SIR GUESTLING THORN

 Is there anything left to say? Can there be any doubt that we are in a shambles of both our government and our own making. I’m all for freedom and few restrictions but when all the evidence points to a variant that spreads like wildfire, who would have the stupidity to gather in London to protest? Strange that our rights to peaceful protest have been severely curtailed and yet I suspect that the actual ability to stop people from doing so is almost impossible. there are many things we should be shouting our disapproval of to this government but gathering in large groups whilst Omicron runs riot through the population is not the time. I understand peoples outrage at yet more restrictions, I get the frustration that a virus has disrupted our lives for so long and they have had enough. However we have all read about the many people who did not believe the science or refused the vaccine and have subsequently contracted the virus and died? The people who went on this protest should they become ill, will want the NHS to treat them if necessary and yet are happy to risk putting more pressure on that service because of their protest Look I know it is hard and that these times are the hardest but surely by now we all realise how serious this pandemic is? Surely we understand that some protection is better than none? Surely we understand that whilst there maybe some alternate evidence that any vaccine can be harmful to some people, we are in a unprecedented situation which requires we all act in the interest of us all? I truly despair at the state of this once stable country whose future, whatever your opinion of the EU, was secure and and acting in at least some harmony, with our closest neighbours! Now we are Europes pariahs, lead by people who have not the first idea of how to govern and are only self-serving. You be the judge but if you can stand there and tell me that we are fine and do not need to be vaccinated then frankly you are living in an alternate reality and will fully deserve what you get

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