ome 62 conservative parliamentarians from the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) have written to the Prime Minister to demand that the Covid restrictions be lifted – for good – as soon as those over 50 have been vaccinated, which could be in a few weeks. They want all schools to open on March 8 and pubs and restaurants to thrive again on Easter (a holiday that is literally movable this year, which begins April 1). As the daffodils come out, so will the British public, in this scenario. Boris Johnson tries to deliver it, but he can’t give them a guarantee because the dates chosen by the CRG are obviously arbitrary, and we have gone through too many aborted “freedoms” before. If the CRG had been put on God’s land to make Mr Johnson appear sane, reasonable and scien-tically motivated, then the divine plan could not have been more immaculate.
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The CRG is yet another Tory parliamentary faction, this one led by Mark Harper, a former Tory Chief Whip, and Steve Baker, a so-called Spartan veteran of the Brexit Wars, and fueled by the kind of relentless chipiness that caused so many problems. during the last years. Given their numbers, they easily have the ability to overthrow the government majority and reject any new or renewed restrictions on personal and economic freedoms that may be brought before the House of Commons. Its members include serial adamantine rebels, some with little respect for the prime minister. Still, the MAF is irrelevant when it comes to Covid, but perhaps not so much to Boris Johnson’s political career.
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