"Stay alert" - new govenment messaging

[atomised]

The slogan is irrelevant but the granular details should be available when the announcement is made not days afterwards otherwise you leave the public very confused about what the announcements mean exactly for them

So true. Last night the message seemed to be back to work monday then unlimited exercise from wednesday. Apparently both referred to wednesday according to Raab.
Maybe we should have a Tuesday at 8pm collective you dont know what you're doing chant from the nations windows

 

[ManOfSussex]

'A government official' has had to clarify Dominic Raab's comments to Sky News earlier in regards to people meeting up at other peoples houses but staying 2 metres apart - this is not being introduced.

I wonder what the increased fine, that the head of the Police Federation says they won't be able to enforce, will be.

Raab mentioning the 4th of July as a 'possibly' date for parts of the hospitality sector - why not Bastille Day or the Anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, or play it safe and go for July 17th when everyone will be celebrating Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's birthday instead of Independence Day in the US? Seemed a bit reading off the back of a fag packet/plucking a date out of thin air to me.

 

[blue-shifted]

Agree with all those making the following points.

How on earth can the government not co-ordinate their message with the devolved administrations. If they can't work together now, when will they be able to?

The communications are shocking, drip feed the media with briefings through the week that the lockdown will be loosened, but not say what. People spend the whole weekend in parks etc, because they've read it will be ok. Give an announcement on Sunday night that people should go back to work on Monday morning. Release detail the following day which contradicts the announcement, re meeting people outside your family. What a shambles

If the slogan is pointless, there's no need to have one

 

[Iggle Piggle]

The slogan is irrelevant but the granular details should be available when the announcement is made not days afterwards otherwise you leave the public very confused about what the announcements mean exactly for them

That's the key point. A detailed doc should be behind Boris's poundland Churchill speech for everyone to analyse. Not Preston drip feeding info that may or may not be correct from "a government source" to get interpreted in a number of different ways.

A total guess up made on the fly. Chancers.

 

[sparkie]

'A government official' has had to clarify Dominic Raab's comments to Sky News earlier in regards to people meeting up at other peoples houses but staying 2 metres apart - this is not being introduced.

I wonder what the increased fine, that the head of the Police Federation says they won't be able to enforce, will be.

Raab mentioning the 4th of July as a 'possibly' date for parts of the hospitality sector - why not Bastille Day or the Anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, or play it safe and go for July 17th when everyone will be celebrating Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's birthday instead of Independence Day in the US? Seemed a bit reading off the back of a fag packet/plucking a date out of thin air to me.

August 15th VJ Day, so we can all do more congas to infect those missed last time.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Travellers from France will be exempt from the 2 week quarantine, it's just been announced. Gare du Nord looked deserted at rush hour this morning in the tweet below, so I can't see any problems with Eurostar trains coming into St Pancras.

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[Wozza]

In fairness, after Boris's speech last night it's clear "Stay home" had to be dropped - for something.

It's also obvious why the new, utterly incoherent policy can't be summed up in two or three words.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Travellers from France will be exempt from the 2 week quarantine, it's just been announced. Gare du Nord looked deserted at rush hour this morning in the tweet below, so I can't see any problems with Eurostar trains coming into St Pancras.

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Will the French quarantine travellers from the UK though? A second spike here would surely lead to that predicament.

 

[Market Porter]

 

[narly101]

A pal of mine works at GSK in Worthing, whenever the management come up with a new procedure or new working practices that are given an acronym the staff usually have a sarcastic/comedic phrase for the acronym within hours.

On a serious point though, the government have not covered themselves in glory at any stage thus far other than by rolling out the Nightingale's in record time.

Which wasn't used to the maximum due to staff shortages.

 

[narly101]

That's the key point. A detailed doc should be behind Boris's poundland Churchill speech for everyone to analyse. Not Preston drip feeding info that may or may not be correct from "a government source" to get interpreted in a number of different ways.

A total guess up made on the fly. Chancers.

This with bells on.

 

[vegster]

Which wasn't used to the maximum due to staff shortages.

True.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

True.

Not according to those running it, and they should know. Just political posturing as usual.

 

[The Clamp]

It does seem quite simple... it is amazing how many people seem to want to make a meal out of it.

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I suppose there always has to be some people (that’s you) who fall for their rhetoric, otherwise they wouldn’t be in power.

 

[Titanic]

I suppose there always has to be some people (that’s you) who fall for their rhetoric, otherwise they wouldn’t be in power.

I don't think I am 'falling for' anything. I am simply saying that there is a lot of nonsense being talked about clarity.

 

[The Clamp]

If you really can’t interpret what “Stay Alert” means you’re a moron.

You’re being facetious here.

We all know what the words literally mean. But stay alert for what? I don’t need to be alert to wash my hands. I don’t need to be alert to stay 2 metres apart. I just have to be not blind.

Stay Alert.
Are we to all be in a constant state of high alert?

It means nought. It is meaningless. It has no relevance to the matter in hand.
It is the Tory’s shifting the blame onto the public.

 

[Bodian]

That's the key point. A detailed doc should be behind Boris's poundland Churchill speech for everyone to analyse. Not Preston drip feeding info that may or may not be correct from "a government source" to get interpreted in a number of different ways.

A total guess up made on the fly. Chancers.

So true. Last night the message seemed to be back to work monday then unlimited exercise from wednesday. Apparently both referred to wednesday according to Raab.
Maybe we should have a Tuesday at 8pm collective you dont know what you're doing chant from the nations windows

The slogan is irrelevant but the granular details should be available when the announcement is made not days afterwards otherwise you leave the public very confused about what the announcements mean exactly for them

It's the same every time, and I don't understand why they don't realise this beforehand. For instance, when BoJo announced that all 'non-essential shops' must close - it was a day or so before they published the (first) list of what they classed as essential / non-essential. That should have been ready at the moment it was announced - it was so obvious that shop-owners would immediately want to know whether that meant them or not.

 

[The Clamp]

I don't think I am 'falling for' anything. I am simply saying that there is a lot of nonsense being talked about clarity.

Of course you don’t think you’ve fallen for anything. Otherwise you wouldn’t have fallen for it, would you.

 

[Titanic]

Of course you don’t think you’ve fallen for anything. Otherwise you would have fallen for it, would you.

I don't understand that... can you try and be a bit more clear?

 

[The Clamp]

I don't understand that... can you try and be a bit more clear?

I do apologise;

Otherwise you wouldn’t have fallen for it, would you.

My mistake.