British government confirm mass evacuation from London

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How can people on mumsnet continue to deny this. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9072273/Coronavirus-UK-Fury-Northerners-fears-Londoners-spreading-new-mutant-strain.html . Nit so much an Aibu but to confirm to all that this is happening and the government have actually confirmed it

Mr Hancock told Sophy Ridge on Sky:

'I think that it's relatively small numbers'

Mr Hancock calling them irresponsible is a bit akin to Fred West blaming those who built his house irresponsible for having a cellar so he could bury the victims there.

He has supported the inactions by Mr Johnson that have led to thousands of avoidable deaths.

The Fail was blathering on about this last night. Accompanied by pathetic photos of a handful of people calmly standing round at St Pancras. It's scaremongering, and I say this as someone living up north.

It's hardly a mass evacuation, a few hundred people out of the London population of 9 million.

Nowhere in that article is it described as a mass evacuation. Most Londoners are staying put but some will make their own judgement about what to do and disregard the rules. There is thread after thread after thread on here where people all over the country are doing just that regardless of whether it meets current guidelines.

Sorry that doesn't suit your evil Londoners narrative but people are making their own choices all over.

Sorry I know the situation is serious but the DM reporting is hilarious, so unecessarily sensationalist.

Expect tanks on the MI if Priti is in charge of enforcement.

What difference does it make after the event? What's done is done and 'confirming' it means nothing. Dd was there yesterday and will be on a train again on Tuesday, her reasons are perfectly legitimate, so stop quoting the DM as evidence for anything.

He confirmed fuck all. He was shown some pics and said "yes,it's irresponsible to travel and people should stay home".

How is that confirming there was a mass London evacuation?

How would he know how many "fled", how many were returning home after working in London all week, how many had been there shopping for the day/weekend, how many had already booked tickets and were leaving yesterday anyways.

Even if a few thousand ran do you know the population of London? It will be less than 0.1%

This is yet another scaremongering article from the dailyfail. This media source is very very dangerous and is responsible for the first lockdowns hoarding. There was no evacuation in London yesterday and I live in London. Evacuation means families with children, old people with 10 suitcases, horses, dogs and other house pets on the platforms or cars piled up on the M25 just like the apocalyptic films from the US trying to get out with massive queues by petrol stations. That's what a mass evacuation looks like, not a few people standing close together on a busy Saturday who are going back home.

Sorry can't get worked up about a few people going home for Christmas before restrictions come in. This is entirely the governments fault for their shitty handling of the situation YET AGAIN. I hope everyone in my town gets to leave London and come home to be with their families.

I don't think he confirmed anything if the sort.

The pictures last night didn't look that busy, though the ones on the news this morning looked rather worse. But still nothing like a typical Christmas migration day.

Nor is it known how many of the travellers were returning to their homes elsewhere after working/shopping in London

That said, it does seem fairly empty round here today, but that's possibly because Sunday football is off so people aren't descending on the nearby green space

Yes. Yabu.

It just shows people see what they want to see ,just look for confirmation for what they already think and they'll spin anything to make it "true".

It's not an evacuation. It's some people getting on trains. Honestly, the hyperbole.....

Don't be fucking ridiculous OP, the government have confirmed nothing of the sort. Just an excuse to bash Londoner.

Percentage wise it was hardly any one that left London.

If I had been in the same situation then yes I would have left London. The government caused the problem by giving 6 hours notice of course they were going to cause a panic.

Parliament ended for Christmas Thursday/Friday and made sure they were all at their holiday homes before telling others they couldn’t travel. Very clever.

No. They didn’t. Grow up.

It actually didn't look that busy. Stations in London often have to shut at busy times for safety reasons.

Honestly, what did people think would happen? Yes, some people will be breaking the rules but there will be lots of young single people going home to their parents. If you want to be pernickety, they're not even "true" Londoners if their family homes are elsewhere.

Actually, on that point, arguably it's not Londoners who are being "selfish". It's parents up and down the country who are letting their London-based adult children come home for Christmas. That's not a London problem.

‘Mass evacuation’ 😆😆😆 We really are reaching new levels of stupid here.

Even if you ignore the fact that out of 8-10 million Londoners, a significant percentage wouldn’t need to leave the city to visit family (some people are actually born here rather than moving here!), there’s nothing ‘mass’ about it - and it’s not an evacuation.

Also, why do so many of these tabloid scaremongering stories make it sound like London and ‘the North’ are next to each other with a giant wall between them that people are trying to breach, like a more extreme version of Cold War Berlin? ‘The North’ is huge - it takes less time to get to London from Manchester than it does to get to Newcastle. But no, apparently ‘The North’ is one homogeneous place where everything is good, and London is the disease-ridden dystopia next door. Do any of these so-called journalists own a map? If so, could they perhaps look at it and see if they can identify the Midlands - home to the second most populous conurbation in the country?

A mass evacuation would require approx 80% of the population being moved in conjunction with police/fire service/military after a government declaration of an emergency.

A couple of thousand people at a train station is not an evacuation. Spreading this nonsense, gleaned from sensationalist ‘news’ sites is irresponsible.

The government actually used the words 'mass evacuation'?

No they didn’t you pathetic little negativity vampire, go suck up your negativity somewhere else and stop spreading misinformation and lies.

Oh these threads are getting ridiculous now 🤣

It's one thing to read the Daily Fail but it's quite another to embarrass yourself by letting others know you believe that shit.

No they didn’t you pathetic little negativity vampire, go suck up your negativity somewhere else and stop spreading misinformation and lies.

Love it 😂😂