🗽The Coronavirus Act has contained egregious powers but it's the Public Health Act that has been used to lock us down, shut businesses & stop family reunions
“When we rammed this act of Parliament through, I stood and said it would bring forward a dystopian society. I had no idea then just how dystopian it would be.” 👇👇👇
“We are going to need to turn the corner, we are going to have to show the public that we do stand for freedom…that in the long run their rights are sacrosanct, and that we are never ever going to do again to them, what we have done over the past couple of years” 🗽🗽🗽
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🗽I campaigned and voted against the Coronavirus Act - EG: votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/… - so I am pleased ministers are getting rid of egregious powers like Schedules 21 and 22.
According to @HansardSociety, "Coronavirus-related Statutory Instruments have been made and laid under 133 Acts of Parliament, seven Orders, five EU Regulations (which are now retained EU law in the UK) and one Church Measure."
"Judge Sophie Buckley said: ‘There is an extremely strong public interest in enabling scrutiny of the data, models and calculations which underpin the CCC’s conclusion that the net zero target could be met at an annual resource cost of up to 1-2 per cent of GDP.
"‘Any errors in the calculations that led to the CCC’s conclusions, which, in turn, led to the legislative change, have the potential to have a very significant impact on the lives and finances of large numbers of people, [...]
"- banks do not act simply as intermediaries, lending out deposits that savers place with them, and nor do they ‘multiply up’ central bank money to create new loans and deposits."
There's a huge amount wrong with our current monetary system but giving even more power to central banks to intervene in our lives is not the right answer.
Monetary socialism of this kind was a factor in getting us into this mess. It would be good to have a market solution.
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🚷A two-tier society is back: Covid-status certification will be “encouraged”
🤝Govt must not restrict basic freedoms only to restore them to some
🐇We are so far down the rabbit hole, we have forgotten we fell in
📉This is not about nightclubs: there is no limit to where Covid-status certification can be used
🗽Our civil liberties are not a stick to beat those who can’t be, or choose not to be, vaccinated
% of over 50s not vaccinated by ethnicity: White 6%, South Asian 15%, Black 31%
👉Let us be clear: this is extraordinary
🚫We never accepted ID cards yet any business can now demand your health status
@BorisJohnson on ID cards "I'll take that card out of my wallet & physically eat it in the presence of whatever emanation of the state demanded I produce it"