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Too Many in Politics and the Civil Service Had No ‘Skin in the Game’ When They Destroyed Livelihoods and Frightened the Nation into Compliance

by Will Jones
13 April 2022 8:00 AM

Businessman and journalist Luke Johnson (who is one of the Daily Sceptic‘s directors) has given a must-watch interview to Jeffrey Peel on his New Era website. Jeffrey writes:

Luke Johnson has been the force behind many of the U.K.’s most successful hospitality and retail businesses. Early in lockdown Luke appeared on BBC Question Time and was one of the first leading business people to question lockdown as a response to the COVID-19 outbreak. In this video I gave Luke the chance to elaborate on his view that too many in politics and the Civil Service had little or no “skin in the game” when they were making decisions to destroy livelihoods and to frighten the nation into compliance.

Luke argues, very effectively, that lockdowns were so devastating a means of ‘controlling’ a virus that they should never be contemplated again.

Watch it here.

Tags: Economic costsHospitalityLockdown harmsLockdowns

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