Insanity Claus
HAS the Government lost the plot?
Its Tier 3 clamp on London is crazy.
It is shutting pubs, restaurants, clubs, cinemas, pantos, the lot, because of a surge in cases mainly in Kent and Essex.
From midnight tonight, you cannot have a pint in a Covid-secure boozer in the capital.
Yet, on December 23, the rules on bubbles will be temporarily relaxed.
Which means young Londoners — or anyone else unwittingly carrying the new, apparently more infectious Covid strain — will drive it home for Christmas and give it to their families all over Britain.
We hope Sun readers will continue doing their bit by washing their hands, social-distancing and so on.
And by not taking risks in London in the last happy hours before the shutdown.
But the Government cannot have this both ways.
It cannot issue scary warnings about a new type of the virus, close London and large areas around it, then let the public loose for five days and risk infecting the entire nation.
You could not design a better strategy to trigger a third wave in the darkest depths of winter . . .
While pointlessly bankrupting Covid-secure businesses across the engine room of our economy.
Jabs secrecy
WHY do we know so little about how many Covid jabs have been done?
The lack of information from the Health Department looks shambolic.
The Pfizer vaccine, and others, are our only hope of exiting this nightmare.
So why don’t we know exactly how many have had their first shot?
How many jabs are done each day?
Is the rollout on target or too slow?
The Government announces daily infections and deaths.
How uplifting it would be to learn each day that hundreds of thousands more have had the jab.
But there is a deafening silence.
Why?
Are EU sure?
CAN the EU and its obsessive Remainer devotees get through a single day without contradicting themselves?
How they clutched their pearls when Boris Johnson threatened to “break international law” by tweaking the Withdrawal Agreement after a threat from Brussels to food supplies.
Yet the EU thinks nothing of threatening to ban our airlines, illegally fish our waters or watch French trawlermen blockade our ports.
It whines about “unfair” competition from the UK — also known as “competition” — while seeking to impose grossly unfair, unreasonable and unprecedented clamps on our sovereign nation.
It sneers that Brexit is a doomed act of self-harm, but is desperate to prevent newly-independent Britain becoming richer trading globally outside the EU.
Isn’t it time Brussels and its fans got their arguments straight?
