Obsidional obmutescent obloquy...

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The people on this list (it includes my MP who was a stalwart all through the Brexit saga too) could form the new slimmed-down UK parliament. The savings will be enormous, added to an MPs' Travel Lodge instead of 2nd homes...I digress. 

From the same link you can select those that voted 'aye' - these will not survive - and those that had 'no vote recorded' will be interviewed to see why they did not vote, some for obvious reasons (Speakers, SNP, SF etc), they may be allowed to continue. 

This craziness has to end: very slowly, but very surely, more people are realising. The hole is deep enough, just stop digging. But hey, this is just Health Protection right? All for our own good! "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive...." Thank you C.S. Lewis for that quote.

To digress further, the number of great quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist) is amazing and almost all very applicable to the modern era; a half dozen of the best (the first was also so true during the Brexit division!). The Enemy Within: 

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." 

"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
"Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed."
"Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice"
"Politicians are not born; they are excreted."

"The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are."