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Welcome to your new rulers: UK Commissioners Gove, Johnson and Cummings | Westminster Confidential

Brexit is not so much “taking back control of our laws” through Parliamentary Sovereignty as giving it away to Johnson, Cummings and the executive.
davidhencke.com/2020/06/21/wel…
This is the House of Lords analysis and report referred to in this blog that details the extraordinary extent to which this is already happening.

Always reflect. If this is not the Gov of your choice would you want them to have this much power?

publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5801/ldse…
How? It is the old “Henry VIII” powers.
And, boy, are they running with it.
“I don’t think this is what the average Brexiteer will have envisaged. I don’t think the majority of people in this country want to live in a society where ministers and Downing Street have overweening powers to create new criminal offences by decree..
“.. (and) without being properly scrutinised by Parliament.

We are losing our safeguards by stealth.”
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I think this is the 7th hanging in the space of 3 weeks in the USA

Ones that look suspiciously like lynchings.

The rush to classify each one as “suicide” by law enforcement is a very very bad look.

I would expect law enforcement to welcome highly expert 2nd opinions
If necessary there should be a crowdfunderder for a top TOP expert in the field to look at every case again.

Not the sort of expert that will say whatever you pay them to say.

But one whose expertise and integrity is unimpeachable.
I live in the U.K. but if the right experts could be booked (maybe through @ACLU ?) I would contribute and I think #BlackLivesMattterUK would.

I hope @piersmorgan would promote it and @krishgm

This shakes the foundations of my world
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The shenanigans with the test/death data today (again) are extraordinary.

174 deaths-EXCEPT there are another casual 109 on top that seem to have been “overlooked. ‼️283 deaths

Then we come to the fake test data @UKSTATS. C 50k people swabbed
Nothing like 237k tests claimed
21,243 “people tested” under pillar 1
Who knows under pillar 2 for over 1 month.

Apart from the usual fiction of pillar 2 posted kits (65k today). (NB 42% are never returned or void per today in Parl.)

120k supposedly under surveillance serology pillar 3 & 4.

NOT
They added 40k historical corrections to Pillar 4 ‼️. How can any remotely competent authority overlook 40k?
Where do they come from?
This is ON TOP of another 50k last week. ⁉️
3k historical correction to Pillar 1.

Come on @UKStatsAuth

874 positives. As a % of what ?
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Can Coronavirus Contact Tracing Survive Reopening?
Learning lesson: Liberia: Ebola

“Because we could not spare doctors or nurses, we hired social workers and schoolteachers as contact tracers—people who were respected in the community.” newyorker.com/news/us-journa…
“Welch recalled long meetings with village and tribal leaders, to identify trusted and influential people to hire as tracers. “

They got that contract tracing was more than minimum wage bums on seats.

And it was more than asking people to self isolate.

There was a daily check.
In a very poor country with a population of 5 million, they employed 10,000 contact tracers.

And put their success in containing Ebola down to contact tracing.

It seems to me there needs to be a lot more humility at Government level about learning from the poorest countries.
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