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3. There is an anti-lockdown movement
Sat Oct 31, 2020, 05:33 PM
Oct 2020

Although they count Jeremy Corbyn's even loonier brother Piers Corbyn as one of their leaders it's overwhelmingly lead by extreme right ring figures. It's also got support from a number of media gobshites like James Delingpole, Peter Hitchens and Toby Young. It's also rife with all sorts of loony conspiracy theorists, including David Icke.

They are fond of holding protests in town centres where they complain one minute about the damage lockdown is doing to the economy then the next minute are abusing shoppers and driving trade away from areas that are already suffering desperately from lack of footfall.

Most Conservative supporters outside of the media are still supportive of lockdown, although the Tories muddled response to the crisis is eroding public support and willingness to keep to the rules.

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