🗽"We should be living with coronavirus, like we live with flu"
👇My speech today in response to the new Covid restrictions
❌"If the Government keeps going down this path...if we panic every time there is a new variant - when there will be new variant after new variant - we are going to make entire sections of our economy uninvestable"
👇"Where is the hope from the Government"
🗽"This is about how we react, and the kind of nation and civilisation we are creating in the context of this disease"
👇"This is a fundamental choice between heading towards heaven and heading towards hell"
🏥"There is no plausible path set out before us that leads to a public health emergency"
👇"The Govt is once again choosing that downward path towards hell - the hell of minute management of our lives by edict - some of us have got to take a decision to vote no"
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🗽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.” 👇👇👇
🗽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.