> Of 109 lockdown laws, only eight were considered by parliament before coming into force, usually only a day before.
I can't think of a legitimate reason why these 101 laws couldn't require at least one MP from the main opposition party to approve them, if only via video link.
Ideally that opposition MP would need to be the shadow health secretary or some other person nominated by the leader of the opposition, but let's leave open the possibility of some sort of weird zombie apocalypse where half of parliament has already been wiped out.
In the US, I suppose the concern would be that one party might be completely taken over by an ideology which opposes all virus-limiting restrictions, and may not even believe the virus is real, but if the UK political situation ever became so delusional then the country would have more to worry about than just a pandemic.
Back in 2020 they were front and center with the “your freedom is not more important than my safety” and other “stop trying to kill my grandma” rhetoric.
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[ 6.0 ms ] story [ 16.5 ms ] threadI can't think of a legitimate reason why these 101 laws couldn't require at least one MP from the main opposition party to approve them, if only via video link.
Ideally that opposition MP would need to be the shadow health secretary or some other person nominated by the leader of the opposition, but let's leave open the possibility of some sort of weird zombie apocalypse where half of parliament has already been wiped out.
In the US, I suppose the concern would be that one party might be completely taken over by an ideology which opposes all virus-limiting restrictions, and may not even believe the virus is real, but if the UK political situation ever became so delusional then the country would have more to worry about than just a pandemic.
Back in 2020 they were front and center with the “your freedom is not more important than my safety” and other “stop trying to kill my grandma” rhetoric.