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Idiots piling onto packed trains out of London

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User158340 · 19/12/2020 21:05

By doing this they're putting whatever family or friends they're staying with at huge risk, not to mention the wider communities.

Also, the mindset of "it's within the rules because it's not midnight yet". It's not within the rules to breach social distancing. For goodness sake the trains are still running tomorrow so if you're going to break or bend the rules do it then when you won't be stood on a carriage with scores of other people.

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BlueBrian · 19/12/2020 21:59

People in northern cities should tell these southern plague carriers they're not wanted, and tell them to fuck off back down south.

Impatiens · 19/12/2020 22:00

I'm sick of these threads blaming ordinary people for the effects of the chaotic and negligent actions of our Government. What the fuck did they expect to happen, locking down London with less than 24 hours notice ffs!

wanderings · 19/12/2020 22:00

If only politicians didn't have this habit of lying, cheating, double standards, not sacking their colleagues when they err, claiming spurious expenses for their second homes, and crying wolf for their own ends, some people might have more respect for them when it really matters.... just saying. I wonder why people don't respect Saint Boris and his diktats, the patron saint of perfect buffoonery?

Pleasedontleave123 · 19/12/2020 22:01

@Impatiens

I'm sick of these threads blaming ordinary people for the effects of the chaotic and negligent actions of our Government. What the fuck did they expect to happen, locking down London with less than 24 hours notice ffs!
Yes they should have had a crystal ball and predicted this would happen and of course it isn’t possible for anyone other than the government to take any responsibility Hmm
MarshaBradyo · 19/12/2020 22:01

Hard to know who it is mainly

But whenever things like this are announced people who can, leave

Has happened in other countries too

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User158340 · 19/12/2020 22:02

@Hercwasonasnowball

Imaging you're early 20s, been living in London alone all through lockdown. Your one light at the end of the tunnel was seeing family at Christmas.

Boris then makes a ridiculous announcement so you decide to travel legally before the restrictions are put in place.

I don't blame them at all. Boris could have forseen all of this and chose not to listen. He chose to ignore the experts. He chose to give people false hope.

People are now making their choices.

The thing is though if you've just spent hours on a packed out train (and doing whatever else for the last week or two) while a new strain of the virus is running riot in your area, then you really need to be self isolating somewhere. You'd be spending Christmas week worrying about infecting your family.
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middleager · 19/12/2020 22:02

I feel sorry for all the staff working at the station and on the trains.

GawdrestyeJerryMentlemen · 19/12/2020 22:02

BlueBrian, does it occur to you these are Northerners going home???

BlackLambAndGreyFalcoln · 19/12/2020 22:02

@tinselfest

Quite a lot of them were probably people who had only gone to London today to do some shopping. Stupid idea to go in the first place, but since they don't live in London they can hardly stay there, can they?

I live about an hour out of Kings Cross, and in a normal year I'd probably have gone shopping into London on the train today myself.

But we (London) were tier 3 today and people outside tier 3 were not allowed to travel to tier 3 areas unless for one of the very specific exemptions, but Christmas shopping was not one of them!
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Topseyt · 19/12/2020 22:02

I was wondering where Harriet Clugston lives. She seems very eager to slate everyone else for being on that train without explaining why she was there herself and how essential her journey was.

The government has to all intents and purposes made it illegal to travel after midnight tonight. If this then happened then it is hardly surprising.

I'm not sure how rigidly social distancing is being enforced on trains. Back in August I had to make a couple of journeys from and back to Euston Station on the West Coast mainline. I saw no evidence of seats being closed off to enforce social distancing although the trains were not full.

I did have my seats booked, but I'm not sure it was mandatory at the time.

cactusdog · 19/12/2020 22:03

What @scottish83 said exactly.

Tiletiletile1 · 19/12/2020 22:04

Maybe they’re going home?

It’s the last weekend before Christmas. People come to London to shop and socialise. Then they go home.

Stop being so cyclical and judgemental.

I live in London. If I were to “flee” where would I go? This is where I live! Fleeing where? That would be completely pointless. I don’t know a single person doing this in my circle and we have all been talking a lot about Tier 4 tonight on WhatsApp. I equally don’t know a single person who is planning on breaking the rules.

This scaremongering and finger-pointing is tiresome.

LadyHofH · 19/12/2020 22:04

My DSD is among the "idiots" heading north from Euston on a train this evening.

She had Covid in August. I'm not quite sure whom anyone thinks she's infecting by travelling now, but I'm glad she has got out of London.

JacobReesMogadishu · 19/12/2020 22:06

At least on a plane you've got a chance with the ventilation

Surely that’s just recirculated air so just makes it even riskier? They hardly have the windows open!

Hercwasonasnowball · 19/12/2020 22:06

The thing is though if you've just spent hours on a packed out train (and doing whatever else for the last week or two) while a new strain of the virus is running riot in your area, then you really need to be self isolating somewhere. You'd be spending Christmas week worrying about infecting your family.

Self isolating in a house with people cooking for you is much nicer. Just being at "home" is a huge boost to people's mental health. Whereas a week off work, seeing no other humans at all after potentially months of the same is a very difficult thing to deal with.

The government are at fault here. Not the individuals travelling.

Pleasedontleave123 · 19/12/2020 22:06

@LadyHofH

My DSD is among the "idiots" heading north from Euston on a train this evening.

She had Covid in August. I'm not quite sure whom anyone thinks she's infecting by travelling now, but I'm glad she has got out of London.

This is a new strain we don’t know if having had the old version guarantees immunity
Haffiana · 19/12/2020 22:06

Idiots posting about what Other People are doing. Yet again.

BlueBrian · 19/12/2020 22:07

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Ifailed · 19/12/2020 22:07

People in northern cities should tell these southern plague carriers they're not wanted, and tell them to fuck off back down south.

Excellent. This is turning into a popcorn fred.

willsantausesantatize · 19/12/2020 22:07

@Impatiens

I'm sick of these threads blaming ordinary people for the effects of the chaotic and negligent actions of our Government. What the fuck did they expect to happen, locking down London with less than 24 hours notice ffs!
Totally agree!
Freddiefox · 19/12/2020 22:07

@User158340

By doing this they're putting whatever family or friends they're staying with at huge risk, not to mention the wider communities.

Also, the mindset of "it's within the rules because it's not midnight yet". It's not within the rules to breach social distancing. For goodness sake the trains are still running tomorrow so if you're going to break or bend the rules do it then when you won't be stood on a carriage with scores of other people.

Yes stop it, yes it’s not the wisest move. But everyone will have a story. There was a man today on LBC who was so distort. He was traveling up to Scotland from London to look after his step mum who had just come out of hospital after receiving treatment for breast cancer. He was planning on driving. His Dad died recently.

There are so many reasons why people are traveling. It’s easy to judge when it’s not your sacrifice.

StopGo · 19/12/2020 22:08

I'm not a rule breaker. My family and I have spent the last nine months following the rules, guidance and lockdown. During that time my DH was diagnosed as terminally ill, treatment was hard to obtain and we weren't allowed to visit. Can someone please explain why my DH died scared, alone and the DC and I were denied time with him?

We've followed the rules and things have got worse. Why? I can understand why people need to go home.

SamsMumsCateracts · 19/12/2020 22:08

The house next door is a second home. They have arrived from London this evening. I'm furious that they can be so selfish, no doubt they'll be using our shops and if asymptomatic, spread it everywhere here. We're tier two.

2020quelhorreur · 19/12/2020 22:08

The thought of getting on a packed train to go home to my family... I honestly can’t believe people are behaving like this. I am feeling properly despairing tonight.