Posted on 01/14/2021 7:14:27 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Influential backbench leader Sir Graham Brady has said that lockdown measures could be “removing hope” from Britons, criticising “pointless restrictions” that ban people from sitting on a park bench or taking more than one walk a day.
Sir Graham, chairman of the 1922 Committee of all backbench Tory MPs, warned that the government and ministers need to recognise that “lockdown carries its own costs”
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trauma. it’s like a snow ball rolling down a hill accumulating as it goes. Gotta deal with that because those who are predisposed are easily manipulated. Majority will get over it on their own over time (year or two?) but if MSM has its way, keep the people in fear.
The poor Brits are really locked down. Of course, Boris Johnson was spotted bicycling in a park 7 miles from his home...but it’s different if you’re special.
They live in a police state now, where even their homes can be invaded, and an army of Karens, including their own neighbors, is watching them at every moment. Terrifying - and happening here.
I hope we’re tougher and resist though.
We'd be facing even more extreme lockdowns if the "authorities" didn't fear an armed citizenry when confronting them on the street.
‘Infantilising’ People
The guy can’t be all that bright if it took him 30 years to figure that out.
We should enjoy our own mobility for the next week, while we still have it. All bets are off after the 20th.
There are no restrictions on outdoor exercise, and you can drive somewhere to exercise, provided you stay ‘local’. ‘Local’ isn’t defined, so it’s a matter of common sense. Obviously ‘local’ means different things to somebody in a large city and somebody in a quiet rural area. Today I drove 30 miles for a 4-hour walk. There was nothing in BJ’s bike ride 7 miles away, or in my trip, which broke any rules. The media fuss about the BJ trip was a non-story designed to expose the inevitable ambiguities.
The local police forces as much as anybody else have found the constantly changing government Covid guidance and emergency legislation hard to keep track of. Of course there have been blunders, which have mostly soon been apologised for and on-the-spot tickets refunded. There is no right to enter anybody's home without a warrant, and you can't get an arrest warrant for these petty violations. If they've done it anywhere that's illegal, and they can be sued (British police can be, and regularly successfully are, sued for wrongful arrest. That wouldn't happen in a police state.)
British police have always had a 'policing by consent' tradition, and have never liked the idea of 'enforcement'. The police as much as anybody are uncomfortable with the current situation.
Good!
Losing hope is the only way they will take the lives they need to take to save themselves.
Bring back Sir Robert Peale’s rules for policing.
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In many ways they’ve never changed, particularly the concept of a locally-accountable civilian force (not quasi-military).
You obviously didn’t see the video of the family in Scotland who committed the “crime” of having six people in their house. The police simply pushed in, told them to go home, and when the man of the house objected, they dragged him outside and shoved him face down into the snow and left him there, hands cuffed behind his back.
The women of the house were trying to get out to help him and the police (there were about four of them) came back and literally fought with them.
These are the same police who spent the summer “taking a knee” to BLM.
There are many such videos and photos of this “policing by consent.” And the cops sure didn’t look uncomfortable. Probably anybody who objected has been expelled from the force.
What you describe, if it happened, is illegal and the police will probably be successfully sued.
Looks like the Brits are going to be living the movie “Threads” without the nuclear attack.
Swiss Artists Against Covid Resrictions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b89W4mijN4c
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