Mr Hancock said:"Like so many, I am appalled by the death of George Floyd and I understand why people are deeply upset, but we are still facing a health crisis and coronavirus remains a real threat.
"So please, for the safety of your loved ones, do not attend large gatherings, including demonstrations of more than six people." "If they do come out, then we would ask them to observe that social distancing [and] think about those around them," he added.
while we blithely allow demonstrations to rage through country,felling statues to our great men,pelting, bashing police more than 7.15m corona cases confirmed globally, 403,900 died. Pandemic spread to over 200 countries. Do we care? No. Apart from closing schools! What a blunder
Looking at what is happening in the US and here, the government should see terrible danger. 1. 'Anti-racist' rioting 2. 'Woke' thought policing in media 3. Regime change attempts such as Cummingsgate. Doubters should visit mtracey and ColumbiaBugle.
Why is this picture used for this headline and not the hoards of white people that were at the beach before the protests?
Just labour voters walking into the Tory herding trap
R rate could get past 1; hope DC is ok as his sacking has been one of the catalyst for young people to ignore Government guidance. There are huge parties in my local park which has no connection to the demonstrations in London and Manchester.
Hopefully, those who statistically are more likely to die from Coronavirus will be saying ‘well, we only have our self’s to blame’ when they are on their death beds as a consequence of this. They’ll be happy with the new trainers they’ve stolen though no doubt.
Very sickening what happened to George Floyd and everyone has a right to protest, but they are risking us all, if the R rate does rise considerably over these protests all over the UK, I expect the media to blame the Government, they will be totally wrong to do but they will
Black Lives Matter activists now calling for “revolutions” whilst posting photos of famous and disgusting anti-Semitic/globalist tropes. The racist hatred is there for the world to see...
Only idiots will gather in mass demonstrations StayAtHomeAndStaySafe COVIDIDIOTS Covid19UK StaySafe
I am sorry no one gives any shit to what you say when you have lost moral authority in advising people by defending Dominic Cummings
Bit late for that
BBCPolitics And we all know what's going 2 happen if some of the protesters get covid will they say the nhs is racist 2
White lives matter so we don't hear about them do we couldn't give it off
Hancock keep your mouth shut and sit down! When there was time to prepare efficiently for C-19 outbreak Westminster only stalled by talking nonsense. Now you want to act after 40k lives were lost to it. Keep quiet! Just want to prevent ppl from speaking out!
BBCPolitics More than six people there eh? Just goes to show that the government has lost any control they thought they had. Mockery!
BBCPolitics If these people are not being charged for breaking social distancing the rest of the UK population could call for discrimination if they break the rules. What a complete bunch of morons.
Oh Matt you're panicking now are you
please please please don’t be tempted think of your loved ones what if you catch the virus and pass it onto them , then what will you be doing when you can not visit them in hospital with covid -19 what when you can not attend their funeral it will be wrong to go please don’t
Because if you do and there is no upswing in coronavirus cases thereafter our government will look like a bunch of hapless cockwombles that have no idea what we are talking about?
A bit late now tbh
Does “The Science” say “Do not protest”? What about expressing your fundamental rights & socially responsible? I sometimes think some ministers are not just incompetent & naive but dangerously inane.
Quite correct. One thing the demonstrators are failing to grasp is the mortality rate of BAME citizens. if Black lives really did matter to them, then perhaps some common sense and social distancing should be the order of the day, whilst of course paying tribute to George Floyd.
Great message and a great cause however the timing is disgusting. This is a massive kick in the balls to the NHS and all those families that couldn’t attend funerals because of lockdown rules. Selfish cunts the lot of you
BBCPolitics Unless you’re DominicCummings. Obvs. Cummings NotMovingOnTillDomIsGone SackCummings StayElite SaturdayMorning StayAlert
I guess they won't be travelling to Durham 🤐
All lives matter. But if there was a list of those that didnt this guy would be up there
Ok for Tory MPs to go to BBQs? Ok for Parliament to be forced to sit and break rules?
Sack Cummings and people may listen. Otherwise jog on with the double standards
Cue the “but Cummings did it! Not fair!” tantrums
Yes remember we are in a pandemic 😉
For those planning to join mass demonstrations in the Northwest, REMEMBER mass gatherings are not allowed. The R is up in our area. All lives matter 🖤🤍💛💚🧡❤️💙❣️Equality for all.
Why is it the cities, who started the spread of this virus, insist on these stupid protests, continue to flout the rules. It’s always the minority that makes things worse in the UK, whilst the majority stand back and let it happen. It’s about time the majority was listened too!
*Looks for any comments referring to Dominic Cummings because lol*
Matt Hancock doing his best king canute impression WWG1WGA
if Cummings can , we can
I think keith lemon should do a bo selacter impersonation of george lol
Better open nightingale again... after the last days this deadly virus has spread exponentially. This lot have endangered all in the homes they have returned to after spending the days destroying our city.
It will make no difference. Its partly why BAME have a disproportionate number of corona virus infections. The struggle to conform.
Y is the media seporting and making so much publicity for a criminal and woman beater ontop making racism to devide people with mental politics.There is 1 human race and all lives matter.should their be a new slogen?Msm for criminal lives matter?Because that is what it looks like
Elderly lives matter!
lmao well for me i will be ignoring this advice and so should others u can stick ur advice where the sun dnt shine
Maybe they're going to Hyde Park to test their eyes? Seems legit
Protests provide a visible, immediate & empowering way for people to show black lives matter. This is an important issue & we need alternative safer ways in a covid world. It's important for governments to provide viable options for the public.
I'm sick of these idiots and the hysteria that's happening. US killed-by-cop stats should be via who commits the crimes. EG, if blacks commit 55% of the murders you'd expect over half the kbc stats in the investigation of these to be blacks. Stats are worse for property crime.
It's going to chuck it down, so stay home 🙏 and protest online🙏
Too right, after all the hard work and 100's £billions of our money invested to keep people safe, these idiots are risking it all.
Stop useing this for an excuse to riot , the copper has been charge for what he did , get over it's not just because your black for gods sake
Like it would make any difference after what Dominic Cummings did, you should have urged him not to break lockdown rules.
Breaking lockdown rules during a pandemic to shout black lives matter is a contradiction. Every life matters so social distance. Weather forecast says rain, hope you all get soaked.
It that dominic Cummings in the back he like to breach lockdown
No one is listening Mr Hancock! Pandemic is periodic, Racism is relentless!!!
We will know who to blame it it does spread and of course we will be accused of being Racist.
UK better close it's border to make that these protesters do not spread the C19
Then we wonder why there's more Covid cases in the BAME community 😕 Perhaps it's because most of those communities never bother listening to what's ever being advised.
You cant protest but you can scrum together to go on public transport for work and head back to school. All designed so they can ban protests....
Do as I say, not as I do.
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IGNORES THE USE OF PPE AND SOCIAL DISTANCING : Now let us examine BAME infection levels shall we ?
Fine them all
Bit too late for that you bloody daft numpty shutting the stable door after the horse has legged it are we?
You know I wonder if all the protests be going on if it was a black police man who killed a white man or a white police man who killed a white man or a black police man who killed a black man 🤔🤔🤔🤔
So Dominic Cummings can breach lock down rules?!!!! but British people can’t in support of George Floyd!!! MattHancock
Prats will
Ok so Don’t breach lockdown rules to take part in mass demonstrations 🤔 So what if we all just drove to them to test our eyesight? That would be absolutely 100% acceptable as we would be following instinct!!! JusticeForGeorgeFloyd blm
There are numerous people on here think that gathering in thousands to protest is acceptable during a killer pandemic. I think the world has gone mad. And it’s no good trying to blame your own stupidity on Dominic Cummings. What you are doing is the height of irresponsibility.
Is that so we dont upset the Orange clown ?
It’s those at the protests parents and grandparents who will suffer the consequences most. Racism and Brutality is never acceptable, but realise what you are doing!
This is not white privilege, this is youth privilege. Black people are statistically more likely to die from Covid19 and those over 75 also. Because the young are less likely they choose to break isolation and risk MORE BLACK LIVES than police brutality in the UK
All a bit too late...
What if the BLM protesters went to the horse races. Will that be ok MattHancock . Is the government advising against protest incase the UK racism Pandora's box is unleashed.
It’ll be alright to queue up to go in Primark though right? With the other god knows how many other hundred people wanting to go in?
Hold the protest at a castle
what if I was driving to test my eyesight at the time?
Thought I was reading the Onion for a sec there..
Urge all you want f**k boy. But things ain’t great. People ain’t happy.
Where was this for VE day?
Gary_Middleton Black Looting Matters though🤦🏿♂️🤦🏻♂️
Can you please just STOP it people's doing anarchy and ego for granted in UK keep safe.
get rid of fucking cummings then maybe he will be allowed to look at the moral high ground, he wont be allowed on it he just gets to look at it.
Message said a few days too late. Like those on the protests give a fuck what some public schooled middle englander has to say any way...
THIS JUST IN: Government urges protesters not to protest. Onlookers shocked. NEXT: Is water wet, or is that what they want you to think? More at 9.
Lots of people thinking with their prejudices and ignoring the main issue which is racial prejudice by the US police and the brutality I just watched. Police can kill a black person and get away with it. A long history - Ku Klux Klan anybody! The police are out of control.
I need vitamin D, So I might attend a demonstration
Should've thought of that when they supported Cummings. This gov lost its authority when it's undermined itself.
MattHancock couldn't urge an erection...
Just heading up to the Lake District for a pint of milk
But mass gathering at the beach and parks were ok? Mhmm.
PiersMorgan let’s have your thoughts Piers?
But happy to let them travel on day trips to we’re ever they want and crowd ou beaches and leave all their shit behind raising the R rate!!!!
no, but you can break them if you wanna see your mam in Durham. Heaven forbid people should lose sight of the big picture
BBCPolitics How will irresponsible crowding during a pandemic and breakaway violence endangering life and property help the cause exactly? What a shit show. Black lives matter...and the reduction in knife crime during lockdown has helped keep more young black men alive than this bollocks.
Bournemouth didn’t get the memo
I mean thank you🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Shame on this terrible government.
At least this is a fight against racism, much better than taking an eye test as an excuse for driving
They need to stop and think now. We've heard them. We understand. They mustn't get ill or make others ill...
i have no interest in antifa i want to make that clear ☠️ but if antifa want to be usefull MattHancock wants to vaccine your children families friends ☠️ not for your health as he cares for no1 hes an elite puppet ☠️ do you want this man to harm your children? ☠️
Fire Cummings then wankers.
Bit late now
Err, isn't this about four days too late? Another example of slamming the stable door shut after the horse has bolted. Meanwhile, the rest of us NOT rioting *ahem* I mean demonstrating 🙄 are subjecting to more rules, guidelines, whatever the fuck they're calling them these days.
But attending the horse races are encouraged and we just ignore the hundreds at the beaches everytime the sun comes out? Okii.
There Is No Racism In Islam. We are All Equal.
Dominic Cummings can drive 000's of miles back and forth for made up reasons with no punishment but gov is cracking down on people fighting for racial justice? One rule for them and another for us!
If you are a committed Leftlib then you’re very happy with the paucity of Truth contained in the mass media & delighted that you can still read the London Times, Mail, Guardian & Independent in order to further solidify the cement in your head.
Hahahahaha. Try telling that to Dominic Cummings!!!
George Floyd was a serial criminal with a history of drug and gun crime. In 2005 he broke into a house and assaulted a pregnant woman whilst robbing her, he pushed a gun against her unborn child and threatened to shoot it. The left say nothing about his victims.
Anyone wanting to protest about US blm incident should get on a plane and piss off to USA where it happened. Or do they just want to steal new Nike trainers and riot?
These protests will end up killing many times more people than are killed by police. BlackLivesMattterUK are putting us all at risk and BAME folk are particularly vulnerable to coronavirus.
.....but encourages them to attend the beach, VE celebrations or drive 30 mins to a castle to test their eye sight.
All lives matter, not just black! - Stop be racist!
But it’s fine to attend VE parties, days on the beach, drive to scenic spot to check your eyesight?
Yet Encourages people to travel as far as they wish to sit on beaches all day no social distancing there as beaches not big enough and no one can go abroad so all descending on beaches en mass
“Public urged” to keep sacrificing, meanwhile the infinitely more deserving elite class continue to do whatever the f**k they like with no consequences! Sure, no problem!!
We need to march on this government to
How about telling the damn police to deal with it properly
Hold the protest at Barnard Castle and they can't say a word about it.
Protest to get this government out will be good idea .
But it's fine to breach lockdown to test your eye sight at a castle hundreds of miles away from your home.
Your half-hour was up some weeks ago Handjob! No-one takes you or anyone else from this mendacioius, incompetent Government seriously any more. The Cummings affair has destroyed what was left of your credibility.
In the UK no one practiced social distancing and now is a concern?!
The government love urging people.
Would upset the US trade negotiations methinks
I mean, it’s not a crime to be out exercising and to happen across people who are outwardly declaring views that align with your own. What if everyone wears activewear and does a few lunges?
By all means have a black lives matter protest. But to hold George Floyd as a beacon for the movement is a bit cras. He held a gun to a pregnant woman not exactly a great role model.
Then why is nothing being done about mass gatherings in the parks and on the beaches? Close every park and every beach, then you could possible say ‘don’t go an risk lives by going to a protest’.
Govt full of halfwits!
Unless your a govt minister or SPAD then doing whatever the fuck you like, and there will be no repercussions
Too late!
Bit late for that, trust Hancock to be behind the curve as usual. Stay Elite, Control the Media, Save Liars GetCummingsGone NotMovingOn Covid19UK HerdImmunity COVIDIDIOTS
Didn't see him urging people not to join VE day congas or to not send their kids back to school
... Africa will welcome you
Just let them get on with it they'll move on to the next cause soon enough..since 2016 we've had protests on.. Anti Brexit 2nd referendum People's march March for Europe Gender Eqality Extinction Rebellion NHS Tories Me too Anti Trump Feck Boris Cumming's Trip
Only an idiot would go on a protest atm.
What 'rules'? The ones you let Dom Cummings avoid and then you all protected him like an old boys club? The UK gov are embarrassing themselves - no cred left after what you let DC get away with.
Every single extra death is on BLM, XR and Antifa. Every one. It won’t be forgotten.
Classless paristie
Oh shit, I agree with Hancock!
Message to all you muppets
The replies are hilarious. Pointing fingers at Cummings and Oakeshott whilst completely ignoring THOUSANDS of people, including Labour MP Barry Gardiner, breaking rules to protest.
BBCPolitics The Health Secretary is simply fulfilling his statutory obligation in warning against breaching social distancing requirements but the protests must go on as racism and inequality are shortening too many lives and need to be publicly called out.
TanoiWithin scumedia
Better tell Dom.
MattHancock these ppl demonstrate for justic ,but your pal Cummings Did Break the Rules ,all you idiots backed him up ,so he lied ,so did the lot of you I'd say ,shut up 😡
Tad late to say that
AllLivesMattter
They wont listen and they should given that this virus is more serious for people with dark skins. They need to protect themselves. pointless sacrifice anyway, these protests in the UK wont change anything in the USA, they have a totally different outlook and culture to us
What if we disguise the protests as a VE Day afterparty on Southend beach? Is it fine then?
BBCPolitics As if MattHancock cares about the public, they are just worried that people start showing they've had enough. Also they don't want to upset Trump! ToryLiesKill
Gary_Middleton It's the police fault ultimately
So, let me get this right. You're all over there, in The UK, protesting the death of an American, who was murdered over here, in The U.S., who has most likely never stepped foot in The U.K. and has no connections with anyone over there Don't you all have something better to do?
BBCPolitics Well said, lockdown isn't just when you want to, it's all the time
Matt Hancock with his tongue up trump's ass
Don’t normally agree with anything Matt Hancock says but he’s right this time, even for a good cause like this
Probably best to tell them to turn up. They like to do the opposite of what they’re told 🙄 Don’t see all this shit when they’re pulling guns on each other day in day out 🤷♂️
He is correct. It is beyond stupid.
Can't take government/MPs serious, one of the MPs that called out Cummings about breaking the lockdown rules broke them to protest and then video himself doing it 😂 the MSM reported on those at the beach but it was ok for thousands to protest, it was a joke from the beginning
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