Know your rights, these are your rights.

Late last night new, even stronger restrictions came into force, banning people, under the threat of the Law, not to sing, even in small groups.

This is another example of restrictions on people’s basic freedom of assembly, taken away, with no Parliamentary oversight or scrutiny.

Let me be clear, the measures might have been necessary, but there should have been debate in The Commons at least as to whether the powers are proportionate and if they should be time limited.

But no, they were issued by SI, and the legal profession, the Police and you and I have to make sense of the 54 word salads of contradictory legislation that has been issued by diktat.

It is shameful.

Even the Daily Hate Mail has had enough, but this is more to do with putting the pressure on Johnson not to backtrack on Brexit, which very much in the news this week, as the final round of talks on the future relationship get under way.

A law firm represented 9 students at Manchester University to seek clarification under which law they were being held prisoner in their student accommodation. Turns out there was no law after all, and pictures were published of fire exits having been locked shut to prevent students from leaving.

We are not going to visit Jen, Sylv and Betty for now, as mixing from more than one household is banned, and so John goes that makes it against the law for us to go too. Anyway, we do not want to introduce the risk of COVID into Jen’s house. We are taking this very seriously. Also shown as I am not in Hampshire today, doing an audit, which would switch to the Isle of Wight tomorrow.

Just too risky.

The restrictions, as announced, are not hard enough to control the pandemic. They are thus, to placate the two wings of the Conservative Party; the ones who believe in facts and the ones that believe in Brexit. Meaning that the same mistake as was done in March, too little too late, will be done again.

Meanwhile, according to John Hopkins University, yesterday saw the one millionth person on the planet to die of COVID. 20% are from the US, which has 5% of the global population. And estimates of UK deaths vary between 42,000 and nearly 70,000.

In the UK and most of Europe the second wave is clearly coming, whereas in the US they are still dealing with the first wave, which will merge with the second to create as tsunami of death. As in Florida, bars were allowed to reopen with no restrictions.