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Inevitable I think.

Do you think the Scots will ban travel to and from England? Or quarantine if they visit?

Taking my daughter back to Uni in Newcastle on Friday. She probably won’t be able to do anything regarding study there that she couldn’t do from home, but we are paying rent on a house she is sharing with seven mates, and after more than six months at home with us she deserves a change of scene. Usually I’d stay over and have a big night out with a couple of good friends I have up there, but we have decided it’s just not worth it this time, I’ll be driving there and back on the day. Shame, the Toon is a great place for a few drinks.
You are of course right. I used to work there 3 days a week until 6 months ago - who knows when I will be able to return. Is she staying in Jesmond?
 
You are of course right. I used to work there 3 days a week until 6 months ago - who knows when I will be able to return. Is she staying in Jesmond?
Naturally, where else for students? Some very fine period housing in Jesmond, much too good for the likes of her! Final year, then she’s thinking of doing a law conversion, which I seem to remember is your line of business.

Will be meeting up with my mates after all, for a socially distanced old mans coffee somewhere on the quayside on Friday afternoon. I’ve worked with both of them for nearly 20 years, and they have both just been offered redundancy (non COVID related). I’m insanely jealous, I’ve survived more reorganisations than I can remember.
 
I can't honestly see what these restrictions are going to achieve. 10pm curfew on boozers and the likes. Does Covid not spread til after 10pm? The biggest social environment that I can see for spreading the disease is the school environment. 1700 pupils at our local school. For aguements sake, say they are in families of 4 on average, that's 5100 people, say they stick to the guidelines of only meeting in the rule of 6, thats now up to 8500 people. Factor in a percentage that dont adhere to rules, factor in all those parents that go to the pub for a few. Your talking around 10,000 people and thats just using our local school as an example. Obviously people need to work and kids need an education, I'm starting......yet again, to think that this is unbeatable and we might aswell just go with the flow.

Totally mate....it’s like the war on drugs, unwinnable. Therefore we have to face the sad fact That we need another way......and in my opinion that should be controlled herd immunity.

And no I don’t know how to achieve it, however I cannot think of any other way.
 
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Naturally, where else for students? Some very fine period housing in Jesmond, much too good for the likes of her! Final year, then she’s thinking of doing a law conversion, which I seem to remember is your line of business.

Will be meeting up with my mates after all, for a socially distanced old mans coffee somewhere on the quayside on Friday afternoon. I’ve worked with both of them for nearly 20 years, and they have both just been offered redundancy (non COVID related). I’m insanely jealous, I’ve survived more reorganisations than I can remember.
Jesmond is the one part of Toon where you will struggle to hear a Geordie accent at all - primarily Queens English with plenty of Europeans working in the hotels and gangs of builders from everywhere else except the North East.
 
This conservative government are a load of ****s, supported by a load of ****s. That mop haired bucket of filth and his army of devil children go out of their way to blame everyone else for the mess that we are in....conveniently forgetting the inept Leadership, bizarre rules that are put in place and the fact they’ve had more U-turns than a lost driver.

Meanwhile getting neighbour to grass on neighbour (some on here will be good at that) and dividing the community for years to come.

Good old cuddly Boris.......your fanboys will lap it up.
 
This conservative government are a load of ****s, supported by a load of ****s. That mop haired bucket of filth and his army of devil children go out of their way to blame everyone else for the mess that we are in....conveniently forgetting the inept Leadership, bizarre rules that are put in place and the fact they’ve had more U-turns than a lost driver.

Meanwhile getting neighbour to grass on neighbour (some on here will be good at that) and dividing the community for years to come.

Good old cuddly Boris.......your fanboys will lap it up.
Someone get that man a drink. Bravo
 
We agree on many things mate.....but disagree on many others.

Only the deluded will think mop-head and his scum and doing a good job during this crisis.
They really are ****ing the country up! I wonder who they will blame next? Starmer hasnt fallen in to their trap, corbyn is no longer an excuse, now it's just the public for going to work when they shouldn't have gone to work while being encouraged to go to work but not.
 
They really are ****ing the country up! I wonder who they will blame next? Starmer hasnt fallen in to their trap, corbyn is no longer an excuse, now it's just the public for going to work when they shouldn't have gone to work while being encouraged to go to work but not.

Im really not a great fan of Starmer as I see him as more of a Blair type leader...really not a man for the working class. A few months ago I said I wouldn’t and couldn’t vote Labour.....However, weighing things up and seeing how awful the conservatives have been during this debacle, I’ll now be doing a ‘Boris u-turn’ and voting Labour.
In my view it’s a step in the right direction (much like I feel about leaving the EU) and once in power, then maybe there might be some real change.
 
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