We Love the UK - Our One Big Country

The 27th Saturday Street Stall (3-10-20) from British Unionist group, A Force For Good, covered a very wide range of issues, as usual!

We ask if Matt Hancock's strategy to "suppress Coronovirus while protecting our economy & education until a vaccine arrives" is a proper strategy, given that this will take a long time, may never arrive and even when it does, many people won't take it and it won't always work!

We also question how we can "Build Back Better" when the government appears intent to "Destroy Forward Worse!"

We point out that the Tracing App is a means which could destroy local businesses (many of whom only survive "day to day" when the going is good)! For example, if you are tested "positive" then the App will leave a trail, and it will know where you have been. This means you risk being responsible for the authorities closing down a business which was trying to survive! Who wants that on their conscience?

And what is a "case" anyway? It is simply a test "positive" which indicates that your body has developed anti-bodies and has developed an immune response. Yet the word "case" is being used by the politicians and media to imply a "hospitalisation". This is a vital point of confusion!

Furthermore, flu and pneumonia cases remain higher than Covid cases, so this also implies that mask-wearing and social distancing is not having the effect that we might believe!

Politically, we point out that devolution is perpetuating the lockdown!

This is because a central British government could NEVER have got away with demanding a lockdown for 6 months and more! This requires the active complicity of other more local administrations.

For example, a central British Government might have been able to wing-it for 3 weeks or so, and then they'd have found the patience throughout all the rest of the UK running out.

But because now - as we have political administrations throughout the UK - this means we also have media systems which uphold those administrations. These administrations all end up competing with each other to see who can lockdown the most; and none of them will back down on the lockdown, unless they all do so at the same time!

Among themselves, they have created a many-headed monster and they are all stuck in a spiral which is mutually reinforcing each other's decisions. This is why Britain is uniquely troubled by this lockdown pantomime in a way that Sweden, for example, is not.

And who is speaking for the many people in the UK who are becoming tired of this situation? It seems that "never before have we been so over-governed, yet poorly represented".

There is no excuse for politicians to say that they are only following the concerns of the people. The fact is - as we always say - reality is created by the words which come out of politicians' mouths.

People may say they are scared at the moment, but this is because the politicians are telling them they should be scared. The job of a politician is to lead, not just reflect opinion.

We believe that the tune of the people will change when the politicians change their tune.

Yet, we are presently stuck in a frame where politicians are afraid to lead us out of what they got us into in the first place. There is an opportunity here for a brave politician to shine!

Ultimately, for society, the strategy must be to ensure that the vulnerable are encouraged and helped to shield if they wish, and the rest of us should get back to normal.

Continuing, we speak about the importance of understanding our United Kingdom as ONE BIG COUNTRY, and why the Scottish nationalists cannot get their head round that. But if they did, they would begin to understand where we are coming from!

We address 3 points of view of 'National' letter writers and we respond to their questions as to why, in their v