When will this shit end?

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, squirrelarmy said:

Who could have seen that coming 🤔

hence no need for them agreeing anything with Manchester ...... yet ... . You dont think we might have got some leak apart from that one ? 

[Ozanne]

1 minute ago, crazyfool1 said:

id agree with @Fuzzy Afro on this ... I think it would have leaked ..... not going to slate them on this u turn if it happens  ... It does absolutely make sense ....

Of course it does, which is why they didn’t think of doing it in the first place. 

[Ozanne]

Just now, crazyfool1 said:

hence no need for them agreeing anything with Manchester ...... yet ... . You dont think we might have got some leak apart from that one ? 

According the The Guardian, the Noon deadline has been extended. 

[Fuzzy Afro]

I hope there is a circuit breaker because it would give them a chance to sort out the T&T system that’s failing us, but I fear 2/3/even 4 weeks won’t be enough to drive the virus as low as we got it over the summer 

[Crazyfool01]

does anyone know if routine NHS appointments have been affected by any of these latest firebreaks ... or have they just been continuing as normal .... my Dad has an appointment for some skin stuff next week ... and it was cancelled last time 

[Ryan1984]

Did you see Sunak telling another opposition MP off for his tone? People’s livelihoods are at stake...

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Ryan1984 said:

Did you see Sunak telling another opposition MP off for his tone? People’s livelihoods are at stake...

Thats out the Matt hancock school of how not to talk to people 

[Crazyfool01]

3 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

According the The Guardian, the Noon deadline has been extended. 

I reckon thats odds on .... at 13:36 .... im not sure the Guardian need to tell me  

[Ozanne]

2 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

I reckon thats odds on .... at 13:36 .... im not sure the Guardian need to tell me  

It could have lapsed with no more negotiations?

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Ozanne said:

It could have lapsed with no more negotiations?

Ah yes fair point 

[Mellotr0n]

27 minutes ago, Mouseboy11 said:

Will be amazed if the festival goes ahead with any sort of testing regime to be honest, I just think it isn't practical and it'll be as normal or not at all.

I know someone who runs a medium sized UK festival - around 16,000-20,000 a year. He's already decided 2021 (May) isn't going ahead, and it's due to the amount of time required to prepare, logistical planning, and most curiously, getting insurance.

A festival organiser has to apply for insurance a long time prior to the festival. As things currently stand, the festival would need to be planned and insurance applied for based on the rules as they are re: covid compliance - i.e. almost completely impossible.

It will probably be a bit frustrating that I think we will likely get to summer 2021 and be in a situation where the festivals could be (fairly) safely held, but there wasn't enough time to prepare and put everything in place logistics wise. Perhaps some of the larger festivals will get special dispensation, who knows.

Edited October 20, 2020 by Mellotr0n

[Fuzzy Afro]

Unfortunately I’ve got zoom drinks with my new client this evening so I can’t watch the briefing otherwise I’d suggest a drinking game every time Johnson name drops Steve Rotheram. 

[steviewevie]

23 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

We’ve just been emailed by SMT at school requesting us to have all of our timetabled classes set up on Microsoft Teams by Friday as a matter of urgency in case we have to teach via Teams in the near future. 
 

Reckon head teachers may have been informed that we are going into a circuit breaker starting Friday lasting for the half-term week and then the week after? 

oooh. My kid has mock GCSEs the two weeks after half term which she was told could be very important as may not have GCSEs next summer....

Always good to leave these decisions to the last minute.

Edited October 20, 2020 by steviewevie

[Ozanne]

10 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Ah yes fair point 

There’s nothing like a completely arbitrary deadline that won’t be stuck too anyway 😂

[philipsteak]

1 hour ago, fatyeti24 said:

Unprompted.  I'm not making anyone cancel if the government won't.

Nah, fair enough. We're getting a few cancelling, but as many not doing. What we are getting is people trying to get us to give them permission to come when they know they shouldn't. Including from Wales. That I won't do

[stuartbert two hats]

18 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

There’s nothing like a completely arbitrary deadline that won’t be stuck too anyway 😂

Not like Boris.

[Ozanne]

Hancock’s giving a statement in the Commons at 7 as well.

[Fuzzy Afro]

Just now, Ozanne said:

Hancock’s giving a statement in the Commons at 7 as well.

Probably means nothing of significance can be announced in the briefing then

[steviewevie]

unreal.

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

1 minute ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Probably means nothing of significance can be announced in the briefing then

Virtual £ on an agreement for South Yorkshire to go into Tier 3. 

[Crazyfool01]

im just trying to imagine Boris conducting negotiations  

[Fuzzy Afro]

2 minutes ago, RobertProsineckisLighter said:

Virtual £ on an agreement for South Yorkshire to go into Tier 3. 

Can't be. If Hancock's statement is not until 7pm then Boris cannot pre-empt this by announcing it in the briefing. The speaker will get uppity if that happens.

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

£5million is fuck all in terms of government expenditure.

Edited October 20, 2020 by steviewevie

[Fuzzy Afro]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

 

 

Wonder what Burnham's next move is, surely he won't encourage Manc's not to comply?