Comments by "Graeme Peters" (@graemepeters5717) on "How Parliamentary Democracy in Britain Ended" video.

  1. In March last year, when the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 went through Parliaments, they added a note about Clauses 49 & 50. Clause 49 relates to the quarantining of people with the virus. Clause 50 is about the lockdown. The following note was added to the documents in the House of Commons library: Restricting movement and quarantining. Clause 49 introduces Schedule 20 which would provide public health officers with the power to quarantine those who have tested positive (or inconclusive) for coronavirus or those they reasonably suspect have the disease. It would also provide police officers and immigration officials with powers to take people they suspect have coronavirus to be tested or assessed by public health officers. Clause 50 introduces Schedule 21 which would provide each of the UK governments with the power to issue directions prohibiting any event or gathering. It would also provide UK governments with the power to close or restrict access to any premises. Taken together, clauses 49 and 50 would provide each of the UK governments with wide-ranging powers to restrict the freedom of movement of citizens in order to prevent the spread of the virus. However, there are no powers in the Bill which would allow directions to be issued requiring individuals to have prior permission or good reason to leave their homes. Neither would the Bill give the police or immigration officials powers to enforce elongated quarantines of people who have not been assessed for the virus by public health officers. Yet here we are!
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