We feel besieged and imperilled, and the Johnson government is seizing the chance to weaken our most fundamental libertiesIf you were wondering when the widely predicted post-Brexit dystopia might move beyond the imaginings of TV scriptwriters and into the real world, we suddenly seem to be a lot of the way there. Supermarket shelves are either understocked or completely empty. The populist loudmouths who now try to make the political weather have been taking aim in the past week at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and its supposedly “woke” lifesavers.Meanwhile, the Johnson government’s descent into whip-crack law enforcement continues apace.… Source – Full Article https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/01/brexit-covid-politics-crackdown-johnson-liberties