All the selfish ***** streaming out of the south east and London last

night with the excuse that their families told them to come whatever the rules were, well what about their families neighbours or work colleagues and the poor sods in the shop their going to use or the staff in the NHS that's going to have to treat all the new cases of the new variant they've caused because for one ******* year they couldn't stay at ******* home. Utterly Moronic selfish behaviour on view last night. But clown Bojo should have seen it coming and banned travel out of tier 4 immediately not given the selfish ******** 8 hrs to get out.

 

Perhaps they were just going home.

 

Whilst I agree that torrents of people leaving London and the South East is not great, this is the government's fault. They have been sat on this information about a new strain for at least a couple of weeks (and purportedly months).

I have friends (some of whom live entirely alone) that have been isolating for the last fortnight so that they could go and stay with their family over Christmas.

To suddenly pull up the drawbridge and expect no one to try and go home is egregious and shortsighted.

 

It's grim Up North though isn't it?

 

He hasn't got the brains he was born with, a trained amoeba could do a better job, and it's hair would be neatly combed.

 

If it was loads of Northerners trying to get down south there would have been a witch hunt.

 

They are not all selfish ***** from London , there 8 million people there & one of them is a son of mine who works on the front line & will be working xmas day , a son who will not see his own son & we in turn will not be able to see him , there are selfish people in every part of the country just remember that before you have a rant please

 

People would have left like yesterday, irrelevant of when announced though.
It’s human nature and part of the reason we can’t get it under control.
Everybody has a reason, some justified, some not, but all think it is.

 

Levelling up.

 

Not sure about that mate, a lot of those travelling out of London will be loads of Northerners trying to get up North.

 

Nah sorry this is out of order in my opinion. You can't give people hours to get home like that. If he'd said by Monday or Tuesday this fiasco wouldn't have happened. There will have been plenty working down there on business with no accomodation arranged for Christmas. Blame the govt and the govt alone for this.

 

I didn't say they were all selfish ***** in London at all. I said the ones scrabbling about to get on trains to get out before midnight were selfish because without knowing whether or not they are infected they chose to travel to other parts of the country wilfully risking other people's lives in the process just so they could stuff their faces with turkey with their families wonder if they'll be so keen to stuff their faces at the wakes for the family members their selfishness kills.

 

A lot of those people will live alone, will have endured months of solitude and isolation. Many will be driving up and won't have contact with anyone apart from their families, who they won't have seen for months. The media love to sensationalise and this government love to pit north and against south, cause resentment in the nation, and their backtracking less than a week before Christmas is a joke.

 

Yet as it has already been pointed out... If they hadnt decided to make it "illegal" to travel out of London after midnight on Sunday then there wouldnt have been the mass exodus.

If you had spent most of the year sat working from home in cramped accommodation with very little face to face social contact until you returned home to Christmas I can guarantee you'd have been on that train as well.

 

If you were working from home, why would you need to stay in cramped accommodation with little face-to-face contact? You could just as easily have done it from the family home for the entire period.

 

They might not have contact with anybody other than family but what about the family members they infect while having contact those family members will then spread it around its one bloody day it's selfish and irresponsible. Yes we have a government of fuckwits and yes the majority of the blame lies fairly and squarely at Bojo the clowns door. But he didn't force them onto the trains and into their cars last night they did it despite what effect they were having on the rest of us in the comings weeks and that's selfish just plain selfish.

 

But if they live alone and travel alone and have very little contact with anyone else in their daily lives because they've followed the guidelines and live alone, then how can we assume they have the virus and will infect the family members that they visit?

 

Because some people live in smaller spaces and value their own space/home? I've worked from home since March and live on my own in a one bed flat with little face-to-face contact and live 200 miles from my family. I could have moved in with my parents in March but I'm 33, the thought of moving back indefinitely, giving up my own space and independence (albeit limited in current circumstances), is infinitely worse. It's a choice but even now with the vaccine rollout we don't know how long things are going to go on for. It's not practical to move in with my parents for the foreseeable just to have a bit more space. And after a week we'd drive each other mad.

 

Totally agree - wrong to give people that shorter notice. Reminded me of one of those films like War of the Worlds with thousands leaving because the aliens are attacking! Sad thing is this isn't a film - sorry but the scientists/government must have known about this before Saturday. The actions taken yesterday are indefensible- especially after threatening schools who wanted to close early and for Boris calling out Starmer for wanting to cancel Christmas

 

Do you honestly believe all those traveling up yesterday fit in with your scenario? Even if just a small percentage don't fit your scenario then everybody they travelled on the train with are at risk. That's the problem you could have lived like a hermit for the last 2 weeks but if you travelled up on a train with people who didn't your putting your loved ones and others at risk.