In December 2019 the Conservative Party won a thumping 80 seat majority, expressly elected on a pledge to “Get Brexit Done”, which it duly went on to deliver with the UK officially finally leaving the EU on 31st January 2020.
Since then however, anyone unfortunate enough to fall into a coma and then not wake up again for several months or for over a year would have been forgiven for assuming that the occupant of 10 Downing Street was not Boris Johnson, but Jeremy Corbyn.
Far from seeing Conservative measures being implemented we have seen a relentless surge of measures far more in keeping with communism than conservatism. Whether or not he has the wit to be aware of it Boris Johnson has presided over one communist measure after another.
When the covid crisis first broke in the UK in March 2020 the initial emergency measures could be understood and accepted as being necessary whilst we desperately sought to find out more about this severe illness and how it could be alleviated. It was not long however before a colossal amount of “mission creep” began to take off. What was initially a few weeks “to flatten the curve” became months of what came to be known as lockdown. After a brief respite in the summer of 2020, further lockdowns came into force in November 2020 and again in January 2021.
The level of micro management used in controlling peoples’ lives reached an unprecedented and previously inconceivable extent. And all on the watch of a supposedly Conservative government.
Amongst the many pernicious measures in force at one time or other during the lockdowns, we have seen:
1) The population prevented from leaving their own homes except for one brief period of exercise per day.
2) A ban on staying anywhere overnight away from your own home.
3) A ban on meeting up with anyone outside your own household, even close family members such as parents, grandparents, grown up children, brothers and sisters.
4) The enforced closure of many retail outlets and other businesses.
5) The shutting down of sports facilities, indoor and outdoor.
6) A ban on overseas travel with the population prevented from leaving the country (remember how we used to feel sorry for people from places such as East Germany or Hungary because they were prevented from travelling overseas).
7) The implementation of a track and trace system which if you fall foul of will lead to you being compelled to stay at home and isolate with regular daily calls to check that this is being strictly adhered to.
8) A massive media campaign that virtually compelled people to ostentatiously stand outside their front door at 8PM every Thursday to applaud the NHS. Whatever the initial fine motives of it, it quickly degenerated into a ritual more in keeping with what you would once have seen in the Soviet Union or East Germany or might still see today in North Korea or China.
9) The politicisation and indeed racialisation of sporting events and other forms of mass entertainment.
10) A de facto One Party State. True there are other political parties of course, but the only thing to distinguish them from the governing party are their strident calls for even stricter, longer and earlier implementation of lockdown measures, tantamount to egging the government to be even more severe.
11) The requirement to wear face coverings, imposed despite the lack of any definitive evidence that they do anything to reduce the spread of potential infections. They also have the added effect of symbolizing that each wearer is onboard and complying with the lockdown agenda and that anybody they encounter is looked upon as a potential threat.
The levels of overreach during the lockdowns have been astonishing. We have seen walkers arrested in the Peak District and lakes dyed to deter visitors. People have been moved on by the police when wanting to just sit on a bench. We have seen councils openly gloating at the prosecution of golfers caught daring to have a round during lockdown, police pushing pensioners into police vans for attending “non approved” protests during lockdown, whilst those same police officers, and in some cases even their Chief Constables, take to their knees or cavort in the streets with other seemingly approved protests or ones they lacked the backbone to control.
We’ve seen footage on YouTube of dozens of police turning up to close gyms and shops (I wonder how quickly they’d have come if those premises had been reporting a burglary to those same police forces).
We’ve seen reports of neighbours spying on each other’s level of lockdown compliance. We also saw the ugly spectacle in the early days of the first lockdown of TV presenters, accompanied by their camera crews, accosting members of the public daring to be out and going about their business, demanding to know why these people were out.
This is but a snapshot of life and the many restrictions imposed during the lockdowns. A few of these measures or happenings cannot be laid directly at the door of the Johnson Government, however it cannot be denied that it put in place the very conditions for these outcomes to occur. An empty sports stadium is far easier to orchestrate propaganda from than one full of independently minded people who might object rather loudly to that propaganda or who just want to be left in peace to enjoy their sport in the way they had once been accustomed to.
Books such as Laura Dodsworth’s excellent “A State Of Fear” outline the extent of the propaganda used to get the general public’s consent and adherence to lockdown restrictions. In fact they’ve sadly worked so effectively that even when the mask mandate ended on the so-called July 19th Freedom Day, many people still insist on wearing these accursed items across their faces and even welcome the continued widespread adherence to wearing them.
I sometimes wonder had these people been living in East Berlin or some other part of the Warsaw Pact when the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain came down in 1989, far from racing to their freedom they would have scurried down to the offices of the local KGB and the Stasi to beg them to continue protecting them from the outside world.
I can only conclude that I no longer properly understand the people of my own country. And all this happened on the watch of a nominally Conservative government, one with an 80 seat parliamentary majority, and a supposedly libertarian Prime Minister. Thank you, Commissar Boris.
The out-of-character behavior of this and other Western "democratic" governments is perfectly explicable if one recognises the deliberately-created and prolonged pseudopandemic for what it truly is - a Trojan horse for the Great Reset and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Unfortunately, most media commentators seem content to navel gaze and fulminate over the government's "misguided" or "ill-judged" COVID policies, which are systematically transforming a cradle of freedom and democracy into a downtrodden, debt-ridden and divided police state.
One does not need to be a conspiracy theorist to take seriously plans for a massive global economic and social engineering project when they emanate from no lesser authority than the UN/World Bank/WEF triumvirate, and are relentlessly propagandized by Boris and other Western leaders singing off the same "Build Back Better" hymn sheet.
We are being deliberately sleepwalked into serfdom to a Chinese-style authoritarian state where our individual rights and freedoms will be determined - as many increasingly are already - by unelected technocrats and behavioral scientists
We need to wake up and - to quote the Bard - "Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look on death itself!"