What do you think tomorrow's announcement will be?

[paintmywholehousepink]

Lock down?
No mixing households?

What time, does anyone know ?

Will it be about GCSE's ??

Really ???

Updating the slogans would be very helpful.

Face, place, carry a mace, tuck in your trousers and stay in your pyjamas. Good to remember

I am losing patience. I live in a lockdown area. No visitors to the home for weeks, not even close family -no restaurants, no bars- all closed/

Isn't he announcing in the commons first?
It maybe on there schedule for tomorrow.

Re. timings- this will be a statement to the House of Commons on October 12, which usually occurs around midday.

But also found this:
In the past coronavirus briefings to the public have been held at 5pm from Downing Street, however, tomorrow's announcement could be held earlier in the day as it is coming from the House of Commons.

Previously these types of announcement's made in the House of Commons to MP's relating to Covid-19 restrictions tend to take place between late morning and mid-afternoon.

I'm past caring.

The Harrying of the North

Nope. We've done it to ourselves this time.

@Flaxmeadow

The Harrying of the North

Nope. We've done it to ourselves this time.

Highly debatable.

Highly debatable

Good, let's debate it

I reckon they will put a stop to all social household mixing. Not sure if they will close premises yet but they will say you can only go to them with members of own household so no meeting friends or family. So the same as in Leicester as has been for yonks and some of the North.

Possibly gyms to close in highest rate areas

It won't so much be a debate as an explanation, but here we go.

Firstly, it wasn't the north that elected the party whose austerity programme and deprioritisation of pandemic planning left us in a weakened position to fight something like this before it even started. In none of the elections since 2010 have a majority of our MPs been Conservative. We did not do that to ourselves.

That same government, not of our choosing, initially failed to take action early enough and then, once the virus had well and truly arrived, directed a national lockdown on London's timetable not ours. It's increasingly clear that our first wave wasn't over when the regulations were loosened. Again, we didn't do that.

It isn't us who have made a bollocks of track and trace, without which containing the virus isn't remotely possible. We didn't orchestrate a situation where so many of us work in roles that can't be done remotely, and where often those are the only opportunities in some areas. It isn't us who think threatening people with fines whilst failing to ensure they retain full pay whilst isolating is an effective way to ensure compliance. That would be the government we were disproportionately unlikely to support. We didn't piss away significant public support by defending indefensible eye test drives (ok I guess Cummings is northern so that part is on us...)

Our elected representatives aren't the ones who've imposed restrictions from on high in a centralised system, whilst ignoring people on the ground in the areas affected who have actual local expertise. That would be... not us again.

While all these things are the case, there is no remotely convincing argument that we did it to ourselves.

Flaxmeadow flagellate yourself all you want if that's what does it for you, but leave the rest of us out of the self-hatred fest please.

The Loch Ness monster is real?

Tier 3 lockdown for most of the north and parts of the Midlands

Maybe they will build a wall between the north and south...where the fuck is John Snow when you need him?!

What do I think tomorrow's announcement will be?

I think it'll be another bloody shit show - like pretty much everything this government has done so far.

Probably with some kind of loophole designed to make them and their 'friends' richer.

I would have thought, specific lock down for red places.

Announcement of a two week half term, circuit breaker half term for all worrying areas, perhaps the whole uk and mention of a possible 3 week Xmas circuit break.

www.itv.com/news/2020-10-11/coronavirus-what-will-the-new-covid-19-three-tier-system-look-like?fbclid=IwAR1cL61nTZKrri_m_DRwWQxMQ0jEGuKgfq_fwLra9nwM3nTjfOlqAgLlr7U

Tier Three, will have four main characteristics.

a) Pubs and restaurants will be closed for all business except takeaways. That will be a legally enforceable rule.

b) Local people will be asked - as guidance rather than a legally enforceable rule - to only make essential journeys within a Tier Three area.

c) People living within a Tier Three area will be urged not to leave the area, unless it is absolutely necessary. Again that will be guidance.

d) And people living outside a Tier Three area will be asked not to travel to a Tier Three area unless essential, and they will be urged not to stay overnight. Again that will be guidance.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54499963

Merseyside is expected to be the only part of England to face the tightest restrictions under the new "three tier" system due to be revealed on Monday.

and

The Liverpool City Region includes the local authority districts of Halton, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral, as well as Liverpool.

and

It was thought Manchester may be included in Tier 3, but the BBC understands there have been no contacts between ministers and political leaders in Greater Manchester since Friday night.

(Warrington which was put into restrictions with the rest of Liverpool, St Helens and Halton isn't mentioned, but it should be noted that Halton is part of the same NHS Trust as Warrington so its very possible probable it could also be included cos Westminster isn't very good with maps and isn't part of Liverpool City Region and the local council have made a point of saying they don't want to be included. But then they weren't invited to the No10 discussions only the City Mayors...).

@PicsInRed

The Harrying of the North.

Very apt. They've started that already.

3 tier system focused on level of risk. The north will be tier 3 - Manchesterr, Liverpool and Newcastle and possibly Nottingham with the highest level of restrictions - pubs and restaurants (probably) to close and limited mixing indoors - only with your own household. Tier 2 medium level of restrictions and Tier 1 - the same as currently, still wearing masks and restaurants and bars closing at 10pm. It is all well reported in the papers.

It's just not fully clear which areas will be in the medium and lower their and what compensation will be available to the worst affected areas.

What is "harrying" ? Am I being thick ?

@Mamascoven

Im in South Yorkshire - Sheffield & expecting 3 tier lockdown as we are a hot spot and cases are rising uncontrollably.

It's speading through both our Universities. Also, certain residential areas are not following any social distancing

CrappleUmble

If you're talking about this government then it WAS the north who voted them in. The red wall turned blue. It was "of our choosing" remember.

The government locked down at the same rate of infection as most other European countries. I dont buy the "we acted too late" narrative and never have

But none of that was my point. Im not on a party political soapbox. What I mean by "we have done this to ourselves" , is that we have ignored the local lockdowns. No one gave a fuck and so, unlike the harrowing, this is a mess of our own making. We northerners ignored the rules. It's as simple as that

@AnyFucker

What is "harrying" ? Am I being thick ?

Fucking up. The name has been used before.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North

Two week half term? Three week Xmas break? They can't cancel half term, kids and staff need a break from the overwhelming shit show that this half term has been.

Thanks

They are locking down Labour Council areas, did not believe it myself until I was shown maps of both which are identical, and he can piss off lying about London rates not being high, intentional killing this country with their lies bullshit and propaganda.