Mark Harper and Steve Baker – the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Covid Recovery Group – have come out swinging today, demanding the Government end all social distancing restrictions on June 21st and allow the country to return to normal.
Steve has written a piece for the Sun today arguing it would be morally wrong to prolong our agony after June 21st:
The data is so good, and the doomsayers so wrong, that it cannot possibly be rational or morally right for us to have to socially distance from each other in any context or setting in the UK beyond June 21st. Being social is key to being well so by June 21st at the latest, Britain must meet again, must be reunited in every sense, and we must start healing the broken bonds of the last year with social contact and normal human interaction.
Worth reading in full (although the effusive praise for Boris’s leadership in the throat-clearing section at the top may irritate some readers).
And Mark has written for the Telegraph making a similar argument:
As Parliament returns, with his personal authority enhanced, the Prime Minister faces a choice. Last week, he gave us a fairly clear indication of what he would like to see when he hailed the “good chance” of social distancing being completely scrapped next month. With financial support schemes soon winding down, as they cannot go on forever, removing social distancing is crucial to the survival of many sectors of our economy such as hospitality, that simply cannot make any money and pay wages if it remains in place.
There needs to be early confirmation that social distancing will be completely scrapped from June 21st so that businesses can plan to fully reopen and ensure that we are truly on the “one way road to freedom” that the Prime Minister promised.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Steve Baker appeared on Julia Hartley-Brewer’s talkRADIO show this morning to talk about why all restrictions need to be lifted on June 21st.
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Steve Baker has a phd in “hot air”.
From fake eurosceptic to fake lockdown sceptic, this all round fake Tory backbench rebel makes career opportunism look effortless at times. Mind you, he is in good company.
Mr Crumble.
I ended all lockdown restrictions for myself ages ago.
So did I!
…..but then again, if the Prime Minister would like to take the time to invite me to number 10 and offer me the post of Junior Minister for Lockdown Enforcement I’d be quite prepared to argue for government measures to continue until the back end of 2023, at which point we can perhaps have a cabinet review of where things stand.”
As I posted earlier:
Masks, distancing, track and trace, mandatory tests, travel restrictions, caps on numbers, WFH guidance = lockdown
The 21st June will make no difference to my life. I do more or less exactly the same things now as I have done since lockdown started in March 2020, the only difference being the tennis club is open. Other than that, I don’t go anywhere or do anything that involves coronabollocks – which is more or less everything other than outdoor activity. I have continued to socialise privately, sometimes legally, sometimes illegally. But for the rest, life is over and will continue to be so, probably for decades.
Covid is great for jobswurfs. They love itvas an excuse for poor service.
Excellent !!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd4GFaCXAKc&t=160s&ab_channel=IvorCummins
Apart from those over 80 who had two or more chronic diseases, SARS-CoV-2 has been LESS of a risk than ‘flu for the vast majority of people.
There is NO valid reason for anyone who is at minimal risk of harm from SARS-CoV-2 to have a “vaccine” for which there IS a risk of harm that is far from trivial.
The greatest danger to our long-term freedom is the “Covid Status Passport” or “Vaccine Passport”. The likes of Steve Baker, if they are not faux libetarians, must fight vigorously for the rights of everyone to refuse any medical intervention, especially any experimental drugs or treatments. It’s a fundamental right which a vaccine passport would remove whether or not that is the intention.
We MUST return to the pre-2020 way of assessing risk and the right of the individual to make their own risk assessment and not to be coerced into having a jab that carries a greater risk of harm than the disease must be protected at all costs.
After all, this is a respiratory virus that has resulted in the death rate for the UK in 2020 rising from slightly less than 1% to slightly more than 1%. This is not the “Doomsday Virus” that will, if it ever shows up, wipe out the greater part of humanity. For a virus that is essentially harmless to the vast majority of people under 65, an international vaccine passport that can be used to totally remove our rights in an instant is not needed, not warranted and must never happen.
We must not allow the medical business to gain total power over us all. Not now, not ever. It is a fundamental right that we’re allowed to refuse any forced procedure or treatment.
“Covid Status” documents ARE the end-point for this “emergency” and they have always been the plan. Resist this move to totalitarianism now while you still can.