Boris Johnson faces revolt over forcing through Covid measures
Amendment calling for votes on new restrictions is winning cross-party support
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Boris Johnson faces revolt over forcing through Covid measures
- Thread starter SilentPanda
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Coronavirus: New Covid restrictions could last six months, says Boris Johnson
Increased fines for rule breakers and limits on wedding numbers are among the new measures in England.
www.bbc.com
So the measures that are mostly useless and under-powered for the situation, which seem to always be enacted too late, will be battered around the chamber, have attachments made to scupper them, lead to days of debates and delays, and nothing will then happen.
Yes, democracy and rule of law is sacrosanct, but if there's one thing parliament have proven in the last 5 years it's that it's COMPLETELY disfunctional.
Yes, democracy and rule of law is sacrosanct, but if there's one thing parliament have proven in the last 5 years it's that it's COMPLETELY disfunctional.
It's ultra-right wing tory old boys worried about their property investments because of things like closing times for pubs, advising to work from home etc.
Take it for what it is:
- everyone hates boris, so this is an easy win
- tory grandees in the 1922 committee are basically arseholes who care little about people, do whatever their donors ask, and will kill people to save the economy/their investments (so, they're republicans basically)
- labour/libdems see this as a way to push their agendas and try to force more concessions (fair enough)
The result will, however, be no restrictions ever get passed even if health experts start the fucking sirens and red flashing lights.
They only care that Boris is cratering in the polls vs. labour, and Sunak (because he's throwing cash around) has a little public support. You really think they want a minority figure leading the party? Complete populist theatre.
The government majority means they will probably get nearly everything through, the tory right will vent but labour and the libdems will support it, which will piss off the gammon folk even more win-win.
We are an island of Landlords
People's properties in the cities are losing value because companies don't need to rent out offices when their employees can work from home
#SavePret
Yeah, sadly a lot of MPs of all parties are landlords, obviously the tories take the cake on that one though.
I guarantee that if this goes through, restrictions will be lifted even in the face of the upswing of infection. Labour and LibDems will support it because ideologically it is the correct thing to do, and they will hope to push through more thoughtful legislation. I'd love for that to be the case, and would support it 99.99999999% of the time.
However, the Tory party is absolutely riddled with scumbags now, and holds such a majority I suspect they will push anything that involves opening up the economy, and everything else be damned. It's who they are. This is leopard-face-eating territory. Their nature will not change.
Edit: also, just to say. Basically everything that comes out of the 1922 committee is completely heinous, so look at it through that lens. See:
The new restrictions are tinkering at most. None of the new measures will help to any great degree. Pretty sure that England will end up following Scotland by banning households from mixing within 1-2 weeks (which is what he was advised to do NOW).
He'd easily get support for tougher restrictions from the other parties. This is more about procedure .
He'd easily get support for tougher restrictions from the other parties. This is more about procedure .
I love that "doing the absolute minimum to stop the virus" is the thing that has tories turning on Johnson.
What a shower of cunts.
What a shower of cunts.
We will see, there's generally good support for strong well thought out measures in the country, Boris being absolutely out of his depth and all over the place is the problem. A lot of his backbenchers would settle down if he looked like knew what he was doing.
Yep you're probably right.
I just have so little faith in Tories now it manifests as seeing subplots everywhere.
If it leads to more open debate let's just hope Starmer steps it up a bit!
That's a good point it might be a tougher ride for Starmer as well if they have to be part of the debate, the Tories will go for Labour.
it seems more an argument over procedure than content, though the latter isn't entirely absent. My guess is MPs want to have their "this is what I tried to do" moment for their constituents entered into the record before current restrictions are shown to be completely untenable, contradictory and ineffective.