Don’t let the COVID panic kill UK’s soul
A COUPLE of months ago, in a Buxton charity shop, I found a copy of Winston Churchill’s six- volume history of the Second World War.
Seven and a half quid, since you ask. Bargain.
With little else to do in this bloody lockdown, I started reading the first volume, The Gathering Storm, last week.
And this passage caught my eye: “It would be wrong in judging the policy of the British Government not to remember the passionate desire… which animated the uninformed, misinformed majority of the British people, and seemed to threaten with extinction any party or politician who dared to take the other line.
Excuse
“This, of course, is no excuse for political leaders who fall short of their duty. It is much better for parties or politicians to be turned out of office than to imperil the life of the nation.”
Those words were written about the British Government’s pre- war push for disarmament in the early Thirties, despite it being as clear as a pikestaff by then that the new German leader, Adolf Hitler, was a bad egg.
But they ring clear today.
How ironic that we have a PM in Number 10 today who claims to idolise Churchill but refuses to heed his idol’s words.
Driven by public panic and the hysterical foamings of public figures such as gobby TV presenter Mr Piers Morgan, Boris and his chums have binned hundreds of years of British liberty.
And so we get to the utterly grotesque situation we are in now.
Sons and daughters banned from embracing aged parents in their final days.
Husbands prevented from holding their dying wives’ hands.
Neighbours ENCOURAGED to snitch on neighbours for trifling violations of “regulations”.
And last week, to cap it all, we were given official permission to celebrate Christmas – but only for five days and only with at the price of 25 days of subsequent lockdown.
Wrong
All the while, millions chant: “AH! But it’s worth it!”
Is it, though?
Look, I KNOW this virus is real. On Wednesday, I went to the funeral of a friend who died of COVID.
But can it be so wrong to ask if the treatment for this illness is worse than the disease itself?
Because there will be more funerals – of people whose cancer was missed, whose heart complaints went untreated.
There will be funerals for those who take their own lives in despair as these blasted “lockdowns” ruin the economy, trash livelihoods and destroy dreams.
And something else will die. Do you think our leaders will give up their powers to boss us around now they’ve tasted them?
Tens of thousands of souls have been taken by COVID.
But I fear the freedom- loving soul of the once- brave, once- stoic British nation may very soon be extinguished by this plague.