🪡 A long-ish, angry speech in the Lords on #PlanB - and on the fact that official opposition have failed to oppose the government's introduction of further restrictions and #COVIDPassports... (1/5)
🪡 Issues like free social association, liberty and personal sovereignty are crucial - not some abstract notion to be dismissed as too many still do... (2/5)
🪡 Other peers raised the lack of efficacy about vaccine passports, or asked Qs about how serious Omicron is to health beyond high transmission, I wanted to stress the real collateral damage to a free society - when illiberal measures are a first, instead of last, resort... (3/5)
🪡 The government has put forward a 'modern bill of rights - but what is the point of having documents declaring commitment to liberty under the rule of law, if liberty can be so easily dispensed with in the name of public health?... (4/5)
🪡 Josie Appleton's Letter on Liberty (shorturl.at/qFP04) on the pandemic argues that every pandemic has a social dynamic as well as an epidemiological course. We need to start emphasising the importance of a free society, instead of apologising for it... (5/5)
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