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T_i_B

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9. There's definitely been an increased push by the anti-lockdown faction

Reply to Denzil_DC (Reply #8)

Mon Nov 2, 2020, 03:50 PM

Nov 2020

No doubt emboldened by the shambolic way the latest lockdown was announced and the seeming lack of any coherent exit strategy.

Farage has shamelessly jumped on the bandwagon, and a few Tory MP's like Desmond Swayne are following suit. The pro-plague folk in the media are also becoming more vocal (although often in ridiculous fashion, as can be seen with Peter Hitchens moronic tweeting)

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Covid-19: PM announces four-week England lockdown [View all] T_i_B Oct 2020 OP

The secret is in the very gradual reopening which of course wont happen Thyla Oct 2020 #1

How does the anti-masker movement differ in the UK from the US? Shermann Oct 2020 #2

There is an anti-lockdown movement T_i_B Oct 2020 #3

Good summary, thanks! BigmanPigman Oct 2020 #4

And right on cue... T_i_B Nov 2020 #5

Farage was just with tRump at a rally BigmanPigman Nov 2020 #6

Ugh LeftishBrit Nov 2020 #7

On top of the good summary T_i_B's given, I think there are overlaps between the US and UK Denzil_DC Nov 2020 #8

There's definitely been an increased push by the anti-lockdown faction T_i_B Nov 2020 #9

I've heard tell of persistent rumbles of splits within the Tories in parliament, Denzil_DC Nov 2020 #10

Global pandemics don't follow the right wing idealogical rulebook T_i_B Nov 2020 #11