To think that Mark Drakeford is a power mad dictator?

[LittleLapwing]

Half the shops covered in plastic. Can’t buy clothes, duvets, books, DVDs, tins but not tin openers.
All the Halloween and bonfire night stuff that’s just been stocked is behind a cordon. Presumably now destined for landfill.

Autumn half term after a shitty year and I can’t even do a few seasonal treats for the kids.

AIBU to think that Mark Drakeford is a power mad dictator, and that his ridiculous game of Covid oneupmanship with Nicola and Boris needs to stop!?

Apparently the definition of caring is fuck old people, the vulnerable and those susceptible to long covid so long as I can have a shiny new kettle on demand

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🤬 You can’t even get ‘non-essentials’ when ordering online from supermarkets? How is that going to cause greater risk? That just proves this has nothing to do with covid and everything to do with MDs hatred of big business.

I think Drakeford was played by both Plaid and the conservatives. I know the motion was proposed by the conservatives in the Senedd, presumably on the basis that they are opposed to the lockdown at all and wanted small shops to stay open. I think it was Plaid who agreed and suggested smaller shops shouldn't be put at a disadvantage.

It sounds like a debate in which Drakeford thought he'd get an easy win by agreeing to go further and misread the room.

@TroysMammy

epcot15 and what area of Wales do you live in? And don't feel sorry for Troy. He was my cat who died 5 years ago.

I don't know if that was meant to be funny but it did make me

Re this: Do you not watch the news round the rest of the UK? It won't be for 17 days on what planet do you think that? All they do is lie, after 17 days the virus will still be there so they will extend it, just to save the nhs you know!

They will absolutely end it after 17 days. I would happily bet any money on that.

I'm in Cardiff. Yes it's a pain, and yes you can quibble over the logic behind some of the measures, but I honestly don't see the point in getting this outraged on behalf of an imaginary person facing a hypothetical scenario.

@C8H10N4O2

If you buy a birthday card you are killing grannies.

Not actually what I said of course but I should know better than to expect rationality on the subject.

If you want to let the virus run wild so that you can get consumer goods then fine but at least own it.

The virus isn’t going to run wild down the F&F aisle at Tesco. Behave.

Have you even read the thread?

If you want to let the virus run wild so that you can get consumer goods then fine but at least own it

How is picking up a birthday card or a kettle in a shop that you are in anyway going to let the "virus run wild"? Bonkers. Apparently the virus can tell the difference between people who buy beans or birthday cards.

@littlelapwing

I’m going to try that!!

Please do and report back

@Noideawottodo

If you want to let the virus run wild so that you can get consumer goods then fine but at least own it

This puritanical bullshit is incredible.

That’s unfair to puritans.

Hold on, these are the people who said buying Easter Eggs was a big fuck you to the NHS aren't they.

I mean I'm pretty cautious about COVID but this is genuinely bonkers.

@JamminDoughnuts

but back in April you could not buy plenty of things from supermarkets.

Where? In April supermarkets were open and you were free to buy whatever they sold.

Just because some people on MN seemed to have an issue with people buying Easter Eggs or whatever, it was never forbidden to do so. This is entirely different.

If you want to let the virus run wild so that you can get consumer goods then fine but at least own it

How will buying a kettle in the shop you buy milk in result in the virus running wild?

Apparently the virus can tell the time and knows the date too? Its an amazing thing alright.

Apparently he is planning a 'new regime' for when it ends.

@headstrong27

If you want to let the virus run wild so that you can get consumer goods then fine but at least own it

How will buying a kettle in the shop you buy milk in result in the virus running wild?

Because its hard and makes life difficult and things that are hard are better at suppressing Covid.

Well us 'conspiracy theorists' who've been saying this virus is allowing governments and politicians to take away our freedoms and control us where called all sorts of names 🙄 you laughed at us but looks whose laughing now

Enjoy your new normal, being dictated to what you can or can't do, what you can or can't buy, where you can go or cant go

Yanbu they did this in the supermarket near me when lockdown first happened, to be totally honest I moved the tape. Grabbed ds a small lego box and hid it under the rest of my shopping and used self scan

epcot15 and I'm thankful you don't.

Just because some people on MN seemed to have an issue with people buying Easter Eggs or whatever, it was never forbidden to do so. This is entirely different.

I remember a poster saying bread & milk were non essentials. 😆

@Lollyneenah so it was you who caused the second wave?! 😱

@headstrong27

Just because some people on MN seemed to have an issue with people buying Easter Eggs or whatever, it was never forbidden to do so. This is entirely different.

I remember a poster saying bread & milk were non essentials. 😆

Yes I remember that, they were absolutely frothing.

@Noideawottodo 👍🏼

@MiracletoCome

It will be worse for small businesses because every time shops are shut it introduces a few more people to online shopping who haven’t used it before.

This! Absolutely this. It's the death knell for independents.

Hell- you could ban people from going into the "non-residential" shops or aisles and only allow shop staff to select the items people want, and the wait somewhere, socially distanced. Not ideal, but fairly doable for many shops. (e.g. I want an electric kettle, 1700W, black or silver, less than £35, or I need a pack of three baby grows, size 0-3m, pale colour)

"non-essential"!!!

Hold on, these are the people who said buying Easter Eggs was a big fuck you to the NHS aren't they

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