Dither and delay

One of the members of the Government's SAGE team admitted, under much questioning, that had the Government began to lockdown a week earlier, then over a half of those who have died, would be alive now.

Although you will not get a member of this Government admitting a mistake. Oh no, they have scientists to pin that to. Oh sorry Minister, was that a slip of the tongue?

Yes, with over 40,000 deaths in hospitals and care homes, the R rate over 1 in some parts of the country, but Johnson is proud of his Government's recrod on handling the crisis.

Well, that's nice.

Johnson, the Prime Minister who is invisible, probably hiding in his fridge for six days a week, emerges to be bullied by that rude man, Keir Starmer at PMQs, then shuffles to the weekly briefing where no actual information is given, and certainly not answer any questions, instead answering questions Johnson though should be asked.

We elected a clown, so have a circus. A circus of hate and chaos. And lies.

And lies is what Johnson does.

Why has the UK suffered more than any other country with deaths? Well, a Minister explains, the UK has a large hub airport. Oh, that explains it. Other than from the top of my head, Paris and Amsterdam have large hub airports, and even if it were true, why the actual fuck did you only impose isolation regulations on the 8th JUNE?

And those regulations, in an SI, without any scrutiny, removes the right to free movement. Unless. And this is where it gets really silly; in a 22 page SI there are 11, yes 11, pages of exemptions, making the whole thing mostly redundant. When a person arriving in England can not, lawfully go out to buy a newspaper, but can go to do checks on a spaceship, then we know we are ruled by fools.

But these fools have got a taste for ruling by diktat, not having to go through the dull and lengthy scrutiny of both Houses. No, just write something up, say its an emergency, and what, its law. And you and you, lose your rights.

In normal times, Government is the executive and Parliament is the legislature. But under COVID, a situation that has been ongoing since the second week of March at least, the Government feels it needs to bypass Parliament to pass emergency legislation, when Parliament is sitting.

Government will want to carry on doing this, it makes things so easy for them, easy to take our rights away and us to have no recourse.