Former British health secretary Matt Hancock is saying that the public should expect more brutal and draconian lockdown policies in the future, as this is the lesson public health officials have learned post-COVID.

“What everybody missed in the western world was the lockdowns were going to be necessary,” Hancock said to bureaucrats during an appearance at a COVID inquiry earlier this week.

“It is central to what we must learn as a country that we’ve got to be ready to hit a pandemic hard: that we’ve got to be able to take action – lockdown action if necessary – that is wider, earlier, more stringent than feels comfortable at the time,” he added.

While Hancock was in charge of public health under now-disgraced former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Britain instituted brutal lockdowns that devastated society just weeks the first COVID-19 case was reported in the country:

Big League Politics has reported on how the COVID-19 pandemic opened the door for a soulless technocracy to take shape where civil liberties and human dignity are rapidly becoming a thing of the past:

“BBC News has laid out their grand vision of the Orwellian “new normal” of what the central planners and technocrats intend society to look like by 2022.

“It’s 2022 and you’ve just arrived at the travel destination of your dreams. As you get off the plane, a robot greets you with a red laser beam that remotely takes your temperature. You’re still half asleep after a long transoceanic flight, so your brain barely registers the robot’s complacent beep. You had just passed similar checks when boarding the plane hours ago so you have nothing to worry about and can just stroll to the next health checkpoint,” BBC reporter Lina Zeldovich wrote.