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At Wednesday's parliamentary debate Johnson said the nation's emergence from the "lockdown cocoon will not be a big bang, but a gradual unwrapping." He added the country would come out of the newly imposed lockdown, "carefully brick by brick until the nation was free from the current confinement."
After announcing the new legislation in the House of Commons today, MPs were told the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) law would be scheduled to run until the end of March. At risk of causing a major pushback, the PM added it was "not because we expect the full national lockdown to continue until then, but to allow a steady, controlled and evidence led move down through the tiers on a regional basis."
Different regions of the UK have imposed their own lockdown measures. England uses the tier system. It consists of five grades of lockdown severity. Tier one requires those with weakened immune systems to shield from the virus, whilst tier five involves every citizen and is a full national lockdown. After MPs argued for more information as to when the lockdown would end Johnson said parliament "should, and will inevitably" get a chance to debate the final end date for the lockdown before the end of March. He added that he hoped this would "be substantially before the end of March" and that the reopening of schools was a major "priority."
Johnson said the moment when the nation can move out of lockdown "may come after the February school's half-term." However, he added the country should "remain extremely cautious about the timetable ahead."
The comments caused Conservative MP Jeremy Wright to challenge the prime minister to be "more definitive" about the numbers of people that must be vaccinated before restrictions can be lifted. Johnson replied to this by stating there would be "substantial opportunities to relax rules around about February 15," but stressed this would only happen if high-risk people and priority groups had received the vaccination.
Multiple groups have received permits to host events with hundreds or thousands of people around the National Mall and near the White House. Demonstrations were set to begin with a march to the Capitol on Tuesday and culminate in rallies on Wednesday.Trump addresses supporters: Donald Trump Jr. gave a rousing response:
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has encouraged people to avoid downtown on Tuesday and Wednesday as law enforcement braces for the possibility of violent confrontations between pro-Trump demonstrators and counterprotesters.
"Make no mistake: many of these individuals have stated that they are coming to the District to provoke residents and wreak havoc," D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said.
The Metropolitan Police Department is expecting a crowd larger than at two pro-Trump events in D.C. last year. The D.C. National Guard will assist with crowd management and traffic control, officials said Monday.
Thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza, just a block from the White House, at around 1 p.m. Tuesday to kick off the first event of the day.
All firearms are banned within 1,000 feet of where the signs are posted ahead of pro-President Donald Trump demonstrations against certifying the electoral college votes for the 2020 presidential election, Fox 5 reported.
The security should be at the highest level but it seems that stashes of bricks and propane tanks are left unguarded on the streets near Freedom Plaza.
Photo below:
A local patriot reveled a stash of brick left there overnight:
She also posted a video explaining the whole situation:
Later she found a stash of un-protected Propane tanks.
Like that wasn't strange enough a photo of an NBC News security member surfaced and the man was looking identical to Antifa rioters that we've seen all summer burning our cities.
This is strange given the fact that the DC mayor said that they are well prepared. Dan Scavino gets the word out:
Supporters storm the Capitol:
Hundreds of thousands cheer 'Fight for Trump':
US Capitol goes on LOCKDOWN:
UPDATE (4:15 EST): Trump and others have taken to Twitter to try to calm things down:
"So, the majority of people we serve, don't have an address, so we allow them to use our address if they to register to vote and get Georgia State ID."This is a clear violation of GA law and is allowing someone to use a false statement on voter registration is illegal and punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Comment: Do the people in the video above look like crazed rioters? No, these people do:
A CNN "reporter" editorializes on the fly while disrespecting the woman she is supposedly interviewing on January 6, 2021: