Coronavirus

Looks like Bojo feels the need to clarify his lockdown easing plans from yesterday, again today ... wonder why that is? ... expect a degree of backtrack, some tangential shift, some general shiftiness, some splutter, a BTEC churchillian impersonation ... and then the confirmation that we are still racing away at the top of the European death stats ... Go US!

 

Can’t stand instant black coffee, but I’ve done a cafetière of french coffee as it’s more palatable without milk than the instant stuff!

 

Gonna be a meltdown on here when Boris wins the next election

 

Indeed, they voted in this shower of ****e...

 

Wasn’t the plan always to give more detail today? Didn’t he even say that in his announcement?

 

Obviously everyone was too confused to listen

 

Yet it’s mostly people who didn’t vote for them who are confused.

There’s thickos of all political persuasions unfortunately.

 

I guess we'll get what we deserve ... as we are now doing tbf ...

 

Unfortunately some daft ****er put the Tory ones in the cabinet

 

... I'm gonna hazard a guess at not having a bunch of bumbling twats in charge .. but the Bojo fanboys will no doubt roll out a graph pontificating that Japanese people are generally smaller than us and therefore able to duck below the R line

 

Oh come on, I think when you listen to the people, the organisations making statements today and even Dominic Raab and Andrew Bridgen MP this morning, there are plenty confused and it's nothing to do with who you voted for.

 

They learned from the failed strategy of going Kamakaze. We're about to learn it

 

This

 

This was the message but wor Boris doesn’t like being mean to folk.

 

He was actually asked to leave the announcement until today, in Parliament, then he could potentially have done a TV Broadcast this evening at 7pm. By doing it the way he did, all the finer detail was left out.

As has been said, returning to work affects more so the lower income families, because those that can work from home, will more likely be in higher paid jobs - that's not a media take on it, that's my own personal experience of what I've seen.

Also if you work in London and a lot of people commute, there is no way they can avoid public transport, so those higher paid workers, would be better suited to working from home.

The schools are not open yet, I get why, but that in itself creates a problem, and you have to hope you have a reasonable employer. Especially as grandparents cannot help, because Boris stopped short of directly saying, you are going to see your boss, before your mum - that last line was stolen from TV.

As always people will take their own interpretation of the rules, which will put the police in a difficult situation, especially as they've been rubber stamped to issue higher financial penalty tickets. But all you've got to say to the copper is I'm going to a garden centre (no one specified it had to be local) or B&Q, or I'm doing my unlimited exercise per day, quite easy to skirt around the guidelines, because no specifics were given last night.

 

I think you said you go to Scotland sometimes Saffy, I could be mistaken. If you do, who's guidelines will you be heeding to, Boris or Sturgeon

 

As I said, there’s plenty of thickos of all political persuasions. I was being purposely inflammatory with that post as Fosse was suggesting it was one side of the political argument who were thick. The bait was for Fosse, not you

I agree, as with most things, someone’s political leanings aren’t the be all and end all of how they act as a person.