Too late for holiday ban
WE need the economy to take off. Ending this year’s summer holidays abroad and putting a “closed” sign over Britain is proof this Government gets nothing right and everything wrong.
The looming quarantine law requiring passengers arriving at airports and ports to lock themselves away for a fortnight is ludicrous.
It is particularly stupid because those people will be able to use public transport, change accommodation and pop to the shops.
Testing, quarantine and flight bans might have saved lives at the start of the pandemic. Doing so now is locking the stable door long after the coronavirus has bolted.
We urge Ministers to introduce tests and bans only for travellers from virus hot spots, so business can revive and Britons go on holidays without another two weeks off on return.
That is, of course, if countries with lower death counts will take people from a nation with the highest toll in Europe.
Tory TV shame
TV is the regular friend seen most often by over-75s during the crisis, so we must use the next eight weeks to save free licences for our most senior citizens.
Boris Johnson and the Tories pulling the plug on a well-earned benefit, while trying to pass the buck on to the BBC, is a breach of trust and a manifesto broken promise.
From the Prime Minister down, Tory MPs who make this scandal happen must be left in no doubt they will never be forgiven.
There is a word to describe politicians who saluted the wartime generation on VE Day and, in a few weeks time, would steal their free TV licences. It’s hypocrites.
Mogg rule
OUT of touch Jacob Rees-Mogg is a Tory bad joke and we resent him turning Parliament into a laughing stock by forcing MPs to form IKEA-length queues to vote.
Axing remote voting is an affront to democracy. The mob in power prove, yet again, arrogance and poor judgement are a nasty mix.
