Breaking PM Covid statement 8pm

[MissMarpletheMurderer]

Will he be on time? What will he say?

Total lockdown until the end of Jan if he has any sense at all.

Total lockdown according to Robert Peston
twitter.com/Peston/status/1346106536855302144?s=19

"Alas, I have fucked up. Again"

@TakingItOnTheChin

"Alas, I have fucked up. Again"

He'll never admit that.

Nit someone that has the balls to keep repeating "schools are safe. The problem is the mixing of households within them and the fact under 17's are more likely to be an index case" as if we give a toss about the actual infrastructures immunity to covid!

Current Tier 4 is practically lockdown anyway except for schools.

Will he have brushed his hair? Who do you think he is going to have for moral support?

[quote ofwarren]Total lockdown according to Robert Peston
twitter.com/Peston/status/1346106536855302144?s=19[/quote]
So do you think that means lockdown from Thursday if Parliament have to agree on Wednesday?

From midnight Wednesday I reckon

If he's shutting the bloody schools after just sending the primary kids back to germ swap, then he's a blithering idiot.

Oh, wait...

Lockdown starting Tuesday night at midnight.

I think he will do it from tonight.
He's addressing the nation at 8 and that's what he did first time round. It's not a press conference.

Definitely a lockdown

Chinese style lockdown and close borders hopefully, then we might actually get somewhere.

Why 8pm! Just issue a written statement with no unnecessary waffle, scaremongering of false promises.

I, for one, will be mightily miffed if he is going to shut down primaries after getting our kids back in today.

Fine with shutting schools if needs be, it just should have been done earlier. Mixing has already happened.

Tier 4 across England.

If lockdown does that mean no working outside the home like back in March? Thoughts? (DH works in film industry)

Full lockdown

Threat level is now 5 - meaning virus is uncontrolled and nhs in danger of being overwhelmed

Possible that as well as lockdown we may get a curfew because of this

Curfew... I wonder why that helps? Shopping at unlikely times is helping a few vulnerable people I know stay safer.

This is all so unfair, leaving it until the very last minute for parents, teachers and children and for many, after the horse has already bolted. Absolutely ridiculous.

If he says that hat primary schools need to be shut now ( to reduce transmission) then he's an idiot for allowing them to open today. All that mingling 🤦🏻‍♀️

It's an announcement so no questions from the floor I would suggest. Him just waffling on to the camera and then waft out again. Don't think he will have anyone with him.

Why wait to 8 pm
Please get on with it !
Parents and children need to know now!
The suspense !
I’m a nanny , hoping to keep working this time was asked to stay at home in initially in March. The suspense for working parents must be difficult.

Tianatiers completely agree. He said cancelling Christmas would never happen and be “inhumane” : then cancelled it for millions. He insisted primary schools would return as kids needed an education. Now this!!!! Completely unacceptable.

Schools shut. Hope it’s for a short,set period only.

Tier 4 everywhere.