Six months

Six months yesterday, the first lockdown was imposed, or the first restrictions.

In the six months since, the Government has released 50 Statuatory Instruments or ammendments, the actual test of most have never been released as the next update overwrites them.

All have been issued with a swipe of Matt Hancocks pen, with no scrutiny, no debate, some of which have removed our basic right to free assembly or freedom to travel.

Since May there has been no emergency, Parliament is sitting, and many of the SIs have been scheduled to come into force several days after approval.

No one is keeping track of these, whether they contradict each other. Well, some are, but certainly the Government isn't, issuing diktats rather than actual policies.

The Government could, and should be using Civil Emergencies legislation for these, but that would require debate after seven days, and a sunset clause of 28 days. Much easier to use SIs so that there is none of the faffing and explaining and scrutiny.

A Government that learns to rule by diktat will not want to stop. There will be some other emergency that they could blame for having to use SIs.

After giving everyone a tenner for each time they ate out in August, getting schools and offices to reopen, clearly, the spike in scases is the public's fault, no Hancock's, and certainly not Johnson's.

The Government plans to spend £100 BILLION on an IT system for COVID called Operation Moonshot. It has no medical, clinical or imune experts on it. To put that in context, that figure is double the total annual defense budget, and only £30 billion short of the total NHS annual budget. Of course there will be scrutiny, no oversight, no tender process, just Dom pushing a hundred billion pound to his mates in IT, and we, the taxpayer will foot the bill.

There is little chance of it finding a vaccine, it is like Johnson putting the UK budget on 52 black in Vegas.

But they would rather you get angry by half a dozen brown peole in an inflatable boat.

Of course.