Some people here will still be making excuses as to why it's ok to deny some people their human rights when the "Re-education" camps open.

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She's left the building .

Yes, it's odd that they should be pushing these figures that don't appear to be supported by the N.H.S. statistics. Perhaps they're trying to go for the 5,000 daily deaths that they were predicting last March that brought in the first lockdown.

'NHS is in most dangerous situation in living history': Chris Whitty warns 'next few weeks will be worst' yet as ministers may 'only allow people to leave home ONCE a week, ban chat in supermarkets and bring in curfews' amid fears of 2,000 deaths a DAY.

This seems a little excessive to me.

I'm not real.

You do understand that no individual, group, consortium or corporation can have greater control or influence over a State than its legitimate Government and institutions?

Yes, people are being convicted in the court of public opinion of wrong think and being made non-persons. Does this seem right to anyone?

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I think that there's very little politicians enjoy more than a crisis if it gives them a chance to take more power and abolish inconvenient rights .

These are elections for local members of parliament and local Councils. Our General Election, where we choose a new Government, is in four years time. Still, I imagine that there's a lot at stake. Boris currently has a majority of roughly eighty over all the opposition parties but that could easily change, especially if Nigel Farage's Party puts up.a lot of candidates as he's likely to take a lot of votes from both Conservative and Labour Parties. Postponing elections sets a bad precedent, especially after all the other guaranteed freedoms that we've been denied recently. Chief of these is the right "to go about our lawful business without let or hinderence".

May local elections could be put on hold because of corona virus with 40million voters forced to wait until as late as autumn to cast ballots.

You can stand in a "socially-distanced" queue for the supermarket but you can't stand in line to vote? I suppose this might eventually include the next "General Election" in approximately four years time?

I have read Procopius's "Secret History". Procopius was the official Historian during the reign of Justinian but apart from his official History of Byzantium and it's wars, at great personal risk, he also wrote his "Secret History" where he details the private lives and follies of General Belasarius and his wife and Emperor Justinian and his wife.
It's a book more people should read.

You do realise that all of these are fiction rather than actual history?

Wishing you all the best and a quick recovery TG .

AHH, Thing One and Thing Two.

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Very cute .

I'm strongly reminded of the Jack Vance 'Dying Earth' short story: "Ulan Dhor".

Anything silent.