(17 Sep 2020, 2:15 pm)Rob44 wrote He must be one of the few Tories who cares about his continuance rather than points scoring!
To be fair, Labour MPs do more than their fair share 'point scoring'! Having said that, I'm sure the Conservatives did exactly the same when Labour were in power, that's just politics!
I'm not against local lockdowns as some appear to think, just that this feels more politically motivated than anything else.
The fact that there are quite a number of cases in Darlington and Teesside and they haven't been included does look rather suspicious.
I personally think that it should have been both a lot more targeted and more stringent if they were going to to down the lockdown route.
To me, this feels like a half arsed attempt to look like they're doing something.
The only things that they've legally banned are meeting in other household's private property, leisure and entertainment venues closing at 10pm, and making food and drink venues table service only. Everything else is guidance. So you can still legally meet up with a friend in a park, you can still legally carshare, legally you can still meet up with friends in the pub (they say you can't but it's not legally banned), but if a friend steps foot in my garden thats a £100 fine.
They're advising that public transport is for essential travel only, but that's not enforceable.
So my friends and I will be getting the bus down to Middlesbrough, each sitting in a different row because we're not in the same household, and going to a restaurant down there without breaking any of the rules