UK lockdown - Winter 2021/22 edition

[shpalman]

Cabinet ministers vying to succeed Boris Johnson have been warned by Tory colleagues that they will damage their chances unless they stridently oppose further Covid measures in England.

“If No 10 proposes tighter restrictions straight after Christmas, those cabinet ministers with freedom-loving instincts – who gave us all so much hope last week – must speak out,” said one member of the Covid Recovery Group of Tory MPs. “In any future leadership contest, we will all remember how they acted this week. We need real, gutsy, freedom-loving Conservatives to rescue us from this madness.”

... while the rest of the UK reintroduces restrictions England will be the control group.

[shpalman]

Boris Johnson to examine hospital data before deciding not to do anything

[Herainestold]

Its too late to lockdown now anyway.

Que sera, sera.

[shpalman]

Boris Johnson to examine hospital data before deciding not to do anything

Boris Johnson examines hospital data, decides not to do anything

Johnson and the health secretary, Sajid Javid, will put an emphasis on everyone having personal responsibility to not catch the virus

[discovolante]

Boris Johnson to examine hospital data before deciding not to do anything

Boris Johnson examines hospital data, decides not to do anything

Johnson and the health secretary, Sajid Javid, will put an emphasis on everyone having personal responsibility to not catch the virus

Jesus f.cking Christ. Not surprising but always fairly disgusting to read. The way omicron is spreading it seems pretty clear that the only way to be fairly certain you won't catch it is to just not leave the house at all. Class warfare*.


*and age warfare, sickness warfare, etc etc.

[Trinucleus]

Boris Johnson to examine hospital data before deciding not to do anything

Boris Johnson examines hospital data, decides not to do anything

Johnson and the health secretary, Sajid Javid, will put an emphasis on everyone having personal responsibility to not catch the virus

Jesus f.cking Christ. Not surprising but always fairly disgusting to read. The way omicron is spreading it seems pretty clear that the only way to be fairly certain you won't catch it is to just not leave the house at all. Class warfare*.


*and age warfare, sickness warfare, etc etc.

Plus you don't need to compensate businesses if they haven't been ordered to close, and it doesn't upset the back benchers.

[shpalman]

Boris Johnson examines hospital data, decides not to do anything

Jesus f.cking Christ. Not surprising but always fairly disgusting to read. The way omicron is spreading it seems pretty clear that the only way to be fairly certain you won't catch it is to just not leave the house at all. Class warfare*.


*and age warfare, sickness warfare, etc etc.

Plus you don't need to compensate businesses if they haven't been ordered to close, and it doesn't upset the back benchers.

“fantastic for the industry”

[lpm]

Infected on Christmas day means infectious on New Year's Eve. The timing of all this is comically unlucky.

[Bird on a Fire]

It was comic when it happened last year.

The joke's wearing a bit thin for my tastes, especially when the punchline has been heavily signposted for months.