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Scottish Government seeks to make emergency Covid powers permanent
thenational.scot ^ | Aug. 17, 2021

Posted on 08/19/2021 2:39:16 PM PDT by PROCON

THE Scottish Government wants its emergency coronavirus powers to become permanent – including the ability to order schools to close, impose lockdowns and operate virtual courts.

Ministers are considering changing the law to permanently allow them to release prisoners early or permit a wider range of healthcare professionals to give vaccinations.

They are seeking the public’s views on removing the planned expiry date for many of the temporary measures, with deputy first minister John Swinney arguing that some of the changes have had a “demonstrable benefit to the people of Scotland”.

The majority of the Government’s current powers introduced during the pandemic are due to elapse in March 2022 although they can be extended by six months with Holyrood’s backing.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: covid; emergencypowers; scotland
.. to give the Scottish ministers the same powers to protect the people of Scotland from any incidence or spread of infection or contamination which presents, or could present, significant harm to human health in Scotland, not just Covid.”

Infection or contamination, huh?

Don't the warmists consider CO2 a pollutant, a contamination of the Erf?

Once you lose your freedoms, you won't get them back.

1 posted on 08/19/2021 2:39:16 PM PDT by PROCON
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2 posted on 08/19/2021 2:39:46 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: PROCON

England might be the one having an election to get Scotland out of the UK next time...


3 posted on 08/19/2021 2:42:02 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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To: PROCON

The government wants its emergency powers made permanent because it’s for society’s good. Said the government.


4 posted on 08/19/2021 2:42:51 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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The Scotts need to make their govt non-permanent — in a legit way of course.


5 posted on 08/19/2021 2:47:13 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: PROCON

bttt


6 posted on 08/19/2021 2:59:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: PROCON
"THE Scottish Government wants its emergency coronavirus powers to become permanent........"

Does anyone see Karl Marx here...did the Globalists eradicate the flu? I want to see and read about those demonstrable benefit(s) to the people of Scotland”.

7 posted on 08/19/2021 3:10:54 PM PDT by yoe (Follow the money on Covid or for Covid...)
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To: PROCON
What would happen if there were a real epidemic?
8 posted on 08/19/2021 3:50:30 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

The government will make things ten times worse than they needed to be.


9 posted on 08/19/2021 4:05:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: PROCON

Drom the first lockdown I knew the government would never surrender the power they were so easily given.


10 posted on 08/19/2021 5:17:48 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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11 posted on 08/19/2021 5:26:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: PROCON

Anyone who is surprised by this shouldn’t be allowed to work with heavy machinery.


12 posted on 08/20/2021 9:52:13 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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