when is the next national lockdown going to start

[Zetetic]

Twitter thread on the briefings being given to The Times:
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1322294630906503171

"Alarming" "new" [English] NHS data.

[Cursus]

Its not new restrictions its lockdown

Right. Thanks. Both the Mail and the Times refer to "new lockdown restrictions" which made me wonder to what extent things would be locked down this time around.

From the Twitter thread that Zetetic cited it doesn't look as though schools and universities will close this time.

Plus, didnt know biggy had been married!

Ha!

[bgmnts]

Fucking communists locking us down during a period of time where lots of people die.

[JamesTC]

Do we get a new three word slogan? My poor working class brain cannot understand more than three words.

[Ferris]

Do we get a new three word slogan? My poor working class brain cannot understand more than three words.

GET COVID UNDONE

[Zetetic]

DIOLCH YN FAWR

[idunnosomename]

only way to save Christmas lol what an idiot culture we are

[idunnosomename]

when the times front page looks dumber than the mail

[jobotic]

Shops and schools still open though?

[idunnosomename]

education seems to be a priority but will they shut the high street again (like, clothes shops, yer Primarks, TK Maxx etc)

[chveik]

oh no everything but the high street

[JamesTC]

Non-essential shops have little impact on the R rate.

[jobotic]

Schools do though.

And Wetherspoons.

[JamesTC]

Non-essential shops are all I care about. If I can't pop into the discount DVD/BR/CD shop once a week then I'll be slightly annoyed.

They are going to close Wetherspoons with this next lockdown, aren't they? Though I can imagine them offering free nursery services with every pint in order to stay open.

[idunnosomename]

you can only go in spoons for substantial meals atm in my borough

[kittens]

Yes lads
Amazing

[Butchers Blind]

Won't someone think of the bog roll?

[Cursus]

According to Sky's Beth Rigby "No 10 has launched official leak inquiry via cabinet sec after details of meeting between PM/Hancock/Sunak/Gove were leaked last night. No 10 had wanted to hold announcements until Monday and now having to change plans. There are some very furious people in govt this morning."

Also, Boris isn't sporting are troops properly:

[BlodwynPig]

[idunnosomename]

Why do you need to leave your house to #RemembertheFallen? Can't you shed a tear quietly in your sitting chair for the #FieldsofVerdun?

Or is this that #VirtueSignalling I've heard so much about

[Buelligan]

Verdun was more of a French thing, I doubt Daubney cares about the eurodead.  What a dreadful corpse-raking cunt he is.

[imitationleather]

Be hilarious if it ends up being a superspreader event.

[Buelligan]

Precisely.  Let's parade our humble virtue by endangering people who are alive.

[bgmnts]

Even as a teenager I found something slightly off about the way we glorify the sacrifices made by those poor buggers. I used to think it's because I was a bit autistic or iconoclastic but I genuinely think I'm in the right here.

[buttgammon]

Even as a teenager I found something slightly off about the way we glorify the sacrifices made by those poor buggers. I used to think it's because I was a bit autistic or iconoclastic but I genuinely think I'm in the right here.

The poppy chuggers came to my A Level sociology class and nobody gave them a donation,  including the teacher. We'd all be shot if that happened now.

[Pink Gregory]

You remember the dead by not creating more dead.

Most of them died between 18 and 24.  Fuck poppy supremacy and performative remembrance.  They were little more than teenagers.  We should feel shame for war, not pride.

[bgmnts]

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

[Norton Canes]

[imitationleather]

Press conference at 4pm.

[kittens]

bring it on daddy boris