Boris and a costa?

[ThisHereMamaBear]

I am so confused now. What message is he giving? We're in Lockdown and he's having a costa. I had a close look at the picture and it doesn't look like one of those fill them up at home cups. I'm moving planets.

@thisheremamabear I get what you're saying. The message is still to "stay home" "protect the NHS". Regardless of whether it's Boris or a someone else, buying a Costa coffee is not staying home. No need.

Unless that isn't the message and we're allowed to go out and about generally.

I wouldn't go to a shop to buy my kids some sweets on an afternoon walk. By the same token I wouldn't buy myself a coffee.

It's very confusing. And all the street parties have just served to confuse me more

I'm no Boris fan but even I can't get worked up about this.

We're in Lockdown and he's having a costa

So what?

I wasn't aware we were only supposed to be buying 'essentials' or that shopping was being policed.....in fact pretty sure the home secretary confirmed it wasn't a few weeks ago....

I'm not trying to bash Boris at all. I just think it sets a bad impression for everyone else. Why did he choose today to walk through a park with a take away coffee? If he would have done it the first day of lockdown would you all have had the same impression?

Coffee is so essential to me as a parent with young children that if I don’t have a coffee in the morning it’s a crisis and I dial 999. I’m sure Boris feels the same.

www.cityam.com/its-international-coffee-day-unless-youre-boris-johnson/

I'd forgotten about this incident where someone quickly poured Boris' coffee that was in a disposable cup into a reusable one

OP please just give up, step away from Mumsnet and go and read a book or something.

Mumsnet is beginning to be like torture, nobody could really be this concerned over something so trivial.

He was getting his daily exercise in too. So that's good.

Cocktail deliveries @Wishforsnow, that is brilliant. I am having a non essential afternoon tea take away from the local farm shop next week.

So what?????? Aaaarrhghhhhhhh, you people have lost your (small) minds. What on earth will you whinge and bitch about when this is all over?

Just paves the way for tomorrow's announcement I guess

Not sure he’d go to the trouble of a nationwide announcement to say ‘we’re still allowed to buy takeaway coffee, just as we always have been’.

Doesn't anyone in Number 10 know how to make a cup of coffee? Doesn't he have ''staff''?

Maybe Carrie had one too.

Take the fact he's Boris Johnson out of the equation and what are we left with? Father of newborn buys takeaway coffee on lunch break.

I can't stand the man. But I hope he enjoyed his coffee, I suspect he needed it.

There are a large number of reasons allowing people to leave their houses and those reasons don't become invalid if you also buy yourself a takeaway coffee while on your way to work, or a bottle of water while doing your daily walk.

Costa also has takeaway machines which are completely person free. The ones in my town (which i don't use because costa coffee makes me feel ill) have been working throughout lockdown.

Someone earlier said that it's a disposable cup. Maybe staff made it?

I thought this was going to be about the calories/ unhealthiness of it when he could do with losing a few stone. At least he's walking at the same time. And it might be a black coffee.

But I see there is some weird 'unacceptable shopping item' thread instead. I'll leave you to it.

I judge the pm of this country for having a Costa when a few weeks back he was ill in hospital

@ThisHereMamaBear
This is hilarious. What exactly are you outraged about? He's walking through a park with a coffee? Do you think if you stretch right up your tiptoes you might arrive at an actual point?

Is it ok that he’s advertising (probably not for free) for Costa?

If a drive through Costa was open here I would go!

They are open for key workers, he is a key worker.

if you want to get annoyed at Boris maybe focus on the disgusting levels of inequality in this country or the fact the NHS has been massively funded by the Tories for the last decade, rather then the fact the man has bought a coffee!

Plus, as someone who has already definitely had Coronavirus surely he’s likely at less risk then most people in the country...

FFS.

I can confirm that Cabinet Office and No.10 have Costa coffee franchises. So do many other government departments.

Get a grip.

Typo - that should of course read the NHS has been massively under funded

Well I disagree, it hasn't been made clear at all. Why are we bothering with lockdown if it's fine to go to the shop and get a Costa?

It's been made perfectly clear. It's open, you can buy a Costa as long as you are socially distancing ffs. It's not complicated or a conspiracy or even noteworthy.

Also. He's a key worker. Clap for nhs staff but lynch Boris for having a coffee? Smh