After spending months longing to see families and friends, people could be forgiven for getting excited when the Prime Minister said that they could meet and share a barbecue.
Monday or Sunday, that’s makes no difference
....because on Monday we’ll all have special protection? Or because the virus will suddenly die out on Sunday evening?
Bollocks I needed to go to the lake district to check my eyesight
Why don’t the government do the basic sensible step of waiting until the night before to announce these things?
Too late. Ask Durdle Door.
24 hours is going to make a difference ? It won't be the time until July at the earliest. We are still suffering in excess of 300 deaths per day. EU countries relaxing lockdown have deaths in teens or single figures.
Government: DO AS WE SAY NOT AS WE DO
The public are already doing it, all age groups...best to leave these announcements for Sunday nights
Wondering who campaigned to put this government in charge.
The people who are meeting up, jumping off the rocks at Durdle Door, using vital services, crapping in the dunes as the loos are shut, cramming the roads etc were always going to do so as they consider their lockdown over!
Too Late....
Lockdown over weeks a go round me in West London
Too late - many started partying on Friday and will continue for the whole weekend.
Too late. London parks looked like festivals Saturday. Pubs open and serving take away drinks to groups of dozens of closely packed people etc etc. They might as well open everything at this rate. Shit messaging from a shit government.
I'd be more willing to believe that this government planned it to happen this way if I thought they were capable of exercising forward- thinking in any aspect of their role.
Why Monday? Who picks these dates? Do they know BBQs happen at weekends, usually? endthelockdownuk NoNewNormal
Its like saying the pubs are going to shut on Saturday but announcing that on the Thursday.... go on then you lot, have a bloody good last night out on the Friday🤷🏻♂️... fucking shambles!!
Too late, dickheads!
Here is a plan - don’t make the announcement until Monday! twats
What's going to be different on Monday?
They should have sacked Cummings then!!
Monday? Did they tell the virus? I think it missed the memo... Over 1,000 deaths this week and R number rising..but you know Cummings job more important than... well .. everyone else... Wankers
There likely hasn’t been this level of incompetence since British soldiers were ordered to walk slowly towards German machine gun nests in WW1.
Bit late for that.
Bit late for that
Announcing that something which-will-be-fine-on-Monday is forbidden on Sunday all but guarantees people will do it on Sunday. Presumably the government are smart enough to understand that(?), which begs the question WTF are the playing at?
Parties and gatherings are just what they want us to have, evil bastards. Their manipulation is astonishing; the mixed messages are working HerdImmunity
The govt of confusing messages. Announce, on Thursday, something that does not come in to effect on Monday, when the PM's SPAD broke the rules of lockdown so people are 'if he can, we can.' (Which is actually fcking stupid logic)
Scientifically my team of advisors term this as 'fucking feeble bollocks' and advise you to 'wrap it in barbed wire and stick it up your arse'. I've peer reviewed this advice with international fucknuckles, they say maybe don't use barbed wire. Xxx
Yeah because the virus has a diarist.
Too late !
Stupid boy!
It’s already happening
mojos55 Political decision to cover Cummings , political decision cause Europe have acted and eased lock down , populist decision cause he is scared the public are now against him . Financial cause the big boys want everybody earning morning for them !
Really, safe on Monday? I suspect not
Rem when the papers all said 'Freedom' on a Friday about the foll Mon. Apparently on the Sun night Boris was going declare lockdown basically over. This was just the papers announcing it (with a little help from a tweetie bird in Gov of course). ...
Like anyone is going to take any notice - and they knew that when they announced it last week but the reason they did that of course was to get Cummings off the front page - totally irresponsible
Too late for that!!! BorisJohnsonMustGo cummings
Hey Professor Edmunds are you related to the other scientific genius Professor Dirty Fergy? Next time you come down my wall warning me of “2nd Wave” and “We’re all gonna die!!”Please shower, shave and comb a Covid Zombie.Undead!! You have no reflection!
Ready - Saturday Steady - Sunday Go - Monday cough, splutter, infect cough, splutter, infect Come back Come back it was a false start Come back Come back all come back all who are not yet dead
Laughing constantly
Of course they knew what would happen, but Boris wants to be popular and be the bearer of good news then blame it on us if it all goes tits up
BS absolutely BS see its all got to do with controle know your rights this is are country.
JoRichardsKent A bit too late... I reckon
Should read ' Government fears groups of 7 or more will figure out the lies of the last few months' 😂😂😂
This govt lost any authority when it failed to sack its most senior advisor for such an obvious breach of its last set of rules. That is the very real outcome of the Cummings affair. A country which had by & large followed the rules now thinks 'fuck it'. I fear what comes next
Too fecking late. It’s been like party town round here all day.
Too late. Already happening. Enjoy the second spike everyone. 👍
Like your parents saying u must be home by 10pm as if u couldn't shag at 9pm?
Is that why they told us on Thursday...just before a lovely sunny weekend before we all go back to work...?
Like 2 days would make any difference - crowds on the beaches and in parks would be just as dangerous on Monday as they were today and will be tomorrow.
Why announce it immediately before one of the hottest weekends of the year then?!
Are you crazy? Do you actually know any English people?
The ambiguity in the multiple political u-turns is sickeningly tiresome
Then stop announcing things before time.
The only thing he cared about was getting cummingsgoings off the agenda
Plenty of evidence of gatherings around here today and many are finding the same. lockdown lockdowneasing
Then why did they announce it before the weekend?
Bit late for that
WTF. The horse has bolted already. Didn't you see Matt Hancock's announcement?
It is imperative not to meet before Monday 11:42. Otherwise the government's strategy will not work
Time is never right for Johnson. Vote Johnson get Police State!
Too late for all the people in large groups drinking in the local park. No need to stay 2m apart if it’s sunny and you’re drunk! So much for people using their common sense and following the guidelines.
They are living in a fantasy world if they think this won't happen anyway. Nobody will follow rules that make mo sense.
I see a horse's rear in the distance. Quick - the door!
zzzxx
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yes the virus miraculously becomes less dangerous on Monday.
Don't announce it until it's time then! Don't allow the behaviour of a senior advisor to go unpunished and send the message to the public that the lockdown is unimportant.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Muddy, muddled messages plus Cummings can do what he likes - we can't wonder why people are breaking lockdown.
If you don't trust them, why tell them on Friday?! The government are the bloody idiots
Erm...barn door, horse... Basically, the horse has already done 3 laps of the jumps at Aintree. But that's OK...horse racing is back Monday and it needs the practice!!
I knew people wouldn’t wait ! It was obvious wasn’t it 😡😡
Duh huh? What did they think would happen? BorisJohnsonHasFailedTheNation BorisJohnsonMustGo
It's all OK: they're using their intuition as recommended but ministers and yourselves. sackdominic
Christ. They are so utterly utterly useless.
Lockdown eased days ago amongst mixed messaging, downgrade to Stay Alert and backing rule breaker Cummings. Government has no authority left to instruct people what to do. Schools and shops opening. It's nice weather. Police given up enforcement
BritishCommonSense
Future generations are likely to regard this orchestrated virus panic with a combination of amusement, bewilderment and profound horror. As for Johnson and chums, they will leave behind them the worst legacy of any government in the country's history.
Well done Boris, underestimating public reaction once again.
Too bloody late! My neighbours have been enjoying a bbq with mates, in and out of the house, it’s a disgrace
Are they f&kin real ?
Monday
To late mate no one listens after you change your mind like your socks
You lot at number 10 and your experts have totaly lost the plot. 1 you were far too slow in locking down then we had all the deaths and furlough along with job losses. AND NOW YOUR OPENING UP FAR TOO SOON ITS AS IF YOU WANT A 2ND WAVE OF COVID 19.
Too late. It’s been happening for a week now. If you call the police, they say they cannot take action metpoliceuk
Should Johnson not thought about that before putting Cummings before country?
What a joke. People already are meeting in groups. Why tell them Thursday if Thursday is too early Anyway, people dont care anymore they just do what Dom does. sackcummimgs DominicCummngs OneRuleforConsAnotherforThePeople
Deplorable.
What fucking difference does it make if they meet today instead of 2 days time? Stop releasing to the press . Stop announcing measure up front and this wouldn't happen.
Rubbish
Post Cummings is anyone listening to them ?
Too late, my neighbours having big family gatherings, queues of traffic. Fucking idiots, the government will now blame you all when there’s a spike in deaths.
Does the PM not have a television ? Has he missed the images in the press of packed beaches? Parts of Devon are currently full of tourists - Police turning a blind eye for the last two months it seems. VisitDevon VisitCornwall Looks like everyone’s taken a leaf out of DC’s book
This PM continually smacks of incompetence. It's like halfway down a water slide he's asking us to not go yet
Too late!
What’s happening on Monday that will suddenly make it ok? The virus does not care about our arbitrary rules.
Probably best not to tell people before the weekend. Just a theory! 🤔
So now the warnings are to blame the people for the rise in cases and not Dom breaking the rules and Johnson needed the Dom news to go away - pull the other one
Announcing it just before a weekend of good weather is pretty stupid.
Well if you hadn’t announced it early just to get Cummings of the front page then there would not be this problem. liarJohnson said Cummings did no wrong so how can he expect people to listen now. Conservatives ConHome
Johnson is not a leader
It's hard to tell if the government is monumentally stupid, or if this is what they intended to happen.
Talk about shutting the stable door after you've spoiled the broth...
I can only assume the large groups of young adults celebrating in the sunshine with zero social distancing are not Telegraph readers 🤷♀️
Gotta love the Telegraph taking the high moral ground after their sycophantic governmental arse-kissing shitshow this week Pull the other one chaps
Deja vu
Am I right in believing Scotland and Wales make their announcements on the day the restrictions are being lifted?
Not so clever making the announcement before a hot weekend then. One idiotic decision after another.
Everybody is out today! Big mixed groups. Very little evidence of social distancing. Are they really that stupid that they didn't see this coming? WTF
Way too late Torygraph, your best mate Boris who you speak on behalf of, has already made it perfectly clear that the lockdown rules which previously were working well, no longer apply after he clearly showed that it’s 1 rule for them & another for us serfs.
Can now forget the line about 'being led by the science'! After silencing two at his press conf., BJ also ignored warnings from SAGE members; Profs. Edmunds, Horby, Semple and Sir Jeremy Farrar. But I guess Cummings thought differently and it's his neck that has to be saved!
Our current government really is the most clueless we've ever had - and there's been some bloody stiff opposition!
What a shitshow of a government
Except for viewers in Scotland
Ask yourself though; WWDCD?
Yup. That’s told ‘em! Good job...
Any announcement that shows a picture of the part-time PMINO above it is t going to inspire confidence or trust. It’s up to YOU now. protect yourselves. The government doesn’t care.
Many of the dead people in three weeks time will get their infections today thanks to Johnson’s advice. If it’s safe on Monday [it’s not] then it’s safe today. He claimed R was close to 1 so the number of infections won’t fall in 48hrs.
Don’t care what the government say. With Cummings there I’ll do what I want as that’s the precedent they’ve set.
😂😂😂
how is monday any different from any other day?
If the Government really didn’t think this was going to happen, when they made the announcement on a Thursday before a Summer weekend, and have made this mistake more than once already during lockdown, than they are even more incompentamt and out of touch than I thought.
Bit late now init
Too late, Pandora’s box has been opened. Boris Johnson, the man that screwed a nation.
Any one who still thinks this government knows what they are doing is sadly deluded
Then why announce it on the Thursday before a sunny weekend rather than on the Sunday? Unless it was a double whammy: distract from Cummings and the government gets to blame the public for the severity of the second wave.
What difference will two days make to the danger of parties and gatherings? This is going to be an issue going forward. Perhaps if the government weren't formulating policy around political expediency they wouldn't have to worry about weekend activities.
And what difference is 48 hours going to make anyway? Esp as lots more people will be going to work Monday so this wknd is their last time off
It’s OK in Scotland, our Phase 1 started yesterday ThatsDevolved
'It's not our fault, we only prematurely announced it' 🙄
Well what stupid announcement to make on Thursday.
And what difference 1 day actaly make...erhm you are so deluded!
Yeh right
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Then don't make the announcement on a Thursday FFS! A more cynical person than myself would possibly suggest it's a distraction tactic......
Trying to give Johnson some cover? Mopping up his mess? Here's your Thursday's front page. (PS what happened to your article which you deleted? The one headlined - DCummings broke rules says Durham police' )
What’s the difference between the Elite Party and the working class party? Probably organise a Pimms party at their private ground with the Tories!
Wait until Monday? People haven’t waited until the weekend- I live on the south coast and the roads to the beach were jam packed yesterday! There will be consequences and the public will be blamed for not waiting two days. Lockdown shouldn’t be eased at all yet in my opinion.
My neighbours have their barbecue going already.
Economy over public health, that's always what their priority has been
So why was it announced on Thursday? To try to keep Cummings off the front page
Ah yes, but Monday. Monday is fine. Everything will have totally changed by Monday.
The stupidity of those goverment know no bounds .. there wont be a sausage , burger , bread or a crate of beer or wine 2 b seen in the shops 2day as every1 will be out mingling and aving barbecues and parties just like we have been all week ..
Why announce it. Self preservation rather than public health seems to be the government's main focus.
They lost the moral authority when they didn’t sack Cummings. People will use their own instincts and common sense from now on - the OM said they could.
Why did they not wait to announce it till Sunday then Ah yes - they had to hide a Cummings stain
Should have told us on Monday then 🤷🏻♀️
Too late, numpties. The Cummings effect kicked in full force yesterday. What did you expect from a nation of booze-guzzling hedonists? Restraint?
Then he should have announced it tomorrow!!.
I know scores of people meeting up this weekend. We won't be because we ignore everything this incompetent and useless government of yours has to say.
Just your gentle reminder that we are at a similar (or higher) daily death rate to the one we had 23/3 when we went into lockdown. Sage scientists aren't making the decisions. The govt are. Feel safe?
Big bbq planned for today - Dom is on his way.
Oh do piss off.
Please treat the public with more maturity.
Why Monday? Why not today or Sunday?
Noone will listen to that as they aren’t listening anyway! So many people meeting friends etc in parks with picnics now, DCummings utter fiasco ended lockdown for so many
They’re doing it now Bo so don’t bother.
But at least it keeps Karen quiet...somewhat
So what happens if we go out before the stroke of 1 minute past midnight Monday? Do we turn into pumpkins or something?
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