Again, the usual drip drip drip, just like "face masks might become compulsory in shops". We need to be shouting our opposition to this idea NOW. There's no doubt it's part of the usual strategy of "leak it to the press, to see how the plebs react". If we respond with a gloomy acceptance of the idea, it gives the government the green light.
Lots of the lockdown zealots told us "poor diddums about Christmas, but never mind; there's always next year". NO THERE FUCKING WON'T be if this happens.
This is what I had feared all along. Lockdown has now set a MASSIVE precedent, that the government can basically shut down the country on a whim, with barely a few hours' notice, just after saying "we won't do this". We can't keep living in this constant state of never knowing when Ickle Boy Boris or whoever replaces him is going to throw his toys out of the pram, and lock down the whole country, just because he can.
What parting note did one chancellor leave, when they left office? "There's no money left." The same is going to happen again, if Saint Boris keeps shutting everything down, because it's the only strategy he knows; someone forgot to tell him that the magic money tree does not bear fruit for ever, and also that he's only prime minister, not God.