Shutting non essential shops which are on the street and could limit customers to no more than 3 at a time are by closing going to suffer significant loss of sales, unwanted stock etc Is this necessary?
Customers who wanted to buy are going to be upset and only be left with Amazon etc as a solution
Imagine if you have not yet purchased wrapping paper or a card for your loved one or worse no present for your partner
Already aware of distressed parents where children’s gifts (Father Christmas etc) been sent to parents house for safe keeping/to avoid prying eyes on car trip to Grandparents
No easy solutions but knee jerk late decisions cause upset - we need honesty and transparency in September

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20 Dec
Tonight has encapsulated my opinion - a Minister/SPAD or Downing Street Comms person thought that calling it “mutant Covid-19” would nullify the criticism of inadequate planning and for killing Christmas
But as always the Ministerial team had not thought past the headlines in UK papers the next day
I guess they forget that the rest of the world can read English and fear that UK really has mutant #Covid19UK - with resulting devastation to their countries
Read 13 tweets
20 Dec
By having a journalist as PM & Cabinet made up of former journalists/PR and SPADs you have a Government for whom words don’t mean deeply help convictions but rather words without consequence They think you can always write something different tomorrow (Boris 2 articles at a time)
As someone said to me this morning the issue with Johnson’s Conservatives is that “they will always give false hope if it avoids a difficult message on trade offs at the time In the end the false hope kills all trust in the team but who cares Telegraph/Mail headlines positive
The above is Boris and Christmas - he over promised in September, November and December. I spent one day in Tier 3 - that in itself should make PM and most in Cabinet fall on sword of incompetence
Read 6 tweets
30 Aug
Work from home debate & #Covid19UK - I am so bemused as you why things have become so emotional/illogical
Under @beisgovuk guidance that offices must comply with 2m social distancing most offices have 30-50% of occupancy they had in February 2020
Hence 50-70% of office workers need to work at home each day until social distancing abolished by Government
Read 25 tweets
27 Aug
@CamillaTominey @FraserNelson @gordonrayner @charleshymas Not sure if you are aware but @beisgovuk guidance requires offices to apply 2m social distancing to be #Covid19UK secure (legal requirement). Offices cannot apply just 1 m social distancing
2m social distancing means that half the desks are unavailable hence maximum capacity becomes 50% in ac well designed open plan space of that available on 28th February 2020. In old badly designed buildings like you have in Whitehall you lose 70% of desk capacity
Lift capacity is also a barrier as the maximum capacity under #Covid19UK rules is 4 people in a lift at a time and lifts would readily have had 12-15 in them at peak times pre lockdown Hence very long queues at 2m if no staggered arrivals Exits cannot be delayed as all desks
Read 16 tweets
17 Aug
Now that Williamson/Gibb have done what they should have done pre announcement of A level results I thought I would write down the basic data questions any senior corporate manager would have asked in mid July when still masses of time to tweak things (ie not use the algorithm or
the Algorithm plus compensating procedures to remove anomalies which will cause justified emotion). Once the answers are received the solution is identified based on where you know emotion will naturally arise
How many students will be awarded a grade lower than their CAG. For how many students is this for all 3 or 4 A levels, how many for 2 and how many for just 1 subject
Read 19 tweets
5 Aug
@beisgovuk #COVID19 secure workplace guidance is excellent for which @AlokSharma_RDG should be so proud BUT
It seems Ministers in other departments who are complaining to journalists like @MrHarryCole @johnestevens @shjfrench about working from home have not read the guidance cc @dsmitheconomics @csgmoore @jburnmurdoch
Offices are required to apply 2m social distancing as there is no track and trace responsibility
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