Help! I'm falling on my sword!

He's clinging on.  Oh dear, what a painful spectacle these press briefings are turning out to be.  Heaven knows how BoJo is going to look in an hour or so time, after that performance from his right-hand man.

So, when the British public was being told in no uncertain terms (we all know how authoritarian Hancock has been) to stay at home, suddenly, it turns out that in fact, you can use your discretion with the dictum.  You do have to feel for all these people who have suffered so much in complying with the rules.  When all along, there is actually a fair degree of flex, where you basically consider what is reasonable. 

 

I've got two boys, the idea of driving 260 odd miles when they were four years old, without a stop is mental; inevitably they (or I) would like to use toilets but also, since when is it safe to be driving 260 miles non-stop?  What's that all about?

I think that this government is teetering on the edge of losing control; they're not the most stable of characters when you start looking at them.  This is now two members of the SAGE committee (this anonymous group of people) who advised this unprecedented "lockdown" and have now been seen to breach it.  People across the country will quite rightly be absolutely furious.  

For me, it's all about the way in which they have conducted this strategy.  It is overbearing, completely disproportionate and as is being seen, not actually all that sensible.  I don't feel too concerned about the rights and wrongs of the decision he made; he seems to me like he was attempting to make the best of a bad situation.  What gets me is the inequality of the situation.  There will be thousands (if not millions) of people who have suffered greatly due to the conditions these people have set.  These poor souls don't have access to properties that are standing empty on large farms that Daddy owns with acres of woods.  It's that point that is wrong.  People of privilege, in power, making what can only be described as unprecedented curbs to personal freedom, and then demonstrating that the constraints are actually unreasonable.  

Why are they unreasonable?  Because as it turns out, they can't even abide by them.  "Stay at home" is pretty clear.  We are talking about the guy who actually creates these slogans that the government so effectively use to influence public thought and behaviour.