this isn’t for ever.
Only another six months, Saint Boris said, when he had previously told us "we can turn this virus around in twelve weeks", then "normalish by Christmas". In six months from now, will he be pleading for "just another twelve months of our patience and tolerance for his bullshit"?
@OrangeCinnamon1 As for what riots and civil unrest would achieve: admittedly, nothing, especially if they were anywhere near the scale of the 2011 riots; and when they've died down, we would in a much worse position in the pandemic than we already are, and Boris and his merry men would then hit back by flexing their muscles all the more "you naughty children". We don't want riots and civil unrest, and neither do the government. But the taxpaying public will eventually lose patience for the status quo of the government constantly bullshitting, lying, hoodwinking, deliberately giving mixed messages, U-turning, talking down to us, double standards (Cummings), messing with our heads, blatantly playing divide and conquer, making millions of people unemployed, and destroying lives and livelihoods for questionable reasons. Eventually, the public might just snap and hit back in the only way they can, since we can't vote out the clowns for a good while yet.