A question about today's announcement

[Yetiyoga]

will the 12:30 one be televised or only the 8pm one?

The statement in the Commons will presumably be on the BBC Parliament channel. But I don't know if he's say much there or not, if he wants the public announcement to be at 8pm?

True. Thank you. I can't watch anything at work, was hoping it may be on the radio too but guessing not. I will try to check back here after lunchtime to see if anything was said.

It doesnt sound like it will be as harsh as we'd have thought from yesterday, by the way the bbc is billing it.

I didn't realise there was an announcement at 8PM, too. I thought it was just 12:30pm?

He is addressing the nation on tv at 8. You'd think it will all be leaked from lucnhtimeso wont be anything new to say!?

It will probably be on radio 4 or radio parliament.

It will be live on BBC parliament and covered extensively in the press. He will have to tell MPs what the restrictions are before he announces them to the public - the briefing tonight will just be him repeating it all with a new 3 word slogan and lots of banging of the desk

Shall we guess this week's slogan? I'm too tired to think of anything witty myself.

@wowfudge

Shall we guess this week's slogan? I'm too tired to think of anything witty myself.

Winter is coming

He's addressing the nation at the same time as the new series of GBBO starts? I know what I'll be watching.

@Yetiyoga

True. Thank you. I can't watch anything at work, was hoping it may be on the radio too but guessing not. I will try to check back here after lunchtime to see if anything was said.

No doubt it'll be on Jeremy Vine on radio 2

Winter is coming

Perfect :D

If you want it live on the radio I'd try the World Service. They usually do live update big UK announcements.

The 8pm is a prerecorded statement to the public. The 12:30 is him outlining the new measures that will be announced at 8pm. It’ll be on the Parliament channel and most of the news sites will do live text - I’m not too sure about the radio but maybe Radio 2?

@wowfudge

Shall we guess this week's slogan? I'm too tired to think of anything witty myself.

Yet another u-turn Bumble, blather, bullshit Follow the science yellow brick road

@PineappleUpsideDownCake

He is addressing the nation on tv at 8. You'd think it will all be leaked from lucnhtimeso wont be anything new to say!?

Given the huge ticking off the government have been given by the speaker for constantly announcing things on TV (or, particularly egregiously, on Twitter) rather than putting them before parliamentary scrutiny as they should, I very much hope he won't be saying anything at 8pm that he hasn't at 12.30. That said, inappropriately showboating (like having an announcement about how bad it all is yesterday but making us wait for the measures, like they wanted to build up the suspense) is kind of what he does, so who knows?

@wowfudge

Shall we guess this week's slogan? I'm too tired to think of anything witty myself.

"It's not my fault" "Blame the public"

Or perhaps he's going to do a dance to "When the going gets tough Boris quits: we hope "

If it’s fun, it can’t be done. If you have to pay, it’s all okay!

I’m hiding the work from home message so you don’t realise it’s another you turn from what I said couple of weeks ago.

@wowfudge

Shall we guess this week's slogan? I'm too tired to think of anything witty myself.

FACE PITS AND BITS. SHIT SHOWER SHAVE.

It'll be all over Sky News, BBC News, likely radio 2 and Times radio. You'll definitely be able to find it if you want to.

@wowfudge

Shall we guess this week's slogan? I'm too tired to think of anything witty myself.

They might appeal to the war spirit. "Your country needs YOU... to cover your face" "Battle for Britain! Stay at home!" with images of spitfires... That might appeal to a certain section of society, actually.

There's a growing number of tinfoil hat wearers who think it's all a conspiracy to take away our freedom

Looks like they will be showing on bbc1

He's addressing the nation at the same time as the new series of GBBO starts? I know what I'll be watching.

Wait, what? It starts tonight?!