Last week I received a call from Solent Radio asking me to comment on a report that I had been prevented from entering a village shop because I wasn’t wearing a mask. I told them to send their investigative journalists to the village and interrogate the staff in every shop and they would discover that it was nonsense.
In Parliament I called the requirement to wear a face covering a ‘monstrous imposition’ and I believe that the wearing of masks feeds into our national mass hysteria which is doing such damage to our economic and community life.
Nevertheless, it is the law and I wouldn’t break it, if only to avoid giving satisfaction to the dreadful sorts who email me to report their neighbours for minor infringements of the regulations. Don’t tell me, just download the Gestapo App.
Sir Desmond Swayne TD
