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James Melville

28 Sep, 11 tweets, 4 min read

Since the start of the pandemic, the UK government have broken promises, repeatedly U-turned and coerced the country with a series of mixed messages and lies.

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“This vaccine will not be used for children. This is an adult vaccine to be used on the adult population.”

- Matt Hancock, 10th November 2020.

Here’s what Michael Gove previously said about vaccine passports. It hasn’t aged well.

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“Absolutely no plans for vaccine passports.”

Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi, 14th December 2020.

#NoVaccinePassports

Boris Johnson discussing compulsory ID cards in 2004:

"A recipe for tyranny and oppression...and that’s why I oppose the scheme. If I’m obliged to have one by the emanations of the state, I will grind it and eat it on my cornflakes.”

#NoVaccinePassports

Boris Johnson on ID cards in 2004:

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3/ The question is: what were the government hoping to achieve? Did they think everyone would simply look at the charts and freak out? Or did they assume we’re all so terrified already we’d just blindly take those charts at face value?

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Fascism arrives when society is asleep at the wheel. It tricks people into giving them the illusion of security. It identifies enemies. It appeals to the in-group (usually the majority). It smashes freedom and replaces it with control. We fall asleep at the wheel at our peril.

“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”

~ Plato

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1/ The government’s appalling handling of Covid...

From start to finish, the government has stuffed up their response to Covid with a set of responses that were either badly managed, dreadfully communicated or misleading. This has led to total confusion and fear.

2/ The government willfully attempted to ramp up fear levels by using doomsday scenario charts and applied flawed methodology to create a fanciful worst case scenario that was presented as a real possibility - which was then parroted by the media.