Ross Clark explains in the Daily Mail (3 November) how Boris Johnson’s ‘experts’ have manipulated data to terrify England into Lockdown 2.0. Democracies rule by informed consent of the governed. Dictatorships use fear of imagined enemies to generate support and use brute force to silence dissent. Encouraging citizens to snitch on rule breakers ‘doing the wrong thing’ has echoes of Nazi and Stasi Germany.
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