The freedom from lockdowns movement is now embarking on a campaign to persuade key government Ministers to debate their Covid-19 policies.
So far, a series of national protest marches – including about 1.7 million attending the one in London on Saturday 26th June – have failed to persuade government Ministers to engage in fair and open debate about their efforts dealing with the Covid-19 crisis.
In a broadening of policy, the anti-lockdown campaigners are now demanding answers in the Ministers’ own constituencies, challenging individual Ministers to have the courage to accept that their policies should be open to scrutiny and rational discussion.
In the first such challenge, a group of pro-freedom campaigners protested outside the Stratford-upon-Avon Constituency Offices of Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi. Former local Councillor Diane Coad knocked on the door of the local offices on behalf of the protesters and spoke both on the intercom and the phone with the officials inside.
Although Nadhim Zahawi had been informed in advance and asked for an appointment, as expected there was little co-operation and a request for a brief interview was rejected. The protesters included some local constituents, so the denial of any time at all is a dereliction of an MP’s duties to his constituents, as well as a dereliction of his duty to the public as a government Health Minister.
The protest, which was organised by the National Alliance for Freedom from Lockdowns, was the first of a new initiative aimed at key government Ministers in their own local constituencies. The intention is to persuade such Ministers to act in an open and accountable manner and not hide in their London government offices, cocooned from what is going on in the outside world.
The protest was peaceful, with full co-operation from the local police, and received a lot of local support.
Other government Ministers will now have protests at their constituency offices, where there will be requests for them to engage with the public on the Covid-19 issues they have been responsible for.
The public in local areas are encouraged to protest at their local MP’s constituency offices and to try to engage with their MPs, which is their right and always has been.
Some such protests have already taken place.
The protests with Ministers and key opposition figures supporting the government will, however, receive more attention and focus, as these are the people promoting Covid-19 policies, as distinct from the MPs who have voted for them.
The protest with regard to Nadhim Zahawi was particularly timely after the government’s coercion of over 5 million people to have the Indian made AstraZeneka Covid-19 vaccine, and not informing those jabbed that it had not been approved by the EMA, the European Medical Authority.
This has potentially wrecked the European holiday plans of many of those concerned. If some European countries decide to ignore the EMA situation, it means that the whole regulatory approval system is thrown into discredit and chaos. The Vaccines Minister needs to be called to account on why this mistake happened at a huge cost to the British taxpayer.
The protest was also about demanding that there are no Covid-19 vaccine passports for travel or any other purpose.
In addition, the protest was to insist there are no Covid-19 vaccines for children. This should not even be suggested as a possibility, given that the vaccines are not due to be considered for official MHRA approval until at least 2023.
The rush to mass-vaccinate millions of the public with Covid-19 vaccines they do not need, urgently requires questioning and debating, before proceeding further into what may turn out to be a reckless venture.
The protesters feel that the government is avoiding public debate because they know they would lose it on these issues.
A year ago thousands of medical and scientific professionals signed the Great Barrington Declaration, which offered alternative Covid-19 policies. It was ignored by the government, whose wrong policies have wasted huge amounts of time, money and resources.
What is particularly important is that the nation has had sixteen months of failed policies from this government, which have never been endorsed by the British public at a General Election or a Referendum. The government are pursuing policies which have not had the consent of the British public and this is an affront to British democracy.
Some of these failed policies include the nonsensical travel restrictions, the ‘traffic lights’ system, the testing, the quarantining, the vaccinations. They also include the totally unnecessary schools testing which has disrupted the lives of millions of British families.
The British public should have a referendum on Covid-19 restrictions, as the Swiss had in June of this year. At least with a Referendum there are rules regarding fair debate – a vast improvement on the current situation, where the government actively does everything in its power to ensure only it views are propagated in the national media. That is not healthy for democracy, to put it mildly, and is an unconstitutional misuse of State power.
Good for you Anthony Webber. You will not get free and open debate of course, not in Parliament or in the public domain but . . .
Protest, protest, protest. That’s the way to go and targeting Ministers on their home ground is a good move. Protests do actually bring these matters out into the public domain, as well as reminding T.P.T.B. that they are supposed to be answerable to the electorate.
As you all know, I’m a very old man, and therefore in government speak, vulnerable. On the assumption that it is all now over, I find myself profoundly dissatified by the comportment of My government.
First At an early stage I found myself apparently far ahead in my estimation ( Admittedly I am mathematically competant ) of the nature of the beast, its likely future course and the likely responses of officialdom. of the various responses and reactions. Individuals of various responded as expectedand the Media and Politics also, being happier not seeing anything. Supported by the purely cretinous UN responses and gasbagging.. Very very early days it was apparent that the NHS could never cope. Decades of stupidity had gone into its present form. Boris was correct. Weneeded to save the NHS. And then he went into hospital.
With the PM in hospital it became a perfect political playground for 6 weeks andseveral weeks recovery and partial rationality.and the emergence of players in politics Civils ervice opportunism, Scientific fame,.Newspaper Mania, and the shamblesof officialdom. I seriously hope we are never again faced with any future unforeseen occurence . Cause we will be dead meat.. The Entire edifice of the institutions and backbone of our country crumbled.. We were Gone.All were as nothing. But particularly the Media who went and still are insane.
The third phase is now one of recovery. I have no idea what the Civil Service has been doing. . The economy of the country has been kept in operration with millions of individuals keeping their families alive and contiuouing to work in denial. The saviours of our country are the Healthy, workers under 60 who may have felt ill but still went to work, or were lucky to be able to work meaningfully from home.. The politics still werent with us, and the apalling economic hit coming dowhn the line and the frightening effects of a possibly pancaked pound. Which taken together with the total lack of action to take advantage of Brexit , is leading us where we do not want to go.
Let us just hope that the UN has lead all the suckers of the world with us into the same mire.
I feel that this only takes us up to spring 21. putting the rest on paper is too dispiriting.. But our country is so badly hollowed out it almost cannot longer function.. 150,000 deaths, grow up. put it into context.
I am dissatisfied because nothing at all has improved over a lifetime that hoped for so much after the war., and look at us. It was all going so well untill Heath and Wilson, but the rot had already been put in place.because we havent been able to find a natural path between Entitlement and betterment as against the reward for effort and support.and pathways for uselessness
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Don’t worry T.G.Spokes about punctuation etc.. Your comment makes a lot of sense to me. More and more I feel that HEATH was the biggest traitor ever known to mankind. Was it Wilson that followed him and held the so called referendum, designed to legitimise what Heath had done?
Reading Anthony’s article at one point I felt like sweeping away the whole government machine as it now exists. That’s a bit like your comment about hoping for so much after the war. If we could wind the clock back perhaps that IS the point where we should start again and do better! Even the U.N. started out with fewer evil powers.
Filling people with non-EMA-approved vaccines sounds just the sort of thing this government would do. I heard somewhere that some of these vaccines were about to go out of date (if they were not past their sell by date already!). If that is indeed the case then this man should take the rap. It is his particular department and responsibility after all! But, as he is just another ‘parachuted-in’ useful-to-make-up-the-complicit-numbers type don’t look for any kind of moral or responsible response just yet. When he is standing in the Nuremberg dock you might hear a different story! But don’t hold your breath!
Very well done to the committed and doughty activists. Protests outside the homes of MPs would be effective too. Let’s be honest, MPs respond most favourably to those who either represent a threat to their careers/election prospects or to those who make their lives hell. Everything is up for grabs. The liberal Left know that with enough targetted pressure on MPs anything is possible.