Press Conference at 8

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Says Peston. Predictions?

Maybe they will close absolutely every shop and business except to deliver a government mandated grocery parcel to every household twice a week?

Boris Burgers for tea then!!

We’re tier 4 plus schools shut atm and one big difference between this and lockdown is private nurseries

Depends, do you live in @LoudTree 's street?

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Bugger, you beat me to it! I was just going to type exactly the same

Peston is usually right.

After one of Bojo’s previous announcement, there was a really funny thread on here about his hair and how many times he said ‘alas’ . I’m looking forward to another one. Someone described his hair as a ‘dandelion clock with pomade’ Inspired!

@LoudTree

Hopefully he will announce a real lockdown for the first time- no one leaves home until April 1st unless a genuine key worker.

A neighbour in my street is a (totally non-essential) construction worker and has been asked repeatedly by myself, DH and several neighbours to go on furlough to reduce the risk of transmission to the area. He has refused

No exercise, no popping to the shops for a bottle of wine

It needs to be properly enforced- army on the streets issuing £500 fines for non key workers, supermarket bags searched for non-essential items.

My husband works in construction. He has his own van and works by himself mainly on farms drilling boreholes. Who the fuck is he going to pass it onto standing in a farmers field about a mile from the nearest person?

‘dandelion clock with pomade’

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@Redbrickwall

Do we think construction will still be able to go to work? We are fucked if not as my husband is a builder.

Ah, so you’re Loudtree’s neighbour.

@vickyp0llard

Construction was allowed in the first lockdown, so I would assume so.

I fucking hope so.

I can cope with 2 kids off, homeschooling, business paperwork and doing a degree but if DH is off he will drive me bloody bonkers.

I can't see them stopping non essential construction, last time the big contractors were a bit arsey about car sharing but building sites are pretty good for social distancing. Few issues at the beginning with bottlenecks on big sites, canteen facilities etc but dh been really comfortable working throughout.

Depends, do you live in @LoudTree 's street?

Laughing so much at this

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Peston is usually right.

After one of Bojo’s previous announcement, there was a really funny thread on here about his hair and how many times he said ‘alas’ . I’m looking forward to another one. Someone described his hair as a ‘dandelion clock with pomade’ Inspired!

If anybody here has ever heard of or read the children book series "The Chalet School" one of the characters once described somebody with scruffy hair as a "perambulating haystack"...

I think all England into Tier 4 and all schools closed, but essential shops and takeaways remaining open.

@TakingItOnTheChin

I have wine. Just cannot fucking taste it.

Have you been tested? Or just generally cannot taste things....

The support bubbles are being abused.

The mask exempt is being abused.

Unless we can sort this out and call out the people who are doing this we will take longer to get out of this!

Many many MN's are stating we should let live and let live. Many people who are being fined are not going to end up paying a penny.

I work in a school.

Will continue to do so even if closed due to vulnerable students.

I wonder if my neighbours will ask be to go on furlough (I can't) so I don't bring the nasty virus from all those households into the air in my street and into my own h9me 🤔🤣

I hope they don’t close takeaways either, there’s very little to look forward to at the moment. More importantly it would be the final nail in the coffin for many restaurants
I know; I'm quite torn on this. I do agree that it's a bad idea in that if things are open then of course people will go to them, and probably congregate around them not strictly legally; but also I keep thinking of my local cafes etc, which are all indies and owned by just one person, or some friends, or a family, and I'm scared for them if they have to shut completely. And their staff of course.

Loudtree is surely on a wind up! nobody in their right mind would do such a thing.

And unless she's planning on snogging her neighbour I fail to see how he is any risk whatsoever to her!

So, are posters suggesting LoudTree is the poster who was previously outraged about people buying honey or the one who suggested using cheese instead of milk in hot drinks?

There's been so much hyperbole none of it stands out to me anymore.

@Thepilotlightsgoneout

Isn’t Tier 4 already lockdown? So it’ll just basically mean moving everyone into Tier 4?

Correct and none of those measures are working anyway. There is no correlation between lockdowns and a reduction in cases and deaths. Population density and health of population far bigger factors, neither of which we can do much about.

LoudTree
Hopefully he will announce a real lockdown for the first time- no one leaves home until April 1st unless a genuine key worker.
A neighbour in my street is a (totally non-essential) construction worker and has been asked repeatedly by myself, DH and several neighbours to go on furlough to reduce the risk of transmission to the area. He has refused hmm
No exercise, no popping to the shops for a bottle of wine hmm
It needs to be properly enforced- army on the streets issuing £500 fines for non key workers, supermarket bags searched for non-essential items.

I agree with everything apart from the wine.... that's essential. Lockdown will work if they issue every MN with a couple of bottles of wine a day, every day until the lockdown ends. [wine glass]

According to BBC there will be a new Tier 5.

When watching Doctor Who on New Year Day, I did look at the Dalek drones outside No 10 with a lot of unease!

Furloughs not a holiday destination 🤣🤣🤣🤣

As shit as this is people's quick wit on MN is keeping me sane!

oops ....

@PowerhouseOfTheCell

Tier 5- every household assigned a gun wielding pigeon that will shoot without hesitation if anyone in the household caught breaking the rules

And don’t forget the laser-guided sharks.

So what are tonight's Johnson Drinking Rules?

2 fingers for Alas?
Down your drink if the schools close?

I can handle another lockdown if I can get deliveries which are contactless anyway. It will be grim but we will be ok. Work will be horrendous. Hey ho