Rule by Diktat

Well I don’t and it doesn’t. Perhaps that is because I can see parallels with the Soviet Union. Perhaps because I can see a bunch of despots signing off new laws and punishments without any scrutiny – let alone parliamentary scrutiny. No one who voted for these evil bastards in December 2019 voted for this. Not content with trashing our economy they are trampling over our basic civil liberties. Only in a draconian dictatorship does the government behave like this.

No, Grant Shapps and Matt Hancock, we are not answerable to you, you are answerable to us. The idea that you can imprison someone for what is a very minor offence – that shouldn’t even be an offence – over an illness that does not, and never has, warranted the hysterical over-reaction that you have engaged in, does not justify a 10 year prison term. This goes way, way beyond a reasonable reaction.

Lord Sumption is, again, calling it right.

It was criticised by former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption who said lower tariffs exist for sex offences.

A voice of reason in a wilderness of hysteria, stupidity and evil.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Lord Sumption accused Health Secretary Matt Hancock – who announced the latest measures – of losing his connection with reality.

Mad Handcock is an obnoxious little man who has been promoted way beyond his abilities. Much like his boss.

With this latest wheeze, the government – and Mad Handcock – has crossed the line from the merely incompetent to outright evil. How long before people decide they have had enough?

And, yes, we need a system for removing them – and the opposition – and starting again. I don’t know what that would look like, but what I do know is that everyone in parliament who voted for the removal of our liberties needs to be removed themselves and held accountable.

When I started this blog back in 2004, I thought that the New Labour ID cards and identity register was awful. Never, in my wildest nightmares, would I have thought that our liberties would be swept aside by a Tory government with such a willingness to dig out unrelated enabling acts to achieve their wickedness – a government that hasn’t even bothered with the niceties of parliamentary debate. All on the say so of scoundrels like Neil Ferguson.

“People shouldn’t be booking holidays right now – not domestically or internationally,” he told the Today programme, prompting the travel industry to warn of another lost summer.

It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs the public would need to “get used to the idea of vaccinating and then re-vaccinating in the autumn” due to new variants.

And, speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, he said the hotel quarantine plan was “measured” and “proportionate”.