We ruined Britain but what do people get furious about? A cake in a Tupperware box
HOW mad we all are, demanding Alexander Johnson’s resignation because someone brought a cake into his office, quite possibly without his knowledge. The true madness is in the lawless rules under which he has been ‘fined by the police’ – a form of punishment expressly banned by the 1689 Bill of Rights, one of the foundation stones of our liberty.
If I thought he would be replaced by anyone better, I’d be perfectly happy for Johnson to quit. As it is, I barely care. Our current Parliament is a care home for nonentities, unmatched in our long history for mediocrity, ignorance and dimness. Who would be better?
But if we’re having resignations let them all go, all the panic-stricken conformists and groupthink victims who rushed this country into economic and social disaster in March 2020 and who invented the daft regulations under which the Premier has been fined.
Let them all go, the Cabinet Ministers without the sense their mothers gave them, hypnotised by guesswork dressed up as pseudoscience and gripped with pathetic admiration for the muscular dictatorial stupidity of the Chinese police state.
Let them all go, the Opposition who did not oppose, the MPs who wouldn’t think, the judges who refused even to hear a case against the ridiculous rules, erected on the tiny foundation of the Public Health Act of 1984. And the BBC, which closed its ears and doors to dissent. Not merely did the measures not work. To the fury and embarrassment of the Covid Zealots, Sweden did not take part in the frenzy of closure, house-arrest, ludicrous mask decrees and economic strangulation. And lo, its health outcomes are, if anything, better than those countries, such as us, which went off their heads. So here we stand, with inflation rotting our savings like an evil fungus, taxes soaring, millions of educations wrecked, countless small businesses ruined and worse to come, and all for nothing. As for the precious NHS, which we were supposed to be saving by all these insane actions, it was easy to see that the shutdown was in fact wrecking it. I looked up my articles: On November 1, 2020 I said: ‘Their decision to strangle our struggling economy once again in an alarmist shutdown is one of panic piled on panic and is visibly destroying the NHS they claim to be saving.’
Two weeks later I said: ‘Many are already experiencing a far poorer NHS, with private GP services starting to boom.’ On January 17, 2021 I wrote: ‘Last week, official figures showed tens of thousands of cancer cases went undiagnosed as NHS waiting lists ballooned. And 4.46million people are waiting for non-emergency surgery, the highest figure since records began in 2007. Lockdowns also kill.’
On May 30, 2021 I said: ‘The devastation of the health service, from NHS dentistry to GP services and cancer prevention and treatment, is and remains frightful and will cost lives for years – a total for which nobody is being blamed.’
We didn’t save the NHS. We didn’t save anything. We just trashed the country because we lacked an elite with enough experience and guts to do what Sweden did. Even now, most people aren’t angry about this. Instead, they are furious about a cake in a Tupperware box.