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We didn’t vote for that

On that rarest of creatures: a politician who keeps his word

7 December 2024

9:00 AM

7 December 2024

9:00 AM

Have you noticed how many things today’s politicians do that nobody ever voted for? It goes without saying that no one voted for the lockdown hysteria that included closing schools, making up social distancing requirements out of thin air, throwing darts at a phone book to decide which small (never large) businesses would close, pressuring social media companies to ban and shadow ban sceptics, spending and printing so much money to keep these idiocies going that it exploded asset inflation and transferred huge wealth from poor to rich and from young to old, basically doing more for inequality at home...

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