I think this was a brave move to have a gathering of more than six it is sending out a message that the laws are unlawful the fact they have receive no fine means how can the police enforce it on other people if people see them not obeying others may follow I don't think Jeremy Corbyn thinks he is a man above the law to me he is a honourable man and this was a protest in a less vocal way
Have to disagree with that. Corbyn & Co. would have imposed unbelievably strict measures (a la Daniel Andrews in Victoria) and then flouted them with his lefty friends at every turn. He would have exploited the opportunity to try and obliterate every privately owned business he could. Look at the disgraceful way Democrat governors in the U.S. have acted for a template for how a Jeremy Corbyn government would have dealt with this.
I know it sounds unbelievable to say this, but things could have turned out even worse!
Mark, I'm inclined to agree with what you're saying. Johnson's approach is more fascist i.e. convince people that it is for their own good and use psychological tricks to unify masses against a common 'enemy', JC's would have been for sure more Stalinist approach - threaten them with gulags, bankrupt private businesses and replace them with state run collectives, those opposing are made to disappear.
The only thing is, a choice between different styles of dictatorship is not a choice we should've been debating.
At the moment, compared to a hypothetical Corbyn government, the Boris mob is slightly the lesser of two evils, but give it time. The current direction they’re taking (like a speeding locomotive that’s careered off the tracks) will ensure in a few months that they will have out-socialist the socialists!
https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/29/be-warned-the-government-is-using-the-pandemic-as-an-excuse-to-grab-more-power-13342412/ mark check this link Boris is pretty organised in his covid destruction
Good article, but the writer of the article leaves an awful lot to be desired. Until now the Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has kept her head very much below the parapet and refused to criticise the goverment’s authoritarian impulses. In fact, on the rare occasions she has raised an issue, it has been to argue for more draconian blanket measures and less personal freedom. If she carries on with this new viewpoint for the next few months then I will believe it’s her genuinely held opinion. At the moment I strongly suspect she is indulging in some party political point scoring.
.... Why is it that there's much emphasis on 'restriction' ? Who'se saying there should be massive support to improve individuals health and nutritional education, bolster immune systems, biosphere re-improvement. Re-empower People and Work with Nature !
Too controversial ! - it would be Less medicine for the masses
It is all one big mafia profiting out of people illnesess and misery. They all bought veccine shares. There is enough proof to prosecute them under a criminal Court.