By Michael Gardner2020-12-15T10:37:00+00:00 The ease with which people could be terrorised into surrendering basic freedoms which are fundamental to our existence … came as a shock to me in March 2020. Lord Sumption’s lament at how what he termed the most significant interference with personal freedom in the history of our country has been shared by many people since the pandemic took hold. But not, it would seem, by much of the mainstream media, the majority of MPs and peers in parliament and now it would seem, by elements of the judiciary.
The Covid pandemic has converted what is supposed to be a parliamentary democracy into vehicle for government by decree.