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British government confirm mass evacuation from London

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5Hcool · 20/12/2020 12:35

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

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SantasBritchesSpelleas · 20/12/2020 14:04

@treening

There are 4 on our road so far and I saw 4 families in our farm shop

How do you know they're from London?

Obviously - they were coughing over everyone. In a new and more deadly way.

Rosebel · 20/12/2020 14:06

Hardly a mass evacuation. And even if if is I can't say I blame them.
It's bad enough being in tier 3 but at least we can mix for one day, being in tier 4 must be horrendous.

mollscroll · 20/12/2020 14:07

Coughing in a cockney accent no doubt.

cologne4711 · 20/12/2020 14:08

I know the Daily Heil is a right wing rag, but I don't think it's an official government publication!

parallax80 · 20/12/2020 14:10

Coughing in a cockney accent no doubt

The problem I have is that every time I cough all the pearls fall off my clothes.

parallax80 · 20/12/2020 14:12

But now all the incomers have gone home hopefully there will be more jellied eels around for the 5 of us left.

lazylinguist · 20/12/2020 14:17

Great post, mollscroll. People just love finding new groups of people to froth about. The only sensible approach is to live your life as well as you can within the rules and set a good example, rather than sowing misinformation, bitterness, suspicion and discontent, none of which gains you anything at all.

Lightwindows · 20/12/2020 14:19

You have to take anything you read in the Daily mail with a pinch of salt. Probably some of them were people going home from work/shopping who normally live in the north anyway, there are some fast services to areas of the Midlands. A mass evacuation would involve people queuing outside train stations for weeks, there's millions of Londoners . I'm sure some of them are breaking the rules going north to defy the tier system at the last minute, but I'm pretty sure most people have neighbours who are ignoring the rules and having family/friends around all the time, I certainly do.
The DM always writes articles in a way to pitch people against each other, and this is exactly typical of it, and OP you are being daft to take it literally and start a thread on it.

CardoMondo · 20/12/2020 14:19

www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/tier-4-lockdown-london-trains-4816944

To the woman who was obsessed with Hull on the other COVID thread ... look what’s happening. We’re all doomed.

namechangefail2020 · 20/12/2020 14:20

Lol, I don't think the OP was expecting these responses. This has cheered me up after feeling particularly shitty about it all today! Am glad sensible people get it!!

Crunchymum · 20/12/2020 14:24

I suspect all the people leaving aren't actually "Londoners"

Us who have our family here / "come from" London aren't going anywhere.

TragedyHands · 20/12/2020 14:27

I don't blame them, but pity the areas and locals who they take their virus to.

StillCoughingandLaughing · 20/12/2020 14:31

I don't blame them, but pity the areas and locals who they take their virus to.

Yes, these magical wonderlands untouched by Coronavirus, such as...

Erm...

Give me a minute...

It’ll come to me...

ClarenceBoddicker · 20/12/2020 14:31

I think the rush was stupid and dangerous but as a response to the announcement. I’m heading away tomorrow and hope it’s a lot calmer and less busy

NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 20/12/2020 14:32

Judging from yesterday's images in the DM it looked as if it was young people (most likely students) who may have been planning to travel home anyway (my DS did).

Clymene · 20/12/2020 14:43

As has been discussed on the William and Kate thread, the ratcheting up of London's tiers ha been carefully designed to let those with second homes in the country or in the Caribbean get to where they wanted to go before the shutters came down. While I'm not a massive fan of the mass exodus last night, there is rank hypocrisy at work here.

And where is Boris anyway? Did he hotfoot off to chequers the moment the press conference finished?

SelfIcellation · 20/12/2020 14:46

@5Hcool No exodus, no mass evacuation, nothing like that.

DM sensational headlines.

Matt Hancock is an unqualified health secretary of the populist type.

Calm yourself.

TheFormidableMrsC · 20/12/2020 14:47

I drove into central London yesterday to bring my student daughter home to Herts. It was later than we'd have liked because DS had to isolate for two weeks. There was no "evacuation", roads were fairly quiet and the A1 was clear, it usually struggles at this time of year. It's just scaremongering.

cyclingmad · 20/12/2020 14:49

Its now Sunday 2.47pm on 20 December, im writing from London which is now in Tier 4. The sun is shining and the skies are clear blue.

Apparently I was supposed to evacuate ...

I haven't seen a single person in 14hrs since Tier 4 started...maybe tomorrow I'll venture outside and see if anyone else is alive

I'll report back and if you don't hear from me the virus has got me.

Save yourselves!!!!

MinnieMountain · 20/12/2020 14:51

I can tell you about a responsible friend from London who we bumped into today in Peterborough if you like OP. Or my DSis and her family who are staying put and not seeing anyone. But that clearly wouldn’t suit your narrative.

Buddytheelf85 · 20/12/2020 14:54

Everything the DM ever writes is designed to pit one social group against another. And people bite - every single time.

As others on the thread have pointed out - it’s pretty unlikely that the people pictured leaving London for Christmas are born and bred Londoners isn’t it?

bigbluebus · 20/12/2020 15:01

I know of 2 separate adults who went 'home' from London yesterday - one to Northumberland, the other to Norfolk. Both trips were already planned prior to the announcement and changes yesterday and were already outside if the rules as neither adult lives alone nor do their parents and neither of those areas are in Tier 1 so they shouldn't be having people from outside their household into their houses. I'm pretty sure this will have been replicated many times over as these adults still flit to and from 'home' in much the same way as they did when they were Uni students only in the cases I know of they have each been working full time for at least 6 years.

EdithWeston · 20/12/2020 15:21

I've just seen this statement reported by BBC

"East Midlands Railway said it had run a full service on Saturday and only two of its 10 evening departures had been full"

I think filming the bottleneck at the top of the escalator to the platform as probably given a misleading impression.

ShatnersWig · 20/12/2020 15:26

Regardless of a few thousand leaving London, it's already been confirmed that the new strain is in every region of England and in Wales and it didn't get there by those who left London last night.

AccidentallyOnSanta · 20/12/2020 15:29

@EdithWeston

I've just seen this statement reported by BBC

"East Midlands Railway said it had run a full service on Saturday and only two of its 10 evening departures had been full"

I think filming the bottleneck at the top of the escalator to the platform as probably given a misleading impression.

Exactly. Not to mention how busy those train stations are anyways, especially on what was supposed to be the busiest day of the year.

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