Key government Health Minister, Nadhim Zahawi, MP, has protest outside his constituency office

The freedom from lockdowns movement is now embarking on a campaign to persuade key government Ministers to debate their covid-19 policies.

So far, a series of national protest marches, including about 1.7 million attending one in London on Saturday 26^th June, have failed to persuade government Ministers to engage in fair and open debate about their efforts in dealing with the covid-19 crisis.

In a broadening of policy, that of challenging individual Ministers to have the courage to accept that their policies should be open to scrutiny and rational discussion, the freedom from lockdown campaigners are now demanding answers in the Ministers’ own constituencies.

In the first such challenge, a group of pro- freedom campaigners, protested outside the Stratford-upon-Avon Constituency Offices of Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi.

Former local Councillor Diane Coad, on behalf of the protesters knocked on the door of the local offices and spoke both on the intercom and the phone with the officials inside.

As expected ( as Nadhim Zahawi had been informed in advance), there was little co-operation with an appointment being available. In fact only 5 or 10 minutes had been requested, and the protesters included some local constituents,  so the denial of any time at all, was considered to be a dereliction of an MP’s duties to his constituents, as well as a dereliction of his duties to the public as a government Health Minister.

The protest, which was organised by the National Alliance for freedom from lockdowns, was the first of a new initiative aimed at key government Ministers in their own local constituencies.

The intention is to persuade such Ministers to act in an open and accountable manner and not hide in their London government offices, cocooned from what is going on in the outside world.

The protest was peaceful, with full co-operation from the local police, and received a lot of local support.

Other government Ministers will now have protests at their constituency offices, where there will be  requests for such Ministers to engage with the public on the covid-19 issues they have been responsible for.

Already encouragement is being given to the public in local areas to protest at their local MP’s  constituency offices and to try to engage with their MP’s, which is their right and always has been.

Some such protests have already taken place.

The protest efforts with Ministers and key opposition figures supporting the government will, however, receive more attention and focus, as these are the people promoting covid-19 policies, as opposed to the MP’s who have voted for them.

The protest with regard to Nadhim Zahawi, was particularly timely because of the government coercing over 5 million people to have the Indian made AstraZeneka covid-19 vaccine, and not informing those jabbed that it had not been approved by the European Medical Authority (EMA).

This has potentially wrecked the European holiday plans of many of those concerned.

If some European countries decide to ignore the EMA situation, it means that the whole regulatory approval system is thrown into discredit and chaos.

The  Vaccines Minister needs to be called to account on why this mistake happened at a huge cost to the British taxpayer.

The protest was also about demanding that there are no covid-19 vaccine passports for travel or any other purpose.

In addition, the protest was to insist there are no covid-19 vaccines for children, and it would be dangerous to even consider that, when the vaccines are not due to be considered for official MHRA approval until at least 2023.

The rush to mass vaccinate millions of the public with covid-19 vaccines they do not need, urgently requires questioning and debating, before proceeding into what could be a reckless venture.

The protesters feel that the government is avoiding public debate because they know they would lose it on these issues.

Ever since thousands of medical and scientific professionals singed the Great Barrington Declaration, offering alternative covid-19 policies to the those of the government, and it was ignored by the government a year ago, there has been a huge waste of time and resources because the government have continued with the wrong policies.

What is particularly important is that the nation has had sixteen months of failed policies from the government, which have never been endorsed by the British public at a General Election or a Referendum. The government are pursuing policies which have not had the consent of the British public and it is an affront to British democracy.

Some of these failed policies include the nonsensical travel restrictions, the traffic lights “ system,  the testing, the quarantining, the vaccinations. They also include the totally unnecessary schools testing which has disrupted the lives of millions of British families.

The British public should have a referendum on covid-19 restrictions, the same as the Swiss had one in June of this year.

At least with a Referendum, there are rules regarding fair debate, which is a vast improvement on the current situation, where the government actively does everything in its power to ensure only it views are propagated in the national media. That is not healthy for democracy, to put it mildly, and is an unconstitutional misuse of State power.

Anthony Webber

Independent Political Commentator