Too little done to stop those flouting rules

DOES anybody in Parliament ever listen to the news? What are they doing about it? Even more severe measures are here and no attention is being focused on the idiots who are continuing to run amok. Thousands of them nationwide.

What about the louts who broke into a church in Essex and had a rave? Have they been spoken to by the police? Have they been encouraged to do the right thing in future? Did the police use their very last resort and fine them?

The PM announced his latest measures and blamed the new strains of virus for the huge rise in infections and deaths. To what extent are the people who are continually flouting the rules worsening the situation?

Why are they not being berated by our PM on television? They never even get a mention.

Additional and more severe measures are going to destroy many more businesses that were perhaps barely going to scrape through the past 12 months so long as we could have been in a better position by now.

Those people who have been behaving badly since last March have never been brought forward to face real justice.

Meanwhile, the majority of us who follow the rules and as likely as not will have passed on no Covid germs to anybody else, are now once again penalised – together with those who continue to disobey the rules as there is nothing to stop them.

Speaking to my daughter recently, she said nothing would change as we are not living in a police state. My reply was that we probably should be in order to restore law and order.

But we do not have to go that far. Our police forces in the 1950s, through to the end of the 1960s, were comprised of real policemen who had far more power and authority than they have now. They are fighting a losing battle with virtually no power, no authority and, in return, they get no respect.

I wrote to our local MP, Sarah Dines, about this situation some months ago and received a feeble response to only a few of the many points I had raised – and I have asked for a properly reasoned argument to ALL the points I raised to prove that what I have said in my letter is wrong.

To date, nothing more. Must be nice living in a dream world and pretending that we still live in a civilised society, when in fact we don’t.

Michael Pickering, Doveridge