Horrifically complex

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020 was published today. It is a Statuatory Instrument, it will be laid before Parliament on the 2nd, but will still become law even if voted down.

There will be no amendments allowed. This is how it is.

Adam Wagner who has been keeping track of all the COVID related legislation, calls this document, which stretches to 30,000 words, horrifically complex.

The interpretations now stretch to 6 pages.

There are pages and pages of exceptions. It is mad.

Should be simple, but is everything but.

This document is likley the rule book on how all our lives will be controlled for the next four weeks, and probably months after that.

Ignorance will not be an excuse, we are supposed to know what we can and can't do. The Police are supposed to know so they can get the law right.

The Government has got used to ruling by decree, there will be little turning back unless Parliament forces them to. If they get the chance.

With Brexit, it will be declared an emergency, more SIs will be issued, with no scrutiny, and more freedoms will be curtailed. And as a country we will travel further from being a liberal democracy.