The largest proportion of London is Christian, according to the last census. To be fair, that was 2011, so the dynamic has changed a bit. Which I found pretty shocking, because the second highest is atheism and I was rather hoping that would have been the bigger number. Be interesting to see what it is at the next one. Other religions do celebrate Christmas in their own way, it's just not a main holy day for them. Sikhs, for example.
The leader of the opposition has done nothing but criticise the Government throughout this whole sorry episode....As has Himmler up here!!!
When they reported how bad it was in Italy early in the year the media was accused of scare mongering whilst people said it was fake news, there was no pandemic, it was no worse than the flu, it would be all over in a couple of weeks... Sweden, the country we were told was giving a lesson on how to handle things is now having to change course and is considering asking neighbours countries to take sick people into their hospitals as Sweden's health system can't cope.
He's bad-mouthed them for their incompetence, just like most people (I dare say even most Tory voters have criticised them too) but when push comes to shove, he's voted and vocally supported all of the government's legislation. He's even supported the legislation that gives the PM unprecedented executive powers in peacetime. Not really 'opposition', is it? He's wet as ****.
They've already released the list, it's all of London, most of Essex and Kent and various other places.
The nearest he came to offering an alternative, was a system very much like the one applied in Wales, and look how that worked out. London was the other area that pushed against Government advice.
The following areas will be under tier 4: Kent Buckinghamshire Berkshire Surrey (excluding Waverley) The boroughs of Gosport, Havant, Portsmouth, Rother and Hastings All 32 London boroughs and the city of London. Bedford Central Bedfordshire Milton Keynes Luton Peterborough Hertfordshire Essex (excluding Colchester, Uttlesford and Tendring)
Yeah, I quite like constitutional checks and balances on the executive and legislative branches of government rather than have a Prime Minister rule by decree like some 19th century Russian Tsar.
My British pal who works in Sweden has said that its going very wrong there. The King has made an address blasting the countries failed coronavirus strategy....
Will you now cancel your plans Dennis? I have a similar issue in that my wife has invited our immediate family round on the 23rd(as she,my wife,has to work on Xmas day,she's a care worker).Upshot is we will carry on with our plan because the 23rd has been put in place to substitute Xmas day itself.This night not fit in to the Scottish Governments revised plan but to be honest...I couldn't care in the slightest.
I don't understand why the period of relaxing restrictions over Christmas has been reduced to solely Christmas Day just because London and the south east have been put in tier 4. So, because ****ers down south took the piss when they were in tier 2, Northerners who've been in tier 3 for at least 3 weeks are being punished despite the R-rate dropping below 1.0 in large parts of the North?
