Pm press conference at 5pm.

[DonLewis]

Will it be a circuit breaker announcement?

Reckon so!

No. Definitely not. Vaccine😘

Nope- it will be an announcement about Manchester.

Yeah, me too. Or Manchester?

X post @Ecosse

Manchester I think

Nah it's the Manchester tier 3

Decision on Manchester and possibly announcing other areas going to Tier 3.

No, it'll be to bad mouth Andy Burnham and to demand Greater Manchester fall on its sword and comply with restrictions that will put them at great hardship to protect all the I'm-alright-Jackers. So, that'll go well.

@FourTeaFallOut

No, it'll be to bad mouth Andy Burnham and to demand Greater Manchester fall on its sword and comply with restrictions that will put them at great hardship to protect all the I'm-alright-Jackers. So, that'll go well.

They have already capitulated

Machester, circuit breaker or Brexit stuff.
No way will it be a vaccine.
Maybe imposing penalties for people breaking the rules but I would be surprised.

It will be Manchester- they were supposed to agree something by midday!

I think they're postponing Christmas until April, and combining it with Easter to create Chreaster. Or Eastmas.

Really, I must be five minutes behind the news.

FourTeaFallOut

No, it'll be to bad mouth Andy Burnham and to demand Greater Manchester fall on its sword and comply with restrictions that will put them at great hardship to protect all the I'm-alright-Jackers. So, that'll go well.

They have already capitulated

Yay, more people into poverty. Go the Tories...

I'm not seeing anywhere that suggests an agreement was reached.

I think they have to be very careful about vaccine announcements. It must be something that they will need to get absolutely right.

Maybe imposing penalties for people breaking the rules but I would be surprised.

Giving Serco another few billion to recruit Covid Enforcers.

I'd laugh, but given how much money they've given to incompetent contractors, it's a distinct possibility.

"Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce what the Government plans to do about Greater Manchester and Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions during a Downing Street press conference at 5 pm."
mobile.twitter.com/BBCNWT/status/1318529055768150016

"Johnson will address the nation in a press conference with Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England Jonathan Van-Tam and NHS England chief Stephen Powis at 5pm."

I've just googled, it's to do with Manchester.

Probably to waffle he's glad Andy Burnham is putting party politics aside and welcoming the fact Manchester is going into teir 3 and people on minimum wage will now be living on £6.50 an hour instead.
And he will make it sound like he understands how hard it is.

Maybe he'll throw in a bit of brexit and sovereignty too, just to really rub it in?!?

@FourTeaFallOut

No, it'll be to bad mouth Andy Burnham and to demand Greater Manchester fall on its sword and comply with restrictions that will put them at great hardship to protect all the I'm-alright-Jackers. So, that'll go well.

Agree. Or perhaps they might have come to an agreement by then. Either way is about Manchester and possibly other areas.

its the greater manchester lockdown

@PetitFours

I think they're postponing Christmas until April, and combining it with Easter to create Chreaster. Or Eastmas.

this ticklet me

Is Brexit cancelled? That’s the one thing that would make a huge difference to millions of families next year.

“LSE modelling puts the long-term economic hit from a no-deal Brexit at 8 per cent of GDP, which is similar to the UK government’s own forecast in 2018 in this regard of 7.6 per cent, which amounts to £160 billion (about €175 billion) in today’s money, or £2,400 per person.
This compares with the Bank of England’s latest forecast of the impact of Covid-19 which shows a reduction of 1.7 per cent of GDP to the economy up to 2022.“