Let’s thank all who have helped save us
HILE for some people masks have become an essential form of protection – or even a fashion item – there will be many people who cannot wait to throw them away for good.
The good news is that from “Freedom Day” on July 19 we will be able to choose for ourselves at last.
The Prime Minister will be right to say this week that now is time for a “return to common sense and personal responsibility”.
This country’s success is built on individual liberty, on people deciding for themselves what risks to take and which to protect against.
The end of lockdown measures cannot come a moment too soon and there is much now that needs to be carried out to restore the economy and tackle wider health and societal problems caused by lockdown.
Boris Johnson is taking a courageous step but he is taking the right one.
In the meantime, as we prepare for our long awaited freedom, let us remember that we have only got to this point thanks to the efforts of the many unsung heroes and heroines up and down Britain who have helped enable it to happen.
We rightly laud people such as Dame Sarah Gilbert, who played a key role in developing the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine, but the national effort has been as much about the small acts of kindness and neighbourliness performed by thousands of people.
So let us all today join in the national Thank You Day by posting your messages to those who have collectively done so much to get us through this crisis, whether it was volunteers, NHS workers, council officers or faith leaders.
DIDYOU see the survey last week that showed just one in 20 women back the replacement of men’s and women’s toilets with genderneutral ones. Blokes seem almost as uninterested, as just one in 10 supports the dopey notion.
This is an unjust invasion of safe space for women and is only being considered as too many in power are in thrall to the transgender lobby.
Although a vanishingly small number of people want this, don’t expect the idea to be “flushed away” any time soon.
WHEN the Government gets its response to Covid right, when a visit to a local A&E no longer takes as long as a flight to Africa, when our schools start to top global league tables, when our streets are safe, when criminals can be deported in months rather than years and when the migrant crisis is resolved, THEN they can start telling us how to raise our children and if we can – or cannot – gently smack them.
SOME tough talking from policing minister Kit Malthouse, who last week said Extinction Rebellion protesters ignored the rights of people affected by their demos.
He’s right. Thousands have been unable to get to work and hospital appointments have been missed thanks to these woke warriors. The minister declared: “The Government will not accept behaviour that has a disproportionate impact on people and businesses.”
Strong words. And we’ll judge you by them next time that scruffy circus rolls into town.