Just seen that, expected 4 or 5pm after an emergency cobra meeting today.:down:
The expected content is about food shortages, EU supply chains, medicines coming in etc. and not to panic buy.
I must stress this could be completely wrong from the outset, but still, source does work in a government department quite high up. Reckons it will be announced shortly that England will be entering a full National Lockdown over Xmas. Today might be a softening up announcement, tomorrow to...
It was out of political popularity rather than responsible pragmatism.
Forget lockdown advocates, this is about giving people the guidance they need to plan - if this means telling them things are up in the air you do so. Thousands of businesses have planned on the Christmas rules that they...
Your missing the point regarding political language. Until Wednesday last week our PM was steadfast in Christmas rules would not change. Regardless of who is advocating what, he should have prepared the public that things may well change. The rapid rises in the now tier 4 areas from the start of...
I don’t doubt that some specific fact of information may have come out on Friday, there’s some new bit of science every week. This new variant has been known since September. The spikes in London, Kent, Essex etc. were clearly known in order to put them in tier 3, the growth data showed it was...
The situation was always going to change and be fluid. The only thing that was being repeated to the public that would change were the Xmas plans! I think the majority of the public would have accepted 2 or 3 weeks ago that Xmas plans would be under constant review. Instead they repeated time...
What most people of an objective mind will realise is that this new updated information will have been available when London and South East went Tier 3 last week. It almost certainly been known at PMQs on Wednesday when it was stated Xmas would be going ahead as planned. Even Tory MPs realise...