The Most Important Thing You Can Do This Minute…
… is contact your MP and insist they vote against the proposed Plan B measures
In a more innocent era (just over six months ago) I wrote – in hope, rather than expectation – that Sir Keir Starmer, Her Majesty’s Leader of the Opposition might, well, do his job and oppose Her Majesty’s Government.
This job is an actual salaried position – currently £144,649 per annum. HM Leader of the Opposition’s role for this sweet retainer is to hold the Prime Minister to account, to harangue him or her regularly at Prime Minister’s Questions and – ultimately – attempt to topple HM Government such that it can be replaced with better leadership. Survival of the fittest, if you like.
This is how the Mother of Parliaments has functioned for hundreds of years: Burkean representative democracy at its best.
But the system does not work if both Prime Minister and HM Leader of the Opposition are both in the pocket of someone – or something – else.
At which point one lives in nothing more than a tyrannical autocracy until the next General Election.
Many people mistook Sir Keir Starmer’s support for HM Government’s Covid restrictions as that of a co-operative leader in a time of crisis. But the Labour Leader plays to many tunes, not least that of various unions and other more colourful outfits such as the Trilateral Commission. And it is obvious that Cummings’ withering ‘Trolley’ moniker for the Prime Minister could not be more apt.
Democracy as we know it was shelved in March 2020. Despite claims that it was ‘three weeks to flatten the curve’, HM Government demanded draconian emergency powers for 24 months. For some reason, MPs in the Houses of Parliament handed over this power to the ruling junta, at which point ‘they’ set to work. Now, I don’t know who ‘they’ are. But one thing I am sure of: ‘they’ should not be allowed to succeed.
Because – as the clock runs down on 24 months – there seems an almost demonic rush to push legislation through that just does not seem justified. Remember the ‘irreversibility’ of Freedom Day back in July 2021? Well, the sting in the tail was the PM ‘serving notice’ of vaccine passport restrictions in future. These have been introduced in Europe – uselessly, it turns out – but nonetheless the UK included them in a putative ‘Plan B’ that looked remarkably detailed for something that wasn’t going to be needed. Plan B is a really, really bad idea. Vaccine passports are an abomination that is wholly unethical and fundamentally bad news: they would be a staging post to a medical apartheid that could split society asunder. But don’t take my word for it: read this damning report by the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee. And the Scottish government could find no meaningful evidence to support their use.
As summer turned to autumn, various behind-the-scenes panjandrums engaged in ridiculous scare stories in a totally pathetic attempt to whip up fear – and fell flat on their faces as their lies were exposed. Cases, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid continued to fall.
The lockdown centrists were convinced. On 12 November Christopher Snowdon wrote that it is time to put Covid behind us:
“It is to the government’s credit that it has kept a cool head, ignoring the clowns to the left of them and the jokers on the right. The threat of vaccine passports was always a bluff to encourage young people to get their jabs. It worked well enough for the government to then shelve the idea and it is clearly reluctant to follow the authoritarians in Scotland and Wales by bringing them in”.
Well yes. But then came the most ridiculous avalanche of co-ordinated tripe that you ever did see from a ruling government machine, resulting in new restrictions, baseless demonisation of the unvaccinated (who seem under-represented in hospitals, and by eschewing vaccination are not invalidating their health insurance) and then the announcement that Plan B would be implemented, though I must have missed the stipulated trigger of a “significant, unsustainable rise in Covid hospitalisations”.
And here is annoying little detail that everyone must take note of: it was pointed out on 4 October 2021 by Professor Norman Fenton that government guidance had been issued regarding vaccine passports as follows:
‘Mid December’, you say? ‘They’ were always planning to go ahead with this. The ‘conspiracy theorists’ were right. This particular sentence was clearly a slip-up by the machine behind the scenes, as it quickly disappeared. Perhaps Snowdon shouldn’t be so sniffy about Fenton? Because despite Omicron being potentially touted as the end of the pandemic, HMG is pursuing this divisive policy, and the UK Health & Safety Agency (an ominous name for this new entity) felt confident enough to put out the following advert:
15 December: about as close to mid December as you can get. Of course, this taxpayer-funded advert has since been deleted, along with handwaving from the Savage Jabbit about due democratic process.
Well. Who is in charge? Supporters of the ‘this is just a massive cock-up’ theory have some serious explaining to do.
There are now over 60 Conservative MPs who will rebel and vote against Plan B on Tuesday. That is enough to break HM Government’s majority. In normal times, HM Opposition would also vote against, discrediting HM Government and essentially holding it to account. Survival of the fittest – democracy in action. And an end to these divisive policies, and a chance for a fresh start.
But HM Opposition, led by Sir Keir Starmer, has indicated that he intends to support these terrible plans. Ask yourself why. Who is writing the script?
And while you are wondering this, get in touch with your MP and demand that they vote against these appalling proposals. There may be a case for these vaccine passports, there may not. But either way, we deserve to have these matters discussed in detail in a public forum and considered at length before more taxpayer cash gets wasted.
Or we may find ourselves wondering why we the democracy we thought we lived in does not actually exist any more.
Please, contact your MP now.