'Nasty Party's' Alert campaign in a shambles !!!

It has taken less than 24 hours for the scumbag 'nasty party' to trash their own advertising campaign asking us to be a lert !!!



How Boris Johnson's 'Stay Alert' Message Unravelled In 24 Calamitous Hours
A blow-by-blow account of U-turns, car crash interviews and some really quite unclear clarifications.

On Monday the government published a timely, helpful and consistent document providing clear details of all the points Boris Johnson had set out the day before about how the coronavirus lockdown was to be lifted.


Only joking. It was a disaster beset by multiple U-turns, car crash interviews and government ministers appearing to have little idea what the government was actually trying to say.

All in just 24 hours. Here’s how it unfolded.

The qualm before the storm
Setting the tone nicely for what was to come, the weekend got off to a rocky start for the government after a preview of the new, catchy, slogan to replace the “stay at home” advisory was mocked by... well, pretty much everyone.

Suddenly pleased to be British for once #StayAlertpic.twitter.com/C7MtdiJqQx

— Lizzie Spring (@ESpringW11) May 10, 2020
Perfectly encapsulating just how confusing the new messaging was, Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon kicked off what would be a series of frankly shady press briefings by asking the PM outright not to display it in Scotland.

For good measure and echoing many on social media, she added: “I don’t know what ‘stay alert’ means.”

‘We shall quarantine them on the beaches’
The beauty of a pre-recorded speech is that you can really take your time and get it absolutely nailed, so it was somewhat bewildering that at 7pm on Sunday the PM delivered one in which he managed to announce a series of measures that would be redundant to varying extents by the very next day.

And they weren’t minor announcements – one particularly drastic measure unimaginable just two months ago was the quarantine of “people coming into this country by air”.

Turns out he also meant by sea, but we’ll come to that and all the other slightly confusing matters in a bit. In the meantime and for a reasonably accurate summary of what was said, here’s Matt Lucas.

pic.twitter.com/k6Sr4Iac15

— realmattlucas (@RealMattLucas) May 10, 2020
A picture is worth a thousand words (unless it’s on a government powerpoint presentation)
In amongst Johnson’s speech were a series of slides designed, one assumes, to really hammer home his message.

Unfortunately, a nation of Nando’s-deprived Brits on lockdown, the odd actual mathematician and one Twitter user with exceptional animation skills quickly made clear they weren’t performing quite as intended.

Sorry this is all I can think of Boz #BorisJohnson#StayHome#StayAlertpic.twitter.com/6W8tu9IGoa

— Danny Mylo (@DannyMylo) May 10, 2020
This is a mathematical formula....
So, let’s break it down.
Current R is between 0.5 and 0.9. Let’s say 0.7.
Number of infections in UK: 219,000.
0.7 + 219,000 = COVID19 alert level.
So, the alert level is: 219,000.7#borisjohnsonspeech#thanksboris#BorisHasFailedpic.twitter.com/DZ1dmYvG2d

— James (@JediAvenger10) May 11, 2020
Boris Johnson's Covid graph in full pic.twitter.com/RJInfdyzom

— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) May 10, 2020
Exhausted, the nation went to sleep. Well, some of them.

So are we allowed to go to sleep tonight or not? #stayalert

— Shappi Khorsandi5667753324777 (@ShappiKhorsandi) May 10, 2020
Blue Monday
Monday morning saw Boris Johnson’s foot soldiers step out to present a united front and get behind their leader’s “Stay Alert” message. Except none of them seemed particularly alert as to what we were supposed to be alert about.

First into the grinder was Andrew Bridgen who was asked a simple enough question by Piers Morgan: “My two sons who I haven’t seen in 10 weeks – can I go and see them today and maintain two metres’ distance? Yes or no?”

Bridgen replied in the affirmative which, given it was a 50/50 shot even for someone never exposed to the written word, television or radio, never mind a Conservative MP, was a colossal balls-up.

Morgan pointed out the response was “completely against the new rules” set out by the PM and then launched into what was one of the most intense dressing downs of a politician in recent times.

Piers Morgan rips Andrew Bridgen a new one for not understanding his own government's rules.

"You have just told me to do something that I'm not allowed to do." #GMBpic.twitter.com/8kOlElNloR

— Haggis_UK (@Haggis_UK) May 11, 2020
Now is the time. Only it’s not now, not yet
Meanwhile in the real world, hundreds of people were acting upon the words of their elected leader by going to work, having been told by the PM on Sunday evening that those who cannot work from home should be return “now”.

Only it turns out “now” didn’t actually mean “now”, it meant “on Wednesday please” which is about as wide an interpretation of an established word as you can get.

Ahead of Johnson’s announcement, the government had said Sunday’s speech would include information that Brits would use to make changes to their lives from the next day.

But speaking to BBC Radio 4′s Today programme this morning, foreign secretary Dominic Raab appeared to change course, saying the changes to the advice on who should go to work “will take effect from Wednesday”.

There was no mention of this by Johnson on Sunday.

The parents in the park paradox
Not content with sowing confusion about work, Raab was also attempting to clarify if we could meet up with our parents in a park or if we had to choose which one was our favourite.

Even worse, if that parent wanted to have a kickabout or nail you at tennis, no one could agree if this was perfectly fine or liable to have you both set upon by a police doberman.

Speaking to Victoria Derbyshire, Raab said you could...

Dominic Raab says you can meet your mum in the morning and a different relative in the afternoon, if it’s outside and in England.

— Victoria Derbyshire (@vicderbyshire) May 11, 2020
Which was slightly different from what he’d just told the BBC Radio 4′s Today programme, where he said people would be able to meet two parents at the same time in a park “if there’s two metres apart”.

And so it was that before midday had even struck, the government had to clarify that people would only be allowed to meet one other person in a park. And they must obey social distancing guidelines. And only from Wednesday. And if you wanted to play sport with them, you’d have to wait to until 2pm to find out, because the government just didn’t have a clue.

Which all raises the obvious question...

Are two sets of twins from the same family allowed play doubles tennis together if all four of them work in the tennis club and live right beside or even better live with a tunnel connected to the tennis court so all four twins can easily get to work? #StayAlert

— Aisling Bea (@WeeMissBea) May 11, 2020
In a sign of just how mad things were getting, even the bastion of light entertainment and unflappable reasonableness Phillip Schofield was getting worked up.

Confused about lockdown? So are we!

Here's what we know so far Can I meet family and friends? PM's new lockdown rules explained...pic.twitter.com/hivossr1G0

— This Morning (@thismorning) May 11, 2020
Phillip said: “You literally couldn’t write this. If this was in a farce on the telly I would go: ‘That is a bit far-fetched. No government would ask that much.’

“It’s utterly astonishing. We have been really level on here, we have been really sensible on here, but this has just tipped us over the edge today.”

Here’s one we prepared earlier
At 2pm the government issued a full 51-page “plan to rebuild” which set out in detail all of the things the government had not been explaining very well since Sunday.

But there were a few signs it had perhaps been put together in a bit of a hurry, not least in the use of the far from imprecise definition “and so on” when attempting to precisely define “essential retail”.


UK Gov
On the plus side, it did explain that playing sport with people – well, one person – outside your own household was fine, despite this being the exact opposite of what the PM said in his pre-recorded-with-plenty-of-time-to-get-it-right TV slot the night before.

Will the real Boris Johnson please stand up?
Thus it was that, at 3.30pm, a man claiming to be Boris Johnson stood up in the Commons to clarify things.

He told Britain, simply, to “follow the rules” to control the spread of coronavirus. Rules, of course, recently published by the government that somewhat contradicted what another man claiming to be Boris Johnson had said on telly the previous night.

 

If you can come up with some foolproof proposals, please share them with us all.

When I was being brought up, I was taught that if I did not agree with something, to keep my mouth shut until I could put a better alternative forward.

PS, I know what I would propose to ease the restrictions. Do You. ?????

 

tl:dr

 

The khazi mop-head scumbag, still can't answer questions about the change in his house-arrest changes


Three questions Boris Johnson hasn’t answered about lockdown rules

Yahoo Staff Writer
May 11th 2020 2:24PM
Since announcing a partial lifting of the coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, Boris Johnson has been criticised for a lack of clarity in the government's message.

It was something Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer sought to exploit when the pair came face-to-face in the Commons on Monday afternoon – but not all of his points were addressed.

Here are three of Starmer's questions the prime minister didn't answer.

1. The PM was asked what 'scientific evidence' informed the new measures such as meeting a friend from a different household outdoors
The prime minister did not say what evidence was used.

He only said: "The steps we are taking today are modest steps entirely governed by the science. We hope we may be in a position to take further steps in the next few weeks."

In its Covid-19 recovery strategy, the government said all decisions are "informed by the science".

"The government will continue to be guided by the best scientific and medical advice to ensure that it does the right thing at the right time," it said.

2. The PM was asked about his plan to quarantine people after arriving in the country by air from abroad
Starmer asked why the measure was being announced now rather than earlier in the lockdown, when it will be introduced and whether it includes all ports, for example ferry ports.

Johnson did not address the question whatsoever.

3. The PM was asked about safety guidelines for workplaces and public transport
With people encouraged to return to work on Wednesday if they can't do their job from home, the Labour leader asked when safety guidelines would be in place.

Johnson addressed this directly: "We will be publishing the guidelines on places of employment tonight, transport will be out tomorrow."

However, Starmer also asked if the two sets of guidelines would apply in England only, and whether they had been produced in consultation with employers/transport providers and trade unions.

Johnson did not address these questions.

4. The PM's defence
After his response to Starmer, Johnson launched into a defence of the government's approach to the lockdown.

"Everybody understands what we are trying to do together," he said. "That is working together as a country to obey the social distancing rules... and to apply common sense in the application of these rules.

"I have huge admiration for the way the police have enforced them so far, and I know the British public is going to continue to help the police and everybody to enforce those rules to get the reproduction rate down [and] to get this disease even further under control by continuing to apply good solid British common sense.

"It's worked throughout phase one and I have no doubt it's going to work in the second phase of the fights against the disease as well."

 

If you can defend that scumbag khazi mop-head - go ahead and try !!!

 

Well, now we get in to the fun stuff. Because a lot of people did convince themselves that the lockdowns were about somehow magically eliminating the virus

Various countrys now starting to open up even they still have plenty of cases and deaths

Here is the part where the Karens of the world find out; no your government never had enough money for more than a few months, and no, most of what they have been telling you hasn't been based on science, they were just managing the panic