Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is set to tell the country on Thursday the coronavirus lockdown will last until at least May 7.
The First Secretary of State, who is deputising for Boris Johnson while the PM recovers from the deadly bug, will tell Britons they face at least three more weeks of restrictions, it was reported.
Mr Raab is expected to liaise with the leaders of the devolved countries at a Cobra meeting on Thursday, where he will ask for a UK-wide approach in setting a deadline, The Times said.
What will be left when this is all over?
As Ramadama-bomb-bomb starts on the 23rd of April it will be interesting to see if Britain's police forces will stop gatherings of Muslims for Ramadan with the same enthusiasm that they are harassing independent journalists, dog walkers and others?
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ReplyDeleteI would think that the economy could well bounce back fairly well providing that government interference is kept to a minimum. There is likely to be quite a backlog of work that needs doing so, provided that we are all allowed to get stuck in and get on with it, things could recover quite well.
ReplyDeleteThe lock down is saving lives and the government is doing it's best for all of us. This will pass and as always life will return to normal. I just wish the media would stop making a drama out of the problem. Knock the government no matter what they do is the name of the game. I like am heartily sick of the infantile "yeah but what if" questions, the media is ever more like a crowd of 5 year olds in a playground.
ReplyDeleteI dread to think where we will be if this carries on much longer, but the human cost in the economy, jobs, livelihoods and mental heath will probably be much greater than the cost of the virus itself
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ReplyDeleteSling it anon--you will be one of those screaming for blood once you are hovering over the gutter after this idiot lockdown finally shows how much damage it has done. Over winter flu not anywhere near Hong Kong 1968 death levels. Their fantastic 4000 bed NHS hosp built in 4 days for 4000 patients --actually has 20 people in there.
Screw Raab--he will live to bitterly lament his smug arrogance as will many political porkers. People need to start ignoring the crap--keep yr distance but ignore the rest of the it. Main problem is nowhere to go. If dying businesses re-opened en masse and we patronised them Plod would soon turn their arses on confronting us. 10 or 12 of them against one lone victim is how they like it--no bottle for a more even fight.
Saw a newspaper headline today " WORST BRITISH RECESSION FOR 100 YEARS (=WORSE THAN GREAT DEPRESSION) --BUT WILL BE OVER IN 3 MONTHS"
Yeah--and the Great War was going to over by Christmas.
Amazing how right Orwell was.
ReplyDelete"As Ramadama-bomb-bomb starts on the 23rd of April..."
ReplyDeleteTwo days to go!
"I think I am going to knit myself a hazmat suit)"
Masks might be handier!
"I would think that the economy could well bounce back fairly well providing that government interference is kept to a minimum. "
If only..! They have just hammers, and they see nails everywhere.
"The lock down is saving lives and the government is doing it's best for all of us."
Is it? Are they?
"...the human cost in the economy, jobs, livelihoods and mental heath will probably be much greater than the cost of the virus itself."
I fear you're right.
"...and the Great War was going to over by Christmas."
Spot on!
"Amazing how right Orwell was."
If anything, I fear he was too optimistic.