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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that the British government is acting like an “elected dictatorship” as it continues to pass coronavirus laws without parliamentary scrutiny.

While the lockdown is now six months old, there is every indication is will last for months more, and may yet get worse again.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said that the government could impose a second national lockdown if the new social distancing measures do not stop the spread of coronavirus.

It is no longer prohibited under British coronavirus laws to have sex with someone you do not live with as long as you are in an “established relationship” — but recently-updated guidelines suggest that casual sex is still forbidden.

Boris Johnson has imposed further coronavirus restrictions in the form of ordering a 10 pm curfew on pubs and social venues.

Boris Johnson’s sister Rachel has suggested a complete ban on the sale of alcohol in Britain until a coronavirus vaccine is produced.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to throw Britons trapped under coronavirus laws a little “sweetener” in advance of announcing further restrictions, in the form of letting families have Christmas dinner together.

Anyone who wants to protest against this assault on liberty ought to be ready for the worst: the police are now a political instrument.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said the UK must reject a second national lockdown, warning of a “complete and utter catastrophe” if Prime Minister Boris Johnson implements another. 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a set of draconian coronavirus restrictions, including fines of up to £10,000 for breaching self-isolation, as the Mayor of London floated the idea of a second lockdown and curfews in the British capital.

Washington, DC, will provide an update next week on whether the city is ready to lift further coronavirus restrictions.

LONDON (AP) — Police in London have clashed with protesters at a rally organized by opponents of restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus.

The Johnson administration has imposed localised restrictions in the North East of England, affecting millions, while government scientists have reportedly advised a second nationwide lockdown next month.

A report on New Zealand’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) revealed on Thursday that the nation has slipped into its first recession in ten years, thanks to economic damage from the Wuhan coronavirus.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has rowed back on his ministers’ statements that Britons should snitch on their neighbours breaching new coronavirus measures — unless they are having hot tub ragers and “Animal House” parties.

The most senior cleric in the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, criticised Boris Johnson’s centralised approach to the China virus, calling for a return to local control rather than the national government “determining the daily details of our lives”.

An overwhelming majority of Britons surveyed support the government further restricting their freedoms and those of their neighbours.

A man in Manchester, England, was spotted taking government social distancing and mask mandates to a whole other level on Monday when he was spotted boarding a bus wearing a live snake around his face.

Nigel Farage has criticised the home secretary for saying she would call the police if she saw her neighbours breaking the coronavirus rules, comparing the prospect of Britons snitching on their neighbours to Stasi informers of Communist former East Germany.

Policing minister Kit Malthouse has said that people should snitch on their neighbours if they think they are breaking the new coronavirus rules. He said he also hopes to roll out “COVID-secure marshalls” across the country to help enforce public “compliance”.

Steve Baker has criticised the prime minister’s “draconian” new coronavirus rules which were passed without parliamentary scrutiny, saying, “This is not a fit legal environment for a free people.”

Nearly two-thirds of Britons said that they would back further restrictions on their freedoms in the form of a curfew after the prime minister introduced a new law restricting public and private gatherings to just six people.

If that sounds like an exaggeration, just ask yourself how you’d have felt a year ago if you’d been told the govt was planning a 10pm curfew.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has predicted that law-abiding Britons will defy the prime minister’s new coronavirus restrictions after months of witnessing far-left protests and illegal raves.

Boris Johnson laid out the future for the nation where failing a daily corona test means being banned from social spaces and the workplace. 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that you could be arrested if you break the new social distancing rules which prohibit gatherings of more than six people in public or private.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has slammed the government’s new “draconian” lockdown laws, saying that it is hard to justify law-abiding citizens to follow the new rules when police fail to stop protests and illegal raves.

The British government is set to reimpose strict legal limitations on public gatherings, and it is reportedly considering a draconian national curfew.

(AFP) — Australian officials on Sunday extended a strict virus lockdown of the country’s second-biggest city by two weeks, saying new cases had not dropped enough to prevent another spike.

“If it’s okay for Nancy Pelosi to go and get her hair done … then you need to open up America right now,” salon owner Lindsey Graham said.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) promised Floridians during Monday’s press briefing that “we will never do any of these lockdowns again.”

A temporary rule change to allow women to have an abortion as easily as possible during the coronavirus lockdown may never be repealed

A second national lockdown may be coming down the pike in England should there be a significant “second wave” of Chinese coronavirus infections, the Health Secretary of the United Kingdom said on Friday.

Only a Biden administration would consider shutting down the American economy again.
“I would shut it down,” Biden said in an interview aired Sunday night on ABC, before adding the weasel words, “I would listen to scientists.”

The leader of Italy’s League party has attacked Education Minister Lucia Azzolina, calling her incompetent in dealing with fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

LONDON (AP) — The EU’s trade commissioner is coming under intense pressure to step down after attending a golf event despite a ban on public gatherings during the pandemic.