Rejected petition Do not pass Tier 4 Covid restrictions into law for Christmas Day

Failure of government to appropriately respond to the Covid health emergency has led to an instruction for tier 4 areas to not mix households on Christmas day. We would like this to be guidance and not law.
Government failings should never interrupt individual liberty during religious festivities.

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The Government has made a number of poor decisions which led to the introduction of tier 4 on Christmas Day. Despite evidence of increasing 11-18yr old transmission, schools and colleges were kept open. The second lock down was not a lock down, it wasn't followed or enforced. Government had the opportunity to introduce a two week tier 4 lockdown prior to Xmas day (two weeks before) so families could get together for one day, the government failed to do this.

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Reinstate the 5-day relaxation of COVID restrictions over Christmas: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/564204

Allow families to have Christmas day together in all tiers: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/564312

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Date submitted 20 December 2020
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