No more daily briefings. Things must get back to normal, mustn't they? I must say that it feels a bit like we have been told to take care and then left on our own to deal with it.
Bournemouth, Brixton, Notting Hill and Liverpool gives an indication of how some people have taken the message. Everyone has been thinking thinking that they may only have two weeks to live, so this may be the last good weather they ever see. That is still no excuse to attack the police or leave 33 tons of rubbish on Bournemouth beach, then attack the people who clear it up.
These are the sort of people who would normally be behaving badly in Spain or Southern Turkey. I am just amazed there are so many of them.
When the PM said that the British people should use their common sense in approach to the easing of the lockdown I wondered how long it would be before he realised that an awful lot don't have any. And they don't care a jot about anybody else either.
ReplyDeleteIt should be a good time to be sociable but the ant-social always spoil it. 500,000 on Dorset coast alone.
DeleteOr the southern coast in general. 'Only' about 6000 in Bournemouth.
DeleteOne despairs. Even a little visited resort like Hornsea on the Yorkshire coast was overcrowded. Car parks full. Some of our friends went but returned straight home. I suppose those stuck with kids in a city must be getting desperate.
ReplyDeleteThe lockdown has brought out the worst in some people.
DeleteAll the scenes seen on and around beaches yesterday were appalling, that's without the addition of "super saturday" next weekend when beer gardens will be heaving with people drinking themselves silly all day. I wonder what inspires people, having seen photographs of Bournemouth beach heaving with people on Weds, to drive there on Thursday and endure it themselves.
ReplyDeleteThe late night drunks have already returned to my street.
DeleteIf you keep everybody inside for three months, watching re-runs of old quiz shows, they're going to run wild once allowed out. Perhaps it would have been sensible to shackle everybody first?
ReplyDeleteTreating people like children turns some of them into children. There has been a growing disrespect for authority even before the plague. As unemployment rises I hope it doesn't get out of hand.
Delete"As unemployment rises I hope it doesn't get out of hand." That I have thought too, Tom - maybe you have heard about young people in Stuttgart who, after a drug control, suddenly turned vicious and attacked police, smashed the shopwindows in the city center, plundered.
ReplyDeleteThat was still a "minor" group of about 300 - I do not like to imagine what will happen if many people lose their jobs,, money for many becomes really a problem and prices go up, and rage about a lot of things raises even more.
This is where we need proper planning for the future, but it may be too late to invest now. Businesses need to be saved, but it's hard when councils need every penny they can raise. Let's hope Boris's 'bounce' isn't just wishful thinking.
DeleteNot to mention the unmentionable due at the end of the year, for which few businesses have done any planning because they don't know the detail of what they're planning for.
DeleteThere has to be a protracted period of grace. Everyone has to share the hardship.
DeleteWe are still on a 5-mile travel restriction here in Wales, due for review and hopefully opening up on 6 July. After a fight broke out on a Welsh beach yesterday, our leader is now saying that it might not be possible to lift restrictions then. That is just going to increase frustrations even further. I'm praying for rain to keep them indoors!
ReplyDeleteRats in a cage...
ReplyDeleteExactly
DeleteWell written and succinct tom
ReplyDeleteI despair xx
I thought of you when I saw the account on the news.
ReplyDeleteProblem is we are an overcrowded country, and city or town life can be very limiting. Rats in a cage indeed.
ReplyDeleteI had experienced rats in my back garden and yesterday put down rodent killer. That always erases them.....
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