A recent tweet (now deleted) by Tory MP Joy Morrissey (Beaconsfield) exposes a rather nasty and ignorant streak that seems to run through quite a few of our Conservative representatives at the moment (and probably some of other stripes too) It's clearly an attack on a scientist who was simply stating scientific facts, now call me crazy but anyone can have an opinion but we can't have our own "facts", this isn't a political position, simply an attribute of reality!
The reason this is "nasty" is, if you accept that what this MP is expressing is a usurping of scientific fact by "opinion" (i.e. an argument from authority) we can only assume her real position is that she's ok with more people dying from Covid than are necessary so long as we slavishly follow the advice (not law) of a senior politician and aren't "socialist"?
Unfortunately for her there are many people in this country who are indeed Socialists, as is their right to be, and probably even more who would rather poke their eye's out with hot knitting needles rather than follow the advice of a lying opportunist like Johnson. I can only advise Ms. Morrissey that she perhaps should have paid more attention in her Politics classes at LSE and maybe should have taken a few STEM modules to understand the difference between opinions and facts, we could do with more Women (and politicians) doing STEM subjects anyway!
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