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Ban-jani said:
Seen someone taking the piss out of London.

Those that think that’s appropriate maybe spare a thought for the thousands of lonely elderly people, who have waited months to see their families, have been suffering alone in care homes and small flats, for months on end, only for the day they’ve been waiting for to be taken away from them with 6 days ‘til the day.

Also think about the extra people who will lose family as a result of this variation.

It’s not the fault of all Londoners, the majority of which will have adhered to the rules.

Have a go at this diabolical government and the minority of dick heads ruining it for everyone, thinking cramming into shops is important.
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I’m fairly lucky in the fact we moved out of London in the summer. Many friends also decided to leave but of course we’ve still got friends there who I feel for.

One I feel particularly bad for is a really good mate from Stoke. His dad’s not been very well this year and he was planning on making it back briefly for Christmas. That I assume is off the cards now. Think I’ll throw in a bonus Stoke City round into our planned Christmas Zoom football quiz with the lads.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Looks like staying in tier 3 was a blessing for us in the NW, this new strain will already be rife here but could have been a fuck of a lot worsec
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As I said weeks ago but did not see the reason why, of course. Just that it was the safest place to stay in the chaotic mess politicians were making of this whole thing.

Which will end where it should have started in a national lockdown because these tiers are utterly useless and imo make things worse not better for reasons I have explained before.

Just it will happen weeks too late as is a common theme with the UK in this pandemic.

The only person probably pleased is Philip Pullman as he can probably sue all those who have plagiarised his idea of multiple tiered places with slightly different rules that nobody from one ever understands about the others

Nonetheless they can all just get in a car or walk from one to the other and circumvent all the bad stuff going on in the 'world' they just left. But unfortunately all these mad demons are following them there and end up screwing over the place they have decided was nicer to go to than the one they were in first of all.

So in the end every one of these worlds/tiers is in the same mess as the first one was.
 
M18CTID said:
Totally agree that it’s out of order to take the piss. It was only last week that London were in a lower tier than us and suddenly they’re in a higher one - one that I didn’t even know existed until a few hours ago. That said, there was one poster on here several weeks back implying that the reason the infection numbers were higher up north is because we weren’t behaving ourselves while the southerners were!
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I'm not sure there was a tier 4 until a few hours ago.
 
M18CTID said:
Totally agree that it’s out of order to take the piss. It was only last week that London were in a lower tier than us and suddenly they’re in a higher one - one that I didn’t even know existed until a few hours ago. That said, there was one poster on here several weeks back implying that the reason the infection numbers were higher up north is because we weren’t behaving ourselves while the southerners were!
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Picture in my Sunday paper last week showed a pedestrianised Regent Street crammed with Christmas shoppers, the vast majority not wearing face coverings. Friends daughter who lives there and works in a central hospital told her mother that things were so bad the government would have to act quickly, looks like they have.
 
Gray said:
Picture in my Sunday paper last week showed a pedestrianised Regent Street crammed with Christmas shoppers, the vast majority not wearing face coverings. Friends daughter who lives there and works in a central hospital told her mother that things were so bad the government would have to act quickly, looks like they have.
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That sounds pretty bad tbh. I was in Manchester doing a bit of Christmas shopping on Thursday and most were observing the mask guidance plus it was very quiet. So quiet that it was quite easy to keep your distance walking through the Arndale, etc.
 
Just read the details , car showrooms are shut from tomorrow , no new car then unless the back door is open

Tier four


  • Non-essential shops, including electronics and clothing stores
  • Hairdressers and barbers
  • Nail salons
  • Spas and beauty bars
  • Clothing and electronics stores
  • Vehicle showrooms
  • Travel agents
  • Betting shops
  • Auction houses
  • Tailors
  • Car washes
  • Tobacco and vape shops
  • Bowling alleys, leisure centres and gyms, sports facilities including swimming pools, golf courses and driving ranges, dance studios, stables and riding centres, soft play facilities, climbing walls and climbing centres, archery and shooting ranges, water and theme parks.
  • Theatres, concert halls, cinemas, museums and galleries, casinos, adult gaming centres and arcades, bingo halls, bowling alleys, concert halls, zoos and other animal attractions, botanical gardens.
  • Body and skin piercing studios, non-medical acupuncture, and tanning salons.
  • Libraries
  • Community Centres
  • Museums and galleries
  • Amusement arcades
It also includes all businesses such as pubs, clubs, restaurants and bars that were already closed under Tier 3 rules
 
Bit late with all going on (the match and the changes to reality).

but regional scoreboard:

Curiously everywhere in the south down and north up. Not by much though.
 
kaz7 said:
Just read the details , car showrooms are shut from tomorrow , no new car then unless the back door is open
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kaz7 said:
Just read the details , car showrooms are shut from tomorrow , no new car then unless the back door is open

Tier four


  • Non-essential shops, including electronics and clothing stores
  • Hairdressers and barbers
  • Nail salons
  • Spas and beauty bars
  • Clothing and electronics stores
  • Vehicle showrooms
  • Travel agents
  • Betting shops
  • Auction houses
  • Tailors
  • Car washes
  • Tobacco and vape shops
  • Bowling alleys, leisure centres and gyms, sports facilities including swimming pools, golf courses and driving ranges, dance studios, stables and riding centres, soft play facilities, climbing walls and climbing centres, archery and shooting ranges, water and theme parks.
  • Theatres, concert halls, cinemas, museums and galleries, casinos, adult gaming centres and arcades, bingo halls, bowling alleys, concert halls, zoos and other animal attractions, botanical gardens.
  • Body and skin piercing studios, non-medical acupuncture, and tanning salons.
  • Libraries
  • Community Centres
  • Museums and galleries
  • Amusement arcades
It also includes all businesses such as pubs, clubs, restaurants and bars that were already closed under Tier 3 rules
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Wow you must really want a new car. Admire your commitment and ingenuity
 
North & Midlands:

Midlands 140 - up from 1728

North East 531 - up from 512

Yorkshire 1114 - up from 1030


And NORTH WEST 1703 - up from 1530.
 
GM today was up by 84 to 594. Though most of that was Manchester itself rising by 53.

Everyone else sub 100 and good days for Wigan and Stockport especially.

That only increased the % of GM in the NW to 35% - still better than every previous day bar yesteday.
 
kaz7 said:
It was all arranged for me to go over and buy it on monday , the rac has checked it for me , i spoke to the garage this morning and it was a go , i have no transport as my other car went to heaven this week, bummer
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Might be slightly different for you, in that case. I’d try belling them tomorrow, hopefully someone will be around - imagine if hypothetically you’d already paid for it and was supposed to be picking it up Monday, what would happen?
 
Rammy Blue said:
Might be slightly different for you, in that case. I’d try belling them tomorrow, hopefully someone will be around - imagine if hypothetically you’d already paid for it and was supposed to be picking it up Monday, what would happen?
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I will call them tomorrow and see if i can still get it , maybe they can move it to the garage workshop and get it from there , it will be more danger for me to keep getting in a taxi every five mins than my own car on my own . If i cant get it then i cant get it
 
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