Quote of the day 17th April 2020 – ‘I no longer recognise my country’

 

From Katie Hopkins writing at Front Page Magazine

Many of the nine million workers furloughed by the government at 80% of their wages, often with the employers topping up the last 20%, have little reason to agitate to get back to work. Lockdown has become a holiday on full pay. In comfortable homes with outdoor space, many are quite content for it to continue. No thought for the poorest, or those trapped in high-rise hell.

Meanwhile the enforcers leave a letter on a stranger’s car, warning her that she has no business being in this street; they film sunbathers in the park to expose their selfishness; they glare at those who walk around with their faces uncovered.

I am reminded of the village supervisors in Cuba tasked with ensuring busses to Fidel Castro’s memorial were full. I stood in Havana and watched people disembark in their thousands, the poorest villagers forced to stand in silence for 24 hours, even in the blazing sun to show how much Castro was loved. The world press lapped it up.

I smell the same sweaty compliance in my country, from the workers now state-dependent and wanting the lockdown to continue, from enforcers desperate to virtue-signal their obedience, from comfortable middle-class families filming themselves clapping for our NHS even as it (the institution) buckles (cancer surgery and chemotherapy have all been postponed).”

You can read the entirety of Ms Hopkins excellent article via the link below.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/04/relinquishing-personal-responsibility-warm-embrace-katie-hopkins/

I must admit, that I share Ms Hopkins’s disgust at the petty informers the morons who clap and cheer for the socialist nightmare that is the NHS that has served my family extremely poorly. Like Ms Hopkins I abhor the arrogant and bullying police and also the swiftness with which so many Britons have acted without thought, just mindless compliance to the demands of the state. At what point I wonder will we start to think for ourselves and take sensible precautions against Chinese Coronavirus and cease to believe everything that the fearmongers of entities like Sky News keep pumping out?