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Steelmonkey said:
'Crystal clear' drunk people will not socially distance
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Revellers drink and socialise in the street in Soho, London

It is "crystal clear" that drunk people are unable to socially distance, the chair of the Police Federation said as pubs reopened on Saturday.

Ministers had urged caution ahead of hospitality venues reopening in England after three months of lockdown.

John Apter dealt with "naked men, happy drunks, angry drunks, fights and more angry drunks" on shift in Southampton.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53296689
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Westminster Council have made street closure orders across Soho specifically to allow what you see there, they can't complain when people do exactly what they were allowed to...
 
At last some good news on jobs - the government is hiring an extra 13,000 Jobcentre staff.

Oh, wait a minute...
 
YorkshireHoopster said:
Stop digging. Rules to ensure public safety work on the basis of foreseeing the possibility of accidents. Was he infected? Yes. Was he contagious? Yes. Should he be the judge whether it is safe for him drive? No. He is not medically qualified because he would have told us if he was as well as the rest of his cock and bull story. What if his car had broken down? What if he had to stop and pull over because he or has wife or his child suddenly began to vomit or needed to go to the toilet? What if he was involved in an accident on the way there, the way back or the trip to Barnard Castle on his test run?
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Leaving out the Barnard Castle stuff because I have accepted that he probably breached recommended regulations there, if he'd been forced to stop on the way up, he could have declared that he believed he had the virus to roadside assistance etc. I feel that if this had happened to anyone else, there would have been sympathy that he was concerned that his young son was looked after by family, if he and his wife were incapacitated by this deadly disease. As it is, those who are politically averse to him (including most of the MSM) did their best to see he lost his job. He was not visiting his second home for recreational purposes. He was not shacking up with someone else's missus.
 
Goldhawk-Road said:
Leaving out the Barnard Castle stuff because I have accepted that he probably breached recommended regulations there, if he'd been forced to stop on the way up, he could have declared that he believed he had the virus to roadside assistance etc. I feel that if this had happened to anyone else, there would have been sympathy that he was concerned that his young son was looked after by family, if he and his wife were incapacitated by this deadly disease. As it is, those who are politically averse to him (including most of the MSM) did their best to see he lost his job. He was not visiting his second home for recreational purposes. He was not shacking up with someone else's missus.
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Yeah he was visiting to have a family shindig for his wife's birthday.
 
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Goldhawk-Road said:
Leaving out the Barnard Castle stuff because I have accepted that he probably breached recommended regulations there, if he'd been forced to stop on the way up, he could have declared that he believed he had the virus to roadside assistance etc. I feel that if this had happened to anyone else, there would have been sympathy that he was concerned that his young son was looked after by family, if he and his wife were incapacitated by this deadly disease. As it is, those who are politically averse to him (including most of the MSM) did their best to see he lost his job. He was not visiting his second home for recreational purposes. He was not shacking up with someone else's missus.
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You really are better than this Goldie....being an apologist for Cummings doesn't become you pal
 
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Goldhawk-Road said:
Leaving out the Barnard Castle stuff because I have accepted that he probably breached recommended regulations there, if he'd been forced to stop on the way up, he could have declared that he believed he had the virus to roadside assistance etc. I feel that if this had happened to anyone else, there would have been sympathy that he was concerned that his young son was looked after by family, if he and his wife were incapacitated by this deadly disease. As it is, those who are politically averse to him (including most of the MSM) did their best to see he lost his job. He was not visiting his second home for recreational purposes. He was not shacking up with someone else's missus.
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yeah thats the exact same reason i will use in the second lockdown. Visiting my mums as i think i might have corona and i'm scaredi might die of starvation due to being incapacitated so she can cook for me. Its okay though guv i will be isolating away
 
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Steelmonkey said:
You really are better than this Goldie....being an apologist for Cummings doesn't become you pal
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Thanks for the advice Steel, but it's the way I see it - and I like to think that if this was another time, and it was Alastair Campbell taking his young son to be overseen by relatives in the same circumstances, I would not want him to lose his job either.
 
Goldhawk-Road said:
Thanks for the advice Steel, but it's the way I see it - and I like to think that if this was another time, and it was Alastair Campbell taking his young son to be overseen by relatives in the same circumstances, I would not want him to lose his job either.
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Another spin doctor cut from the same cloth as Cummings....and I'm sure Campbell would treat us all with the same contempt as Cummings did.
 
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Steelmonkey said:
Another spin doctor cut from the same cloth as Cummings....and I'm sure Campbell would treat us all with the same contempt as Cummings did.
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Let me ask you something. Say, you lived in London and the wife of the bloke next door went down with Covid. They had a four year old son, and the neighbour felt he was going to go down with it, and panicked because he had no relatives nearby to look after the boy if he and his wife both fell sick. So he makes a non-stop journey to his parents in the north, and isolates on their property, knowing that his son will be looked after, if he and his wife fall seriously ill or die.

Would you condemn him?
 
Goldhawk-Road said:
Let me ask you something. Say, you lived in London and the wife of the bloke next door went down with Covid. They had a four year old son, and the neighbour felt he was going to go down with it, and panicked because he had no relatives nearby to look after the boy if he and his wife both fell sick. So he makes a non-stop journey to his parents in the north, and isolates on their property, knowing that his son will be looked after, if he and his wife fall seriously ill or die.

Would you condemn him?
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No, I'd like to think that I'd offer him my help to save him having to drive the length of the country.

Or maybe, as we are supposed to be mainainting social distancing, and as was suggested by the government in all it's official releases, I'd point him in the direction of the local health service who had contingency plans for such scenarios.
 
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