BBC News is my friend lying?

[Theodoreb]

She likes to make me anxious and as a sheilded person with two vulnerable dc I'm very nervous of lockdown ending and school re opening she's also a bit stupid and believes those fb pages which are fake.

She just told me that she watched bbc news and Boris Johnson gave a speech saying lockdown was being lifted slowly that construction workers can go back and buses are back on as normal tomorrow.

She sounds delightful.
Just cut contact. Who needs friends like that!

Spain is allowing some workers to go back to work tomorrow NOT the UK

Boris Johnson has put a video on Twitter

I specifically asked her to send me the newspaper link as she has made a few fake claims so I have been asking her for proof. And she specifically said I cannot send you a link it was on bbc news when Boris Johnson made a speech.

As others have regarding Boris and the UK, nothing has been said about our lockdown.

Why are you friends with someone who likes to make you anxious? She sounds very toxic to me.

Have a think about why she is deliberately winding you up

Agree OP - better to have no friends than one like this who enjoys making you feel bad for her own amusement. She is not a friend.

There was definitely an article about Spain starting to reopen... it specifically mentioned non essential workers (like builders etc) going back to work, and issuing face masks to everyone using public transport. That was on BBC news around the same time as Johnson's bit. I suspect your friend got confused.

She’s no friend.

She's a nasty person trying to upset you, she's no friend.

She really isn't a nice person if she enjoys winding you up friends don't upset each other on purpose talk to your mum. Chat on Mumsnet as a distraction because this person has the monopoly on your attention.

BBC News puts breaking news on the website pretty much at the same time as they'd show it on TV. If it's on one it'll be on the other, even if it's just a headline and a sentence saying more info to come.

Your 'friend' is evil.

She is worse than having no friend OP. She is unkind and getting a kick out of scaring you. Please let her know that you no longer want to have anything to do with her.

Nothing like that is happening any time soon. And when it does, it will be done with the utmost thought and care.

OP you need to watch/read the news for yourself and not rely on this 'friend' to tell you what's going on.

She just told me that she watched bbc news and Boris Johnson gave a speech saying lockdown was being lifted slowly that construction workers can go back and buses are back on as normal tomorrow.

If it was on the news it was on the news. If you didn't find it on the news then it's not true, is it?

Why would you believe your 'friend' rather than the national news? Block her, don't listen to her, don't let her bring you down. She's not your friend.

Dump this ‘friend’. I suspect that it’s you doing the favour to her by being her friend. I doubt she has any others apart from you if she’s this nasty.

If you’re lonely, post here or try other forums about things that interest you - books, films, cookery, whatever.

You can do a lot better than this pathetic ‘friend’.

I feel so sorry for you OP. I have suffered with anxiety for over a year and have just come off Sertraline for it. I had no idea until I suffered myself what pathological anxiety is actually like.
She is injuring you. It really is as sinple as that. If she was hitting you in the face it would be more manageable and almost more honest of her but this is her pushing your buttons and it is unforgivable!
I have dumped four separate individuals since I got ill for similar 'crimes'. I don't regret it. The landscape of my life is a warmer sunnier place coming out of the illness for my finding the spine to do this.

Be your own best friend and get rid. The air will feel sweeter & the sun will feel warmer.

I am friends with this person as she is my only friend I have severe mental health problems

OP Mumsnet is a great place for additional support... you're not alone ever.. night or day someone is always here

I do think she’s lying - she more likely just got mixed up

What an arsehole.

She's being deliberately unkind to you - probably thinks she's being funny. She isn't.

Apart from anything else, Boris is out of hospital but not yet back at work. He's not going to be making any speeches.

Do have a television? If so put on the BBC news channel and then you can see for yourself what's happening. No need to listen to your friend or internet strangers, get it straight from the horse's mouth.

That’s not a friend.

She gets off on your reaction OP.
:-/ she has far worse issues than anxiety.

Buses are running around near me. Alot less though!

Don't worry. You can stay inside with your children if you are vunerable. They can't force children to school if they are at risk. I think life will start returning slowly to something in a month or so though. They seem to be saying we will all get it and this is just to stop us all getting it at once.

You have to take it all with a pinch of salt. Considering the uk isn't testing for mild and asymptomatic cases. Some predict hardly any of us have had it. Some think 50% of us have.

Personally I don't want to be gambling by going back out. I'm healthy apart from bad anemia. So I often feel terrible but i am not vunerable. I still have two young children who need me. I don't want to be killed by some virus and leave them without a mother.

Everyone is saying the UK is going to be hot the worst. That pisses me off as most are doing their absolute best and are staying home with the odd walk. I know some have not listened. But as a whole we have done amazing! We've stopped working, socialising, going out etc. We are doing nothing other than the basics. You'd like to think there's going to be nobody spreading it around soon.

Unfortunately with supermarkets and hospitals still full of people I'm guessing that will be the reason it doesn't die out