I'm down here now, not over there anymore, but I get it, the answer is yes - supermarkets deliver down south too. But I can get a takeaway delivery or click and collect of freshly cooked fish and chips of much better quality than the chilled (or frozen) packaged stuff available in a supermarket without subjecting myself to a sharp increase in risk of death. I'll do takeaway once a week as a treat - and things I would struggle to cook anywhere near as well or when I am ****ing knackered after the week at work + home schooling. So F&C, Thai curry & noodles or Lebanese for example. Anyway, this is all immaterial nonsense as have just seen Chunks messages....
No problem mate everybody to there own just this Covid thing is a right badin so just do whatever you can to keep safe mate
Why https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55620138 At a time when this crisis is at it's worst, the NHS is struggling and the government is demanding people stick to the message ... ... the PM is leaving his local area to bike around London with his security team tagging along behind him. Nick Hancock immediately says it's all perfectly fine and OK to travel 7 miles from home. It's another Cummings situation whereby it may be just about able to squeeze it within the rules but makes it look like 'one rule for them ...etc'. That's all some idiots need to think the virus isn't really as bad as they're saying. Not that big a deal, just no need for the PM to do it at all when 1 in 40 Londoners are infected.
I hope he can explain his actions to the two Derbyshire women who got fined for being 5 miles away from their home exercising
'Confusion' seems to have been the word during this whole crisis. As you say mate, those two women were surrounded by police, fined and humiliated. So silly they've now dropped the fines. Then hundreds of Chorley fans are allowed to line the streets. Like I say mate it's no big deal that the PM, and his entourage, are riding around London.. it's just that, after Cummings etc, you'd think all of the government would take care to send out the right message. This message is 'Bend the rules if you feel like it and talk your way out of it if you're caught'.
The rich and powerful elite have always thought the "rules" don't apply too them, only to the great unwashed. Rupert Murdoch summed their attitude up when he said tax was "only for the little people". Demonic Cummings compounded it.
All kinds of parties have been as bad as each other but it's the government who should be better than everyone else and set the tone. The policing minister, when asked about people staying local, obviously covered for the PM by saying 'local is just whatever's in people's minds'. It's difficult to see how the message could be any less clear tbh.
It's just all so messy isn't it. The talk today is of people being made to wear masks and the police cracking down which should've been made totally clear from day one. Big fines should've been implemented immediately and people pilloried for breaking the rules, including Cummings I have to say. Surely no one can look back on that episode and defend it. Human contact is the only way the virus spreads and we've failed to minimise it ... ... encouraging fans to go to PL games was totally pointless and sent out the wrong message entirely. People, around the country, look at the TV and think 'f**k it, I'm going out'.
I thought exercising was allowed? Genuinely. I walk at least 7 miles a day with my dog. I had no idea I wasn't allowed to do that.
Which comes down to way the government are managing the virus, but could Labour have done better, we'll never know. However, we should still take the government to task over their handling of the situation. This raises the question of when, now or after Covid-19 has been defeated? As the virus is mutating we probably need a review sooner rather than later.
Can somebody put me right here if we manage to get everyone jabbed with the vaccine and I think at the minute Europe and other countries haven’t started yet are these other countries in near lock down rules forever as the virus just won’t go away on its own?
Exercising is allowed but the government instruction is to stay at home or stay local. No one will use you as an excuse but idiots will look at the PM and think it gives them the right to bend the rules. If 7 miles is 'local' and OK then surely 10 is fine, and that's when it gets messy.
They've made a start in Europe, now, mate. I think they're having problems with logistics though because they didn't even order nearly enough to go around. I think close to 3 million jabs have been done in the UK, now. I'm not sure of the numbers of elderly and vulnerable people we have, but surely we can't be too far away from having them all vaccinated. Another 4 - 6 weeks and we should really be in a position to start easing restrictions. Ireland is struggling the most, at the moment. I wouldn't even consider putting a border up there though once the Brits have been vaccinated
I noticed the government haven't said if he cycled to the area he was photographed. If he has been taken there by car to cycle, then I'd say he's dropped a bollock with that one. If he has peddled there then I'd have to say it's a bike ride and 7 miles is nothing at all really with that exercise.
They are trying to find out today how he got there? The whole lot of them are bloody nuggets their advisers must be stood like this most of the time.
