Our freedoms must not be curtailed

LETTERS praising Boris Johnson’s handling of the Covid pandemic in this country are misplaced.

It wasn’t Johnson who organised the vaccination programme, it was the NHS, it was the NHS and volunteers who have worked themselves into the ground...

You know, the same NHS staff he wishes to give a pay rise of 1% to, whilst spending billions on the Track and Trace failure and out of date PPE kit and now the Covid-19 passports!

Whilst President Biden has decided against vaccine passports on freedom grounds, stating his interest in the matter to be “Americans’ privacy and rights”, our PM thinks they will be a very jolly good idea.

Well he would wouldn’t he?

He’s shown his colours before in trying to create state that is run as a dictatorship in this country – the country that gave the world democracy.

He claims to be another Churchill, but he’s more of a Stalin, and I can’t resist offering a quotation from

Sir Winston Churchill to make my point:

“We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievements of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield.

“We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?”

We must stand up and be counted now. It seems every day Boris Johnson is looking for ways to curtail our freedoms.

I don’t agree with the violence in Bristol but the cause of that protest and violence is the same one as the devious minds that thought up the Covid passports.

No doubt if Donald Trump were still in power in the USA today, we would be looking at a similar imposition on the American people there as is being tried here.

Stuart Eels Chippenham