They should all be held accountable for the damage they have inflicted.
They should, but our only way of doing that is via the ballot box given even our basic rights to protest and assemble with others have been nullified by making protests conditional upon strict adherence to their authoritarian virus-related legislation.
A bigger question is how do we ensure greater and proper Parliamentary scrutiny in future. I no longer believe that a two party system with MPs' voting controlled by party whips provides much democratic accountabilty to the voters in constituencies who actually put them in power.
There are a raft of constitutional issues which could be considered (again) such as alternative voting, compulsory voting, more direct choice via referenda, requirements for Parliamentary recesses to be cancelled in times of emergency, raising the quorum required in the Commons, abolishing pairing....
So far they are dismissing any scrutiny of their actions to date..they will not return our freedoms for as long as they are allowed to continue ( no opposition) . It's going to take massive public pressure in whatever form before we even have a fighting chance and the way the sheep are following it's going to be a real struggle.. then of course you get the pro vaccine people who believe all this will go away once they reach their goal of vaccinating the population...I very much doubt it...
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I'm not sure the Fixed Term Parliaments Act helps to keep govts (particularly ones with 80 seat majorities) honest either.
Ultimately public pressure is one thing, but it will be obvious whether there is real will to roll back virus-related laws next year.
I think there will be some back bench Tories pressing for it. Across the house? Not sure.
Perhaps the ground is set for a (single issue) party similar to the parties campaiging for Brexit to step in and put pressure on the govt in due time, but it needs to start happening now and flush out the exit strategy and thereby flush out the overall view as to liberties being restored.
I wholeheartedly agree with you Miahoneybee.
I am sure you all remember well Johnson promised us a SIGNIFICANT RETURN TO NORMAL BY CHRISTMAS. Well we all know what happened to that don't we. Anybody who now believes things will be better by the spring or that they are going on a foreign holiday next summer is utterly deluded.
The state of emergency cannot be released, otherwise the vaccine would have to go back through full clinical trials, that's never going to happen folks, so lockdown will go on ad infinitum. Leicester being the prime example here, the city has today experienced continued lockdown for 6 yes SIX months, if it can be done here, it can be done everywhere.
Fuhrer Johnson aided by Goering sorry Hancock, will now use this crisis, unopposed by such a shamefully weak opposition to bring about a totalitarian state.
Johnson has repeatedly timed events to avoid parliamentary scrutiny, and this narrative will just continue, a totalitarian state also solves his difficulty with, Scotland, Northern Ireland, they will get no vote on independence, because nobody will have a vote on anything!!!
