2022-02-26
On the face of it it's a step forward - but after the last two years of government politicians advisers civil servants and associated bodies turning resolutely deaf ears to all logic and science, we might be forgiven for examining the teeth of this gift horse with a microscope.
I'm not going to bother, since a politician's promise is not normally worth the breath expended when making it, so I'll content myself with just reporting on it, with a caveat.
The Daily Sceptic's report is slightly vague in so far as it isn't clear whether it's just the "provisions" that will expire or whether it is the Act itself in toto - but I take the view that it doesn't really matter very much because if Parliament so decides it could pass a Coronavirus Mark II Act in short order just as it did with the Mark I. I'm reasonably certain that our civil servants would be working on it already - from whence did we suppose that the Mark I version suddenly appeared fully-fledged in 2020?
No doubt the UK is signed up to the latest WHO initiative to aggregate to itself global plenipotentiary powers to direct the response of national governments to the next global health emergency that will be proclaimed by ... you've guessed it, the WHO itself. Stand by for the signing of the new International Treaty that will render debate on health matters within our own parliament obsolete, just as matters within the "competence" of the EU were out of bounds until recently.
Unthinkable? Ted Heath took us into the embryonic EU by exactly this means (even if Harold Wilson did manage to validate that decision later through a referendum). Two parties, same policy - centralisation of policy-making at a supra-national level.
