A response to a ‘journalist’ who asks why lockdown sceptics bother questioning the Govt’s. response to Covid-19
Virus or not, some things are worth defending. I believe our way of life and freedom certainly is.
Editor’s note: Recently, ‘journalist’ Dan Hodges asked (in contradiction to the purpose of his own profession) why lockdown sceptics bother questioning the Government’s response to the coronavirus. ‘It's quite clear from Hancock's statement the Government has no intention of lifting restrictions,’ he wrote. ‘Tory MPs are not going to rebel.’ ‘What are people continuing to rage against lockdown actually achieving.’
Richard Thomas offered the following response:
Why do I bother? Because — on a personal level — I fundamentally love my country and the values of freedom and liberty that it stands on which have taken centuries of struggle to gain.
History is littered with examples of stupid ideologues and politicians taking that for granted and throwing it away — sometimes because they didn't value what they inherited, sometimes deliberately, for sinister reasons.
I don't want Britain to fall into the latter category, because we all know where it leads to.
Virus or not, some things are worth defending. I believe our way of life and freedom certainly is.
Civilisations are easily broken apart, yet are not easily constructed. We're busy doing the latter at the moment because we have a leadership far too big for its boots to understand what it is really doing, not realising that they are actually making matters worse.
Not only that; I personally don't want my children growing up in an economic desert, which we are slowly becoming, where the only things we'll have left when we come round to it are a few wind farms, a high speed rail link and a third (unused) runway at Heathrow.
And, I don't want to live in a technocracy, where decisions are made on the hoof by jumped-up little twerps in parliament — graduates in PPE, law and sociology, who've done *nothing* in life to earn the immense privilege and responsibility they hold — playing with our democracy like they're in the debating societies at Eton and Oxford, ruling by decree without any due care of the unforeseen. They simply do not have the credentials in life to make themselves worthy of that.
And finally, it's not a case of what this scepticism is ‘achieving’; it is a case of doing what is right and standing by your principles and standing up for your country. If you don't think that freedom and liberty are worth defending, then frankly, you don't deserve to bask in its glory.
