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The horse has left the stable [title edited by MNHQ at OP's request]

37 replies

likeamillpond · 20/12/2020 08:11

Thousands and thousands cramming into stations to leave London.
That should spread the new variant around the rest of the country very nicely Hmm

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ssd · 20/12/2020 08:11

What does your thread title mean?

WunWun · 20/12/2020 08:12

What does Trixies mean?

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likeamillpond · 20/12/2020 08:14

Reference to a horse.
An old fashioned saying as in the
Horse has already bolted

Should have used that instead lol

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bornatXmastobequiet · 20/12/2020 08:23

I thought you meant your pony (or dog) had escaped from a field in Tier 4 into Tier 3 (or vice versa) and you didn’t know what to do. I felt sorry for you to have this happen early on a Sunday morning. Now I’ll have to feel sorry for someone else.

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likeamillpond · 20/12/2020 08:30

@bornatXmastobequiet

I thought you meant your pony (or dog) had escaped from a field in Tier 4 into Tier 3 (or vice versa) and you didn’t know what to do. I felt sorry for you to have this happen early on a Sunday morning. Now I’ll have to feel sorry for someone else.
That made me smile
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likeamillpond · 20/12/2020 08:33

Seriously though.
Chris's Whitty might have well have been talking to a brick wall.

It's bad news that all those people (potential carroers) are now spreading it far and wide.
They won't be popular.

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ssd · 20/12/2020 08:58

It's the ones staying in London and doing the right thing I feel sorry for. They must be totally pissed off that they have effectively given up their own family xmas and keeping others safe whilst masses of folks aren't and will spread this around and getting rewarded with a family xmas for their trouble

wufti · 20/12/2020 09:08

agree. that level of stupidity is one of the reasons we aren't keeping on top of the virus.
Chris Witty must despair - the reasons for tier 4 was to stop the virus seeding in the rest of the uk. So what do people do - leave London on crowded public transport and if they haven't got the virus, they have a much higher chance than before.

Advice outside tier 4 was Christmas day only - so that clearly is being ignored too

NeurotreeWenceslas · 20/12/2020 09:09

I thought your greyhound had escaped...

Yes, it was obviously going to happen.

Popcornismandatory · 20/12/2020 09:20

The whole country will be locked down after Christmas- cheers 🥂 Londoners!

sashagabadon · 20/12/2020 09:30

Presumably they are all people actually from other parts of the U.K. returning home? And probably mostly young adults? So not a”Londoners”
No one I know is leaving London as we have no where to go Grin
And Londoners rich enough to have second homes drive to them in their 4wheel drives with their kids and dogs etc , they don’t get on the train

KitKatastrophe · 20/12/2020 09:33

@sashagabadon

Presumably they are all people actually from other parts of the U.K. returning home? And probably mostly young adults? So not a”Londoners” No one I know is leaving London as we have no where to go Grin And Londoners rich enough to have second homes drive to them in their 4wheel drives with their kids and dogs etc , they don’t get on the train
Some of them may be returning home, but many will be Londoners going to stay with family as they planned to see them over Christmas. I know at least one person who is doing this - was planning to go and stay with relatives from the 24th but went last night instead.
CodenameVillanelle · 20/12/2020 09:34

Jesus Christ the level of division and discord sowed by this government is grim
'Cheers Londoners' - hush. Many of them are students, 18 year olds away from home for the first time and wanting to get back to family where they can isolate. Many of them are just people on their own who are miserable and lonely. Travel was allowed yesterday so people travelled. Blame the government for their shambolic handling, not individuals.

sashagabadon · 20/12/2020 09:37

Exactly, people returning to their family homes elsewhere in the country. I don’t blame them incidentally but not Londoners leaving on mass - so it is the rest of the U.K. encouraging their London based family member to return to them.
No one I know has a second home and their families are in London anyway.

Thatwentbadly · 20/12/2020 09:37

It already had weeks ago when Boris failed to put London into tier 2. The biggest problem has always been that Boris needs 2 weeks take up time to listen to scientific advise and then convince himself it was in his own idea and therefore should happen.

sashagabadon · 20/12/2020 09:41

@CodenameVillanelle

Jesus Christ the level of division and discord sowed by this government is grim 'Cheers Londoners' - hush. Many of them are students, 18 year olds away from home for the first time and wanting to get back to family where they can isolate. Many of them are just people on their own who are miserable and lonely. Travel was allowed yesterday so people travelled. Blame the government for their shambolic handling, not individuals.
I agree. Bet they are all young adults in their twenties or thirties returning to their parents homes elsewhere in U.K. and good luck to them. They are not “Londoner” though with families and kids etc in London as why would they go anywhere? There’s no where to go! Rich Londoners with homes in the cotswolds for example will drive.
Eve · 20/12/2020 09:44

Well saying as the WHO has said this variant has been round and known about since September, not sure what your point is!

2020out · 20/12/2020 09:50

Seriously? Mums net changed the title but didn't feel that the vicious op was worth deleting?

There are 9 million people in London. Some of them live here Monday to Friday only and their family live elsewhere. Some of them made the decision to go back to their family. Most didn't.

halcyondays · 20/12/2020 09:53

I thought students went home a week or two ago?

I won’t really call people in their thirties young adults, they can perfectly well stay where they are, as a general rule.

CodenameVillanelle · 20/12/2020 10:04

@halcyondays

I thought students went home a week or two ago?

I won’t really call people in their thirties young adults, they can perfectly well stay where they are, as a general rule.

Not all of them. Two of my friends went to collect their student Nurse children last night. They weren't allowed to leave early.
HarrietOh · 20/12/2020 10:10

@2020out

Seriously? Mums net changed the title but didn't feel that the vicious op was worth deleting?

There are 9 million people in London. Some of them live here Monday to Friday only and their family live elsewhere. Some of them made the decision to go back to their family. Most didn't.

If you only live in London Monday to Friday why did they need to flee to the train station on a Saturday evening?
mrshoho · 20/12/2020 10:11

Get real for fuck sake. London was open for business all day yesterday. People were working and shopping. Many people at those stations were just going home as usual. Others would be students making their way home as they were instructed to do after bring tested.

This strain is already all over the country and has been known since September.

sashagabadon · 20/12/2020 10:15

@halcyondays

I thought students went home a week or two ago?

I won’t really call people in their thirties young adults, they can perfectly well stay where they are, as a general rule.

People in their 30’s are young adults. They are not middle adults. And in their 30’s particularly in London they tend to be single, living in flat shares etc and want to go home for Christmas. Good for them. In their shoes ( if my family home was elsewhere in the U.K.- which it isn’t, my parents also live in London) then I would go home too
Coasterfan · 20/12/2020 10:23

We will all be tier 4 after Christmas regardless this has nothing to do with it. What did the government really expect changing the rules with less than a week to go especially after confirming only on Wednesday the Christmas plans stayed as they were. For what it’s worth I always thought the Christmas mixing was ridiculous and will make January an utter shit show.

I had to go to London for the day for a meeting earlier in the week I was hugely apprehensive about it and it could have been done on zoom but better face to face. The client wanted it face to face and I can’t afford to lose their business. At the end of the meeting when I d been there 5 hours I was told several staff had tested positive earlier in the week. I was furious no one had told me as my risk assessment would have been very different and I would have put my foot down and zoomed in instead. I d rather lose the client than have covid over Christmas. It’s going to spread, by the arguments in here, should I have stayed in London isolating rather than risking bringing the new strain back to my family in the Midlands? I think not!!

PerveenMistry · 20/12/2020 10:25

@ssd

It's the ones staying in London and doing the right thing I feel sorry for. They must be totally pissed off that they have effectively given up their own family xmas and keeping others safe whilst masses of folks aren't and will spread this around and getting rewarded with a family xmas for their trouble

Exactly. The selfish assholes.