PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat

[Steel Icarus]

This was 2020. Non essential travel was banned even before Lockdown One.

I'm genuinely confused. Are you being satirical?

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm genuinely confused. Are you being satirical?

No.

 

[teuchter]

All the guidance I can get hold of says there are no restrictions on people meeting outdoors, on exercise, social distancing, travel within the UK...whether or not that's sensible isn't what I'm talking about

We are talking about spring 2020.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm genuinely confused. Are you being satirical?

There may be a time-lag problem going on. I’m reminding people of how the cops were carrying on in 2020 at the time of the Downing Street garden party, and what “we’re all in this together” meant for everyone else at that time.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Helps if you read the date of the tweet, Steely you knob

 

[Steel Icarus]

There may be a time-lag problem going on. I’m reminding people of how the cops were carrying on in 2020 at the time of the Downing Street garden party, and what “we’re all in this together” meant for everyone else at that time.

Time lag and brain fail

 

[existentialist]

Helps if you read the date of the tweet, Steely you knob

Easy mistake to make. I was a bit WTF , until I realised it was a historical reference

 

[two sheds]

Had me confused too until I went searching for a date.

 

[Teaboy]

In London last Christmas the cops were at train stations stopping people travelling out of the city / home. My mate is a manager at a local pub and he had to put up several of his staff as they were turned away at the station.

Travel has been banned on several occasions.

 

[Supine]

Travel has been banned on several occasions.

I must have missed that, and i traveled every week!

 

[Teaboy]

I must have missed that, and i traveled every week!

Blood on your hands etc.

 

[Supine]

Blood on your hands etc.

Pretty sure i managed to avoid knocking anyone over

 

[teuchter]

Actually travel was effectively only really banned for public transport users, whilst car owners continued to do what they wanted.

 

[teqniq]

Actually travel was effectively only really banned for public transport users, whilst car owners continued to do what they wanted.

Not entirely true at least in Wales. In the early weeks of the lockdown there was a very noticeable reduction in traffic. The OB were at one point stopping drivers on the A470 going into Cardiff to ask purpose of travel. I was stopped and showed my ID (support worker) and was allowed to carry on no problem. I drove to Aberystwyth a couple of times and saw very little traffic indeed.

 

[brogdale]

Actually travel was effectively only really banned for public transport users, whilst car owners continued to do what they wanted.

In England?

 

[teuchter]

In England?

Yes.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Actually travel was effectively only really banned for public transport users, whilst car owners continued to do what they wanted.

Drug driver did 122mph after lockdown haircut in Wales

Man stopped by police after having a haircut in Wales also handed a fine for drug-driving

www.walesonline.co.uk

Man drove through Somerset on 200 mile lockdown trip to buy Doritos

He was later fined for breaching Covid rules

www.somersetlive.co.uk

Essex couple fined for driving from Essex to Kent to buy a toy car

They were both fined £200

www.essexlive.news

Motorist caught 'just out for a drive' breaching covid rules

He told stunned officers he was just taking his girlfriend for a spin in his motor

www.staffordshire-live.co.uk

I'm also trying to find the cunt who got pulled over for a hundred mile trip to pickup dog food but google isn't bringing it up.

 

[Calamity1971]

An uplifting interlude.

 

[flypanam]

Actually travel was effectively only really banned for public transport users, whilst car owners continued to do what they wanted.

Rubbish, traffic fell noticeably in the early days of the lockdown. I remember the roads of Crystal Palace been really empty and it was a joy to go for a walk.

 

[agricola]

Rubbish, traffic fell noticeably in the early days of the lockdown. I remember the roads of Crystal Palace been really empty and it was a joy to go for a walk.

Central London was fantastic to walk around throughout that time too, and the air was so much clearer.

 

[teuchter]

I said car owners continued to do what they wanted. For many of them that meant not going anywhere especially at the beginning, when we enjoyed perhaps 2 or 3 weeks of unusually empty roads.

There may have been a scattering of fines and police stops in the early days.

However, as time went on it was increasingly the case that those with cars were feeling free to drive around for leisure purposes while there was quite strong messaging that we shouldn't be doing this on public transport.

 

[splonkydoo]

did that other cunt put out his new 'blog' yet?

 

[stdP]

Not entirely true at least in Wales. In the early weeks of the lockdown there was a very noticeable reduction in traffic. The OB were at one point stopping drivers on the A470 going into Cardiff to ask purpose of travel. I was stopped and showed my ID (support worker) and was allowed to carry on no problem. I drove to Aberystwyth a couple of times and saw very little traffic indeed.

Wales also had the border thing as well; by nature of their commute and geography, a friend of the family crossed the england/wales border twice on their way to work (medical oxygen QA, so thoroughly in the "essential worker" category) and was stopped multiple times both for travelling and at the border crossing.

Rubbish, traffic fell noticeably in the early days of the lockdown. I remember the roads of Crystal Palace been really empty and it was a joy to go for a walk.

The roads were certainly much emptier than usual at first but there was also an unhealthy contingent of absolute wankers who saw that as carte blanche to go as as fast as possible. I nearly got flattened when some pillock overtook a bus at a bus stop without looking to see if there was anyone occupying the opposite lane.

 

[teuchter]

As it happens I went on a walk around crystal palace during that quiet time and this was one of the scenes along the way

Speeding and general dangerous driving in and around Brixton

This is now up: About Brixton Liveable Neighbourhood Should probably have its own thread. In fact let me do that now.

www.urban75.net

 

[hash tag]

This was one of the more memorable breach's of travel rules. Fined as well. Covid: Women fined for going for a walk receive police apology

 

[stdP]

As it happens I went on a walk around crystal palace during that quiet time and this was one of the scenes asking the way

Speeding and general dangerous driving in and around Brixton

This is now up: About Brixton Liveable Neighbourhood Should probably have its own thread. In fact let me do that now.

www.urban75.net

Yowzer, I managed to miss that when it happened (think I would have still been in the office at the time), was that the cause of all the building work that blocked the road there? Looked like it took out a fair chunk of the bricks.

P.S. Just in case people are forgetting, I'd like to remind everyone in the last few pages that Boris Johnson is still a monster twat. A bellend of utterly gargantuan proportions. A mutated speck of smegma that, through gorging on misery, pain and stupidity has somehow grown to near-sentience.

 

[hash tag]

This had to be worthy of a mention Alan Bennett dedicates Kipling poem A Dead Statesman to Boris Johnson

 

[two sheds]

Getting Covid booster follows ‘teaching of Jesus Christ’, says Boris Johnson

PM urges public to take up jab in Christmas message that echoes archbishop saying vaccination is ‘how we love our neighbour’

www.theguardian.com

not sure sleeping with someone else when your wife has cancer is following 'teaching of Jesus Christ', nor bearing false witness for most of his adult life. Perhaps he should go, give all he has to the poor and generally fuck off, hypocritical preachy git.

 

[Serge Forward]

Yeah, but let he who is without sin cast the first... STONE HIM!!!!!!11!!

 

[Lord Camomile]

People really, really, really hate making the sacrifices that everybody has been ordered to make, and then finding out others didn't make them . It taps right in to toddler-level emotion of "IT'S NOT FAAAAAAAAIR".

And then you have this situation, in which the sacrifice being made was really very serious -- not seeing your own dying relatives.

And then you have them laughing about it.

And as for the idea that "most people" weren't obeying -- I'd say that's bollocks. Most people have always gone alone with what they have been told to do. Sure, there is always a minority that don't, but don't let their visibility fool you into thinking that's anything but a minority. One of the things that's taken me by surprise in each lockdown is just how laser-focused almost everybody seems to be on the exact letter of the law for each and every rule.

Aye, pretty much this.

All the other stuff - the NHS, the Policing bill, welfare, etc - is either too complicated, too boring, too easy to blame some mythical bogeyman, or simply too "well, I'm alright, Jack".

But something like this, almost everyone has direct experience of the sacrifices, whether that's something truly painful such as loved ones dying, or simply not being able to do "what I want, when I want", and missing out on mates, and parties and good times (which I'm generally ok with but other people really seem to feel hard).

So to then see the people who told us to make all those small and large sacrifices not making them themselves, the reaction is just very instinctual and visceral.

Plus, hypocrisy specifically really seems to infuriate people to a very high degree. Whenever they decide they actually see it, of course...