Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely has set out his concerns to other MPs about the effects of a second lockdown, which comes into force tomorrow (Thursday).
Speaking during a debate on COVID-19 in the House of Commons, Mr Seely said he is concerned about the impact of a second lockdown on children’s education and people’s mental health.
Seely also said he is concerned about the loss of people’s liberties and freedom, the surge of unemployment, the increase in poverty and potential deaths and the collapse of government finance.
Bob said:
“We need to balance the risks of Covid with the balance of other risks.”
He has also said he is concerned that the decisions being made by MPs are having a devastating effect on people’s livelihoods. Addressing MPs in the House, he said:
“Not one of us is facing the same stress as the freelancers, the business people, the artists, musicians, pub and restaurant owners. I have many of those folks on the Isle of Wight whose lives are on hold and whose ability to earn a living has been shattered, despite the tiny risk to many of them.”
Mr Seely has said the government needs to develop a strategy for living with the virus rather than drifting in and out of lockdown and has called on the government to give people a medium and long-term sense of what the future is likely to hold. He suggests something akin to a ‘keep calm and carry on’ approach.
The MP has also said he wants the government to do more to present data in a balanced way giving greater context. He’s called for the publication of more data including fatality rates and not just infection rates.
MPs will vote on the second lockdown on Wednesday.
Omg! Seely actually daring to criticise his puppet masters.
That won’t go down well
Shame he didn’t show as much support for island businesses over Brexit
The economy is on the verge of collapse, debt spiralling, unemployment claims are going to see exponential rises. Businesses lost and being lost everyday. Confusion the only constant as the government continue to blindly follow religious fanatics of SAGE. Bob will be out of a job !!!!!
All he is worried about is that he will not be able to get his supply of Sausages
Or he can’t carry on his “search” for the other half who knows whose home it would turn up in!.