The sight of groups of MPs gathering in groups to pass laws stopping the rest of us from gathering in groups was not a good look. It appeared literally like one law for the lawmakers and another for the locked-down rest of us. Whether or not the scheduled Bill on toilet rate relief (don’t ask) was “essential” was questionable in the current climate. Hitler and the Luftwaffe never closed the bars or theatres and never imprisoned the population in the way that coronavirus has succeeded in doing. Corona has shown that decades of Thatcherism and ­austerity have left the nation ill-equipped to rebuild Britain’s ­economy to work in the interests of all.

Source: Daily Mirror March 28, 2020 19:30 UTC