can’t believe this is happening: crass, insensitive, disproportionate, outrageous
Sadiq Khan has issued statement:
“The scenes from the vigil at Clapham Common tonight are unacceptable.
“The police have a responsibility to enforce Covid laws but from the images I have seen it is clear the response was at times neither appropriate nor proportionate.”
Ed Davey, leader of the Lib Dems, has called for Cressida Dick’s resignation
and Home Secretary @pritipatel has called the scenes “upsetting”
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the moment that Boris Johnson cancelled his 5-day Christmas relaxation of the restrictions:
- now most people are limited to a single Christmas Day with wider family
- 18m people in new toughest Tier 4 (including London) can’t have an Xmas bubble at all and must stay at home
people in “Tier 4” will be ordered to "stay at home" for a fortnight and will be restricted from socialising with more than one person even outdoors, while shops, leisure facilities, gyms and hairdressers will be closed.
Tier 4:
- London
- Kent
- Buckinghamshire
- Berkshire
- Surrey (ex Waverley)
- Gosport, Havant, Portsmouth
- Rother and Hastings
- East of England
- Bedford, Central Bedford, Milton Keynes, Luton, Peterborough
- Hertfordshire
- Essex (ex Colchester, Uttlesford and Tendring)
I know everyone is distracted by the USA but Rishi Sunak extending the entire 80% furlough to the spring is a huge U-turn - even by the standards of this, the *government of the U-turns* - and a reminder of the grim winter prognosis
here’s the @ft story - it’s hard to think of an economic statement that has been as comprehensively ripped to shreds as Sunak’s September “winter economy plan”
- first (September announcement) it was 22% state support for furloughed jobs
- then they added 67% for furloughed staff in Tier 3
- then (late October) overall scheme became 62% of hours not worked
- then it was 80% for 1-month November lockdown
- now it’s 80% for six months