Writing in The Telegraph today, Tim Stanley said that he believes government-mandated covid restrictions will be with us for the rest of our lives. Stanley believes that future variants and crises like new diseases and even climate change, will be used “to justify the reactivation of controls that this pandemic has invited.”
Stanley claims that any labelling of the current restrictions as “light” is nothing more than propaganda:
It’s true that we’re not fully locked down, and our rules aren’t as draconian as in parts of Europe, but don’t swallow the propaganda that these measures, however proportionate, are “light…..
Labour and the broadcast media will nudge ministers to go further; the vast majority of voters will comply. We have normalised the extraordinary, accepting as inevitable phenomena that contradict the fundamentals of what I was taught was the British way of life, such as snooping, emotionalism and invasive policing. Someday, we’ll have to sit down with a pencil and paper and rewrite our national myth.
I also suspect that these rules are not just for Christmas but the rest of my life, for there will long be variants – and always a crisis, be it another disease or a flood, to justify the reactivation of controls that this pandemic has invited. A precedent is set. The interesting question is when, or if, it can finally be broken.
I wonder if it has occurred to Tim Stanley that his government is not merely over-reacting to covid and its coat of many variants? He’s a bright lad, is Tim. I interviewed him several times when I was working in Spain.
Surely now, 20 months into this scam and more than 115 million jabs administered in the UK, Tim has realised that there’s something far more sinister going on?
Maybe. Or, maybe not.
Here’s a link to the full article in Today’s Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/29/lockdown-looms-liberties-tatters/
