whilst pushing for policies which trample on decades of Western principles over informed consent, & which would decimate mental health for a section of society?

I ask you, Sir Gary, how you as a long-standing MP can in all good consciousness claim to be taken seriously after stating:

“We must learn to live with it & once most adults are jabbed that is what we will do,” in June.

Followed by “Good idea” to unvaccinated lockdowns in Oct.

And finally, Sir Gary, I ask how you as a long-standing MP can in all good consciousness talk about “extreme positions”, “constructive national discourse”, & of treating everyone in society equally whilst advocating for policies that do the precise opposite setting us back years?

I urge none of my followers to verbally abuse you in any way, but as a public servant whose wages are paid for by the British taxpayer, I equally urge you to answer the fair and robust questions I have outlined above; in the interests of transparency and the public interest.

From what I can see, your words fail to match your actions if you are indeed advocating the segregation of civil Western society based on people’s private medical statuses

Can you clarify?

Pretending you’re moral, & saying you are moral, is not the same as acting morally.

ENDS

As ever, thanks for reading and spreading the message🙏🏻
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