Leicester

[loz]

I thought precisely that, it supposedly gives the government the opportunity to show it's local lockdown strategy, which if anything in the past is evidence to go by, is likely to be poorly thought out and unworkable...

The first thing I thought when I heard... experimenting with a mid size middle England town.

 

[LamieRobertson]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-53229371

 

[The Fits]

Obvious question- what about the football? Their next home game is Saturday.

 

[darkwolf666]

Obvious question- what about the football? Their next home game is Saturday.

That must be cancelled, surely...!

 

[darkwolf666]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-53229371

Will be very interesting to see how they control non-essential travel.

Road blocks, armed forces?

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

That must be cancelled, surely...!

Neutral ground probably

 

[darkwolf666]

Neutral ground probably

So a bunch of footballers travelling from an area of non-essential travel would be deemed, well - essential?

While I appreciate not many, if any of the players will actually live in Leicester, it would set a pretty poor example to the ordinary citizens of Leicester if they travel elsewhere to play!

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

So a bunch of footballers travelling from an area of non-essential travel would be deemed, well - essential?

While I appreciate not many, if any of the players will actually live in Leicester, it would set a pretty poor example to the ordinary citizens of Leicester if they travel elsewhere to play!

It's not right

But they seem determined to get this season done

By hook or crook

 

[The Fits]

So a bunch of footballers travelling from an area of non-essential travel would be deemed, well - essential?

While I appreciate not many, if any of the players will actually live in Leicester, it would set a pretty poor example to the ordinary citizens of Leicester if they travel elsewhere to play!

If the players and staff are at home tonight and they live in the Leicester area surely that's where they will remain for at least the next two weeks....

 

[Hugo Rune]

Let’s add this to the Government’s Corona-cock-up list. Seems they have been sitting on the out of control infection rates for weeks hoping they’d go down on their own. Awful and late communication with important people like the Mayor & council.

 

[A1X]

Forgive me for trawling back, but this is where things like the Cummings story have the potential to be really damaging. People in Leicester now have an "out", namely they can cite "childcare concerns" or similar, even if they don't have them. And if the Government act against them behaving in this way and preventing them travelling they're opening themselves to claims of hypocrisy.

 

[The Fits]

It's all a lot of hot air from the government. They're doing their best to cause civil unrest.
Expect an exodus of the city on the next sunny day and places like Nottingham and Brum to be absolutely full of Leicester folk this Saturday night.

It would be worth the FA releasing a statement about this and potential lockdown in other cities.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

It was posted in the Covid section, I can't see what the problem is?

Or his dick heady comments about Starmer

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Talking heads on the radio are blaming things like 'local sweat shops'.

The really incoherent bit is this. Government spokesman saying that:

1. There has been guidance on distancing etc
2. We don't want to bring in 'draconian' laws to impose the guidance
3. As people are not following the guidance we may have to bring in draconian laws

That is about the most incoherent bit of right wing stupidity, part libertarian, part authoritarian, and 100% useless, I have ever heard.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Will be very interesting to see how they control non-essential travel.

Road blocks, armed forces?

By saying they are very, very serious about this. Very serious indeed.

 

[darkwolf666]

If the players and staff are at home tonight and they live in the Leicester area surely that's where they will remain for at least the next two weeks....

And the visiting team?

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

And the visiting team?

The king is in the altogether.....the cracks are starting to appear.

 

[darkwolf666]

Talking heads on the radio are blaming things like 'local sweat shops'.

The really incoherent bit is this. Government spokesman saying that:

1. There has been guidance on distancing etc
2. We don't want to bring in 'draconian' laws to impose the guidance
3. As people are not following the guidance we may have to bring in draconian laws

That is about the most incoherent bit of right wing stupidity, part libertarian, part authoritarian, and 100% useless, I have ever heard.

So no change there then, par for the course...

 

[nicko31]

Let’s add this to the Government’s Corona-cock-up list. Seems they have been sitting on the out of control infection rates for weeks hoping they’d go down on their own. Awful and late communication with important people like the Mayor & council.

They are late again, more deaths will follow, on top of thousands that need not have perished.

The Tories have blood on their hands and I'm afraid anyone who is a Tory member that helped put this idiot in charge, you are an accomplice too

 

[Yoda]

Has there been any proper research as to why there has been a spike in Leicester? Probably not and forgive my cynicism here, but doesn't Leicester have a high Indian and Pakistani population?

Well, based on this information from Dr. John Campbell in the video below, could this be caused by imported overseas cases rather than community transmition?

https://youtu.be/Cmy3Urxr0C0?t=931