Mass evacuation of London

[madcatladyforever]

just seen yesterdays videos of the mass evacuation of people from London to go and spend christmas elsewhere before it's too late.
Well done Londeners thanks for spreading the virus mutation ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
Now waiting for tier 4 all over the country in the new year.
Because your christmas is so much more important than anybody elses health.
This is how it all started, no action in Wuhan, a few days later it's been flown all over the world, fantastic.
Mark my words the new year will be hell.

I live in London and don’t know anyone who had left yesterday after the announcement.
I know many people who have left over the last week (mostly from Wednesday). Once again we’ve shut down too late. People left once school was closed.

they are probably students who are allowed to go home

Tunnelling you’re say? Thought that was just my neighbour new basement extension
Maybe the snottery Londoners are all burrowing and tunnelling to get up the road

In a minute someone will start a thread about how Covid19 was invented by Londoners in the London Laboratory of Evil in Chelsea or something

@laudemio

60% of cases in London are the new mutation, 40% the older variants. Not 60% of the new mutation cases are in London and 40% elsewhere.

I stand corrected

It still has been found elsewhere. Is 70% more infectious and is running riot in Wales.

So in todays world unless everyone in the country is in hard lockdown people really need to stop stirring up hate. This new mutation will and is spreading. All we can hope for is it ends up weaker or the vaccine is rolled out by father Christmas.

[quote DianaT1969]@Ceeveebee - I hope you have put tin foil on your party walls, so that the virus from your neighbour's son (stinking evacuee Londoner) doesn't pervade through the brickwork. [/quote]

The London-haters love to creep out from under their shells don't they. ALL my family &friends will have to stay in Tier 4 as much and my immediate family & I would love to see them here in Tier 3, however briefly.

I doubt anyone who hasn't budged out of their local town knows what a truly big traffic jam can be at the end of a working week in London.

But you carry on with your divisional opinions, keep spreading the hate : merry Christmas.

Think they was alread6 planning lockdown after Christmas for all and now course it won't be the governments fault for suggesting Christmas is ok and people making plans

.Be people blaming other people

@Username7521

I live in London and don’t know anyone who had left yesterday after the announcement. I know many people who have left over the last week (mostly from Wednesday). Once again we’ve shut down too late. People left once school was closed.

Yep

Same here everyone I know staying in London. Those that normally go to family cancelled that already because this isn't the year to be mixing.

And it's 'Londoners'.

London Laboratory of Evil in Chelsea sure I went there for a blow dry and low lights. Cost the GDP of a small country

@AlpineSnow

In a minute someone will start a thread about how Covid19 was invented by Londoners in the London Laboratory of Evil in Chelsea or something

As a Londoner I don't need to evacuate. I have everything I need in my multi million pound house complete with indoor pool/gym/ cinema room/ wine cellar/ servants' quarters/ tennis courts / stables/ huge stashes of gold ingots euros and US dollars.

The rest of you can eat cake 🎂

If it bothers you that much, get out your pitchforks and fire torches and start burning down the houses of your neighbours who are harbouring London "fugitives".

I won't be among them. Like most people who live here, my home is in London and I've only got the one. And I'm afraid I'm not going to brave a sleeping bag on a park bench even to experience the delights of Hull or Newcastle.

I live in a tier 2 Yorkshire town.
Big tourist destination

Just been to our local far shop as I do every weekend

Heaving- had to queue to get in to -1st time since April

Lots of parents with adult children sharing their stories of valiant escape including:

They left London at 9.45 and had to sleep in the car by the side of the road as soon as they got into a tier 2 area. The children are shattered but they are here.
They drove through the night- going home on the 27th
He got the last seat on a plane landing at Heathrow- his Dad has driven down to get him.

Not sure where all these people are staying!

Woohoo! London all to ourselves. No tourists. No visitors from any other part of the country at all.

We’ll be enjoying our parks and the lights all to ourselves.

Thank you Boris.

I wouldn't go back to my mother's in Wales or to my brother in Cornwall. Don't know what it is like up north but they are lacking in descent hospital space. London has some of the best hospitals and medical care in the world.

Also in first lockdown when supermarkets got stripped else were my part of London was fine. We have multiple supermarkets. Plus Turkish, Chinese and Asian shops that use there own wholesalers so fully stocked with toiletroll, pasta, etc throughout. My family outside London struggled in there two supermarket towns.

Commuters went home last night and some young adult kids went back to their parental home. Nothing more. As someone said train stations and motorways get like that on the last weekend before Christmas.

What possible good is complaining about it going to do? The thing is done.

Might be better to redirect your ire toward the reactive rather than proactive responses emanating from Downing Street. It's hardly as if no one could have seen this coming!

@Elephant4

Woohoo! London all to ourselves. No tourists. No visitors from any other part of the country at all.

We’ll be enjoying our parks and the lights all to ourselves.

Thank you Boris.

True

It will be very roomy now it is empty. Would if it will echo

I think you’ll find this ‘mass evacuation’ was not of Londoners because Londoners mostly have family in London. It’s where they’re from.

Without exception, all of my extended family members in the 20-35 bracket headed out of London as soon as it became clear it was going into T4. The family WhatsApp groups went into overdrive once there was a hint it would happen.

They work and live in London, but are going back to their family homes for Christmas. All those homes are T2.

Some had already had NHS Covid tests (despite showing no symptoms) to make sure they didn’t have it, in anticipation of going home for Christmas. Then herded onto packed trains, to be met by their parents.

Utter madness and it has created a huge family rift.

Well done OP another thread started and all it’s done is spread hate.
People had less than 24 hours to change their plans with respect it probably wasn’t possible for all. Please don’t assume every person who has traveled is from London/breaking rules/doesn’t care.

@DianaT1969

I'm a Londoner thinking of fleeing to the North. Please guv 'ave a heart and let me in. I want to lead the tribes of London on a 40 day exodus. How far north can we get in 40 days? Google Maps keeps telling me to get an Uber.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

London is the best.

No restrictions on visiting our gorgeous parks and walks round the city and beyond.

There really is no need to leave London.

I wasn’t In central London this weekend, but I did go in last weekend to do some christmas shopping. I was chatting to the family behind me in the queue for Hamleys, it was a group of about eight people down from Manchester for the day. Legally I think, we were still Tier 2. We are still getting tonnes of tourists coming down to do their Christmas shopping and see the sights.

Not all of the people queuing up in the stations are Londoners - there are plenty of tourists even now. I appreciate that if you live in the kind of place that nobody would choose to visit, that might be hard for you to imagine, but most people leaving London in an evening are leaving because they don’t live here and are going home. In the same way that most people driving away from Legoland on a Saturday evening are not Windsor residents evacuating.