Ninety-nine conservative MPs voted against their own government yesterday as Boris attempted, successfully as it turned out anyway, to turn us into a police state, removing our freedoms and turning us into a “SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS!!!!!” regime, in the model of Nazi Germany or Russia any time since 1917. They probably do it in North Korea too, but no-one’s ever witnessed it and come out alive.

The inflammatory, controversial, highly contested, freedom-limiting, restriction-overdrive ‘Covid Passport’ is indeed divisive. For me, with my triple-vax status and an armful of holes, I can go into a nightclub any time I want. Although the times I’d want to do such a thing, they’re probably not even open yet. But YOU, you great unvaccinated, conspiracy-theorising refusenik and Covid risk, can’t come with me.

The point no-one seems to have mentioned, of course, is that vaccinated people can, do and will still get Covid. It affects them less, but they still get it. And thus, can carry it, transmit it and spread it. In fact, we, the great vaccinated heroes, represent a far greater risk because we’re far less likely to know we have it. Whereas the unvaxxed kind’a realise they do as the pipe is sliding down their throat at St Thomas’s.

However. Vaccine passports is what was decided, so parliament has to vote. But again, unfortunately, most conservative MPs chose not to vote on the matter at hand. Instead they chose to hold their own ‘vote of no confidence’ in the Prime Minister. I know, Covid is serious shit, Omicron more deadly than the nuclear arms race, but when given a chance to make statements about the competence of the nation’s leader, that’s how they chose to vote. Plus, all real conservatives have understandable issues about infringements of freedoms and ‘carrying papers’. Whereas the Labour lot are not quite so ‘democracy sensitive’, as Corbyn showed and Starmer can’t quite rid himself of, so the Tories knew that the whimpish opposition leader would ‘whip’ his team into any covid panic available. Thus Boris achieved ‘the right result for the wrong reason’. Which, knowing Boris, is just fine. He can live with the shame of being shunned by his own party. He lives with one kind of shame or other every single day.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx