STOP THE SPREAD

Skills minister Gillian Keegan told BBC Question Time that the tremendous rise in cases is profound and that they have to do something.

It came as scientists on the Government’s SAGE committee of experts called for more strict measures to tackle the spread of the virus across Britain and now ministers are increasingly concerned about the impact on hospitals as admissions grow along with deaths.

Gillian Keegan said that it was serious and that it was getting out of control and that they had to do something to bring it back under control, while Boris Johnson weighs over new measures for the North of England, with municipalities including Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle expected to see pubs closed from next week.

However, there appears to be a tremendous divide across the country with locations in the South not seeing the same increases like places further North and MPs have been shown data which claimed up to 30 per cent of coronavirus exposure was in hospitality.

But Public Health England data reveals it’s only accountable for a handful of outbreaks across the country, but experts have said, however, that even closing hospitality outlets and jeopardising more jobs might not be enough to restrain the virus.

Speaking anonymously, some SAGE experts told a news outlet that a circuit breaker style intervention of the type being imposed in Scotland should have been legislated in England two or three weeks ago when such a move was discussed with ministers.

Sir Jeremy Farrar has called for prompt action to sidestep spiralling out of control and he said that they were near to or at events and choices of 13-23 March and he continued that with the lag time between deciding, it’s execution and its effect measured in weeks, the longer the decisions are deferred, the harder and more draconian are the interventions needed to alter the trajectory of the epidemic curve, and he said that we shouldn’t act slower than the speed of the epidemic and that we shouldn’t get behind an epidemic curve.

Professor John Edmunds, another SAGE member, said coronavirus was holding a gun to Boris Johnson’s head.

Some are insisting the Prime Minister go for more stringent measures to get a grip on cases again.

No announcement has yet been made on more local lockdown measures, but leaders are enraged they haven’t yet been told what’s going on.

The Prime Minister is expected to announce a new tiers system next week which will divide the country into different lockdown measures depending on the infection rate.

Universities were reopened and now there are hundreds of cases and it would help if all the so-called professionals and scientists could coordinate with each other – herd immunity should have been done from the beginning.

Locking down a workforce would make this country’s economy extremely vulnerable and it would have also made tons of people redundant and unemployable, so effectively our Government would have been locking people down to rot, including the elderly and vulnerable.

The British Government is out of control as the virus has been proven to be beaten by herd immunity, but our Government don’t want to hear it.

The problem is, that no one knows what to believe anymore. They say one thing and then say something different and our magnificent Government has spent £12 billion on Deloitte and Serco and it’s still a catastrophe and it’s time we held our Government to account.

One minute numbers are going down, but still high. Next minute London doesn’t have coronavirus, just the North and now it’s getting out of control. However, the media should stop putting fear into the sheep, it’s just not helping.

If we go into a full lockdown again, businesses are going to fail and people are going to lose their jobs. However, MPs are getting pay increases working from home, and we’re not being told the truth.

The Government should have closed airports and ports from day one and then when the lockdown was over, people were going on holiday and that was a big problem.

Or is it that they’re using the flu season to rake in the numbers? Or is it because this virus is clever and knows that it needs to infect only people in the North?

And evidently, it only attacks over six people, nor does it contaminate people at work or school and never at demonstrations, which makes us a wee bit thick, don’t you think? Come on you people out there, wakey, wakey.

Final Hours Of 39 Migrants Recorded In Anguished Phone Calls

Jurors heard that a dying victim made a tragic recording for his family saying that he was sorry and that he couldn’t take care of them. That he couldn’t breathe and to have a good life.

A trial at the Old Bailey heard gruelling details of the last hours of the lives of 39 migrants who perished inside a lorry container in October last year.

Irish truck driver Eammon Harrison, 23, and British Romanian Gheorghe Nica, 43, are indicted of the slaying of the non-EU citizens who were discovered dead in a trailer near Grays, Essex – they both deny the 39 counts of manslaughter.

The audio message was made by Nguyen Tho Tuan, 25, for his wife, children and mother at 7.37 pm after the phone signal in the trailer cut out.

It was told that the painful tapes made by the Vietnamese nationals in their last moments alive were played to the court as they tried in vain to call for help from the outside world, but their bodies weren’t found until the next morning.

Shortly before 7 pm on October 22, a call was made to 113, which jurors were told was important because in Vietnam that’s the equivalent of 999.

Pham Thi Tra My took photographs of herself as she endeavoured to make three calls only minutes apart. None of those calls were successful.

Jurors were told that the temperature inside the container had jumped to 35C by 6.25 pm and the court was shown pictures taken by 25-year-old Pham Thi Tra May after the heat started to reach the excruciating highs.

The court heard that by 6.59 pm, another victim had endeavoured to call emergency services and the prosecutor said that the air in the trailer would have become tainted after around nine hours of confinement and that the migrants would have begun to die shortly after, at around 10 to 10.30 pm.

Cellsite data from the victim’s phone positioned them in different places around Brussels and Paris the day before they died, indicating they transited northbound to the Belgian border.

The jurors heard that Harrison then arranged to meet the migrants at Chemin Noord Straete, France, where they arrived in taxis and concealed themselves in an agricultural shed until he collected them.

It was said that passerby Laetitia Mockelyn witnessed the rendezvous and saw the Vietnamese nationals head into their temporary refuge before leaping back into the back of a lorry shortly after.

And it’s an extremely difficult thing to consider, regarding those people in sheer hysteria and dread, knowing their lives were coming to an end, locked in there and looking at others dying around them and they must have been poorly treated in their own country to jeopardise their lives to get here and I feel for them and their families to die like this, they were very desperate.

All lives matter regardless of the circumstances and these people were desperate and remember that before you judge because we have no idea what we would do put in that position and it would be lovely to see some compassion and empathy for the demise of a fellow human being.

We should all be showing some humanity and hope that everyone’s families don’t have to be put in a similarly horrific situation.

Often these victims are trafficked through threats of death, or threats to kill their families and if this is the case then we need to condemn the traffickers, but please don’t reprimand the victims and I do shake my head because there is so much ignorance around.

Audience Blasts Boris Johnson Critics

Fiona Bruce, the host of Question Time, spoke to a virtual audience from Coventry along with a delegation of politicians and professionals.

On the panel was Gillian Keegan MP, Andy Burnham, Dame Donna Kinnair, Yanis Varoufakis and Michael Portillo.

The BBC’s weekly debate show saw an audience member praise the Prime Minister for dealing with the pandemic amid mass public scrutiny.

It follows recent YouGov polling showing Boris Johnson lose his head over Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer over the public’s dislike of his handling of the pandemic.

Paul Somerfield, from Coventry, was asked by Fiona Bruce to give his views on the coronavirus pandemic, where he made a call for unity between political parties.

He stated that we really must unite and that we must stop Boris bashing and he added that there’s been no other Prime Minister who’s governed during such horrendous times in our peacetime.

And he continued that now was the time for the United Kingdom to all unite and get behind him and adhere to the rules and regulations because there’s no immediate fix.

Andy Burnham criticised the Government, saying that it did feel increasingly to people that they were being treated with hatred in the North of England and he went on to say that the Government needs to help enterprises with a full furlough scheme if localised lockdowns persist.

Audience member Jaspal responded to the comments and said of the UK Government’s response to the pandemic that because it’s unprecedented and that why couldn’t we take unprecedented actions? And then why couldn’t we say take all the politics out of this because it always felt like a bit of a slanging match.

The audience’s comments were also in answer to a conflict between Andy Burham and Gillian Keegan MP, minister for apprenticeships and skills.

The Manchester mayor asked whether the Government was doing all it could to protect job losses and hardship from the pandemic in the North of England, which enraged Gillian Keegan.

Boris Johnson himself has thrashed Labour for not getting behind the Government during the pandemic, but Sir Keir Starmer has frequently asserted he’s supported the Government’s restrictions to manage the pandemic.

Early in September, the Labour leader offered cross-party backing for any genuine national plan to protect from job losses and during this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir Starmer blasted Boris Johnson for intergalactic incompetence for not publicising the scientific basis for his 10 pm curfew on pubs and restaurants, and may not support the measure when it heads to the Commons this week.

Unfortunately, the Conservatives will never get any better and Boris Johnson’s a second rate loser who can’t even hold down a job in the real world. Honestly, would you give him a job? I definitely wouldn’t.

Perhaps if he would answer a simple question when put to him, but he can’t seem to do that, instead he pitches a tantrum like some small child and some would say he’s doing a competent job in extremely challenging circumstances and other people probably wouldn’t be able to it, but they’re quick to criticise.

Of course, it’s not that hard to do a better job than Boris Johnson and he’s in the top ten worst of my leaders in the whole world when it comes to the coronavirus and he might appear to have done a brilliant job with the worst infection rate in Europe, but he’s spent weeks dithering and doddering and none of the rules makes any sense.

‘Let’s go, Joe!’ Donald Trump Challenges Joe Biden To In-Person Debate

President Donald Trump has challenged Joe Biden to an in-person debate, after the independent commission that organises the debates moved next weeks event online out of health concerns.

Donald Trump has declined to partake in the October 15 debate if it’s conducted virtually, but on Thursday night he told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the two campaigns should organise their own in-person contest.

Donald Trump said when questioned if he would issue such a challenge that he would do it right now through the show.

He added, referring to the conservative commentators. Let’s go, Joe. Let’s get a fair anchor, somebody like the great Sean Hannity. We’ll get Rush (Limbaugh). We’ll get Mark (Levin).

He said that they’ll get Judge Jeanine (Piro). That they have a lot of them out there.

He continued that they would get Jesse (Watters) or Pete (Hegseth).

Donald Trump said, going on to grumble at length about audio issues during one of the 2016 presidential debates and that the debate commission was a joke.

Donald Trump whined that they were oscillating his mic, that they were turning it up and down while he was talking to Hillary.

He also grumbled that the moderator for next weeks debate was a ‘Never Trumper’ who ‘even worked for Joe Biden at some point’.

C-SPAN anchor Steve Scully, who’s scheduled to moderate the second presidential debate, interned for Joe Biden, then a US senator, when he was a student in the 1970s.

Donald Trump flatly repudiated the idea of partaking in a virtual debate and he said that he was not interested in a doing a – I’m not Joe Biden and that he wasn’t doing a virtual debate to sit behind a computer screen.

Donald Trump claimed about Joe Biden that he does news conferences where they give him the answer and give him the question.

Donald Trump continued that he was choking like a dog the other night, but that Chris Wallace bailed him in and Donald Trump added that it was a disgrace what’s going on.

It came shortly after White House Physician Dr Sean Conley released Donald Trump’s vital signs for the first time since he became infected, showing a pulse, blood pressure, and blood oxygen levels all within normal ranges.

Undoubtedly, Donald Trump is not being responsible or lucid, but then he feels on top of the world right now because he’s had medications that aren’t presently available to anyone else, but is he making sure all his infected staff are getting the same access? And Joe Biden should undoubtedly stay away from this crazy and if Donald Trump wants a debate, then he needs to agree to the virtual debate.

They should hold it on the White House lawn, then maybe we can watch one of the aggressive out of control raccoons shuffle around his head and he really does not to shut up for once because, in the end, he will probably agree to a virtual debate because he needs it more than Joe Biden.

And Donald Trump is such a toddler and everything has to be his way. How exhausting that must be for the people that work around him – the White House must be covered in eggshells and right now, it would be better for everyone to remain clear of Donald Trump, he’s like a bomb called COVID 19, trying to blow up everyone that comes into contact with him.

Donald Trump Sows Confusion On Stimulus Talks With Democrats

Donald Trump sowed confusion over stimulus talks on Tuesday, breaking off negotiations with congressional Democrats on a new US aid package before switching course and attempting to draw lawmakers back into discussions.

The US president’s mixed messages, delivered in a flurry of tweets, came a day after he returned to the White House following three days in the hospital where he was treated for coronavirus.

Donald Trump had triggered a sell off in US equity markets on Tuesday afternoon when he called for an end to negotiations on additional stimulus until after the November 3 presidential election.

The move will leave many American households and industries, from restaurants to airlines and hotels, facing further financial distress in the coming weeks and Jay Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve and economists has warned that the lack of government support could endanger America’s retrieval from the pandemic – a wide array of business groups have also baulked at the President’s move.

But on Tuesday evening, Donald Trump appeared to have backtracked from totally ditching negotiations and the President made separate requests for lawmakers to approve further funding for airlines to stop thousands of job cuts, more support to small businesses and direct government payments worth up to $1,200 for most people.

He wrote in one tweet, ‘If I am sent a Stand Alone bill for Stimulus Checks ($1,200), they will go out to our great people immediately. I am ready to sign right now. Are you listening, Nancy? (referring to Nancy Pelosi), the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The S&P 500 index closed down 1.4 per cent on Tuesday, having earlier traded higher and Treasury bonds yields fell as investors sought the relative safety of government debt.

Equity markets in Asia regained some footing following Donald Trump’s turnaround. Japan’s Topix was down 0.1 per cent on Wednesday afternoon and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index added 0.6 per cent.

Nancy Pelosi and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, have endeavoured to restrict differences on a more overall package but failed to come to an agreement.

Democrats have been pushing for £2.2 trillion in new spending, whereas the Trump administration has been willing to go up to $1.6 trillion, with numerous Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill saying even that was outrageous.

Donald Trump called on Republicans to walk out of negotiations after a call with senior administration officials and Republican members of Congress to discuss talks and the President said the biggest sticking point in the negotiations was the Democratic demand for aid to cash strapped state and local governments, without which they will have to force through aggressive budget cuts.

Remember the years of the really Republican administration? Like Ronald Reagan, Bush, and the USA was the beacon of leadership and democracy – not anymore and not for many years in the future.

It’s called holding a country hostage and bullying it into voting for Donald Trump again – ransom money, how very presidential, but eventually, the Tangerine Tragedy will put the final nail in his own coffin and there are many people out there that truly hope it happens.

Donald Trump puts his country first – but only after himself of course. Along with extortion, blackmail and he’s getting away with all sorts of criminality, all for his ego and this is a nice piece of leveraged extortion for public legislation during a national calamity befitting a NYC landlord and a Reality Show Host.

Donald Trump is trying to bully people into voting for him and withholding resources to those that need them most and will probably have paid more taxes than he has in the last 15 years.

Killer in Canada Who Dismembered Rich Relative Gets 10-Year Sentence

It was a peaceful Saturday in 2015 in one of Vancouver’s most affluent enclaves when a Chinese immigrant told police he snapped. He shot dead his bullying, philandering relative outside the victims $6 million hillside mansion, then he chopped the body into 108 pieces.

Judge Terence Schultes of the Supreme Court of British Columbia sentenced Zhao Li, now 60, to ten years and six months in jail after his conviction for manslaughter and interfering with human remains.

In January, the judge shocked Canadian legal professionals when he ruled that Zhao Li was not culpable of murder.

Under Canadian law, he could have been condemned to life in jail for manslaughter.

Zhao Li had been in custody for more than five years after killing Yuan Gang, his business associate and a family member.

The judge said, with each day in custody counting as 1.5 days towards his sentence, Zhao Li had two years, four months and eight days left to serve.

Chris Johnson, a lawyer who represented the estate of Yuang Gang, called the lurid case, which generated headlines in Canada and China, a cautionary tale about retribution and the corruptibility of money.

He said that the crimes were extremely startling to Canadians because of the bold nature of the offence, in broad daylight in one of Vancouver’s most affluent areas and that the method of the killing was brutal.

Justice Schultes noted the violence of the crime and observed that the dismemberment of the body was undoubtedly bizarre, adding that its clinical coldness and dispassion were extremely morally culpable.

He said his ruling was predicted on Zhao Li’s not having a criminal record and the guilt he’d shown.

When announcing the verdict in January, the judge said that while the crime was gruesome, he’d been left with reasonable doubt over whether Zhao Li planned to kill Yuan Gang. Intent to kill is the prerequisite for a murder verdict in Canada.

The trial, which took place in front of a judge rather than a jury, as agreed to by both the defence and the prosecution, shined a spotlight on how Vancouver has become host to wealthy foreigners, who use it as a sanctuary for cash and kin.

In the case of Yuan Li, he’d been entangled in a corruption scandal in China before acquiring permanent residency in Canada.

The case presented two opposing narratives. In the first, Zhao Li, whose wife was Yuan Gang’s cousin, was described by the defence as an unassuming and law-abiding man who exploded when Yuan Gang asked to marry his daughter.

But prosecutors described Zhao Li as a venomous and violent aggressor.

He cut up the body with an electric hand saw and hid the right arm in a meat freezer in the garage at the mansion.

You can bet your bottom dollar that if this man had been poor, his sentence would have been more hefty – justice might be blind, but it can definitely smell money a mile off and the sentence was extremely light for such a horrific crime.

Donald Trump May Be Prematurely Declaring Victory Over The Coronavirus

As is usually the case with new coronavirus infections, it’s not apparent when President Trump first contracted the virus or from whom and because of the uncertain starting point that typically accompanies a confirmed case, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention uses either a positive test or the first manifestation of symptoms of COVID 19, the disease caused by the virus, as a starting point for tracking the disease’s progression.

For Donald Trump, that starting point would then be either Wednesday or Thursday of last week and it was reported that he was feeling tired during his events in Minnesota on the former day, and a test that came back positive was administered on the latter.

This means that, despite the insistences from Donald Trump’s team that he was ready to leave the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre after having been admitted there Friday, he’s on the cusp of a dangerous period in his illness and that clinicians should be aware of the potential for some patients to rapidly deteriorate one week after illness onset.

Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s team kept saying that the next 48 hours were critical, but the CDC’s assessment indicates that the next few days are, too and the earliest manifestation to commonly occur in patients with more complex cases of COVID 19 is laboured breathing, something Donald Trump’s medical team said he hadn’t experienced.

The median period in which that kicks in is five to eight days after onset or right about now.

The onset of acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, usually happens approximately eight to 12 days after onset, with admission to intensive care happening a median of 10 to 12 days after a positive test or symptoms.

Donald Trump, of course, was already in the hospital and the median length of hospital stay is 10 to 13 days, although it’s unusual for patients to be proactively admitted to the hospital before they show extreme symptoms.

The CDC data suggest that just over a quarter of COVID 19 patients end up in the hospital and the chances that those people contract ARDS is higher than among patients overall, though that probability is still lower than the frequency of ARDS among those admitted to intensive care.

And there’s a lot of uncertainty about Donald Trump’s diagnosis beyond just the point at which it was first detected or manifested.

We don’t know, for example, how severe his condition was on Friday, prompting the trip to Walter Reed but his team were keen to suggest that the move was merely precautionary and, that more recently, that hospitalisation was no longer necessary.

Perhaps Donald Trump’s medical treatment should have been suspended, then we can let his followers heal him with their magical thoughts and prayers and if he’s really the chosen one, then he won’t need steroids and a cocktail of antiviral drugs – he’s heaven-sent, he’ll be fine.

And it’s amusing that his followers were praying for him, but science and socialised medicine will treat and save him, and then they will give the magic sky daddy all the glory, but I doubt he’s saved, and footage of him unmasking himself like a dictator when he got back to the White House showed him having trouble breathing.

Frankly, I do expect him to drop dead if he keeps this charade up, but I hope that he doesn’t, but we now know that Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID 19 earlier than he acknowledges and just went about his business, with absolutely no safeguards, contaminating people everywhere – remember he’s not the victim – he’s the drunk driver.

Bill To Prohibit Marriage For Under-18s In England And Wales

Parliament will be told today that the UK is undermining its international steps to terminate child marriage because an exception to the law in England and Wales that permits 16 and 17-year-olds to marry with parental consent is putting children at risk.

Pauline Latham MP will ask the House to back a bill illegalising child marriage and civil partnerships before the age of 18.

She will argue that existing legislation has been at odds with the legal requirement since 2013 and for young people to stay in education or training until then and she told a news outlet that prohibiting marriage with parental consent would protect young people from being forced into early marriage, after being groomed or because they lack the will or ability to report a coerced marriage.

Official figures of those marrying at 16 and 17 in England and Wales have dropped steadily over the years, with 43 teenage boys and 140 teenage girls marrying with parental consent in 2017.

Scottish law permits marriage from the age of 16 without parental consent, but the numbers are low, with only 18 16-19-year-olds marrying in 2019. However, the documented data doesn’t reflect the number of children who marry in religious and customary ceremonies.

Latham said that while these marriages are not recognised under British law, they can be just as damaging, or even more so for the young person concerned and recent data revealed by a news outlet showed that there were 2,377 contacts made about child marriage in the UK’s national forced marriage helpline in the two and a half year period to this September.

Sarah Champion is among 11 MPs co-sponsoring the bill and she told a news outlet that child marriage was a form of child abuse and that they were talking about a person living with someone that was potentially a total stranger, ending their schooling early.

And that even if there was just one child going through this she would still be campaigning to close that loophole, and that it made them look like hypocrites internationally – that they’re proud of their campaign to end child marriage abroad, but we allow it in our own country.

Latham said children who marry under the age of 18 are more likely to withdraw from education and are at increased risk of mental health issues, teenage pregnancy and domestic abuse.

The Conservative MP for Mid Derbyshire said that with the Government pledging £39 million in 2015 to end child marriage globally, the current domestic situation compromises Britain’s integrity abroad.

They should also indict anyone who brings an underage bride into the United Kingdom because in the past we have let older men bring brides into the United Kingdom despite them being under 16 years of age.

Of course, an 18-year-old minimum age limit won’t prevent a forced marriage, but maybe if the parents who encouraged these forced marriages were prosecuted and put on the sex offenders register it may serve as a deterrent.

If you’re too young to drink a beer and to vote, then you’re definitely too young to get married.

Of course, there are plenty of people that got married as childhood sweethearts at 16 and 17 and remained married, and their parents gave them consent, but giving consent to forced marriage is not always a good thing.

At the end of the day, a marriage is a contract, signed by two people and any person entering into a contract of any kind should be over the age of 18 and there should be no exceptions to the rule and marriage should indeed be one of them. Women and children are not property and there should be laws to protect them.

Voters Rate Sir Keir Starmer Ahead Of Boris Johnson On Competence

Polling has indicated that voters most generally think of Boris Johnson as inept and out of his depth while they believe Sir Keir Starmer principled and realistic.

A survey by Lord Ashcroft, the pollster and Tory peer, indicated that the Prime Minister was most frequently associated with adverse characteristics, while the Labour leader was typically well thought of.

However, Boris Johnson appears to be inept and a liar of epic proportion and seems incapable of leading this country or the Conservative party and no doubt they have another one in mind already.

Boris Johnson is a toe-curling embarrassment who whines about his lack of money, his lack of a nanny, his persistent tiredness and chronic obesity and the best thing he’s a contender for is the Celebrity Fit Club – a plump, sallow, drab, dismal, clammy celebrity in need of an image change and injection of money.

The two main parties have treated politics as a game for the last decade and Boris Johnson is just the end result and his job in a pandemic is to help the country through it, not sit back and say after the event that they should have done this or that and it seems that he’s all mouth and no trousers.

Of course, Sir Keir Starmer isn’t in power, yet, or had to govern, he’s supposed to put forward any ideas on what, when, where and with whom and why he would do things differently, but he hasn’t done anything really, apart from nitpicking.

There are a lot of people who voted for Boris Johnson and thought he would be better, but are now simply wondering what exactly he’s waiting for – he needs to take some action, but it’s not just our Prime Minister that appears to be inept, it’s his team that is inept as well.

Sir Keir Starmer appears to be capable, but it’s the team that matters long term and if they’re idiots then this can make or break a Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson Promises Social Distancing Will End Within A Year

In a brave address to the Tory faithful in a virtual party conference, Boris Johnson said his Government were working for the day life is back to normal, and that the country must use the huge opportunities now to push through change.

The Prime Minister pledged to build back better and make Britain the most amazing place on earth, with a goal to look beyond coronavirus with a raft of new policies to concentrate on in the years to come.

The Prime Minister announced new details of his plans for banks to offer higher mortgages to get people on the housing ladder, and for more one to one teaching for students in the future.

And he peppered his address with jibes at the opposition with their million-pound homes in north London, and left human rights lawyers he insisted that he wouldn’t just expand the size of the state on and on.

He said that the coronavirus was not going to hold us back, slow us down and that we were definitely not going to let it get us down, even in the darkest moments, and he admitted that he’d had enough of this disease.

And he vowed that next time the party meets at the conference, it will be in person.

He promised that they would meet face to face and cheek by jowl and that they were working for the day when life will be back to normal.

He previously said that the constraints would last for up to at least the next six months, saying things would be bumpy up to Christmas and beyond.

The Prime Minister insisted the Government was working night and day to repel the virus and that they would succeed.

Boris Johnson also blasted claims that he wasn’t completely recovered from COVID as self-evident nonsense and propaganda, and he also hinted he wanted to improve social care with an insurance system, citing Winston Churchill’s words of ‘bringing the magic of averages to the rescue of millions’.

And he defended his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying he was propelled into erosions of liberty that they sincerely regret.

The Prime Minister said there was no reasonable choice to his knockdown policies, but acknowledged they were an erosion of liberties that the Government didn’t want to do.

The Prime Minister said the UK economy went into the pandemic with chronic underlying problems which he promised to address and he emphasised that far too many people across the country felt neglected and left out and that the Government was not on their side.

It appears that Boris Johnson has taken lessons in fortune-telling. How can he conceivably know when social distancing will end? Does he know when the virus is going to vanish, or is he having another dip into that crystal ball of his?

Guidance will have changed a thousand times before the end of the year, let alone in a years time.

Boris Johnson seems to sound extremely clear when he says a year. Is he banking that the vaccine will be available by then?

There will be lots of people that won’t want to have the vaccine, which means they could lose their jobs, will not be permitted in pubs and restaurants et cetera because they’ll have to prove they’ve had the vaccine, which wouldn’t have been tested for long term side effects, but hopefully the dark forces will get caught out by then.

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