UK Lockdown

[Oldsmobile-88]

Welsh pubs to be banned from selling alcohol from Friday

Devolution has assisted in a farcical approach to dealing with the pandemic.

 

[The Proper Chap]

Another piece of $h1t with no discipline / consideration for others.

Rita Ora 'sorry' for breaking lockdown rules to attend birthday party - BBC News

 

[Grecian2K]

Welsh pubs to be banned from selling alcohol from Friday

Is the Temperance Society gaining a foothold again in Wales again?

Not just in Wales. Quite a number of the uber-zealots in the "medical profession" have had their eyes on the "demon drink" ever since they got their victory over "nasty nicotine".
Covid has just given them an excuse to extend their crusade.
Now the beer is off the agenda along with the fags there are now also signs that they are turning their sights onto meat (particularly the red variety)
Still, never mind. once we have all been subjected to a forced diet of just celery and virgin's wee water and have all expired from terminal boredom their mission down here on earth will have finally succeeded.

But, joking apart, I do feel that hospitality generally (and pubs in particular) have been disproportionately singled out during this new era of puritanism. Especially given the huge steps most of them had to take for that (all too brief) window of reopening over the late summer.
Just one example is that they seemed to be virtually the only places where provision of data for T&T was mandatory. On the other hand, everyone was free to mooch around supermarkets and shops without leaving a trace of their presence (unless one includes the Covid infested finger stains on all of the packaging that has been picked up and put down again).

But, "it is what it is" I suppose. One day, once we have all crested the summit of those fabled sunlit uplands maybe we will, once again, free to enjoy a couple of pints and a game of football on a Saturday. (Always assuming of course, that there are still any pubs and football clubs left to enjoy)

 

[tavyred]

Devolution has assisted in a farcical approach to dealing with the pandemic.

Can you imagine the stick Boris would be getting now if he’d adopted Welsh Labour’s ‘circuit breaker’ that’s resulted in rising infections just before crimbo and a week less in school for Welsh children?
A potential deaths spike in Wales just in time for the Xmas holibobs, nice one Drakeford.

 

[Mr Jinx]

Drakeford - the last lockdown didn't work. I know, let's have another one.

 

[arthur]

Johnson's briefing document to his troublesome back benchers seems to have gone down like a lead balloon. Hardly surprising when you look at the rigorously detailed analysis such as:

Due to the range of factors that need to be considered, and that in many cases are difficult to estimate — including how the virus would have evolved in different scenarios — any attempt to estimate the specific economic impacts of precise changes to individual restrictions for a defined period of time would be subject to such wide uncertainty as to not be meaningful for precise policy making.

That is to say "we've had lockdowns and tiers and 10pm closing and the rule of six and all sorts of other stuff but we have no idea what impact any of them have had. So just trust us on this - OK?" Hardly likely to convince anyone, let alone the likes of Steve Baker and Charles Walker I'd have thought

 

[Grecian2K]

Johnson's briefing document to his troublesome back benchers seems to have gone down like a lead balloon. Hardly surprising when you look at the rigorously detailed analysis such as:

Due to the range of factors that need to be considered, and that in many cases are difficult to estimate — including how the virus would have evolved in different scenarios — any attempt to estimate the specific economic impacts of precise changes to individual restrictions for a defined period of time would be subject to such wide uncertainty as to not be meaningful for precise policy making.

The spirit of Cummings obviously still lingers on in the No 10 bunker. Or has Sir Humphrey Appleby returned from the beyond to befuddle us in our hour of need?

 

[RedPaul]

The spirit of Cummings obviously still lingers on in the No 10 bunker. Or has Sir Humphrey Appleby returned from the beyond to befuddle us in our hour of need?

I thought Cummins was supposed to have filled No 10 with 'data scientists'. Have they all left with him?

As suspected, the whole 'toughened tiers' applying across counties is a giant fudge. Whitty and Valance wanted to continue with national lockdown; Johnson said they couldn't so this is a convoluted compromise cooked up to muddle through until the distant toot of the bugle of the vaccine gallops over the sunlit hills, avoiding the barbed wire - or something like that.

 

[tavyred]

Drakeford - the last lockdown didn't work. I know, let's have another one.

Lest we forget also that the failed Welsh firebreak was so popular with Sir ‘Keith’ he advocated it rather strongly for England too.

 

[Mr Jinx]

Lest we forget also that the failed Welsh firebreak was so popular with Sir ‘Keith’ he advocated it rather strongly for England too.

The same Sir K who's ordered his troops not to vote. So for someone who was pro-lockdown (like the shamed Drakeford and no doubt Krankie) is apparently now ambivalent. Pathetic. Pick a side man.