When will this shit end?

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Can imagine uproar if just one part of the country is told they can't bubble! 

yeah, we'll see....he has got a few things a bit wrong in the past...maybe Johnson has to get feedback from ministers and backbenchers before making any radical changes.

[Ryan1984]

2 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

As I say I believe there is a new strain. But there have been before haven't there? Not saying it's bollocks, but does seem to be being used to cover the government's tracks a bit.

But this is a special London strain...

Seriously, worrying times and hope everyone can stay safe/still enjoy Christmas as much as you can.

[Zoo Music Girl]

Just now, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

Obviously it’s just guesswork, but if there is a new strain that spreads more easily, there is also a chance it’s less dangerous as well.

Hopefully if it is genuine, they’ll know enough to tell us later.

Yes that would follow the usual trajectory of viruses I think. Allows them to spread more effectively without killing the host.

I hope they actually give us some decent info in the briefing.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Yeah my point isn't that I think it's a lie, but maybe it's being... leaned on a bit. Thought it was weird that Matt Hancock seemed to be the first person to say anything about it too to be honest.

I see what you mean and yeah I found that strange too!

[efcfanwirral]

3 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

that's honestly what he has told me. He is pretty high up in PHE so probably close to the truth...but maybe MPs will persuade Bojo to water it down between now and 4:30/

It's pretty watered down as it is if its just London. To stop people leaving London at christmas, the plans they were going to leave for need to be cancelled too otherwise they'll just go anyway....

[Zoo Music Girl]

Just now, steviewevie said:

yeah, we'll see....he has got a few things a bit wrong in the past...maybe Johnson has to get feedback from ministers and backbenchers before making any radical changes.

Yeah I'd imagine your mate is telling you what PHE thinks should happen and then that has to get filtered through the Johnson team so gets changed?

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

Obviously it’s just guesswork, but if there is a new strain that spreads more easily, there is also a chance it’s less dangerous as well.

Hopefully if it is genuine, they’ll know enough to tell us later.

yeah, hopefully...I think they're desperately trying to find out as much as possible about this new strain, but we probably won't know anything definitive for a while.

[efcfanwirral]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55376727

Jeremy Hunt the voice of reason here:

"and if the government did change its mind about relaxing the rules "we should certainly not condemn it as a screeching U-turn but the responsible thing to do in a pandemic when the facts change".

[steviewevie]

3 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Yeah I'd imagine your mate is telling you what PHE thinks should happen and then that has to get filtered through the Johnson team so gets changed?

yeah...maybe. Does feel like this is a bit of an emergency though.

[steviewevie]

For a start he said press conference at 4:30 and it's at 4, so he got that wrong!

[st dan]

I think they’ve purposefully allowed this busy weekend of shopping on the high street before announcing tighter restrictions which will likely see them closed very soon. 

[Paul ™]

8 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

For a start he said press conference at 4:30 and it's at 4, so he got that wrong!

Bojo working a Saturday, so might turn up at 4:30pm anyway.

[Crazyfool01]

surely this mutation has spread further than the south east corner .....it must have reached the Pyramid by now ...

[Guest]

She is the Deputy Political Editor for The Sunday Times. 

[Ayrshire Chris]

7 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

surely this mutation has spread further than the south east corner .....it must have reached the Pyramid by now ...

Don’t know about that, you know how hard it is the get out of the SE corner. 

[Zoo Music Girl]

22 minutes ago, Paul ™ said:

Bojo working a Saturday, so might turn up at 4:30pm anyway.

Wasn't he like three hours late last time on a Saturday?

[Zoo Music Girl]

2 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

She is the Deputy Political Editor for The Sunday Times. 

That account looks pretty fake though?

[Chapple12345]

2 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

She is the Deputy Political Editor for The Sunday Times. 

If this is genuine what would you class as the East? East Anglia consists of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex and only Essex is seeing the huge rise in cases that London is seeing 

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

She is the Deputy Political Editor for The Sunday Times. 

she's got a load of numbers after her name ... does that make her legit ? 

[Fuzzy Afro]

Apparently she’s the deputy political editor but forgot the password to her main account 

[squirrelarmy]

4 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

That account looks pretty fake though?

This might explain it

[Zoo Music Girl]

1 minute ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Apparently she’s the deputy political editor but forgot the password to her main account 

Yeah I saw that but still looks very dodgy to me. It takes two seconds to reset your password.

[Fuzzy Afro]

1 minute ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Yeah I saw that but still looks very dodgy to me. It takes two seconds to reset your password.

I’ve seen some legit journalists corroborate it 

[Zoo Music Girl]

1 minute ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

I’ve seen some legit journalists corroborate it 

Yeah maybe legit. Would like to see someone else report it though.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

This might explain it

I know it looks dodgy but it’s has been confirmed by a couple of people in that industry as a valid account. We’ll see in 2 hours I guess and of course it hasn’t been confirmed so could change.