Every single thing they have done has been last minute. Lockdowns, extra furlough schemes etc etc. I think it’s on purpose, so we don’t know what we’re doing and we can’t do anything about it if we disagree with their decisions. And if you go against their last minute rules it’s all on you.
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Have to say the getting people to spend thing has crossed my mind too…
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There’s no way it wasn’t that. If they’d “cancelled christmas” weeks ago people would rage for a minute but by the time it actually came around it would just be normal. We would’ve never come out of the November lockdown if it wasn’t Christmas prezzie buying season
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Last week they were “absolutely not” cancelling Christmas plans. Then Friday they’re “not there yet” which was really the trailer for today’s announcement.
The tone of BBC News was like Londoners Christmas being cancelled was on par with the Queen dying. I wondered aloud to a friend what the news would have been if South Yorkshire had been the focus instead. He replied saying the school he’s trying to get built in Barnsley is not going ahead because the old colliery underneath it, and half of Barnsley, is on fire and has been for weeks/months. Not a peep.
‘Let’s jump and a train and spread the new strain up north!’
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Christ Johnson, resign for God’s sake.
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I’m talking about the mass exodus in the video than an individual. I think we should be protecting the parts of the country that don’t have the new strain or why bother with anything? Let’s just give up with masks, social distancing or self isolating then?
It’s great being a midlander, both sets hate you!
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Didn’t say we weren’t. Been in tier 3 since day one baby! Haha.
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Being from London I didn’t realise there was a north/south divide until I was about 20. They’re obsessed with us and we couldn’t care less
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I dunno about that, when I first started working in London I was labelled from ‘up north’. The punishment for living above Milton Keynes.
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I guess we all have our different experiences of the place, I always found it odd how people were so attached to their little areas of London. ‘Oh I hate west London’, ‘I’d only live south’ etc etc. I’ve lived in a few areas all over really, they each have their good and bad features.
I wouldn’t go that far, it probably looks that way with the government/parliament being London based. So of course the South/London will come up in conversation in the North more than the North will in the South. If Parliament was based in York say, it would appear the other way around.
"I remember my dad had all this cash, even though cash was completely useless. About 20,000 other people had the same idea. The crowd was surging. I lost my grip on my sister’s hand. I remember the ground was soft. I looked down, and I was standing on all these people, like a carpet. People who had fallen, and somewhere in the crowd, there were infected. It spread fast. No one could run, all you could do was climb… climb over more people. So, I did that, I climbed and I got up on top of this Kiosk. Looking down, you couldn’t tell which faces were infected, and which weren’t. "
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State of it. This place is a fucking joke.
What a fucking day and night.
Had my son all day yesterday which was tiring enough and then got the news and booked the next flight to Malta from Stansted.
Managed to get a hotel at the airport and I don’t think we broke any rules.
Just waiting to board the flight. Got to pass a COVID test when we land.
Feel so sorry for anyone in Tier 4 who can’t get to see anyone.
Worst government and worst person I charge.
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Jealous mate. Have a good one with the in laws and the new addition to your family. Will this be the first time they have met your baby?
Yeah exactly which is why I was even considering driving last night haha.
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To add to the above - found out on the last day of term that teachers now have to administer Covid tests to kids when we go back.
No warning, no discussion about training or logistics - in fact no discussion at all, just a directive from the DfE.
Enjoy your two weeks off yeah?
Yeah, I agree. But most of the commentary when the north was the hotspot was along the lines of what everyone up north must have been doing wrong.
