United Kingdom V: Son of a beach

[MartyG]

I have my doubts about whether any of that happened.

Seems absolutely plausable to me, given voting for Brexit wasn't based on reality and now reality has turned up in sharp focus.

Oh, and I'm guessing that we didn't extend the Brexit negotiations deadline yesterday so are well on the path to no deal given that was the last chance to do anything about it. I haven't looked, I just assumed the government stuck its head in the sand.

Edit - I should add that this list is just one of places where cases are rising, and is an oft-repeated list in various new outlets at present. I can find nothing official, so far, about any future lockdowns, and there are other areas where cases are increasing.

Might just be easier to list those not having lockdowns in the future, it'll be shorter

[Dogg Thang]

Oh, it certainly seems plausible. I imagine it's very true to a lot of people's views. I just think it's incredibly unlikely that what that guy is writing on his twitter account actually happened. The account has only existed since April, the guy has a stock image of some guy as his twitter pic, his bio lists him as an author of some books that I can't seem to find and, scrolling back through his timeline, I spotted a couple of other things in there that just seemed very unlikely. I think it's fiction.

[endo]

I've no doubt there are actually people that stupid - Brexit's happening after all - but this is getting increasingly implausible the longer it goes on. The idiot son is getting the train to Paris tomorrow and going to Brussels to "sort it out" if need be. Come on...

Then, yeah, the stock photo, the fact that no one can find these books he's supposed to have written, etc. Strong chinny vibes.

[wheelaa]

Might just be easier to list those not having lockdowns in the future, it'll be shorter

Indeed.

Weekly PHE summary at https://assets.publishing.service.go...Report_w26.pdf for the figures fans.

I've seen several different lists of cases per 100k by LA, but the differing dates covered muddy the waters tremendously.

Edit - cases per 100k for the week ending 21 June (PHE figs), over 10 only.

Leicester 140.2
Bradford 69.4
Barnsley 54.7
Rochdale 53.6
Bedford 42.0
Oldham 38.6
Rotherham 33.6
Tameside 33.3
Blackburn with Darwen 32.9
Kirklees 30.3
Peterborough 27.9
Luton 26.6
Derby 24.5
Hull 22.6
Manchester 21.6
Southend-on-Sea 20.8
Leicestershire 20.8
Sheffield 20.6
Leeds 19.8
Wirral 19.2
Wakefield 18.6
Stoke-on-Trent 18.0
Doncaster 17.4
Cheshire East 16.0
Central Bedfordshire 15.9
Bolton 15.8
Lancashire 15.0
Northamptonshire 14.9
Stockton-on-Tees 14.7
East Riding of Yorkshire 14.1
North Yorkshire 13.8
Shropshire 13.7
Kent 13.5
Slough 13.4
Bury 13.2
Nottinghamshire 12.6
Calderdale 12.4
Stockport 12.3
Cheshire West & Chester 12.3
Thurrock 12.2
Milton Keynes 10.8
Blackpool 10.8
Nottingham 10.6
Swindon 10.4
Warwickshire 10.3
Salford 10.2
Trafford 10.2

[MartyG]

I've no doubt there are actually people that stupid - Brexit's happening after all - but this is getting increasingly implausible the longer it goes on. The idiot son is getting the train to Paris tomorrow and going to Brussels to "sort it out" if need be. Come on...

Then, yeah, the stock photo, the fact that no one can find these books he's supposed to have written, etc. Strong chinny vibes.

Even if the actual account is fake, the narrative itself has a basis of reality. There are definitely people who thought that Brexit would just mean all the Johnny Foreigners would have to leave the UK whilst they could swan off to Spain and sit in the sun consequences free.

It's time to call a spade a spade now - I'm no longer prepared to pull my punches (not that I ever really did) on calling out the stupidity of Brexit which is becoming far clearer for everyone to see. The ignorance of a large portion on the UK is going to end up causing hardships for far more.

[Golgo]

Another outbreak in a food preparation factory: Walkers Crisps in Leicester. But the managers said they were confident they had it under control as they'd been using their own in-house track-and-trace system. What the flip?! Folks, we're being killed by food factories re-opening without getting their safety **** in order. Boycott Walkers Crisps, buy Golden Wonder!!!

[QualityChimp]

I hold Gary Lineker personally responsible.

Fascinating look at the whereabouts of some of the biggest spenders during the last election. Spoiler: most have disappeared.

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[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/jul/03/uk-coronavirus-live-boris-johnson-warn-public-pubs-reopen-england-Saturday

Pubs can open from 6am tomorrow morning and the list of air corridor countries for the UK is:

Andorra
Germany
New Zealand
Antigua and Barbuda
Greece
Norway
Aruba
Greenland
Poland
Australia
Grenada
Réunion
Austria
Guadeloupe
San Marino
Bahamas
Hong Kong
Serbia
Barbados
Hungary
Seychelles
Belgium
Iceland
South Korea
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Italy
Spain
Croatia
Jamaica
St Barthélemy
Curaçao
Japan
St Kitts and Nevis
Cyprus
Liechtenstein
St Lucia
Czech Republic
Lithuania
St Pierre and Miquelon
Denmark
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Dominica
Macau
Taiwan
Faroe Islands
Malta
Trinidad and Tobago
Fiji
Mauritius
Turkey
Finland
Monaco
Vatican City
France
Netherlands
Vietnam
French Polynesia
New Caledonia The 14 British Overseas Territories will also be exempt.

[Dogg Thang]

Yep, every one of those countries has reason to worry about UK passengers bringing them covid spikes.

[Brad]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...gland-Saturday
Pubs can open from 6am tomorrow morning

I can't get there til half past sadly.

[fallenangle]

Weirdest supermarket weekly shop yet today. No queues to get in and store very empty for a Friday afternoon. Short queue to get out but I was back home in an hour whereas it normally takes at least 90mins and early on when I was having to queue for 50mins just to get in the whole thing was taking over 2hrs door to door.

Roads only moderately busy for my part of London but pedestrians very thin on the ground.

Where has everybody gone? All back to work, if its still there perhaps? On holiday? On the beach? My theory is that its the schools still not going back that explains it. No parents walking or driving their little darlings to and from school, clogging up the roads and shops free of them and the older kids too. I almost can't remember the last time I saw anyone of obvious teenage years on the streets or anywhere else.

I like it.

Less people, less pollution, less noise, less crime.

Millennial parental paranoia keeping their kids at home and in check - the silver lining of the nasty Covid 19 cloud.

[Cassius_Smoke]

My local Tesco descend in to madness. Big long queue to get in... But then the lady waving people in had to go inside for something and everyone just started walking in. The instant there isn't control or rules people just lose their minds.

[teddymeow]

I can't get there til half past sadly.

Bloody lightweight!

[fishbowlhead]

My local Tesco descend in to madness. Big long queue to get in... But then the lady waving people in had to go inside for something and everyone just started walking in. The instant there isn't control or rules people just lose their minds.

Obviously.

[Neon Ignition]

Nipped to Asda after work

01 - Third Petrol Price increase in a week
02 - Roads are the easily the busiest since March
03 - Store was like a preview of tomorrow onward, utter bedlam with one or two faded signs like a faint reminder a lockdown ever existed.

Due to the numbers of people in store staff were blatantly abandoning all of the previous social distancing systems as well as it moved past the point of being manageable. Swore blind that I'm doing our weekly shop at 7am from next week and will no longer go near the store outside of that. Second Wave is as inevitable now as the death it will bring.